Speaking during an interview with IGN, Sony Japan’s Masaaki Yamagiwa has confirmed that the hotly anticipated PlayStation 4-exclusive title, Bloodborne, will feature in-game shields.
Despite this, Yamagiwa-san added that players who stand on the defensive for too long will pay the price.
“There are shields in the game. However if you’re always standing back and guarding, you’ll die very quickly. So you have to incorporate it into your strategy of how you play and fight,” he stated.
“We wanted these encounters and battles to be so intense that If you just stand and wait, you’ll get overwhelmed and killed right away. We wanted to encourage players to not hide and wait, but instead be more aggressive and pro-active in battle.”
Bloodborne is due out in March 2015.
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