What if I told you Santa Claus was on

his way to your house? Old Saint Nick

wiggling down your chimney to deliver to

you the thing you've always wanted, but

in route on his way to your residence,

he was gunned down, murdered in cold

blood, and your dream gift stolen.

That's exactly what I'm telling you. It

literally happened. A Bloodborne remake

was taken from us in early 2025. It's

reported that Bluepoint pitched a

Bloodborne remake. They were pregnant

with Bloodborne and then they were

punched in the stomach, killing it

before it ever even had a chance. This

news just broke in light of Bluepoint's

closure. It's been announced that

Bluepoint is shutting down, which is an

absolute [ __ ] shame because I thought

they were making bangers. They most

notably made the Demon Souls remake,

which I thought was incredible. I

recently replayed it and I think it's an

amazing game. And they also made the

Shadow of the Colossus remake and now

they have been put in the dirt. The

reason for their shutdown is because

Sony seemingly lost faith in them. They

thought they couldn't make their own

game. Didn't have the gall for it and

they just couldn't find a partnership

that made sense. Which I think is a

fascinating take considering this is the

same company that was more than willing

to queef out hundreds of millions of

dollars shoveled into Concord of all

things. So, you're telling me they

believed more in Concord, the live

service hero farter, than Blue Point

with a proven track record of making

good remakes like and having the

facilities to make good games. Super

confusing, especially when you consider

Bluepoint was one of the few studios

that was actually able to put out a

highquality game exclusive to the

PlayStation 5 that made it enticing for

people to even want to purchase the

console in the first place. For me,

Demon Souls remake was a system seller.

And there are very few games that

PlayStation 5 even really had throughout

its run here. PlayStation 5 is going to

finish this console generation with less

games on it than the [ __ ] Shrek 2 DVD

had in its main menu. So, one of the few

studios that showed proved that it was

able to actually make a good game now no

longer exists. In all fairness, I will

admit that the title Bluepoint was

cooking for the last x amount of years

sounded [ __ ] abominable. It sounds

like such a bad joke. It was a live

service God of War spin-off adventure.

Oh god. Oh. So that that was a really

bad project for Bluepoint to be

undertaking. It was cancelled by

PlayStation in January of 2025, which is

then right after when Bluepoint pitched

the Bloodborne remake. And I will say

that a live service God of War game

sounds like a Sony decision that they

tasked Bluepoint with. It sounds like

something that they took and said,

"Blue, you're doing this." I don't think

that was Bluepoint's main uh goal. I

don't think they were salivating to

create a live service God of War

experience. I can't imagine Bluepoint

was crawling on hands and knees,

graveling and kissing the feet of Sony,

begging them to allow them to make a

live service God of War spin-off game.

That just seems like a Sony corporate

zombie decision. And Sony publicly

stated numerous times that one of their

main focuses was live service

experiences. So, this really does seem

like an idea, you know, cooked up in the

laboratory of Sony. And it's the exact

same brain deadad approach that led to

the foul, smelly concord that only

breathed for about 2 weeks. An

embarrassing two week blunder. So this

feels like it was a Sony decision. And

then after the disaster of Concord, they

probably wanted to pump the brakes a

bit. So then they cancelled the God of

War live service game that they put with

Bluepoint. And then when Bloodborne

remake Pitch didn't make it across the

finish line, then they didn't have a

whole lot that they were working on. So

they shut them down here a year later.

And I also thought when reading this

headline that it was Sony that poo pooed

on the idea because Sony basically just

says Bloodborne is our property to sit

on and do nothing with. But it turns out

that's not the case. So according to

Bloomberg, Bluepoint was told that the

numbers made sense to remake Bloodborne,

but FromSoft didn't want it to happen.

So it wasn't Sony that put the kibash on

it or anything. It was actually

FromSoft. Former PlayStation executive

Shuhei Yoshida theorized during a kind

of funny interview last year that

Fromoft President Miyazaki, who directed

Bloodborne, was interested in remaking

the 20 the 2015 action game himself, but

was too busy to do so. Yosha said he

doesn't want anyone else to touch it.

And if that's true, he believes

PlayStation would respect Miyazaki's

wishes, even though PlayStation owns the

IP. Now, I understand and I think most

people have understood that Bloodborne

is a very special title for Miyazaki and

FromSoft, but I think most people have

also heard about how much they've wanted

to do with Bloodborne. And multiple

times in the past, they've reiterated

that that's not their decision to make.

So the impression was for the last

decade Sony was the one predominantly

making the decision to keep Bloodborne

in the toy box under lock and key

letting the dust gather and that they

were just squatting on it either because

they didn't believe that it was you know

a powerhouse of an IP that they actually

want to do something with or whatever.

But it seems like there also is the case

of Rumsoft just not wanting anyone else

to work on it, but they themselves are

too busy to do so, which is

understandable, but they did allow

Bluepoint to remake Demon Souls. So then

I got wondering, well, were they just

disappointed with how they handled that

remake? Like maybe they thought that

[ __ ] was poop and they they didn't enjoy

it. They weren't a fan, so they didn't

want Bluepoint to touch Bloodborne,

which is an extremely special title to

them. So, I went looking for like some

old interviews and the most I can find

is this. It's an Edge magazine interview

with Miyazaki talking about Demon Souls

remake. And one of the things that was a

big topic was how impressive visually

Demon Souls remake looked, talking about

the graphic fid graphical fidelity. And

Miyazaki even said like that actually

added pressure to them with Elden Ring

because Blueoint's Demon Souls remake

looked so good. And when talking about

the remake, it's mostly positive. Now,

of course, obviously, he's not going to

come out and be like, "Oh, man, that's

the worst thing I've ever played in my

life." Or anything, but what I read here

sounds like someone that actually does

appreciate the work that went into it.

So, he was asked about, you know, what's

it like to experience the re re-release

of a game you originally worked on over

a decade ago, but had no direct

involvement in? And he said, "Point

blank, I haven't played it, but it's

because I don't enjoy playing games I've

made in the past. brings up a lot of old

emotions, memories, and gets a little

bit overwhelming. So, he hasn't played

it, but then he says that he's very glad

to see it get this fresh look, these

brand new current gen graphics. Uh, he

then goes on to praise some of the

decisions they made, even outside of the

visuals in it, like with their

mechanics. Like, he goes on to give like

a lot of flowers to how Bluepoint

handled Demon Souls remake. So, it seems

like he and FromSoft were pleased with

how they approached that one. Though,

there are also like rumors out there

that behind the scenes they were really

disappointed. Trust me, bro. They were

[ __ ] fuming at the FromSoft

headquarters with Bluepoints Demon Souls

remake. It was insulting. They were

actually about to march over there with

sledgehammers and beat him to death

because of how much they hated it. But I

I can't find any like official sources

that confirm that. That's all just

rumors and speculation. What I can find,

however, is them just openly saying

like, "Yeah, it was actually like really

impressive what they did." It doesn't

seem like there's any animosity. It

doesn't seem like they hated that or

anything. But when Bluepoint pitched the

idea for a Bloodborne remake, I guess

they weren't interested there because

Bloodborne means too much to them and

it's something I guess they directly

want to be involved with, which they

wouldn't be if Bluepoint took it over

because like with Demon Souls remake,

they weren't involved with that. And I

guess Bloodborne just means way too much

for them to want to do that. So, even

though they can't work on it themselves

right now, that also means that they

just don't want anyone to work on a

video game for Bloodborne in general if

it's not them, which I can understand.

It makes sense. However, that also means

11 years of of no Bloodborne anything.

This [ __ ] is still 30fps. This

[ __ ] is still 30 FPS. There's no

remake, no PC port, no nothing, no

movement, no schm movement on Bloodborne

for 11 years for something that is one

of like the most beloved titles like in

PlayStation's catalog these days. Like

it's up there with some of the greats

and it's only one game right now. And I

speculate it will be one game for many,

many moons to come. I personally don't

foresee uh any new Bloodborne games

coming, you know, right around the

corner anytime soon. Maybe, you know,

deeper into the future, we might see

like a Bloodborne 2 or Bloodborne port,

but I don't think it's anytime soon.

Anyway, just wanted to yap about this. I

I I keep my finger on the pulse of

anything Bloodborne related. Fingers

crossed that one day we'll see more from

this. It's one of the best games ever

made. It's such a [ __ ] shame that we

still don't have more from it. Anyway

though, that's really about it.