PlayStation's 30th anniversary trailer puts it nicely and praises overzealous Bloodborne fans for their "persistence"
Dec. 2, 2024When will Bloodborne fans be free?
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PlayStation is commemorating 30 years since the PS1 launched in Japan, highlighting important exclusives and thanking fans in anew, celebratory trailerthat graciously acknowledges Bloodborne fans' “persistence.”
“If you know the story, you know it’s about love,” PlayStation’s trailer begins. For the rest of its two-minute runtime, the trailer highlights various values PlayStation apparently associates with certain titles or playerbases — “it’s about family” for God of War fans, “it’s about action” for Call of Duty experts, and “it’s about fear” for Resident Evil Village sickos.
The 30th anniversary trailer lingers on Bloodborne’s introductory Cleric Beast boss fight, showing a player swinging their dirty saw cleaver up toward the monster’s protruding ribcage, thin skin stretched over it like beef jerky.
The only thing that truly is “persistent” about Bloodborne is its community’s desperate, years-long campaign for PlayStation to issue a60fps PS5 patchor remaster.
The #FreeBloodborne hashtagon Twitteris full of broken hearts, memes featuring liquor and cigarettes, and people begging PlayStation to free them from 30fps torment. PlayStation’s 30th anniversary trailer is a tragic acknowledgement that the publisher sees this pain, but seemingly can’t do anything to alleviate it. At least not yet.
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A polite rejection could never deter Bloodborne fans under the influence of our collective delusion. “It’s about the 60fps patch for Bloodborne,” says onepopular Twitter replyto PlayStation’s video.
Bloodborne servers will undergo maintenance on the same day as a potential PlayStation tease, so surely nothing bad will happen this time, right?
Ashley Bardhan is a critic from New York who covers gaming, culture, and other things people like. She previously wrote Inverse’s award-winning Inverse Daily newsletter. Then, as a Kotaku staff writer and Destructoid columnist, she covered horror and women in video games. Her arts writing has appeared in a myriad of other publications, including Pitchfork, Gawker, and Vulture.
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