10 Years Later, Bloodborne’s Happiest Ending Is Still Its Weirdest

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10 Years Later, Bloodborne’s Happiest Ending Is Still Its Weirdest

It’s been a decade since Bloodborne first came out, and in true Hidetaka Miyazaki fashion, it had more than one ending, a feature in all the Souls games that fans love deeply. However, out of all the titles the renowned director has crafted up until now, the PlayStation exclusive arguably has the weirdest and most thought-provoking endings of all time.

Bloodborne features 3 different endings for the players to experience. Out of these, one of them is considered to be the ‘happiest’ one, perhaps because it is a better outcome than the other two. Moreover, being the better outcome doesn’t mean it was a good one; after all, we were left on a cliffhanger, another annoying feature we get to see in nearly all the Souls games.

Bloodborne’s best ending is also the weirdest one

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Bloodborne offers Yharnam the best chance | FromSoftware

Among the three possible conclusions to FromSoftware’s gothic masterwork, this so-called happiest ending remains as one of the weirdest and most confusing conclusions to a Hidetaka Miyazaki title. It is the one where the protagonist is reborn as a squid, signifying he has become one of the Great Ones.

As I said earlier, the game has been out for a decade, yet it fails to provide a follow-up to the future of Yharnam. Players equally wonder what would have happened next after the protagonist’s supposed rebirth, with some of them even posting about it on the game’s subreddit and sarcastically calling the ending out as the ‘best one.’

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To understand why turning into a tentacled Great One might be considered a “happy” ending, one must first accept that Bloodborne is not just a game about slaying monsters. This ending, often titled Childhood’s Beginning, is the one that offers the doomed city of Yharnam more hope than the other two endings in the game.

Why is Bloodborne’s happiest ending so special?

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Unlocking this ending requires more than simply defeating bosses. It demands consuming three Umbilical Cords, which can be found throughout the gameplay by defeating bosses and exploring the world of Bloodborne.

In total, there are 4 different Cords that you can collect, and consuming three of them will open up an optional boss at the end of the game, which ultimately results in the Childhood’s Beginning ending for the players. On the

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, turning into a squid might seem more of a humorous thing, but it essentially showcases a deeper meaning about humans and their transcendence.

Compared to the other two endings, being killed by Gehrman and replaced as the new Hunter of Hunters or defeating him only to be enslaved by the Moon Presence, Childhood’s Beginning offers more of an escape and a hope for the future, which players never see coming true, thanks to the lack of any follow-ups to the game.

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