One of the things I liked about the Bloom effect used in DXHR is that, in addition to the gold filter look, it gave the game a very "dream" like appearance, similar to how Prince of Persia Sands of Time did it.

It used to be a very abused effect back in the mid-2000s when it first started to become popular with games like Tron, and to some degree DXHR abused it as well to achieve that aesthetic. However, I want to say that it did it tastefully nonetheless.