{"id":123302,"date":"2022-03-25T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-129381"},"modified":"2022-03-25T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T16:30:00","slug":"random-bloodborne-kart-is-real-and-its-coming-when-its-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/03\/25\/random-bloodborne-kart-is-real-and-its-coming-when-its-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: Bloodborne Kart Is Real, And It&#8217;s Coming &#8220;When It&#8217;s Ready&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/5631e00ed9e07\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/5631e00ed9e07\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Bloodborne Kart\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/5631e00ed9e07\/bloodborne-kart.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/5631e00ed9e07\/bloodborne-kart.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Bloodborne Kart\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em>Image: <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/b0tster\/status\/1507177525352443935\">Lilith<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It&#8217;s almost that time of year when every cool news story makes you flinch and check the date, but worry not, my April Fool&#8217;s-fearing friends: This one is real, and also, it&#8217;s the 25th March. You&#8217;re safe. For another week, at least.<\/p>\n<p>The makers of the popular Bloodborne PSX demake (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/news\/2022\/03\/dev-behind-popular-bloodborne-psx-demake-announces-bloodborne-kart\" class=\"external\">which you can read about over on Push Square, naturally<\/a>) have, in the past, goofed on the community in-joke of a playable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps4\/bloodborne\" class=\"external\">Bloodborne<\/a>-themed racing game called <strong>Bloodborne Kart<\/strong>, as you can see in this April 1st Twitter post:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Todays <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BloodbornePSX?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BloodbornePSX<\/a> is an announcement that the project is CANCELED and we&#8217;re making <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BloodborneKART?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BloodborneKART<\/a> instead, check it out! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qzq6QCqC5h\">pic.twitter.com\/qzq6QCqC5h<\/a><\/span>\u2014 \ud83e\ude84\ud83d\udcab Lilith.zip\ud83d\udcc1\ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\u26a7\ufe0f (ps1 goth girl) BLM ACAB (@b0tster) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/b0tster\/status\/1377643512577941506?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 1, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>But, well, once you&#8217;ve got all the assets in place, why not just&#8230; make the whole thing? And that&#8217;s precisely what they&#8217;ve done. They made it real. And it&#8217;s bloody brilliant.<\/p>\n<p>In the two-minute trailer below, we see our Hunter in a nice yellow car, zipping around a Pthumerian Cup course: drifting through cathedrals, wrought iron fences, and long, foreboding tunnels, all presented in that gloriously crunchy low-poly PS1 style of the Bloodborne demake.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">An announcement: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/miydPUzZbR\">pic.twitter.com\/miydPUzZbR<\/a><\/span>\u2014 \ud83e\ude84\ud83d\udcab Lilith.zip\ud83d\udcc1\ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\u26a7\ufe0f (ps1 goth girl) BLM ACAB (@b0tster) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/b0tster\/status\/1507177525352443935?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 25, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Unlike <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/mario_kart_64\">Mario Kart<\/a>, there don&#8217;t appear to be any pickups, but who cares? There&#8217;s an <strong>Akira<\/strong> reference instead, and that&#8217;s way better than whatever a Hunter might use instead of banana peels. Bloodstains, maybe?<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, it&#8217;s surprising how deep this game could potentially get. Lady Maria as a Penelope Pitstop-like racer; Gehrman in a rocket-powered wheelchair; The Doll as the Lakitu-equivalent race starter; Rom The Vacuous Driver&#8230; Can you imagine? <em>So cool<\/em>.<a href=\"https:\/\/b0tster.itch.io\/bbpsx\"><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/b0tster.itch.io\/bbpsx\">The Bloodborne PS1 demake is available to download for free on itch.io<\/a>, so here&#8217;s hoping that Bloodborne Kart will get the same treatment (although you should definitely consider <a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/lwmedia0554\">chucking a few bloodbucks in the developers&#8217; direction<\/a> as a token of appreciation and support).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;ll be playing as Ludwig, who will definitely have a Double Dash-style ability to switch between Horse Form and Holy Blade Form. I look forward to seeing you on the tracks, fair Hunter.<\/p>\n<p><em>Who&#8217;s your Bloodborne Kart main? What abilities do they have? Let us know in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Lilith It&#8217;s almost that time of year when every cool news story makes you flinch and check the date, but worry not, my April Fool&#8217;s-fearing friends: This one is real, and also, it&#8217;s the 25th March. You&#8217;re safe. For another week, at least. 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