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🎧TRACKLIST (in order of appearance)
Save Room (Resident Evil) - Masami Ueda
Don’t Cry, Jennifer - Michiru Yamare
Save Room (Resident Evil 4) - Misao Senbongi, Shusaku Uchiyama
Micolash - Michael Wandmacher
Cleric Beast - Ryan Amon
Ritual - 1000 Eyes
Soothing Hymn - Ryan Amon
Close to Evil - Mikko Tarmia
The Uncertainty Principle - Andrew Prahlow
Track 2 - Stephen Rippy
Hail the Nightmare - Ryan Amon
Double Back - Cicada Sirens
plate skies - The Soothing Cream - เกม
I love how Bloodborne starts out as gothic horror with werewolves and such then shifts into lovecraftian horror once you gain enough insight into what’s really going on
Eldritch hits different
Both elements are inspired by reality.
The nephilim tribes that God sent his people to wipe out in the old testament were genetic abominations. Giants, werewolves, vampires etc.
Hollywood has shown these kinda things but they were far more grotesque back then.
Hot take: Bloodborne is gothic horror throughout because Lovecraftian is a subgenre of gothic
@@hectorlopez9453bro fr
It’s Gothic horror throughout. Gothic horror is all about humanity’s hubris in using science to play God. Bloodborne’s twist on it is that it’s impossible for humanity to truly play God because said gods are many and borderline incomprehensible.
Okay, I’ll replay bloodborne again.
I’m jealous my ps4 broke in 2021 and I got a pc, haven’t played bb since 😢
Merentiel the Beast wold be proud
DALE UOCAAAAAAAAAAAA
Hand it over. That thing, your BloodBorne.
Basically me because I don't have a PlayStation xd
You hear that, Sony?
Sunk over 200 hours in this game and I can tell you, there’s nothing more scary than the amygdala in the defiled chalice
I stopped playing the game (for a few months) because of that fight. After I beat the defiled Amygdala, I one-shot Gerhman and the Moon Presence since I was so overpowered
Nah, watchdog of the old lords is WAY worse, especially of you're going dex with blades of mercy.
@@chase6579 Jesus Christ going head to head with the dog with blades of mercy is nuts
Nah going to the Upper Cathedral and getting ambushed by the damn brain suckers is far scarier lol
@@PhantomBones101 they a close second ngl, but the amygdala on depth 4, so much health, more aggressive and you being at half health is actually hell
MASTERPIECE. Bloodborne’s art direction will go down in history as a landmark. The creativity is fucking bonkers.
Exactly. I played it in my journey to get all FS games platinums in PS. It was my first soulslike in playstation (because I played a little bit of Sekiro on PC before). Recently, I remembered Ludwig (my favorite boss ever) and his soundtrack. I opened TH-cam and listened to it. After that I got obsessed again. Listened to all big soundtracks of Bloodborne, rewatched its lore, hidden dialogues and realized how underrated Bloodborne really is. It's a piece of art made video game. So many philosophical questions and issues addressed, emotions and values of humans, emotional and impactful tragedies. My favorite characters are Ludwig, Gehrman and Laurence. The three of them have such and amazing character development and its really mindblowing everything that happens to them as you dig out the lore and stories behind them. I swear I could talk about bloodborne for hours lol
I've consumed Bloodborne video essays throughout the years, and I will consume them whenever a new one comes out. I will keep consuming because it gets better the more insight you have.
What was it, the hunt? The blood? Or the horrible dream?
@@andrewcanning3840 The faint beckons of the Old Ones in the back of my mind
A corpse should be left well alone
@@HeatherHolt such a badass
24:17 "Once you help Gehrman retire" is my new favorite way to refer to defeating him. I propose we stop calling it the "bad ending" and start calling it Gehrman's Retirement. 😂
Thank you algorithm. You have taken me where I never knew I needed to go.
welcome home👁️
I love Bloodborne so much, I’m glad people are still talking about it and making videos on it to this day
Think its finally coming to a sequel
@@salladpatron3395 Bloodborne sequel would be a dream come true 🙏
@@starrynight-ppc port when?
i had the chance to play it just recently and i feared that the fandom would be dead since its been like 9 years since the game came out but i was pleasantly surprised!
Ah, you were at my side all along. My true mentor. My guiding survivor horror masterpiece.
I never see anyone mention this online but the Amygdala is literally the name of the part of your brain that controls the hormone that causes fear, and the creature's head in game looks kind of similar to the actual gland
Almost every video essay on Bloodborne mentions it. It’s also not that uncommon knowledge.
Whelp, time to sink another 20+ hours into Bloodborne
Bloodborne is easily the greatest game of all time in my opinion. The main reason it is head and shoulders over many of its cousins is the hyper focus on one style of gameplay leading to a very well designed gameplay experience. Put an excellent Hamer meets Lovecraft horror ambiance around the core gameplay and this is a near perfect game. There are shortcomings, the frames per second are the most common complaint though the inability to make the celestial bosses such as living failures is a missed opportunity. Also the late game nightmares prior to Mergo’s nightmare feel a touch rushed, as is the late game use of the madness mechanic. Still, I will remember the tragedy of Maria, the haunting Castle Cainhurst, the poignant dreaming of Djura and the heart wrenching screams of the Orphan of Kos for the rest of my life.
I appreciate the inclusion of a 🎧TRACKLIST (in order of appearance) in the video description, raises the video above the level of quality of many other long form video producers.
Leon Kennedy is an American, of course their favored mode of interaction with the world through the use of weaponry.
I can't believe Micolash is Dutch, I never knew how multicultural Bloodborne was.
Overall, very insightful video into a game I'll never be able to play because it's locked on consoles.
bloodborne is really about the depravity of the dutch
I think I could know what nationalities each one has in my opinion:
Eileen - Afro American 🇺🇲
Henryk - British 🇬🇧
Gascoigne - French 🇨🇵
Alfred - British 🇬🇧
Valtr - North American (EE.UU.) 🇺🇲
Micholash - Dutch 🇳🇱
Willem - British 🇬🇧
Laurence - British 🇬🇧
Brador - British 🇬🇧
Simon - British 🇬🇧
Ludwig - British 🇬🇧
Adella - British 🇬🇧
Arianna - British 🇬🇧
Narrow Minded Man - British 🇬🇧
Transformed man - British 🇬🇧
Gilbert - British 🇬🇧
Lonely Old Dier - British 🇬🇧
Gascoigne's daughter girl and her older sister - British/ French 🇬🇧🇨🇵
Oedon Chapel Dweler - Pthumerian
Adeline - British 🇬🇧
losefka - British 🇬🇧
Djura - British 🇬🇧
Amelia - British 🇬🇧
Annalise - Russian 🇷🇺
Yamamura - Japanese 🇯🇵
Lady Maria - Polish 🇵🇱
Gehrman - German 🇩🇪
The Hunter - It depends on how you consider him, it can be yours if you want, after all it is your character that you create, for me he's Spaniard 🇪🇸.
Edit: It makes sense, after all, many foreigners traveled to Yarhnam to receive the blood transfusion.
@@ThePalebloodHunter Lady Maria - Polish 🇵🇱
Can you elaborate on why you think that?
What a a wickedly good video essay. This seems like a million view video, I hope this reaches the algorithm
I see Bloodborne, i click it
It is that simple
Can never get enough of BB videos.
Truly the best game ever. Lore, gameplay, world design, shortcuts, boss design (for the most part), interesting weapons (trick weapons, so cool), replayability, co-op capability, philosophical ideas with horror and existentialism, the rally mechanic, the best dlc. Dungeons are meh but not necessary. Gothic horror and Lovecraft done right!
What an incredible video essay. This gives me an entirely whole new perspective on Bloodborne. You've earned my sub.
The trick weapons for some strange reason are so satisfying to use and master. Literally my favorite game and I’ve been gaming since the 80’s
Just a side note: the amygdala is a part of your brain that registers different emotions, the main one being FEAR. I think this is a really cool and subtle detail in the game that some don’t know about.
How does this video have no comment, where is youtube algorithm.
it forgot that i'm him
We WILL force the algorithm to look here.
@@greatrulo we must pray to the algorithm God x they love ❤❤❤ 🎉🎉
Algorithm arrives precisely when it means to
I understood that reference@@sorbino_
This is a great video. If time is our most precious commodity, I'm happy I purchased this with a piece of my afternoon. Thanks man!
Once you realize that YOU the player must lean into the hunt and become the hunter, you start to feel like all of Yharnam is locked in the Dream with you.
This has the production value of a much larger channel. Mad respect
I’ve watched every big bloodborne lore/video essay on TH-cam and I love to see new ones still being made
Great video, I’ve always seen bloodborne as the peak of eldritch horror of Lovecraft’s stories, but this gave me a new sight of my favorite game
No game has been able to get my heart pounding like bloodborne did, even other horror/survival games
Get in, keep attacking, tear them apart, win
Best. Game. I. Have. Ever. Played.
Edit: 9:23 - literally, they’re not from this world
Others: you can't be powerful and have a horror game! Bloodborne is not horror!
Me: WiNtEr LaNtErN gOeS BrRrRrT
Great video. I never get tired of watching video essays describing why Bloodborne is an absolute masterpiece.
Thanks for the video! I really like hearing people's views of Bloodborne because it's such a multifaceted game that can trigger all sorts of responses from people which, in hindsight, it's such a horror movie characteristic xd
firstly, i loved the video. it was great, and i love seeing new takes on bloodborne's greatness.
i think one reason that i didn't see already in the comments for why this take might not resonate for everyone is the intrinsic difficulty of a survival horror vs something like bloodborne. i can see your take being incredibly pertitent to a new souls fan or maybe someone who's playing the game the first time but still played other souls games. i think veterans of the game will naturally dismiss the "survival horror" title as a genre tag bc the feelings are intrinsically different. everything you described about the fight being the fear just didn't click with me. i'm an experienced bloodborne player. i never run out of vials or bullets for the most part. i know how to execute enemies without using resources i might need for a boss, and dying is typically only due to my mistakes in combat like any other souls game, so i'm not wasting resources on needless deaths really at all. resident evil, silent hill, they never felt that way. i know silent hill's story like the back of my hand, but the way the game impliments and impedes combat makes RE/Silent Hill always feel like you're a regular human, disadvantaged, in a world of monsters that could kill you. going into bloodborne as a regular souls player, i never felt that way. and i think people who are used to mechanically analyzing a souls game will feel very similar to me. the first time you see an enemy in silent hill, it FEELS like you have to run or you will absolutely die. in bloodborne, i punched that werewolf and dodged and tried to get a feel for his attack patterns and the correct dodge timings. as a player in bloodborne, how effective you feel next to an enemy is entirely up to your skill as a player - i'm confident. i never feel out of place in a souls game. you have the mechanics to defeat every single enemy from the get-go if you're skilled enough. the same cannot be said about resident evil, silent hill and other classic survival horror games. however, for the new player, i can absolutely see how those feelings might arise. all in all, very good essay, i think the only added nuance to make this the perfect take is adding a little about the experience of the gamer themselves. it definitely impacts the way you perceive bloodborne as survival horror or an action horror rpg
i appreciate the in-depth criticism! and tbh you're very perceptive lol
you're absolutely right about this being pertinent for newer players/non-gamers. i've played through bloodborne like 4 times now, so it doesn't scare me *personally* much anymore.
but it was the second fromsoft game i'd ever played, and i remember how much it scared me on my first playthrough, and thinking "this game plays nothing like resident evil, so why does it scare me like resident evil does?"
so for this video (and the playthrough of bloodborne i did to capture footage), i tried to experience the game through fresh eyes to answer that question. and that's what i'm writing to here: bloodborne through fresh eyes... on the inside👁️
@@sorbino_ i kinda got that the essay might've been from the perspective of someone new to the franchise or just, lacking the meta-game experience of souls games. the meta game information is really what distinguishes the two, with classic survival horror the meta knowledge doesn't impact your experience as a disadvantaged player while having it in bloodborne changes the experience. i actually spent more time thinking about your essay today, i really enjoyed it and that's what i came up with - the real defining factor on the validity of the tag is just whether or not meta knowledge should be included. i think as a first or probably even second playthrough, bloodborne is absolutely an evolved survival horror
in my First time playthrough going through Blighttown was the scariest gaming experience for me
This is one of the best thematic analyses of Bloodborne I have seen in a while. Excellent exploration my dude. It hits on most of the themes behind my own Bloodborne tattoo.
I still remember not knowing about the alien shit in Bloodborne and then saw a weird blue guy in the forest and went “what in the fuck is that” and said it more when i got to Byrgenwerth
No better introduction than to Cleric Beast’s Theme and screams
I will never replicate the fear that my first bloodborne playthrough gave me. Feeling lost, not knowing where to go, what was lurking ahead. Yharnam scared me the most for how new i was, but cathedral ward , forbidden woods and rashalgul also were scary.
Its Beautiful to me that the Lovecraftian theme remain until you find out that all the great one’s where once human (there is a description that stated that )
There are different types of horror and the common consensus is that true horror doesn't sell well. It's remained niche even if it receives critical acclaim, but a casual audience doesn't flock to it. Shinji Mikami says in his talk on Bokeh Studio that Resident Evil couldn't continue if it tried to remain horror, so it incorporated action and became it in the end, horror elements is only in the setting or creatures. Jump scares are low hanging fruit and only work for so long, so the focus becomes the action. He told Toyoma he pretty much chose the difficult path and respected for wanting to make pure horror. He himself has gone off to make games he felt passionate about that he knew weren't going to sell.
Bloodborne is as much horror as the rest of Dark Souls is, as they contain horror elements in different areas if not just oppressiveness, tension designed in yet is also designed to relieve that by overcoming enemies and bosses. The focus or intent was never to make horror primary in any statement Miyazaki has said that I recall. It contains it because of influences, but videogames with action and most games are meant for the player to win in the end. If it has action, you have far more a chance to do so and the best horror functions on a feeling of hopelessness or inevitability in the face of the unknown. I think that is why Lovecraftian horror is seen as lofty as it is because you can't fight against it, while in media fighting against a horror is often in B-Horror movies.
great video, been waiting for this video for a long time now as bloodborne is one of my favorite games. brilliant!
Great video essay, I seen many about Bloodborne over the years and this is by far one of the best.
And it's here that I want to turn to the USA. This is a country that gives you the freedom to choose between a variety of private health insurance, monopolized drugs, and homeopathic alternatives to express yourself in a fluid, hyper-capitalist scheme. You'll deal with premium geysers of blood and wonder why filling out insurance claims are unreasonably hard.
The healthcare in USA just makes you feel like an overworked Victorian factory worker. Which is pretty badass. And, I'll admit, this seems to fly in the face of traditional US socialist design (improvements to rights after Haymarket Affair).
As it turns out though, living in the US is all about managing scarce resources. Especially in the early part of your life. You got all the First world-standard resources to watch out for: food, living expenses, weapon durability, but where the USA strays from the pack is in it's handling of healing items and services. Unlike the single-payer healthcare and communism of Europe, let's say, important pills and insulin don't replenish every month for free. If you want more, you'll have to scrounge them up yourself. Well, you might find a few of each scattered around your city willing to share, kill for them, or working overtime for the money to buy them is far and away the most reliable way to top off your personal supply. As the US's primary currency, debt is arguably the most important resource in the country. You can use it to buy consumer products of course, but also to buy weapons, armor, compound upgrades, and even books. The more debt you get into, the higher your margin of error, your chance of survival, becomes. When you go bankrupt though, your debt will be absorbed by the collector that bought you or mailed as a deductible near where you went bankrupt. So unless you can pay off that debt and survive, a very tough enemy is going to hold your access to health, food, money, and video games- hostage.
many people are saying this
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I have platinumed every modern Fromsoft game except Sekiro which I’m still working on. As a gamer for 25 years, no game has ever made as much of an impact on me as much as Bloodborne. It is a masterpiece. It’s the game I wish I could experience again for the first time.
Ahhhhhh!!! Im sooooo thankful for TH-cam algorithm 🙏🙏🙏 such a great video!
Amygdala isn’t just a strange exotic word they used for some of the great ones. It’s the fear centre of the brain and its pronounced uh-mig-duh-luh not uh-mig-dah-lah.
fantastic deep dive! thank you for sharing ❤
Ohhh, I really wanna discuss the secret ending. Rant inbound.
I was going to use certain talking points as to why people view the "Childhood's Beginning" ending favorably, but I can't seem to find the sources of some of them. I'm led to assume I dreamt them up or something, since all the ways I "knew" they were explained are just not there. Nonetheless, I'll mention them, if for no other reason than to cover all bases. I could have *sworn* there was flavor text to the "Childhood's Beginning" trophy that said/implied something like "The Hunter turned Great One leads humanity into a new future" but I can't find any proof that this is real, which is making me think I dreamt it up after learning about the book "Childhood's End" (a book where aliens peacefully invade Earth and create an utopia at the expanse of creativity and eventually turn humans into beings of pure thought who don't need bodies), or maybe it was something in another video essay. There's also the fact that "Great Ones are sympathetic in nature" - this time a real quote from the game - which instills some minor hope for the future, although "sympathetic" does not mean *empathetic* nor do Great Ones pick "good" people to be sympathetic towards - what it really means is that if you (or ANYONE) ask a Great One to give you something or help you somehow, they'll greatly consider actually doing it, provided you actually, you know, *succeed* in asking for assistance from one, as I don't imagine it's easy. The only documented cases of intentional communion is the Healing Church communing with Ebrietas and asking for her Blood (also Oedon sort-of) and Gehrman communing with the Moon Presence / Flora. Technically I think the Fishing Hamlet and Kos also count but again Kos was just built different and she approached *them.*
Secondly, and interestingly enough, there are actually *four thirds of an umbilical cord!* Mechanically, it's probably to increase the likelihood of the PC getting the three you need, as you can softlock yourself out of getting two of those. Lore-wise, it's interesting - even though it's called a "One Third of an Umbilical Cord" in the USA version, in the UK version it's just "Third Umbilical Cord", and while a Byrgenwerth note references "three third cords" (again, there are FOUR and two are only procured by the end of the game and don't exist by the time the note is written), the Japanese name literally translates to "3rd Umbilical Cord" (I used the number to better display what I mean) - 3rd as in "third in a row". So, they aren't each a 1/3 of AN Umbilical Cord, they're a "3rd" Umbilical Cord, whatever THAT means - and there's FOUR of them. Additionally, the item description says all Great One children have this *precursor* to an umbilical cord - Oxford defines the word as "a person or thing that comes before another of the same kind" and "a substance from which another is formed, especially by metabolic reaction". Does this mean it's something that only Great One children have that's between the rest of the body and the Umbilical Cord, or does it mean that it's a Great One equivalent to an umbilical cord that predates the concept, and is really just called an Umbilical Cord because that's the closest known equivalent to it's function?
All the Great One children the Umbilical Cords *could* be sourced from are also unique in some way. The Orphan of Kos is the only Great One whose PARENT died and *could* be the one found in the Workshop (though the 1.0 version of the Workshop Cord references a "Vileblood child"). Mergo is the only Great One child who only SORT OF died (he doesn't have a physical body, like his assumed parent, and depends on his Wet Nurse to be kept alive, though whether Oedon is his parent isn't clear especially since the community suspects Oedon is the one who impregnated Arianna and Iosefka too, and Arianna's baby is very tangible while Iosefka and Arianna both go through physical symptoms of pregnancy, aside from the big belly that is), but we finish him off near the end of the game and gain a cord from him. We get one from ending Impostor Iosefka's questline, after she gets preggers and we kill her in a, now that I think about it, funny parallel to what happened to Kos, except of course Iosefkan't is a crazy murderer while Kos was just chillin. Lastly, one cord is gained from killing the Great One child Arianna inexplicably gives birth to near the end of the game. This also kills Arianna, and if you kill Arianna the child also dies.
Now, all the Great Ones kind of have their shtick, in some sense. Flore clearly fucking LOVES murdering other Great Ones, especially babies, but needs someone else to do it. Oedon enjoys blood communion. Ebrietas kind of just chills at the Altar of Despair, apparently she's got the morbs about not being able to rapture herself like all the cool kids. Rom technically isn't a Great One (she's Kin, sort of like failed/lesser Great Ones but not "One Reborn" levels of failed nor "Amygdala" levels of lesser - somewhere in between) and she's kind of considered dumb but she basically enforces some sort of barrier that prevents the Mensis Ritual from finishing, but also stops you from *stopping* the Mensis Ritual and killing Mergo. The Amygdalas are lesser Great Ones who just kind of like soaking up worship idfk they do literally whatever. Kos seemed to actually just enjoy helping (again, most capital B based Great One, shout out to Kos all my homies love Kos). The Orphan of Kos is the linchpin of the Hunter's Nightmare and a physical representation of the curse Kos put on all Hunters: "Curse the fiends, their children too. And their children, forever true."
What I'm trying to say is that, put simply, people like to imagine our own Hunter-turned-Great-One would be the kind of Great One that would generally be beneficial in some capacity to the people it associates with, like Kos. As my previous paragraph shows, I disagree with the notion that the Hunter would perpetuate the Hunt, at least not out of apathy - they would have to have a SPECIFIC goal in mind that the Hunt furthers in some capacity.
“Survival horror” 😶
What?
(Disclaimer: This rant is unrelated to my opinion of the video, which is positive)
The more I see videos like this, the more I realize the meaning of a "Survival horror" (shortening to "SH") game has been almost completely eroded. So much so that a game with infinitely farmable resources with it's closest relation to SH is the map design gets considered such? you don't count your bullets in Bloodborne, you sit on giant piles of them after killing hordes of respawnable trash. you never reach a setback that would be grounds for reloading a save. Heck, there are parts of the game where dying will give you progress or a shortcut. SH isn't just the sum of a survival game or horror game. if it was, the title of the subgenre would mean nothing.
i've read this sentiment a few times now, but thank you for elaborating on it instead of just going "nuh uh" lol. we love valid criticism, folks!
personally, i think genre studies should be approached with a more inquisitive/open attitude. instead of "canonizing" specific rules to pluck out the "wrong" titles from a genre, i try to look at the core thematic/emotional aspects of a genre and see how those get expressed differently over time.
i just think it's more interesting to do lol, but i also think we can learn more about a title and its place in a larger cultural context by doing that.
so i don't think the meaning of survival horror has eroded, but i think we (broadly, as a culture) have changed how we *tend* to express its meaning. the "bullet counting" survival horror still gets made and is still understood to be survival horror, just in a more "traditional" style
i hope that makes sense lol. i appreciate the comment!
@@sorbino_dang you shut that dude up
amazing video, thank so much for sharing!!! i really love your interpretation of the squid ending too! i never really got why that was the “good” ending, like my hunter that just murdred everyone and consumed So Many Blood Heals is probably not going completely fix everything as a lil great one lmao! looking forward to future stuff from u!!
This game is a triumph.
Horror, yes. Survival horror, no. Not even close.
Thank you
Yes, a true masterpiece, one that continues to live into this day as a memorable, often revisited experience...
THAT WE STILL HAVEN'T GOTTEN A REMASTERED OR PC PORT FOR- Do it, From. IT'S FREE MONEY.
SONY owns the iP
Nothing brings fear more than Upper Cathedral Ward. That place feels like a horror, but the real horror is the insights stolen along the way.
Those guys are a nightmare for me who hordes resources.
I'm just bothered by the title. Bloodborne is the literal opposite of survival. Like, gameplay and lore wise, your biggest power is that you can die countless times.
that's a fair reading honestly! i think you're 100% right in that your character's deaths have a different narrative meaning than in most other survival horror games, where your character's "true"/"canon" death might only come at the end.
but, then again, that happens to your bloodborne character too. they don't "truly" die until you get to an ending. getting mortally wounded over and over again and persevering anyway has always felt, to me, like its own warped kind of survival. the only way to die for good is to give up.
thanks for the comment!
interpret bloodborne as a freudian nightmare and explain all the mobs
i don't know if i could do a better job at that than honeybat in her video "Visceral Femininity: A Bloodborne Video Essay"
it should be linked in the description of this video if you wanna check it out!
@@sorbino_ already did and absolutely fucking loved it, not much unlike your video, the production value is way above your current popularity
My guy... while I apppreciate the effort you put into coming up with a different take... in Bloodborne you're not "surviving", you're hunting. The monsters are your prey and the playable character is literally an immortal hunter that comes back from the death to kill'em all.
i mean idk, i think the fantasy of a hunt (usually, anyway) is that you're confronting dangerous prey in a dangerous environment and coming out on top - surviving the odds thanks to the indomitable human spirit or whatever. but regardless, as i detail in the video, survival horror is more than just "surviving" in the strictest sense. i appreciate the criticism!
There is no way I would consider Bloodborne survival horror, but I will say that it feels like it in the beginning. Enemies are terrifying and items, especially healing items, feel scarce.
But when you get good at the game, it stops feeling that way. You become a god of death that heals by ripping the life from your victims. It starts feeling more like a survival game... for your enemies.
For me, BloodBorne is in a league of it's own.
Yessir another video to explain why I f*cking love this game.
I like to think that my 3 times playthrough is headcanon to the lore of my char. The first NG ending being the secret one, and then killing gehrman on ng+, and ended up submitting in the ng+2 (3rd run).
Long story short, the hunter achieved godhood and wanted to replace gehrman on his 2nd run. He also killed all npc on that playthrough, to save all of them from the nightmare. After he replaced gehrman, with his newfound power and being the one who controlled the dream, he recreated everything once more, and kill himself using his 'copy' of gehrman to finally 'wake up'.
His build on each ng cycle is also crucial to the lore. On NG it's pure arcane build with madman attire and kos parasite (considering he had to kiil the moon presence), on ng+ he's skill build with rakuyo and Maria's-Cainhurst attire to save gehrman. Finally on 3rd ng+, bloodtinge. He utilized all power he garnered that runs in his blood to finally end everything. And his attire is his first; the hunter set but with Maria's gloves and Old hunter trousers in respect of both Maria and Gehrman.
Oh, and on ng+ when my hunter killed everyone, he didn't kill Laurence. Because that dude can rot in eternity, since he's basically the root of all that's wrong in Yharnam. And his fight are just obnoxious.
Loved the addition of the quantum fluctuations from Outer Wilds 👌
Bloodborne is my favorite video game and hasn't been dethroned yet. I appreciate this video even if I ultimately disagree. It has horror elements and the spooky vibe is immaculate, but I struggle to categorize it as "survival" horror.
I didn't fear dying in my first playthrough of Bloodborne playthrough. I expected to die frequently, knowing that my worst outcome would be losing my echoes. But to me, that's not horror. That's me failing a corpse run in Dark Souls. It's thrilling, for sure, but not scary.
And because the stakes were never high for me, and death was just the punishment for not playing well, for me Bloodborne was an exploration of a horror world, knowing that the only thing between me and the next area was learning how to hunt a grotesque monster.
Sorry for the rant. I gave the video a like because I'm happy that it exists!
This is a great analysis!
Bloodborne is like a survival horror that encourages you to club the dogshit out of the scary thing rather than run
give us EYES!!!!!!
I already finished bloodborne 17 times guess I'm doing it again
I actually cannot fathom how this doesn't have more views
There are only 8.1k people on this earth living their best life. Damn.
This is excellent👌
If bloodbore is a survival horror game why do i die so much
We all need more of bloodborne
bloodborne was so beyond epic, an unforgettable masterpiece!
I noticed it's possible to play through and beat the game without fighting a single cosmic boss. You can then just wake up by surrendering to Gehrman-- only aware of the hunt and nothing else
Ahh.. another bloodborne appreciation essay
Fun fact, if someone is crucified on the ''rune crucifixes'' his body will appear as the ''praise the sun'' gesture in Dark souls.
if this game would ever come to pc maybe ill get to try it out finally.
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Ironic you show a Fallen Hero while playing the theme of a Tragic Monarch
(Also that transition between Lawerence’s theme and BSB was fucking seamless)
Was the last from soft game i played its also my absolute favourite. Got it last year with my ps5 and got the platinum that week.
Interesting, I think Bloodborne would do a pretty good modern Catlevana
I've heard Bloodborne being some of the favorite games from the TH-camrs watched and subscribed to such as Caddicarus for example(with it's position as Day 25 of the Cadvent Calendar, considered the best games he's ever played, in contrast to the Badvent Calender's 25th comprising of Animal Soccer World and the entirety of Phoenix Games, the worst of all reviewed on his channel). I couldn't agree more. Bloodborne meshes survival horror and action RPG combat with Lovecraftian monsters beyond our comprehension. The gothic architecture of Yharnam remains some of the best horror atmosphere in any action game out there. I dig this dark and mesmerizing structuring, even in Devil May Cry 1 and 3 with the likes of Mallet Island Castle, and the Temen-Ni-Gru, they were unnerving yet beautiful, and the music provided in each nook and cranny of an empty, vast palace, aside from the creepy allure of a massive demonic tower's interior really set the mood before kicking into battle when kickass industrial/electronic rock music blasts in the background as you fight stylishly as possible.
Resident Evil 4 impacted gaming for the best and the worst, but Bloodborne is that much of a disturbing gothic masterpiece, it's worth a challenge due to it's difficulty and playing for those who've owned a PS4, and are a fan of FromSoftware and Miyazaki's work.
Bloodborne is a ARPG.Its more fantasy than horror but if you're easily frightened that will be subjective. I suppose if you don't "Git Gud" it could be considered a survival also but it definitely is a Masterpiece.
I just beat this game and now I want to replay it. That usually never happens. Usually when I beat it I’m done
The immagery is horrific, the resources are not self replenishing, but i somehow dont feel scared... might have something to do with the giant Explosive Hammer in my hands.
Personally, I wouldn't call it survival-horror. It's still more of a fantasy action-adventure RPG than anything.
Bloodborne would be a perfect survival game if there were no blood vials and the only way to regain health was through the rally mechanic. Except my version of rally would completely regenerate health instead of just from recent hits taken.
I say that because blood vials make the gameplay switch between aggressive and passive mode too frequently for the average player.
man i'd play the heck out of a game like that lol
Mmm isn't that how Ultrakill works? Haven't played it yet
I've yet to see a video essay that starts with the RE1 remake safe room theme that was bad, good vid👍🏻
amazing video
New video🎉
Amazing.
Amazing vid, I personally think bloodborne and elden ring are by far the best fromsoft titles.
Very well done. Good video.
I playing horror games and am scared of the Fromsoft game loop of getting better and dying along the way.
All that changed when I got my Ps4 and my only game being Bloodborne.
It toom me a long time to finish, of which I did on the morning before I was to go on my honeymoon.
We've always called Bloodborne a survival horror in my friend group, I never realised it was a divisive opinion. We also call games like Rain World survival horror, even if half-joking, and I still think it fits, given how vulnerable and scared of both the enemies and the hostile world itself you are as a player, especially on a first playthrough.
Good hunter reading this comment, the TH-cam Amygdala brought you here, didn't it?
Amazing video!!!
Beautifully done video my friend. For this and many more reasons Bloodborne will always be my favorite game. Survival horror is just another layer on top of what Bloodborne is as a whole. Even going deeper and deeper into the chalice dungeons give that feeling of the unknown
How can it be unknown if most of the locations and bosses are recycled?
chalices were mad boring ngl
I assume when people say "FromSoft used to make horror games" they were talking about Echo Night 😅
A more accurate title: Bloodborne-A masterpiece perfect marriage of survival horror and action rpg. But thats also too long. 😄
Underrated