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[Bloodborne] Anyone who owns a PS4 needs this game in their life. (Ok yeah, this got spoilerific really fast)
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Hidden amongst the furthest reaches of the treacherous eastern mountains, this city lies in seclusion.
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Forgotten
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Cursed
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An affliction has cursed the city for countless ages, an endemic nightmare known only as the Scourge of the Beast
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Those afflicted by this sickness lose all sense of reason, transforming into what can only be described as beasts.
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Night after night, “hunters” arise to cleanse the streets of these horrors.
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Basically. It's fucking Werewolves vs Vampires with eldritch horror aliens influencing shit
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90% of the beats you fight are humans going through various stages of lycanthropy due to blood being the stable of the world
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Once, an scholar found ancient blood of "celestial beings" deep in forgotten labyrinths and decided to study it
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The adage he stood by was "Fear the old blood"
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One of his students was a dumbass and decided to ignore that
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He first gave some of the old blood to a Queen of a far off land, which turned her and her nobles into vampire like beings, who were looked down on for seeking the blood of hunters to give to their queen
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the Vilebloods.
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Then the dumbass went and founded what was known as the Healing Church, which rules over all the land and hates the Vilebloods for their "forbidden blood"
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Despite the fact that all the Vilebloods ever did was get blood for the queen, while the church were doing human experimentations
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Basically, they discovered that the old blood had healing properties
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it could cure any disease with a blood transfusion
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what they didn't realize was that old blood mixed with human blood caused mutations and insanity
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and thus an old man named Gehrman stepped forward. He altered clothing to be more resistent, and made a weapon that had both long and short forms. He was the first hunter.
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Most of this isn't even revealed in the game fyi. I had to scoure the wiki for the most part. But that's the beauty of the game
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It's heavy in lore, but only if you find the lore yourself through piecing together item descriptions and brief dialogues
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It has very very few cutscenes, but the ones it does have are badass
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aibou: Plurk is being a dick and did not even show me your comment
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But yeah no. I was on security guard duty and I legit spent a good 6 hours reading over the wiki
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I just got to Yahar'gul and i hate my life so much
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because now i can't get to Hypogean Gaol and that was the fasted place to grind
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I want to become a vileblood god dammit but because i've got an arcane build I can't beat Logarius worth shit
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Lvl 74 and he fucking slaughters me in record time every god damned time. Because I've got a saw cleaver scaling off of fire, i can take down most of the bosses so far no sweat
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but no. no this motherfucker just HAS to be resistent and i suck at viscreal attacks and that's the main way to get him down
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Even my roommate who's almost beaten two games on it can't do shit with my character against him, because he has no idea how to prep the asshole because he never does the scythe attack
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I've called for help for co-op and the only one i've gotten has died faster than me
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But. My poor, poor woes aside.
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I've been so fucking sucked in that nope, gonna go full on out with the character in the lore
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my hunter is goin to fucking be Eliza, the Crow Knight of the Cainhurst Vilebloods
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who chose to see the sunrise, and remain a hunter to send blood to the queen
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And I can't fucking wait for the DLC coming out in november
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God it is.
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Gehrman breaks my fucking heart
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I almost feel bad deciding to take the sunrise ending, but fuck being the new surrogate and fuck being a celestial
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My roommate went with the celestial choice because he decided he'd grow to be a fair god and i'm just seriously man. you can't know that. for all you know your mind deteriorates and you're just as bad
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Roommate also out right refuses to believe that Arianna the whore is the daughter of Annalise
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i just oh come on man
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Her blood has the same properties as the queen, she's wearing the Cainhurst noble dress, her blood is considered "forbidden" by the curch,
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and in the room where you find the dress there's a portrait of the queen holding a blond baby
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his excuse was saying that just because she's blond doesn't mean anything there could be lots of blonds
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he'd except she's a vileblood but refuses to believe she's related to the queen
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cause the queen says her and the player are the last ones and i just
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no shit she probably thought everyone was taken out in the massacre and doesn't know Arianna survived
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Yeah, that was about Blitz's reasoning too. But signs point to it being debateable if you'll be able to keep your mind the way it is once your transcend
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...Also my reason for my character is selfish. To be the last Vileblood, and serve the forsaken queen
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If i could get past the fucking martyr piece of shit
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Logarius is an asshole. and it makes me sad
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Because I love Alfred to bits and pieces
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But then I'm just. baby. baby no. Executioners are not nice people you were so nice why you do this
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...I also find Father Gascoigne ridiculously attractive
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He's like a twisted mix of Father Anderson and Alucard
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Yeah man. and oh god it's even worse did you get Geherman's words about Laurence?
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"Oh, Laurence... what's taking you so long... I've grown too old for this, of little use now, I'm afraid..."
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"Oh, Laurence... Master Willem... Somebody help me... Unshackle me please, anybody... I've had enough of this dream... The night blocks all sight... Oh, somebody, please... "
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i just. o w
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bb. bb Laurence is dead
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his head is in a cathedral and his body is in a labyrinth taken over by a maggot
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I'm going to have to take his place with one of my other characters, it's too painful not to
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...but that also lead me to the belief no. I ship the hell out of Laurence/Gehrman and no one can tell me otherwise
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As for the doll. pretty sure it was the moon presence that gave her life in the dream, but she's got silver blood just like all the celestials you kill
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They said Ebrietas was kind to humans for the longest time as well.
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Oh god i also found something else i didn't realize
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I had no idea Gascoigne had two daughters
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after the first one leaves and you get her bloody ribbon from the pig in the sewers, you go back to the window and it's her older sister asking you to find her younger sister
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and giving ther the red ribbon she gives you a white one, which is the same one with the blood cleaned off of it
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...See I can not in good faith eat a fucking umbilical cord.
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and i'm so torn what to do about Arianna
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I just. when she gives birth, it would be a mercy killing. but supposedly, it implies killing the baby doesn't kill her, even if it looks like it
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Djura. is pain. the fact that all he wants to do is protect the beasts that used to be his friends
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...but. not gonna lie. i may have killed Eileen for her outfit because i didn't feel like doing her story line
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My other roommate? I RAGED AT HIM. SO. FUCKING. HARD.
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HE KILLED THE OLD LADY WHO JUST WANTS TO PROTECT PEOPLE
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the one in the cathedral ward
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he fucking killed her because she looked creepy
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just. SHE IS THE NICEST FUCKING PERSON IN THE GAME YOU ASSHOLE
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oh yeah
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I killed the nun dead
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You do not touch Arianna
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...i just felt bad after, only because the old woman blames herself
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and is so sad over it
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Arianna is legit the only survivor i actually like
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the cranky old bitch is only nice when she's going insane or high as balls, the guy is a dick who only calls you a liar, the nun is a bitch who kills because Vileblood
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and the begger just fucking kills everyone
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But. One thing I cannot for the life of me figure out. how the hell do you do gestures?
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...i keep forgetting that's a thing
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this is honestly the only PS4 game i've put any investment into
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it's my roommates ps4
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but, bonus. i realized the player hunter counts as a silent protag, and has enough character development to possibly be apped in a game somewhere. shit that's on my to-do list within the next year