So, I tried to make this video to cater to both people that were familiar with Bloodborne and interested in the Cthulhu Mythos as well as those familiar with the Cthulhu Mythos and interested in Bloodborne. I think I might have skimped on some explanations of Mythos entities in this video, so if you'd like to know more, please check out my full series on the Mythos: bit.ly/25OI9jY
TheExploringSeries That was a great video I really hope you can keep making videos like these, I think the thing that I love so much about BB is that you the player character is so weak insignificant when you arrive that you can't even be consider a piece on a chess board in this cosmic war, and yet you will go from the most insignificant person in the story to the hunter of great ones, and that is because of two thing the paleblood you get at the beginning of the story and the mark of a hunter given to you by the moon presence and this what makes the player character so special, sustain by the dream which make you immortal using blood that give you god like strength speed and skills that allows you to kill great ones, and this what makes the hunters of the dream so great and special because a hunter is a hunter even in a dream.
Heh. Thing is the cosmic horror was always there. It just fooled you into thinking otherwise because it seemingly started with another genre. You needed enlightenment you were unlikely to have in the early game to percieve things as they really were. To realize how things were connected. It was a mystery that got ever weirder as you became more capable of seeing its scope.
Miyazaki has said himself that he grew up reading lots of Lovecraft, however he couldn't read some of the words he used and left it up to his imagination. This is where he draws his story telling from, in the fact that all of the games can be interpreted in your own way. He leaves out certain details on purpose so you have to think about it or connect the dots yourself. However knowing that he draws immense inspiration from the works of H.P. Lovecraft it's almost 100% that the fishing hamlet is an homage to Innsmouth. The use of words like eldritch, kosm, cosmos, old ones etc
For me Bloodborne is the best "Souls" game and one of the best and most interesting and detailed games out there. It really feels like every detail has its meaning and purpose. This game is wonderful.
@@Xpwnxage Not even a Spiritual successor. It has a life bar, a stamina bar, is in a third person view, has generic rpg stats to build on. That's where the similarities end. It doesn't have a mp bar, it doesn't play like a Souls game, the story may as well be a Disney story, because its not even close to a single Souls game. Hidetaka Miyazaki, the creator of Demon's, Dark 1 and 3 and Bloodborne, has said that Bloodborne is not a Souls game. Not sure how much more evidence people need. The first time I picked up Bloodborne was only a month ago, well after I had gone through every Souls game. I tried playing BB like a Souls and got wrecked instantly, and repeatedly. I'm not even a defensive player in Souls, I never use a shield, yet I still got wrecked in BB. I had to make serious adjustments to "git gud", as the kids love saying. So yes, I ha e first-hand experience.
One correction. All the dreamworlds in Bloodborne are connected. Layered on top of each other. You can see the ships of the fishing hamlet from the nightmare frontier and you can see the spires of the hunters nightmare in the waters of the fishing hamlet. The only unknown is the Hunter's Dream and where it is located
My interpretation is that the hunters dream is under every other dream and its supporting all the others dreams. Its quite obvious that what creates world is Flora herself and when ever she apear The people turn into beast, so she did appear in every dream place that we see. But then again she comes from the sky in her boss fight so it could be above but for me it makes more sense of the hunters dream be the base of every other dream.
The Fishing hamlet nightmare seems to be wider than the frontier above. I like to imagine that, due to its size, the hunter's dream is on top (or at least above these).
Since it's actually pretty short, here's HP Lovecraft's "What the Moon Brings," which was mentioned in the video, if anyone is interested. I hate the moon - I am afraid of it - for when it shines on certain scenes familiar and loved it sometimes makes them unfamiliar and hideous. It was the spectral summer when the moon shone down on the old garden where I wandered; the spectral summer of narcotic flowers and humid seas of foliage that bring wild and many-coloured dreams. And as I walked by the shallow crystal stream I saw unwonted ripples tipped with yellow light, as if those placid waters were drawn on in resistless currents to strange oceans that are not in the world. Silent and sparkling, bright and baleful, those moon-cursed waters hurried I knew not whither; whilst from the embowered banks white lotos blossoms fluttered one by one in the opiate night-wind and dropped despairingly into the stream, swirling away horribly under the arched, carven bridge, and staring back with the sinister resignation of calm, dead forces. And as I ran along the shore, crushing sleeping flowers with heedless feet and maddened ever by the fear of unknown things and the lure of the dead faces, I saw that the garden had no end under that moon; for where by day the walls were, there now stretched only new vistas of trees and paths, flowers and shrubs, stone idols and pagodas, and bendings of the yellow-litten stream past grassy banks and under grotesque bridges of marble. And the lips of the dead lotos-faces whispered sadly, and bade me follow, nor did I cease my steps till the stream became a river, and joined amidst marshes of swaying reeds and beaches of gleaming sand the shore of a vast and nameless sea. Upon that sea the hateful moon shone, and over its unvocal waves weird perfumes brooded. And as I saw therein the lotos-faces vanish, I longed for nets that I might capture them and learn from them the secrets which the moon had brought upon the night. But when the moon went over to the west and still tide ebbed from the sullen shore, I saw in that light old spires that the waves almost uncovered, and white columns gay with festoons of green seaweed. And knowing that to this sunken place all the dead had come, I trembled and did not wish again to speak with the lotos-faces. Yet when I saw afar out in the sea a black condor descend from the sky to seek rest on a vast reef, I would fain have questioned him, and asked him of those whom I had known when they were alive. This I would have asked him had he not been so far away, but he was very far, and could not be seen at all when he drew nigh that gigantic reef. So I watched the tide go out under that sinking moon, and saw gleaming the spires, the towers, and the roofs of the dead, dripping city. And as I watched, my nostrils tried to close against the perfume-conquering stench of the world's dead; for truly, in this unplaced and forgotten spot had all the flesh of the churchyards gathered for puffy sea-worms to gnaw and glut upon. Over those horrors the evil moon now hung very low, but the puffy worms of the sea need no moon to feed by. And as I watched the ripples that told of the writhing of worms beneath, I felt a new chill from afar out whither the condor had flown, as if my flesh had caught a horror before my eyes had seen it. Nor had my flesh trembled without cause, for when I raised my eyes I saw that the waters had ebbed very low, shewing much of that vast reef whose rim I had seen before. And when I saw that this reef was but the black basalt crown of a shocking eikon whose monstrous forehead now shone in the dim moonlight and whose vile hooves must paw the hellish ooze miles below, I shrieked and shrieked lest the hidden face rise above the waters, and lest the hidden eyes look at me after the slinking away of that leering and treacherous yellow moon. And to escape this relentless thing I plunged gladly and unhesitatingly into the stinking shallows where amidst weedy walls and sunken streets fat sea-worms feast upon the world's dead.
Cheers for that. As you walk to and around the fishing hamlet in Bloodborne's DLC look into the water and you see the spires, towers and roofs of Yharnam. Plus "old garden where I wandered; the spectral summer of narcotic flowers and humid seas of foliage that bring wild and many-coloured dreams." reminds me of where you fight Gehrman and the Moonpresence. The small workshop/chapel and the graves around are taken from a real location in Yharman but that field isn't. Instead of the field is the tower to upper cathedral ward, Lumenflower Gardens and most importantly Ebrietas, Daughter of the Cosmos. There's a nice inversion in Bloodborne towards Lovercraft's story The haunter of the Dark within this area while keeping the backdrop of a church. The item in both enables communion with a great one. In Lovecraft's story it's the Shining Trapezohedron and in Bloodborne it's The Great Isz Chalice. What's so lovely about that inversion and why Miyazaki is a genius is it continues the theme of inverting that plays throughout the game along with even the hero's journey (a structure he used for Dark Souls).
Another connection is the Hunter's Dream and the house from The Strange High House in the Mist. The high house was located up a tall cliff, completely isolated from the harbor town many made rumors of it from. Obscured by mist, it was a small building and treacherous to get to. It in fact is connected to the Dreamlands and is somewhat of a converging point of the two realities. Nodens and other gods would often commune there. The Hunters Dream is located attop a huge pillar or cliff surrounded by mist, a small house that would normally be difficult to get to, frequented by an elderly hunter, Gherman, and is a dreamscape where hunters convene. Thats a lot of things lining up (theyre not exact, but it is the same concept) I read a lot of HPL before playing Bloodborne, and many of the references and similarities really struck out to me, especially this one! Read the story, it almost sounds like Howard is describing the Hunters Dream himself. Man, It was so cool one of my favorite devs made a game that heavily referenced or was inspired by works of my favorite horror author.
The Hunter's Dream actually has a physical location in the "waking world". It's called "Abandoned Old Workshop": bloodborne.wiki.fextralife.com/Abandoned+Old+Workshop
The fishing hamlet is a secret to many within the Bloodborne lore. It's what the healing church regrets most. They experimented on the people of the hamlet. Even while they are alive
Paul of Kintyre you can’t say those old hunters massacre the village when the healing church hunters were the one did it because they want reach higher beings with knowledge out of their greed
@@aoiminase it was the scholars of bergenwerth who experimented on those of the hamlet. Eventually Laurence and a large group of students left the college and founded the healing church. Later the scourge of beasts begins and the healing church uses hunters to repel it. Now due to what the scholars did to the hamlet, supposedly any and all hunters eventually become blood drunk and are taken to the nightmare. The nightmare is a location born of a curse placed upon the healing church, bergenwerth, and all hunters.
@@aoiminase greed? No. An obsession with knowledge? Yes. An obsession to push humanity to higher heights? Yes. Greed implies a selfish reason. They werent doing it out of selfish greed but to push humanity to its next stage in its evolution.
@@azazelsiad3601 I am pretty sure the Healing Church, Byrgenwerth and Old Hunters actions were all based on greed. I'd argue that massacring an entire town full of people and then violating the corpse of an unknown entity just for knowledge (and eyes) are pretty damn selfish things to do. Just because they committed these atrocities for the betterment of humanity, doesn't mean their actions weren't selfish.
Yoooo I can't believe I found a random comment from Prod here. Dude, you're absolutely awesome and I love your content. Keep on rocking and making amazing videos!
Story evolves from reconstruction of medieval and gothic horror into cosmic, and indeed is told so well that upon subsequent play throughs you realise you were always in the latter.
I started this game because a friend recommended it. In all honestly, I was just expecting a gothic horror game with a predictable story but here I am years later still fascinated and learning.
Wow, I don't own a PS4, but I think I would love Bloodborne, it's packed with the elements that I love when sprinkled in other games. Horror, dreams, cryptic places, lovecraftian references...looks really fun.
a crusty krab A PS4 is worth it just for this game, man. It's in my top 3 games of all time. If you enjoy the Dark Souls games, this was made by the same creator and dev team.
Yes. However, it is an action game primarily which diminishes the Lovecraftian atmosphere. If you have a PS3, Demon's Souls also has elements of Lovecraft.
They're not kidding. Bloodborne is worth the 300+ dollars of it and a PS4. Especially if you haven't played a Souls game, because then you get that difficult but rewarding experience as well. It's a masterpiece if you have the money.
"you have finally opened your mind to the untapped knowledge of the great ones, what shall you do with this power, hunter?" i wanna be a space broccoli and slap people with tentacles.
I want to be an eldritch god in normal human form but let me materialize eldritch tentacles from my hands at will and give me an infinite power level. Also i want an infinite eldritch brain that grows through infinite dimensions.
I would say that Oeden in Bloodborne has connections to Yog Sothoth as both are omnipresent, shapeless beings that have a significant influence on reality.
I actually have a theory on the relationship between beasts and kin in bloodborne involving blood and insight. The long and short of it is the "special" blood makes a person more open to the higher planes and their mind changes to match their awareness within these planes. Those who are ignorant or are aware in a superstitious way become beasts or beastial beings. Those who have gained insight to these higher planes become the kin and, if they are determined enough, great ones. Of course the higher planes must have their own ecosystem so some great ones must have arisen purely within these planes. But that is my theory on what is going on in bloodborne. So many were given the blood for its envigorating, restorative, and intoxicating effects...Likely as an experiment into how to rise to higher planes. But since so many were just ignorant peasants they of course became beasts rather then some more enlightened creature and needed to be put down. Thus they come to the hunts. I do believe there is a real Yharnum. But I suspect why the hunts seem so ritualistic is because it is a ritual. Making the hunting of beasts part of a ritual to make the connection between base material world and higher planes stronger. So during hunts Yharnum is both real place with real people and part of the higher mental plane that is often refered to as dreams or nightmares. So in a way it really is all "just a dream". But also a horrifying reality to those who are already highly attuned to this realm because of their consumption of the "special" blood. I suspect those not so attuned would just see mad men and women running around performing horrible acts of superhuman ability.
Jacob Freeman For some reason your comment reminded me of the PS1 game "Alundra". It's been a while but I recall there being some higher plane/interdimensional demon/god that would infect the townspeople in their dreams turning them into bestial monstrosities. Something to chew on...
jacob stallard Yeah, that was a good one. Alundra was pretty heady, wasn't it? The idea that gods are born and fed on the faith of the believers and that power can in turn reach back into the real world was interesting. And that any being can take advantage of this cycle...even a thing alien to the world.
Jacob Freeman Your theory is strengthened by the fact that you can see beasts at Yarnaham, and they mostly are commoners. The 'strongest' beasts are the clerics or the vicars but still, they were affiliated to the Healing Church that avoided the study of the Great Ones in opposition of the Mensis School. The Mensis School studied them and maybe that's why its students have become kins... One last thing: in my opinion the aspiration and the blood of a Great One aren't enough to become one of them. In fact Willem, Gerhman and Micolash only managed to get an audience with a god thanks to the umbelical cords.
Luca Cavalcanti It takes a certain amount of determination to find the path that leads to being a great one. I am not sure the cords are the sole source of this ascension. But it would seem to be the easiest, relatively, to affect. All you need are three of these cords and the potential to change from the blood to begin. I suspect the battle with the moon presense wasn't actually part of it but rather just a fortunate coincidence. By taking its echos after you have marked yourself with the cords you have a template to work with in your ascension. You literally take its place in the order of things. I suspect any person who is suffiently capable of change and knowledgeable about the higher planes can ascend as well, as kin seems to suggest. But the cords of eyes is likely the most potent catalyst one could use to affect the change.
Jacob Freeman I like your theory. I aways thought that the old blood was a way to physically mentally convert yharnamites. Into the Elder God's army? Or something of that nature.
I've been watching your videos for quite some time now and I just gotta say that they are amazing. No other youtuber has made me look forward to their next video as much as you. The way you present things and the different things you explore are all great. Keep up the good work!
I think this was a amazing topic to go over. As bloodborne is one of the best games out there and has inspiration from cosmic incomprehensible horror that is cthulhu.
WokeDickWasher AKA YouGreedyDirtbag I personally hate the "It was all a dream" trope. Unless it's like the Rats in the Walls where you're meant to question the protagonist's account and sanity. There also needs to be some kind of proof or subtle hints, but I don't think there are.
That should get you started with getting familiar with the elders, outers, and creatures Toine. Your question required a very lengthy response so I thought it easier to direct you to a more comprehensive source. Have fun.
I can't confirm this but i have heard that the more Insight you gain, the more eyeballs appear on the inside of your characters head-model. Also i have heard that the window you have to break in order to reach Abrietas is a reference to a lovecraftian story as well
There is a rune called "Milkweed" that transforms you into a lumenwood, a plant-like being. Do you think that could be a more direct reference to the Milk of Shub Niggurath?
You know, the names of those Cthulhu gods are apparently supposed to seriously spook the hell out of someone from just hearing them be spoken. The name "Shub NIGGURath" really makes my skin crawl, so that's definitely true. Whoever made up that name, Lovecraft or not, was definitely channeling his unfortunate racism.
@@Crimson_Sun2486 It has nothing to do with racism. The name is based on the Latin adjective for dark/black hence Shub-Niggurath is "The Black Goat of the Woods." Not everything has to do with race...
Something fun for lovecraft fans on here, the great god priest cthulhu who communicates to its servants and cults through dreams, as he is always sleeping, was created by lovecraft after he woke up from a start and wrote out his dream, this dream later became the call of cthulhu, so i ask you all, which came first cthulhu or the dream of cthulhu
It is stated in the Lovecraft mythos, that the world, the universe, no, even EVERYTHING IN EXISTENCE is actually just a dream. This reality that we live in, is according to Lovecraftian Horror, but the dream of an Outer God, Azatoth. Some suggest, that everything that's happening in Lovecraft's stories, is what Azatoth is seeing, he is "dreaming up" these things. So in short, both in a certain kind of way.
The really twisted and unsettling thing is that on lovecraft work, like it was said con the comments, is that the reality is nothing more than the dreams of Azathot, who is dreaming our reality into existence. And when he wakes up the whole universe will stop to exists, from the gods to the humans, animals and religions, cults and matter, only Azathot will remain. That is the biggest Lovecraft horror, the fragility of the human kind and our insignificant place on the universe
I love Bloodborne. It's what turned me to explore the Cthulhu Mythos. I was surprised when you were speaking about the blood found under Yharnam, you didn't mention Tsathoggua. In your earlier video you stated his "worshippers degenerate as they grow closer taking on animalistic characteristics". I thought immediatly when hearing this of what was found in the chalice dungeons could have been apart of a great one like Tsathoggua.
Although I only recently started reading Lovecraft's works (as in I read my first of his stories about a year ago), he has quickly become my favorite author. His ideas of cosmic truths and alien beings gripped me from the very first story of his that I read, "Dagon". Although I haven't had the opportunity to play Bloodbourne as I do not own a PS4, I have seen a couple playthroughs. I love the attention to detail the developers put into the game regarding the amazing works of Lovecraft, and I love even more the in depth analysis and comparisons that are made in videos such as this one. Keep up the good work, it is clear you understand the Mythos well enough to make an accurate and respectful video such as this one. I look forward to more videos!
As the Lovecraft fan in my Bloodborne group, I spent a lot of time trying to explain all the nods and inspirations. I will be sharing this video with them! Bloodborne is great, and so is the man himself, H.P. Lovecraft! Great video. I will be watching more of your stuff!
This was a really awesome video, I had no idea there was any connection with Bloodborne and the Cthulhu Mythos. I never made it far enough into Bloodborne because it's hard to the point of just... not... being fun. But I adored its aesthetic so this was such a cool thing to learn about it! Thank you so much!
Great video, i really appreciate your efforts! As i am a huge fan of the game, you have inspired me to learn more about the mythos, and immerse myself in great written horror. thanks dude! keep it up!
I did a book report over HP Lovecraft's life in high school and eventually fell utterly in love with his work.. then Bloodborne was released a few years later and I'd never been more elated. So much respect for that author, he has influenced modern horror more than he is accredited for. His genius makes it easy to look past the flaws of his dated life.
Excellent work. Personally, I always took the whole of the city of Yharnam as an alternative *Nightmare version* to city of Kadath and the story of the doom that came to Sarnath and every other HP Lovecraft story in between.
I haven't played this game, but I love this video so much! Thank you Mang for your work. You got me into the Cthulhu Mythos and inspired elements in my own current ongoing RPG project. Thanks for all your work!
Love this game. It’s like falling further into madness the more you progress into it. Had no idea it was lovecraftian at all when I bought it, I just thought it was a werewolf, witches kind of game and because it was a soulslike, I was sold either way! But man, midway though when the really weird shit started happening, my love for it went up 350%!!
As an intrepid fan of HP Lovecraft I was enthralled by this video commentary which totally stoked me out and inspired me. I loved hearing the explanations of the mythos within this game I have never played, seeing the machinations appear before my eyes. Thank you from the pit of heart.
I got the impression that Ebrietas's design is a bit of a joke on the player! The first time you go down there and see her, when she is turned around mourning at the altar, her form from behind looks so much like Cthulhu! The wings, glossy slimy texture and what looks like face- tentacles, in a cave flooded with water... But that Cthulhu face, it turns out, was actually her butt! She turns around and looks completely different, making the first few seconds of that fight extremely confusing, really selling the totally bizarre form of the creatures' design. You literally cant make heads or tails of how her body works for a moment. I mean, what she looks like from that angle must have been deliberate. She is very far from where you enter the room from, so as you run towards her you have a good 10 seconds to try and figure out what you are even looking at. I think the chances of that Cthulhu-resemblance-from-behind being a coincidence are really slim! But I suppose I cant know for sure. Her actual face still has a little bit of a cthulhu look to it as well, but its a lot more creative than the typical squid face man depiction, it really works as a setup and payoff.
Absolutely Love the video! As a hue fan of Lovecraft and Bloodborne! I also INSTANTLY recognized the music in the video as i'm a hue fan of Cryochamber's music! Keep up the great work
Wow, Bloodborne seems like a game i might actually enjoy. I knew it was lovecraftian, but I didn't expect bloodbornes plot to be so closely linked to the cthulhu myth. I wonder what Howard would think of games...
Although this is 7 months old, I'll respond anyway. If I had to guess, Lovecraft would love games. It's a... "Canvas" of untold potential that can incorporate player choice, whether they would like to remain ignorant (Die by Gherman's hand), or learn and transcend humanity. I truly do think that Lovecraft, presented with this canvas would instantly use it and surely, we, the player, would be in for a treat.
I feel like if in your game you absolutely HAVE to make great old one type entities killable, the whole Souls "prepare to die" thing is the best way to do it....besides just, not
Hey as an insteresting side note, I've recently picked up the long running manga/anime series, Berserk. And after finishing it (or catching up at least) there is an insane amount of content within it that Miyazaki draws influence on for the Souls/Borne games. The pregnancy theme in Bloodborne imo is more related to Berserk and the whole Caska situation. Other examples of things in these games influenced by Berserk, the bonewheel skeletons from Dark Souls 1 and 3 come directly from a particular panel in Berserk. I'd be super interested in seeing you do a video similar to this one but exploring the Berserk mythos through Bloodborne, or just an Exploring Berserk series.
Two hunters. In a van. And then a meteor hit. And they ran as fast as they could, from giant beast monsters. And then a giant tornado came and that's when things got knocked into 12th gear. A Healing Church armada shows up. With weapons made from blood Two--tomatoes. And you better bet your bottom dollar that these two hunters know how to handle business. In: Cthulhu Invasion Bloodbourne Tomato Monster Yharnam Armada Hunters, Who Are Just Regular Hunters. Running. In a van. From an Eldritch Abomination, and All Sorts of Things: THE MOVIE! Hold on, there's more! Old women are coming, and they're pregnant with Great Old Ones, an they're also in the movie, and they're gonna come, and cross attack these two hunters. But let's get back to the hunters, because they have a strong bond. You don't want to know about it here, but I'll tell you one thing: The MOON. It turns BLOOD-RED. And what do you do then? It's two hunters... (laughs) they're... It's called Two Hunters... ',:D
Holy shit. Thank you! I'm working on a bloodborne-lovecraft dnd campaign and this has given me tons of ideas for it. Being an xbox pleb I haven't played bloodborne, so I missed a ton of the finer mechanics that were explained in this. Jolly good work bud.
That was a really good video. It also made me think about the teaser from FROM SOFTWARE's new game with the tagline "Shadows Die Twice", when you brought up the Lovecraft's story "Shadow Over Innsmouth". Some are speculating the new game maybe Bloodborne's sequelae/spiritual successor because of the the Shadows of Yharnam boss fight, but it would be fitting for the new game to take place after the events of the Fishing Hamlet with its current tagline. Especially when you take in to account the boss Aldrich from Dark Souls 3 was preparing to usher in a age of deep waters. Only time will tell, but i thought the Shadow of Yharnam reasoning was a little too on the nose compared to what you just put in my head.
I know, I saw the kuni, text, and heard the instrument in the background myself. One can always wish for what they want the most but From Software seems to do very well with entirely new IP's. Only time will tell what they're working on, it's going to be a long year.
And I thought your SCP content was outstanding! It would seem i need to branch out and experience your Lovecraft-based videos now. And I'm definitely planning on playing Bloodborne, first chance I get. This channel, itself, is an anomalous phenomenon, I wonder what number it would be, but not it's classification. That's easy to figure out: The Exploring Series, class: *Keter*
Any Conan the Barbarian reference? Interestingly Conan the Barbarian is actually part of the Cthulhu mythos as the period Conan was living in had Lovecraft Elder God reference. Reason is that Lovecraft and Robert Howard were close friends who would share and do a small connection to their universe.
What an aesthetically pleasing game...I live the gothic/horror/Lovecraftian style. I don't play games so I totally appreciate video essays like this that help build context to something I find so interesting. Thank you!!
This is great! I don't think there is anything really directly referencing the mythos in bloodborne but it is building it's own with the same tools and concepts. But I do very much think they did come at this with an intimate knowledge of lovecraft. When you get into things like the silverbeats that are basically gugs and characters like micolash, the influence feels pretty heavy to me.
2:20. My interpretation of this moment is that you are watching the metaphorical beast you would become (like gascoigne) be burned away by the hunter’s dream claiming you, it’s why the messengers also appear.
So, I tried to make this video to cater to both people that were familiar with Bloodborne and interested in the Cthulhu Mythos as well as those familiar with the Cthulhu Mythos and interested in Bloodborne. I think I might have skimped on some explanations of Mythos entities in this video, so if you'd like to know more, please check out my full series on the Mythos: bit.ly/25OI9jY
TheExploringSeries That was a great video I really hope you can keep making videos like these, I think the thing that I love so much about BB is that you the player character is so weak insignificant when you arrive that you can't even be consider a piece on a chess board in this cosmic war, and yet you will go from the most insignificant person in the story to the hunter of great ones, and that is because of two thing the paleblood you get at the beginning of the story and the mark of a hunter given to you by the moon presence and this what makes the player character so special, sustain by the dream which make you immortal using blood that give you god like strength speed and skills that allows you to kill great ones, and this what makes the hunters of the dream so great and special because a hunter is a hunter even in a dream.
TheExploringSeries do dark souls next pls. just like what you did in bloodborne dark souls is inspired by Tolkien
you should do all games series with this kind of inspired work by HP lovecraft... dark souls next please!!!
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Now do Cthulhu Mythos in South Park.
When I played Bloodborne I went in expecting Victorian Dark Souls.
And suddenly Lovecraft bitchslapped me so hard I lost all my echoes.
Dark souls is lovecraftian if you think about it
@@ExtraordinaryJam nah not really. Just Bloodbourne
The B00t well it is if you dive deep within the game’s lore
Dark Souls is more Shinto-an
Heh. Thing is the cosmic horror was always there. It just fooled you into thinking otherwise because it seemingly started with another genre. You needed enlightenment you were unlikely to have in the early game to percieve things as they really were. To realize how things were connected. It was a mystery that got ever weirder as you became more capable of seeing its scope.
Miyazaki has said himself that he grew up reading lots of Lovecraft, however he couldn't read some of the words he used and left it up to his imagination. This is where he draws his story telling from, in the fact that all of the games can be interpreted in your own way. He leaves out certain details on purpose so you have to think about it or connect the dots yourself.
However knowing that he draws immense inspiration from the works of H.P. Lovecraft it's almost 100% that the fishing hamlet is an homage to Innsmouth. The use of words like eldritch, kosm, cosmos, old ones etc
Yea great ones are directly from call of cthulu
For me Bloodborne is the best "Souls" game and one of the best and most interesting and detailed games out there. It really feels like every detail has its meaning and purpose. This game is wonderful.
Every Souls game is like that, but I personally do agree that Bloodborne is the best one in the series.
Bloodborne isn't a Souls game.
Yeah I'd legitimately suck a Sony exec's dick for a sequel
@@24framedavinci39 It's a spiritual successor at worst, at best it's a clone set in a different era/setting with differing mechanics.
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Not even a Spiritual successor. It has a life bar, a stamina bar, is in a third person view, has generic rpg stats to build on. That's where the similarities end. It doesn't have a mp bar, it doesn't play like a Souls game, the story may as well be a Disney story, because its not even close to a single Souls game. Hidetaka Miyazaki, the creator of Demon's, Dark 1 and 3 and Bloodborne, has said that Bloodborne is not a Souls game. Not sure how much more evidence people need.
The first time I picked up Bloodborne was only a month ago, well after I had gone through every Souls game. I tried playing BB like a Souls and got wrecked instantly, and repeatedly. I'm not even a defensive player in Souls, I never use a shield, yet I still got wrecked in BB. I had to make serious adjustments to "git gud", as the kids love saying. So yes, I ha e first-hand experience.
One correction. All the dreamworlds in Bloodborne are connected. Layered on top of each other. You can see the ships of the fishing hamlet from the nightmare frontier and you can see the spires of the hunters nightmare in the waters of the fishing hamlet.
The only unknown is the Hunter's Dream and where it is located
jman3267 it seems to be above all the nightmares, as a dream it doesn't interconnect with nightmare
The Hunters dream sits above everything else
Is there any videos on this I’d like to see
My interpretation is that the hunters dream is under every other dream and its supporting all the others dreams. Its quite obvious that what creates world is Flora herself and when ever she apear The people turn into beast, so she did appear in every dream place that we see. But then again she comes from the sky in her boss fight so it could be above but for me it makes more sense of the hunters dream be the base of every other dream.
The Fishing hamlet nightmare seems to be wider than the frontier above. I like to imagine that, due to its size, the hunter's dream is on top (or at least above these).
i gained so much insight watching this.
@Joy Chakravarty yeah i see them every where
watch out for the amygdala
keep an eye on that frenzy meter
It takes insight to co-opperate.
Yet there are so many errors lmao
We are born of the blood, Made men by the blood, Undone by the blood. Our eyes are yet to open, Fear the old blood.
By the God's. Fear it Laurence.
I must take my leave
Blood makes us human. Makes us more than human. Makes us human no more ...
Umbasa
Beware the frailty of men. Their wills are weak, minds young.
A Hunter is a Hunter, even in a dream.
Flailing Weasel Uuuuuuuuui
*Autistic moaning intensifies*
“A Hunter is a Hunter, even in a dream...” Basically meaning that this world is seen as a dream. Whether that’s true or not, who knows.
Shit , now i'm awake . That means i forgot everything !
Wait , what was that question again ? Oh hello ...
Kos, or as some say Kosm, do you hear our prayers?
Since it's actually pretty short, here's HP Lovecraft's "What the Moon Brings," which was mentioned in the video, if anyone is interested.
I hate the moon - I am afraid of it - for when it shines on certain scenes familiar and loved it sometimes makes them unfamiliar and hideous.
It was the spectral summer when the moon shone down on the old garden where I wandered; the spectral summer of narcotic flowers and humid seas of foliage that bring wild and many-coloured dreams. And as I walked by the shallow crystal stream I saw unwonted ripples tipped with yellow light, as if those placid waters were drawn on in resistless currents to strange oceans that are not in the world. Silent and sparkling, bright and baleful, those moon-cursed waters hurried I knew not whither; whilst from the embowered banks white lotos blossoms fluttered one by one in the opiate night-wind and dropped despairingly into the stream, swirling away horribly under the arched, carven bridge, and staring back with the sinister resignation of calm, dead forces.
And as I ran along the shore, crushing sleeping flowers with heedless feet and maddened ever by the fear of unknown things and the lure of the dead faces, I saw that the garden had no end under that moon; for where by day the walls were, there now stretched only new vistas of trees and paths, flowers and shrubs, stone idols and pagodas, and bendings of the yellow-litten stream past grassy banks and under grotesque bridges of marble. And the lips of the dead lotos-faces whispered sadly, and bade me follow, nor did I cease my steps till the stream became a river, and joined amidst marshes of swaying reeds and beaches of gleaming sand the shore of a vast and nameless sea.
Upon that sea the hateful moon shone, and over its unvocal waves weird perfumes brooded. And as I saw therein the lotos-faces vanish, I longed for nets that I might capture them and learn from them the secrets which the moon had brought upon the night. But when the moon went over to the west and still tide ebbed from the sullen shore, I saw in that light old spires that the waves almost uncovered, and white columns gay with festoons of green seaweed. And knowing that to this sunken place all the dead had come, I trembled and did not wish again to speak with the lotos-faces.
Yet when I saw afar out in the sea a black condor descend from the sky to seek rest on a vast reef, I would fain have questioned him, and asked him of those whom I had known when they were alive. This I would have asked him had he not been so far away, but he was very far, and could not be seen at all when he drew nigh that gigantic reef.
So I watched the tide go out under that sinking moon, and saw gleaming the spires, the towers, and the roofs of the dead, dripping city. And as I watched, my nostrils tried to close against the perfume-conquering stench of the world's dead; for truly, in this unplaced and forgotten spot had all the flesh of the churchyards gathered for puffy sea-worms to gnaw and glut upon.
Over those horrors the evil moon now hung very low, but the puffy worms of the sea need no moon to feed by. And as I watched the ripples that told of the writhing of worms beneath, I felt a new chill from afar out whither the condor had flown, as if my flesh had caught a horror before my eyes had seen it.
Nor had my flesh trembled without cause, for when I raised my eyes I saw that the waters had ebbed very low, shewing much of that vast reef whose rim I had seen before. And when I saw that this reef was but the black basalt crown of a shocking eikon whose monstrous forehead now shone in the dim moonlight and whose vile hooves must paw the hellish ooze miles below, I shrieked and shrieked lest the hidden face rise above the waters, and lest the hidden eyes look at me after the slinking away of that leering and treacherous yellow moon.
And to escape this relentless thing I plunged gladly and unhesitatingly into the stinking shallows where amidst weedy walls and sunken streets fat sea-worms feast upon the world's dead.
Shame the thing mentioned in this story was never mentioned again
Cheers for that. As you walk to and around the fishing hamlet in Bloodborne's DLC look into the water and you see the spires, towers and roofs of Yharnam. Plus "old garden where I wandered; the spectral summer of narcotic flowers and humid seas of foliage that bring wild and many-coloured dreams." reminds me of where you fight Gehrman and the Moonpresence. The small workshop/chapel and the graves around are taken from a real location in Yharman but that field isn't. Instead of the field is the tower to upper cathedral ward, Lumenflower Gardens and most importantly Ebrietas, Daughter of the Cosmos. There's a nice inversion in Bloodborne towards Lovercraft's story The haunter of the Dark within this area while keeping the backdrop of a church. The item in both enables communion with a great one. In Lovecraft's story it's the Shining Trapezohedron and in Bloodborne it's The Great Isz Chalice. What's so lovely about that inversion and why Miyazaki is a genius is it continues the theme of inverting that plays throughout the game along with even the hero's journey (a structure he used for Dark Souls).
He needs some moonlight sonata...
Too long didnt read
oh, very beautiful.
Another connection is the Hunter's Dream and the house from The Strange High House in the Mist. The high house was located up a tall cliff, completely isolated from the harbor town many made rumors of it from. Obscured by mist, it was a small building and treacherous to get to. It in fact is connected to the Dreamlands and is somewhat of a converging point of the two realities. Nodens and other gods would often commune there. The Hunters Dream is located attop a huge pillar or cliff surrounded by mist, a small house that would normally be difficult to get to, frequented by an elderly hunter, Gherman, and is a dreamscape where hunters convene. Thats a lot of things lining up (theyre not exact, but it is the same concept)
I read a lot of HPL before playing Bloodborne, and many of the references and similarities really struck out to me, especially this one! Read the story, it almost sounds like Howard is describing the Hunters Dream himself. Man, It was so cool one of my favorite devs made a game that heavily referenced or was inspired by works of my favorite horror author.
That's a great connection, thanks!
except hunters dont "convene" there. G-man lives there, and you stop by every time you die or need to level up.
The Hunter's Dream actually has a physical location in the "waking world". It's called "Abandoned Old Workshop": bloodborne.wiki.fextralife.com/Abandoned+Old+Workshop
The suspicious beggar is very similar to the protagonist of 'Rat's in the walls,' I mention it at 6:50.
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Sono Devs?
The fishing hamlet is a secret to many within the Bloodborne lore. It's what the healing church regrets most. They experimented on the people of the hamlet. Even while they are alive
The massacre of the fishing hamlet took place before the healing church was founded
Paul of Kintyre you can’t say those old hunters massacre the village when the healing church hunters were the one did it because they want reach higher beings with knowledge out of their greed
@@aoiminase it was the scholars of bergenwerth who experimented on those of the hamlet. Eventually Laurence and a large group of students left the college and founded the healing church. Later the scourge of beasts begins and the healing church uses hunters to repel it. Now due to what the scholars did to the hamlet, supposedly any and all hunters eventually become blood drunk and are taken to the nightmare. The nightmare is a location born of a curse placed upon the healing church, bergenwerth, and all hunters.
@@aoiminase greed? No. An obsession with knowledge? Yes. An obsession to push humanity to higher heights? Yes. Greed implies a selfish reason. They werent doing it out of selfish greed but to push humanity to its next stage in its evolution.
@@azazelsiad3601 I am pretty sure the Healing Church, Byrgenwerth and Old Hunters actions were all based on greed. I'd argue that massacring an entire town full of people and then violating the corpse of an unknown entity just for knowledge (and eyes) are pretty damn selfish things to do. Just because they committed these atrocities for the betterment of humanity, doesn't mean their actions weren't selfish.
Even the city name "Yharnam" and name "Pthumeru" is an homage to Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos language.
fantastic video!
Hey Prod
Yoooo I can't believe I found a random comment from Prod here. Dude, you're absolutely awesome and I love your content. Keep on rocking and making amazing videos!
@@Goreofadream He's a Soulsborne fan
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Wha?
Story evolves from reconstruction of medieval and gothic horror into cosmic, and indeed is told so well that upon subsequent play throughs you realise you were always in the latter.
I started this game because a friend recommended it. In all honestly, I was just expecting a gothic horror game with a predictable story but here I am years later still fascinated and learning.
Wow, I don't own a PS4, but I think I would love Bloodborne, it's packed with the elements that I love when sprinkled in other games. Horror, dreams, cryptic places, lovecraftian references...looks really fun.
a crusty krab A PS4 is worth it just for this game, man. It's in my top 3 games of all time. If you enjoy the Dark Souls games, this was made by the same creator and dev team.
Yes. However, it is an action game primarily which diminishes the Lovecraftian atmosphere. If you have a PS3, Demon's Souls also has elements of Lovecraft.
If you haven't played a Souls game before, expect to die. A lot. It excellently heightens the intensity of its fear and danger.
I say start with dark soul's 3 since it's more slow then work your way up to bloodborne the fast paced aggressive game
They're not kidding. Bloodborne is worth the 300+ dollars of it and a PS4. Especially if you haven't played a Souls game, because then you get that difficult but rewarding experience as well. It's a masterpiece if you have the money.
Dude you can't just say Kos. Some people say Kosm
what are you talking about
@@ForestWizardLookingForPotion a sentence called by Micolash, a boss in bloodborne.
@@ForestWizardLookingForPotion you clearly didnt play it
@@ForestWizardLookingForPotion You need more eyes
@@ForestWizardLookingForPotion Align your brain with eyes.
"you have finally opened your mind to the untapped knowledge of the great ones, what shall you do with this power, hunter?"
i wanna be a space broccoli and slap people with tentacles.
Lol!! Hilarious comment and great nickname!!
I want to be an eldritch god in normal human form but let me materialize eldritch tentacles from my hands at will and give me an infinite power level. Also i want an infinite eldritch brain that grows through infinite dimensions.
Basically i would become the lovecraftian Goku with eldritch god ki.
I want to sculpt a living dragon from planets and a volcano instead of clay.
Havel The Rock Johnson - Yep. Living the dream. 👍
As soon as I started replaying Bloodborne, this gets uploaded. Thank you so much for it!
i'm replaying bloodborne every 4 months or so,slowly headed to ng7plus and want to do isz chalices but goddamn those materials.
Watch vaatividya on bloodborne lore, this guy makes it sound bad
i'd go to Mitch L for lore, and Redgrave for "little things in yharnam" series
dude the milkweed rune is literally -H/P-
Well this is a video that I’ve wanted for ages.
Joefish your thumbnail matches first like
I would say that Oeden in Bloodborne has connections to Yog Sothoth as both are omnipresent, shapeless beings that have a significant influence on reality.
I actually have a theory on the relationship between beasts and kin in bloodborne involving blood and insight. The long and short of it is the "special" blood makes a person more open to the higher planes and their mind changes to match their awareness within these planes. Those who are ignorant or are aware in a superstitious way become beasts or beastial beings. Those who have gained insight to these higher planes become the kin and, if they are determined enough, great ones. Of course the higher planes must have their own ecosystem so some great ones must have arisen purely within these planes. But that is my theory on what is going on in bloodborne. So many were given the blood for its envigorating, restorative, and intoxicating effects...Likely as an experiment into how to rise to higher planes. But since so many were just ignorant peasants they of course became beasts rather then some more enlightened creature and needed to be put down. Thus they come to the hunts.
I do believe there is a real Yharnum. But I suspect why the hunts seem so ritualistic is because it is a ritual. Making the hunting of beasts part of a ritual to make the connection between base material world and higher planes stronger. So during hunts Yharnum is both real place with real people and part of the higher mental plane that is often refered to as dreams or nightmares. So in a way it really is all "just a dream". But also a horrifying reality to those who are already highly attuned to this realm because of their consumption of the "special" blood. I suspect those not so attuned would just see mad men and women running around performing horrible acts of superhuman ability.
Jacob Freeman
For some reason your comment reminded me of the PS1 game "Alundra". It's been a while but I recall there being some higher plane/interdimensional demon/god that would infect the townspeople in their dreams turning them into bestial monstrosities. Something to chew on...
jacob stallard Yeah, that was a good one. Alundra was pretty heady, wasn't it? The idea that gods are born and fed on the faith of the believers and that power can in turn reach back into the real world was interesting. And that any being can take advantage of this cycle...even a thing alien to the world.
Jacob Freeman Your theory is strengthened by the fact that you can see beasts at Yarnaham, and they mostly are commoners.
The 'strongest' beasts are the clerics or the vicars but still, they were affiliated to the Healing Church that avoided the study of the Great Ones in opposition of the Mensis School.
The Mensis School studied them and maybe that's why its students have become kins...
One last thing: in my opinion the aspiration and the blood of a Great One aren't enough to become one of them. In fact Willem, Gerhman and Micolash only managed to get an audience with a god thanks to the umbelical cords.
Luca Cavalcanti It takes a certain amount of determination to find the path that leads to being a great one. I am not sure the cords are the sole source of this ascension. But it would seem to be the easiest, relatively, to affect. All you need are three of these cords and the potential to change from the blood to begin. I suspect the battle with the moon presense wasn't actually part of it but rather just a fortunate coincidence. By taking its echos after you have marked yourself with the cords you have a template to work with in your ascension. You literally take its place in the order of things. I suspect any person who is suffiently capable of change and knowledgeable about the higher planes can ascend as well, as kin seems to suggest. But the cords of eyes is likely the most potent catalyst one could use to affect the change.
Jacob Freeman I like your theory. I aways thought that the old blood was a way to physically mentally convert yharnamites. Into the Elder God's army? Or something of that nature.
I've been watching your videos for quite some time now and I just gotta say that they are amazing. No other youtuber has made me look forward to their next video as much as you. The way you present things and the different things you explore are all great. Keep up the good work!
For real, 100k in the span of a year is pretty insane
5:33 Eldritch, multi-dimensional BEANS.
LOL shot
Real multi-dimensional bean.
Edwad Emberpants?
@@shingoji524 EDWAAAAAAAAAAAAD
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Bloodborne.... such a masterpiece.
I think this was a amazing topic to go over. As bloodborne is one of the best games out there and has inspiration from cosmic incomprehensible horror that is cthulhu.
Almighty 91
Except when we kill 5 great old ones, and manage to surpass them
Mega Guy43 its fantasy go cry about it
Mega Guy43 that exactly what i said in another comment but what you said was better.
Maybe the events of Bloodborne are just the feverish nightmares of someone gone mad because they glimpsed the true nature of reality.
WokeDickWasher AKA YouGreedyDirtbag
I personally hate the "It was all a dream" trope. Unless it's like the Rats in the Walls where you're meant to question the protagonist's account and sanity.
There also needs to be some kind of proof or subtle hints, but I don't think there are.
Do more videos about the Cthulhu Mythos please!
Karl Erik Nelson He has done alot of them. But more are always welcome!!!
Jerm J. Like, how many godly creatures are their in the Cathulu Mythos?
Toine Donders en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu_Mythos_deities
That should get you started with getting familiar with the elders, outers, and creatures Toine. Your question required a very lengthy response so I thought it easier to direct you to a more comprehensive source. Have fun.
Thank you very much, Jerm. I think this will help me
I can't confirm this but i have heard that the more Insight you gain, the more eyeballs appear on the inside of your characters head-model.
Also i have heard that the window you have to break in order to reach Abrietas is a reference to a lovecraftian story as well
There is a rune called "Milkweed" that transforms you into a lumenwood, a plant-like being. Do you think that could be a more direct reference to the Milk of Shub Niggurath?
You know, the names of those Cthulhu gods are apparently supposed to seriously spook the hell out of someone from just hearing them be spoken.
The name "Shub NIGGURath" really makes my skin crawl, so that's definitely true. Whoever made up that name, Lovecraft or not, was definitely channeling his unfortunate racism.
@@Crimson_Sun2486 wait till you hear what his cat was called...
@@patty8254 N-word Man, I know
@@Crimson_Sun2486 It has nothing to do with racism. The name is based on the Latin adjective for dark/black hence Shub-Niggurath is "The Black Goat of the Woods." Not everything has to do with race...
@@DarknessProphet Tell me the name of HP Lovecraft's cat
Something fun for lovecraft fans on here, the great god priest cthulhu who communicates to its servants and cults through dreams, as he is always sleeping, was created by lovecraft after he woke up from a start and wrote out his dream, this dream later became the call of cthulhu, so i ask you all, which came first cthulhu or the dream of cthulhu
It is stated in the Lovecraft mythos, that the world, the universe, no, even EVERYTHING IN EXISTENCE is actually just a dream. This reality that we live in, is according to Lovecraftian Horror, but the dream of an Outer God, Azatoth. Some suggest, that everything that's happening in Lovecraft's stories, is what Azatoth is seeing, he is "dreaming up" these things. So in short, both in a certain kind of way.
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The really twisted and unsettling thing is that on lovecraft work, like it was said con the comments, is that the reality is nothing more than the dreams of Azathot, who is dreaming our reality into existence. And when he wakes up the whole universe will stop to exists, from the gods to the humans, animals and religions, cults and matter, only Azathot will remain.
That is the biggest Lovecraft horror, the fragility of the human kind and our insignificant place on the universe
That's for me to know and for you to find out
Everything's a dream of the blind dumb god
Another great (one) video. I definitely wouldn't mind more Bloodborne videos at all.
Hahaa!......... puns.
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Congratulations on making it to 100k!
I love Bloodborne. It's what turned me to explore the Cthulhu Mythos. I was surprised when you were speaking about the blood found under Yharnam, you didn't mention Tsathoggua. In your earlier video you stated his "worshippers degenerate as they grow closer taking on animalistic characteristics". I thought immediatly when hearing this of what was found in the chalice dungeons could have been apart of a great one like Tsathoggua.
Funny I woke up From a nightmare just to watch this anyway I think you were on point with this and may the good blood guide you.
Old Daddy Death (x) doubt
what was your nightmare
brian brush
We will never know. It was probably the nightmare of Mensis. He wake up after staring Paarl in the face. 🌩️⛈️🌚
Although I only recently started reading Lovecraft's works (as in I read my first of his stories about a year ago), he has quickly become my favorite author. His ideas of cosmic truths and alien beings gripped me from the very first story of his that I read, "Dagon". Although I haven't had the opportunity to play Bloodbourne as I do not own a PS4, I have seen a couple playthroughs. I love the attention to detail the developers put into the game regarding the amazing works of Lovecraft, and I love even more the in depth analysis and comparisons that are made in videos such as this one. Keep up the good work, it is clear you understand the Mythos well enough to make an accurate and respectful video such as this one. I look forward to more videos!
As the Lovecraft fan in my Bloodborne group, I spent a lot of time trying to explain all the nods and inspirations. I will be sharing this video with them!
Bloodborne is great, and so is the man himself, H.P. Lovecraft!
Great video. I will be watching more of your stuff!
When the sky turns purple after slaying rom it reminds me of the purple sky above the mountains to the west of the city in the mountains of madness
20:17 "Known as Fishmen. Resembling some hybrid of human and fish..." OH YOU DON'T SAY!!!
5:32 "Eldritch, multi-dimensional beans"
This was a really awesome video, I had no idea there was any connection with Bloodborne and the Cthulhu Mythos. I never made it far enough into Bloodborne because it's hard to the point of just... not... being fun. But I adored its aesthetic so this was such a cool thing to learn about it! Thank you so much!
Great video, i really appreciate your efforts! As i am a huge fan of the game, you have inspired me to learn more about the mythos, and immerse myself in great written horror. thanks dude! keep it up!
I did a book report over HP Lovecraft's life in high school and eventually fell utterly in love with his work.. then Bloodborne was released a few years later and I'd never been more elated.
So much respect for that author, he has influenced modern horror more than he is accredited for. His genius makes it easy to look past the flaws of his dated life.
Love his work but I wouldn't say it's easy to look past his flaws
It's good to see people that appreciate Cryo Chamber and the music they distribute. Excellent channel.
Excellent work. Personally, I always took the whole of the city of Yharnam as an alternative *Nightmare version* to city of Kadath and the story of the doom that came to Sarnath and every other HP Lovecraft story in between.
I haven't played this game, but I love this video so much! Thank you Mang for your work. You got me into the Cthulhu Mythos and inspired elements in my own current ongoing RPG project. Thanks for all your work!
Love this game. It’s like falling further into madness the more you progress into it. Had no idea it was lovecraftian at all when I bought it, I just thought it was a werewolf, witches kind of game and because it was a soulslike, I was sold either way! But man, midway though when the really weird shit started happening, my love for it went up 350%!!
Very interesting. I love your Cthulhu mythos videos and I'd like to see more of them. Keep up the good work.
As an intrepid fan of HP Lovecraft I was enthralled by this video commentary which totally stoked me out and inspired me. I loved hearing the explanations of the mythos within this game I have never played, seeing the machinations appear before my eyes. Thank you from the pit of heart.
Just saw the entire playlist and I have thoroughly enjoyed it. I recently got back into H.P. Lovecraft's literary world and appreciate your content.
I got the impression that Ebrietas's design is a bit of a joke on the player! The first time you go down there and see her, when she is turned around mourning at the altar, her form from behind looks so much like Cthulhu! The wings, glossy slimy texture and what looks like face- tentacles, in a cave flooded with water... But that Cthulhu face, it turns out, was actually her butt! She turns around and looks completely different, making the first few seconds of that fight extremely confusing, really selling the totally bizarre form of the creatures' design. You literally cant make heads or tails of how her body works for a moment.
I mean, what she looks like from that angle must have been deliberate. She is very far from where you enter the room from, so as you run towards her you have a good 10 seconds to try and figure out what you are even looking at. I think the chances of that Cthulhu-resemblance-from-behind being a coincidence are really slim! But I suppose I cant know for sure.
Her actual face still has a little bit of a cthulhu look to it as well, but its a lot more creative than the typical squid face man depiction, it really works as a setup and payoff.
Without a doubt, this is the best Lovecraft/Bloodborne video on youtube. Incredibly well researched, good job!
17:09 auto captions say “concept of eldritch beans somehow impregnating human women” lol 😆. I love you, computer.
Absolutely Love the video! As a hue fan of Lovecraft and Bloodborne! I also INSTANTLY recognized the music in the video as i'm a hue fan of Cryochamber's music! Keep up the great work
Wow, Bloodborne seems like a game i might actually enjoy. I knew it was lovecraftian, but I didn't expect bloodbornes plot to be so closely linked to the cthulhu myth. I wonder what Howard would think of games...
Although this is 7 months old, I'll respond anyway. If I had to guess, Lovecraft would love games. It's a... "Canvas" of untold potential that can incorporate player choice, whether they would like to remain ignorant (Die by Gherman's hand), or learn and transcend humanity. I truly do think that Lovecraft, presented with this canvas would instantly use it and surely, we, the player, would be in for a treat.
@@prielblackorb my first thought lol
He would like Kos I think.
@@andrew1983 Quarantine hit this one hard, I think.
Dear "The Exploring Series" This is one of the best videos that you have ever done, and it is one of my favourite videos that you have made as well!
I feel like if in your game you absolutely HAVE to make great old one type entities killable, the whole Souls "prepare to die" thing is the best way to do it....besides just, not
Hey as an insteresting side note, I've recently picked up the long running manga/anime series, Berserk. And after finishing it (or catching up at least) there is an insane amount of content within it that Miyazaki draws influence on for the Souls/Borne games. The pregnancy theme in Bloodborne imo is more related to Berserk and the whole Caska situation. Other examples of things in these games influenced by Berserk, the bonewheel skeletons from Dark Souls 1 and 3 come directly from a particular panel in Berserk. I'd be super interested in seeing you do a video similar to this one but exploring the Berserk mythos through Bloodborne, or just an Exploring Berserk series.
Two hunters. In a van. And then a meteor hit. And they ran as fast as they could, from giant beast monsters. And then a giant tornado came and that's when things got knocked into 12th gear. A Healing Church armada shows up. With weapons made from blood Two--tomatoes. And you better bet your bottom dollar that these two hunters know how to handle business. In: Cthulhu Invasion Bloodbourne Tomato Monster Yharnam Armada Hunters, Who Are Just Regular Hunters. Running. In a van. From an Eldritch Abomination, and All Sorts of Things: THE MOVIE! Hold on, there's more! Old women are coming, and they're pregnant with Great Old Ones, an they're also in the movie, and they're gonna come, and cross attack these two hunters. But let's get back to the hunters, because they have a strong bond. You don't want to know about it here, but I'll tell you one thing: The MOON. It turns BLOOD-RED. And what do you do then? It's two hunters...
(laughs) they're... It's called Two Hunters... ',:D
Great movie trailer
Nice Rick & Morty reference boi
a fellow intellectual
And they're brothers
Really cool video, usually people just bring up the lovecarftian thing in passing, it's nice to have someone going further into it.
18:23 One thousand years of death
Great work!👏👏👏 I very much enjoyed your presentation. And now find myself intrigued to play Bloodborne.
Dude yes! been waiting for this
Part 2 ??
Love this video so much. Great commentary/narration mixed with the background music. Great job man
I've waited centuries for this video
Holy shit. Thank you! I'm working on a bloodborne-lovecraft dnd campaign and this has given me tons of ideas for it. Being an xbox pleb I haven't played bloodborne, so I missed a ton of the finer mechanics that were explained in this. Jolly good work bud.
Man I completely forgot how cool the cloaks in Bloodborne were.
Very good. I just replayed BB, so I was ripe for this. It’s amazing how much is there, implied but not explained.
This is as close to a perfect game I have ever played.
I can only pray for a PC version.
Also the slug girls at the fishing hamlet are cute! ♥
I’m coming back to this video as it was my first video here. It actually got me into bloodborn thank you man
Great vid hoonter!
Well this is an incredibily well made video imho, profound and exhaustive and among the best I've seen in the category.
Well done sir.
What an awesome Christmas present
Thank you! I was looking for a video specifically highlighting the Cthulhu/ lovecraftian aspects of the game
That was a really good video. It also made me think about the teaser from FROM SOFTWARE's new game with the tagline "Shadows Die Twice", when you brought up the Lovecraft's story "Shadow Over Innsmouth". Some are speculating the new game maybe Bloodborne's sequelae/spiritual successor because of the the Shadows of Yharnam boss fight, but it would be fitting for the new game to take place after the events of the Fishing Hamlet with its current tagline. Especially when you take in to account the boss Aldrich from Dark Souls 3 was preparing to usher in a age of deep waters. Only time will tell, but i thought the Shadow of Yharnam reasoning was a little too on the nose compared to what you just put in my head.
eric moe People have already figured its more likely a Tenchu remake or reboot nothing related to BB at all.
I know, I saw the kuni, text, and heard the instrument in the background myself. One can always wish for what they want the most but From Software seems to do very well with entirely new IP's. Only time will tell what they're working on, it's going to be a long year.
Nah, it's clearly a reference to celestial bodies. Def in the same vein as bloodborne
Its def not bb2 sadly
Absolutely wonderful video! I caught it very late but this definitely deserves more attention.
OH SHIT you have no idea how long i havebeen waiting for this!!!
Nice job highlighting all these connections - great vid!
Awesome!
I Like The Way You Explain The Cthulhu Mythos!!!
Thank You Very Much!
And Please Do More Cthulhu Mythos Please!!!!!!
And I thought your SCP content was outstanding! It would seem i need to branch out and experience your Lovecraft-based videos now.
And I'm definitely planning on playing Bloodborne, first chance I get.
This channel, itself, is an anomalous phenomenon, I wonder what number it would be, but not it's classification. That's easy to figure out: The Exploring Series, class: *Keter*
Any Conan the Barbarian reference? Interestingly Conan the Barbarian is actually part of the Cthulhu mythos as the period Conan was living in had Lovecraft Elder God reference. Reason is that Lovecraft and Robert Howard were close friends who would share and do a small connection to their universe.
Miyazaki is a master of establishing the opening of these adventures. the opening sequences of DS1 and Bloodborne in particular.
17:08 "Eldritch beans, somehow impregnating human women"
Fantastic video mate!!! Man I love your videos on the Cthulhu Mythos and Bloodborne is one of my favourite games
What an aesthetically pleasing game...I live the gothic/horror/Lovecraftian style. I don't play games so I totally appreciate video essays like this that help build context to something I find so interesting. Thank you!!
4:58 the moon and the amygdala were always there, the thing is , killing the vacous spider gives you insight which lets you see them.
“Altering the game world slightly.” Biggest lie I’ve heard in a while haha
More like a simplification
love how all your videos are all like your scp video and its like your reading or writing a document explain these things
SHUB WHAT?!
Great video
This video was long but it felt short very interesting topic i wanted something like this and you delivered, thank you and Merry Christmas.
Someone has probably commented this but I'm not going to look for it
"Eldritch, multi-dimensional beans"
This is great! I don't think there is anything really directly referencing the mythos in bloodborne but it is building it's own with the same tools and concepts. But I do very much think they did come at this with an intimate knowledge of lovecraft. When you get into things like the silverbeats that are basically gugs and characters like micolash, the influence feels pretty heavy to me.
Merry Christmas
2:20. My interpretation of this moment is that you are watching the metaphorical beast you would become (like gascoigne) be burned away by the hunter’s dream claiming you, it’s why the messengers also appear.
"When all is in blood,all is reborn"
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Fascinating video. I like when you do these longer and more in depth ones.
Oh hell yes
This was such a great video. Very thorough but really interesting. Thanks for your hard work!