Bloodborne: The Old Hunters - An Interview with Yasuhiro Kitao

Sep. 18, 2015



Bloodborne: The Old Hunters – An Interview with Yasuhiro Kitao

Bloodborne: The Old Hunters – An Interview with Yasuhiro Kitao

More Bloodborne! More, more, more!! That’s right, after all the info we’ve cranked out over the past 36 or so hours, we have even more!

We were incredibly lucky to get an interview with the awesomeYasuhiro Kitao(head of Marketing for Sony Japan, whoFex beat the Watchdog with) and asked him some questions about the game:

  1. How manyWeaponswill the The Old Hunters bring?

  2. How many new Attire?

Fex’s Note: We know of the “Disguise Hood” and other bits of this attire worn by the Harrowed Hunter. Check details and soon more imageshere.

  1. How many new Bosses?Ludwigwas a notable Boss announced recently, will there be other notable ones that will surprise the player based on the lore of the game?

Fex’s Note: Ludwig may thus not be the only lore-impacting surprise. You can see his movesets on the video below. The demo was made easier to account for the conditions of the floor.

3B) Will we see any notable figures from the lore make an appearance as an NPCs? Will we get to see younger versions of existing NPCs?

  1. How many new areas, and how will they be implemented into the game? Where will you enter the DLC from?

The DLC will be accessed after a certain amount of progression, using a specific method. Players should be able to enter the DLC using their current saves and characters. I can’t quite tell you if it would be possible to progress to a point where the DLC cannot be entered.

Fex’s Note: Word on the street is 3 areas, comprising about 25% of the size of the total game. A sizeable addition!.

  1. Is there any new Chalice Dungeons and Chalice Bosses? Will there be any changes to the Chalice system? If So, what are they?

  2. What about Gems? Will there be new Gem Types or higher tier gems?

  3. How about rebalancing? Will existing Weapons be patched to accommodate the new Weapons? Any Weapons specifically?

  4. Will there be any changes to the multiplayer? If so, what are they?

  5. Will there be new Runes? Covenant Runes?

  6. Are there any modifications to NG+?

  7. Have any of the core mechanics of the game changed? If so, how?

  8. Are there any plans for another Bloodborne Expansion next year? What about Bloodborne 2?

Fex’s Note: Bloodborne’s producer, Masaaki Yamagiwa, said “The Old Hunters” was originally two separate DLCs that were merged into one large expansion.

  1. Is there anything in particular you would like to say to the Bloodborne Community???

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I would like it if it was free for those who preordered and got like the Collector’s Edition, but eh, I’ll be glad to shell out for this expansion

… still excited, December 5 is going to be interesting. Can’t wait for more BB.

*foams at mouth staring blankly.

Will there be a Bloodborne 2?

how many digits of pi do you know?

Is the Souls series actually a test for humanity and all those who beat it will become super beings upon death?

It was really great to meet and greet on behalf of the community, I will follow up with questions if you guys have more, just let me know. We certainly loved what we saw and it made us very excited to get back into the game

Am excite.

Love that the expansion is adding things to the main game too. Hopefully that means extra summons/NPCs scattered around. I know Yharnam is supposed to be dead but it just feels too dead.

As long as the wheel is left unaffected, all is right with the world…..

You’re in NG + buddy, so it will be harder than in NG. I think you’ll still find it challenging.

Any new talking NPCs and lore inspiring content is welcomed. I wonder if everywhere presenced sculptures will get some meaning. More gear is not important at all.

Awesome!! More npc summon, attire, expanding lore and maybe some new convenant as well.praise the oldblood!!

I have only one character which is level 150+ and on NG+. From the above posts it seems the expansion is set around mid game and should be played with level ~75 character.

So can I use my level 150 character to play the expansion? Wont the expansion become too easy this way?

Welcome back

I’m quite hyped for the dlc. The new weapons are likely to change the game radically and spice up co op and pvp in unexpected ways.

I am back!!! DLC HYPEEEEEEEEEE!!! YEAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!! TIME TO USE MY WHEEL AGAIN!!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

“…we plan a balancing patch before release…”

Buffs and nerfs incoming.

i’m pumped

The hype is real!

Seems like they’re gonna add elements to this game to make it more complete and replayable. That’s what I hope at least…

“The DLC will be accessed after a certain amount of progression, “

My bet is after VIcar Amelia. By then you’ve gotten you hands dirty, feet wet, and clothes soaked in blood, but you still haven’t seen anything yet. Plus, that’s when night starts.

Can’t wait for the lore shake ups

Thanks for the heads up @DS10 I made some additional notes. It is important for me to highlight that Kitao specifically said “more than 10 weapons” – so idk what the foreigner press got translated but if you read the article they call the bowblade a dagger too so perhaps it was not the best of translations… unless daggers now look like swords

Woa. New bells? Wonder how they will impact us in Multiplayer….

Omg, the sword of the Bowblade looks sick!

An awful lot of “no comments” in that article

There may be a wee bit more info here for anyone who hasn’t seen it.

3 new areas….25% of the size of the original game….No changes to dungeons…no plans for more DLC… accessible at some point in the first half of the game.

“The demo on the show floor at Tokyo Game Show was de-fanged somewhat in order to be more approachable, with some of boss Ludwig’s moves being removed.”

Whether it’s accurate or not??………

They’re adding new summoning bells? Interesting. And maybe changes in multiplayer……even more interesting.

Besides that, new weapons, new armor, new gems and runes and covenants (he says not sure, but we all know that means probably, especially if he laughs about it),

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