One of my favorite details of cosmic horror in Bloodborne is how the head and face of Mergo's Wet Nurse are straight up invisible. They are clearly there as you can hit them, but you can't see them, implying (to me at least) that their face is so incomprehensible that your character's brain can't process it and thus doesn't perceive it

Now that i’m thinking about it the plot is really funny. You go to yharnam from some distant place in search for a cure for whatever illness you have. instead of finding a cure you end up ascending into a great one and now your hunter life doesn’t even matter anymore. you can no longer travel back home to your family or loved one if you had those.

There’s actually a little nod to HP Lovecraft in BloodBorne. The Milkweed Rune actually spells out HP.

My take on gehrman is that you are both trying to spare the other through death. Killing gehrman finally frees him from the hell that is the dream. Through killing you, you awake free of the dream and do not have to suffer his fate. But if you take the umbilical cords? I believe he is stopping you from becoming yet another god of the hunt.

Just started playing BB for the first time, my first in the soulsborne series. This game is such a masterpiece.

I just played through Bloodborne for the first time a month ago and oh my god......This game was so damn good. Now I understand the desperation for a sequel and the sad reality that we we may not get one. It's a masterpiece.

Its my opinion that people get the endings backwards. Asending to become a great one is the ending where you fulfill and realize the vision of the healing church, and it doesnt even end the hunt. The most involved ending is the bad ending. The good ending is the ending where you allow gherman to send you back to the waking world, accepting that there is nothing to be gained from the eldritch truth

What I love is how the first half of Bloodborne is all Bram Stoker and the second half is pure H.P. Lovecraft.

That's honestly a brilliant commentary on the game's lore, with nuances indeed worthy of Vaati's caliber. It is, dare I say, insightful?

"Gehrman can see the madness within us" it's actually more tragic than that he wants to set you free from the hunters dream

I played bloodborne for the first time about 8 months ago, and have beaten it the fifth time on new game plus 4 just a few days ago. Love it so much.

Byrgenwerth Bugs sounds like some kind of sports team lol

“Notice how less it builds up?”