Re: Bloodborne, Part Nine

"I wonder what a map of the Forbidden Woods would look like," I thought to myself. And, to my delight, I found that a kind deactivated user on Tumblr has drawn a map:

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I looked at a real map of the game (here). The forest is indeed actually quite large; but, due to the layout design and level of detail, it feels infinite. It's really impressive.

Yarn Town

Yarn Town
https://www.freegameplanet.com/yarntown-download-game/
https://maxatrillionator.itch.io/yarntown

Created by Max Mraz in the rather impressive Solarus engine, Yarntown is a homage to FromSoftware’s 2015 Bloodborne game, which recreates the entirety of the Central Yharnam area in a Zelda inspired top-down style. It’s a lot easier than Bloodborne and the Zelda-esque combat is fairly simple, but it’s nice to return to Central Yarnham and wander those gothic streets from a top-down perspective.

You know that Junji Ito "this is my hole" meme? Listen. This hole was made just for me.

Yarn Town is the debut project of the person who went on to create the Nintendo Switch game Ocean's Heart (which I love). As far as I can tell, they developed their GBA style engine, Solarus, just to make this Bloodborne fangame. I have built a small shrine for them in my heart.

On loving monsters

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So I guess what I’m trying to say is that I’m not much interested in stories about heroes these days. All things considered, I’d much rather write stories about monsters.

Re: On loving monsters

Always, in the back of my mind, there's someone reading what I write and somehow baking it into the worst possible interpretation. Something I'm always afraid of is coming off like a victim, but I don't think this has anything to do with me as an individual.

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This isn't about being a victim, and it's not really even about late stage capitalism. The experience of feeling like an outsider due to circumstances beyond your control is universal, because of course it is. And, while I respect the fantasy of finding friends and working together to achieve success in a hostile system, I'm much more interested in exploring the reality of what it means to do your best but still fail.