I defeated The One Reborn on my first go just hacking away at it with the Axe.

On the one hand it seems I'm close to the end since you finished it already, but it doesn't feel like it yet. Seems like you mist have played quite a lot and powered through it!

Good job

Was Gehrman your last boss fight?

Yeah there are 3 possible endings...

Yeah Gehrman was my last fight.



I'm actually not upset by missing that last part. I played the game almost spoiler free, and feel like I got a full experience, even if I didn't really figure out the chalice dungeons, or do all the optional areas.

Yeah, towards the end, I feel like you can knuckle down and plow through a level/boss, as you understand the mechanics of the game well enough. You still have quite a ways to go, but I think you are through the hardest parts of the game. A lot of that is just that you have now maxed out your learning curve, so you understand when to try and stagger enemies, when to dodge, when to just hack away, etc... and you know very well how to use whatever weapon you've chosen to use. I'm really good with my slow axe, and feel like if I tried to use a faster weapon I would get destroyed.

Bumping this rather than the DS3 thread due to PS4 exclusivity, for anyone subscribed here but unaware of the new awesomeness:

Nioh - a 60fps Samurai Souls-Bourne by Koei Tecmo Team Ninja!

So I basically bought a PS4 for this game after being a huge Dark Souls fan, and kinda got bored and quit a couple years ago. I loved MOSTLY everything about the game, but my main gripe was (and still is, partially) that it's more action/less RPG than Dark Souls (I don't have as much of a sense of character progression and am still using the weapon I started the game with).

Anyway, just this weekend decided to get back into it and actually finish this great game, and see all of its glorious content. I think I'm back in love once again. I also seriously underestimated visceral (I think that's what they're called, the gun parries) attacks. The fact that you can trigger it from range in some situations seems to make it more versatile. I'm now walking around with 1h axe + gun instead of 2h axe.

I will say though I have NO IDEA what any of the areas were, what the story is (I probably never understood the story), and what the vast majority of the items I'm carrying do. It's a bit disheartening lol. Any tips are appreciated (more specifics in the next paragraph), but I'm still loving it and will try to browse through some walkthroughs to try to only read about areas I've already completed.

For anyone curious, I'll try to give some info on what I've done, and maybe you can help me better understand my available paths forward.

1. I don't remember where this place connects to, but I have a memory of this area, where I fought my way to this boss - electric dog beast guy and died, and couldn't find that boss again, but still got stuck enough with that area to abandon it.

2. I have a tombstone that allows me to teleport to Hypogean Gaol, which I THINK (?) I unlocked from encountering some random dude in the first tombstone area. Nothing else in that tombstone.

3. Past couple playthroughs I worked on what I think is the 2nd tombstone. I fought through some Forbidden Woods. I can't remember what was left to do there (probably something) but I encountered someone who said I can now go to the place to the right of the Grand Cathedral. I remember last time I went through it just instantly killed me, so maybe I acquired an item or something. The guy who picks you up brought me to somewhere else, I fought through some Nightmare something or other, and eventually got to the boss Amygdala. I hope I can find a better lamp post on my next playthrough because it was a long journey to reach Amygdala.

Pretty crappy generic/ambiguous information I know, but just thought I'd make a post in this dormant thread and if anyone has interest in chatting about this and figuring stuff out then cool! (In addition I'll be doing some reading when I get a chance today to try to learn what I can on my own)

You could follow the story in Dark Souls?

Not really - didn't mean to imply that I did lol. Although I will say I probably was understanding it way more than I am in BB. Probably 100% of what I understand of the BB store is "I hunt beasts". And that might not even be right.

The electric beast you've already encountered is the Hypogean Gaol boss.

There's no second lamp, but there is a shortcut to unlock.

As for what you can do now, the main route goes through Forbidden Woods. Beat the boss and keep going.

There's also a neat little side path that starts near the dog cages in the woods. Explore thoroughly to find a key item you need to access an optional area.

Oh very cool, that clears things up for sure, thank you.

I'm finding I'm having a MUCH MUCH tougher time mentally mapping out the areas in this game vs any of the Dark Souls games. Like all this dense forests and cemeteries with similar looking mini-areas confuse the hell out of me lol.

Forbidden woods is regarded as the most confusing area by many. There's actually a faint path that leads through the woods to the boss, but to get all the loot and items you'll need to explore the whole area and like the poster above mentioned there's a cool side path by the dogs cages. Once you've put enough hours into the game you'll hopefully get an appreciation for the great level design in Bloodborne.
Don't worry about level, always level up to where it's a challenge, but not impossible. You're actually quite early in the game. As always talk to all the NPCs you can and read all the item descriptions. A Hunter must hunt.

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Bloodborne's story, as best I understand it, obviously spoilers if you haven't completed the game before.


Some of this may be off or open to debate and interpretation (like all FromSoftware storylines), but it provides a good lose framework of what's going on.

Got a chance to play a bit last night. Ran around the Forbidden Woods very confused for a while. Eventually ran into Shadow of Yharnam. Died on my first and only attempt, but seems like a very beatable boss.

I also took a better look at my weapons/build. I'm going strength, as I usually do in souls games, so I switched from the hunter axe to the kirkhammer (both +6 right now). Not sure what to think here. The KH does more damage and has A strength scaling, but that giant 2h hammer mode feels pretty heavy/bloated. The 1h mode is a nice slick sword, but I feel like I'm wasting something if I don't like the 2h mode.

Cotton/heater - cool info! I haven't beaten the game yet, but I enjoy reading the story stuff anyway, and the endings to these Souls games usually don't tell you much of anything anyway. I will still avoid ending/late game lore stuff, but I don't think learning about a lot of it is going to hurt me. Lemme know if you disagree.

The hammer can stunlock some enemies that the sword can't. Also, the sword has significantly lower damage modifiers for most attacks. 70% of the on-screen attack rating is applied when you actually press R1. With the hammer, it's 100%. (In practice enemy defenses complicate the matter since the hammer does blunt damage and the sword does physical or thrust damage depending on the attack. This tends to favor the sword.)

That's a decent summary. The one thing I'd add is the

(Early game spoilers.)

Kinda surprised this was posted only 3 months after the game came out - would have thought it'd take forever to piece all that together! Great info in there.

This was written around that time. It was 90 pages originally. Updates have brought it up to 107. That video by Vaati brought accusations of plagiarism from this guy.

The Paleblood Hunt - A Bloodborne Analysis

May be something else entirely...

I hope you're right but there's also been rumours that Dark Souls 1 is getting a remaster.

http://www.playstationlifestyle.net/...ter-is-coming/

Hopefully we get both.

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Playing DS1 with an active player base again would be a dream come true.