Hidetaka Miyazaki can't help himself and now The Duskbloods sounds even more like a Bloodborne successor: "The Bloodsworn are competing for something known as First Blood"

The Duskbloods screenshot showing someone walking into a mysterious cathedral with red lighting.

The Duskbloods immediately looked like an Elden Ring-style open-world take on Bloodborne, though the revelation that it's set to be a multiplayer PvPvE game quickly made clear that it is something fundamentally different. Still, director Hidetaka Miyazaki and the crew at FromSoftware are clearly building on Bloodborne's dilapidated world fueled by powerful blood with the new concept of "Bloodsworn" and "First Blood."

"We tried to extract the sort of romantic aspects we found interesting from concepts such as vampires and 'blood' and reinterpreted them as the Bloodsworn," who are the characters you play as in The Duskbloods, as Miyazaki explains in a new official interview with Nintendo. The title of The Duskbloods directly refers to those Bloodsworn.