Bloodborne
An action RPG in which the player embodies a Hunter who, after being transfused with the mysterious blood local to the city of Yharnam, sets off into a "night of the Hunt", an extended night in which Hunters…
Bloodborne is an adventure developed by FromSoftware, released 24 March 2015 on PlayStation 4. The main story takes about 37.8 hrs to finish.
What Bloodborne is
Bloodborne is an adventure game developed by FromSoftware and released in 2015. It was published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 4 only. It runs on Dantelion. It carries an ESRB M age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
A Hunter arrives in the decaying Gothic city of Yharnam seeking a mysterious cure known as Paleblood. After receiving a blood transfusion, they awaken in a spectral realm called the Hunter's Dream, bound in service to forces they do not yet understand. Yharnam's inhabitants have been afflicted by a blood-borne plague that transforms them into beasts, and the Healing Church, once the city's salvation, guards secrets tied to ancient eldritch beings called the Great Ones. To find Paleblood and escape the Dream, the Hunter must slay the beasts plaguing Yharnam and trace the plague to its source, uncovering the hidden connections between the Church, the College of Byrgenwerth, and the Great Ones…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, horror and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Bloodborne holds a critic score of 91 out of 100. That places it above 96% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 22 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 91, across 1,896 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 37.8 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 57.3 hrs, roughly 1.5 times the length of the critical path.
What it launched against
Bloodborne launched on 24 March 2015, within three weeks of Ori and the Blind Forest, Mortal Kombat X, Yakuza 0 and Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin. It reviewed better than all of them. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Ori and the Blind Forest, Mortal Kombat X, Yakuza 0, Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin.
Cheats and codes
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