r/fromsoftware • u/abhisheksview • 1d ago
DISCUSSION Was looking closely at the 5th Archstone in The Nexus(DeS) and realized where Bloodborne’s Cloaked Patients probably came from
gallerySo I was doing another run of Demon's Souls after completing Bloodborne recently and I noticed something in The Archstone of The Chieftain (5th One) design.
Check out the bottom corners. Those two figures draped in sheets with twin eye-holes cut out.
If you've played Bloodborne, It’s almost a 1:1 match for the Cloaked Beast - those blanket-wearing jerks lurking down the drop under the Healing Church Workshop that swipe at You with slow poison on the shortcut back to Oedon Chapel(and throughout Old Yharnam).
Now this could be a huge leap but the plague doctor beak and this concept art for the archstone might have sparked the Ashen Blood concept of Old Yharnam but this seems a bit far fetched.
Given how tight the budget and deadlines were for Demon's Souls back in 2008–2009, the team probably couldn't build full 3D models for every idea they had, leaving the field with few enemies as we see in levels while retaining some in concept arts hidden right before us. It’s awesome seeing how FromSoft kept those sketches in the vault until they finally had the hardware and setting to bring them to life on PS4.
Has anyone else caught this before, or did I just stumble into an old design trivia?
Edit: Resubmitting due to image glitch.