I bought it, finished it 2 times, and I personally would give it a solid 85. It is by far not as good as Dark Souls 1.
My personal favorites in the Souls games:
1. Demons Souls
2. DS1
3. Bloodborne
4. DS2.
My critics on Bloodborne:
- The level design is not good enough for me. The typical "ahhh, now I am here again...Jupppie" just never came. Why should I be? I can "beam" to the critical points. If a door is open or not, who cares. No advantage for me
- not enough weapons: They are simply not there and thats a shame
- No shield: Ok ok, the fight design is great, but shields are a major point in Souls games
- Armor: They are back to Demons Souls design. Upgrade or not (here not possible at all), new armor or not: makes no difference. My guess is, they had the armor upgrade implemented, then saw it doesn´t really make a difference and then scrapped it completely
- Enemy design: Too many flaws here. The 360 - axe - wielding enemies are so uninspired and stupid, they ruined it for me. The bosses are boring as sh§$ and way too easy. Except the final boss (Spoiler alert), who is plain silly. I hate "beaming" bosses, that simply warp from one end of the area to the other. That is, again, totally uninspired
- The warp mechanism: Can anyone tell me, why I always must go back to the Nexus, oh, excuse me, the garden? You know how often I falsely beamed to the wrong area and then had to warp back, and then to the right place. This wouldn´t be a big deal, if there was not my final point
- The loading time ... beaming to an area is simply too long. If you take the wrong archstone, oh, I mean the wrong area, then it is Waiting 30 secs to get there, 30 secs to get back, and another 30 to get to the right place. Too long for me.
I was so much looking forward to this, but this is the first Souls game I sold again. After 1 week, I still got a fair price for it.
