Put away all hopes ...

"Oh so bad kanns already not be" passed through my skull and I've accessed. Also in the sense that some magazines thought Bloodborne would a tad lighter than the standard Souls title. Well, purely in the agony.

What's this? What is the content? I do not write. But let it be to run a test of 4players or GamersGlobal to heart. Click here only about my experience now about 6 hours of play, which I think is good and what is crap.

Disassemble Bloodborne in items and to evaluate these falls plenty hard. Only the mix of all components results in an almost unprecedented gaming experience. In good and bad simultaneously.

The biggest shortcoming are definitely charging times. Compared to other titles they are not really dramatic. But: you die. Permanent. And incessantly. In one hour you can see ever loose a dozen times the loading screen. And then this waiting time disturbs quite.

Insufficient memory points. Each cunning Souls player will now probably show me of heresy, but seriously. I've just found another save point in 6 hours after the start. And the way to the first boss opponent is far. Cursed far considering how often I need this probably go. I hope times, even to find a shortcut but at present the views of this pretty strong bitch is pretty hazy Seelig. In Devil May Cry, I have precious little trouble to go to a boss enemy dozens of times on it. The last memory point is always around the corner. But here it hurts. The likes of the hard core of fans perceive as added attraction. Not me.

Almost insanely difficult. They were right. All warnings were right. And no one has exaggerated. To walk through the streets of Yarnham is like balancing on a bed of nails. What FromSoftware demanded by the players for patience and skill, is enormous. Every fight is like a ride on the cannonball. Even keeps you just a few blows, but even the opponents meissten go 2-3 hits to the ground. At least at the beginning. Meanwhile accumulate tougher chunks.

Yes, one wonders: what then drives the hell players in droves into this abyss?

The game world: The city Yarnham is absurd beautiful ugliness. An infernal paintings of horror, fear and art with countless details. To sneak through the streets to hear the distorted cries of creatures and to behold the evening sun through the battlements is an experience beyond compare. And the creatures that make this hunt each other, flow already by their appearance and partly abnormal pathological movements of fear.

The combat system: taktieren The animations, the results feedback, the seconds is amazing motivating. Bloodborne is one of those games you can not just level up the character, even himself as a player is to inferior a constant learning process. What distance is the best for my gun? How do I proceed against other groups? When the Molotov cocktails are worth most? And if one succeed the first alternate attack maneuvers against tough opponents, plingt also in your head on a bright Level-Up.

Almost insanely difficult: Hö? Was not on the negative points? Correctly. You have to engage in this game style. Death is an integral part of the mechanism. But then one is also encouraged to think creatively. Do I have to really fight this monster? Are there shortcuts? What glistens back there? And: I can run faster than the other shoot? The game world is changing so from a static backdrop in a puzzle. And every shortcut found is a true blessing.

The glaring lack of story is hard to classify. You meet other extremely rare beings who want to kill you immediately. A narrative is virtually non-existent. On the other hand Bloodborne thus creates a highly mystical image of a world that is difficult to unravel and many asking questions. From my perspective, it fits very well into the game style. Because:

The world fights against the player. It does not take him by the arm and not showered him with awards and tributes, because he has gebuttonmasht the villain-the-world destruction in a Quick Time Event. She struggles, yells and bites, they are not on their own price. And that means that this is not an action Klopp crap with sadism factor, but a challenge. You know, somewhere in her hiding amazing secrets and the more it strikes back, more curious is, what she is hiding.

And that's a strong performance. Therefore 4 of 5 stars from me. The last missing since I firstly this kind of challenge appreciate very much, but ultimately extremely feel the requirements as a tad too.