Bloodborne (2015): Devoted Boar Fister, Beloved Hunt? That’s What You Put In the Paper?! (Patreon)

For the most part, we here at Player’s Club try to avoid discussions on what the “best” game ever is. It’s too difficult to even pick a “best” From Soft title because each game seeks to accomplish very different goals through very different methods. There is no real fair way to evaluate the quality of a game that came out 7 or 8 years before another, just because the technological advances alone allow for the younger entry to probably feature deeper gameplay elements and larger, more intricate worlds. That said, if you put a gun to our heads and asked us to select the closest thing to From’s best ever single work, we may have to say Bloodborne.

This week, Hesse from Movie Mindset and Seeking Derangements was kind enough to join me. Throughout this 7 hour bonanza, both of us become overcome with emotion discussing the nature of belief, meditate on the modern, postwar culture of Japan, become disgusted by Fromsoft video essayists’ unfamiliarity with female biology, and finally take Simon the Harrowed down a peg. This is one of my favorite episodes I’ve ever been a part of, so there’s a 50% chance it will be widely despised. Nonetheless, enjoy!