Bloodborne

From Software delivers again on their successful action role playing hack and slash game with Bloodborne, a spiritual successor to the Souls franchise, which was a spiritual successor to the King’s Field franchise. Play as a customized hunter, and uncover the dark gothic city of Yharnam, where an evil curse has plagued the townsmen and horrifying creatures occupy the streets now too.

The artstyle of Bloodborne is awesomely detailed, and the methodical combat has been fastened and improved because although the category of weapons has lessened, they all have 2 styles of using them now, such as letting the standard axe turn into a two handed halberd, or a standard holy sword turn into a bigger two handed holy sword.

Some features which were fine before have been lessened and are actually quite dissapointing. Covenants for instance are minimized into 3 different ones, and NPC quests have the same issue of quantity. Traveling between the new lanterns replacing the bonfires means you need to warp to the HUB location each time before you can move on to the next area.

PvP options are also way more limited because the conditions have gone higher in order for opponents to appear even in the first place. The same more or less goes when you want to summon allies using the beckoning bell. Many times there would be no allies to help me out, it's actually a rarity when contact could be placed. Even after beating Bloodborne for a second time, this issue persisted despite thinking that server intensity would be either lessened or higher depending on the amount of people playing the game.

 

Once again is the soundtrack minimum in quantity, but more than enough makes up for it during intensified boss battles and it’s just engrossing. The difficulty remains unforgivable even after beating Demon’s, Dark and Dark Souls II before, and I was most of all impressed with the enemy designs and their animations.

It remains utterly satisfying however to progress through these games, and Bloodborne is simply the best exclusive PS4 game at the moment. It is perhaps a little bit shorter and even dissapointing than the Souls games, but it more than enough makes up for it with optional content, the art style, the improved combat and the intact challenge which becomes truly brutal with the new game plus option like always.

Since the sales have been positive, I think that DLC is unavoidable when looking at the improved Dark Souls II with it's DLC, and even Dark Souls before that which also had an expansion pack, otherwise known as DLC nowadays. Both of those DLC's will be talked about soon enough, because thanks to Bloodborne, I have been on another Souls ride.

Rating: 8.5