The Worst Mistake in Fromsoft History - Bloodborne 

Diving back into the universe of Souls and Souls-like, happy to have you along for this journey

The biggest Fromsoftware mistake was allowing Sony to own the Bloodborne ip.

Bloodborne is only seen as a mistake if you see in how good these systems were and in how people will still remember how good it is, making them ramble in how nothing is as good as Bloodborne So, in short... Bloodborne is FromSoft's Forsaken and Taken King

Bloodborne is easily my favorite of the Soulsborne games. I wholeheartedly agree with you that the trick weapons were special. I think I collected nearly every weapon in Elden Ring and yet I can’t remember them exactly as you had described. Sony has been holding Bloodborne hostage for so many years. I have no idea why they don’t want our money. They still haven’t released a 60 fps patch for the game. I’d love a sequel but only if Miyazaki is involved.

You went through all this trouble to just present how much you want Bloodborne 2. Bravo.

Bloodbourne is my GOAT game. The combat and aethetic is just so very good. The right amount of challenge. And the DLC being almost as big as the normal game, insanity. My first fromsoftware game I played to completion.

The sycthe is my single favorite weapon of any game. Really makes me feel like the grim reaper.

Dude the church pick is one of the best weapons in the game. It has perma thrust attack in transformed mode (lots of enemies weak to pierce/thrust), sacred, hidden serrated (beasts), and a very fast attack speed.

I have not been clickbaited. These are the biggest mistakes. Make awesome mechanics popular again!

My big thing with bloodborne weapons is that every single one changed the landscape of the run with different bosses being more or less difficult depending on what weapons you used plus all weapons felt like they could take you to the end and were viable

If you're going for full strength or perhaps a quality build, the saw cleaver is actually better than the saw spear. And regarding the point that "people compliment Sekiro *by a lot* for the combat system but you don't see them doing the same for Bloodborne", the only thing I can say is to take a look at Lies of P. I don't think there's a better way to compliment a game.

I pretty much see the night/day mechanic as a good replacer, but they didn't expand on it that much. Fun things like defeating a specific enemy during night with a moon-related weapon, an NPC only appearing to pray to the moon etc.

The rallying mechanic was not completely abandoned. If you equip Malenja's great rune, it is literally just that. I have to admit it would have been nice to be able to have this earlier in-game though

One way to fix these mistakes is to give us a remaster/remake of Bloodborne or a sequel, I'd settle for either 😊 Also Lies of P pays homage to Bloodborne transforming weapons with one of its weapons that transforms from a great sword into a glaive each with a different move set and special attacks.

That’s the thing, I agree with you but elden ring was made to make it easier for new players. Which is why the ng+ isn’t that hard compared to other fromsoft games, I hate that a lot of things from bloodborne didn’t make it into other games. I even enjoyed the finite amount of healing items, I feel like it gave another use for your currency. Like the choice wasn’t only do I want to buy a new item or level up, it then became do I want to grind for blood vials, buy them, level up, or buy this new item. Plus if you go into the game blind there are so many moments you don’t know where to go, those moments lead into either grinding for healing or exploring. Which I think helps the hunter aspect of the game, and feel like you are who the people are truly scared of.

I think the most disturbing thing is it took me about 5-6 years of inconsistent play to figure out this game but now I can literally take a month or a year off and play excellent because the games mechanics are so unique and distinct. This is the only game that can make me rage quit but, learn my lesson and I play weird ass games like Vanquish and Quantum Theory.

Bloodborne is my all time favorite game. You are correct the combat system is far superior to Elden Ring and Dark Souls. I remember the first time I say Amy on the cathedral. It blew my mind how much creepier the game got the more I played it. But the Rally system is in Elden Ring. Malenia's Great Rune is basically the rally system. It's just a shame you don't get it until the end of the game.

I love the rifle spear, such a satisfying moveset, the cane is also pretty fun. The reiterpallasch is super disappointing tho

Imagine if they had a similar system to insight in AC6, it could've increased number of hits you could execute with melee weapons; increase accuracy with ranged weapons, and considering how some of the weapons move when activating making them be transformable really isnt that far of a stretch.

The Champions Ashes mod for ds3 actually managed to add trick weapons perfectly they even have weapon arts to accompany them

Bloodborne embraces you, calls to you and reminds you how amazing it is everytime you come back. You become the hunter all over again. And it feels new every time. I never fought a boss twice thinking it was gonna be the same feeling. Bloodborne reminds you that it’s not. I love this game from the bottom of my heart.

Damn, the Church Pick gets punked and the Burial Blade doesn’t even get a mention…

Cool video. I've never seen your channel before, but this showed up in my recommend feed, and I enjoyed it. Also, I know no one else likes it, but I will forever sing the praises of the Reiterpallasch. It's a thrusting weapon, which kin are weak too. It's a projectile weapon that can still be buffed with fire paper and bolt paper, unlike the Rifle Spear. You can bait fast enemies into an easy parry by attacking twice with it in its transformed state and then shooting with it. Two attacks frequently makes the AI want to attack you, so you get an easy parry. If you go heavy on Bloodtinge, you can still buff your left hand gun with the Bone Marrow Ash and do a normal damage parry with the right hand gun. This will put the enemy in a staggered state, which still makes them take extra damage from any attack, not just a visceral. That Bone Marrow Ashed Evelyn does so much damage that way. The Reiterpallasch is not the most powerful weapon, especially since if you go Bloodtinge the Chikage is right there, but it'll still be my favorite FromSoft weapon.

I love this dude .. bringing back boodborne lore in a fresh new way still after almost 10 years .. and I’m here for it !

Amazing video !

Evannnn. I agree with everything in this great vid besides my beloved Church Pick. The transform combo is soooo good. I’ve played every From game since demon souls and most of the “soulslikes” tho I hate that term and bloodbornes weapons are ina class of their own. So many of the weapons aren’t just viable but fun and come with their own unique play styles. Bloodborne is just an absolute artful masterpiece of video gaming.

God damn, watching this video just made me remember what an absolute epic concept the trick weapons were. They were so freaking fun to play. Would love to see them make their triumphant return.

I have played Bloodborne since its launch many times. However, I was not aware of the dramatic effect that insight can have on the player. FromSoftware is so masterful in their work that discoveries continue to be made, whether by a new player or a soulsborne veteran.

I’ve beaten Dark Souls 1 and 3, I 100%’d Elden Ring and Sekiro, I’m playing PS3 Demon’s Souls on PC currently, and I already own the remake to play afterwards. Then, if there still isn’t ER DLC or a Bloodborne remaster or port available, I’m gonna play DS2. Hopefully, after all of that, God will answer my prayers and someone will make Bloodborne playable on a PS4 emulator if nothing else. It’s the only Fromsoft game I refuse to play until there is a 60fps patch, PC port, or emulator that can run it, because everything I’ve heard about it makes me want to play it at the best possible fidelity and framerate. Cheers to the great people working hard to make it playable on PS4 emulation as we speak. Godspeed.

Don't get me wrong, I put 300 hours into Elden Ring but find it hard to pick it back up. Bloodborne however, any day I can boot it back up and do the same builds I've always done. I pray BB gets a PC port!

The Latin Spoken during some of the music tracks is amazing.

My dude, I love how you went from explaining Destiny history, to explaining the Soulslike games history 😀 Been a viewer of yours for many years, but only just recently discovered you have a second channel.

Sony owns the IP to BB so unless BluePoint's has the greenlight for the Remake we're not going see a BB Remaster/Remake any time soon.

I do agree with you that the trick weapons and (somewhat under-utilized) insight system are what make Bloodborne special. To me, there’s no denying that fewer weapons with more versatility is preferable over multitudes of similar weapons. However I don’t think not carrying these things over to other games is a “mistake”. I’m reminded by the quotes from Miyazaki from the recent DonDonRV making of videos, where ‘Zaki said of Dark Souls/Elden Ring that the idea is to offer as many options as possible to invite variation in character builds. I *think* this is part of the reason we haven’t seen trick weapons again… yet! I do hold hope that fewer weapons will return in the future! In the meantime, there are two weapons in Lies of P that transform, worth a look.

The way Miyazaki feels about BB & how beloved the game is I am very surprised him & Sony hasn’t had a few convos discussing potential future content! (Obviously he’s very busy too) That being said even if we never see a BB sequel that takes nothing away from how amazing this game is but if we ever do see a part 2 the sheer amount of hype & excitement would probably cause our heads to explode!

Excellent points actually. Insights on Elden Ring sure sounds fun but the game is so large due to being open world that I’d assume they’ll be cutting corners to fit it.

Talking about Elden Ring in a Bloodborne vid while playing DS2 music. I like it

Bloodborne’s Trick weapons and Sekiro’s deflection not being expanded on or used again is a crime.

Bruh the grunts while trying to dodge the giant sharks😂 too accurate

Had me at the title not gonna lie

That's a bold strategy Cotton let's see if it pays off for him.

I recently beat thr game again on stream in just 10H no prep fresh save. And im now doing the DLC .

The biggest mistake is the fact that this game is not on PC after 8 mtfk years

Love Reiterpilash & blades of mercy.. possibly my favorites over Chikagae or holy blade.. don't forget Fist of Gretia... the cannons, the gatling gun, just recently I finally tried out the piercing rifle.

i have a very specific thing i look for in a game. 1) the ability to roll when im not locking into an enemy, then side stepping when im locking into an enemy. 2) parrying. any games that has these mechanics easily becomes my fav games lol and bloodborne has it all. really love the rallying system too

16:02 The saw cleaver is by faaaar the best weapon in the game.

Your intro reminds me of the Scary Door show from Futurama 😂

I don’t know why you say the pizza cutter was a missed opportunity. Yes, it’s popular for the speed run glitch but as soon as I found it in Elden ring, I used it for the rest of the game because it had the same stagger potential from bloodborne and a really good bleed effect (plus it was super fun to use). It missed nothing to me. Also the saw cleaver is literally the best weapon in the game pretty much, with anything higher dps having drawbacks in other forms. All speed runs use it because it has high dps with lower stamina use and it’s transform attack does massive limb damage very quickly. Maybe saw spear is a slight upgrade but usually not worth the rework of your stats from strength to skill.

thank you john levan another banger

I haven't played it for a while, but the weapons also had different styles, reminiscent of whoever created it, this is very incredible, and I really cry with sadness for not having this game on the PC

Reiterpallasch is "RY-tuh-PAHL-ahsh". My German is spotty, but it means "rider's ". It's a cavalier's pistol-sword; they actually experimented with the idea for the Prussian dragoons way back, to make a functional cavalry sword with a pistol barrel alongside the base of the blade. The technology of the time achieved only...limited success, as the extra heft of the flintlock threw off the sword's balance and reloading it proved unwieldy and impractical in field testing.

I LOVE BLOODBOURNE I LOVE BRITISH PEOPLE #BONGOBILKS

You doubt the threaded pimp cane? You definitely need to gain more insight. Heavily versatile with speedy dash attacks finishing with a strong whip attack when the enemy got out their weapon range.

Yeah, Bloodborne weapons were definitely the best From have ever made (imho of course). Weird how this is the only one Sony have kept locked up though. Given the overwhelming success of ER, it would be crazy of Sony from a business perspective not to do anything with it, especially seeing as they've recently started making pc ports for lots of their other exclusives. We can but live in hope.

As much as i like the rally mechanic, I think its best for bloodborne to keep it

If I remember correctly, the Bloodletter only gives you Frenzy if you use the L2 attack in its transformed mode.

Does insight cause the dream to catch fire? I thought it happened after defeating mergos wetnurse(if im remembering bosses correctly).

I have a platinum on Bloodborne, and I don't remember that katana at all. As someone that's been playing since Demon's Souls on the PS3, well before Dark Souls came out, I do like Elden Ring the most. I honestly was never a fan of the few weapons in Bloodborne. I gave other weapons a go but never liked them, I wasn't a fam of using the same weapon all the way through because I couldn't find anything I liked more. I used the axe you get at the start, and even then, I didn't like it that much. I just got good at timing the charged heavy and it was super effective due to the knock back.

15:10 aw come on, you can use the Reiterpallasch paired with a Cannon, use the Reiterpallasch to parry and then wreck a fool with a bone ashed cannon.

I do need to mention that the Threaded Cane is the only starter weapon that can cheese Father Gascoigne to make the fight much easier. However, it falls off pretty hard after Vicar Amelia.

*Saif is the most underrated weapon in Bloodborne.* Although unserrated it still has very decent damage, but thats not the best part: It has hands down THE best combo in the game - start with the first R1 which rushes in with a stride whilst hitting at the same time, this hits far too fast for enemies to counter, then spam R1 a few times to land a fluid set of blows, finally as your stamina runs out hit the transform attack which causes you to dash away whilst landing a wicked long range blow on the way out. Rinse and repeat. It gets better: This thing literally has the same stagger as the freaking Kirkhammer, but moves as fast as a cleaver! The tricked curved greatsword form has an unusually massive amount of stagger, going as far as stun-locking winter lanterns from full hp to already dead. It gets better yet: this weapon has a unique attack animation that's only accessible through a locked-on left-side quickstep. The usual quick step attack slashes diagonally upward from bottom right to top left. However, this unique animation is a horizontal slash from left to right. It is a purpose made crowd control move and also works great on agile bosses or in PVP. On top of even all THAT, it has access to ALL the forms of physical damage in the game all in its moveset with a thrust on the tricked form, blunt on charged attacks, and slash on the untricked attacks. For PVP the lunging and retreating attacks make it hands down the best weapon. They literally doubled my effectiveness -no other weapon can close the distance or retreat out of range faster. It also rollcatches enemies something silly. Finally it's charge attack is borderline o/p. I cannot recommend upgrading a saif and trying it out more.

bro had me seething with that mf title.

Majula music. I have fond memories of waking up, getting baked and having a coffee, whi8le I looked at my latest fashion, and listened to the majula music. DKSD2 had it's faults, but the Hub area was glorious (especially the music) Also DKS2 was the best game for PvP, no doubt about that. It's the PvP'ers game.

Only mistake fromsoft made was not making a bloodborne sequel

I loved bloodborne, absolutely amazing game, no idea why Sony has not ported it to pc, it is money on the table, I would buy that in a heart beat.

I think Metroid Prime 2 would have been a larger inspiration on Lords of the fallen's dark world, as it uses the exact same mechanic.

Awww I liked the cane! Took it through the whole game. Great range at a quick pace.

I prefer Elden Ring weapons for several reasons: 2 handing, powerstancing, off hand weapons, interchangeable AoWs, unique AoWs, jump attacks, duck attacks, blocking, guard counters. As a HUGE blood borne fan ER just shits all over it build variety wise. It is NOT a quality vs quantity thing. ER has just as good weapons and infinitely more variety. Also magic is ass in BB. And again, i love BB.

Their biggest mistake was making it PlayStation exclusive and not allowing pc or Xbox gamers to enjoy it

Yep. Played them all. Even outsiders like Nioh and Lies Of P. But no game, absloutely no game, can touch Bloodborne. Best OST, most likeable bosses (hard but fair), eccelent lore, few but very fun and very different weapons. I could go on forever. But to sum it up, Ive done speedruns, BL4 runs, 300 + FRC Chalice runs, all achievement runs. And I never get tired!. If that isnt near a perfect game, I dont know what is. I mean, I look forward to Elden Ring DLC, but Id rather have Bloodborne Prequel, where we see Gehrman, Maria and Kos in all its glory.

Great video, but I'm going to disagree with you on one thing you said in the video: Fromsoft SHOULD remove shields from their next game. I've noticed that as time has gone by, their games have gone more towards encouraging evasion as opposed to blocking. In DS1, you could go through the game with a tanky, shield build. By DS3, late game bosses were very tough to fight by blocking, and poise was heavily nerfed, to the point where heavy armour was almost worthless. In Elden Ring, Malenia straight up heals damage through your blocks. It's obvious to me that Fromsoft really just want to make a game with the combat style of bloodborne again, and I really wish they would rather than giving an option for shields and then discouraging their use more and more. Bloodborne is my favorite game and the first one I ever beat 100%, so it isn't like I can only play using shields. And, from what I hear, Sekiro also gets tons of praise for the feeling of its combat. It really seems like their best games are ones where they pick one style of gameplay and build on it, rather than trying to cram in everything.

There’s something that has bothered me with Elden Ring. It’s that there’s a lot less unique melee compared to DS2 and DS3. I make those comparisons because it’s the ones it’s most like. In DS3 you had the Aquamarine Dagger, Friede’s Scythe, Valorheart, BKGA, Farron GS, Dancers Blades. DS2 had the Blue Flame, Puzzle Sword, Syan’s Halbert, Loyce GS, Warped Sword. The list goes on but how do you introduce more weapons than those games. But cut back on actually making them different? If not new had moves based on the enemy you got them from. A prime example is Radahn’s Ultras and the Ringed Knight Ultras. RKU outside of the WA have moves based off the enemy. As where Radahn’s weapon shares the same L1 as any other paired Ultras. You can count the number of unique movesets on 1 hand in ER. They really let WA’s just be the differentiating factor now. And I blame this on the open world part of the game. If you make it so massive you gotta fill it out with more stuff. You can’t afford to make everything so different there’s only so much time you’ve got. Like I was floored to find ER has zero casting weapons. You make the magic system more robust but add zero casting weapons? Even DS2 and DS3 had those in their base games. It’s a real shame too because I consider casting weapons. To be some of the coolest stuff in all Fromsoft games. Where’s my Demon Scar? I hope but I’m also certain ER’s DLC will fix this it must!

How did u make the game run so smooth?

Bloodborne is such a gem. An actual MASTERPIECE! My first Souls game was DS1, n I have such special memories of that game, nothing will ever replace those. But Bloodborne truly changed my life. I go back n forth on whoch is my favorite, but it mostly boils down to: DS1 because of that first time experience, eveything was so bewildering and the sense of excitement from exploration, and the thrill of the boss fights and the sense of accomplishment was something I had never experienced quite like I did with Dark Souls. And the reasoning for Bloodborne is similar, but more so the theme of the game, the eldritch horrors had me by the balls immediately. But also the weapons, holy shit the weapons, with absolutely every single one being viable, only having a 60(?) Point damage difference from weakest to strongest. 2 of my favorite gaming tracks come from both games, O&S's boss music is fucking AMAZING, only rivaled by Ludwig's song.

I also think that the spells(hunter tools) in bloodborne are better than in elden ring

Insight was awesome. I also liked the world and character tendency of demons souls which is similar.

honestly I don't think elden ring should have had transforming weapons as a standard, but rather have a couple of unique weapons with a transformation mode instead of the ash of war, that way you can have a large quantity of weapons, and at the same time more unique ones with the ability to transform

I gotta say it makes me really happy people are talking about bloodborne a game that came out 8 years ago still talked about to this day. This game is a future classic.

In almost all my runs of BB, I always picked the pimpstick as my starter weapon. I found the saw to be much more boring.

I main a whirligig and was indeed insulted by ghizas wheel

Bloodborne stays the best Fromsoft game ever made.

Bloodborne actually has a lot of weapons compared to souls games, if you consider that not that many weapons are really different weapons. Yeah, those twenty straight swords sure look different, but in no way they change anything about how you play. DS3 has 19 melee weapon types, and some weapons with unique animations. It doesn't really matter which greatsword you use, the difference is that some of them are just worse and they scale from different stats

Bloodborne and “mistake” do not belong in the same sentence under any circumstance.

As good as the rally mechanic was, it wouldnt have made sense in Elden Ring just as it doesnt make sense in Lies of P. In Bloodborne, you regain lost health because youre getting covered in beast blood, healing your wounds. The other stories i mentioned just don't have the lore to support that.

Why did he remind me of orphan of kos's scream when he yelled yess😂 5:43

Bloodborne is the true masterpiece fromsoft made

Hopefully there will be a Bloodborne something next year with the 10th anniversary

The trick weapons were inovative and we have never seen them before!

I playing lies of p right now & I also like the weapon system here

You missed a golden opportunity for the music here. You should've just used the ps4 homescreen music, seeing as how we haven't gotten a remaster or a pc port for Bloodborne.

Imagine combining Inside with the effects from Eternal Darkness..

Bloodborne is incredible, the only problems with it are the lack of a respec option, the quicksilver bullet mechanic being too costly, and the weakness of guns.

Their biggest mistake was not letting you respec in Bloodborne. I mean, seriously, the leveling system for this game is kinda busted but nobody talks about it. To be clear, Bloodborne is one of my favorite games of all time. But i can only imagine just how much more i would love it if i didnt have to know exactly what weapon i was going to build for from the very start of the game. Plus, in a game with so few weapons, trying to build for a specific weapon you're interested in will basically bar you out of being effective until you get that weapon. So if you don't build for any of the first few weapons of the game and instead want to try out something in the late game, you're gonna have a very bad time until the late game, then you'll be much more effective very suddenly. Just put respeccing in all RPGs; its not hard.

Tonitrus was my main and favorite trick weapon 👍👍👍

On one hand... I can see and agree with points made i this video. On the other.... That's also what makes bloodborne so special. If Fromsoft added these kinds of things to every following game I feel like it would lose it's charm and how special they feel. But then again, pokemon does the same thing over and over again and people come back to it. But that's also everyone's biggest complaint.

Does nobody else think it was a mistake not to have critical hit animations for each of these weapons and their transformations? I do not like the hand reaching in and doing a squeeze or whatever. I cannot believe other people don’t get bothered by this. Especially since all of the weapons are *so* cool

Bloodbourne is the pinnacle of the soulsbourne series

The Moonlight Greatsword could also do a double backstab

The only mistake is it being on Playstation only with pretty bad framepacing... Needs a PC port ASAP to fix the mistake!

Worst mistake is making it exclusive to Sony