>shortThat's what makes it the premiere FromSoft game.It's extremely tight with nothing to add and nothing to take away.A perfect game.
Deadlines and Miyazaki rushing his shit to completion, mostly. The polar opposite of George R R Martin. ER suffered the same fate; a game that massive should have been given an extra year to polish.
>>735020063>with nothing to addThey could have done a lot more; in fact they intended to do a lot more
>>735019947That's what she said
>>735019947So they can charge you twice for a DLC that does nothing to make it feel anymore complete
>>735020352Even the dlc is adorably tiny
There were so many cut bosses =\Even Willem was meant to be a boss =\
>>735019947It felt way too long. Just fighting every boss once takes forever. The Chalice Dungeons drag on and there are a ton of areas even in the main game.
>>735020641Yeah it is very overrated for the little battle sequence at the start of the first area and the visuals in Fishing hamlet but that 2nd area sucks total ass
>>735020739The generated chalice dungeons are completely optional and are the only thing that makes the game feel “long”. There’s barely anything in the actual base game.
>>735020703>Even Willem was meant to be a bossYou can tell they didn’t even know what to do with Willem. It’s like they originally designed him to be the pope of the whole healing church but then decided nah. His academy is just a tiny little house… the lecture building was originally intended to be a part of it, but it’s massive on the inside, so they simply chalked it up to the nightmare absorbing it. Supposedly it was originally situated on the lake itself.
>>735020984Willem is a senile lumenwood. The dlc confirms this. He’s growing mushrooms on his back like how the player is growing mushrooms over their head.
>>735021249Fucking hell how did I not see it sooner
>>735019947>shortBecause you skipped the optional content and the chalice dungeons. BB has the most optional content out of all the souls games.
>>735019947>rushed development>pushed everything else in those shitty chalice dungeons
"it probably started as DeS stealth-sequel" aside, who the fuck thought it was a good idea to reuse some of its shittier mechanics (like having to warp back and forth to respawn enemies) after DaS?
>>735020070Base ER is still impressive. Yes, mountaintops are shit and a half of legacy dungeons are short and underwhelming, but generally it was an insanely enjoyable ride.The DLC, however, is fucking atrocious.
>>735020792>>735020739>fighting every boss onceThere are bosses exclusive to the Chalice Dungeons.
>>735019947The game was fine, but it was absolutely nothing special.I have no idea where the meme about it being this holy grail of the Fromsoft games came from.
I assume Miyazaki refuses remake offers because he wants to do something with BB himselfThe world needs to become more interconnected. The game contains weird shortcuts that don't really add anything meaningful, and one big shortcut was outright removed from the final version (the door after cleric beast).Weapons need a better spread between locations. Bloodtinge builds are absolutely painful because you need to kill a late game boss to get a BLT weapon.Chalice dungeons need the story chalice system to get nuked into oblivion, it should be fully RNG.
>>735020984The pope of the healing church is the the demon on fire in the DLC, get with the lore retard
>>735023493Who's Willem then
>>735023493Now yeah
>>735023493The Choir idolized Willem over Laurence.
>>735023765The guy the pope had a schism with and built his byzantine style organization
>>735023991>byzantineWat
>>735025057He’s retarded ignore him
>>735022003Liked the exploration and (most of) the locations of the DLC, but I must be getting old because I've never raged at a game harder than I did with SoTE.The atmosphere was top notch; the gameplay was more of the same, ie bloated health bars and hyper anime fights.
>>735025938>bloated health bars and hyper anime fightsThis is what ruins the series for me as time goes on.
>>735022390At this point we only had Demon Souls and Dark Souls 1 and 2. Gameplay and aestheticwise they were all very similar, plus only a minority played Demon Souls and Dark Souls 2 was somewhat disliked, so Bloodborne coming with a new gameplay flow, different aesthetic, ps4 graphics and less jank than previous games was a big deal.
>>735026964>less jankIt was just as janky as the other titles.
