Nina wrote:

Killed the Nurse. Pretty cool enemy.

Wicked. Time to finish off any outstanding side quests.

Oh dear, what was it? The Hunt? The Blood?

Yes, I was just trying to remember the lines.

Tonight, ******* joins the hunt. 

Parry is definitely the way to go. Took quite a few tries for me. His second phase, he does an aerial and also rush attacks, both of which can be hard to avoid.

I may be wrong or misremembering, but I think it helps not to lock on? Or maybe the other way round. The camera whizzes around when he does aerial and rush attacks I think.

I find locking on better for when I want to parry, but there's definitely some attacks where the camera flips 180° and causes you to roll into attacks. For his first phase I'm just trying to dodge backwards/ sidewards if I have to, until he does the attack I can parry (charge scythe). A lot of patience is needed, some of my deaths have been by just looking at my health bar, to see how much damage something did and then getting killed by the next attack because I didn't see it coming.

I've gotten into a pattern with the harder bosses where I just have the game on, give it some goes, do something else for a couple minutes (read a bit on social, water plants, clean out dishwasher etc) and then go back to it. Makes it a less frustrating experience overall.
At some point I'll probably watch a couple videos to see how other people space themselves in this hunt of I need to.

Can also just buy them DLC to level up for this... Although I'm not looking forward to fighting at least three of the bosses (two are hunters afaik and the other is OoK which I didn't even know what it stands for but people like to talk about it).

There's so much to love about this game but I also find it mentally taxing, which is why I'm a bit reluctant about buying the DLC.

You did great, Nina. Fucking bossed it.

There was even more on discord! Was a great way to quickly put my thoughts down during loading screens. I'll try and write down some proper thoughts tomorrow.

The thing that most surprised my was how I changed as a player during the game. I struggled so hard on the beginning, Main Street and Father G were a real pain, and then later I had a hard time figuring out the Snatcher enemies. But the Martyr and The First Hunter might be two of my favourite fights, where I felt that each attempt learned me something about their patterns, and I was able to learn the fight, and slowly string all that together into a successful hunt where my confidence in being able to beat them was actually growing, even if I failed that time.

I'm looking forward to explore more From games, but I need to regain some of my personal stamina first! I hope to pick up the DLC if it's on sale at some point. I made a back up save before the last hunts, so I have an easy place to jump back in where I can still travel around. Could warm up with the easier Chalice Dungeons as I have only done the first regular one. It was a beautifully crafted world to walk around in, it had everything that I like design wise, and searching for people's favourite bosses shows that the DLC gets a lot of love there.

Congrats Nina.

Now play through it twice more to get the remaining endings. Laugh at how easy FG is now you've fought tougher things. Sprint through the woods like a boss. Cry at the one still being a crap boss.

And
Get
DLC

Well done.

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5 year old beat Bloodborne and only used the @elf bell once at shadows of yarnham.

"It's only rated R for violence". Well thank Christ for that. As long as there's no nudity in it then that's ok.

At my favourite part of the game now. First death to a Winter Lantern. Tra la la laa.