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3. Bloodborne - Was Dark Souls' Appeal A One-Off?

Remember when the Saw films came out and year-after-year they grossed the highest amount of any regularly-released horror flick in decades? There was something about the self-harming 'gornography' angle that punters just seemed to love plumping down their hard-earned cash on. Except after a few years of this it all went away, as if the thousands in attendance finally realised there was more to life than engaging with something whose sole purpose is to gross you out, and here with FromSoftware's followup to Dark Souls, is a similar dilemma. That description wasn't to imply Dark Souls is anything less than downright phenomenal - it's easily one of the greatest games of all time - but it is to address the fact that Bloodborne's appeal is routed in the player willingly signing up for a game that's going to be a genuinely torturous ordeal to get through. The 'Souls series exists to capitalise on this idea, presenting a labyrinthine interlocking world that's as fun to explore as it is infuriating, but outside of all those cases of curiosity or gamers challenging themselves to finish it, it feels like Bloodborne is destined to be a cult success rather than the Soulsian phenomenon their last franchise turned into.