This Is Not a Bloodborne Kart Racer

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[@Michael_Lindell]

The British call him 'Father Petrolcoigne'...

[@JWest8606]

Or 'Gazza'.

[@chriswest6988]

In Australia he'll soon be Father Guzzoloigne

[@TevorTheThird]

I'll give the Sony people some credit here. This is still so obviously and blatantly Bloodborne but it seems they were satisfied just so long as the most blatant and obvious details were sanded off. Certain other companies would have just shut them down entirely. Here? There's a real sense of "Hey, just make an effort to hide it so we have a plausible excuse not to come after it." That's more chill then a company the size of Sony needs to be honestly. I mean the Cleric Beast still jumps in a screams. It's still Bloodborne.

[@Eldiran1]

Yeah it's not nintendo or disney level of controls but the game is free. Also most japanese company (except nintendo) are more chill on these thing than the western company. Look how work the doujinshi industry, they basicaly made fanfiction and sell it (sometime with porn in it) and nearly noone do a thing against it.

[@MinniMaster]

The dream watchers want to make it perfectly clear that the city of Miralodia is in no way connected or related to the city of Yharnam whatsoever

[@psyraven76]

And they need you to sign this contract to acknowledge that you fully agree with this... (Don't read the small print, though.)

[@AndyD773]

Race Sunshine rides again!

[@reydecangrejos7087]

Brilliant comment 😂😂

[@AndyD773]

@@reydecangrejos7087 haha thanks 😅

[@melvinkachere8782]

This comment deserves to be pinned

[@gothmissstress]

"Peculiar legally distinct characters"😂😂😂

[@commodoremorgan]

Father Gregory doing an Akira slide... chef's kiss

[@aidanvandeveer2926]

Literally the coolest thing ever.

[@Patrick-Phelan]

Scrolling down without watching the rest of this video for yes. But I suppose it wasn't unexpected. If you're on a motorcycle, and you're in media, you have to Akira slide. I think it's international law.

[@springer1786]

"The minigun is new, to be fair" What are you talking about Luke? It's all new! In a legally distinct way!

[@ParadisiacalDreams]

It’s like they made this game specifically for Good Hunter Luke

[@Wombatypvs]

No, because there's no bolt paper!

[@tmmw1975]

Definitely-Not-Micolash howling as they drove around was killing me.

[@blarg2429]

If you look closer at his character model he's wearing a bird cage with a little bird inside that sits on his head. He doesn't even have a cart, he just runs. Favorite character design in the game.

[@tmmw1975]

@@blarg2429 haha amazing!

[@CraigJudd]

"No-one can stop us, no-one can catch us now!"

[@blarg2429]

@@CraigJudd The original's dialogue works really well for a racing game lol. "But alas, not too fast."

[@thundercookie3214]

"It's hard?!" - To be fair, the difficulty spike was expected considering what inspired it.

[@MizzNox]

the girl who made this game is my idol ♥

[@alexanderhansen659]

Literally my first thought when I learned about this game was “tell Luke.”

[@Maritimeglover]

The unofficial branding makes it even funnier tbh 😂 also obsessed with parts of the Cleric beast soundtrack playing under the kart music, amazing stuff!

[@Michael_Lindell]

From-ula 1; go for the Soft tires.

[@thequadglaser1983]

Please finish the campaign sometime in the future, I wanna see your reaction to a certain cage headed character!

[@holyrod2001]

Now this is what I call Pod Racing!

[@thejason755]

Running down the birds must have been so therapeutic for you

[@caalmodeoc]

I'm proud to present to you: Luke, the videogame

[@nathancarter8239]

I love this fun and [LEGALLY DISTINCT] kart racing game! In all seriousness, though, it's really interesting to see that this game, which has a color palette of brown, gray and black, is visually clear and easy to follow when racing. Also it's fun that Gianni Matragrano is in this game, I always love his voice.

[@UwUnotewew]

Luke that was clearly the Priest Beast that jumped onto the track 😂

[@Patrick-Phelan]

I don't actually like demakes, as a product (as a concept I'm all for them), but this is a lovely game, by the looks. I really like the health-bar and enemies-on-track concepts that make the weapons so much more of a thing. And, as you say, gorgeous music. Also, while publishers are not our friends and should probably be overthrown, I do think Sony was pretty cool with the "if you strip off the serial numbers we'll say no more about it" whereas we know Nintendo would have said "we expect your head by registered post this time tomorrow".

[@kylekain5241]

When he hit his own mine in the clocktower was the best bit for me.

[@alexharrison2743]

It was like watching my own Mario Kart footage

[@Finzombie]

This is the dark souls of cart racers

[@torgranael]

Kart Souls

[@notdancooper923]

But whatever it is it's definitely not the Bloodbourne of cart racers

[@Monkeyzforever]

I really appreciate that this game doesn't have really annoying rubber banding. You're allowed to have a big lead. Also the fact that there are health mechanics is pretty unique and the boss fight was such a fun idea. This is just a great kart racer generally, and then you add the fun off brand Bloodborne stuff and it gets even more fun 😃

[@necroscar268]

I understand not wanting to play too much of the campaign, after all "A course should be left well alone"

[@Psysium]

This is incredible! A mashup I never knew I needed. I really love when two very disparate pieces of media are combined and the outcome is absolutely shining. What a gift!

[@mediarare2386]

Sorry must have got into the wrong nightmare. This is a fever dream on shrooms.

[@JoelDuffman]

Love that the countdown lights are flying eyeball lanterns. Great touch😸

[@ulrickai]

Somehow Luke always seems to make an upload when I've had a particularly rough day and the content he puts out always makes me laugh with joy. Thanks you for your amazing work~

[@CaitlinRC]

The fact you can be Micolash and just sprint after all these eldritch go karts, is peak content

[@weasel_in_a_tophat]

Somehow all the characters now being legally distinct variants just makes it better

[@mar_speedman]

"It's hard?! Don't be hard!" Yeah! Luke didn't play the entirety of Bloodborne only to re-experience all that difficulty in kart racer form!

[@MikesPortugal-zm4oy]

I knew it was a matter of time until this happened, lovely Edit: OK this is the game to have Mike doing a feature on the channel

[@SpoonOfDoom]

Look, Sony. Either give us Bloodborne Remaster and/or PC version (or any other Bloodborne content tbh), or give the rights to LWMedia. You're just sitting on the IP anyway. Do it, you cowards!

[@SolaScientia]

They remembered the game just enough to do a copyright complaint, but they can't be bothered to do a PC port or even just a 60fps patch. I keep hoping for something for the 10th anniversary next year, but I'm being realistic about it.

[@Joe90h]

I suspect the game is built in such a way that Sony would need to get FromSoftware back in to touch it up and port it to PC, and those guys are way too expensive now. So most likely, Sony would just get Bluepoint to do to Bloodborne what they did to Demon's Souls.

[@SolaScientia]

@@Joe90h I wouldn't entirely say no to that, but I don't think Bloodborne needs a remake like that. I played it for the first time in 2020 on my PS5 and the PS5 does help a lot with framerate drops. I never had any major issues beyond certain areas (mainly in the Lecture Hall where I'd farm the slime scholars; game didn't like it when they crowded together). It still holds up just fine in terms of graphics and all. I never played the original Demon's Souls, so the BluePoint remake didn't bother like I know it bothered others. BluePoint definitely doesn't need to touch the music or anything.

[@Amaranthyne]

Upvote

[@Jraice]

Luke, i started Bloodborne after watching your playthrough and i learned many things. 1:bolt paper, ugh 2:ludwigs holy blade, lol 3:already dead Keep up the good work you've been doing! 👍

[@eleanorsmith7152]

‘Why is this hard!?!’ I know right! It’s not like it’s in any way connected to Darksouls!

[@OverlordMMM]

You play Nightmare Kart because you like Bloodborne and Kart Racing. *adjusts tie* I play Nightmare Kart because of Bunlith OC. We are not the same.

[@aeloswindrunner]

The vibes are spot on for this

[@frodobaggins7710]

This makes me think a lot of Crash Team Racing, especially with the bosses getting an intro cutscene before you race them. And the fight against Gascoi- I mean, Gregory felt very Twisted Metal as well

[@TheRivieraKid]

Even in Kart racer guise, Father Gas Coin remains a bugger to fight.

[@ClawestBoss]

08:25 "The Leric Bleast" brilliant :D

[@Ziggy203]

I'm watching this, instead of the Tories getting royally fluffed... That's how dedicated I am! 😅

[@TrafficJamByCam]

The thing that made me laugh the hardest about this whole project is Micolash. His intro cutscene and his “kart” was unexpected.

[@bast713]

This genuinely looks like fun. I caught myself leaning as you were driving around the track like I did when playing video games as a kid 😅. I'm HORRIBLE at driving games, but I will look this up.

[@lizzywolcott98]

I was wondering if we’d get to see you play this! It’s sooo up your alley (pun intended) that it’s like it was tailor-made for you!

[@MrFutago87]

Cars or some say Karts.

[@sebastianwlodarczyk]

I was not expecting that level of polish from sort of a "joke" game- that's really impressive:) Love the soundtrack!

[@charliethemagpie523]

I love this game so much! I just recently beat Not-The-Moon-Presence, it was amazing.

[@dallydaydream]

"Did you expect it to end like this?" "....the minigun is a surprise"

[@philmc3]

Ah, you were in my lane all along. My true roadsign. My guiding streetlight.

[@greenhowie]

Weird how little attention this is getting. It's a free splitscreen combat racer on PC, those are practically nonexistent.

[@fett01]

Feckin bords

[@RainbowTheSnail]

You should play Still Wakes The Deep🌊

[@green_dragon_knight]

As much as I love the Bloodborne theme I would have loved if the racers were 7 Bloodborne characters plus Diddy Kong or Waluigi randomly

[@MINTY_FN]

"Beast of a clerical variety"? Like some kinda Beast Priest?

[@AquaMaryn.]

Would love to see a continuation of the campaign. :>

[@pandacidalmaniac2439]

When sekiro is done, maybe a Bloodborn playthrough?

[@DrBrangar]

Rather than the cleric beast, the priest beast.

[@RainbowTheSnail]

You should play In Sound Mind🌸💗🌸

[@Danomight86]

That vs mode reminds me of Twisted Metal.

[@SolaScientia]

This is the first I've seen of it since the rebranding (thanks, Sony, for showing interest in Bloodborne only in terms of copyright infringement). I love that I could pick out bits of Lullaby for Mergo in the second race. "The minigun is new, to be fair." Is the best line. Given how difficult that actual fight is, I think we'd have collectively lost it if he was a werewolf and still had a gun of any sort. That one scream near the end of the Clocktower course was definitely Micolash. I've had the biggest, stupidest grin on my face the entire time watching this. I want to play it so badly, but I'm pretty sure my laptop can't handle it since it gets unhappily hot even with just basic stuff at this point.

[@abydosianchulac2]

But no really, the level designs are fantastic. There are so many (potentially) recognizable aspects that (hypothetically) evoke the (general) experience of playing certain areas (of a stock game of some kind), but are reworked perfectly for the style (of a legally distinct racer game).

[@jennasloan396]

Man, this new Pole Position clone game looks so different

[@bigbobelow6147]

Classic, deserves a remake. I remember the priest being called Father Fastcoin

[@matwetton]

I get Gregory is a bit like gascgoine but the pun lover in me wishes they called him father paul

[@emeraldqueen904]

19:21 That’s Legally Distinct Lady Maria!

[@adriankerrison]

Different game, I know, but "Thou art unfit even to DRAFT"

[@brnman7383]

Onette doesn't seem very animated, tbh

[@chavamara]

Is Father Gascoine... wearing a pompadour???

[@quelanathecrow]

yay!!! this was everything I could've hoped for lol ^.^

[@MrMessyy]

Congrats on reaching 40K subscribers! 🎉

[@bdo7765]

"I wonder what happens if my health runs out." - Luke Westaway, professional games journalist

[@oohmeshreddies]

Luke you should release 1 episode of sekiro to show none patreons what they are missing.

[@acomingextinction]

clicked for the intriguing title, stayed for the Sub Pop tee.

[@windofhorus666]

credit to WhenI'm64Bits for the brilliant comment i heard of " i hear you are a Go Kart now Father? GOOD FOR YOU!!!

[@nutherefurlong]

Age of unaffiliated gothic horror games began with this, and apparently there's a big Elden Ring mod out now that channels BB aesthetics, too

[@juuy2223]

Father Gregory's short blonde hair and silver outfit makes him look like Seifer from FF8

[@DaveTheScwede]

Man, this is extremely good! Gotta love when someone just really follows through with a silly idea :D

[@mattball8622]

For something that was ostensibly a joke they had no right to go this hard with it, but I'm glad they did. Right with you on the music and course design, they're both excellent.

[@barbararowley6077]

I saw Ian play this and thought “I bet Luke is loving playing this”!

[@jmayo344]

Such a great video, loving the mix of souls, racing and video essays I didn't know I needed! Heard about the game through the noclip doc and how it started as an April fools joke whilst they 'demade' the ps1 bloodborne is so good.

[@ChaoSJino]

Is it just me, or does the killer OST give off Castlevania vibes? :D

[@SecondSince]

Totally original and legally distinct Herman!

[@mattew0113]

I think that the wheel in the last race was actualy inspired by logarius' wheel from an unrelated game that I definately know nothing about and is in no way related to this game

[@jedfromyourlocallibrary]

Would love to see more of you playing this game, Luke!

[@TigerofRobare]

But can you play against other people?

[@עומרשרייבר-ל4ר]

Sony might have killed the concpet, but not the idea behind it,

[@mclarge90]

This kinda thing would be good for like a Luigi Kart series

[@sywrexile3078]

This is crazy, wild and perfect in all the best possible ways!

[@Icam_here]

looks like they have done a great job at making this place called not bloodborne

[@nickcennamo-smith1854]

Beware of bird!!

[@puffpuffadder]

"Bleric Bleast" had me rolling 🤣

[@JohnnyAlysson]

Man this seems so great from software is missing an opportunity here

[@PatGunn]

Would be cute if this were a race to deliver replacement estrus flasks to bonfires

[@Amaranthyne]

Autocorrect made it less cute. Pretty sure “estus” doesn’t have an “r”.

[@nightmarethrenody8232]

Estrus flasks are the Dark Souls od HRT

[@Safiyahalishah]

@@Amaranthyne Yet somehow very appropriate for Bloodborne.

[@Amaranthyne]

@@Safiyahalishah Oof! Fair point.

[@rickimaru915]

Can you unlock the boss characters to play as?

[@Dexandtaxes]

I'd love to watch s full let's play 😂

[@_Shadoh_]

Cool, I've seen another channel doing this in multiplayer, looks like lots of fun!

[@alexv1154]

13:44 the Akira Slide slayed me

[@JayPeaFenn]

but skeleton was (in a) dead (heat)

[@mortua_conjuga]

christ this is so dang good!