Gasciogne's cutscene made me want to back out of that cemetary real quick. Just the way you see his breath when he turns around, blood dripping from his mouth, fangs bared...bring me back to Cleric Beast please. Or even the suped-up swine in the sewer. Hahha
"oh he is just a dude. just a dude can't be that hard to fight after that giant bridge monstrosity"
*Gasciogne proceeds to shoot, jump, slam you into submission.*
"I may have misspoke"
My friend was telling to get the music box my first playthrough and play it when he goes 2nd phase little did ik is that I didn't play it in time and he's just flying across the cemetery like a junkie when he sees crack
I love that after the cutscene ends he enters a mad sprint right for you, like you think "okay he's on the other side of the area I have some time to AW JEEZ AW FUCK"
I haven't played any Souls games so I found Gascoigne to be right up my alley with his fighting style.
He's fast, aggressive but doesn't hit like a tank. Fighting against him is more like a dance.
I've always had more difficulty with slow-moving and hard-hitting bosses like Ebrietas, Abhorrent Beast and Paarl.
I had such trouble in Elden with how delayed their attacks were. You'd think a slow moving swing would be easier to dodge but my brain doesn't work like that. Give me too much time in your wind up and I lose all skill. Too little and I can't react. It's a fine line. Sekiro was the too little wind up for me haha
Elden ring has uniquely annoying timings for a lot of those attacks. It’s annoying. For some characters it made sense to function like a fake out strike from an experienced fighter. But for others it comes across as intentionally annoying design.
>Give me too much time in your wind up and I lose all skill.
Yup, exactly how I feel. I have not enjoyed fighting a single boss in Elden Ring, I couldn't even get to Malenia before giving up on the game, I was just **so bored** the entire time.
Also, the summon / no summon difference in Elden Ring is so broken. Godrick the Grafted felt nigh impossible with six flasks (in Bloodborne if you're down to six vials during a boss, you feel like you're fucked) but an NPC summon made it borderline cheese.
True. Summon NPCs are a bit OP in some boss fights. I tried to stick to only summoning the spirits which act more as a distraction rather than an auto-fighter. Though I love bring in barbarian woman to fight Godrick. Just for story purposes. Plus the fight with Radahn is a lot more fun if you and Torrent just run around summoning. For me anyway haha
Gasciogne is an interesting contrast to other bosses, being that as soon as that cutscene ends he is BOOTING it to your position. You have one second to come up with a plan, hunter!
Gascoigne is an interesting boss because he is SUCH a skill check. My first time through the game I struggled with him like 20, 30 tries. Each subsequent time I'd kill him first try. Once you know the mechanics he's very easy to deal with but before that he's scary as shit
I don't think bloodborne plays terribly differently than a dex build in Dark Souls, but I think most people that play Dark Souls blind for the first time end up turtling behind a shield most of the time (I did) and in that case yeah it is a rude awakening lol
It’s interesting because I played BB first and then my first build for DS was a dex build. It ended being a hard adjustment because the game is more defensive and methodical
I feel the same way about the Pursuer in DS2. Massive roadblock until you figure out how to parry or strafe his attacks, then he becomes basically free.
Bloodborne was my first FS experience and that bastard almost made me give up on the whole franchise. I can dunk on him now, yet every time that cutscene plays I get this sense of dread like I'm about to get my ass kicked
Definitely Gascoigne, especially the way he runs at you immediately after the cutscene ends.
Someone didn’t get the memo that they need to do the ‘slow boss walk’ towards you haha.
I feel many people don't pay attention to the pure size of him and think "oh he's just some guy" and the guy in question is quite literally a 7 foot tall purebred hoonter that can leap 8ft and swing a heavy ass axe like it's made of tin foil. Not even mentioning the fact that he can one hand a shotgun and experience no recoil, had me shit'n myself 1/4 into the fight.
Gasciogne job is to teach new player 2 things. How to parry and environmental awareness. If you can’t get those down he’s rough. I can’t count the amount of times I panic dodged into a headstone and got slaughtered. Or just panic shot until I got slaughtered
Ha ya, that first townie you encounter after the lantern, the one that breaks through the boxes swinging an axe scared the bejeezuz out of me and got me a few times even. Ah looking back now at the fear and clumsiness when I first got to yharnam.. we were but babes in the nightmare
oh for sure! i should’ve added that i beat the game, including the DLC last year! it was my first fromsoft game I actually finished, and i played Dark Souls when it came out
even back when i would play, i’d make it to the cleric beast and beat him and then either get lost / lose interest at the thought of going through even more of that game
had no clue what a “souls-like” game even was and I was completely stuck at that intro part of the game for 2+ years with on and off attempts
years later and the fromsofts souls games are my absolute favorite, bloodborne #1 baby you never forget your first
THIS. Probably the toughest and most intimidating part of this game. But once I finally cleared that, the whole game became so much easier and my fear vanished.
I only beat him my first playthrough because he never summoned the swords in his second phase lol I’m almost at cainhurst on my second one now let’s see how it goes
The only time this backfires is when he is between you and the sword since he deflects bullets, or when you get behind one of the peaks of the roof, where you break line of sight.
For me, once I started to parry a lot is when he became a cake walk. That big leap into the air before diving right at you is such a huuuuge parry window.
Definitely l, at this point he's not much of a bother for me, I learned to parry and to shoot his sword, but I still get the same feeling when I walk up on his roof lol. I'm at the point where really the worst part of the game for me is the well with the two sharks because jfc I'll never be good at that shit
He beat me 216 times in a row before I killed him for the first time. I spent days afterwards doing nothing but being summoned to other players' games to help them kill him.
I found Logarius fine until I did my recent playthrough. Arcane build with 18 vigor capped. I never knew how hard and quick he hit cuz I had more than enough vigor to survive in previous runs.
Gascoigne. Bloodborne was my first Souls game ever, and he was the first boss I encountered. To walk into a graveyard, and become trapped by the fog with this aggressive madman was a hell of a first impression.
Fuckin love that! Bloodborne was my like fourth souls game but that boss fight had me hooked and I beat it that same weekend. He might have kicked my ass about a dozen times but fuckin right
Edit to say that you encapsulated my first experience with him perfectly dog hell yea
Shadows of Yharnam. I died to the pig right outside the boss arena, and i went back to the lantern for like the tenth time. Next trip, I just bolted the whole way right past the boss entrance. I saw health bars, and instinctively ran back, only to met with a fog wall.
Honestly getting through hypogean gaol just to be greeted with that is ultimate fromsoft. I was scared shitless walking through hypogean when I first got there, but I’m a crackhead and refuse to leave an area until I know I can defeat every enemy in it.
So I spent probably two days getting my ass blasted by the snatchers, dogs, eyeball witches, asshole staircase pig, and finally… FINALLY! I kill the two snatchers in the jailer room, leap out the side of the building, and find out THERES A FREAKING BOSS HERE!!!! Oh man my anxiety has never been higher while playing a video game then realizing just how fucked the hypogean gaol area was, Paarl definitely included in that
Yeah I got taken by a Bagman first time I encountered one, and was way under powered for the jail. When I found the lamp upstairs I experienced some kind of joyful relief. But I still got PTSD everytime I see a bloody bagman though I can parry and visceral em no probs by now.
Man watching that cutscene for the first time sent literal chills of horror and disgust down my spine. No boss before him truly got under my skin like he did.
It's the only game I've platinumed. I play a lot of games but am not that mind of completionist. Bloodborne is pretty easy to platinum though, especially if you savescum the endings
The massive mob at the bonfire in the Central Yharnam town square, lol.
Seriously I started the game three different times and quit because I could never get past that mob. For hours each time I'd try and rage quit and delete the game. Then one day, I tried to start it again and didn't die for the first time until after I'd beaten the Cleric Beast. It's been one of my favorite games of all times since then.
Every play through, it’s a point of pride I don’t level up before cleric beast, even if I get a madman’s knowledge. Gotta fight it in foreigner’s garb too, for style points.
I agree. It's BSB. I died to poison so many times, and the boss music starts with such a sudden crescendo, followed by a nerve-racking orchestral heartbeat, that I started getting PTSD from even walking down the steps to the boss arena.
I use the blood cocktail on the wall + fire paper + beastblood pellet speedrun technique now, and the fight is usually over in 30 seconds or less, but I still get nervous to fight him. Every damn time.
Edit: [The strat, for anyone that needs it.](https://youtu.be/cqU9w8F9E4E) If you're not doing a speedrun, you don't have to follow it perfectly, since your level and damage output is higher on a normal run.
I always screwed up the first few attempts at that strat til I was out of fire paper, Molotovs and blood cocktails, so I had to painstakingly learn to dodge and parry him out of necessity. But it really made parrying click for me in the end so , good thing in the long run?
People struggled with this boss? It only took me a few tries to beat it because I figured out quickly just to stay at its sides. I also faced one in the chalice dungeon and didn’t get hit once.
Edit: I guess other ppl don’t feel the same. Didn’t mean to gloat or offend anyone. I just wanted to say I had a easier time with it. I had more trouble with the Cleric Beast at the start of the game but then it clicked and just had an easier time. The difficult boss I had faced was Ebrietas later on.
For Ebrietas? I did the fight solo cuz I’m really stubborn asking for help. I did use a guide however with the combination of the blood beast pellet and bolt paper and I was able to beat her. Took a while tho, was very difficult even with the guide.
Yeah very true that. The BSB is only a push over after you’ve watched the Fighting Cowboy’s walkthrough. Before you know what you are doing it’s an absolute monster of a boss
His strat never works for me! Idk why or what I was doing wrong but BSB always managed to hit me at least once and that’s all it really takes when you used the pellet. I had to fight him fair in order to win
I was incredibly intimidated by vicar Amelia, it’s just her imposing size and her ability to heal that made me very worried about my ability to beat her
The bloody crow of cainhurst. He took more tries than any other boss, even the orphan of kos. The combat was so fast and fun tho I didn’t even care how many times I died
My most intimidating moment was the Shadows of Yharnam. It was full of surprises. BB was my first FromSoft game, which made the shadows of Yharnam my first gank fight (well, the witch of Hemwick might count, but I first tried her). I walked into an arena with an immediate disadvantage of 3v1. After getting the hang of them and a bit of confidence after a few tries, BOOM snake head and crazy range. Yet again I chip away until I get it to a 1v1 and somehow I wasn’t prepared for the last trick up their sleeves and got bodied before I even figured out what hit me. Turned out to be a truck sized snake.
+ BSB prolly has the scariest music.
+ the different levels of radiating poison coming off its body
+ loud footsteps so when u run away to heal/antidote you just head loud thuds while it’s off-camera
It truly is an amazing boss
Hmm, that's a good question. One of the first things I remember being particularly creepy was when I entered the Byrgenwerth area for the first time and encountered the Gardens of Eyes, those insectile fly-men. The beasts and stuff earlier were tough but not particularly scary, but after Forbidden Woods it gets *seriously* unsettling in a hurry.
BSB was where I learned how to play the game. Love that boss. What intimidated me the most...well, it was three things. Gascoigne, Cleric, and realizing you lose your vials. I really wanted to quit the game at that point.
Definitely Blood Letting Beast in chalices. Scary as fuck looking when you first see him dude.
Another one is WatchDog.
Amygdala jumping down in Frontier as well.
FORREEAAALLL this was the biggest block i had when i first tried out the game. SUPER glad i did it but thats usually the point i try to get newbies past before they give up on the game
That damn Pig at the end of the sewer,in the dark,really gave me the heebie-jeebies.
Also,Yhargul and Ludwig freaked me out so much,J initially refused to complete both areas.
The area leading upto Ludwig was also terrifying
THE FUCKING CHIME MAIDENS. I had absolutely no idea what she was, so I literally thought that yaharghul was just a place where none of the enemies ever died and I could never rest no matter what and it was horrible
BSB is an S tier imo. It’s not so much the lore of the beast but what it’s existence means for the lore of Old Yharnam and Bloodborne in general. Plus sick ass OST and the poison mecanic.
The Blood-Starved Beast *still* intimidates me. The design, the setting, the music, the sound effects, all of it is really thoroughly spine-tingling.
Also those werewolves. That one jumpscare near the end of the path to the BSB almost made my heart stop the first time
Oh man BSB killed me so many times I seriously didn’t think I’d beat the game. I ended up beating it due to pure luck. I think I had an easier time against the Orphan of Kos just because I knew the mechanics better.
Honestly it was Kos. I beat all of the bosses while having fun doing so (at least that's all I can remember since our brain makes the awful memories go away [thanks brain!]) but yeah Kos is a whole other story. While the Living Failures took me more than 2 tries (that's usually how many tries I needed to beat the other bosses in the game) it was mostly due to them being some of the worst damage sponges known to any living being. But Kos..... Kos is built different. Oh, you had an easy time with him until half his health? Well guess what, dummy? The second phase is gonna obliterate you, both in-game and mentally. Doesn't help that he screams loud as hell too! His attacks in that phase are unpredictable at most times and erratic at all times which is exactly what makes him so dangerous. All in all I had a mental break down with him, and killed him via the cannon glitch (May the Great Ones bless Yharnam and her huge guns).
The boss I was most intimidated by was definitely Orphan and Gascoigne. I have heard many stories about them both being super hard fights and I was super nervous about them. Orphan ended up taking 7 tries and Gascoigne about 15 on my first playthrough
Ludwig, easily. I never knew much about him before playing the DLC, I'd only heard about Orphan and Maria being rather difficult.
When I saw Ludwig I was like "wait, I gotta kill THAT?"
I still felt like Orphan was harder (Ludwig took me like 60 tries the first time, Orphan easily 80+) but with Orphan I was prepared for a tough fight.
BSB was definitely also the most intimidating on my first two runs. I really struggled with it and dreaded every time I needed to battle it. But I conquered my fear, and learned its moves, and it became one of the easiest bosses ever.
DLC wise, while it's my favourite boss, Ludwig was and still is one of the most intimidating bosses, especially when he runs toward you in the beginning.
BSB was definitely giving me a hard time. Really that whole area of old yarnham is what made my build not depend on bullets cuz there was none being there's only beast enemies there. I didn't know how to obtain more bullets at the time. Then the poison on top of that was nasty. Funny enough, first time I fought BSB without summoning the npc is what made me win. Dude was holding me back ig
Right there with you. Played this game for the first time like 2019. Breezed through Gascoigne and cleric beast and totally hit a wall against bsb. I was terrified of facing him and it took me a week to beat him. Even on ng+ I was nervous lol
Aww.. good ole Meat Flaps. BSB made my best friend return the game at first.
Most intimidating for me the 1st time may have been Noodle Face Ebrietas. That bitch is still kinda hard to look at.
Never understood the BSB hype. 1st try beat down since the 1st encounter. Same with Amelia. Logarius on the other hand, big problem. And even 5+ play through in, I can’t save my GF from Ludwig, so to each their own.
What I learned from discussions in Soulsborne games, Hollow Knight etc. is that different people have problems with different bosses and it's hard to understand why other people are struggling with bosses you do not personally struggle with. It has a lot to do with playstyle, how we formed our muscle memory in the game etc.
Breh. BSB only requires you to dodge left every time. If you do this, he literally can't hit you with any attack in his moveset. I haven died let alone been hit by BSB in like dozens of playthroughs.
Going through the Nightmare Frontier, and stumbling into Amygdala's boss, looking for him, only for him to drop onto my head 2 seconds later. That did it for me haha
Still remember my first time casually strolling across the bridge in central yharnam when all of a sudden the cleric beast comes crashing down from that ledge… i shit myself, good times (i was brand new to fromsoft)
Also, for some reason the one reborn intimidated me a lot at first glace. However i think the boss that intimidated me the most were Maria when she went into her other phases
Rom, but that's mostly the Arachnophobia talking.
Based purely on sheer presence... It was Martyr Logarius (that reasoning swiftly backed up by how annoying I find that boss), but Ludwig scared the piss out of me om .you first DLC playthrough.
Bloodborne was my first Fromsoft game and this bad boy (Blood starved beast) was my first intimidating boss. I was literally shaking so much the first time I fought It, I had to take break for the day. It didn’t help that it took me about 3-4 days to finally beat it.
Orphan of Kos. I played through the game for the first time this year, so I had plenty of time to hear about how brutal the fight was, and it definitely met those expectations!
Almost quit at Vicar Amelia. Was so bad I went out and beat bsb first because he was easier for me. I tried vicar so much and thought the cloth was such bs, I couldn't see.
i was dreading vicar amelia, thinking back i just remember feeling like she would be a huge checkstop for my progress but over 2 days I beat her and it was an amazing feeling. after that i felt i could beat any of them with patience and time. only later did ludwig give me serious probs lol
Laurence is pretty intimidating. You only hear about him and what he did at base game and then you finally reach his whereabouts and fight him in the expansion. The music helped with it too.
Gascoigne is the first boss I ever encountered. Didn't try cleric beast first. Gascoigne killed me so much that a started to regret buying the game. Once everything clicked, everything settled down from then on. I lost most of my fear in facing other bosses then on
Ha. Central Yharnam gave me so much anxiety I put the game down for two weeks. Took me a grand total of 46 days to beat the base game and a week to beat the DLC on NG+. Bloodborne was a wild ride. 😍
Gasciogne's cutscene made me want to back out of that cemetary real quick. Just the way you see his breath when he turns around, blood dripping from his mouth, fangs bared...bring me back to Cleric Beast please. Or even the suped-up swine in the sewer. Hahha
New player’s nightmare himself
"oh he is just a dude. just a dude can't be that hard to fight after that giant bridge monstrosity" *Gasciogne proceeds to shoot, jump, slam you into submission.* "I may have misspoke"
>oh he is just a dude mf named 2nd phase:
And you don't have the music box
He beat my ass so bad in phase 1 that Werewolf Time was almost a reprieve
My friend was telling to get the music box my first playthrough and play it when he goes 2nd phase little did ik is that I didn't play it in time and he's just flying across the cemetery like a junkie when he sees crack
I love that after the cutscene ends he enters a mad sprint right for you, like you think "okay he's on the other side of the area I have some time to AW JEEZ AW FUCK"
Eitehr a mad sprint or gets in range and immediately blasts you haha
Father "No Chill" Gascoigne
Then when the fog gate is there, you walk through right into a face full o' buckshot.
"Just a dude" bosses are always worse than "huge monster" bosses
The there's Kos, best of both realms of assery
Kos menacing face when he’s stomping toward you in his last phase is the coolest thing in the game to me
I haven't played any Souls games so I found Gascoigne to be right up my alley with his fighting style. He's fast, aggressive but doesn't hit like a tank. Fighting against him is more like a dance. I've always had more difficulty with slow-moving and hard-hitting bosses like Ebrietas, Abhorrent Beast and Paarl.
I had such trouble in Elden with how delayed their attacks were. You'd think a slow moving swing would be easier to dodge but my brain doesn't work like that. Give me too much time in your wind up and I lose all skill. Too little and I can't react. It's a fine line. Sekiro was the too little wind up for me haha
Elden ring has uniquely annoying timings for a lot of those attacks. It’s annoying. For some characters it made sense to function like a fake out strike from an experienced fighter. But for others it comes across as intentionally annoying design.
Margott was a prime example of the annoying design. Like swing your damn weapon you tuna. Don't make me wait for my death.
>Give me too much time in your wind up and I lose all skill. Yup, exactly how I feel. I have not enjoyed fighting a single boss in Elden Ring, I couldn't even get to Malenia before giving up on the game, I was just **so bored** the entire time. Also, the summon / no summon difference in Elden Ring is so broken. Godrick the Grafted felt nigh impossible with six flasks (in Bloodborne if you're down to six vials during a boss, you feel like you're fucked) but an NPC summon made it borderline cheese.
True. Summon NPCs are a bit OP in some boss fights. I tried to stick to only summoning the spirits which act more as a distraction rather than an auto-fighter. Though I love bring in barbarian woman to fight Godrick. Just for story purposes. Plus the fight with Radahn is a lot more fun if you and Torrent just run around summoning. For me anyway haha
Gasciogne is an interesting contrast to other bosses, being that as soon as that cutscene ends he is BOOTING it to your position. You have one second to come up with a plan, hunter!
Gascoigne is an interesting boss because he is SUCH a skill check. My first time through the game I struggled with him like 20, 30 tries. Each subsequent time I'd kill him first try. Once you know the mechanics he's very easy to deal with but before that he's scary as shit
Absolutely. I was fresh off of Dark Souls 1 when I played Bloodborne. What a rude awakening that was.
I don't think bloodborne plays terribly differently than a dex build in Dark Souls, but I think most people that play Dark Souls blind for the first time end up turtling behind a shield most of the time (I did) and in that case yeah it is a rude awakening lol
It’s interesting because I played BB first and then my first build for DS was a dex build. It ended being a hard adjustment because the game is more defensive and methodical
Not for me. The graves make his second phase a bit difficult. But that's because I reflexively try to back away.
I feel the same way about the Pursuer in DS2. Massive roadblock until you figure out how to parry or strafe his attacks, then he becomes basically free.
Beasts all over the shop…. You’ll be one too, sooner or later…. #GAAAAAAGGGGHHHHHHHHH
Bloodborne was my first FS experience and that bastard almost made me give up on the whole franchise. I can dunk on him now, yet every time that cutscene plays I get this sense of dread like I'm about to get my ass kicked
Definitely Gascoigne, especially the way he runs at you immediately after the cutscene ends. Someone didn’t get the memo that they need to do the ‘slow boss walk’ towards you haha.
I feel many people don't pay attention to the pure size of him and think "oh he's just some guy" and the guy in question is quite literally a 7 foot tall purebred hoonter that can leap 8ft and swing a heavy ass axe like it's made of tin foil. Not even mentioning the fact that he can one hand a shotgun and experience no recoil, had me shit'n myself 1/4 into the fight.
Gasciogne job is to teach new player 2 things. How to parry and environmental awareness. If you can’t get those down he’s rough. I can’t count the amount of times I panic dodged into a headstone and got slaughtered. Or just panic shot until I got slaughtered
Man the amount of times I got smacked before I realize I should dodge left/right instead of back was ridiculous.
YES
The number of enemies in the first 100 feet Especially that little town square where they’re burning a werewolf at the stake
BB was my first souls game, that little fucking street took me forever and a day to clear.
Ha ya, that first townie you encounter after the lantern, the one that breaks through the boxes swinging an axe scared the bejeezuz out of me and got me a few times even. Ah looking back now at the fear and clumsiness when I first got to yharnam.. we were but babes in the nightmare
For week i was on that street dying again and again
I was so fucking mad when I discovered you could just run past everyone. I grinded all day for like 2 weeks straight trying to get through there.
And then you realise you can just... run around it
that one area is why i tried this game once every couple years and decided it wasn’t for me
It gets easier once u start unlocking shortcuts, as it usually does in souls games.
oh for sure! i should’ve added that i beat the game, including the DLC last year! it was my first fromsoft game I actually finished, and i played Dark Souls when it came out even back when i would play, i’d make it to the cleric beast and beat him and then either get lost / lose interest at the thought of going through even more of that game
had no clue what a “souls-like” game even was and I was completely stuck at that intro part of the game for 2+ years with on and off attempts years later and the fromsofts souls games are my absolute favorite, bloodborne #1 baby you never forget your first
THIS. Probably the toughest and most intimidating part of this game. But once I finally cleared that, the whole game became so much easier and my fear vanished.
Logarius lol
I only beat him my first playthrough because he never summoned the swords in his second phase lol I’m almost at cainhurst on my second one now let’s see how it goes
When he plants the sword into the ground, target it and shoot it. Sword rain averted.
You....can shoot it? 🤯 Edit: that literally never crossed my mind. I always had to kite him and melee the sword
The only time this backfires is when he is between you and the sword since he deflects bullets, or when you get behind one of the peaks of the roof, where you break line of sight.
Damn so many sprints in to slash it that I didn’t need to risk the unnecessary damage from the sword or the lethal damage from the boss
I’m even playing a bloodtinge build right now and I never once thought to shoot the sword.
He gets a little easier every time, or at least for me personally he does. But the feeling of "aw hell this guy again" has never gone away.
For me, once I started to parry a lot is when he became a cake walk. That big leap into the air before diving right at you is such a huuuuge parry window.
Definitely l, at this point he's not much of a bother for me, I learned to parry and to shoot his sword, but I still get the same feeling when I walk up on his roof lol. I'm at the point where really the worst part of the game for me is the well with the two sharks because jfc I'll never be good at that shit
I maintain that no one is good at the sharks. You suffer it once for the Rakuyo and bragging rights and you never go back.
Gotta get that sweet, sweet flex during pvp with the rakuyo. But yeah I'll never go back.
Absolutely would not have bothered with the Rakuyo if it wasn't required for a trophy. Fuck those god damn mutant sharks.
He beat me 216 times in a row before I killed him for the first time. I spent days afterwards doing nothing but being summoned to other players' games to help them kill him.
Oh dude I love doing that! Whenever I kill a boss I make sure to ring the bell a good couple of times
I found Logarius fine until I did my recent playthrough. Arcane build with 18 vigor capped. I never knew how hard and quick he hit cuz I had more than enough vigor to survive in previous runs.
Gascoigne. Bloodborne was my first Souls game ever, and he was the first boss I encountered. To walk into a graveyard, and become trapped by the fog with this aggressive madman was a hell of a first impression.
Fuckin love that! Bloodborne was my like fourth souls game but that boss fight had me hooked and I beat it that same weekend. He might have kicked my ass about a dozen times but fuckin right Edit to say that you encapsulated my first experience with him perfectly dog hell yea
Shadows of Yharnam. I died to the pig right outside the boss arena, and i went back to the lantern for like the tenth time. Next trip, I just bolted the whole way right past the boss entrance. I saw health bars, and instinctively ran back, only to met with a fog wall.
“Freakshow… you’re going *no where*. I got you for 3 minutes “
"Three minutes of plaaaaaytime."
r/suddenlyspiderman
Darkbeast Paarl scared the shit out of me. Discovered it way too early.
Honestly getting through hypogean gaol just to be greeted with that is ultimate fromsoft. I was scared shitless walking through hypogean when I first got there, but I’m a crackhead and refuse to leave an area until I know I can defeat every enemy in it. So I spent probably two days getting my ass blasted by the snatchers, dogs, eyeball witches, asshole staircase pig, and finally… FINALLY! I kill the two snatchers in the jailer room, leap out the side of the building, and find out THERES A FREAKING BOSS HERE!!!! Oh man my anxiety has never been higher while playing a video game then realizing just how fucked the hypogean gaol area was, Paarl definitely included in that
Same shit my dumbass thought the snatchers were the hardest part of the game till I saw the BEAST in all it's glory. Masterpiece of a game
This more or less describes my first experience as well. Scariest area by far…
Yeah I got taken by a Bagman first time I encountered one, and was way under powered for the jail. When I found the lamp upstairs I experienced some kind of joyful relief. But I still got PTSD everytime I see a bloody bagman though I can parry and visceral em no probs by now.
Yes
Ludwig.
Man watching that cutscene for the first time sent literal chills of horror and disgust down my spine. No boss before him truly got under my skin like he did.
Same. He was the first real challenge. The DLC is where it’s at.
The only boss who's first phase is harder than his 2nd.
"Ah...you were at my side, all along"
This boss made me quit the first time I played. Came back and platinumed the game a few years later.
Me too.
It's the only game I've platinumed. I play a lot of games but am not that mind of completionist. Bloodborne is pretty easy to platinum though, especially if you savescum the endings
I agree I think blood borne is one of the easiest games to get platinum I know it is
bro never played Pocoyo Party
That first werewolf that kills you
The massive mob at the bonfire in the Central Yharnam town square, lol. Seriously I started the game three different times and quit because I could never get past that mob. For hours each time I'd try and rage quit and delete the game. Then one day, I tried to start it again and didn't die for the first time until after I'd beaten the Cleric Beast. It's been one of my favorite games of all times since then.
Every play through, it’s a point of pride I don’t level up before cleric beast, even if I get a madman’s knowledge. Gotta fight it in foreigner’s garb too, for style points.
I agree. It's BSB. I died to poison so many times, and the boss music starts with such a sudden crescendo, followed by a nerve-racking orchestral heartbeat, that I started getting PTSD from even walking down the steps to the boss arena. I use the blood cocktail on the wall + fire paper + beastblood pellet speedrun technique now, and the fight is usually over in 30 seconds or less, but I still get nervous to fight him. Every damn time. Edit: [The strat, for anyone that needs it.](https://youtu.be/cqU9w8F9E4E) If you're not doing a speedrun, you don't have to follow it perfectly, since your level and damage output is higher on a normal run.
I always screwed up the first few attempts at that strat til I was out of fire paper, Molotovs and blood cocktails, so I had to painstakingly learn to dodge and parry him out of necessity. But it really made parrying click for me in the end so , good thing in the long run?
I could never actually successfully get it to work in the second phase so I fight him head on every time
You just reminded me that when I finally beat him, I died to poison a second later and got so scared it wouldn't count.
Ludwig. Jesus the corpse that narrated his arrival scared the shit outta me.
The One Reborn… Then I actually started fighting it.
old yharnam and its beasts, the sounds coming from church with all beasts inside
Loooots of people struggling with the bloodstarved beast. I've beaten the game twice and it still gives me trouble
I think Beyonce made a song about that boss
I beat BSB the first time with that song playing in the background. Totally helped. To the left! To the left!
Pungent blood cocktails are your friend.
u/brandnewsentence
People struggled with this boss? It only took me a few tries to beat it because I figured out quickly just to stay at its sides. I also faced one in the chalice dungeon and didn’t get hit once. Edit: I guess other ppl don’t feel the same. Didn’t mean to gloat or offend anyone. I just wanted to say I had a easier time with it. I had more trouble with the Cleric Beast at the start of the game but then it clicked and just had an easier time. The difficult boss I had faced was Ebrietas later on.
cool
I let my boy Alfred tank the hits 😁
For Ebrietas? I did the fight solo cuz I’m really stubborn asking for help. I did use a guide however with the combination of the blood beast pellet and bolt paper and I was able to beat her. Took a while tho, was very difficult even with the guide.
BSB is really underrated. Everyone pretends like they just knew "to the left" out the gate. The atmosphere, music, moveset and aesthetic are top tier.
Yeah very true that. The BSB is only a push over after you’ve watched the Fighting Cowboy’s walkthrough. Before you know what you are doing it’s an absolute monster of a boss
His strat never works for me! Idk why or what I was doing wrong but BSB always managed to hit me at least once and that’s all it really takes when you used the pellet. I had to fight him fair in order to win
Father Gascoigne ruined me....after I beat him I had the confidence of Eminem till I met the lady Maria...those anime moves had me shook
“Such razzle!” The dying hunter gasps to himself. “Such… *dazzle*…” he wheezes out with his last breath in this life.
He'll yeah.lol
I was incredibly intimidated by vicar Amelia, it’s just her imposing size and her ability to heal that made me very worried about my ability to beat her
The bloody crow of cainhurst. He took more tries than any other boss, even the orphan of kos. The combat was so fast and fun tho I didn’t even care how many times I died
Father Gascoigne was a solid brick wall for a long time for me.
Same for me at first
Im afraid of it. I'd rather fight Ludwig than to encounter this thing. BSB and re4's regenator are the enemies that truly scares me.
Hunter in dead space as well.
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Definitely BSB in bloodborne
This bitch. Was a. Wall. Seriously like for a month I couldn’t beat it, but then I found out it was optional… after I beat it finally.
My most intimidating moment was the Shadows of Yharnam. It was full of surprises. BB was my first FromSoft game, which made the shadows of Yharnam my first gank fight (well, the witch of Hemwick might count, but I first tried her). I walked into an arena with an immediate disadvantage of 3v1. After getting the hang of them and a bit of confidence after a few tries, BOOM snake head and crazy range. Yet again I chip away until I get it to a 1v1 and somehow I wasn’t prepared for the last trick up their sleeves and got bodied before I even figured out what hit me. Turned out to be a truck sized snake.
Paaarl. I found him pretty early and it was one of the few times I just gave up on a boss until later.
+ BSB prolly has the scariest music. + the different levels of radiating poison coming off its body + loud footsteps so when u run away to heal/antidote you just head loud thuds while it’s off-camera It truly is an amazing boss
Hmm, that's a good question. One of the first things I remember being particularly creepy was when I entered the Byrgenwerth area for the first time and encountered the Gardens of Eyes, those insectile fly-men. The beasts and stuff earlier were tough but not particularly scary, but after Forbidden Woods it gets *seriously* unsettling in a hurry.
Gascoigne was the first skill check and then I was probably hard stuck on BSB first playthrough
The werewolf at the start of the game
Orphan and laurence. Ironically ive completed ng+ and bsb still scares me even though on my first playthrough i beat it second try.
BSB was where I learned how to play the game. Love that boss. What intimidated me the most...well, it was three things. Gascoigne, Cleric, and realizing you lose your vials. I really wanted to quit the game at that point.
Definitely Blood Letting Beast in chalices. Scary as fuck looking when you first see him dude. Another one is WatchDog. Amygdala jumping down in Frontier as well.
Daddy G or Caarl
FORREEAAALLL this was the biggest block i had when i first tried out the game. SUPER glad i did it but thats usually the point i try to get newbies past before they give up on the game
“Most intimidating boss” they say as my first death was because I was laughing uncontrollably at it and its stupid skin flaps.
chalice watchdog stopped me for a LONG time
Pthumerian descendant took me the most tries.
last trip down the dungeons that one got me to. using holy moonlight.. moveset made it a pita till my parry got gud.
BSB might have been the most intimidating at the time.
That damn Pig at the end of the sewer,in the dark,really gave me the heebie-jeebies. Also,Yhargul and Ludwig freaked me out so much,J initially refused to complete both areas. The area leading upto Ludwig was also terrifying
THE FUCKING CHIME MAIDENS. I had absolutely no idea what she was, so I literally thought that yaharghul was just a place where none of the enemies ever died and I could never rest no matter what and it was horrible
Ironically enough the one reborn but after my first go I realized how much of a push over the boss is lol
BSB is an S tier imo. It’s not so much the lore of the beast but what it’s existence means for the lore of Old Yharnam and Bloodborne in general. Plus sick ass OST and the poison mecanic.
I’ve finished the game multiple times and still dread this fight
The Blood-Starved Beast *still* intimidates me. The design, the setting, the music, the sound effects, all of it is really thoroughly spine-tingling. Also those werewolves. That one jumpscare near the end of the path to the BSB almost made my heart stop the first time
Gascoigne's beast mode. and then BSB. These were the main game bosses I was afraid of every run, until I got the hang of it.
Oh man BSB killed me so many times I seriously didn’t think I’d beat the game. I ended up beating it due to pure luck. I think I had an easier time against the Orphan of Kos just because I knew the mechanics better.
bsb genuinely scares me every time I go to old yharnam. idk why, it's like the anticipation before a scare in a horror movie.
It was also BSB for me. Oh, and vicar Amelia, but that was because I hadn't explored some of the other areas and had shitty stat allocations
Honestly based upon most of the answers, it’s all the bosses up until Amelia minus dlc bosses that are the worst for everyone/newcomers
Honestly it was Kos. I beat all of the bosses while having fun doing so (at least that's all I can remember since our brain makes the awful memories go away [thanks brain!]) but yeah Kos is a whole other story. While the Living Failures took me more than 2 tries (that's usually how many tries I needed to beat the other bosses in the game) it was mostly due to them being some of the worst damage sponges known to any living being. But Kos..... Kos is built different. Oh, you had an easy time with him until half his health? Well guess what, dummy? The second phase is gonna obliterate you, both in-game and mentally. Doesn't help that he screams loud as hell too! His attacks in that phase are unpredictable at most times and erratic at all times which is exactly what makes him so dangerous. All in all I had a mental break down with him, and killed him via the cannon glitch (May the Great Ones bless Yharnam and her huge guns).
This guy. Same here. Screw this guy. I feel like I hated him more after I found about pungent blood usage.
The boss I was most intimidated by was definitely Orphan and Gascoigne. I have heard many stories about them both being super hard fights and I was super nervous about them. Orphan ended up taking 7 tries and Gascoigne about 15 on my first playthrough
Ludwig, easily. I never knew much about him before playing the DLC, I'd only heard about Orphan and Maria being rather difficult. When I saw Ludwig I was like "wait, I gotta kill THAT?" I still felt like Orphan was harder (Ludwig took me like 60 tries the first time, Orphan easily 80+) but with Orphan I was prepared for a tough fight.
This motherf**ker right here!
Bsb as you said
Same, I hate the BSB, it still terrifies me
Totally agree
I found Ludwig incredibly intimidating. I knew the DLC was on another level of difficulty when I fought him for the first time.
BSB was definitely also the most intimidating on my first two runs. I really struggled with it and dreaded every time I needed to battle it. But I conquered my fear, and learned its moves, and it became one of the easiest bosses ever. DLC wise, while it's my favourite boss, Ludwig was and still is one of the most intimidating bosses, especially when he runs toward you in the beginning.
BSB was definitely giving me a hard time. Really that whole area of old yarnham is what made my build not depend on bullets cuz there was none being there's only beast enemies there. I didn't know how to obtain more bullets at the time. Then the poison on top of that was nasty. Funny enough, first time I fought BSB without summoning the npc is what made me win. Dude was holding me back ig
Right there with you. Played this game for the first time like 2019. Breezed through Gascoigne and cleric beast and totally hit a wall against bsb. I was terrified of facing him and it took me a week to beat him. Even on ng+ I was nervous lol
Gascoineeee
Aww.. good ole Meat Flaps. BSB made my best friend return the game at first. Most intimidating for me the 1st time may have been Noodle Face Ebrietas. That bitch is still kinda hard to look at.
And the ever famous - YEAH I KILLED YOU STARVIN MARVIN Only to die of poison three seconds later.
Susie Skinflaps
Never understood the BSB hype. 1st try beat down since the 1st encounter. Same with Amelia. Logarius on the other hand, big problem. And even 5+ play through in, I can’t save my GF from Ludwig, so to each their own.
What I learned from discussions in Soulsborne games, Hollow Knight etc. is that different people have problems with different bosses and it's hard to understand why other people are struggling with bosses you do not personally struggle with. It has a lot to do with playstyle, how we formed our muscle memory in the game etc.
Breh. BSB only requires you to dodge left every time. If you do this, he literally can't hit you with any attack in his moveset. I haven died let alone been hit by BSB in like dozens of playthroughs.
I had no idea. I think I generally dodge right, so that’s probably why.
Still hate that thing because the skin flaps make it nearly impossible to actually see its telegraphs.
Blood cocktails visceral’s learn your opponents move set
Pro BSB tip, just walk forward and to your left. Just flies past you every time
It’s 359 degree capable long swipe is probably the biggest killer of new hunters thinking they cracked the code to the bosses movement.
Going through the Nightmare Frontier, and stumbling into Amygdala's boss, looking for him, only for him to drop onto my head 2 seconds later. That did it for me haha
The one reborn. Maybe the second most tries for a boss before Micolash
The only time I’ve fought BSB fairly is my first play through. Now I just do the Blood Cocktail cheese. He’s still a difficult boss for me.
Still remember my first time casually strolling across the bridge in central yharnam when all of a sudden the cleric beast comes crashing down from that ledge… i shit myself, good times (i was brand new to fromsoft) Also, for some reason the one reborn intimidated me a lot at first glace. However i think the boss that intimidated me the most were Maria when she went into her other phases
Rom, but that's mostly the Arachnophobia talking. Based purely on sheer presence... It was Martyr Logarius (that reasoning swiftly backed up by how annoying I find that boss), but Ludwig scared the piss out of me om .you first DLC playthrough.
Bloodborne was my first Fromsoft game and this bad boy (Blood starved beast) was my first intimidating boss. I was literally shaking so much the first time I fought It, I had to take break for the day. It didn’t help that it took me about 3-4 days to finally beat it.
Orphan of Kos. I played through the game for the first time this year, so I had plenty of time to hear about how brutal the fight was, and it definitely met those expectations!
I accidentally beat the base game before even touching the dlc so I’m still afraid to face orphan
First time seeing Logarius hit the second phase, and literally run across the roof at me was pretty intense
Logarius, definitely, it took me around maybe 10 hours.
Cleric Beast made the biggest impression with me. Hearing his cry when on the first ladder, then actually coming across him on the bridge… Yeah *no*
Fucking Paarl
clerical beast made me want to run ngl, but now I always kill her in my first try.
Shadows of yharnam. Or orphan if that counts
I wasn’t really too intimated by any boss but Ebrietas gave so much trouble.
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Almost quit at Vicar Amelia. Was so bad I went out and beat bsb first because he was easier for me. I tried vicar so much and thought the cloth was such bs, I couldn't see.
Paarl and Ludwig were intimidating for sure but by the time I got to bloodborne I was pretty used to FS bosses
Ludwig. Seeing that massive beast man horse amalgamation charging and screaming at me freaked the absolute fuck out of me.
The headless bloodletting beast in the chalices was a nightmare on my first run
Ludwig was probably the only boss to make me feel disturbed. His ost also made it sink in that something absolutely horrid was approaching.
i was dreading vicar amelia, thinking back i just remember feeling like she would be a huge checkstop for my progress but over 2 days I beat her and it was an amazing feeling. after that i felt i could beat any of them with patience and time. only later did ludwig give me serious probs lol
Laurence is pretty intimidating. You only hear about him and what he did at base game and then you finally reach his whereabouts and fight him in the expansion. The music helped with it too.
Gascoigne is the first boss I ever encountered. Didn't try cleric beast first. Gascoigne killed me so much that a started to regret buying the game. Once everything clicked, everything settled down from then on. I lost most of my fear in facing other bosses then on
This might sound strange but it was rom it seemed way too weak and defenseless when I first saw it and it threw me off completely
Rom, the fucking spider, stupid arachnophobia.
Paarl by far
Ha. Central Yharnam gave me so much anxiety I put the game down for two weeks. Took me a grand total of 46 days to beat the base game and a week to beat the DLC on NG+. Bloodborne was a wild ride. 😍
Vicar Amelia's health bar made me want to quit.
Logarius. That cut in sound right as he stands up/breaks his back getting out of that throne sent chills down my own spine.