(Legendary Edition PS5)
Because I played the second and third games a few times before I ever played this one back in the day (once it came out on PS3), the first one has always felt to me like an inferior prequel rather than u kno The One That Started It All. Still worth playing to go through the whole thing I think, but even with the improvements, it has been so long that I don't really remember what it's improving, and the "modern" graphics kind of just emphasize more that this game is like. from 2007

I miss the jumping from Andromeda tbh lol

(Legendary Edition PS5)

Excellent until the ending which still Sucks Mega Hard

I never played the DLC back in the day so those were fun. I appreciated how unabashedly stupid the Citadel one was

The things that were a little annoying the first time were much more annoying the second time. The camouflaged loading screens are Quite conspicuous and irritating... similarly the mixing of gameplay with cutscenes like... I would rather just watch a cutscene than watch half a cutscene, push the stick for half a second, and watch the rest of it. Also the combat only gets good once you add some more abilities / weapons ... and the Valkyries are SO ANNOYING hard to the very edge of not being fun at all. Sigrun (on baby mode) took me more tries than any boss in any game I think

Anyway still very good and I am definitely glad I replayed this before starting the sequel as I had forgot some important stuff lol.

Not actually a new playthrough (cycle goes on and on u kno) but I returned to it and played it a lot for a few weeks.

1º helping people in co-op which is fun, more single-player games should have a "just have a 2nd single player" mode

2º finishing the DLC which I did not feel like doing after completing the game originally. Very good. There's some reddit post or something saying how the DLC fixes all the problems with the base game, which I don't completely agree with but mostly yeah. It's not Better but it is Refreshing as in it Refreshes one's interest in the game u kno, kind of like the "problems" in the base game only become problems after you've been at it for a long time. The DLC is so Fast which is fun after taking time to look around and find everything etc. in the regular game.

Did the return to Yharnam thing which was fun, as there were people playing so if you summoned for a boss someone would show up. I kind of messed that up by also taking the opportunity to try an Arcane build, which led to me Really not needing help with most bosses lol. But that was also a good time, I like that in bloodborne using spells doesn't use up a weapon slot. Do not think I will do arc again tho. It led to me using LHB as it has good scaling, but I have used that before. Will try some weird weapon next time.