Bloodborne Lore - Shadow Over Fishing Hamlet

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I tell the story of Shadow Over Innsmouth by H.P. Lovecraft in my own words to footage of Fishing Hamlet in Bloodborne and the similarities are stunning. Those poor wretches... now the story of the town makes so much more sense.
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  • @corporalkills
    @corporalkills4 жыл бұрын

    Man the fishing hamlet was a perfect representation of innsmouth. It’s murky, scary, yet without an immediate obvious danger. If it wasn’t for the orphan and the damn sharks it would be my favorite area in the game XD

  • @pjishomo

    @pjishomo

    2 жыл бұрын

    Orphan rules brah

  • @salmannader1762

    @salmannader1762

    4 ай бұрын

    Fr and the sharks are bullshit tough but that is what makes the scary and menacing

  • @diddymelone2265
    @diddymelone22657 жыл бұрын

    to me the most interesting part is that bloodborne makes the "monsters" sympathetic, they were violated by byrgenwerth, they were the real monsters. in lovecrafts story, the evil are the fish people and wiping them out is a good thing.

  • @rando2284

    @rando2284

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ForkknifeBattlePass i mean have u seen his cat?

  • @pjishomo

    @pjishomo

    2 жыл бұрын

    Not surprising since Lovecraft was very racist. I wouldn't expect him to write deep villains.

  • @aldovk6681

    @aldovk6681

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@pjishomo Urhh you people are plague.... stop typing "RaCisM" in videogame lore videos ffs

  • @pjishomo

    @pjishomo

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@aldovk6681 Are you trolling or just dumb ?

  • @dikastederook6380

    @dikastederook6380

    Жыл бұрын

    @@pjishomo Lovecraft wasn't about writting villains, it was about showing humanity is pathetic and insignificant and unable to comprehend superior knowledge. The fish people were just another allegory of this, a group of humans who tried to obtain knowledge far beyond their own and couldn't handle it. Not denying Lovecraft was racist (again, his CAT), among tons of other awful things (homophobic, nihilistic, hateful of technology and humans as a whole, deeply misanthropic, etc) but his work goes deeper than villains.

  • @baw285
    @baw2858 жыл бұрын

    this game is so deep with amazing lore ... good job as always

  • @buffoonustroglodytus4688

    @buffoonustroglodytus4688

    8 жыл бұрын

    Its sooooo fucking deep man. I fell into it but luckily I managed to avoid drowning (:

  • @baw285

    @baw285

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Sir Gus the Mighty i was'nt as lucky as you.. i'm totally absorbed by the game...

  • @MightGuy15

    @MightGuy15

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Sir Gus the Mighty pause

  • @terrythomas1248

    @terrythomas1248

    4 жыл бұрын

    @HicksZ34 you've finally found the Eldritch Truth, eh? 😊

  • @nathangarcia7936

    @nathangarcia7936

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@buffoonustroglodytus4688 wait till you discover dark souls

  • @dumbfish97
    @dumbfish978 жыл бұрын

    The cinematography, editing and writing on this particular video is ridiculously good! Honestly one of my favourite KZread videos

  • @Big_Dai

    @Big_Dai

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Bullet Bill Really? It felt silly at most.

  • @k4yser

    @k4yser

    8 жыл бұрын

    +DaiReds this videos purpose is to illustrate once more the connections between bloodbornes artistic style and h.p. lovecraft. the story he reads is btw from hp lovecraft and it is indeed very similar to the fishing village at the end of the dlc. its a homage

  • @dumbfish97

    @dumbfish97

    8 жыл бұрын

    DaiReds The amount of work to make this is outstanding, the way it's made is very high quality, including beautiful pans and the likes that just make you realise how good Bloodborne looks

  • @TheZ691

    @TheZ691

    8 жыл бұрын

    +DaiReds what

  • @joshuajackson4742
    @joshuajackson47425 жыл бұрын

    The whole game can be understood more by knowing about the Cthulhu Mythos.

  • @Er404ChannelNotFound
    @Er404ChannelNotFound8 жыл бұрын

    The incomprehensible speach at the end.. it's... I can't make out any word out of it...is that a Great One's voice? it's... AAAAAHHHHHGGGHHH *FRENZY*

  • @fungo

    @fungo

    8 жыл бұрын

    +FirstName LastName My impersonation of Zadok. But ya'll better be careful. Cuz, who-loo's gonna getchyu? Cthulhu's gonna getchyu. Cuzhulhu's gonna getchyu-loo. lol

  • @Er404ChannelNotFound

    @Er404ChannelNotFound

    8 жыл бұрын

    ***** Oh my god! Fungo replied to my comment! First the video, and now the reply! My day keeps getting better and better!

  • @fungo

    @fungo

    8 жыл бұрын

    +FirstName LastName Happy Holidays!!!

  • @Er404ChannelNotFound

    @Er404ChannelNotFound

    8 жыл бұрын

    ***** Merry Kosmas!

  • @rafaelbenjamindebelen9697

    @rafaelbenjamindebelen9697

    8 жыл бұрын

    +fungo This is a cool story bro, I read H.p. lovecraft novels too. You got all the parts of the story right in the shadow over innsmouth except the shoggoth but no prob because theres not much concern about the thing :) Still its a great video, now the story of the old hunters made sense now :)

  • @TheSnoozeFox
    @TheSnoozeFox8 жыл бұрын

    Man I'd love an entire game based on the theme and style of the fishing hamlet

  • @BlazePunisherTR

    @BlazePunisherTR

    2 жыл бұрын

    Your wish is granted, look for The Sinking City

  • @revuman
    @revuman8 жыл бұрын

    Well, I´ve just read the Shadow over Innsmouth, and made me realised just how magnificent this video really is. I already liked it before, but now it´s probably become one of my favorite Bloodborne videos at all. Good work.

  • @amandaon6527
    @amandaon65278 жыл бұрын

    In general, all of Yharnam is some adaptation of Shadow over Innsmouth. *SPOILER ALERT* --Deformed citizens (fish people > werewolves, mushroom heads, wendigos, fish people again) --Horrific reason for their transformation (making a deal with god-like beings > tainted blood and making deals with Great Ones) --Liaisons between eldritch gods and foolish, greedy humans (Captain Marsh > Byrgenwerth and the Healing Church) --Plot device in the form of some outsider who hates being there but kindly gives some information (that grocer kid > Gilbert, Alfred if you squint) --Other plot device who also hates being there but gives you even more information (that drunk dude > Djura, Eileen, Gehrman, etc.) --Heart pounding escape from that hellhole (the entire fucking game + Sunrise ending) --Surprise twist where you're actually an integral part of the problem (dude finds out he's gonna be another fish person, albeit fish royalty > Honoring Wishes + Childhood's Beginning) --Cults as far as the eye can see (Don't need to elaborate on this, right?) --Massive catastrophe that changes a lot of thing (those frogmen coming out of the ocean to fuck everyone's shit up and keep the sacrifices coming > Old Yharnam fire, though the government intervention at the end might fit better here, and the raid on the Fishing Hamlet) These are the ones I can think off the top of my head for the time being. With that being said, I'm gonna boot up my game again and go look for that underwater city holy fuck

  • @fungo

    @fungo

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Amanda On Yup. This time they decided to go all out and make Innsmouth.

  • @linearman0245

    @linearman0245

    8 жыл бұрын

    +fungo The Orphan of Kos arguably seems like a shoutout to the Dunwich Horror.

  • @LizardWizard444

    @LizardWizard444

    8 жыл бұрын

    +linearman0245 I don't know why but its body kinda reminds me of the great race of yith. but I'm probably off on that one

  • @linearman0245

    @linearman0245

    8 жыл бұрын

    Lizard Wizard The reason why I say Dunwich Horror is because the main monster was a human-eldritch abomination hybrid, just like the Orphan of Kos. Actually, the Pthumerians are the Great Race of Yith minus the body horror.

  • @LizardWizard444

    @LizardWizard444

    8 жыл бұрын

    linearman0245 ah yeah I see what you mean with that. but I only think thiere the grate race of yith because of the cone like body, body horror, possibly those apadeges that cover her face. But I don't think that kos is at all a hybirde. it may be full out greate one as its probably what gave the genes for all those mer maid things. (You can't have the great race of yith without the body horror) Actualy I think the Lurking Fear Might fit the Pthumerians. (Humanoid, under ground dwellers, Possibly canabalistic by the wendigo like apirence they have, and also vampires when you think about it are canabalistic)

  • @kesterfae5447
    @kesterfae54478 жыл бұрын

    Shoggoth was not a deity. They aren't even deserving of worship. They're programmable, globular organisms designed by the Elder Things through superior alien science. Shoggoths (plural) are but guard dogs which the Deep Ones likely had an allegiance with, and very likely controlled one. The Order of Dagon, as their title suggests, worships Dagon, and by extension, Hydra and Great Cthulhu. It is also suspected that the Innsmouth folk were disfigured through constant inbreeding, that's before their true nature is revealed. Lovecraft being particularly xenophobic, was not keen on mixed blood and impurity. The Innsmouth 'look', and monstrous half-breeds in a dilapidated sea-town speaks volumes about his insecurities.

  • @josh420masterB

    @josh420masterB

    4 жыл бұрын

    Lovecraft was definitely a mixed bag. His racism is indisputable, but he was more than that. His xenophobia ran to such an extent that even the poor and uneducated whites in America were deserving of his contempt, like the Shadow Over Innsmouth, The Dunwich Horror and The Picture in the House. He seemed to have particularly negative feelings towards the Dutch, as they're often depicted as degenerates in his writings, such as The Lurking Fear. Basically he despised anything that wasn't white, Anglo-Saxon protestant from an affluent and educated background. In other words, anything that wasn't him. And yet in spite of all of this, the only woman he ever married was a Jew. Go figure.

  • @colossaltitan3546

    @colossaltitan3546

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@josh420masterB I think Lovecraft was basically a white supremacist

  • @josh420masterB

    @josh420masterB

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@colossaltitan3546 ...m'kay. Are you adding something to what I wrote? Are you rebuking something I wrote? I have no idea what you expect me to do with what you've laid down outside of a conversational circle jerk where I say he's racist, you agree with me that he's racist and I congratulate you for agreeing with me that he's racist. That's not the conversation I'm interested in having.

  • @colossaltitan3546

    @colossaltitan3546

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@josh420masterB I'm just saying that that could've been a quicker way to put it, I mean sure, what you've said is correct. It's just that that's how I generally would describe him.

  • @Jefstito

    @Jefstito

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@josh420masterB I think calling a writer racist just because of the villains in their stories is a big stretch. That has most to do with the cultural issues at the time and the problems that happened around him. Its not conscious or ill intent. Is like saying Rockys director is racist against russians even though he came up with that movie on the midst of the Cold War. Having a jewish wife really debunks every accusation, since someone thats racist (meaning they hate and feel disgust for another race) would be completely unable to even entertain the notion of being with someone whose not of his own race. Stop using modern politics to explain the mindset of someone that lived decades ago. Its naive, superficial and dumb

  • @Mazetism
    @Mazetism8 жыл бұрын

    When the DLC was announced with no real info given while back, I wanted an Innsmouth dlc. Take place in a bloodbourne version of Innsmouth and BAM I got what I wanted. I always loved the Innsmouth story and Fishing Hamlet gave me it. I hope for another dlc, at least, over something else of Lovecraft. I wonder what story though. Also, Merry Christmas Fungo. Grant you eyes.

  • @neobutters

    @neobutters

    8 жыл бұрын

    don't hold your breath, FROM says that they are done with BB dlc.

  • @jacobstratton1140
    @jacobstratton11408 жыл бұрын

    I'm glad you make these. I enjoyed the game/DLC without understanding lore, but getting your perspective reveals what a masterpiece this game really is.

  • @mileswilliams4807
    @mileswilliams48074 жыл бұрын

    I know this is like 3 years old, but its damn good video. Been playing through Bloodborne again, and came across your channel. It's great!

  • @sugarjumper45
    @sugarjumper457 жыл бұрын

    actually Shoggoths don't control the underwater city, Dagon does.

  • @dylanvickers7953

    @dylanvickers7953

    7 жыл бұрын

    Shoggoths are more like beasts, Dagon is the Great Old One who actually is in power. It irked me when he got it wrong.

  • @isocitrate189

    @isocitrate189

    6 жыл бұрын

    Dagon isn’t a great old one in the original Lovecraft tales, it’s just the name of the story. The creature is a being of some ancient fish race, likely the spawn of an actual fish God, but certainly not a God itself. The story of Dagon was essentially an earlier draft of “The Call of Cthulhu”.

  • @shympek8627

    @shympek8627

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@isocitrate189 Some say, that the Dagon is actually how most of the people reffer to Cthulhu while not knowing his name, as Dagon is the most similiar god to Cthulhu. Maybe in case of Innsmouth, Dagon name was used instead of Cthulh instead of Cthulhu, because it was easier to spell, or simply the people who worshipped Cthulhu AKA Dagon before Innsmouth didn't told the name, or didn't knew it as well.

  • @myat5037
    @myat50377 жыл бұрын

    I actually decided to read The Shadow Over Innsmouth after watching this! It was awesome and I'm going to be reading more by Lovecraft. Thank you for the suggestion and the amazing videos, keep up the good work!

  • @Bodmanford
    @Bodmanford7 жыл бұрын

    The reason i bought Bloodborne was becasue my friend told me it was lovecraft inspired. and im a HUGE fan of lovecraft so i jumped on that game. needless to say, I WAS AMAZED AT FISHING HAMLET BECAUSE SHADOW OVER INNMOUTH IS MY FAVORITE LOVECRAFT STORY

  • @SteveIsMe1291
    @SteveIsMe12918 жыл бұрын

    These are great, I love your comparisons to Lovecraft and your analysis on how its themes are mirrored in BB. Keep up the great work :)

  • @bromora989
    @bromora9898 жыл бұрын

    Fungo, you should look back at the beggar, the beast embrace rune, the harrowed head, abhorrent beast! Beast embrace fur looks like the abhorrent beast, the beggar can be as human as he wants because he still remembers the rune, maybe he was a harrowed beast hunter and so he eventually became a beast, more specifically, a abhorrent beast! Look into it

  • @leviathanistaken

    @leviathanistaken

    8 жыл бұрын

    Thats easy , he's just a church hunter.

  • @VladTheImaplerX
    @VladTheImaplerX8 жыл бұрын

    Duuude I love this video, it was a pretty creative way to narrate the story. Keep up the great work.

  • @AbderrahmenBesbes
    @AbderrahmenBesbes7 жыл бұрын

    wow, this is just empressive, man, i'm speachless awesme work, this is trully a masterpiece

  • @aNightmaresRequiem
    @aNightmaresRequiem7 жыл бұрын

    You're channel is very good, I beat The Old Hunters recently, and immediately came to your channel and watched all the lore videos, which only deepened my love and fascination with this game. Thanks for all the cool lore vids and what not, you must put a ton of effort into these.

  • @Dustyb088
    @Dustyb0888 жыл бұрын

    I really enjoyed your interpretation of the Fishing Hamlet lore! This video was awesome.

  • @NestorTheMindSculptor
    @NestorTheMindSculptor8 жыл бұрын

    Fungo i love your videos to death. Especially the game reviews. Keep up the great work!!!

  • @VorakDestroyer
    @VorakDestroyer8 жыл бұрын

    This video is fantastic. Great job Fungo!

  • @alvinrinaldo9787
    @alvinrinaldo97878 жыл бұрын

    Does anyone think that the Orphan of Kos might actually be a Parody of the hunters? i mean it kind of makes sense, Fast agile movements and wide-spread area attacks similiar to fire arms and arcane magic, its weapon the placenta line with eyes actually kind of looks almost like a Hunter Weapon. Could it be that Kos birthed the Orphan to 'Hunt' and slaughter the Hunters by creating something similiar? It would actually kind of explain why they used the Cries of Gehrman for the Orphan in the first place.

  • @alvinrinaldo9787

    @alvinrinaldo9787

    8 жыл бұрын

    Perhaps Gehrman himself was involved in the violation of Fishing Hamlet and the Killing of Kos. Could he be the one that personally slaughtered Kos? Is that why the Orphans cries resembles his?

  • @LtHobo-uy9kn

    @LtHobo-uy9kn

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Alvin Rinaldo Perhaps Gehrman made sweet love to Kos before it was slaughtered and that's the way he got the Umbilical Cord that was in the workshop and why the Orphan sounds like Gehrman

  • @cheekysod69

    @cheekysod69

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Alvin Rinaldo What if it is a parody of Gehrman? The blade isthe burial blade. The wings are his cape. Gehrman personally took out the unformed yet child from Kos' womb. And how incomplete the child was, the same way the image of Gehrman is incomplete. Why Gehrman? Well, you know, if you are a newly born child and the first thing you see is a hunter that killed your mother and gave you to Byrgenwerth scholars who made sinister experiments on you. So with the powers of the Great One you create a Nightmare for your offenders. That's why Orphan of Kos in Nightmare is unformed Gehrman, but with all the powers of the Great One.

  • @alvinrinaldo9787

    @alvinrinaldo9787

    8 жыл бұрын

    One Cheeky Sod OH! Yeah! That would be VERY interesting indeed!

  • @alvinrinaldo9787

    @alvinrinaldo9787

    8 жыл бұрын

    +One Cheeky Sod When you think about it, It would explain almost PERFECTLY why theres an Umbilical Cord INSIDE the Old Hunters Workshop!

  • @RM-uj5hp
    @RM-uj5hp8 жыл бұрын

    Great take on the lore, we really needed someone with the Lovecraft knowledge to delve into these secrets.

  • @K3D91
    @K3D918 жыл бұрын

    dude...good job on the editing and everything! quality content!

  • @CadePDrumstiX18
    @CadePDrumstiX184 жыл бұрын

    I know I am late but the newest discovery of this comparison between the DLC and Lovecrafts work is beautiful. Bloodborne is such an amazingly crafted game and I thank you for sharing this knowledge with me.

  • @Vosk21
    @Vosk218 жыл бұрын

    i instantly made the connection of fishing hamlet to shadow over innsmouth. nice catch dude!

  • @caseyevans5519
    @caseyevans55198 жыл бұрын

    The craftsmanship in this video is off the charts. Absolutely awesome!!

  • @zachschimmel1599
    @zachschimmel15998 жыл бұрын

    this video has been VERY well presented. Especially at the first half where you demonstrated the synopsis of the story with visual clues and similarities between the book and the game's setting. Kinda like yer saying "See the similarities?" without saying it.

  • @TheSharpmarksman
    @TheSharpmarksman8 жыл бұрын

    amazing work fungo, you should continue to do more lovecraft comperison

  • @vebazzo21
    @vebazzo218 жыл бұрын

    Excellent video! I became a patron. Keep up the good work!

  • @LIVEFREEDIEHARD89
    @LIVEFREEDIEHARD898 жыл бұрын

    Very well done fungo! keep them coming love HP :)

  • @synaestheticstudios
    @synaestheticstudios5 жыл бұрын

    Excellent video :) double props for the Silent Hill soundtrack I heard in there!

  • @leonamongwolves
    @leonamongwolves8 жыл бұрын

    I'm only 1:50 in but this video is epic. Good effort on this format and narrative.

  • @jamesguzman91
    @jamesguzman918 жыл бұрын

    awesome video as always, keep them coming please!

  • @aledg25
    @aledg258 жыл бұрын

    New theory: The snail-mermaid women creatures that somewhat resemble Kos are minions of Kos herself, that were all fished out perhaps intentionally, along with those little slugs. It would explain why there are some of them caught within the nets. This lead to the discovery of Kos, as well as an agreement to cross-breeding in exchange for knowledge. The fishermen and kin mate, creating advanced hybrids, while also slowly taking on the forms of fish-frog creatures. Either that, or the tide rolled in through the caverns and into the netting grounds, bringing in heaps of slugs and snails. I predict this because the nets themselves appear to be pinned onto the walls, so it's likely that the slugs and snail women came to them. OR the folk of the hamlet would sacrifice humans to the minions or Kos herself,casting their bodies out to sea on drifting rafts, in trade for slugs that I Imagine would serve as oil to lamps? You can find some of them acting as candles, suggesting they're flammable.

  • @slightlytwistedagain
    @slightlytwistedagain8 жыл бұрын

    Beautifully done.

  • @Makeshift1999
    @Makeshift19998 жыл бұрын

    Great video Fungo! :D

  • @samangra1008
    @samangra10084 жыл бұрын

    When I first stumbled upon your channel I thought this is not gonna be worth my while.. but boi oh BOI was I wrong.. Bottom line is that i love your content now. Keep it up brother

  • @WhiteLongSword7
    @WhiteLongSword78 жыл бұрын

    Great story telling with that nicely edited vid. =D

  • @Sergei_Ivanovich_Mosin
    @Sergei_Ivanovich_Mosin8 жыл бұрын

    The city in the Sea is actually Yharnam, we know this for a fact because when we go to get the whirligig saw one of the snail women falls from the sky. This is because, ultimately, the cosmos is a "sea" that connects dreams and "reality," ever wonder why there were boats in the nightmare frontier? "A bottomless curse, a bottomless sea. SOURCE of all greatness, ALL THINGS THAT BE"

  • @yoshi9538

    @yoshi9538

    6 жыл бұрын

    Sergei Ivanovich Mosin the sky and cosmos are one, The Choir

  • @philippeduarte7475
    @philippeduarte74758 жыл бұрын

    Nice work dude.

  • @VisionoftheChief
    @VisionoftheChief8 жыл бұрын

    This has to be one of the best Bloodborne lore videos I've ever seen, not even joking.

  • @patrickgermain2507
    @patrickgermain25078 жыл бұрын

    Really awesome. Two things to note are in the nightmare that city under water is yharnam, and from what I remember the two nightmares and school also above. (remember you can see the ship wrecks from the nightmares so they may be above.) I read some lore about it but I don't remember precisely how it all worked... Great video!

  • @darnact
    @darnact8 жыл бұрын

    It's beginning to look alot like Fishmen

  • @volcomnukka
    @volcomnukka8 жыл бұрын

    Amazing video! Love the end lol

  • @Gamersvids23
    @Gamersvids238 жыл бұрын

    Im pretty sure that city at the bottom of the sea is the hunters nightmare, seeing how the fishing hamlet is above the nightmare.

  • @kirkenstiensmonster6522

    @kirkenstiensmonster6522

    6 жыл бұрын

    Madest man Thank you for commenting this... The snail chick that falls from the sky when your heading toward Ludwig? Yeah, when I saw the city in the water I had no doubt that it was Yharnam.

  • @Jefstito

    @Jefstito

    3 жыл бұрын

    Exactly! Although Fungo meant more that the fact that the hunters nightmare is placed as it is is because the inspiration derived from the Innsmouth story. I dont think he meant that the city under water is the home of Mother Kos

  • @bluemerc12
    @bluemerc127 жыл бұрын

    I thought the brain of mensis was a shoggoth as described by H.P. Lovecraft: It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway train-a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and un-forming as pustules of greenish light all over the tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us, crushing the frantic penguins and slithering over the glistening floor that it and its kind had swept so evilly free of all litter. - H. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness it pules with light, has eyes (bubbles), and causes frenzy (madness). i took Kos for a From Software design or possible mother hydra.

  • @MrLukhut1
    @MrLukhut18 жыл бұрын

    Great Video! I love the videos where you compare Lovecraft inspiration with Bloodbornes areas. FromSoft knows what theyre doing, almost setting the game in Lovecrafts universe. Almost like it is, just not tied into the other great ones mentioned by Lovecraft. Really cool.

  • @chavamara
    @chavamara8 жыл бұрын

    Okay, now you HAVE to do an actual reading of Shadow Over Innsmouth while acting it out with Bloodborne! Because this is just too good! :P

  • @kaanebhaal
    @kaanebhaal8 жыл бұрын

    fantastic work, ty.

  • @112rapture
    @112rapture7 жыл бұрын

    Great video!

  • @EpicStreamMan
    @EpicStreamMan8 жыл бұрын

    awesome way of looking at this....thank you for putting this together....love the ending hehe ;c)

  • @CosmicApe94
    @CosmicApe948 жыл бұрын

    God I love Bloodborne

  • @victorkhor9159
    @victorkhor91598 жыл бұрын

    +fungo , cool fungo ,please do more bloodborne lore

  • @edch7516
    @edch75168 жыл бұрын

    brilliant video!!!

  • @dustinf26
    @dustinf268 жыл бұрын

    Great video - thanks!

  • @expertGH3
    @expertGH38 жыл бұрын

    Man i'd rather wait a month for another video like that ! so goood ! the music was awesome and the story was just wooow ! and that epicnamebro part hahahahaha

  • @kekgot
    @kekgot7 жыл бұрын

    Your videos are amazing

  • @revuman
    @revuman8 жыл бұрын

    that was awesome. And i really apreciate that you didnt talk about the last chapter. I got a Lovecraft compilation after playing bloodborne, and still havent read all of it.

  • @JacStance

    @JacStance

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Angel Revuelta I'm seriously contemplating doing the same thing. I have never read any Lovecraft, but after playing Bloodborne my curiosity was peaked. I saw a compilation of his works the other day at the store and almost bought it.

  • @revuman

    @revuman

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Jac the Sipper I gota huge compilation, its cool, but too big and really uncomfortable to read. Thats why i still havent read it whole. Before Bloodborne i only read some short stories and i like em, but not related to the game though.

  • @JacStance

    @JacStance

    8 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, that's my main turn off. I know the stories are really interesting from reading summaries and whatnot, but they're so old that it's almost like reading the bible or something. I'll get around to it eventually.

  • @revuman

    @revuman

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Jac the Sipper Well, I already read it and i really recomend it to you. First you should read The call of the Chullu (wich is more related to Bloodborne in general) and second The shadow over Innsmouth (wich is this video) The second one makes some reference to the first so thats why i recommend that order. Then, the ending of this video goes beyond what I´ve read, so i still dont know about that.

  • @lordfallen1455
    @lordfallen14558 жыл бұрын

    Uzumaki from Itou Junji also has an effect in this area.Especially the snail women. Great lore video!

  • @Dylan_McCombe
    @Dylan_McCombe7 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for making this Fungo. I think everything starts with Willem, Maria's & Gherman's sins at the Fishing Hamlet.

  • @danieldd1804
    @danieldd18045 жыл бұрын

    Now I really want to read The Shadow Over Innismouth

  • @daveKoRnfan
    @daveKoRnfan8 жыл бұрын

    Wow this is your best Bloodborne video yet :)

  • @abodim5944
    @abodim59448 жыл бұрын

    nice .. keep up the good work 👍🏽

  • @inebriationconversation4526
    @inebriationconversation45266 жыл бұрын

    This is prime storytelling good job

  • @TommasoFirmini
    @TommasoFirmini6 жыл бұрын

    This game made me go and buy the H.P. Lovecraft books and i was not disappointed. I love how Miyazaki recreated so much of his stories into a souls formula, will always be one of the greatest games of all time. Ive beat bloodborne in its entirety so many times every inch of the game is amazing to me

  • @sgamer-xc1bd
    @sgamer-xc1bd8 жыл бұрын

    Interesting new way of presenting lore, and really well edited video. Have you played Call of C'thulu: Dark Corners of the Earth? It recreates that Shadow Over Innsmouth intro beautifully, one of the best openings for a horror game. A review (or some other video on it) would be cool once you get bored with Bloodborne :) Btw, I don't want to be that guy, but I think Innsmouth is pronounced more like "Innsmuth" (like Plymouth) than "Inns-mouth"

  • @mcmays22
    @mcmays222 жыл бұрын

    Great video

  • @edouardchan9445
    @edouardchan94458 жыл бұрын

    I Love Craft

  • @michael1stay251
    @michael1stay2518 жыл бұрын

    Wow the last arc of Berserk's manga (starts with "elf island") is very similar to that story, Miura must have been inspired by that story from Lovecraft. Good video ;)

  • @jb2einziger
    @jb2einziger7 жыл бұрын

    amazing video, I'm a huge Lovecraft fan, ive always understood there was a huge influence from Lovecraft on Bloodborne, but i never had the skill or patience to see the game through, all these lore videos really make me want to play the game fully. do you have a favourite Lovecraft story Fungo ?

  • @Dikastes
    @Dikastes8 жыл бұрын

    There is no god called "Shoggoth" in Lovecraft's work or even in Shadow over Innsmouth. Shoggoths are a race of slave creatures, and "Father" Dagon is the god that the people of Innsmouth worship.

  • @kuwashi
    @kuwashi8 жыл бұрын

    the sunken city at the hamlet is the dream level of yharnam in the dlc. on the way to pick up the saw, one of those fish creatures fall from above and dies.

  • @smartmouthriveria
    @smartmouthriveria8 жыл бұрын

    the best commentary on bloodborne! keep it up, and i believe ur theory on the doll is true!

  • @fungo

    @fungo

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Donny Smith ! Thanks, I worked tirelessly on this video for a week building up a character to be strong enough to get through the DLC and beat Kos and the game, clearing out areas to record, writing and researching Lovecraft books and lore, finding artist interpretations, pronunciations, making rewrites, and editing including going through and inserting relevant horror SFX and music for added effect. I am very pleased with how it turned out.

  • @CorazonLaw1

    @CorazonLaw1

    8 жыл бұрын

    +fungo wow very impressive man.. keep up the great work! you're an inspiration to work harder and harder everyday

  • @cronnoponno

    @cronnoponno

    8 жыл бұрын

    +fungo I was going to ask because no immediate comments seem to have answers and I don't think your description does, can you give off the names of the specific songs you used? They sounded really nice but I just can't put my finger on what they actually are.

  • @wanderingfist
    @wanderingfist8 жыл бұрын

    This is fantastic.

  • @jasperspearl2768
    @jasperspearl27687 жыл бұрын

    I read this book for my college English class. The ending has quite a surprising twist. :)

  • @lightningdolt971
    @lightningdolt9717 жыл бұрын

    this made me so happy.

  • @Swatyo
    @Swatyo7 жыл бұрын

    Just read the shadow over innsmouth and before played bloodborne, talk about two awesome experiences.

  • @gabrielsilverwolf
    @gabrielsilverwolf8 жыл бұрын

    Really, really lovely video, Fungo, but I have a few small corrections to make regarding Lovecraftian lore... *adjusts glasses* in the Shadow Over Innsmouth, the deity the locals (and even the Deep Ones, the fish-frog people) worshiped was Dagon, hence the Order of Dagon. The same creature, a giant being that resembles the Deep Ones, originated in Lovecraft's short story that bears its name, a story that was the prototype for Call of Cthulhu. Meanwhile, shoggoths are a type of creature in the Lovecraft mythos, not a single entity, and are monstrous, amorphous masses of protoplasm created to be servants by a long-extinct race and later escaped their controlled and annihilated what remained of their former masters. The inference from Zadok's talk of a shoggoth is that the Deep Ones have one or more either in their ranks or at their disposal, and that they are part of their machinations for any potential takeover of the surface world. Sorry for the rant, I just had to get that off my chest.

  • @TheDweller77
    @TheDweller775 жыл бұрын

    "That haint even the wust of it-- Yew ever heered of a Shoggoth?"

  • @Slippin-krimmy
    @Slippin-krimmy8 жыл бұрын

    the place under the water is actually said to be yharnam and thats why in the beginning of the dlc one of the slug like creatures in the hamlet drops down onto you in nightmare cathedral ward (which is in yharnan)

  • @jadak100
    @jadak1008 жыл бұрын

    nice vídeo fungió!, btw cloud you please do a vídeo about all the similarities between blodborne and hp Lovecraft novels? I know there are already vídeos about it bit I'd love to hear your opinion in the matter

  • @jadak100

    @jadak100

    8 жыл бұрын

    *fungo , sorry for that...freaking auto corrector

  • @TheLucasblanes
    @TheLucasblanes8 жыл бұрын

    Hey, Fungo! The sun in the DLC, don't you think it reminds the eye from the item Eye of a Blood-Drunk Hunter? Like, you're inside of it? I don't know if it means anything, but eyes seem to be a very important subject in Bloodborne lore.

  • @HaveButOneLife
    @HaveButOneLife8 жыл бұрын

    I need my hands on that damn guide.

  • @paulwilmont2116
    @paulwilmont21168 жыл бұрын

    fungo what is that guide at the end and where can I get it is it published by from software?

  • @bottlemanic
    @bottlemanic8 жыл бұрын

    Ah sorry couldn't watch it as I'm currently going through love crafts work. Will definitely watch after I read shadow over innsmouth though :)

  • @Vini-zv3lr
    @Vini-zv3lr8 жыл бұрын

    Damn , this makes me wanna read some Lovecraft.

  • @Krieklow
    @Krieklow7 жыл бұрын

    You were wrong on one detail but it's a pretty important one. The innsfolk worshiped Dagon, hence "The Esoteric Order of Dagon". The shoggoths are basically mindless, shapeshifting beasts and there are more than one. Also, I'm pretty sure the underwater city is supposed to be Yarnham/The Hunters Nightmare considering you are right above it.

  • @personaenjoyeronly3457
    @personaenjoyeronly34572 жыл бұрын

    This is strangely my favourite area in Bloodborne, I love the atmosphere

  • @Inuzumi
    @Inuzumi4 жыл бұрын

    There's also that game, Call of Chtulu - Dark Corners of the Earth, that represents in a clunky and buggy but functional way the town of the book.

  • @sananaryon4061
    @sananaryon40616 жыл бұрын

    There is something intriguing about the cursed fishing town aesthetic.

  • @deevesh
    @deevesh8 жыл бұрын

    The story you mentioned sounds very much like the story of game call of cthulhu: dark corners of the earth!

  • @GreedAndSelfishness
    @GreedAndSelfishness8 жыл бұрын

    Love dem Silent hill 3 sound effects.

  • @ButcheredMouse
    @ButcheredMouse7 жыл бұрын

    I wish you'd do a Loveecraft and Bloodborne comparison video.

  • @retnuHDJ
    @retnuHDJ8 жыл бұрын

    Where are you getting that the people in Innsmouth were worshipping a Shoggoth? That's never suggested in the story.

  • @GeneralTantzu

    @GeneralTantzu

    8 жыл бұрын

    +retnuHDJ Thay I was wondering why he said that, too. Innsmouth worships Dagon, lord of the deep ones. Shoggoths where slave race created by Elder Things.

  • @retnuHDJ

    @retnuHDJ

    8 жыл бұрын

    GeneralTantzu Exactly! You can even just look up Shoggoths on wikipedia and see that.

  • @Battleschnodder

    @Battleschnodder

    8 жыл бұрын

    +retnuHDJ he is REALLY bad with lovecraft. In another video he talked about 'Cthullus' plural, because star spawn is basically the same as the elder god, right?

  • @GeneralTantzu

    @GeneralTantzu

    8 жыл бұрын

    Battleschnodder Aren't Star Spawn Of Cthulhu the species that Cthulhu belongs to? He is their hight priest.

  • @Battleschnodder

    @Battleschnodder

    8 жыл бұрын

    GeneralTantzu Cthulhu isn't their high priest, he's their god - he is a great old one. Their relationship has never been made exactly clear, but it's probably very similar to the relation between Dagon and the Deep Ones. What is certain though is that Cthulhu, being a Great Old One is a power completely beyond our comprehension (although clearly able to be hurt) as opposed to the Star Spawn that seem to be just as irrelevant in their status of the universe as humans.

  • @Olygrom
    @Olygrom8 жыл бұрын

    The cutscene where the character wakes up by that well and looks up toward, presumably, yharnam, when does that occur in-game? Cause I can't recall seeing it

  • @VisionoftheChief

    @VisionoftheChief

    8 жыл бұрын

    It's the ending where you accept Gherman's offer.

  • @basketbomberslackingson4417
    @basketbomberslackingson44176 жыл бұрын

    To know this was a spooky story and not a pure blood borne story, kinda makes sleeping right now a liiiil rough

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