This game was too good. I can't believe how much fun I had with it, everything was perfect down to the last detail. Guess I need to find some other games, do the DLC4, maybe read some books to fill the void.
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Wait - there's a fourth DLC? Or do you mean DLC3?
But I agree 100% on this game being amazing, though. Holy fuck.
The sheer amount of lore in this game is something else. Even aside from the ton of references to Lovecraft's lore and the stories and life of Lewis Carroll, there's some really detailed worldbuilding between this game, Black Souls 1, and even Red Riding Woods.
Frex, that mushroom village? It's the same mushroom village as the one in Red Riding Woods. And not only does Red Hood comment on this if you talk to her there - if you interact with the door of the big building in the centre at 0 SEN or less, you'll hear a monologue that lines up with what the mushroom village's boss says in Red Riding Woods.
That boss claims to be a classmate of Red Hood, but Red Hood doesn't remember her. Yet, Red Hood does feel that schools are strangely nostalgic when she's standing in front of Oxward in BS2, and she knows that her memories are a mess because her past/backstory has been altered. So it's entirely possible that this is going to pop up again as a plot point in Dead Red Hood or Black Souls 3.
Another one is Jabberwock's little rape dungeon. That place has the exact same layout as the basement in Red Wood's home in Red Riding Woods. Knowing how this series rolls, that definitely means something.
I mean, this series rarely does infodumps. You're expected to piece the lore together yourself. And the series is written well enough that doing so is a lot of fun.
...I actually ended up writing several pages of notes. Not sure if that says more about this game or me...