The Nightmare of BLOODBORNE
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*It's been a while since I did a video game topic, hasn't it...?* Well, if there's love for it, I'll keep making more of them. Next week's video and the following week are voted by Patrons over here www.patreon.com/ryanhollinger - some pretty interesting choices coming through!
Thank you so much for all the support! It's been a positive light during a stressful time for me. See you next week.
Consider doing a video on the film excision, it's a coming of age horror masterpiece. Keep up the great work
Thank you for making such great videos, but why does it say your comment was written 3 hours ago when you just uploaded the video?
And have you considered making a video about any other horror games? I recommend you talk about Little Nightmares if you consider the idea. Thank you! :)
Both movie and gaming videos sounds great to me
@Ryan Hollinger Would absolutely love you to do a video on Horror Comics, such as Wytches, or Harrow County...if you haven't read them you'd love em.
Can you look at Godzilla Planet of the Monsters?????????
It's 2019 and we're still getting Bloodborne content, that's how amazing this game is
I hope we get Bloodborne content in 2039, it's THAT good.
Real fucking talk. It’s a game that I think about on a regular basis and I still regularly watch videos dissecting the lore. The game is utterly fascinating in a way few games are IMO.
It's 2019 and we're still getting demons souls content. That's why miyazaki is a genius
TheGamePlayerM Its arleady a classic
My PS4 is just a Bloodborne machine nowadays. And I buy almost every game out there. That's how great this game truly is.
My favourite game ever, the dread I felt in certain areas has never been replicated for me.
Have you played prey? They both got these feelings out of me. Nothing else though. A little in the beginning of subnautica but no longer.
Really?? bloodBourne 😂
@Eriko. Oy no I mean the new one. It doesnt have to have horror in it. It still produced the same effect.
@@dashv2727 what's your point
@@lilostitch3644 what does this mean. I googled it. I didnt know they named those things that. But still what does this mean.
It amazes me how even after being out a good few years now Bloodborne still looks so so good.
Player model looks rough honestly
It's because of the art style
@@TimeBomb014X Agree, tho it happens with all Souls except 3 (unless you count Sekiro as a Souls). And everything else looks really good in BB
Dark Souls 1 as well. Even though it's pixelly, the environments are still very striking.
@@TimeBomb014X The face, yes. However if you bring camera close to the armor and clothing, its VERY detailed.
Body Horror and existential crises are true horror for me, so Bloodborne really irks me in a way that other horror games can't. I just get startled and annoyed by jump scares in other modern horror games.
Don't forget about cosmic horror. It has shit loads of that.
@@purplehaze2358 Yeah. I'm a fan of Lovecraft's stories. Cosmic kind of fits in there with existential horror for me, but you're right.
@@purplehaze2358 it caused the hunters nightmare. The place all hunters go when they die for real.
One of the most horrifying experiences I've had in a game was during the Ludwig boss fight. The hoarse groaning in the cutscenes, the almost human screams during the fight and the intense music keeps me completely anxious throughout the whole fight.
Read pet semetary
Heres the beautiful thing about soulsborne, everyone's experience is different. Everyone plays it differently and has their own perception, unless you totally misconstrue the lore, theres no wrong way to play.
Unless you level dex.
Miskatonicband
Fight me and my maxed out Rakuyo! Lol
Christopher Lapensee fIgHt Me AnD mY MaXeD oUt mOoNlIgHt GrEaTsWoRd
Rakuyo, blade of mercy, moonlight, and burial blade are my most used weapons. Its just a fandom joke
I use hunter's saif
Idk why but it feels so good,has a very nice mix between range and speed and is very similar to the saw spear wich I used before and loved
or int. Because int is just blue dex
Bloodborne lore buff and someone who still replays it here. Your analysis is great and is unique to your experiences. I myself believe the game teaches about perception, seeing between the lines. The accepted world being layered with truths that are horrible (beast plague) but ultimately reveal the root cause (the Hunters destroying the Fishing Hamlet) of many of the terrors experienced on the surface, if you dive deep enough. On the concept of layers the world itself is layered with the different nightmares, especially the DLC which is more literal.
@Bubberduck I don't think thats what he meant but the that's the way it came across at first glance.
@Bubberduck i think hes more referring to the fact that the hamlet's destruction brought about the nightmare
@ThatDamnScottishGuy Yep. More or less, the Massacre at the Hamlet (and by extension the Hunter's Nightmare) is a symptom of a deeper problem, just like the Plague of Beasts is a symptom of that same problem.
That problem being the insatiable pursuit of knowledge and advancement, or rather the lengths to which men will forego their own morals and throw caution to the wind in the name of progress.
The Church believed in the enlightenment of humanity, and to that end they discarded their ethics and the wisdom of their predecessors at Byrgenwerth. And they paid for it.
In all their searching for a way to find all truth behind falshoods,
they only asked themselves whether they could - but never,
whether they should
so in a way its also about intergenerational trauma and gr
Have you played Subnautica? Never knew I was so afraid of the deep sea
Easily one of the scariest game of all time, fear of the unknown is a powerful thing (considering you don't look at the wiki that is )
@@allcoolmrdon It's a shame it gets to difficult to keep the momentum of a playthrough going without checking the wiki. I love that game to death but I wish they'd have done a bit more to point you towards mid and late game resources. It was probably Nickel or Magnetite that made me crack and go to the wiki on my first playthrough. That point in the game where you're comfortable with the shallows and the kelp forest, and the plateaus aren't too big a deal. Now you've got 10 fresh new hells to explore and no idea which ones have the stuff you're looking for.
Subnautica I cannot play, for I'm truly scared to dive deeper than 30 meters.
@@ChiliFrog That's the best part though. Not many games manage to evoke that kind of fear. Barely knowing where you are what's around you, or even what threats you should be careful of.
A video by you, AND a video on Bloodborne? That's like a cake topped with little cakes!
You're literally on every channel I watch lately. Always with a good comment too. Carry on stalker kitty, carry on.
@@StrategicRabbit You must have similar tastes to me! haha
@@ThrottleKitty The best of tastes apparently
Also guaranteed type 2 diabeetus.
So cake with cupcakes on it?
You got the theme of the doll losing it's strings fairly accurate. in the lore Beasts are made when people consume too much blood and lose themselves to their beastial natures, and when people lose themselves to their insight they either go mad, or turn into something half man half something more as seen with the alien monsters(the little blue men in the woods and the Orphanage). In the true ending, the player balances the two out, consuming enough blood echoes to physically grow past your human body without losing to their inner beast, while gaining enough insight to see the truth of the cosmos but not be driven mad by it. Thus becoming the first man to ever successfully ascend from a tiny human, into a true proper infant great one.
You shed your humanity and your human body, cutting your strings, and grow into something greater than human, but only by not getting drunk off the blood of the hunt, or going mad from the cosmic horror you come to realize.
This spirals down into a very very interesting rabbit hole. Go read "the Paleblood Hunt" by "RedGrave. He made a 107 page book detailing all the actual lore of the game and DLC that can be found, and how he thinks it all fits together. It gave me the eyes that I had lacked before.
"The Paleblood Hunt" is about as accurate (and far-fetched) as any Bloodborne theory out there. Parts of it are interesting, but take it with a fistful of salt.
"Behold! A Paleblood sky!"
I think that's what Ludwig was supposed to help teach us. His body is completely deformed, almost unrecognisably human, but he is holding on to a thread of wisdom, a guiding light. He blurred the line between beast and man by holding on to his last vestige of sanity.
WickedWicka exactly. After reading Paleblood Hunt, they need to watch Aegon of Astora’s let’s lore series and then consume JSF’s catalogue. It always helps to have many perspectives as opposed to just one
Eyes...he gave us eyes
You're a brave man Ryan. The lore masters are going to foam at the mouth so hard they'll drench these comments in it. However I love your take on this series. It's terrifying and beautiful in it's own way.
Eh, if you try to cover something with complex lore and aren't 100% informed, the fanboys of that product will fucking murder you.
Actually he didn't go against the lore at all
I'd say, lore-wise, he didn't stretch or mess with anything. The only difference was the meaning he decided to give the ending with the Moon Presence, which I appreciated. I like the idea of trying to scare the thing that scares you, something that isn't too off-base when thought about in context with the combat system. Fighting against fate, gods, our supposed insignificance, and all that.
I dunno, this comments section seems fairly tame and supportive
@@Gloomdrake Which I'm pleasantly surprised to see! Wonderfully so.
BLOODBORNE is my absolute favourite game and can't express how perfect it actually is. I never ever once felt the game was unfair, everything i died from or lost against in some level was my fault... i could always improve and always do better.
The story is subtle, but so ever interesting and still find new things to this day.
Level deisgn is an absolute fucking masterpiece, the creature deisgn is creepy but amazing.
The music is as if a god composed it. I love the soundtrack, it is so absolutly beautiful.
I love it.
Everything is fair except the Winter Lanterns... Fuck the winter lanterns...
I could go on for hours on how much I love this game. I played the souls games first and they quickly climbed to be part of my personal pantheon of favorite games. But when I bought bloodborne on sale in 2016 it even surpassed the souls games to be my number one most loved game. Bloodborne, sequelless to this day is more of a mystery than souls is. Souls had 3 titles to explain itself (even if 2 doesn’t do much for the overarching story). But not only is bloodborne my favorite game but the old hunters is the best piece of dlc I’ve played ever and worth every cent I payed for it.
Ikr every other game is so much controlling and I hate it
True.
Only poorly designed area is the Nightmare Frontier.
Fuck that place
Are you sure you felt that way with Laurence?
"I'm a man of emotion instead of intellect..." - video immediately liked.
Agreed. People seem to value intelect too much. A balance of emotion and intellect serves everyone best. If you can't listen to your own heart, where would you end up?
Sparda | The larynx? Or maybe the achillies... Who knows?
Emotion doesn't get you far, and usually feelings are an extension of an intellectual process. The fear he explains in this video is due to the existential quality of being exposed in a world composed of horrific creatures, an emotion derived from human fears of malice beyond your control. Emotion is evolutionary biology, intellect is our way of analyzing and understanding reality. I'd rather be a cold sociopath than a subjective person who believes that decisions should be acted out due to your feelings. To quote the ancient philosopher Shapiro, facts don't care about your feelings.
@@Whaylie I guess you missed the part where I talked about balance. Emotion and logic are both parts of being human. Ignoring one facet of yourself and only focusing on the other is a recipe for disaster.
Logic in the extreme leads to people leaving sterile emotionless lives. Emotion in the extreme leads to no thought. Finding the balance is what is important. Intelect doesn't trump emotion, and emotion doesn't matter more than intellect.
Unfortunately too many people believe that one thing has to win out. However, balance in all things is almost always the best course for everyone.
@@DemonLordSparda Adding to this, I've found recently that suppressing emotion in favor of intellect and logic just isn't healthy. Eventually something is going to happen that evokes a strong emotion and you just won't know how to handle it.
That moment when you first go back to the Chapel "safe room" after defeating Rom and find all of the characters you've helped that have given you advice and information have gone utterly mad really got me. I so wanted one of them to explain what was happening, that this was just another stage in the hunt, but instead I was left fearing whether I myself was as mad, or even madder, than them for pressing on.
One of the genuinely greatest games ever. The perfect mix of Gothic and Lovecraftian Cosmic horror. A true masterpiece.
Really glad to see you try something new and expand out on what types of media you talk about. Keep it up Ryan.
Please refer to the pinned comment at the top.
The part about open areas making the player feel uncomfortable is incredibly true for thr Metro franchise. Any time you set foot on the surface pf Moscow you feel small, exposed and surrounded. You long for the safety of the tunnels beneath, as the world above has turned against us.
Damn, never thought I'd see a video on Bloodborne here, but I am happy to see it :) One of my favorite video games. Would love to see you do videos on the Amnesia games and SOMA, they are my favorite horror experiences in any medium.
SOMA is such a fantastic story. I'm too spooped by the robots to play the game, but damn the existential twists really got under my skin
Heck yeah Amnesia
U gotta play Alien: Isolation. Criminally underrated horror game and a love letter to fans of the original Alien movie.
I just have to include my voice amongst the countless others here and gush over how unpredictable your topics are.. You clearly have many qualities to this channel, but the thing that has made you stand out the most to me is that I know that whatever you decided to spotlight in your video will leave me itching to watch/play/experience it. It would be so easy to use your amazing voice to cash in on whatever the current craze is, but you clearly put a lot of thought into showcasing media that could easily have been tragically forgotten. Keep it up!
"Fight fear by being fearsome"
I love it.
"You can fight fear by being fearsome yourself." That's a good line mate.
This game is an absolute masterpiece. I hope that someday From Software gives us something else in this universe, even if it's a completely different genre.
You should check out a game called Darkwood, really didn’t expect a top down game to terrify me till I played it. Seriously great game :)
Darkwood is so good!
Sounds like an interracial porno from the 80s.
he liked the comment guys...
Bloodborne? Ryan Hollinger? Yes.
I love dissecting the themes of games. Cause the experience is so much more immersive then a film
Still my favorite fromsoft game, and video game ever. There's just something about it that I cannot get enough of even 5 years later.
You are possibly the best essayist I have encountered. You bring so much meaning to every piece of art that you analyze and critique. Your rhetoric is so effective not just in convincing me of your position, but also in building this aforementioned meaning. I know you mentioned you will be doing more video-game videos, but would you also consider doing some essays on Lovecraft and other writers?
I love your interpretation! As a seasoned “lore buff”, it’s massively refreshing to hear a more emotional reading
“You can overcome fear, by being fearsome yourself.” Yup, that…that just about sums Bloodborne up. (As someone who’s played it like 9 times lol)
This puts what I love about Bloodborne into words so perfectly it’s crazy. Definitely showing this to my friends
Bruv i was literally on a Bloodborne video binge, cus' I'm in the mood to replay it, then you release this. Spooky.
Same
Check out "Why I Like the Thing: Bloodborne" if you haven't already!
I'M playing it rn
My favorite creator on my favorite game ?!
And i got no notification??!!!!
Btw love what you do!
When you said lack of hesitation you show.....i remembered "hesitation is defeat".
Was playing this all holiday season and fell in love with the lore and atmosphere. You can run through without knowing much or explore every section, picking up on more lore and info everytime you do a new playthrough.
I only just recently found you, but I seriously appreciate how in-depth you get with your analyses on film and horror. Keep up the amazing work!
Amazing vid! Honestly i really like your take on the fear that thte game manifests. And in truth i think bloodborne really can be open to interpretation like that. Like there's lore, facts on a page but that shouldn't take away from the visceral reaction someone has when playing it for the first time.You put into words something i've had trouble with about how bloodborne can depower you like most other horror games, but it can also lift you up, cause i think we all came to a point where we were ready and even excited to face the challenges, we were ready to fight back and "win" and i love that angle.
Bloodborne is the dark souls of Berserk
you mean berserk is the bloodborne of dark souls?
Heyyyy there u are @justin y
All souls seirie are the berserk of videogames
Ill be damned
The only way I'll ever not hate you is if you buy 76 copies of fallout 76
Ryan doing a video on my favorite video game? Yes please
The fear of the Unknown, I think personally is the true art of what is horror to me. I'm so inlove with bloodborne and its lore. I always wanted something like this with games. Not many horror games understand the idea of good horror, like not helping you at all and letting you bring your true knowledge to the game and when the game says something to you that's actually meaningful as well and Bloodborne gets that cosmic fear right. I think it's a true love letter to HP Lovecraft's works. Anyway enjoyed your video, nice work Ryan.
I saw a notif and was exited to see a video about bloodbourne, then as I looked at the border of the thumbnail it dawn on me . . . Ryan made a video on Bloodbourne!!
And you did not disappoint a great video and even bringing up a point of view I hadn't heard before, about the use of your physical scale to make you feel small.
i just love the fact that I've been watching a lot of ur vids lately, and just when i started getting back into bloodborne after months of not playing because of uni, you post a video about it! perfect timing. i absolutely love bloodborne and thoroughly enjoyed watching your video and hearing your insight about it.
Have you ever considered doing a review & analysis on Secret World Legends (formerly known as The Secret World)? It's a Horror themed MMORPG that also incorporates Lovecraftian elements. The initial playthrough might take a while to complete, but I can assure you it's well worth it.
Your deep and well thought analysis of horror has greatly inspired my thought process regarding my horror writing and you have become my favorite youtuber. Keep up the good work and thank you!
As someone who rarely touches anything horror related, your channel provides a nice opportunity to experience the horror genre without having to actually frighten myself. The variety in content, as well as the meticulous explanations you deliver, make me love your channel oh so very much. Keep up the good work, man!
The encouragement of aggression is one of the things that I love the most about Bloodborne.
"Victory Achieved" vs "Prey Slaughtered" says a lot about the differences in tone. No matter how spooky the denizens of Yharnam are, the hunter is the scariest of them all. The hunter is the boogeyman of boogeymen.
Bloodborne's lore leaves EVERY other game for dead. Most people won't spend the time to uncover it, which is fine, but I highly recommend it to anyone interested in this game.
LOL wait till you check out Dark Souls lore... I love Bloodborne, but it's a teeny tiny world compared to Dark Souls.
@@trequor what? Bloodborne literally spans multiple universes.
@@insertnamehere001 ... with each "universe" outside of Yharnam being about the size of my backyard. And no, I am not counting the random dungeons.
@@trequor are you talking literal space? I thought we were taking about lore, not map size.
@@insertnamehere001 It's true both literally and figuratively. Dark Souls 1 has more depth in its one world than Bloodborne has in its multiverse
You should do a video on the horror that is Subnautica because...that game is true terror
Sage Baca those moments when you don’t entirely know where you are and there is some sound that you don’t recognize in the distance are the scariest moments ever
@@bubboboy that moment when you know where a Reaper is but no matter how far it is from you you think you're gonna die.
@@sagebaca2708 something about the underwater setting makes you feel so exposed, and out of place
@@theswagman1263 the environment just works more for the monsters trying to kill you rather than yourself, you're left completely out of your element.
I'm thalassophobic and astrophobic, so that game scares the shit out of me.
Nice one Ryan, what a treat!
Going into this game mostly blind was one of the most engaging gaming experiences I've ever had.
The gradual transition from Gothic to Lovecraftian is just totally mind blowing and terrifying.
Then replaying it (about 50 times so far) you notice all the tiny details in the (insanely intricate) environments that foreshadow everything.
I think the Old Hunters DLC also deserves a mention for it's mindboggling impossible space.
Love your videos! I'd love to see you tackle some anime and more manga in the near future!
I feel the same way. I'm fighting against the nightmare and as I progress more I make it my quest to end it once and for all.
thank YOU for the continued quality :D!!!
Time to replay Bloodborne for the 10th time
Love this game first game i got for my ps4
Your analysis also plays into another one of the themes of the game. You state that part of the game is pushing past fear. At the same time, the aggression you ease into as the game goes on make you less and less human. You devolve more and more into a beast, less and less human as you succumb to the blood you have been using the whole time.
Loved the video. This is one of my favorite games of all time, and this was a refreshing perspective on it.
I've made it tradition to play this game every September/October. It only feels right.
Great video, found you through the Scooby-Doo straight to DVD video. Bloodborne is one of my favourite games of all time.
I am so happy i found your channel. I love everything you put up
Literally just finished my 4th playthrough of bloodborne. The timing was perfect
Two of my favourite things in one video: Ryan Hollinger's video essays and Bloodborne.
Literally started my 4th playthrough of Bloodborne last week, cheers Ryan!
I like the current set up. Its kinda cosy and makes it seem like your sat at a mates house having a chat. Keep up the good work man!
What a beautiful fascinating video delving into both aesthetic and story of Bloodborne! Not easy to do, yet your videos are superb.
This game has always reminded me of a video game interpretation of a single line from "Hellboy".
"There are things that go 'bump' in the night. We are the ones who 'bump' back."
You upload this video the very same day I got the platinum trophy for Bloodborne, which I had stop playing a while ago and returned to it to experience the nightmare again. Great timing. And awesome video, as always
Love your videos, and greatly admire your ability to articulate what would otherwise (for me at least) remain implicit. I envy your oratory and analytical skills and feel inspired to somewhat emulate you despite my own mental health challenges. Thank you for speaking out Ryan.
You deserve at least 500k subscribers. Another excellent analysis!
Your interpretation reminds me of one of my favorite Voltaire songs, "Goodnight Demonslayer", where he's telling his son to conquer his fears by being just as fearsome back at them. Very nice. Sometime I'd love to get around to Bloodborne, but I just haven't had the opportunity.
Bloodborne is one of my favorite video games so I was so excited when this popped up! I love your readings on horror media.
Very happy to hear you'll be doing more video games. Keep up the great work!
Thanks for making this video! Been playing Bloodborne for a few weeks and I really enjoy it.
I'm so excited to see more video game videos! I adored this video, fantastic as always.
I really love this analysis. It’s not just the ‘scraping the surface’ synopsis that many others have made about this game, but it’s also not the deep dive into the game’s lore and only it’s lore. I really do love your opinions and all.. (sorry about my grammar. English is not my first language)
“I’m a man of emotion instead of intellect.” I really do love this. Keep it up man ❤️
"you can fight fear by being fearsome yourself" That can be taken very literally as you become a great one in the ending where you slay the moon presence, it definitely plays well into the theme of the terror being within us that the beast plague explores.
That's what drug me so heavily into Bloodborne from the start, the idea that YOU are the nightmare for everything you encounter. I started to pick this up when the Yharnam NPCs would scream and tell you to get away, flipping the expected response from other Soulsborne games that you are the one that's being hunted. This is my genuine favorite game of all time and having one of my favorite TH-camrs share his thoughts on it is fucking great!
Love seeing one of my favorite TH-camrs talk about a game I love so much and giving me a completely different light to look at that game with. I cannot wait to see what you have planned for future videos
Would be happy to see this just as much as film theory or literature in future. Keep up the good work. 👍
I have never felt myself truly scared by a game or movie, like having it make me feel genuinely in danger, but bloodborne got me so deeply. bloodborne felt like crawling through the dark with a tiny flame, each time you die and go further, uncovering more from the darkness… it moved me and inspired me in so many ways
I've been playing Bloodborne non stop lately, it's great to see content still coming out for such a great game in spite of it being released some years ago. Great vid totally earned a sub!!! Keep it up man!!
I also love the game shows don't tell you, you find out the lore of Bloodborne through exploring the world and the more you find out the more terrifying it becomes. Also it tickles my love for Lovecraftian horror.
Very well done video. This is a well tought introspective analysis of the emotional strength/distress that the game convey to the player throught his masterful design. Loved it.
This was amazing! Thank you so much for making this!
it's really cool to see you make stuff on games!! sending my love!
I love that, best way to confront something scarier is to be even worse than that thing is blood borne logic and it’s great
One of my favorite video essay writers reviewing one of my favorite games? Fuck yes!
This is awesome! Been following you for a while and I'm glad you're touching on Bloodborne. I made a video about the music in the game a couple years ago, if you have the time, I'd love for you to check it out! Fantastic video 👌
Loved the video, a little sad you didn't mention Eileen the Crow when you started talking about the characters, but still, great video
It was awesome to here your interpretation of the story and lore and not just a methodical break down of it. Video games are art thus interpretation is just as important as the story actually created by the writers and devs. Also thanks for being honest and confident about it, awesome to hear!
The Upper Cathedral Ward was legitimately nerve wracking. I played through it during night and it was one of the freakiest and most unsettling experiences ever.
This game is an absolute masterpiece in every aspect. The boss battles themselves are legit cinematic as well.
I like how you mention that when you don't fear death the game becomes much more liberating, because that's one of the important parts of the ingame lore; once the Hunters use the Old Blood they become gradually more and more violent and bloodthirsty, being drawn to the Hunt without any regard for their own safety, eventually becoming beasts themselves.
Some characters even mention that "were it not for fear, death would go unlamented", and "without fear in our hearts, we're little different from the beasts themselves". Fear is a constant presence in Yharnam, and it was the lack of fear of the Unknown that eventually doomed the town.
This was amazing Ryan. One of my favourite games reviewed by one of my favourite youtubers. love your work
The guy in charge of bloodborne must have a certain mastery of psychology, he captures the feeling of being in a vivid nightmare so perfectly
I can't even explain the feeling but I remember one part of the game the old abandoned workshop.
The old abandoned workshop gave me that feeling you get when you're in a nightmare and you think youve woke up but you havent
Also in that place I felt in danger even though there was no enemies I felt like I was being watched by something evil and it just felt so real
Absolute chilling video
Good job Ryan!
Bloodborne is my favorite game in the Soulsborne franchise. The aesthetics and the gameplay are amazing and I loved the horror elements. It was my first experience of Lovecraftian/Cosmic horror and it absolutely hooked me on the genre. Definitely one of the best games I've ever played. Happy to see your take on it
This is still my favourite game of all time. The lore, the storytelling, the gameplay, the aesthetic, everything about this game I absolutely adore and I love watching people do videos on it still :)
I love bloodborne so much, and I haven't even finished it yet.... it's so hauntingly terrifying yet beautiful.
I think what makes this such an excellently creepy game is simply the unknowns. You never know quite what's going on, or even where you are. In a dream? A nightmare? An alternate universe? In the mind of a Great One? Our world? All of the above? It invites your brain til fill in the blanks, like two kids sharing ghost stories and becoming increasingly scared in a tent sleepover.
It has this unique feeling of something always being slightly *off*, or not quite right. The insane crying and laughter behind the closed doors in Yarnham. The realization that the Amygdala have been observing you from the towering buildings all that time, with no real understandable motive. The design of the city which seems alive, and... architecturrally not quite possible to live in at the same time. The guard at the door who's been dead for a long time when you finally enter. The fact that Gherman in his sleep mutters that the endless cycle of dreams is driving him to desperation, begging to be let out.
I think the quote from Micolash sums it up best (I may be paraphrasing): "the nightmare swirls and churns unending"
The game stays with you. Life-changing in some ways, at least to some personality types.
The crossover I never thought would be happen but bloody hell I'm glad it did
Omg I’m so happy to see this! Will get to watching it in full soon!
That was really neat! I love the take on other mediums than just films.
the defining game of this generation
How so?
your voice is so comforting