![]() Your workshop will also be there, where you can upgrade weapons and store extra items. There is also a bird bath full of skeletal baby-sized monsters called Messengers that will sell you stuff. The only thing you lose is progress, time, and maybe a bit of dignity.īut in “Bloodborne”? Your first death introduces you to the Hunter’s Dream, a graveyard safe haven for hunters where Gehrman offers you guidance and a animated Doll will chat you up and, provided you are able, level you up. You have your save points and checkpoints, and if you die, you return back to that last “point.” Player death just isn’t recognized as existing. Sure, you get the “Game Over” or the “WASTED!” screen, but it’s essentially meaningless. ![]() In most video games, player death is something the inner game mechanics just don’t really acknowledge. You find out quickly enough - usually within your very first, barehanded encounter in the game - that Death represents one of, if not the most, important mechanics at play. This effectively baptizes you as a Hunter, a weaponized soldier whose purpose it is to cleanse Yharnam of beasts and try to find an end to The Night. You’re run of the mill citizen has been transformed into a weapon-wielding rage zombie (keep in mind their average speed hasn’t changed, and some of them can still fire weapons).Īgainst your will, you get a blood transfusion at the start of your journey from a blind man in a wheelchair named Gerhman. There are lycans and there are werewolves. Some of these ogres will wallop you with a tree (not even exaggerating here). Anyone left outside during the “Night” have become monsters of varying sizes, shapes, abilities, and type. Many have shut themselves indoors, and just about all have been driven mad. And you come looking for something called Paleblood specifically for some undisclosed reason.Ĭome to find out, all of Yharnam has plunged into chaos as some endemic illness has transformed most of its people into horrific creatures. Variations are used to cure just about anything. In fact, the people of Yharnam are sort of obsessed with it: they drink it more often than alcohol to catch a buzz. The city is known for its medical uses involving blood as the key ingredient. ![]() Rather than have characters explain and cutscenes convey the overall story, you’re left to piece together the fragments of plot through brief conversations and descriptions on the items you pick up.Īfter creating your character from scratch, you find yourself in Yharnam, a bleak and dilapidated Gothic city in what is roughly the 19th century. They’re all third-person action adventure games in which you play as some sort of warrior on a quest. “Bloodborne” is a spiritual successor of sorts to the “Souls” (i.e., Demon’s and Dark Souls) franchise, games infamous for their unwavering difficulty. We’ve all heard that cliche, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” It’s often misattributed to Einstein, who despite all his erudite knowledge of physics, spouted some odd and/or funny quotes about life (“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity and I’m not sure about the universe.” being one of the very best).īut let’s take that sentence for truth if insanity truly is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results, then “Bloodborne” is fundamentally a game for the insane, which takes place in a town where everybody’s gone insane, where you play a nameless “Hunter” who, judging from visions and demonic dreams, very clearly has gone insane. At its very core, “Bloodborne” is a game about madness.
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