Finally, a game worthy of the title new generation of gaming.  Bloodborne is the first game to impress me in a while.

Bloodborne parallels to Dark Souls in many ways. Instead of flask you use blood vials to recover health.  Instead of souls you farm echoes to increase you abilities.

Although Bloodborne mimics its predecessor Dark Souls, Bloodborne is its own game.  Bloodborne takes place in the city of Yharnam, a city curse with an epidemic that causes its citizens to transform into beast.  As a hunter, your duty is to find a cure and rid the land of the epidemic.

I won't spoil the experience, but I will state that I was impressed by the gameplay and fluid movements I experienced in each battle.  There were a lot of destructible environmental hazards and an overwhelming amount of challenging enemies that kept my interest as I roamed this dark gothic realm of Yharnam.  Chalices and hidden boss battle add to the adventure that makes the game a worthy contender for game of the year.

The one aspect I found  challenging was that the Bloodborne enemies think more when fighting you. In Dark Souls games, you can bait enemies into a fight.  In Bloodborne, enemies will retreat or won't transverse environments that aren't an advantage to them.  You have to work hard to win, but the Dark Souls' proverb, "if it bleeds, then you can kill it" still exist in Bloodborne.

Overall, the Bloodborne is the best that's out there for the newer titles.  It's not legendary status like Zelda: Ocarina of Time or Final Fantasy 7 but Bloodborne is setting an example of what consumers should expect in new gen console gaming.  I give Bloodborne for the PS4 an 9/10.