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I loved it. Thumbnail could use a thin red border on the text maybe? Looks good regardless. Poor dude I hope you had someone else edit all the spider footage😬😬😬😬creepy
Bloodborne is the best Fromsoft game, no contest. Every time I play it, I get addicted all over again to the feeling that as you move through the levels, you're falling deeper into this nightmare that nobody else realizes is the reality they're living in. Just an absolute masterpiece of a game, 10,000,000/10.
I like it. I can't get into the first part up to papa gac... After that I love it. I've only played through one time because yarnham the beginning kills my immersive I have no idea why and I have tried a god awful number of times and I played every other FS game. Except DS remastered. Which I ordered yesterday
@@firepenguin38 Interesting, I think Yharnam is one of the best starting levels in any Fromsoft game. It teaches the player really well and gives just the right amount of "okay what on earth is happening here" to set up the tone of the game.
@@aperson9847 so I hear lmao. I thinks maybe first time I played it. So many deaths I seen too much of it lol it's all I can come up with. The game tho is still top 5 all time for. Wierd shit I know
Tbh Bloodborne never scared me but it intrigued me! I hope Miyazaki never gives up on adding the mystery of the “great beyond”. And thanks to Elden Ring and Ranni’s order of the Stars and the Astel Boss it’s enough proof that this hope is for the most part secured.
You know this shit is a horror masterpiece when literally yesterday I fell asleep and proceeded to have the most surreal nightmare, where I somehow ended up at shoreline where you fight the orphan. Goddamn the nightmare felt so freaking real I woke up in cold sweat. In the nightmare btw there was no corpse of kos. Just that lonely shore, and the unsettling roaring of the sea. What's crazier still...part of me wants to go back in.
What’d you think of the game bro. I remember some nights I was too anxious to play this game and would think “eh maybe tomorrow during day.” But then again it was my first Souls game
@@Zavouk this might be a little long, basically I tried getting into it like 3 times In past maybe 2 years. Know this was before the I even knew what a fromsoftware game was lol. Fast foward I get elden ring and play it to the point of basically mastering it and then decide to play all the Soulsborne games. As I already bought the game I decide to play bloodborne. I watch a guide for the first two areas of the game and from that point I blast through the game and DLC. Now it terms of the game I would say that Bloodborne is an amazing and that's putting it lightly. I loved the fast tempo, the aesthetic was beautiful, the world, characters, etc are all extremely intriguing and I'll line up at least a couple of videos to learn all the lore cause I didn't fully understand it and last put not least in terms of difficulty I can say that Bloodborne was infinitely easier than Elden ring to the point where it surprised me. Every single Boss I've killed without dying except Bloodstarved beast which I died to him twice, Micolash once, Pthumerian Descendent forgot exactly, but it was around 20 minutes of deaths, followed by Pthumerian Queen with 50 minutes of deaths and last but not last by far my hardest encounter in Bloodborne the Bloody crow of Cainhurst with around 2 hours of deaths and that was mainly cause I was really under leveled for the fight which made me look at a guide for all the recommended area levels, but I beat him third try after coming back the appropriate level. My biggest surprise with his was Orphan of Kos which I heard people say when they talk about Melenia as a contender for hardest soulsborne boss, but even him I beat on the first try although it was definitely harder than all the other bosses minus Pthumerian Queen. Now the absolute highlight of the game for me where the hunter fights. As someone who hated invasions in elden ring and never played duels for than like 10 times in around 350 hours in the game I can say that Hunter vs Hunter combat in BB was absolutely phenomenal. It made regret not buying this game back when it was active. The combat was smooth, engaging, and honestly I can list like another 10 other adjectives and it wouldn't be enough. It's the main reason know why I'm absolutely praying for a BB sequal. In conclusion I'll definitely be playing the game again. My only gripe with it was it was sometimes pretty confusing knowing what to do and where to go next after you finish an area. Overall 9/10. Oh and if you're wondering about my setup it was Ludwig Holy Blade and Wrigglesaw and Eveyln as my gun. All +10. And I was level 136 50 Vitality 30 endurance 30 strength and Skill 18 bloodtinge and arcane
Later on in Nightmare of Mensis if you decided to kill Brain of Mensis, there is a area where spiders have human face......... I'd just nope out and run past all of them. They are some of the most freaky and creepy in any video game I've played!
Yeah the enemies are nightmares. The lantern ones that make you go crazy...yeahhhh. I wanted to put them into the video but then I would have to fight them 🤷🏻♂️
I can relate to you on that dinosaur exhibit story, man...No.1 motivation for becoming a pyromaniac. And its a great analogy of describing one's realisation that nature is scary, life is unpredictable, and that we're a lot more insignificant in the universe than we convince ourselves of being. Cosmic horror works because it preys on the most primal of fear, that we have no understanding of things and that we may never be able to comprehend how they make sense in our reality. And that there's even worse examples lurking beyond our world is both intriguing but equally nerve-wracking. Hope that FromSoftware make a 2nd Bloodborne.
My personal arachnophobia comes from a nightmare I had as a little kid. My mom, brother and I were running from a daddy long leg mixed with a tarantula. I can close my eyes and still see it to this day. I’m not even scared of them, they just give me such an uneasy and gross feeling. I’m the exact same way about the frostbite spiders, I can’t fight them in first person. It was one of the main reasons I was a stealth archer in my first ever playthrough.
They had to be on acid or some shit when making nightmare of mensis specifically due to the crows with dog heads and dogs with crow heads; just wtf. And then the spiders with human heads, the marionette messengers, the pigs with eyes covering their whole face, and the utter black void-like setting bathed in moonlight
BloodBorne is my favourite game. In my opinion, Bloodborne has the most interesting, mysterious and horrifying storyline of all Fromsoftware games. It reminds me of a detective mystery that you solve as you progress through the game.
Bloodborne is still one of my favorite games to this day. Something about that moment when the realization hits, that this isn't a Gothic Horror, but an *Cosmic* Horror. Instead of fear or dread, all I could do was grin like a battle maniac because somehow things now made *more* sense instead of less. Ironically, I had mild hemophobia when I first started playing, but definitely not anymore by the end.
I never found bloodborne to be scary but it is creepy and incredibly interesting. At no point in the game am I scared, but I constantly find myself unsettled and feeling out of place, as a human hunter in beast-ridden Yharnam.
lol now I wanna hear your thoughts about the Fade level in Dragon Age Inquisition, where the Fearlings are spider-shaped, but it's implied that's only because they're the closest/most immediate fear to the Inquisitor, and that they look different to other characters. I just adore when video games allow a multi-faceted approach to a story like this.
It's bizzare to know that people in west fear of spiders. In my childhood days, every kid used to run after a pider in hopes to get bitten and turn into spiderman. We used to sit and watch a spider make his webbing. We even lift it up and help him around.
Mass effect itself even gets in on the Lovecraftian horror as the reapers are these bio-organic bug squids that are from beyond space and even our understanding as even looking at them drives one insane and to worship them
I am currently replaying Bloodborne again and I think it may be my favorite Souls game. I love the cosmic/existential horror and morbid and eldritch ambiance of the areas, and it has the best lore of the Souls games. Yagargul village is my favorite area out of all of the Souls games and I love the Amygdalas. I think they are a perfect representation of both cosmic horror and its effect on psychology.
It really is unforgivable that FromSoft hasn't given Bloodborne a new gen patch for 60fps. They know it's their playerbases' favorite game and yet they ignore them.
DUDE, HOLY FUCK your experience of gaining arachnophobia is so similar to mine! For me it was a Halloween-themed field trip when I was 5, we went to a haunted house section which was made of 8ft tall plywood walls in a massive, tall shed on a pumpkin patch. I remember walking through the entire thing completely unfazed, even the room with walls covered in small fake spiders was nothing. So I went in for a second time, but this time half way through the maze-like haunted house I saw something I missed the first time. A gigantic spider mounted onto the far wall similar to the one you described, and that instantly changed me as I was never scared of anything before that point but now I was afraid of the dark, ghosts, insects, and especially spiders. I had the same experience as you in Skyrim which is why I never properly played through it, and in borderlands 2 Tiny Tina's dlc had spiders so I had to play it with a friend who would check the rooms ahead and killed any spiders. He even did the boss fight alone for me
I really hope Bloodborne gets a sequel some day as I kind of ruined my first experience with it for myself. It was my first From Soft game and for some reason I really felt the need to have a map. So for the majority of the game I had a map pulled up on my phone which had pretty much everything marked on it. This meant I saw pretty much everything in advance on accident, so I had way less surprises than if I didn’t use it. Also because I just played it last year, I had seen many things from the game already, including the fact that it was cosmic horror. I still had an amazing experience don’t get me wrong. It’s just that I can’t help but wonder how much better it could have been if I went in blind.
5:43 I always thought those things looked like octopus aliens. Like if octopuses (octopi?) existed on different planets, they would be like those things in Bloodborne.
It's weird. Spiders in video games don't ever really make me anxious despite having crippling arachnophobia... Then I saw the number of them in Bloodborne. Granted, these days I just kill them because video game, but boy did that image of all of them in the mensis room freak me out the first time I saw it
Bloodborne to me feels like it’s more than just about the cosmic insignificance of humanity. I see patterns in how, no matter how far we stray from our origins, humans at the end of the day are still animals. We will repeat the sins of the past, we will succumb to primal urges, we are just as beastly as the ones we demonize. The good and bad of humanity are there, so is the good and bad of the beasts. This game basically fuels my Misanthropic Nihilism.
gotta say I'm not scared of spiders. as long as I don't have to touch them, I'm fine. My fear are things that look human but not quite... or that don't move like humans do. Humans where something's just off? It's weird. In the chalice dungeons you can encounter these screetching womes with long black hair floating over their heads. And they just fckn slide and glitch over to you and slash at you. They aren't just freaky to look at, they are really hard to kill too. First time I encountered them I screamed and dropped my controller. I couldn't complete that dungeon for some time.
that fear comes from me having incredibly vivid fever dreams as a kid. I'd see shit while I was awake. I'd see trees aggressively swaying in the wind, so fast and violently they touched the ground. I'd run to my mom, only to see her move as if you fast forward a video of someone moving, and her face not quite right. I'd see faces everywhere. Stuff wasn't moving as it should, and it didn't look like it should. And I still understood I was awake. Experiencing this, your mind just failing you, your eyes literally deceiving you... that's pure horror. I'm 26 now, and it's been 2 decades since I had these fever dreams. But I'll never forget experiencing this. Sometimes when I see something move like I didn't expect or just how it logically shouldn't, I fall back into that state of utter helpless fear.
When I first played Bloodborne, I went completely oblivious to what the game could offer. I knew I would play it eventually, so I didn't watch any video on it or saw any footage of it. DS3 was my first Souls-like, and I was expecting something similar to that experience from BB. I was shocked when Bloodborne offered a way more in depth and more intense experience, and also somewhat different, overall. Completely different! The dread I felt playing BB when going through Yharnam, and especially Forbidden Woods and Ya'hargul, was very close to that I felt playing Alien: Isolation. That's crazy! I was always at the tip of my seat, I was afraid of advancing and finding a new frightining creature, because it'd mean that I would be losing my echoes in result of dying to it in a place still unknown to me. Dying in BB was even scarier, because now I had to go looking for my echoes in this dreadful place that I was still getting the hang of, filled with menacing creatures. This feeling I'm trying to describe was multiplied to the infinity when I first died to that kidnapper with a sac, and taken to the cells in Ya'hargul. I definitely was not expecting a survivor horror experience from BB, it truly caught me off guard. BB has become one my favourite games ever for many reasons. The fact that it offers an intense and tense experience like that is one of the reasons.
'What a Joke, O [Inexperienced] mine. let us ourselves instead fill the World of where-you-are-currently-from with Teeth.' -- Egotistical [Bones]. Eugh. those Space Anathemic beasts.
I don't know if bloodborne is the best game of fromsoftware, all of his games are excellent ( for not say one of the great es games of the decade, cause the influence, the music etc) but certainly bloodborne is the most unique of all games from the soulsborne series
You fear of spiders is like my fear of underwater. Even in call of duty. Maps like Armada in cold war and shit. If I fall off one of the ships I spin in my chair until I hear the kill cam. I can watch shit like subnautica and shit but I've actually heavily considered if I could play it and get to a certain depth given a million dollar prize or something. And I don't even think i'd try.
i love bloodborne but i will never get how so many people think it’s better than elden ring, the 2 only things that are better are the weapons and setting
Bloodborne is a perfect horror game, legit Playing this game in the dark is genuinely a fucking treat But also, the Winter Lanterns fucking TERRIFY me, I can't fight them head on I genuinely get anxiety just by them...existing. So everytime I see one I straight up bolt past it Same with the brainsuckers, those little mindflayers
My main takes after watching this vid: -You hate, hate, hate, hate, HATE spiders -You are from Ontario, GTA at least if not Toronto Geez, no wonder I keep watching your vids. 👍
Bloodborne is still my favorite FS game, Elden Ring is great but i don't have it above BB or DS1. So many people keep saying BB is their favorite too so there is something there for sure. Crazy its been 7 years and while I want a BB2 I wonder about its special place is partly due to it being untainted but also BB did some things wrong they could improve upon like the chalice dungeons.
Bloodborne is my favorite souls game so far, every aspect of it is flawlessly, meticulously designed to play into everything else in one provocative narrative unlike any other piece of media out there. I believe the biggest tragedy of this industry is if everything perfect about Bloodborne is destroyed by any second game.
I think that if they did revisit the Bloodborne universe, then instead of a sequel they should do a side story, a game that takes place in another town in the world at the same time as the original so we can get the joy of more BLoodborne without any spoiling on what happens afterwards (and they can sprinkle little mentions about the first game into the game also)
I'd love a full demons souls type remake by bluepoint for Bloodborne. It still looks great obviously but deserves better. They can't just unlock the frame rate so just go all out .
If you own a PS4/5 it is essential. You can download the game on Ps5 via the instant games collection if you have PS PLUS right now as well. Enjoy! Go in as blind as you can
Bloodborne is a very special masterpiece if you loved Elden ring then to experience bloodborne is a must 👌🏾👍🏾it’s is most fromsoft gamers favourite souls game/sekiro is also a special game with arguably the best combat system ever built in gaming 🤓🥇🔝
You talking about the time you attended kindergarten over those scenes of the Hunt at the start of the video... Kinda makes me wonder what kind of kindergarten you went to
The only critique I have of the game is that I am bad at parrying and as such I have a hard time playing this game without using the c*ummmfpk dungeon to over-level
I have debilitating arachnophobia. It’s not like normal fear, spiders aren’t actually scary. Arachnophobia is a residual instinct. The sight of a spider literally sets off our fight or flight. I’ve never played Skyrim or Bloodbourne sadly for this reason.
Dang. Havent finished this game. I let the dude wake me up from the dream... Started a new run. Then Elden Ring came out... Gotta go back and kill the moon.
I hate spiders, hate them, the only animal/insect/etc. in all nature that i hate with a passion fueled by fear. I go bitten while i was deployed two times so i friking HATE THEM......i dated a girl who had a spider tattoo and i never look at her tattoo, ever.
As a big scaredy cat, ESPECIALLY when it comes to body horror (The thing freaks me out and disgusts me) Bloodborne is, unfortunately, a game i will never be able to finish
@@EndymionTv I knowww but i have a phobia of bugs and anything like that just makes me wince and not look at the screen 😭 even certain enemies in elden ring i do not wish to approach because of that, I have cleared Bloodborne up until the bloodthirsty beast or whatever its called but am terrified of going forward because it irks me so much
I don’t know what museum you went to but I promise you there has never been a spider that was as big as a car. Biggest spider in history was about a foot (13 in). Sea scorpions could get up to 8 feet long but thats about it. Maybe that’ll help you feel better?
Listen I dunno man I was on a school field trip, I was a lil baby at the time & this mfer was massive. I’m talking HUGE. Imagine being that small and seeing this huge fake spider with its huge ass head/legs on a wall with like info about it around it. Makes me shiver just thinking about it again 😂
Earlier in the video you said if Alien life does exists you don't think they would like life forms such as Mass Effects Asari or Krogan but more like the Great Ones. Bro, i think you forgot about the terrifying forms of the Reapers and Leviathans. And those things are much much more horrifying than the great ones in my opinion. In Bloodborne the great ones can be killed... to a certain extent. The Reapers and Leviathans... Kind of but not really. While Bloodborne is hopeless and horrifying. Mass Effect in a way is much worse. Let's say alien life does exist, which i personally believe it does. I think it's completely possible for their to be hostile entities as well as peaceful ones. Much like Mass Effect. The thing with Bloodborne is... The mere presence of these alien gods ruins everything. Like, yeah you can technically blame humanity for all the pain the suffering that took place. But when you take into account that Yharnam isn't even the first location in which the plague occured... The Great Ones are just as much as to blame. Sure, the great one's are sympathetic in nature but that doesn't really mean anything lol. Look at Yharnam. For gods they are either incredibly dumb or they simply don't care. Sorry man, i kind of went on a rant. Great video. I love Bloodborne myself. Honestly Bloodborne is the only From Software game i can say that about. I don't care for Dark Souls, Demon Souls or Sekiro. Elden Ring is cool. I like it. But Bloodborne is miles ahead in my opinion. Seriously, it'll never happen. But i would love a sequel to Bloodborne.
@@EndymionTv thank you. You are the first to comment about it. Loved the video. You have some great insights on cosmic horror. Bloodborne translates cosmic horror to the player in ways I had never seen before. I think Eternal Darkness is the only other game that has come close. Bloodborne just nailed it.
A video game giving you "trauma".. from seeing a fake spider at a zoo when you were 5.. 🤦♂️ bruh come on, the overexaggerated titles and hyperbolic statements come across as pretentious and that's what ruins most of your videos for me. "had to look away from the screen and spam R2" cos you couldn't even look at spiders yet here you are capturing footage and editing a video full of spiders from said game. And you were 18 when Skyrim came out.. lmao
Hey everyone, something a little more personal but I wanted to share it. Also let me know if you want more cosmic horror stuff. And how's my thumbnail looking? Yay? Nay? Subscribe to give my life meaning!
You’re thumbnails are good 👍
@@leonanderson9960 Thank you! Maybe I’ll go back and change them 😂😩🤷🏻♂️
Thumbnail is great and I think more cosmic horror would be very welcome 🙏🏿
I’d definitely wanna see more cosmic horror. It’s such a rich and niche form of media.
I loved it. Thumbnail could use a thin red border on the text maybe? Looks good regardless. Poor dude I hope you had someone else edit all the spider footage😬😬😬😬creepy
Bloodborne is the best Fromsoft game, no contest. Every time I play it, I get addicted all over again to the feeling that as you move through the levels, you're falling deeper into this nightmare that nobody else realizes is the reality they're living in. Just an absolute masterpiece of a game, 10,000,000/10.
I like it. I can't get into the first part up to papa gac... After that I love it. I've only played through one time because yarnham the beginning kills my immersive I have no idea why and I have tried a god awful number of times and I played every other FS game. Except DS remastered. Which I ordered yesterday
@@firepenguin38 Interesting, I think Yharnam is one of the best starting levels in any Fromsoft game. It teaches the player really well and gives just the right amount of "okay what on earth is happening here" to set up the tone of the game.
@@aperson9847 so I hear lmao. I thinks maybe first time I played it. So many deaths I seen too much of it lol it's all I can come up with. The game tho is still top 5 all time for. Wierd shit I know
i don't know, for me sekiro is the one i can't stop coming back to. after that i love dark souls 3, and bloodborne is a close third
@@ArtimaRitse I didn't like Sekiro honestly, but everybody has their preferences.
Lovecraftian cosmic horror is by far the best type of horror.
The fear of the unknowing
Yup. I’m also afraid of deep water cause it reminds me of space 😬
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Tbh Bloodborne never scared me but it intrigued me!
I hope Miyazaki never gives up on adding the mystery of the “great beyond”. And thanks to Elden Ring and Ranni’s order of the Stars and the Astel Boss it’s enough proof that this hope is for the most part secured.
That’s why I enjoyed Ranni’s quest so much, made me wish an Amygdala showed up at the end
Rannis quest was neat but still left much to be desired imo.
You know this shit is a horror masterpiece when literally yesterday I fell asleep and proceeded to have the most surreal nightmare, where I somehow ended up at shoreline where you fight the orphan. Goddamn the nightmare felt so freaking real I woke up in cold sweat. In the nightmare btw there was no corpse of kos. Just that lonely shore, and the unsettling roaring of the sea. What's crazier still...part of me wants to go back in.
Let's co-op
That really sounds terrifying imo
Im gonna invade you
Can't believe that I finished Bloodborne like 5 hours ago and you upload this lmao
You have good taste! 🤙🏼
What’d you think of the game bro. I remember some nights I was too anxious to play this game and would think “eh maybe tomorrow during day.” But then again it was my first Souls game
@@Zavouk this might be a little long, basically I tried getting into it like 3 times In past maybe 2 years. Know this was before the I even knew what a fromsoftware game was lol. Fast foward I get elden ring and play it to the point of basically mastering it and then decide to play all the Soulsborne games.
As I already bought the game I decide to play bloodborne.
I watch a guide for the first two areas of the game and from that point I blast through the game and DLC. Now it terms of the game I would say that Bloodborne is an amazing and that's putting it lightly. I loved the fast tempo, the aesthetic was beautiful, the world, characters, etc are all extremely intriguing and I'll line up at least a couple of videos to learn all the lore cause I didn't fully understand it and last put not least in terms of difficulty I can say that Bloodborne was infinitely easier than Elden ring to the point where it surprised me.
Every single Boss I've killed without dying except Bloodstarved beast which I died to him twice, Micolash once, Pthumerian Descendent forgot exactly, but it was around 20 minutes of deaths, followed by Pthumerian Queen with 50 minutes of deaths and last but not last by far my hardest encounter in Bloodborne the Bloody crow of Cainhurst with around 2 hours of deaths and that was mainly cause I was really under leveled for the fight which made me look at a guide for all the recommended area levels, but I beat him third try after coming back the appropriate level. My biggest surprise with his was Orphan of Kos which I heard people say when they talk about Melenia as a contender for hardest soulsborne boss, but even him I beat on the first try although it was definitely harder than all the other bosses minus Pthumerian Queen.
Now the absolute highlight of the game for me where the hunter fights. As someone who hated invasions in elden ring and never played duels for than like 10 times in around 350 hours in the game I can say that Hunter vs Hunter combat in BB was absolutely phenomenal. It made regret not buying this game back when it was active. The combat was smooth, engaging, and honestly I can list like another 10 other adjectives and it wouldn't be enough. It's the main reason know why I'm absolutely praying for a BB sequal.
In conclusion I'll definitely be playing the game again. My only gripe with it was it was sometimes pretty confusing knowing what to do and where to go next after you finish an area. Overall 9/10. Oh and if you're wondering about my setup it was Ludwig Holy Blade and Wrigglesaw and Eveyln as my gun. All +10. And I was level 136
50 Vitality
30 endurance
30 strength and Skill
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Even after playing through Bloodborne countless times it never fails to fill me with dread and horror. It's such a phenomenal game.
Still my favorite game even after 7 years
One of the best
Make more cosmic horror content and we will watch!
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Elden Ring is the magnum opus of dark souls, but Bloodborne is still From's greatest game.
But Elden Ring has bad gameplay
@@elitedonut1089 lol.
@@DrKreiger lol x2
dark souls 3 is better than elden ring any day of the week
@@tschmonney yee, no, keep dreaming
Nice work getting real with us. love your videos man
Later on in Nightmare of Mensis if you decided to kill Brain of Mensis, there is a area where spiders have human face......... I'd just nope out and run past all of them. They are some of the most freaky and creepy in any video game I've played!
Yeah the enemies are nightmares. The lantern ones that make you go crazy...yeahhhh. I wanted to put them into the video but then I would have to fight them 🤷🏻♂️
They look absolutely hilarious with their perfectly styled bowl cuts lol
Bloodborne was never scary to me but it’s atmosphere is really unnerving and I love the cosmic horror in bloodborne
I can relate to you on that dinosaur exhibit story, man...No.1 motivation for becoming a pyromaniac. And its a great analogy of describing one's realisation that nature is scary, life is unpredictable, and that we're a lot more insignificant in the universe than we convince ourselves of being. Cosmic horror works because it preys on the most primal of fear, that we have no understanding of things and that we may never be able to comprehend how they make sense in our reality. And that there's even worse examples lurking beyond our world is both intriguing but equally nerve-wracking.
Hope that FromSoftware make a 2nd Bloodborne.
My personal arachnophobia comes from a nightmare I had as a little kid. My mom, brother and I were running from a daddy long leg mixed with a tarantula. I can close my eyes and still see it to this day. I’m not even scared of them, they just give me such an uneasy and gross feeling. I’m the exact same way about the frostbite spiders, I can’t fight them in first person. It was one of the main reasons I was a stealth archer in my first ever playthrough.
The first time I encountered the giant spider dropped from the cave I nearly fainted. I hate the spiders in Skyrim so much, never got used to them.
They had to be on acid or some shit when making nightmare of mensis specifically due to the crows with dog heads and dogs with crow heads; just wtf. And then the spiders with human heads, the marionette messengers, the pigs with eyes covering their whole face, and the utter black void-like setting bathed in moonlight
BloodBorne is my favourite game. In my opinion, Bloodborne has the most interesting, mysterious and horrifying storyline of all Fromsoftware games.
It reminds me of a detective mystery that you solve as you progress through the game.
Bloodborne is a whole ass giant therapy session
Yep game is insanity
Seek the Old Blood...
Bloodborne is still one of my favorite games to this day. Something about that moment when the realization hits, that this isn't a Gothic Horror, but an *Cosmic* Horror. Instead of fear or dread, all I could do was grin like a battle maniac because somehow things now made *more* sense instead of less.
Ironically, I had mild hemophobia when I first started playing, but definitely not anymore by the end.
Bro Bloodborne is the only reason I got a PS4 lmao when it came out!
Ps4 still one of the GOAT’d systems
I never found bloodborne to be scary but it is creepy and incredibly interesting. At no point in the game am I scared, but I constantly find myself unsettled and feeling out of place, as a human hunter in beast-ridden Yharnam.
That moment when you get 40 insight & can see that the amygdalas were everywhere throughout the game the entire time….
lol now I wanna hear your thoughts about the Fade level in Dragon Age Inquisition, where the Fearlings are spider-shaped, but it's implied that's only because they're the closest/most immediate fear to the Inquisitor, and that they look different to other characters. I just adore when video games allow a multi-faceted approach to a story like this.
Lol I hated those spiders 😂
It's bizzare to know that people in west fear of spiders. In my childhood days, every kid used to run after a pider in hopes to get bitten and turn into spiderman. We used to sit and watch a spider make his webbing. We even lift it up and help him around.
My first fromsoft game was Elden ring and I falled in love with it..but bloodborne... certainly is something else
Mass effect itself even gets in on the Lovecraftian horror as the reapers are these bio-organic bug squids that are from beyond space and even our understanding as even looking at them drives one insane and to worship them
Hey, I'm from Ontario too. Toronto to be exact.
Bowmanville here
@@macdarby9926 Nice!
I am currently replaying Bloodborne again and I think it may be my favorite Souls game.
I love the cosmic/existential horror and morbid and eldritch ambiance of the areas, and it has the best lore of the Souls games.
Yagargul village is my favorite area out of all of the Souls games and I love the Amygdalas. I think they are a perfect representation of both cosmic horror and its effect on psychology.
You should play Sekiro. It starts out feeling like it's based in reality but it slowly gets more and more Lovecraftian.
It really is unforgivable that FromSoft hasn't given Bloodborne a new gen patch for 60fps. They know it's their playerbases' favorite game and yet they ignore them.
DUDE, HOLY FUCK your experience of gaining arachnophobia is so similar to mine! For me it was a Halloween-themed field trip when I was 5, we went to a haunted house section which was made of 8ft tall plywood walls in a massive, tall shed on a pumpkin patch. I remember walking through the entire thing completely unfazed, even the room with walls covered in small fake spiders was nothing. So I went in for a second time, but this time half way through the maze-like haunted house I saw something I missed the first time. A gigantic spider mounted onto the far wall similar to the one you described, and that instantly changed me as I was never scared of anything before that point but now I was afraid of the dark, ghosts, insects, and especially spiders.
I had the same experience as you in Skyrim which is why I never properly played through it, and in borderlands 2 Tiny Tina's dlc had spiders so I had to play it with a friend who would check the rooms ahead and killed any spiders. He even did the boss fight alone for me
i love your stuff, and I'd love to see more of this.
Fear the Old Blood, y'all!
I really hope Bloodborne gets a sequel some day as I kind of ruined my first experience with it for myself. It was my first From Soft game and for some reason I really felt the need to have a map. So for the majority of the game I had a map pulled up on my phone which had pretty much everything marked on it. This meant I saw pretty much everything in advance on accident, so I had way less surprises than if I didn’t use it. Also because I just played it last year, I had seen many things from the game already, including the fact that it was cosmic horror. I still had an amazing experience don’t get me wrong. It’s just that I can’t help but wonder how much better it could have been if I went in blind.
5:43 I always thought those things looked like octopus aliens.
Like if octopuses (octopi?) existed on different planets, they would be like those things in Bloodborne.
It's weird. Spiders in video games don't ever really make me anxious despite having crippling arachnophobia...
Then I saw the number of them in Bloodborne.
Granted, these days I just kill them because video game, but boy did that image of all of them in the mensis room freak me out the first time I saw it
I replay bloodborne religiously. Its simply a masterpiece. Let’s hope for a remaster
Bloodborne to me feels like it’s more than just about the cosmic insignificance of humanity. I see patterns in how, no matter how far we stray from our origins, humans at the end of the day are still animals. We will repeat the sins of the past, we will succumb to primal urges, we are just as beastly as the ones we demonize. The good and bad of humanity are there, so is the good and bad of the beasts. This game basically fuels my Misanthropic Nihilism.
This game is my guilty pleasure
This game is a gem.
My fav
The spider part is so relatable. The first time I see those giant spiders on the ceiling I just wanna fucking cry 😂
Afraid of big spider? Avoid Australia at all cost.
HP Lovercraft's influence has spread very far and has impacted many works of art.
I'm with you with spiders, can't stand em. Especially those finger creepers from elden ring. Keeps me from playing the game.
I never get terrified of spiders BUT both Bloodborne and Elden Ring’s spiders scared the hell out of me 😭😭😭
gotta say I'm not scared of spiders. as long as I don't have to touch them, I'm fine. My fear are things that look human but not quite... or that don't move like humans do. Humans where something's just off? It's weird. In the chalice dungeons you can encounter these screetching womes with long black hair floating over their heads. And they just fckn slide and glitch over to you and slash at you. They aren't just freaky to look at, they are really hard to kill too. First time I encountered them I screamed and dropped my controller. I couldn't complete that dungeon for some time.
that fear comes from me having incredibly vivid fever dreams as a kid. I'd see shit while I was awake. I'd see trees aggressively swaying in the wind, so fast and violently they touched the ground. I'd run to my mom, only to see her move as if you fast forward a video of someone moving, and her face not quite right. I'd see faces everywhere. Stuff wasn't moving as it should, and it didn't look like it should. And I still understood I was awake. Experiencing this, your mind just failing you, your eyes literally deceiving you... that's pure horror. I'm 26 now, and it's been 2 decades since I had these fever dreams. But I'll never forget experiencing this. Sometimes when I see something move like I didn't expect or just how it logically shouldn't, I fall back into that state of utter helpless fear.
Excellent video and story 👍👍
When I first played Bloodborne, I went completely oblivious to what the game could offer. I knew I would play it eventually, so I didn't watch any video on it or saw any footage of it.
DS3 was my first Souls-like, and I was expecting something similar to that experience from BB. I was shocked when Bloodborne offered a way more in depth and more intense experience, and also somewhat different, overall. Completely different!
The dread I felt playing BB when going through Yharnam, and especially Forbidden Woods and Ya'hargul, was very close to that I felt playing Alien: Isolation. That's crazy!
I was always at the tip of my seat, I was afraid of advancing and finding a new frightining creature, because it'd mean that I would be losing my echoes in result of dying to it in a place still unknown to me.
Dying in BB was even scarier, because now I had to go looking for my echoes in this dreadful place that I was still getting the hang of, filled with menacing creatures.
This feeling I'm trying to describe was multiplied to the infinity when I first died to that kidnapper with a sac, and taken to the cells in Ya'hargul.
I definitely was not expecting a survivor horror experience from BB, it truly caught me off guard.
BB has become one my favourite games ever for many reasons. The fact that it offers an intense and tense experience like that is one of the reasons.
Fellow Ontarian let’s go, the Toronto Zoo’s dinosaur area’s sick, loved seeing dinos so much as a kid
The Aquarium downtown is crazy too. The big ass octopus they got there scared TF outta me back in 2016
Bro the malformed stars were like this for me ngl but now I’m not sacred about them anymorw
God damn I had the same exact feeling days ago first getting to yahsrgul
'What a Joke, O [Inexperienced] mine. let us ourselves instead fill the World of where-you-are-currently-from with Teeth.' -- Egotistical [Bones].
Eugh. those Space Anathemic beasts.
Such a great game and my all time favourite of all time along with sekiro and now Elden ring
Yeah me too Sekiro is right up there too. Love that game so much
I don't know if bloodborne is the best game of fromsoftware, all of his games are excellent ( for not say one of the great es games of the decade, cause the influence, the music etc) but certainly bloodborne is the most unique of all games from the soulsborne series
1:37 i really cannot wait to hear you talk about rom lol
Those weird white squid things are actually called squidaloodaloos.
Big ups to doing your best to conquer your fear man🤘
Thank you, they still freak me the hell out even while editing 😂
@@EndymionTv oh trust me I completely understand, I have an issue with pools, lakes, oceans due to almost drowning at a summer camp when I was young.
@@Nathan_Coley Yep. I had another encounter around 22-23 where I saw an octopus in Toronto at the aquarium and my knees went weak 😂
If you like this then you’d like the aberrations from d&d like the Gibbering Mouther
You fear of spiders is like my fear of underwater. Even in call of duty. Maps like Armada in cold war and shit. If I fall off one of the ships I spin in my chair until I hear the kill cam. I can watch shit like subnautica and shit but I've actually heavily considered if I could play it and get to a certain depth given a million dollar prize or something. And I don't even think i'd try.
Im Aracnophobic to all spiders
i love bloodborne but i will never get how so many people think it’s better than elden ring, the 2 only things that are better are the weapons and setting
*my opinion only*
Finally someone who gets my fear of first person spider fights
If it makes you feel any better, it’s usually not the big spiders (tarantulas) to worry about.
Lovecraftian horror is the best.
Agreed. Have you seen the movie Underwater? If you like cosmic horror I recommend it
@@EndymionTv I've only read some of his writings, I'll try the movie too.
Bloodborne is a perfect horror game, legit
Playing this game in the dark is genuinely a fucking treat
But also, the Winter Lanterns fucking TERRIFY me, I can't fight them head on
I genuinely get anxiety just by them...existing.
So everytime I see one I straight up bolt past it
Same with the brainsuckers, those little mindflayers
“Cosmic horror in disguise” you needed a whole spider to realize that?
My main takes after watching this vid:
-You hate, hate, hate, hate, HATE spiders
-You are from Ontario, GTA at least if not Toronto
Geez, no wonder I keep watching your vids. 👍
I was born in Brampton actually 🥳 and yes I hate spiders lol
@@EndymionTv Greetings my neighbor west of me. 😁
When i first saw them, I said "WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT!?"
The only crime with bloodborne is that it was a PS exclusive. Please give us a PC port Fromsoft!
Yeah don't feel bad bro I'm scared shitless of spiders and snakes to
Would of loved to see your reaction to that spider alien in the first season of love death robots
Bloodborne is still my favorite FS game, Elden Ring is great but i don't have it above BB or DS1. So many people keep saying BB is their favorite too so there is something there for sure. Crazy its been 7 years and while I want a BB2 I wonder about its special place is partly due to it being untainted but also BB did some things wrong they could improve upon like the chalice dungeons.
“Kindergarten in 1998”…..OMG I am old.
I was born in ‘92 if that helps lol
Hehe, right on. I was starting high school in 1998, hehe.
Bloodborne is my favorite souls game so far, every aspect of it is flawlessly, meticulously designed to play into everything else in one provocative narrative unlike any other piece of media out there.
I believe the biggest tragedy of this industry is if everything perfect about Bloodborne is destroyed by any second game.
I think that if they did revisit the Bloodborne universe, then instead of a sequel they should do a side story, a game that takes place in another town in the world at the same time as the original so we can get the joy of more BLoodborne without any spoiling on what happens afterwards (and they can sprinkle little mentions about the first game into the game also)
Best game ever made. Hunt your nightmares.
great vid
Thank you for watching!
I'd love a full demons souls type remake by bluepoint for Bloodborne. It still looks great obviously but deserves better. They can't just unlock the frame rate so just go all out .
I want a remaster AND sequel. 🥳
@@EndymionTv same
Have you ever played witcher 3? Those spiders will give a heart attack
I’m curious, what’s your opinion on the spiders from Dark Souls 2? Those things scared me even more than the ones from Bloodborne for some reason.
I hate spiders in any game, the worst for me are Skyrim spiders. First person mode vs them is awful I wince and look away every time
Never played bloodbourne……should I ?……. Elden ring is possible one of my fav game of all time
If you own a PS4/5 it is essential. You can download the game on Ps5 via the instant games collection if you have PS PLUS right now as well. Enjoy! Go in as blind as you can
@@EndymionTv ahhh thank you…also LOVE your Elden ring lore videos. Great channel. Keep up the amazing work my guy🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
Bloodborne is a very special masterpiece if you loved Elden ring then to experience bloodborne is a must 👌🏾👍🏾it’s is most fromsoft gamers favourite souls game/sekiro is also a special game with arguably the best combat system ever built in gaming 🤓🥇🔝
Super intetesting video. One nitpick I have is that the plural of amygdala is not “amygdalas” but is spelt “amygdalae”
You talking about the time you attended kindergarten over those scenes of the Hunt at the start of the video... Kinda makes me wonder what kind of kindergarten you went to
The same feeling
The only critique I have of the game is that I am bad at parrying and as such I have a hard time playing this game without using the c*ummmfpk dungeon to over-level
This game is worth buying a PlayStation for
Bloodborne will always be my fave game from FS.
I have debilitating arachnophobia. It’s not like normal fear, spiders aren’t actually scary. Arachnophobia is a residual instinct. The sight of a spider literally sets off our fight or flight. I’ve never played Skyrim or Bloodbourne sadly for this reason.
You should get help for that.
Dang. Havent finished this game. I let the dude wake me up from the dream... Started a new run. Then Elden Ring came out... Gotta go back and kill the moon.
Go back and play it! Thanks for watching 🤘🏻🔥
I hate spiders, hate them, the only animal/insect/etc. in all nature that i hate with a passion fueled by fear. I go bitten while i was deployed two times so i friking HATE THEM......i dated a girl who had a spider tattoo and i never look at her tattoo, ever.
As a big scaredy cat, ESPECIALLY when it comes to body horror (The thing freaks me out and disgusts me) Bloodborne is, unfortunately, a game i will never be able to finish
You should push through it because that’ll help you overcome it
@@EndymionTv I knowww but i have a phobia of bugs and anything like that just makes me wince and not look at the screen 😭 even certain enemies in elden ring i do not wish to approach because of that, I have cleared Bloodborne up until the bloodthirsty beast or whatever its called but am terrified of going forward because it irks me so much
Love cosmic horror..
I don’t know what museum you went to but I promise you there has never been a spider that was as big as a car. Biggest spider in history was about a foot (13 in). Sea scorpions could get up to 8 feet long but thats about it. Maybe that’ll help you feel better?
Listen I dunno man I was on a school field trip, I was a lil baby at the time & this mfer was massive. I’m talking HUGE. Imagine being that small and seeing this huge fake spider with its huge ass head/legs on a wall with like info about it around it.
Makes me shiver just thinking about it again 😂
Bloodborne will live forever. I'm not sure From will ever top it. They've made bigger, harder, utterly won't top it
Bro you sound like Gohan from dragon ball
Please stop playing with the brightness turned all the way up it destroys the graphics
Yo Endymion is from Ontario too?
Born in Brampton!
Out of all the horrors in that game, the spiders terrify you the most?
Earlier in the video you said if Alien life does exists you don't think they would like life forms such as Mass Effects Asari or Krogan but more like the Great Ones. Bro, i think you forgot about the terrifying forms of the Reapers and Leviathans. And those things are much much more horrifying than the great ones in my opinion. In Bloodborne the great ones can be killed... to a certain extent. The Reapers and Leviathans... Kind of but not really. While Bloodborne is hopeless and horrifying. Mass Effect in a way is much worse.
Let's say alien life does exist, which i personally believe it does. I think it's completely possible for their to be hostile entities as well as peaceful ones. Much like Mass Effect. The thing with Bloodborne is... The mere presence of these alien gods ruins everything. Like, yeah you can technically blame humanity for all the pain the suffering that took place. But when you take into account that Yharnam isn't even the first location in which the plague occured... The Great Ones are just as much as to blame. Sure, the great one's are sympathetic in nature but that doesn't really mean anything lol. Look at Yharnam. For gods they are either incredibly dumb or they simply don't care.
Sorry man, i kind of went on a rant. Great video. I love Bloodborne myself. Honestly Bloodborne is the only From Software game i can say that about. I don't care for Dark Souls, Demon Souls or Sekiro. Elden Ring is cool. I like it. But Bloodborne is miles ahead in my opinion. Seriously, it'll never happen. But i would love a sequel to Bloodborne.
Same 0:02
Greatest Lovecraftian game ever made.
Nice name
@@EndymionTv thank you. You are the first to comment about it. Loved the video. You have some great insights on cosmic horror. Bloodborne translates cosmic horror to the player in ways I had never seen before. I think Eternal Darkness is the only other game that has come close. Bloodborne just nailed it.
@@Onering80 thank you for that! I am happy you think that 😇🤘🏻🔥
A video game giving you "trauma".. from seeing a fake spider at a zoo when you were 5.. 🤦♂️ bruh come on, the overexaggerated titles and hyperbolic statements come across as pretentious and that's what ruins most of your videos for me.
"had to look away from the screen and spam R2" cos you couldn't even look at spiders yet here you are capturing footage and editing a video full of spiders from said game. And you were 18 when Skyrim came out.. lmao
“Overexaggerated” is not real word