Bloodborne turned seven yesterday, and while we’ve had our own little celebration of FromSoftware’s best game (until Elden Ring, that is), others have celebrated Bloodborne in their own unique ways. Lilith Walther, creator of the renowned Bloodborne PSX demake, celebrated by announcing something completely out of left field: a Bloodborne PSX kart racer.
Perhaps it’s not that surprising, given the number of kart racers from the PS1 era. There was Chocobo Racing, Crash Team, and pretty much every kids show had its own racer, including Loony Tunes, Disney, Nickelodeon, The Muppets, and even Woody Woodpecker. If Bloodborne had been around back in the PS1 days, and it had been as successful as it was on the PS4, it probably would have received a kart racer too.
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Walther announced Bloodborne Kart with a teaser video that ended on an Akira reference, as all good teasers should. The Hunter makes his way down a well-lit path, dons his goggles, and arrives at a parked motorcycle. Cue the announcer (as played by @GetGianni) and the absolutely adorable title theme (created by @TheNobleDemon).
"Funny thing about me voicing this is that Lilith actually didn't hire me as a voice actor,” noted @GetGianni soon after Bloodborne Kart’s big reveal. “I was just yelling this normally, as I usually do when the moon is up, and she just had me turn my mic on.”
For those of you who haven’t played it yet, Bloodborne PSX is a PS1-era demake of the original Bloodborne. It’s played in 4:3 aspect ratio, has a CRT screen filter (that can be turned off if you really hate it), and every character and texture has been reduced to the barest number of sprites and/or polygons.
While the
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