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212 - Bloodborne (feat. What’s All This Then?) (Patreon)

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2025-10-22 07:00:10
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2026-06
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Charlotte and Libby from the What’s All This Then podcast join the lads in Yharnam as they cover the nightmare that is FromSoftware’s 2015 gothic horror opus: Bloodborne. Topics include the steep learning curve, the masterful escalation of horror, and what it means to conquer your anxieties in the greatest Britain simulator ever made.

What’s All This Then?: A podcast about Britain, hosted by Charlotte McDonnell and Libby Watson. Patreon // Spotify // Apple Podcasts

Libby Watson: Twitch // Bluesky

Charlotte McDonnell: Twitch // Bluesky

Media Referenced in this Episode:

Bloodborne. Dir. Hidetaka Miyazaki. FromSoftware. 2015.

Bloodborne Is Genius, And Here’s Why by Hbomberguy

The Paleblood Hunt by “Redgrave”

TWOAPW theme by Brendan Dalton: Patreon // brendan-dalton.com // brendandalton.bandcamp.com

Interstitial: “The Lads of Yharnam” // Written by A.J. Ditty // Feat. A.J. Ditty as “Claude Pitchfork/The Lads” // Music: “Screaming at the Wailing Wall” by Flogging Molly

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Udit Singh

perfect halloween ep! *Inhales copius amounts of bloodbornium*

Ajusco Huerta

I can hear Gehrman whispering to me like the green goblin mask to pick this game up again. Gotta love the game that gave me my first tattoo.

Ben

For those that don’t know, you can get insight before ever facing a boss by meeting Eileen the Crow. She gives you a mad man’s knowledge. It’s really not that big of an advantage cause you can just quit out on cleric beast; but if you don’t wanna abuse quit outs that’s another way to level early.

NowhereMan661

Ooooooh my God. My favorite video game of all time. This is the best birthday present I never expected to get. I can say with pride that I'm a lore expert for this game. I'm maxed out on Insight at 99 all the time. I have eyes lining the wrinkles of my brain. I'm seeing eldritch horrors clinging to the sides of buildings and I can tell you how Oedon is giving everyone mercury poisoning.

Mulloy

Brotherhood also has Monica bellucci as a nun assassin with a bladed fan. And 4 endings somehow.

Kyle Reesman

You guys need to do Darkest Dungeon.

Cupping the truck nuts while my homie pumps gas

Threaded Cane user here, it's my favorite of the trick weapons, great for arcane builds. Also one of the few weapons that let's you switch between slashing (which Beasts are vulnerable to) and piercing (which the Old ones are more vulnerable to).

Mulloy

Lol i also went teenage witch to not believing in the supernatural.

NowhereMan661

No no no, The Moon Presence is what is causing the Beast Plague and The Hunt to happen, it's imprisoning Gherman in the Hunters Dream, using him as a surrogate child, and is doing all this to hunt and kill Mergo for some unknown reason. Eating the umbilical cords and killing the Moon Presence allows you to take its power and become a new infant Great One able to grow safely in the Hunters Dream. Rejecting the Moon Presence is vital to ending The Hunt, doing the second ending and becoming its new surrogate child just keeps it going.

Songbird

Threaded Cane is so much fun with some very real, unique advantages. By far my favorite starting weapon.

Its Devon Babeyyy

First of all Bloodstarved Beast is a powerful woman, so jot that down

P.A.L.

Well it was a very good episode on a game that I will NEVER play. Spiders being a common enemy mean I can't.

R Barry

Its interesting to hear that Libby "trauma bonded" with bloodborne because I basically did too. I was an extremely depressed teen and my grandma just died. I set up a cot in front of my PS4 in the basement, woke up and played bloodborne till I fell asleep again, repeat as nauseum. Needless to say, bloodborne is my all-time favourite game.

Em Gravesong

I literally screamed like AJ did at the start of the episode when I saw this in the hopper.

Zipzapzop

Galaxy quest mention?!

Clarp Blarpkiss

2:26:41 I clocked that joke you sly bastard.

Korax

I took the day off from work when the game launched and played for almost the entire day, starting at the midnight unlock of the digital version. I've always loved how they took the ideas of Lovecraftian cosmic horror and built their own thing out of it instead of the "I looked up Cthulhu on Wikipedia" that most media still does 10 years later.

I simp for pigeons

1:36:00 so... If you have to have some sort of brain disease to enjoy these games, what does that say about those of us who don't really like these games but listen to a 3 hour podcast about them? Lol great episode peeps!

Bentivegitantus

I won't countenance your slander of Only Connect. This was a fun episode to listen to, even if like Brian I'm not the kind of person for these games. What strikes me, though, is how any dialogue segment in a Miyazaki game seemingly could be an AJ Ditty interstitial segment.

John Benfield

I made it to Forsaken Castle Cainhurst before I rage-quit because I felt like I wasn't getting any better. It would be nice to play it alongside someone who knows it well, so I could tell whether I'm just in a dip that I should push through or I'm at a cliff that I should just not keep throwing myself at.

OfficialPunGuy

I think the recent Sony Game Trend (at least in Forbidden West and Ragnarok) of characters telling you puzzle solutions was specifically added for DarkSydePhil

Bossbear

Okay but elden ring does have eldritch vibes to it on top of the high fantasy and it rocked

Lewis Morgan

I did enjoy this episode, but I feel that everyone was quite unkind to Brian by saying he hasn't really completed Bloodborne. I know it sucks when you've had a great experience with something, but these games don't have accessibility settings, and if someone else lacks the time, skill, and/or inclination, they're never going to have that same transformative experience. He completed the game, but it feels like he made the effort to do something he didn't enjoy much for work, and then everyone jumped down his throat when he still didn't enjoy it. Still enjoyed the episode, just a thought.

Nathan Woods

Mikolash represents an inversion for me. He's the only required boss where I skip the gameplay and not the cutscene

Michael Kearley

I would honestly love to hear you guys talk about Elden Ring, a game that I played like 100 hours of and staunchly do not like

NeonVVitch

Great guests and a great episode 😁

Ghostly

Sekiro is my goat fromsoft game.

Elizabeth Power

The cockney accent in the commercial is killing me, in a good way.

Brad T

getting the 20 guaranteed poison knives early in the game and hanging on to them allllll game long just for this guy

Nathan Woods

This is the way. Happy hoonting

Mister Joshua

On the subject of running back to bosses: the most miserable FromSoft one for me has gotta be Dark Souls 2 Duke's Dear Freya. I never want to run that far and through that many ambush predators again.

Walpurgisnacht

i loved this episode, eagerly awaiting the nightreign and bloodborne dlc episodes c: