He got knocked off the cliff by the shockwave kalameet creates when he lands It happened to me to

We did if you count the sweep kick within the Bone Fist's combos from Dark Souls II.

This can happen?

Yes

Lack of range isn't noteworthy and thus isn't noted here. It'd be like praising Troy Baker for having the exact same voice in most of the games he's worked on.

(OP) Fair point. Still can't shake the similarity between their attacks on the player though... AND I STILL WANT THAT SWEEPING KICK.

Yeah that sweeping kick is boss. More martial arts in general would be awesome. Let's hope Sekiro is something like a test run for features to be included in DS4 (just let me dream)

There's a theme of blood in both of the DS3 DLCs: In the Painted World of Ariandel, Ariandel is using his blood to sate the fire. At the end of the DLC, Painter Girl tells you that her uncle Gael went to retrieve the dark souls of man for her to use as a pigment for new painted world. In the second DLC, Ringed City, at the end you find Gael who has consumed the dark souls and it turns out that the dark soul is in fact blood within the veins of pygmy lords which had dried up so Gael consumed the blood to make it liquid again through indigestion. However, the power of dark souls drove him mad and he attacked you so you were forced to kill him. At the end of the fight you take the blood of the dark souls from him and have to option to deliver it to Painter Girl. It's presumed that Painter Girl will then use the blood to paint the world of Bloodborne. So as you can see, with blood being a strong theme in both DLCs, it can be interpreted as a tie-in to Bloodborne.

It's a fan theory that has been profusely debunked by Miyazaki.

yeah its a fan theory that has been "debunked" by miyazaki but he has been know to purposely and mislead fans about the lore to keep them guessing. it is pretty obvious all the souls/borne games are connected.

@Oct '18 commenter - where did you get the idea that the blood was dry and Gael consumed it to liquefy it? Just interested because I've never heard that before

@Oct 18 commenter - except she said she was going to make a cold and gentle world. Bloodborne world is decidedly not that.

Miyazaki has to debunk it because the games are owned by separate companies. Can you imagine the legal snafu if Sony got wind that Bloodborne was really a Dark Souls sequel even though they asked for a new IP. It would also complicate things between Bandai Namco and Sony. They had to connect the worlds in a way that wasn't blatant. Case in point, ever notice how the chalice dungeons are basically a Dark Souls location. You've got hollows running around with firebombs and broken swords, undead pyromancers literally called the Watcher of the Old Lords and a giant undead wolf that guards a tomb. There's also a couple of weird references to eyes in DS3 and a prophecy of powerful creatures coming out of a deep sea to rule over the world. Sound familiar?

It doesn't