![]() And yet, here I am, with Elden Ring constantly in danger of being uninstalled, and me elbow deep in my previous save of my least favorite From Software game, one that I swore had nothing for me to return to. I called it “ The King’s Field successor I needed.” Dozens of hours later, I wrote breathlessly to Cameron Kunzelman about it. ![]() Why did I fall off of Elden Ring? I gave it an 8.5. Not fully, but when I think about why in this moment, this past week, that I am falling in love with Bloodborne, it’s this goddamn wheel. But when Lady Caroline is opening up a group of Byrons to siphon off their blood for later sustenance? It can only ever be The Wheel. They all have their place in the hunters arsenal. Sure, there’s the saw, and the other saw, and the axe-halberd, and the big sword. Not as brittle and fussy as that Tesla beatstick leftover from The Order: 1886, the Tonitrus (which I do love). The wheel is pure, the purest weapon in Bloodborne. That these Yharnamites are actually Byrons. I love that I’ve decided my character is Lady Caroline Lamb. The wet smacking sounds as my giant reinforced conestoga wagon wheel slams into body and face. I love the way they howl and moan and crumple. These strange scratch-and-dent Colonial Williamsburg by way of Brotherhood of the Wolf Generic Militarized Farmer and Townsfolk wargaming miniatures. Still, here I am, slamming my giant wheel into the soft, malleable heads of Yharnamites. But, let’s be honest: the vial system sucks. They probably wanted to make healing items more precious, so that players would lean harder into the Rally system. Sure, they were a terrible decision by From Software. ![]() I didn’t expect to ever return to Yharnam.
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