- Merchant sells a clip-on lantern (hello Demon's Souls augite).
- Yharnam spends the game in the grip of a perpetual night...that can only be brought to an end by the player finding and finishing off the source of the scourge of beasts." (this could be referring short term like...defeat a major boss, get some daytime, or overall, I guess)
- Description on the first shield they found: Shields are nice, but not if they engender passivity.
- Some enemies in the game can use spells
- Confirmed Bloodtinge stat governs bullet damage
- Transforming strikes and their follow-up attacks give you a way of reaching enemies that in other Souls games might be out of reach because they were pushed back by your earlier attacks - they say stamina management is a more diverse process in Bloodborne than in the earlier games
- Clothes found in the world or from a merchant whose catalog expands when you defeat bosses
- Bloodstone shards = titanite, coldblood = portable souls, most common items are blood vials (healing) and quicksilver bullets, but stocks can grow low later in the game
- Surplus items are automatically sent to a storage box, and if you die your items are replenished from the box automatically
- They say your starting stats are dictated by the trick weapon you choose, which runs counter to the origins shown in the character creator...
- Only found 6 or so weapons and 6 or so guns in 40 hours
- Very few chests, almost all have something good inside
- Enemies only drop upgrade mats and items
- Bloodgems are an upgrade item that allows you to change the attributes of a weapon, ex. increasing physical attack power, adding poison damage, or increasing scaling - all the weapons in the game are customizable with bloodgems
- Did not beat the game but they feel like it is less replayable than its predecessors (this does not count the Chalice Dungeon or multiplayer components)
- You can keep up to 5 dungeon configurations in your Chalice Dungeon stock
- Lantern checkpoints are not "overabundant" like the bonfires of Dark Souls II, you open shortcuts rather than getting new bonfires (ala Demon's Souls), interconnectivity approaches Firelink Shrine type numbers of access and departure points in a few places
- "Discrete areas flow together to create a believable world" - separating the hub from the main gameworld allows the world itself to be more coherent
- Torch may be very important for newcomers/first playthroughs
- There is a new mechanic they are not allowed to discuss
