Bloodborne

Bloodborne takes the best of Dark Souls and builds the unrelenting gaming challenge on a prefect foundation - it will test your abilities to the max. The first true must-have exclusive for PS4 is here. [Issue#252]

A new masterpiece on PlayStation 4.

With aggression as its invitation, Bloodborne invokes a calculated shift in Souls parlance. Its aim isn't necessarily a course correction, but rather a Y-axis slant into an alternative series of objectives. Sacrificed are a few degrees of personal customization, only to be replaced by a renewed sense of distress and wonder. Bloodborne’s demanding novelty, even with its unrepentant focus, feels built to last.

Bloodborne is an incredible game; tight in its mechanics, logical in its systems, rewarding, intense, gloriously frustrating and exciting in equal measure. The PS4 has its first absolutely essential game. As if there was ever any doubt.

Bloodborne is some of the best work From Software's ever done, a remarkable achievement and a shrewd turn from its Souls lineage.

Give it a chance – not just a couple of hours, mind, but five or ten; enough to let its claws sink in nice and deep – and you’ll probably find Bloodborne an intoxicating dose of pure masochistic pleasure.

In its current state, it feels like it caters too much to the twitch experts, and doesn't bend for the rest of us. A challenge that feels like a learning experience is welcome, but Bloodborne too often felt like it was kicking me in the balls and leaving me helpless to do anything about it.

The best soulsborne game I've ever experienced. Fromsoftware always nails the atmosphere, but this is the only time where I can confidently say they nailed the gameplay as well. Such a shame that Sony closed down Bluepoint before they even got a chance to remaster this masterpiece, but I'd still recommend it despite the technical struggles it has on backwards compatibility. The experience is totally worth it.

The best game of all time no debate atmosphere everything, without the dlc would be still be saved by atmosphere and still could compare to top games

**Bloodborne — A Massive Waste of Time**Honestly, I don't understand why this game is praised so much. The whole experience feels like a punishment rather than entertainment. You die, go back, repeat the same boring sections, and waste your time fighting the same enemies again and again just to reach the place where you **** combat also feels buggy and frustrating. Lock-on can make attacks behave strangely, enemies seem to hit through walls, and the controls often feel more annoying than **** developers apparently decided that making players repeat the same areas over and over was a good substitute for actual progression. Congratulations — they succeeded in wasting the player's **** you're looking for a fun game, **don't waste your time on this ******. There are much better games out there that respect the player's time instead of making frustration the main feature.

Everyone hyped up this game so much, after playing it i can say that it is worst souls game i played

Easy but unfair. The exact opposition of why everyone loved and praised it's predecessors. There is simply no better way of describing bloodborne as a whole. The game is easy enough for most to get through and the skeleton of souls games is there. But the unfair and anti player behavior of dark souls 2 is all over this game as well but just in a different way. Gone are bad hit boxes and nerfed iframes, but instead we get unfair enemy behavior, unresponsive controls and a new dash system that makes every situation more dangerous and unfair then it has to be. The high risk, low reward parry makes things even worse as a lot of enemies require shooting before they even begin attacking in order to parry. And with twitch attacks mixed with delayed baiting attacks, it leaves behind a game designed around canceling player behavior rather than making a believable breathing world. Instead we get a jigsaw of mashed ideas desperately trying to make sense and force player behavior! That is again the opposite of what made demon souls and dark souls great. The only positive is that this unfair system does induce a sense of dread, panic and pure frustrating madness that the setting wants you to feel, and it's understandable why each npc in the game has been driven past the brink of sanity. Sadly the setting and game design is trying to be a bunch of different games all at once. We have 3 story genres fighting each other and two game design philosophies vying for your attention. All of which drains and ruin the premise and flow of the game, which was promising and quite amazing at first. It's baffling how people praise this game, but I suppose it's blind loyalty to the brand or simply ignorance of what came before. Demons souls was broken but amazing and dark souls was the culmination of its potential. But after that From seems to have lost their way. I believe, like many creators, they might not know what they've created and struggle in desperation to recreate it. At least they're trying something new with bloodborne and I respect that, but I wouldn't recommend this game to anyone. Even though updates and DLC have made the experience slightly better. The journey toward madness simply isn't worth it. If the game had stopped in the first third and focused solely on Yarnam and it's beast problems, it would've been a much better game. And maybe that is why so many praise it, they don't get further into the game but won't admit it for fear of lowering their gamer cred..