How Bloodborne Achieves What Dark Souls Could Not

Bloodborne is a tremendous accomplishment in game design, taking the formula built by its predecessors and adapting it to a whole new world and style of play. In refining that formula, Bloodborne identified many of the problems presented by Dark Souls and took deliberate action to improve upon them.

In this video we'll discuss that Problem to Action to Result process, specifically examining three standout components of Bloodborne: it's combat, it's lighting, and it's level design.


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0:00 Intro and Process
1:40 Combat
6:23 Lighting
10:05 Level Design
14:18 Wrap Up



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