

The Saw Cleaver seen in most of the footage building up to release is folded over in its default state and opens out to allow for much greater reach at the cost of some speed. Generally speaking the default mode will be a smaller but faster weapon to maximise damage when you’re in close, whilst pressing L1 will change your weapon in some way. To help you further every weapon in the game has two modes. As you have no shield spacing and dodging are your only forms of defence, but as if to encourage you to attack even more you now have a regain system where when you’re hit you have a chance to get that lost health back by landing some attacks of your own. The gun can be used offensively but ammo is limited so it will predominantly be used to interrupt enemy attacks to open them up for a powerful Visceral attack (very similar to a parry and riposte when using a shield in Dark Souls). Unlike previous Souls games however there are no shields to cower behind (there is one actually but it’s basically a joke from the developer) and you have a gun in your left hand. I wouldn’t recommend it but it shows it’s more skill based than a numbers game. If you can get this down then you’re sorted for the entire game, certainly people have beaten previous Souls games without levelling at all. Yes, there are character levels and weapon upgrades but the bread and butter is attacking with R1 and R2 whilst dodging with circle. For others I’ll try to explain as best as I can, things may get complicated.Īs with the Souls games, Bloodborne is an action game first and foremost. There are some problems that I’ll mention later but there’s no reason not to play it if you know it’s your type of game already.
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If you’ve enjoyed the Souls series before then you’ve probably already bought Bloodborne or at least don’t need any convincing. After Dark Souls 2 made for a great game but was ultimately a disappointing retread of the original without Miyazaki at the helm, can Bloodborne hope to challenge two of my favourite games from last gen? Hidetaka Miyazaki has directed a few Armored Core games but more importantly has directed Demon’s Souls, Dark Souls and now Bloodborne, an exclusive title for the PS4. Better known as a developer of decent but rather average games seemingly one man has turned the company into a fan favourite.
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