Something that adds to this phenomenon is the new loading screens. There are also different minibosses in some places, meaning anything you think you’re prepared for, you probably aren’t. I know for sure that a new area has been added to the Clinic, but beyond that, the effect is so uncanny and subtle that I’m not actually 100 percent sure if things have changed or I just don’t remember the game as well as I thought. The areas in Yharnam have been changed just ever so slightly enough to look familiar but still be misleading. I wanted to quickly get to Cleric Beast and finish it off before writing this, just so I could get a good feel for the boss fights, but I can’t find the damn thing. That kind of complexity isn’t what PS1 games were about. It streamlines the experience and allows you to focus on exploring this new vision of the Nightmare rather than trying to min-max a build and perfectly utilise transformation attacks to build up your beasthood. It’s low on weapons and attacks - at least compared to its PS4 counterpart - initially offering just the Saw Cleaver or Threaded Cane without their transformed variants, but this helps to keep the controls smooth and easy to use. Every part of the game fits, from the sounds and music to the UI, to the gameplay itself. As I said before, this is so much more than a texture pack. The blood curdling scream let out when you die is also fantastically demade, as are all the other sounds in the game. I woke up in Iosefka’s Clinic, tangled with the werewolf, and promptly got my guts ripped out.

After all, games from this era often had strange control schemes and lots of random limitations.

It takes a few minutes to get used to the new layout and the strange inability to look up, but it works. The game is entirely playable with just a keyboard, no mouse use at all. The downside is a lot of the stunning vistas Bloodborne is known for have to be obscured, but it makes them all the more exciting when you get to a ledge and are able to peek at the towering cathedrals and bridges in Yharnam. It suits the gothic tone of Bloodborne perfectly. The art style truly invokes old horror games like Resident Evil and Silent Hill.

The opening cutscenes and character creator look incredible.

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