That kind of complexity isn’t what PS1 games were about. It streamlines the experience and allows you to focus on exploring this new vision of the Nightmare rather than trying to min-max a build and perfectly utilise transformation attacks to build up your beasthood. It’s low on weapons and attacks - at least compared to its PS4 counterpart - initially offering just the Saw Cleaver or Threaded Cane without their transformed variants, but this helps to keep the controls smooth and easy to use. Every part of the game fits, from the sounds and music to the UI, to the gameplay itself. As I said before, this is so much more than a texture pack. The blood curdling scream let out when you die is also fantastically demade, as are all the other sounds in the game. I woke up in Iosefka’s Clinic, tangled with the werewolf, and promptly got my guts ripped out. After all, games from this era often had strange control schemes and lots of random limitations.

It takes a few minutes to get used to the new layout and the strange inability to look up, but it works. The game is entirely playable with just a keyboard, no mouse use at all. The downside is a lot of the stunning vistas Bloodborne is known for have to be obscured, but it makes them all the more exciting when you get to a ledge and are able to peek at the towering cathedrals and bridges in Yharnam. It suits the gothic tone of Bloodborne perfectly. The art style truly invokes old horror games like Resident Evil and Silent Hill. The opening cutscenes and character creator look incredible.

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