Managed to kill BsB at last, on my third attempt.
Also a little bit of a story: I Killed VA as well, and jumped to Hunter's Dreams and returned to the Cathedral Ward.
Here's the thing: the fact that
everything suddenly changed made me pause. Like, usually there's a couple of dudes patrolling on the area outside the left door, and now all of a sudden they're gone and
that alone was enough to make me pause and feel
very atmosphere. And then I looked on the sky above... man........
I explored the Healing Church Workshop, found myself a Radiant Sword Badge or whatever... almost got killed by that blasted Wheelchair guys using Flamethrower (I honestly didn't expect that combination), found a hidden path towards the Old Abandoned Workshop, snagged that lovely Doll costumes...
...lit the lamp, and continued on.... fast forward, I got killed by a large dude carrying a bag and all of a sudden I was transported to the Hidden Village................................... filled with those large bag dudes everywhere.... they're so ridiculously strong and capable of two-shotting me in good hits....... FML. Managed to lit the lamp there though, and as I wandered around (managed to kill a few of the inhabitants in-between) all of a sudden I stumbled upon the DP Beast................. FML, I resigned myself at my fate and didn't even try to fight back, LOL.
Fuck that Hidden Village, I teleported myself back to the Grand Cathedral and in the end found myself traveling to Forbidden Forest afterwards. Such a strong Resident Evil 4 vibe... all good, all good though, especially with my newly bought and reinforced Ludwig's Holy Blade (holy shit this weapon is incredible.) I admit I panicked a bit after that mandatory fall, and when I managed to accumulate Echoes to the tune of about 40.000 wandering around without a lamp on sight... my heart beat faster and I panicked somewhat.
IIRC I also found a hidden path that led towards what seemingly a shallow lake..... filled by numerous giant humanoid things wandering around, the type that I have never seen before. I NOPE'D so hard and turned back the way I came, lol.
Ludwig's Holy Blade did a wonderful job accompanying me throughout my sojourn on the village part of the Forbidden Forest... and then suddenly I got one-shotted by a goddamn cannon. Thankfully managed to get back the echoes, but I got killed again by the same thing... decided to just carefully ran from house to house on the next run, and killed the cannon guy with
extreme prejudice afterwards (with my echoes thankfully returned to me.)
Continuing on..... and all of a sudden, now there's an enemy with snakes bursting out from his head....................................... urghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Managed to kill two of them with quite a bit of heart-pound (THANK YOU LUDWIG'S HOLY BLADE!) and found the shortcut...... goddamn what a relief.
Decided I had enough for the night and wanted to just explore a bit forward with no serious attempt at actually progressing... I wandered upon this maze-like areas filled with goddamn snakes, giant snakes, giant pig, and those head bursting whackos. To my surprise though I did well; I even managed to get around 25.000-ish echoes without dying... as I tried to go back however, the maze-like structure of the area was successful at messing me up... I just wandered around aimlessly... although in the end thanks to the lucky stars of the cosmos I somehow managed to stumbled myself back at the beginning path........ My God that area was extremely annoying.
And THEN I found that I should have gone to that area filled with Witches first to get that Rune Equipping tool... yeah, I'll do it tonight.
Just a bit of a Bloodborne tale from Laughing Banana, hahaha.
