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Yeah. of one of our exclusive episodes. So let's talk about the history of Bloodborm, before we talk about the design and our experience with it.

There's not a lot of history because from software is famously secretive.

The director is famously secretive.

And that's for the best because these games are all about mystery and uncovering the mystery yourself.

So I like that we don't have a lot of definitive answers and a lot of definitive accounts of the production.

They're lucky enough to not have to reveal that to us.

So I do want to set the stage for 2015.

From Software has dropped three Souls games into our lap.

So there is the Janky, cult oddity Demon Souls, which was recently, well, I guess within the past five years, remade for the PS5.

It's a good remake.

There was the Revolutionary Game Changer Dark Souls, the polarizing sequel, Dark Souls 2.

So a lot of souls in a very short period of time.

And then in 2015, it's nearly too much Souls content because we have Bloodborn, and then

we have a kind of remake of Dark

Souls 2 where they're pushing it to Next Gen systems but they're also reconfiguring a lot of it.

They're putting a lot of work into a game that's only a year old.

So I feel like this is kind of the breaking point for these developers, which is why after

Dark Souls 3 in 2016, there's six years between that and Eldon Ring.

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