That ability gave the game a degree of freedom and exploration that no other game in the series has been able to match.īloodborne, despite generally fantastic level design, has very little of this. This meant you could take many different potential paths between the different areas, rather than having to traverse the world in a mostly linear or set fashion. What people talk about more than anything else is the fact that the DS1 world was heavily interconnected, that is, there were many different points where the levels connected to each other and had multiple different exits and entrances. That all said, Cainhurst is one of my favourite locations in the Soulsborne games. Yes, yes, that theme does change slightly depending on the events that take place. I'm not saying EVERYTHING is the same, but there are clearly larger overriding themes to Bloodborne, and that theme (largely) is dark and dirty.
I thought the game was just THAT hard then felt silly when I noticed the hill.īloodborne, while somewhat varied, lacks a lot of that base variety that DS1 does. I still remember taking the catacombs path my first playthrough. you have a foggy forest, dark forest, castles, kingdoms tons of verticality and then the pure abyss. You have everyone's favourite swamp, you have lava, you have magical forest lake, dark prison, crystallized area. you really get to experience the detailed and varied environments of the game. That combined with infrequent load times and delayed teleporting. Just my personal opinion, but some of this is due to the numerous different legit paths throughout DS1, especially if taking the Master Key as the starting item. Cathedral of the Deep and Central Yharnam, for instance, are individually as big as say, 2.5 DaS1 levels and with more content. I don't think this is disputed much, besides with a few odds and ends from the earlier games(Latria, Boletaria, Painted World, Shulva etc). Conversely, the individual levels in Bloodborne and Dark Souls 3 are by a wide margin more complex in layout, and generally more varied in their encounters. Otherwise the levels are mostly kind of small(albeit dense, usually) and not all that varied within themselves. You'll notice the most complex and most interesting levels to traverse in DaS1 are either unconnected to the rest of the world or only connect in a linear, spoke-like fashion(such as Painted World and Sen's, respectively). That said, the complexity of the world design arguably sacrifices the complexity of individual levels.
That's not to say it isn't still awesome, as Bloodborne obviously does a great job at achieving visual consistency(other areas are constantly visible from one another) but DaS1 achieves that and creates meaningful and divergent paths from one area to another, hugely enriching the gameplay as well. In comparison Bloodborne has 2-3 connections between areas and they're not all that meaningful from anything but a lore perspective. Few other games have approached that level of cohesion and complexity in their world design at the same time. There's so many connections between areas and so many routes to any given location, it's insane. No question, Dark Souls 1 has by a wide margin the most complex and interestingly woven world design. I think it's important to make a distinction between individual level design and world design. Thank you, sohlol, for allowing us to display your artwork on our subreddit! r/huntersbell /r/bloodbornesliders /r/demonssouls /r/darksouls /r/darksouls2 /r/darksouls3 If you feel you are not seeing certain posts, you may need to enable viewing of NSFW content in your Reddit preferences. Posts marked as spoilers use the NSFW feature. To hide or view spoiler text and posts marked as spoilers (indicated by the lock icon), be sure to click the "Hide / Show Spoilers" link in the Filters section above.īookmark " ns./r/bloodborne" to avoid spoilers by default. Please check the FAQs before posting! Event Calendar - 2023 Eventīe sure to include a screenshot your character select screen (the one that lists all of your characters and the time played on each) along with the screenshot of your trophy list. No trolling, karma farming, rage posts, or other low-effort submissions. Memes, screenshots, and video clips should follow the subreddit guidelines. Self promotion posts are allowed once per week with community participation. No sales, sales links, directing to sales, soliciting donations, or advertisements whatsoever. No AI-generated content or artwork.Įxercise caution when discussing 'false depth' and 'reverse depth' chalice dungeons.
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