1864

You will almost certainly waltz through them.

1865

Hmmm, in that case, I won’t gather health vials first. Let’s see if I can do it without them.

1866

Well, that was anti-climatic.

I’m not sure why you would pick the other ending option. Wouldn’t your character want to end the dream at this point and wake up? Why would you resist? And I wonder what happens if you do? Another boss fight, I’m guessing? In which case, I guess that’s a good reason to resist.

This kind of puts the really hard part of Nightmare of Mensis in proper context doesn’t it? I mean, basically the pigs weren’t that hard, and they were right at the end. So I think that’s why they put all those really hard enemies near the end, all the ones I ran past.

1867

I watched the other ending on Youtube. I think that looks better! Much less anti-climatic too.

1868

But are those the only ones? Ho, ho, ho…

1869

What happened to the giant brain with eyes looking thing that I lowered into a pit? I guess that killed it. What if I hadn’t done that? The elevator shortcut could be missed. Though not easily. They make it pretty dang obvious. I found it in my run through even without messages.

1870

There is another very missable elevator that goes down to the pit it gets dropped into - so missable you did in fact miss it! If killed it gives an item necessary for an upper tier chalice ritual. You can also do a gesture at it for like 60 seconds to receive a good rune. I have no idea how anybody ever discovered that without being told.

1871

D’oh! I even went to the top of the pit last night and jumped in, just in case that’s how I’m supposed to get in there. I wanted to be sure not to miss anything before ending the game. But I guess I still did.

I blame the messages that didn’t lead me to this missable elevator. Bloodborne notebook community, you have let me down for the last time.

1872

It’s stuck off in the corner of the room with the two chainball butchers or whatever they are, doesn’t stick out and doesn’t activate until the brain is down. Rumor has it that the gesture thing was leaked by one of the official guide writers to a streamer and spread from there, which is a bit disappointing.

1873

I wonder that about a lot of the Soulsborne stuff, which I think is (1) why they have replayability and (2) why they encourage community.

1874

The nightmare front consumed almost all my blood vials. And Amygdala. Hoo boy, not sure if I even want to try solo. I helped some people and we were 2 or 3 against Amygdala. Tough fight. I watch Christopher Odd’s Bloodborne playthrough, and he stumbled to success in this fight. I have the cannon now, looks like it is good for stunning, unfortunately it uses 10 bullets per try.

1875

ok, got Amygdala down on my own. Wasn’t too bad. A bit disapointed that there wasn’t anywhere to go after the fight. What’s up with this tower.

Back to Rom. I counted the use of insight. I started with 60 and finished the fight when I was at 45. I summoned Damian, who always died during phase 2. What a schmuck!

He used some healing miracle. Are miracles in the game? This is what I don’t like about the game. It is basically all melee …

After Rom, only new area is Yhargul, Unseen Village. I hate it. Always respawning enemies, until you find the bell lady. So hard to explore, when every few seconds super strong enemies spwan. Got to the second lamp. That was a chore.

I am level 62 now. I don’t think this will be a game to replay for me. I would replay, if I could play a ranged guy, or a cleric, or something. As it is, I wouldn’t know how to play differently.

1876

Next time you could play with a different type of weapon I suppose. If you used an axe, then you could do with a cane.

I agree though, I didn’t feel the need to replay. But I’m that way with all the Dark Souls game too.

1877

I looked up, forgot about Cainhurst castle. It has some Painted World vibes.

That was bold in Dark Souls, you were stuck in the painted world until you made it to the end. No upgrading, no escape. And it was a hard part. However, you cannot stumble into it.

1878

Oh wow. I wish I’d known about that before I triggered the end of the game and got put into new game+.

1879

You didn’t go to Cainhurst? Oh man…that boss…

1880

Also the flea women on the grounds of the castle.

1881

He saw those in the Hunter’s Nightmare, though. I have to admit, the first time I went to Cainhurst I saw those (and how little damage I was doing to them) and went, “nope” and left to come back later.

1882

It occurred to me that I could go back to my old character, the hunter’s axe character who was stuck on Lady Maria. I could do Cainhurst using that character.

1883

What. The. F*ck. Cainhurst castle, starting area. How comes that those super insects give me so much trouble. It took me 2 hrs until I learned the pattern and how to get to them. There are like 6 of them in the starting area. I need 4-5 good strikes to kill one of them. Brutal. If they are the welcome comittee, I don’t want to see the rest.

Also I spent 2 hours waiting to be summoned for Rom. Helping others to get through. Some are noobs, they go for the fatty shiny thing super fast and get killed by the little spider things. I managed to kill the boss with people who were more cautious, killing all spiders first and then go to the boss.

I wonder if Monster Hunter coop is also that much fun? The start of Monster Hunter is so slow and boring, that I haven’t get to coop yet.