I played this game during one of the hardest semesters of my life. My wife and I moved to a new apartment in the middle of it, I broke my foot, I was a staff member on a journal, I has 12 credit hours of classes, and I was working 30 hours/week in September, November, and December, but 40-50 hours/week in October. Somehow I played Bloodborne during that time and it stuck with me.

I got stuck on countless bosses, would sleep, do my homework, go to work, go to class, then come home and bang my head against the bosses. I would think about the lore, the location, the stories all day. The chalice dungeons haunted me, being put in a place so old that the gods couldn't even remember them. This is a perfect video game through and through.