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Songs Used:
Song 1: Moonlit Melody – Bloodborne OST
Song 2: Bitter Tears – Silent Hill 3 OST
Song 3: Ordinary Vanity – Silent Hill 2 OST
Song 4: Results – Silent Hill 3 OST
Ambient Souls (playlist):
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Video edited by @Xanshil: https://twitter.com/Xanshil
Sources:
– Bloodborne cutscenes:
– Elden Ring cutscene:
34 Comments
This is my favorite PlayStation game.
You WILL rage!
(reminder that lack of music is common in ds1 and 3 as well, although those sometimes have a bit more ambient sfx)
This was sooo worth the wait
Testttt
To this day, even with the release of Elden Ring, even with the greatness of Sekiro – Bloodborne is still king.
Bloodborne isn't a game it's an expirence tbh. Once you touch the lore it's just enchanting.
So many things that I have thought about is that Bloodborne is such a hard game to know everything. For example there is a ring of betrothal in a chalice dungeon to marry Annalise. No trophy.
I only recently found it. I'm not the first but it makes you wonder
To this day, Gerhman’s battle theme is the best piece of music I’ve ever heard. And it’s made better by the silence prior.
Dislike, this video doesn’t trash Elden Ring /s
Perfect season for this video! Enjoy spooky season folks
The quiet screams, but I refuse to listen.
Why Bloodborne when all the fromsoft games use the same silence?
You beat me to it goddamnit you magnifixent man
My favorite YouTuber talking about my favorite video game (of all time)
Just when I start replaying Bloodborne this shows up, lol
Bloodborne is a personal journey into a nightmare beyond nightmares.
Elden Ring is an epic journey into a broken world, trying to find a way to fix it, or at least stop the cracks from spreading.
There's nothing quite like Bloodborne. I agree, From Software will probably never top Bloodborne.
Yharnam is my religion.
it reminds me of shadow of the colosus and how most of the game has no music at all
Beautiful commentary and editing.
I bought a PS5 and a copy of Bloodborne just so I could share it with a friend who had finally gotten into FromSoftware games. Although thanks to gameplay Sekiro reigns as my personal favorite, I do think as an overall package Bloodborne is the current best of them.
The last great Soulsborne game. Work of art.
Starting and ending the video with footsteps? Cool touch
And the actual songs in the game are among the best in the medium.
I'd love to watch a Bloodborne series from you, that would be awesome!
Can't wait for tomorrow.
It's cool seeing the atmospheric methods used way back in Demon's Souls continue to be successfully implemented in their future titles.
No lie I was NOT expecting this video from you . And I JUST got done revisiting the game . My favorite game in all of existence
In an age where everything and their mom gets remade and remastered. The only game where I wish they did this for, still hasn't gotten one :(.
Sooooo glad you've done a video on Bloodborne! It's my favorite game of its generation and one of the best games I've ever played without a doubt, if not the very best! I really cannot praise it enough, it is one of the few works of art across any medium I can label as a "masterpiece" without much question.
For me, it probably edges out the other top Soulsborne games by a shade, difficult as that is to achieve. One of the very best aspects of it, something that makes Bloodborne so transcendent, is that it has an atmosphere I don't think is matched by almost any other game, as you delineate here. It is so suffused with such artistic tone, feel and environment that you almost instinctively sense that every inch in Yharnam is historically laden and important, filled with meaning, which makes it so immersive (and as you mention, it incentives actually caring about the lore). It also feeds into the Lovecraftian thematic resonance, capturing the ambiguity and incomprehensibility of the subtle horror which Bloodborne encapsulates.
The quietude you point out is a massive part of all this, naturally, and that minimalism is wonderfully contrasted by the aesthetic opulence of Bloodborne's world, and it's engrossing to the extreme. I think a magnificent example of how quiet works in Bloodborne's favor, both narratively and atmospherically (or storytelling THROUGH atmosphere, really), is that with enough insight in the world, the quiet is punctuated by infant cries no matter where you are, the sounds of Mergo that drive much of the core plotline. The beauty and horror of how sound is utilized, and the tragedy and idealism inherent in everything that Bloodborne does through its worldbuilding, it all feels so "pure" because of how crystallized everything it attempts becomes, especially post-The Old Hunters. I think it's one of the reasons the game feels like the most "complete" of all From's works, it actualizes its style through refining all elements of its story, including the unmatched atmosphere.
Ultimately, I have to agree with your conclusion that Bloodborne still reigns supreme even over Elden Ring (though it and Dark Souls 1 come close), and on an atmospheric level I don't think it can be beaten by any video game out there. If Elden Ring somehow pulls out a DLC on the exceptional calibre of The Old Hunters (which I still consider to be From's best piece of content PERIOD), then maybe it can match Bloodborne overall. However, that is one hell of a challenge, and it doesn't really change your perspective on the topic of this video regardless.
Well done again for the great work, as usual, I am so glad to see how much appreciation you have for Bloodborne!
you should read lord of the mysteries web novel if you love bloodborne
Bluepoint ps5 remake when XD
Years late but man would I love a bloodborne series by you.
Did you enjoy sekiro?
Return to the deep ocean sweet son of Kos