How Bloodborne Is the Perfect Interactive Lovecraftian Nightmare Visually and Beyond
How Bloodborne Is the Perfect Interactive Lovecraftian Nightmare Visually and Beyond
Whether it's grotesque creatures, intimidating locations, or witnessing the influence of a greater force, Bloodborne aces the Lovecraftian formula.
Whether it's grotesque creatures, intimidating locations, or witnessing the influence of a greater force, Bloodborne aces the Lovecraftian formula.
This game is still one of my all time favorites. I was annoyed by a spoiler in the official Dark Souls 2 trailers and decided not to watch trailers of games I wanted to play therefore I went into Bloodborne completely blind. And I'm glad I did because what an experience it was!
I loved the scenery, loved the setting, and for the beginning of it I was thinking, this is cool, fast paced Dark Souls werewolf game, I'm way into it! And then halfway through it made a turn into eldritch horror and that moment when I realized that will always live on as one of my top gaming experiences.
I'd read a bunch of Lovecraft's stories and I really loved them but I wasn't really into the expanded mythos beyond that and so this was the first video game I had played with this kind of stuff. I loved every minute of it, even the Chalice dungeons which I think I'm in the minority there.
I liked the chalice dungeons, too. Especially seeing the ones people shared glyphs to online. That's one thing I'll miss when I jump into the shadps4 emulator.