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Bloodborne [b] is a 2015 action role-playing video game developed by FromSoftware and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 4.The game follows a Hunter through the decrepit Gothic, Victorian-era–inspired city of Yharnam, whose inhabitants are afflicted with a blood-borne disease which transforms the residents, called Yharnamites, into horrific beasts.
The game's first downloadable content (DLC) expansion, titled Ashes of Ariandel, was released on October 24, 2016. [26] [27] The second and final DLC, The Ringed City, was released on March 28, 2017. [28] Both DLCs added new locations, bosses, armours, and weapons to the game.
The game requires the player to explore areas and progress through them by fighting bosses at certain points. Artorias of the Abyss adds a new area, Oolacile, that can be accessed after obtaining the "Broken Pendant" item. The area includes four bosses and other optional miniboss fights.
Players battle bosses to progress through the story, while interacting with non-playable characters. The protagonist of each Dark Souls game can have a varying gender, appearance, name, and starting class via character creation. Players can choose between classes, including knights, barbarians, thieves, and mages.
The first required boss in the city comes in the form of an enemy that is sometimes randomly replaced by a player seeking PvP combat. Some critics saw this as a positive move to increase player versus player activity and heighten the pack's longevity, [16] [11] while others thought it was a "throwaway" confrontation that felt "out of place". [12]
Anor Londo has been cited by critics as one of the best and most memorable areas in the Dark Souls games for its beautiful design, environmental storytelling, and, in the first game, its final boss battle against the duo of Ornstein and Smough; the area's high difficulty in the original Dark Souls, most notably said boss fight and a climbing ...
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Bloodborne PSX received generally positive reviews, with reviewers praising the game's unique retro artstyle and faithful recreations of the source media in both game play and art style. [2] [3] The game proved very popular, with 100,000 downloads within the first day of release on itch.io.