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[daughterofthedream]

as much as I doubt a bloodborne 2 will ever happen and as much as a decent part of me doesn't want a Bloodborne 2 (FromSoft is just not all that good at sequelizing, methinks), I do have a wishlist of sorts for what I'd like to see from the game if it ever did happen

Different setting. Same time period! I want it to be known that this is the perfect tech level for this setting, but I don't think that Yharnam has any blood left in the carcass. I'd want to see what the Great Ones manifest as in different cultures, most notably the Wild West. Give me the fine line between the roar of a train's engine and and the lungs of a beast, between the tracks and veins of the land. Bloodborne already has a pretty strong theme of horror coming from the abuse of the vulnerable in. Well, you've played the game, you know. We'll just gesture vaguely to Mergo, Arianna, and The Nightmare of motherfucking Mensis. There's a lot to work with in an alternate direction, with the exploitation of workers for the sake of industry.

Gimme new secondary weapons that aren't guns. I'mma be real here with this one, I just want a left handed meat hook to get myself behind an enemy. I think that would be an interesting twist on a parry and reward you for getting in close.

Mobility. Hunters are sort of implied to be fidgety little whippets of fighters, let me run at or faster than Torrent's speed, and on top of that, let me clamber up buildings or cliffsides. No game has ever wanted a jump button more than Bloodborne, Hunters should be able to clamber up and over and dart around obstacles. Hell, Nightreign is a great prototype for such a thing.

More direct eldritch trappings. Look, I love Bloodborne's slow reveal that it's not actually Gothic Horror, I think that it was done masterfully well, I love the little breadcrumbs that let you piece it out if you were paying attention ahead of the reveals, a genre shift like that is one of my favorite things in fiction. But....well the eldritch cat's out of the bag, isn't it? We already know that this isn't gothic horror, that these beasts aren't just some kind of werewolf plague. Lean into the sea, let there be fossils of once great creatures in the desert, let me go under the damn water.

TRAIN HORROR

A character with a slightly more defined background. As much as I know Fromsoft RPGs tend to lean in the direction of complete blank slate, there is something to be said about a story about a character. Look at Sekiro, look at Lies of P. I think those stories are much more engaging on a personal level, because we're not just Nobody. And you're already not just nobody in Bloodborne! There's a very real implication with the Cainhurst Summons, that very frustratingly has nothing to it beyond the "wouldn't it be wild if". It doesn't have to be a lot, just like....give me SOMETHING