Bloodborne DLC ► Ascend the Astral Clocktower [#2] 

yes, i'm still sad he has abandoned that serie :(

Still waiting 😭

@@MadAtreides1 he doesn't give a fuck anymore about bloodborne or other lore videos, it seems that the channel is now mainly for profit and he no longer creates "from fans to fans" lore materials, it's a shame...

Now i'm really crying that he's completely forget about this 🥹🥹

@@Akira06660 money like the old blood corrupts the hunter Vaati

Holy shit

That's actually a sick idea. If that is true than the symbolism is so hard that we may not have even found it all.

And L2 is a spin.

Clever

*O.O*

As you once did for the Hunter Eileen, grant us cries... grant us cries...

Aaaaaaaaaaooooohhhh... Oooooooooooooohhhhhh!

Shit it has been almost 5 years

lady maria and Sister friede is my favorite boss fight of all time. i love the cold atmosphere from two of them :P

Mersy, mersy on poor followers!

ikr

we can still hope... a bit

I need this prepare to cry

Still waiting haha

Caleb Tc still waiting

+thenthapple "Hmmmm......Let me rephrase that. Are they being complete fuckwads, or just slighty annoyning assholes?"

"oh gee look at the time. im sorry what was gour question?"

JGamer king more like shitlords than fuckwads I'd say XD

+thenthapple Hey Alfred the Executioner and the foreign cleric Father Gascoigne were good guys! Wait we're talking about Healing Church hunters? Look behind you! (Runs away)

+thenthapple "Are my Church hunters the honourable spartans I hoped they would be?" *begins sweating intensely* u-ummm.... *begins unsheathing chikage*

Whoa. Good catch.

+MetalDrummer141 Doesn't he? He does walk around in the final battle... peg leg maybe?

+Glorc72000 it´s a peg leg yeah

+MetalDrummer141 man reading things like this make me realize how ingenious bloodborne and the souls series actually is.

+MetalDrummer141 Wait a minute, I noticed something that I didn't quite understand in my last playthrough: In the room with the stairs leading to Queen Analise right after Logarius there a lot of these horseback knight statues (or armor stands - i'm not quite sure what they are). If you look closely, you'll see that each of them are missing half of their right leg (from around the knee down), but their left leg is completely normal. Seriously, go check it out. Now it makes sense to me, why they are missing half their leg.

Well, water in egg.

mm watery egg

Fun fact, she's asking if she will ever become a great one. Robin's are grown humans, who shouldn't have anywhere else to evolve, but its possible to become an egg, or an infant great one

+Christoph Dirnbauer hahahaha, seriously?! You guys are incredible with the stuff you find out about Ludwig's head! Let's put this in the next episode :P

+VaatiVidya If you're wondering, the arrow is from the Harrowed Hunter. It's strange why he would bother to kill the head of ludwig.

+VaatiVidya the guy who killed him was simon

+Father Gascoigne Put him to rest, perhaps? We know from the Executioners at least that members of the Healing Church take martyrdom very seriously, and Ludwig did deserve some sort of release from the Nightmare.

Justin Lee That's true. But Simon within himself is a very mysterious character.

+Chips Light Because thats the heat of her blood! Boiling hotter than anyone elses in battle!

JUST WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK I AM!

The Old Hunter Bone is the bone of a particular first hunter's apprentice. So that grave is supposed to be Maria's.

+meihinoki I never thought about that. But it would make a lot of sense. However, in this case, why is she in Kos's nightmare? :\

+Dr. Oga I feel the nightmare envelops all that were part of the original beast hunts. I also feel that this may be the reason why Gehrman and his associates tried to ask for aid from a different Great One.

+Dr. Oga Her physical body is dead. Her consciencne is alive in the nightmare.

+draconic33 "It is said that HE was an apprentice to old Gehrman" Maybe that's just an oversight in the translation? I also can't remember what the doll is saying when she's kneeling at the grave. Might be more interesting now that we know about Maria.

John Goodwin still waiting

John Goodwin still waiting.

John Goodwin still waiting

still waiting...

Yeahhhh.. STILL WAITIIIIIIIIIIIIING >o

This is my favourite comment of 2015!

+Treebeard of the Forest The amount of love put into this world really takes me aback!

And to take it further, exactly below the elevator is where you find Laurence's (who thought blood was the path to evolutions but instead lead to beast hood,) skull

+Treebeard of the Forest Can't tell if clever for lore's sake, or just showing that the healing church are the type of cunts who have to make everything into a pun. Like I can imagine the guy who designed the mechanism looking at his friends and going "eh? eh? get it? get it?" and the other church hunters just groan and roll their eyes.

You just blew my mind-eyes

me too bro it's one of my favorites bosses in the game

I greatly enjoyed her and the Orphan. Two fights that didnt abuse your camera lock if you use it. Not to mention, rather fast and needing to be up on the dodge like no other.

+Ginger Dwarf I hated the lawrence fight. The arena is simply too small to fight him. I loved Lady Maria fight and the final one. The failures boss fight wasn't that special.

+Ginger Dwarf I found her so much harder than Ludwig. Mainly her last phase because of the fire that gets added to her swords. I love parrying and the fire attacks would hit you even if you parried her, which made it super infuriating for me lol.

It's awesome because the fights needs you to do something REALLY special, and you need to do it perfectly. It's easy to understand, if you want to win, you need to parry and take advantage of her low poise. There is only one way to win, but it's clear, even though it can be difficult. I think it's for this exact reason that there is mixed feelings about this one. You either like having a restriction, or you like liberty and killing your opponent however you want. Still, some of the best fights in the game are against hunters. Gascoigne, Gerhman... The two most difficult bosses of the game IMO, but the fights are so satisfaying. I was happy to see that the Old Hunters included more hunters as normal ennemies. It feels great to fight against someone that is equal to you, like Theo said.

Hopefully we get one now that were in 2020 lol

@@jb0258 Not likely lol

Until now tho 😂

We have to write that under his new videos guys!

2021 and no video

A hoonter must hoont

+xAssassin10 Going to run a strawpoll on this question, if you're interested! I put it in the description

I think you are right! Love this DLC so far

+xAssassin10 Honestly I found this DLC extremely disappointing.

+Ryan Carroll I feel like it was more souls like than the main game, so I enjoyed it. but I can see how some people may dislike it, as it is a strange mix between vanilla Bloodborne and the souls games. Every area in the DLC seemed completely different to one another, which is what dark souls feels like to me. But the main game seemed to either be Victorian England style [first half of the game] or Lovecraftian [second half of the game].

+xAssassin10 I liked this one so much I actually captured the fight myself... I normally dont do this sort of things but the fight was soooo very memorable. I told all of my Soulless friends how this fight had dethroned Artorias'

Do lsd

CorvusPitohui yikes

CorvusPitohui true.

@@transquelaag for a more accurate bloodborne experience he should take about a gram of Benadryl

@@djnevling8253 LMAO

Well said.

Same.

I thought she is related to queen yarnam? The final boss of the chalice dungeon

+Renn Yeah, I'm pretty sure Annalise is related to Queen Yarnham. They're both functionally immortal, which was a special trait of the Keepers of the slumbering Great Ones, of which Yarnham was queen (obviously). I'm willing to bet descendants of Yarnham are the only ones who are affected by the Red Moon hanging low, or whatever that note in Byrgenwerth says about a womb bearing a child. Annalise doesn't get affected by it because she seems incapable of bearing children anymore, but her daughter Arianna can (and does).

+Darth Yoda I could not agree more with you, I also think the doll is similar to maria, the same voice and accent too, I would say...

Something that striked me odd is that she apperantly doesn't like blood weapons. The description of the Rakuyo she threw away sais so at least. But in the fight she uses a different weapon that does exactly that. Is there some meaning behind that?

+Ma Greiner It tells us exactly how dedicated she was to preserving the secret of the Nightmare; that she would use the very weapons she despised to stop us.

Or Gherman's.

S t i l l w a i t i n g . . .

Still waiting

Still waiting

Glad I'm not the only one still waiting

Nah. He left ua

+MLG anime tits he left what?

He left this series when DS3 came out

well ds3 got bled dry I'm more interested in what I CAN'T play

Do it like me and borrow a PS4 from a friend or family member for some time or for specific times each week. Best decision of my life. I have a high end PC and I never saw the sense in getting a PS4 for 1 or 2 games. Then I borrowed the PS4 from someone I know and I'm having a blast with Bloodborne. It's a lot like Dark Souls, but refreshingly different really.

Oh my god your RIGHT!

+Scott L I know for a fact something goes on between the doll and Maria, cause i got some special dialogue from the Doll after i beat Maria.

+Scott L It'd also be kind of funny if when Lady Maria tells you that the dead should be well left alone that she's actually talking about Gehrman and the Doll.

+Stephan Engelen tell me please ? :D

+MrGrumblfix I used the lamp right after i beat Maria on new game + earlier today. And don't remember her exact wording, since i was clicking through her dialogue to level before i noticed it was new. But to sum it up she had this strange feeling or sensation that something happened. I wish i recorded it aswell, i recorded the fight i had with her on my channel for a friend to see, it's not really a good video or anything but atleast it shows i beat her today, and that i'm not making things up. lol

What a good sport.

+Gray same thing here dude. =(

+Gray why games aren't awesome all the time is because it takes awesome people behind the game to make those awesome things and there are so few

+KingBoro and because the crowd keeps buying shitty games on mass, so why make something good when you can sell something bad just fine

+healthtrooper *en mass

Glad I wasnt the only one

That's all I need to cry.

Saitama Caped Baldy I'm still waiting myself

still waiting too

Even Phil Spencer agrees!

+Phil spencer Sadly i'm thinking that bloodborne will only have 1 DLC like dark souls. they're choosing Quality over quantity.

***** im cool with this. I would love more, but im thankful we at least got this.

+Phil spencer Boy I sure love the multiplayer maps this DLC offered. Oh wait whats that? There isn't a competitive multiplayer? K bye.

+Dick Deepinsideher Absolutely, couldn't agree more. I'd love to see how they top Maria. :D

+Jeff Wernicki She seems to have her ô flora dialogue more often, i got it 2 times in a row.

+GENER CAP Nah its another dialogue she says.

She will say something about feeing like some shackles have been broken if I remembered right.

yeah she does i got that aswell, once you beat the infant of kos and still haven't finished the main story, she has new dialogue aswell, mentioning Gherman able to sleep better.

+Stephan Engelen damn, my doll only says "Gherman awaits you at the foot of the great tree"

and stabbing her with my bowblade is the deepist we will ever be in her

+nick andhiscamera Lol

+mjtechnoviking44 Actually if she ripostes you she does a "kiss of death" esque visceral attack, she stabs you, gives you a peck on the cheek, and then swiftly yanks her knife/hand back out to give you a quick, clean death. Very kind is Lady Maria.

+pdragon619 She's actually saying "Git Gud"

We're all still waiting for more bloodborne prepare to cry over here Vaati.

reading this hurts

@@DJYungHoxha It really hurts.😩

@@tialapioneer7604 like, really bad

@@sapphic_sophie ...

It's going to be 2022 soon and we still ain't going to have it.

Yeah they also have a lot of other points of contrast and difference. For example the Eurasian (European+Asian) Medieval Mythology akin to the Epics of past days in Dark Souls VS the Lovecraftian Victorian horror of Bloodborne. While both play a lot on "the ones that came before" (mythology) as well as philosophical questions of life, Dark Souls feels more stale and timeless, like a lost and aged decaying world constantly on the brink of death. It also evolves around the spirit of self-sacrifice and the lives of the many build on the power of the few. Bloodborne on the other hand has an oppressively savage tone to it. Dark and gloomy, while having concepts of transcendance and egotism (to a degree). Deception and Corruption play a big role and the euphoria of succumbing to our basic instincts. Yet they both twist reality (in DS time and space, in BB dream and waking), and they both have the same essential question at their core: about the nature of humanity, and the blurred lines between sanity and insanity/savagery. What makes a human human? To what end do we abandon this humanity? What does this abandonment help us? How does it harm us? At which point can you stop seeing a human as one? Is it the form? The actions? The thoughts? Why do humans strive to be more than they are? And how do they achieve it? Are all things just a means to an end, or is there a right and wrong way to do it? Where do you draw the line on this? All that is in both games to varying degrees. It truly is fascinating....

kinda reminded me of Silent Hill.

+TheNinjaDC The fact that you think Arkham Asylum is that bad, when Silent Hill has been around is pretty funny, not to mention you havent heard of American McGee's Alice games, also Outlast and plenty of other games lol

Jesus Sanchez true lol way more fucked up asylums then Arkham.

+TheNinjaDC Blip Blop, Slip Slop

+TheNinjaDC plip plop splish splash

+Andrew Glenn I forgot to mention something else as well. It is on the poor rememberings of yharnam thought you had, it was that the fact gherman has been trapped in the hunters dream so long that he can barely remember the yharnam he used to know and his struggling to remember it made the nightmare look the way it does.

+Andrew Glenn This is actually a great theory. And there is proof in game to back you up. First the dialogue you mentioned is one thing. He clearly knows Laurence and Ludwig personally as he mentions them in his own dialogue. It could just be a coincidence but notice how the old Hunter armour set looks quite similar to Gehrman's? We know all Hunter attire was fashioned around Gehrman's own attire but it has long since evolved into more practical attire. So my point is, if Gehrman was to be put into the hunter's dream not long after the church closed the hunter's workshop he wouldn't know about the vast changes in armour. So the armour you see the hunters wearing could be Gehrman remembering what the hunters wore in his time. I'm sure there is more proof out there but my last and biggest nugget of evidence is the abandoned workshop. Or more specifically what you find within it. We know Gehrman connected with a great one namely the Moon Presence. How did he connect with the Moon Presence? with a Third Umbilical Cord. Who else had a Third Umbilical Cord? The school of mensis. Or again more namely its leader Micolash. Who is Micolash? The host of the nightmare of mensis. See where I'm going with this? We also know Micolash was long dead but his concense lives on in the nightmare. So even if Gehrman has perished in the Waking world he could still host the Hunter's Nightmare.

Yeah man, I'm not educated enough on Bloodborne lore to get what I'm thinking across the best but you basically did it for me haha. I also have the thought that the reason Gherman sleeps peacefully is the death of maria, she is no longer plagued in the nightmare. The idea of the hunter attire is a good addition to the theroy and it makes sense that the nightmare would hold the secrets of brygenwerth as he had strong ties to the school. What we do know is the nightmare requires a host (or so it seems with micolash) so I'm sure someone we have heard about lore wise is hosting it. I don't believe is willem as he is awake at brygenwerth. It more than likely isn't laurence as he is now a beast. That to me leaves Gherman and Caryll and I've yet to find any connections with caryll. The dialogue you hear when gherman sleeps isn't him begging to be awoken form the hunters dream but in fact when he sleeps he ends up in the hunters nightmare? What if, to deal with hunters who have gone drunk off of blood were put in the hunters nightmare by gherman to get rid of them as there was no way for him to hunt them all. That can add some tragedy to Maria and Ghermans relationship for sure. OR what if the pact gherman has with the moon presence is that the blood drunk hunters are transported to the nightmare by the moon presence and in return Gherman will watch over the dream and send new hunters on the hunt. I'm just spilling thoughts out and like I said don't have much evidence myself nor the sleuthing skills to get any but I think it's kinda cool and I never read any theory like it thus far.

gatta admit, the big head on the top of the tower has a sexy voice lol

+Dick Deepinsideher it's the Same voice as the guidenes-girl in demon's souls :-)

Destiny is still good game

Everything he said was true.

Amen brother

@@BeastBoy557 what kind of dlc have you been buying

αlιєи ѕρlσσgє You sucking off Destiny now?

I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS SO MUCH

+Knightey Night I loved the visuals+soundtrack of them summoning the meteors.

+Knightey Night By far the hardest boss in the Game, in my opinion :D

+Helton Gutzeit He's talking about a different boss

that boss man.. hardest boss in the game. The HP pool on him is huge.

+Dick Deepinsideher all the bosses have freakishly high hp compared to the ones in the main game

ooooooohhhhhh

+SunBro Solaire or Harry Potter! :O

+MrChubbyFlamingo Uh, no?

damn, solaire is attentive as always, this is why I trust you to help me with any boss fight :D

+SunBro Solaire FOOKEN WEED

+Logan Hopper I don't feel its equal footing however, I can't fly up and have magic blood/fire blades. I wish I fucking could but nah

That'd make the game less fun if you could fly.

Logan Hopper What are you talking about? That slimy fuck Orphan of Kos wouldn't know what hit him.

+AwesomePhantomPig That and when I used her blades, they kind of suck, no extended blood animation either. So hardly equal footing.

+Logan Hopper The great thing with this fight is that it feels like you're dancing with her and the first one to make a mistake is done for.

It is sad that it is bloody short.

+Lord Zuko 5 new bosses,8-9 new locations,new enemies,new weapons,new armor sets,new spells. it may not be too long,but it sure is the best dlc out of all the Souls

+Lord Zuko At least you won't be killed by thunder unicorns and blocked by snow storm.

+WFoong98 And yet, you can still be killed by lightning.

+WFoong98 The whale shark giant guys are worse than thunder unicorns imo xD

And Artorias, of course

I felt the same when fighting Ludwig in his second form. really reminded me of Artorias.

and Gerhman

+Colby T whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat. I thought about doing this..but never got around to it...

+Colby T *SPOILERS* Take that key item to the cathedral where the flaming cleric beast is for some interesting interactions

+viviciuszn I guess it was pretty random, I shouldn't have brought up price at least

+viviciuszn he was right. Destiny is lazy development 101. same enemies with changed colors, even many enemies move the same, no plot, samey locations, bad gunplay... maybe is not broken, but it's not a good game.

+VaatiVidya I do not agree with vivi, sometimes its great giving examples to put things into perspective.

+1r0zz you probably haven't played it so don't judje

+VaatiVidya (Insert dumb mistake here). Also calling the Taken "reskins" is not quite accurate. Sorry if I sound like a fanboy, I'm not trying to.

Hes probs waiting for dark souls 3 hype to die out, lets just hope he goes back to bloodborne and doesn't move onto to something like the surge :l

Still waiting ? Because i still am.

have you ever read novels by hp Lovecraft the setting in the fishing hamlet is similar to one of the books I read in the past idk which one thought "Lovecraft. Without going into too much detail, it's clear that Bloodborne owes a lot to cult horror author H.P. Lovecraft." fro ign

Heavily*

I agree with you, however I fucking hate that bastard. Cool boss, but it took me 40+ tries to beat him in NG+

+Matt Stephens rip ;_;7

+VaatiVidya hey the elevator where you insert the pendant you can go underneath it and recive the skull of the cleric beast and the healing church cannon

+VaatiVidya hey vati in case you dont know if you talk to the doll after defeating lady maria the doll says something which further cements her being inspired by lady maria

+Matt Stephens i assume you have ps+? You should be able to retrieve your save file from the cloud service that comes with ps+. I'm pretty sure it automatically uploads all of your safe data to the cloud so you should be able retrieve it from there. Just go to settings -> save data -> upload from ps+ storage space (my ps4 is not in english so some of that stuff might be a bit differently named).

+Agenthan14 Swad My doll never said anything new =( I think it was maybe because I had already killed the wet nurse, so her dialogue for the end boss fight overrode it, possibly. Hopefully the next vid will cover the dialogue I missed out on :D

Good catch. I was wondering why that statue was missing an arm. Now it makes sense.

+Man Who Sold The World can't disagree tho amirite