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Bloodborne 1-3 Boxed Set: Includes 3 Exclusive Art Cards

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I don’t know why the Hunter was after the child. I don’t know why the child’s blood was white, or why that was important. I don’t know why the child could see things that the Hunter couldn’t, and what that meant. I’m sure these are elements that lore heavy fans will know, but it did make the story very inaccessible to new readers wanting to learn more. I was also quite disappointed that the story ends on a cliffhanger, yet does not continue on into the next volume, leaving it feeling vague and unfinished. I’m not exactly sure what I ca say about Bloodborne Volume Three: A Song Of Crows. The story centres on Eileen the Crow, one of the more memorable NPCs from the game. In the game Eileen hunted your character, and other hunters, and is sworn to destroy those corrupted by their lust for blood. We see her burring those that she’s killed, dozens of bodies, but after that the story doesn’t really do anything. Eileen seems to be pursuing someone, but the story is broken, disjointed, and has fever dream logic to the point where I cannot tell you what happened even after reading it twice. The art for the story, provided by Piotr Kowlaski and Brad Simpson, is good. The action sequences feel full of energy and motion, capturing the frantic combat of the game. They also manage to make the book look both ugly and horrifying but beautiful at the same time; something that the game did wonderfully. The environments look great, particularly when the characters leave Yharnam. If the book explained things more I would have found it a much more enjoyable experience. As it is, fans of the game will probably find stuff here to like, but how much they like it could depend on their knowledge of the Bloodborne universe. It doesn’t help that Eileen herself seems confused, with broken and disjointed narration. She wanders through strange places, where reality seems to shift around her and change at a moments notice, unsure what is happening or where she is. There’s an entire issue that has no narration or dialogue, relying on the images to tell the story; yet because of the weird and confusing story it adds nothing, makes things even more confusing, and feels like a waste. Fromsoftware produce some great video games. They craft beautiful worlds, expansive environments, and punishing game-play that has been known to test some players to their limits.

The art team from the first volume return for this story, and I think the book looks better than the first one in a lot of ways. I don’t know if its because its all set in Yharnum, so we get more time to marvel at the grandeur of the architecture and the small nooks and crannies filled with details that you can spend time looking through. It’s the same creative team, yet the art in this volume feels so much better, more detailed, and more interesting. This is easily the most enjoyable volume of the collection, with a clear story, and characters with understandable goals. This was the kind of thing that I was hoping for from these books, and it’s a shame that I only got it for the one book. Bloodborne: The Death of Sleep—written by Ales Kot ( Zero, Wolf) with gorgeous art by Piotr Kowalski ( Wolfenstein, The Witcher, The Dark Tower)—is published by the independent publishing company Titan and collects the first four issues of the graphic novel series. The official synopsis for the first run reveals the comic follows a nameless Hunter: The same art team return for this volume, and do some good work, even carrying an entire issue where the art is the only thing on offer. And whilst I can’t find anything about the art to fault for this volume, a story cannot survive on pretty images alone. Thanks to the meandering, weird, and seemingly pointless story I was left confused by what I’d read. It’ not often that I have bad things to say about a book, as I usually try to find something to be positive about, but this time I failed to find much to like and felt like I’d simply wasted my time reading it. This is the kind of thing that I was hoping for from this series, as The Healing Thirst dives into the history of Yharnam, giving us something that we’ve not seen before. It’s really odd seeing the city as a working metropolis, with people going to their jobs, shopping, and tending to their gardens. Having seen the city in the game its easy to forget that this is a place that was once filled with life. There is a sense of sadness whilst reading it, however, as you know that this isn’t going to last. You know that these people are doomed, that the city is going to get worse, and you can’t help but feel a sense of hopelessness as Alfreidus searches desperately for a cure to help the person he cares for. I enjoyed watching the friendship form between him and Clement, and the fates of each of the characters was suitably grim. The Hunter awakens in the Hunter’s Dream, before returning to Yharnam and repeating their quest to the chapel. Instead of fighting the huge beast, this time they take the child and flee the city. From here the two of them set out to reach the coast and find a boat in an attempt to escape the monsters. However, the beast is following in their wake, determined to kill them both.

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