Bloodborne |OT2| Praise The Moon

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I'd be very interested in a spoiler thread for the game as well. I'm not sure if one has to request it or not though, otherwise I'd throw one together.
 
In ringing a bell outside the third boss room and it never brings anybody into my game, yet it consumes my insight. What am I missing?
 
If anyone wants an Uncanny Saw Cleaver I can share my dungeon so you can get it. It's layer 1, too, easy to get.
 
Tyrant Rave said:
I'd be very interested in a spoiler thread for the game as well. I'm not sure if one has to request it or not though, otherwise I'd throw one together.
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I think there's enough of us who have progressed far enough or finished the game so we can talk about it more freely. I support a spoiler thread as well.
 
Did I just get invaded? I saw someone attacking me during the gatling gun dude - that was completely bonkers. I had to use a Bold Hunter's Mark to get out of there. What a time to get invaded. I thought it was another NPC hunter trying to attack me.
 
Is there a warning before the final boss or something? i don't want to accidentally start the fight without finishing everything else first
 
Ok guys I started playing last night since was the first time I had some free time in order to play. Not a new player I completed and platinum DeS and DS, finished DS2 as well. So played for a couple of hours I killed the first boss on my first try and now I'm exploring but tbh Idk if I'm wrong but there is only one way to go?? I found some shortcuts to certain areas I already know where the second boss is (didn't fight it tho), but I explored the rest of the pathways and looks like there is no other way to go but the second boss, am I right?

Anyway, I've been loving the game so far...
 
Superblatt said:
Ridiculous. I have tried the beckoning bell three times and nobody shows up. Online is broken. I am stuck on the blood beast and have died 20 times easy. I need help and the system doesn't work. I am getting close to quitting the game.
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How long did you wait? I usually have to wait 5-10m. Anyway, all you have to do on that boss is lock on. When he's about to attack, side step twice and attack. That's the entire fight. Just don't forget to move away when he's about to do exploding poison
 
Just as I was crying a summon actually happened. :3 Thank you Tri!
Might just be a problem with the servers. Could they be overloaded? Didnt DS have problems at first too?
 
T.O.P said:
Is there a warning before the final boss or something? i don't want to accidentally start the fight without finishing everything else first
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Yes,
when you're back to hunter's dream and the mansion is burning (after you beat a certain boss), just don't go through the opened portal. This is where I am and I'm checking more optional content before going to the last boss.
 
Was farming for a few hours today. Helped big time. Beat the first two bosses on the first try! I'm actually in shock. Old GAF and New To Souls GAF there is hope for us.
 
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Okay, these are my stats right now. If I'm having trouble killing enemies in the latter half of
Unseen Village
, what should I level up? Keep in mind that I suck with stat management in games, so if you see anything that looks off or I mislevelled, that's why.
 
Birathen said:
Just as I was crying a summon actually happened. :3 Thank you Tri!
Might just be a problem with the servers. Could they be overloaded? Didnt DS have problems at first too?
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Every Souls game has had networking problems at launch. Dark Souls 2 was the most painless for me personally.
 
Gun Animal said:
Ok, at this point I have so many possible options that it seems overwhelming. I've beaten four bosses, and haven't touched chalice dungeons so far. At this point, the paths I have available to me (that I know of) are:

Hypogean Gaol
Hemwick Charnel
Forbidden Woods
Lecture Building

Which way should I go, or should I do chalice dungeons? I'm trying to avoid doing harder harder areas first, so which of these are harder or easier than the others?
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I went Hemwick and it wasn't too hard at all, the boss especially.
 
No issues with father G, no issues with any bosses but the Forbidden Woods guys. I give the fuck up.

Time for drink drink revolution and then try again.
 
mxgt said:
It's weird, I just stayed inside him and killed him before he even hit me once. It was bizarre.
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I've been using Ludwig's and it does alright, but his behavior and strikes are so inconsistent. Sometimes I'll be safe down there, other times his front strikes still hit me when I'm near his back legs.

Fight does remind me a lot of Sif though.

Oh well, attempt #6.
 
I'm about to rage quit for the day because of the Forbidden Woods.

This area full of Las Plagas ripoffs and giant snakes is beyond annoying.
 
Yoshichan said:
Let me start of by saying that I'm extremely tired as I'm typing this. As many of you may already know by now, I haven't slept much these days. Bloodborne was released 25th and it's currently 28th. I'm currently on my NG+++ playthrough and I can safely assume that I'm now able to give my honest reactions and opinions of this game. A few people did ask me what I thought about the game when I had beaten it once, but for me, I wouldn't rate a game like this based of one playthrough.

Now before I start listing and rating stuff, let me just point out that I have not done more than 6 chalice dungeons. I also have not engaged in a PvP battle yet (I'll be doing a PvP-character after this and that's when I'll be slaughtering some Moonbros). So basically, this review/summary is strictly for the PvE-content of Bloodborne.

As many of you already know by now, I rate the current Souls-games the following way: Demon's Souls > Dark Souls 2 > Dark Souls... the specifics being DeS (10), DkS2 (8), DkS (6). A brief summary of these games for me would look like this:

Demon's Souls
+ Flawless, balanced PvE content
+ Controls are the most quick and responsive controls in the entire franchise
+ The bosses average out of to be the best in all the Souls-games
+ Atmosphere is the best
+ The NPCs

Dark Souls
+ The music outperforms both the other Souls-games
+ World structure and pacing
+ Has the best boss (O&S) in the franchise

- After 50%>, the game becomes absolutely garbage

Dark Souls 2
+ The PvP is the most fun I've had in all Souls-games
+ There are no bad zones in the game. Everything is straight up from "good" to "really good".
+ 60fps

- No map really stands out. There's no Undead Burg or Boletarian Palace in this game
- That Souls-leveling-saving mechanic

Now with that out of the way, let us continue with the important part, shall we?

Bloodborne
=========

+ The atmosphere is absolutely phenomenal. When I was playing Dark Souls 2 recently, I realized something. I told myself "huh, this really doesn't look or sound like something from a Souls-game". The raw density of the atmosphere in this game, the horrifying screams and cries you hear from inside the building, the constant nagging from the enemies, the wind, the footsteps... everything in this game absolutely oozes with atmosphere. It's absolutely drenched in it, and it strongly reminds me of the powerful zones in Demon's Souls.

+ The music is god damn amazing. If you watched me live stream, then you probably remember my reaction when I was fighting Father G(regory). When he transitioned to phase 2, the song also transitioned and the entire experience of that fight tripled in epicness. The boss songs are all very memorable and even though it doesn't exceed the quality of Dark Souls 1, I truly do feel that I will hold it deep in my heart. The orchestra team deserves a raise, because the music adds up to what Bloodborne is trying to achieve.

+ The controls are on par with Demon's Souls. We've finally gone from being fat (DkS2) to quick again. The fluidity and the amount of "control" you have over your character is perfection. Every weapon has their own move-set; every action has its own hitbox/hurtbox and its own recovery-frames. All of this, while being fully cancellable at (almost) any given moment. You can charge up an attack and at the last frame of that animation, you can switch the position of the attack by 180 degrees. Basically, you've got full fucking control over your character.

+ The bosses are intimidating again, yay! If anyone's been following my Souls-story for the past 5 years, they'd know that one of my main complaints of Dark Souls 1 and 2 is that they never really managed to make me feel terrified by the bosses. Not even Ornstein and Smough did that to me (although the actual fight was godtier). Bloodborne gives me those Demon's Souls shivers when I enter the mist. The cutscene triggers and I'm absolutely terrified by what's about to come at me. All bosses look gruesome in some way, shape or form - and all of this, blended with the awesome soundtrack just makes the bosses an awesome experience overall. A more detailed list of what I think of the bosses exists at the bottom of this summary.

+ I'm one of those people who rage-quit Dark Souls 2 for PS3 very early on (10h in) because the framerate was absolutely shit. I just couldn't stand it. A few days later, the PC-version got released and suddenly the game became awesome. With Bloodborne, I can safely say that the framerate is perfectly acceptable! It only bothered me a few times; usually when the game combined lots of fire, dust, smoke and enemies at the same time, it goes down to ~15-20. But overall, I felt that it never really hurt he experience - which is why I'm putting a + on this.

+ The weapons are fucking amazing. I've played around with almost all of the weapons and I can easily say that I prefer quality over quantity. To be fair, I've only used like 10 out of the 190284 weapons in DkS2 and the same goes with DkS1. In Bloodborne, I'm falling in love with every weapon I decide to try out (I wish they would allow you to respec, god damnit!). Like I previously said, every weapon has its own unique set of animations and everything that includes with it; like recovery-frames, hurt/hitbox etc. It all blends in so well with what the game wants to be (QUALITY-content, not quantity!).

With all of the above being said, let's head over to the negatives!

- Major glitches are automatically going to be put in the negative-side of this summary. I've had two things happen to me multiple times throughout my 4 playthroughs. One being that my echoes completely disappears when I die. I kill every single enemy in that area, while looking at every corner - but they're just gone. I've lost over 3mil souls from this glitch and it's occurred (I think) 4 times now. The other glitch has to do with enemies falling under the ground. The loot disappears and restarting the game won't give me the loot. This is a smaller issue than the one above, but definitely a minus nonetheless.

- Loading times. One of the obvious minuses of Bloodborne - and although they are going to patch this (by how much, 5? 10?) - it's still a minus considering the first couple of days for a game are the most important ones. There has been multiple occasions where I just light up the lamp and continue on without spending my echoes - solely for the reason that I want to avoid having to go through the loading times. Thankfully I didn't die much during my playthroughs so I'm not complaining as much as some other people are.

Nitpick - I miss the fact that you could see small images of the location you are headed when teleporting! This was in both Demon's Souls and Dark Souls 2. I mean, it obviously encourages you to remember the names of the places - but come on :)

BOSSES
I felt that I needed to give some small feedback regarding all of the bosses - for multiple reasons. I would love to compare these to the other bosses in the Souls-franchise. The list below contains plenty of spoilers, of course.

Before I start handing out scores left and right, let me just give you guys a few bosses from the Souls-franchise so you get some perspective.

Ornstein & Smough is my favorite boss in Souls. That fight is a 10/10
Flamelurker is one of the best boss as well. That fight is a 9.
Penetrator is an average boss. A well deserved 5.
Leechmonger is a really bad boss, it gets a 2.
Pinwheel is an abysmal boss, hence a 1.

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Cleric Beast - 9/10
Blood-starved Beast - 9
Father Gascoigne - 9
V
icar
A
melia
 - 9

Don't we all love when a game starts of with just pure madness? The above bosses are the first ones that you engage (well, Cleric is optional, but...). And the first bosses are actually the most superior ones in the entire game. They're hectic, the music is easily the best and their transition phases are heavily recognizable and fun to adapt to.

D
arkbeast
P
aarl
 - 8
S
hadow of
Y
harnam
 - 8
G
ehrman
 - 8

The above are just absolutely amazing. They're all extremely horrifying in completely different ways. One is
a lightning-infested skeleton-beast that wants to rip the shit out of your entire body with its bony fingers
while the other bosses
wants to incinerate, stab and shoot you in the face.
The above bosses requires you to play smart (unless you're over-leveled but that's irrelevant to this review) and take advantage of every mechanic you've used up until that point.


M
artyr
L
ogarius
- 7
M
ergo's
W
et
N
urse
- 6

I'm a huge fan of fighting
on top of roof.
It just adds to atmosphere that only video games can create. I
specifically remember how much I loved it in the Onimusha-games.
This boss oozes with atmosphere and it's really hard until you get the parry-timing in. Until then, he's a really hard boss considering you
can't attack him from distance and his melee attacks are one of the strongest in the game.


W
itch of
H
emwick
- 5
M
oon
P
resence
- 5
E
brietas
- 4

The above bosses are all average. They're really nothing special whatsoever, but at least
W
itch of
H
emwick
is extremely atmosphere-filled and has one deadly move.


M
icolash
- 3
O
ne
R
eborn
- 3
A
mygdala
- 3
C
elestial
E
missary
- 3
R
om
- 3

All above is next to trash-tier. Considerably less amounts than DkS2 (that game had like 25 bosses or something though).

With all of that being said, my official list for the Souls-franchise including Bloodborne is: Demon's Souls (10), Bloodborne (9), Dark Souls 2 (8), Dark Souls 1 (6).

And that's it guys! That's my opinions in very brief detail. Hope you guys enjoyed it :) I know I'll be saving this post for future copy-pastes. Guess I won't be drinking my own urine this time, huh? Awesome!

Enjoy the BLOOD, people!

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Thanks for the review. Nice read.
 
Got stuck on the first boss. As in I got stuck between a pillar and some leaves! Couldn't roll out. Took me a few tries to beat it anyway, though.

Ran into Father Gasoigne thinking it was just a random cut scene... oops! Will try again later.
 
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