Bloodborne review

[BaronSqwelch]

Yeah PvP is annoying. Whenever I am invaded now I just exit the game. Benefits of the auto save system mean you start exactly where you were when you quit, not back at the lamp.

[Golgo]

Acidentally beat

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Blood Starved Beast

on first try. Expecting the worst I

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summoned Albert, hoping to buy a bit of extra time just to work out patterns before the inevitable dying, and remembering how utterly hapless companion AI was in previous Souls games. Usually they'd wander off a cliff before reaching the boss. Anyhow, we splatted him and even Albert survived. I had very high poison defence, repeating pistol and +4 and whip at +4 for distance attack and that was that. Foolish beast spent much of his time jumping into pillar and face planting them, swinging away.

Could do with seeing a bit more variety in bosses now. So far I'm finding this game is way inferior to Demons in that regard. All I've seen is a bunch of variants on

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werewolves

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[H-Man]

I'm done with Bloodborne now and for the most part loved every minute. My gripes - very little variety in build types, a great deal of pointless armour, and the new health system. Bloodborne is the first Souls type game that forced me into doing something I didn't want to do and grinding for health vials and/or bullets. Not often, and less towards the end and NG+, but enough to grate. I also preferred the old life/death mechanic and how it worked with boss fights and pvp. Otherwise, character and creature design, setting, gameplay, weapons - all bloody brilliant

If From can take Bloodborne and marry it with the build options from the previous games - I really wanted to make an uber agile, pistol and cane wielding victorian gent - it would be epic.

[dataDave]

Just buy vials and bullets instead, especially with the surplus echoes left over from leveling before heading into a new zone where they will almost certainly get lost.

[H-Man]

That worked for me later in the game and in NG+, which pretty much just throws money at you, but for the first few areas I was having to go grinding for health more often than I'd like. Not a massive issue, especially as you level up (it actually seems very easy in Bloodborne to overlevel and end up with so much hp that bosses become a cake walk), but when things are tough and money is short, it's not the best solution.

[dave heats]

What sort of level was everyone approaching the final 1/3rd of the game? I seem to be delightfully overpowered at the moment, and finding it more enjoyable than the underpowered struggle at the beginning.

[Lebowski]

The funny thing is that Hyrule Warriors is (slightly) less of a button-masher than this game, and can be more difficult.

your well over leveld health wise in a lot of these fights to what I've seen others do, did you not put any blood into anything but energy???

I had half that energy at these fights as I was putting souls into skill, strength, vitality, and stamina in equal measures I suppose this is what's called tanking it.

[Uli]

i can't find Eileen anymore since i missed to help her out in the fight with another hunter. is she gone for the rest of the game now?

What sort of level was everyone approaching the final 1/3rd of the game? I seem to be delightfully overpowered at the moment, and finding it more enjoyable than the underpowered struggle at the beginning.

no idea where the final 1/3 of the game starts but just managed to beat "Rom", i am level 81 but don't feel overpowered as i am still dying a lot.

[fuse]

i can't find Eileen anymore since i missed to help her out in the fight with another hunter. is she gone for the rest of the game now?

Have you tried wearing the Yharnam dungarees and dancing on a street corner

[Golgo]

Guffaw

[Uli]

Have you tried wearing the Yharnam dungarees and dancing on a street corner

tested and proven by yourself?

[dataDave]

your well over leveld health wise in a lot of these fights to what I've seen others do, did you not put any blood into anything but energy???

I had half that energy at these fights as I was putting souls into skill, strength, vitality, and stamina in equal measures I suppose this is what's called tanking it.

I completed the first pass with 21 Vitality. The only reason I started leveling Vitality was because everything else was capped, including consumables in storage.

[dataDave]

What sort of level was everyone approaching the final 1/3rd of the game?

I was at around 50 when I beat Rom.

[darkangel]

On Blood Starved Beast!

[Tobal]

had my fill of pvp'ers, so when they do spawn(until I find the caller) I back off down a narrow place and hit them with the cannon, 4/4 with that technique



Went back to Martyr L and still couldn't solo him at 80.. something about those melee hit that stuns you just a fraction, stop you rolling away. In the end I call for help and pummelled him, hurray!