This is a bizarre statement. Bloodborne's story, themes and atmosphere are heavily based on the works of one of the most notable and influential horror authors in existence. In it's scariest areas the game makes heavy use of pretty much every horror-game tool in existence, from jump scares and a heavy punishment for death to a dark, oppressive atmosphere and genuinely unsettling sound and music. On top of that, the monster designs are some of the scariest in gaming, and the game isn't afraid of pulling off things like locking you in a prison away from all the familiar areas just to further unsettle the player (or in Demon's Souls case, making you feel unsafe even in your home base).
Are you really saying the game is scary by accident? Because if so, the guys at From Software must be gods of horror game design since they managed to create some incredibly scary areas without even trying.
I'm not fully convinced I'd classify it as horror either (simply because the gameplay is much more rooted in RPGs than it is in horror games), but Bloodborne (and all Souls games, really) represents such a massive contribution to horror in videogames that I find it really hard to find a reason for why people shouldn't celebrate them in a thread like this.
Genuinely wondering: do you think The Cabin in the Woods is a horror movie? It's clearly a comedy, and yet it's also classified as horror on IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic, as well as being labeled as a horror movie by many critics. There are also
lengthy articles debating the topic. I guess you could call it a horror comedy, but that feels a bit like a cop-out. It also means that Bloodborne would be classified as a horror RPG.
