The ruined town extends out in several directions. Like Souls, Bloodborne does not tell you where to go, and like Souls it does not hold back on punishing you for wandering in the wrong direction. Crazed townpeople throng the main roads, far too many of them to cut through. Our demonstrator picks a path around side streets and over bridges, cutting through the lone enemies he finds there. The blunderbuss is interesting - it has no range, but if you let it off just in the instant before an enemy attack hits, it brings the aggressor to their knees and lets you despatch them more gruesomely, rather like Souls' counter mechanic.
It looks practically open-world. Fog-gates will apparently still exist, says the Sony producer, but I didn't see one sectioning the world off. There's barely any light coming from anywhere; torches flicker in braziers and in the hands of dead-eyed townspeople, and there's illumination from a pale moon, but inside buildings it is absolutely pitch black; you can only see with a torch of your own to pick out the terrors in the dark.
Game's apparently pushing some serious graphical fidelity as well.
