That was an exciting Nintendo Direct last week. Not only did the company finally present the Switch 2 in detail, with The Duskbloods there was also a new game from from software. At first glance, this is definitely reminiscent of the fan favorite Bloodborne, but according to the Game Director, this is not quite right.
Actually it looks like it isThe intellectual successor too, which from software always wanted to do. It's about blood, you fight with unusual and yet somehow modern weapons and at least in the first trailer the setting looks at least Victorian.
In an interview with Nintendo, the Game Director of The Duskbloods now stated that the game does not play in any specific era and that according to this does not really have anything to do with Bloodborne.
The President of From Software explains: "There is no fixed era or a permanent place where The Duskbloods plays. There are more traditional cards in the Gothic or Victorian style as well as those that represent the last few years of early modern times, such as the map that can be seen in the trailer by train."
Nevertheless, his further explanations not only remind you of Bloodborne, which appeared exclusively on PlayStation 4 in 2015 and has been in the shade since then. You control a "Bloodsworn" and want to get the mysterious "first blood". This also explains the approach of The Duskbloods with its different maps.
Because the mighty red life juice flows at an event that is called the "twilight of mankind", to which the Bloodsworn is summoned. The term "Duskbloods" itself refers to the entirety of the Bloodsworn.
Even if it is essentially vampires, the Duskbloods wants to get away from the traditional picture of the blood suckers. Rather, Miyazaki and his team tried to extract the rather romantic side of vampires and blood and to focus on.
