While we await news of a possible next generation remaster and a PC version of Bloodborne, someone is imagining a different type of remake of the action-adventure game. A developer is turning From Software’s Gothic Souls game into something for the original PlayStation.
The demake is courtesy of developer Lilith Walther, who is working hard to make Bloodborne look like a 3D horror game around 1997. She has been sharing clips of the project on Twitter so far, looking at various aspects of Bloodborne and demonstrating the changes needed to catch something that was cutting edge just a few years ago and made it fit into the technology of almost three decades.
She’s not the first to deconstruct Bloodborne that way, Yarntown from developer Max Mraz has turned the open world game into a top-down Zelda style, but Walther’s work has an interesting perspective. An obvious contrast is the distance, that fog distinct from the PlayStation is common, making the meetings even more sinister. Visceral attacks do a certain amount of damage and you receive a large R1 symbol when available. Walther has been regularly working on resources as he adds them, from saved points to his hunter’s voice.
This is another one in a long line of demakes that explore various games through different palettes, mechanics and genres. In addition to Yarntown, we had Disco Elysium on Game Boy, Deadly Premonition on Game Boy and Super Smash Bros on NES.
This Bloodborne PSX dev topic starts with loading and a proper loading screen! Now that we are jumping between levels, I need to write a save and load system that passes the data for proper navigation pic.twitter.com/MHhMC1ouUE
– Lilymeister ✨🏳️⚧️ BLACK LIVES STILL MATTER (@ b0tster) January 16, 2021
Walther is working on a JRPG called Witch, with Heartstrings Studios, due for release in 2022, and you can find more information about that here. We still have hopes for the PC version of Bloodborne, and these fan projects are making expectations a little easier.