Design Analysis & Dev Diaries

Most writing about Bloodborne focuses on its lore — the Great Ones, the cosmic horror beneath the gothic surface, the thing that's looking back at you when you look at the moon. That's fine. The lore is extraordinary. But it has overshadowed a quieter achievement: Bloodborne is one of the most precisely engineered pieces of level design in the medium, and almost none of what it teaches is labelled. I've been studying it closely while working on Punk_Noir — a souls-lite ARPG w