The one who works at Hot Topic
FromSoftware’s action role-playing game Bloodborne, my favorite game in the whole world until the end of time, isn’t explicitly a “school” game, but it reminds me of the older kids at the mall behind the Hot Topic counter I’d encounter while in school. It’s where you imagine yourself turning up if you were to shirk your parents’ pride and set out for the great unknown as a 14-year-old. Bloodborne is indistinguishable from any suburban mall.
It’s also not not a school game. Bloodborne’s grisly plot is fueled by the teachings and happenings at Byrgenwerth, a site for higher education turned into a shell of its once-grand self, now filled with slime instead of scholars.
I played and thought about Bloodborne a lot in college. Being a young adult can be gloomy, you know?
