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I'm sure we've had that poll a billion times but whatever.

Anyway, I basically just marathoned this in the past couple of days a bit suddenly and it was very good. I have previously played Dark Souls and Elden Ring, thought I should give a shot. Maybe I played it too fast, I wish I had dug more into the lore. I didn't realize initially Rom was a point of no return for a lot of things. It would be fun to play more around saving people, I saved almost none lol. I think the game being shorter than the other two kinda tricked me. At least it felt a lot shorter.

For having the same mechanics, I do like how different the games manages to be. This is definitely the one where the plot concept has been the most intriguing. I enjoyed having to dodge a lot more while still retaining the parry function effectively.

Gameplay wise it holds up way better than Dark Souls while still retaining the same overall simple kind of map. I think Rom and to a lesser extent Micolash were the only bosses I disliked, though some are more fun than others. Not sure what the hardest one was, nothing gave too much trouble.

I never really felt any large differences in Insight, I think I could play around with that more, it was honestly a forgettable mechanic, but I might have just not realized what it did. The enemies that could eat it from you were the least fun, mostly because of how extremely long time their attack animatjon took if they hit you.

I did a single challice dungeon a bit later than intended and I don't think I will care too much to do more rather than just playing another game, at least not right away, but I see the potential for sure.

I'm not sure where to rank this compared to the other two. Story/lore wise it's definitely more interesting. Set piece wise, it probably ranks a bit lower overall but the worst areas of Dark Souls is definitely below anything here (Brightown, Lost Izalith). Bloodborne has been surprisingly consistent! I think Elden Ring ranks on top but I am unsure.

Very good experience!

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