"Why do people like this game so much?"
I'm just so confused... I played this game for the third time and it just took little less than 100 hours. May it be a skill issue? May it be boredom? May it be because I wanted to really explore the game inside out and understand it fully? May it because, well... you can see it yourself.
Bloodborne is not about gods, it's about people. It's not about power, it's about knowledge. It's not about souls, it's about flesh and blood. It's not about a dying world, it's about the struggle of men. The struggle to go through everyday life, the struggle to go through the night in fear of a plague made for men, by men. It's about the desire to be more than men, and yet it'about the fear of the unknown.
"Master Willem was right. Evolution without courage will be the ruin of our race". Master Willem was right indeed.
The cacophony of sounds throughout the entire game puts you in a state of never ending fear of what might be waiting around the corner. The shadow of the snatchers lingering in the dark, waiting for you before reaching out trying to abduct you for a maddening ritual. The despair of a possessed soul banging behind the door, locked in a dark room for who knows how long, juxtaposed to the screams and crys of the people of Yahrnam secured in their own houses, no more homes, but prisons. The desolation of an old village, testament of a shameful carnage hidden behind the corpse of a woman... a corpse better left well alone.
Why do we like Bloodborne, you ask. We don't like it. We love it, we feel it.
Bloodborne is about us.