Bloodborne 2 Would Face an Obstacle That Dark Souls and Elden Ring Wouldn’t

Soulslikes everywhere have taken to unsurprisingly rooting themselves deeply in the fantasy genre. Of course, FromSoftware’s Demon’s Souls and Dark Souls would create the subgenre while embedded in their own brand of dark fantasy, and so it is only natural that imitators would find inspiration by looking to fantasy as well. Fantasy is a fairly wide umbrella where a lot of different motifs and tropes are laid bare, which likely makes it a great genre to reinterpret with authentic ideas while many other mechanical features are almost identically stripped from FromSoftware games, and that’s where Bloodborne once again made a distinct mark in the developer’s pedigree.