Hahaha The major theme is addiction. Either via scientific and academic hubris or just straight up ether if any of you are wondering or haven’t played the game. There’s an amazing video series on the subject where a dude really effectively ties pretty much everything in the game to horrific Victorian medical practices.
Looked it up: the agony of effort. The true story of Bloodborne
Really like Charred Thermos' vids for making me appreciate a game I liked even more. To cohesively link the design of everything to themes about the development of modern medicine in 19th century Edinburgh, William Earnest Henley and Robert Louis Stevenson seems a possessed stroke of mad genius. When most people like me probably never noticed because they're busy playing an action game about killing werewolves and lovecraftian horrors. Shame he deleted his videos but someone else seems to have archived them at least.
Hahaha The major theme is addiction. Either via scientific and academic hubris or just straight up ether if any of you are wondering or haven’t played the game. There’s an amazing video series on the subject where a dude really effectively ties pretty much everything in the game to horrific Victorian medical practices.
Looked it up: the agony of effort. The true story of Bloodborne
Really like Charred Thermos' vids for making me appreciate a game I liked even more. To cohesively link the design of everything to themes about the development of modern medicine in 19th century Edinburgh, William Earnest Henley and Robert Louis Stevenson seems a possessed stroke of mad genius. When most people like me probably never noticed because they're busy playing an action game about killing werewolves and lovecraftian horrors. Shame he deleted his videos but someone else seems to have archived them at least.