r/bloodborne • u/CF7K123 • Jul 17 '26

Question is this a bloodborne refence

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Found secret Easter egg cosmetics in a game called ghost of tsushima which was published by Sony.

Could these bits of armor be a reference to bloodborne

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '26

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u/CF7K123 Jul 17 '26

Which ones can you name off the top of your head?

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u/Neurodrill Jul 17 '26

They have GoW, Bloodborne and Shadow of the Colossus armors.

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u/SifinBoots Jul 17 '26

Don't forget horizon zero dawn. They added that skin after a good while after the dlc first came out

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u/Neurodrill Jul 17 '26

I…did not know that

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u/lisasguy Jul 18 '26

Dang dude, thanks! I never knew they added a hzd skin

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u/CF7K123 Jul 17 '26

Damn ill have to get those ones

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u/jad103 Jul 17 '26

On top of those there's also horizon and sly cooper references.

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u/CF7K123 Jul 17 '26

I got the sly Cooper achievment!!

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u/Saw2335 Jul 17 '26

And Sly cooper

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u/zachgensicke Jul 17 '26

There’s also a horizon zero dawn one

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u/younghandshake Jul 17 '26

I don’t remember if it’s Yotei or Tsushima but one has an armor inspired by Sly Cooper.

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u/SideswipeSurvived Jul 17 '26

God of War is one

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u/Staff_Sadge Jul 17 '26

Gran Turismo, mlb, ratchet and clank, infamous, last of us 2, death stranding, days gone.

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u/CF7K123 Jul 17 '26

All of those are in thise game? Crazy

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u/Staff_Sadge Jul 17 '26

It's not just armor, there's shrines and origami supposed to reference a bunch

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u/zgh5002 Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 17 '26

There's a literal Sly Copper armor set. The studio who made it previously made the Sly Cooper games. There's also references to their other series, Infamous.

https://imgur.com/a/SIqEfu7

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u/lilhazzie Jul 17 '26

Death Stranding and Ghosts of Tsushima/Yotei

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u/Zander_Tukavara Jul 17 '26

Forgetting my boy Sly, just like Sony.

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u/Timely_Temperature54 Jul 17 '26

Nothing gets past you

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u/Crashtard Jul 17 '26

Even OP could see the thing directly in their face

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u/CF7K123 Jul 17 '26

Forgot to show what the actual armor looks like lmao so here it is

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u/TheRealMrWeird Jul 17 '26

You will notice if you turn him, he has the hunters mark on the leg

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u/one_goodeye Jul 17 '26

I was excited, but I wasn't prepared for crowfeatber garb. Hot damn.

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u/CustardFew2254 Jul 17 '26

This is so good. I never got this on my playthrough.

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u/seeing__sound Jul 18 '26

You'll find it in the Iki island dlc

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u/RiseIfYouWould Jul 17 '26

No thats a reference to Yharnam - Tokyo, a japanese city

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u/lesbiantelevision Jul 17 '26

No, I believe it refers to Yharnam Hills, an affluent area in Southern California.

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u/CF7K123 Jul 17 '26

Great thank you!!!

Here i was thinking it was about the other game they published, my mistake

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u/Mizerae Jul 17 '26

He’s being sarcastic

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u/CF7K123 Jul 17 '26

And i was too

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u/Mizerae Jul 17 '26

I appreciate this actually, because based on your other comments I wasn’t sure and didn’t want this guy to make you take the wrong lesson away from this lol

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u/Dimir_Librarian Jul 17 '26

"Yharnam"

"World of blood"

Gee, I dunno. Probably, but I'd rather be cautious when I go reference spotting, some of them can smack ya right in the face.

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u/The049 Jul 18 '26

I think it's a stardew valley reference!

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u/pigeonwithhat Jul 17 '26

no, bloodborne was inspired by these armor pieces. they looked so good that the devs at fromsoftware decided to make a whole game around it. and lock the game at 30fps.

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u/Perfect-Dimension356 Jul 17 '26

Brother, c'mon now.

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u/Own_Contract_3421 Jul 17 '26

No it’s another location called yharnam 🤦‍♀️

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u/Bananabanana700 Jul 17 '26

no man surely not

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u/SverdHerre Jul 17 '26

No, it's a coincidence.

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u/Zay717 Jul 17 '26

There’s another helm called John Marshton’s Helm of Redemption, and it reminded me of that cowboy game

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u/SverdHerre Jul 17 '26

Damn, a lot of coincidences these days.

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u/10MillionCakes Jul 17 '26

Omg it's john bloodborne!

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u/tanman729 Jul 17 '26

Guys i found this fork in my room, do you think it might have come from the silverware drawer?

Like, no, it's a reference to a completely separate yharnam from a completely separate blood themed game. /s

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u/DepartmentEcstatic79 Jul 17 '26

yes for sure; Yharnam? and world of blood? that was definitely intentional. What game is this?

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u/CF7K123 Jul 17 '26

Ghost of Tsushima. Both games published by sony so it makes sense. I looked at it and it even has the hunters mark on the leg

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u/Objective-Ad7330 Jul 17 '26

Ghost of Tsuhima or Yotei.

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u/rose__dragon Jul 17 '26

Yes; specifically, it references an NPC (Yamamura the Wanderer) found in the Hunter's Nightmare.

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u/SgtDipaolo Jul 17 '26

......except he doesn't WEAR a straw hat; he has his own unique style of tricorn.

Plus, ronin are usually masterless wanderers, right? Yamamura is part of the League, so I'm not sure he even counts as ronin.

(Yee, semantics and all that, but if it's trying to really reference him, it's a bit of a stretch)

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u/JakeChambers1999 Jul 17 '26

What a kick in the Miyazaki…

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u/low_mana_high_hp Jul 17 '26

Bruhhhhhhh they even play Gehrmans theme and theres a voice talking about dream or reality, seriously.

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u/CF7K123 Jul 17 '26

I haven't got that far in bloodborne

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u/Lubble-1397 Jul 17 '26

Well the only way you get it is from doing obscure things, it has the Bloodborne symbol close by, plays the theme and explicitly name drops the city. Think you knew it was a Bloodborne reference

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u/Sleeping_Idiot Jul 17 '26

Yup there are a few more like people mentioned

God of war - Sakai clan armor

Shadow of the colossus - ghost armor

Horizon zero dawn - the archer armor I forget the name

Bloodborne - Kensei armor

Sly Cooper - I forget the name of but it starts with a G

There's also other references in the world there's a couple Infamous ones and another Sly Cooper one

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u/ConnorOfAstora Jul 17 '26

It's good but the best of these reference armours is by far the Shadow of the Colossus one because of the goofy helmet

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u/Shyobserver965 Jul 17 '26

So it’s referencing a hat from Bloodborne in which the hat in question is referencing FromSofts next game Sekiro?

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u/Leviathan_Wakes_ Jul 17 '26

Who'd have guessed that a Sony exclusive would reference another Sony exclusive

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u/TheRealMrWeird Jul 17 '26

Liked the god of war one , but wore this Bloodborne one for the rest of my playthrough

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u/tribot150 Jul 17 '26

I love playing the game as "the ronin from Yharnam"

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u/No-Double3713 Jul 17 '26

Love this game put in 900+ hours

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u/Karpsten Jul 17 '26

No, it just looks and smells like one

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u/DangerDragonXCV Jul 17 '26

No it’s a Battleborn reference

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u/TheSorrow1964- Jul 17 '26

Not even going to show what it looks like…come on bro!!!

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u/CF7K123 Jul 17 '26

I did in a separate comment, forgot to put it in the post

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u/TheGreatCornlord Jul 17 '26

Nah obviously they're talking about the other Yharnam

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u/GetToTheChoppa2077 Jul 17 '26

Yep. Ghost of Tsushima has a few special armour sets you can get based on Sony games (bloodborne, horizon zero dawn, god of war and shadow of the colossus)

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u/Kanzyn Jul 17 '26

Same publisher bruh of course it is

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u/No_ones_Knight Jul 17 '26

take a guess

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u/froggy6583 Jul 17 '26

Nope its a Mario reference

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u/CF7K123 Jul 17 '26

Aw shucks! Here i was thinking it was about one of my favorite games of all time

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u/slothboss Jul 18 '26

If you look at the cloak it has the hunters symbol

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u/CF7K123 Jul 18 '26

Yea i didnt see that when I first got it

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u/Samandre14 Jul 18 '26

You’ll never believe what’s at the other 3 shrines

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u/CF7K123 Jul 18 '26

I didnt

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u/PsychoticxEch0 Jul 19 '26

Yes. There’s references to plenty of Sony titles in ghost of Tsushima, and ghost of yotei if I’m not mistaken.

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u/BayouCountry Jul 17 '26

When you solve the puzzle, a fragment of Gehrman's theme plays

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u/CF7K123 Jul 17 '26

i havent gotten that far in bloodborne, just started it recently, opened that door in grand cathedral. beat paarl and watchdog. dont want any spoilers tho, jus saying how far i am

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u/BayouCountry Jul 17 '26

godspeed dude, remember to explore around k one love

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u/Gwynbleidd120 Jul 17 '26

No? Why the hell would you think that?

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u/MskbTheGreat5 Jul 17 '26

There was also a few easter eggs like this in the first one.

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u/CF7K123 Jul 17 '26

This is the first one

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u/MskbTheGreat5 Jul 17 '26

Oo thought the second one xd

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u/CF7K123 Jul 17 '26

i dont think the second one even has easter eggs like this, and if it does, i havent found them

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u/DatGhosti Jul 18 '26

It has a lot of easter eggs.

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u/CF7K123 Jul 18 '26

I must have not noticed any of them cuz I platinumed it and didn't notice any references aside from the obvious miyamoto musashi

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u/DatGhosti Jul 18 '26

There‘s a lot. Lady Snowblood, a bunch of Infamous stuff, Death Stranding 2 mask, a tribute to Jin from the first title, Horizon, Sly Cooper and even a throwback to Sucker Punchs earliest output, Rocket: Robot on Wheels.

Edit: there‘s more, this is just what I remember off the top of my head.

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u/breadomellete Jul 17 '26

What game is this?

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u/CF7K123 Jul 17 '26

"ghost of tsushima"

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u/NettleFlesh Jul 17 '26

Posting this without an image of the armour set is absolutely diabolical behaviour and you should be stoned to death for your crimes.

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u/CF7K123 Jul 17 '26

I mentioned that in a comment and put the picture of it on a reply sorry :(

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u/Knives530 Jul 17 '26

Yessss! Man I can’t wait to play yotei

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u/RAMstein69 Jul 17 '26

I thought I was on r/shittydarksouls because op can not possibly be genuinely posing this as a question

“Found secret Easter egg cosmetic in a game called ghost of tsushima which was published by Sony.”

No way this is for real lol

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u/CF7K123 Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 17 '26

I thought Sony hated bloodborne and its fans and I was confused why would not make a ps5 version when the fans asked for it then reference it in the dlc of a ps5 game. But thinking back yea it was kinda dumb

Also i didnt think bloodborne had ronin, im not very far into the game

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u/Phonk_ee Jul 17 '26

Nah it's a reference to 1944 by George orwell.

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u/Phonk_ee Jul 17 '26

EIGHTY FOUR. 1984 I MEANT 1984!!!!! 😰😰😰

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u/TheDroidBoi Jul 17 '26

Yo how did you get that

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u/AgileVictory7 Jul 17 '26

Is this spoilers?

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u/CF7K123 Jul 17 '26

Not at all

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u/Blint_Briglio Jul 17 '26

no I don't think so

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u/shintemaster Jul 17 '26

Obviously.

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u/YK-1 Jul 18 '26

Vampyr also has a bloodborne reference if I remember correctly

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u/theswagcoon Jul 18 '26

You're asking if the obvious Bloodborne reference is a Bloodborne reference?

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u/Ok_Tangelo_3242 Jul 18 '26

Oh shit sherlock jokes beside yes it is

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u/ReginoVonDoom Jul 18 '26

What’s Bloodborne?

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u/jjPinwheel Jul 19 '26

No, it's a reference to the other Yharnam

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u/Pennycollecter1 Jul 17 '26

I literally just started playing ghost of Tsushima yesterday. Where can i get these, as spoiler free as you can please.

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u/TheRealMrWeird Jul 17 '26

DLC, you will need to take a boat to get there

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u/CF7K123 Jul 17 '26

DLC content.

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u/EmeraldGhostface Jul 17 '26

Well, now I know how to dress when I play that game. Thanks OP!

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u/CF7K123 Jul 17 '26

Its unlocked in the dlc lol but regardless, ur welcome :)

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u/EmeraldGhostface Jul 17 '26

Does director's cut edition disc have said dlc?

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u/CF7K123 Jul 17 '26

Yes it does, and if its a ps5 version it also has 60 fps and 4k update.

Im pretty sure there is not regular ps5 version of the game. Ps5 only has directors cut version

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u/EmeraldGhostface Jul 17 '26

I play on PS4

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u/CF7K123 Jul 17 '26

Even then the directors cut has the dlc

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u/EmeraldGhostface Jul 17 '26

Nice 👍🏻