Bloodborne is the second best Souls game after Dark Souls and that’s mainly because it’s not limited by being a sequel. It feels fresh both from the storytelling perspective, with a completely new setting and a story that would make Lovecraft proud, and game-play which is turned upside down with a tweaked dodge mechanic and the lack of shield yet retains all what made Dark Souls so enjoyable (although I do have one minor gripe with making healing faster which trivialized some of my boss encounters).
I bought my PS4 pretty much solely for this game and I still feel like I underpaid for this kind of quality.
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Fantastic visuals both technically and artistically
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The story is very hard to follow without looking things up
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Immersing, dark atmosphere
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A lot of easily missable important NPCs
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Awesome orchestral music on boss fights, and very atmospheric sound design
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Apart from looks armor sets have very little variation game-play wise
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Amazing setting inspired by Victorian horror stories
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Changes to the healing system makes the game easier to cheese
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Fascinating, surreal story
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So good it ruins other games for you
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Deep, complex lore
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All item placement and drops make sense lore-wise
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Great sense of adventure
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Fantastic dungeon design
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Fantastic boss fights
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Fantastic battle mechanics
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Somehow manages to be both fresh and familiar in a perfect way
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Challenging difficulty
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