Bloodborne if you want to be fast, Dark Souls III if you want options. Bloodborne removes the shield and pushes you forward with the rally system, so hesitating is punished. Dark Souls III lets you play defensively, magically, or at range, and has far more build variety.
Same studio and largely the same combat skeleton, with the same appetite for bosses that reveal a second phase you were not ready for.
Yharnam is the strongest setting the studio has built, and the transformation weapons give every fight two rhythms. It is PlayStation-only and locked at 30fps, which some people cannot get past.
More like this: games like Bloodborne.
Shields, sorceries, pyromancies, ultra greatswords, bows — you can solve almost any fight the way you prefer, and respec if you get it wrong. It is also on far more platforms.
Bloodborne if you want to be fast, Dark Souls III if you want options. Bloodborne removes the shield and pushes you forward with the rally system, so hesitating is punished. Dark Souls III lets you play defensively, magically, or at range, and has far more build variety.
Better is the wrong question for these two — they are close enough that the answer depends on what you want from the next twenty hours. Pick Bloodborne for aggression and atmosphere. Pick Dark Souls III for build freedom.
No. There are no scores anywhere on this page. This is a written opinion about what each game is for, so you can judge whether it matches what you are after.