Bloodborne review: The joy of relearning what you already know

PS4 exclusive rewrites the <i>Dark Souls</i> basics but remembers its roots.

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[groghunter]

alanmies[/url]":5xoffecr]

ivantod[/url]":5xoffecr]Just wanted to mention that there ARE in fact shields in Bloodborne, well A shield anyway--look here. Don't know any more details since I'm in EU so the game is not released until Friday and haven't had a chance to play it myself yet.

In the UK, you mean. Rest of the EU gets it in about three hours. *)

(For some historical reasons it seems most releases are Tue->US, Wed->EU, Thu-JP, Fri-UK. Whatever historical reasons they may be, and why they still apply in the global world we live in now, I have no idea.)

*) In my time zone. Wednesday anyway.

Becus 'Murica. followed by (expletive replaced with "Funk" at the behest of the MPAA/FCC) Yea.

 

[groghunter]

arkiel[/url]":2z312y5f]

And then there are games like Hotline Miami, where the difficulty ramps up to hone player skill, rather than a deepening of mechanics. I expect it would take a lot of work to start cold halfway through that game and actually relearn how to play it from there.

Quite a few early to mid 2000's PC FPSes got dropped by me for 6 months or so halfway though. Some were brutal to pick back up. I remember F.E.A.R. being particularly nasty, as well as Bioshock. In fact, I think I never finished F.E.A.R. because of it.