This Boss was Hiding a Monumental Secret - Bloodborne 

Ludwig was a masterpiece

"My guiding moonlight"

Still in love with the music

That's kind of how masterpieces work.

Thanks for the backstory and explanation, I appreciate the context!

Well said

Wait, this is the dude that made full chalice dungeon walkthrough. Thanks to him, i cheesing all enemies using Burial Blade r2 hold.

@@supparmanpawar4203 Wait... am I seriously the only person who's ever done a full Chalice Dungeon walkthrough?

​@@BDeerheadabout 3 channels as i've known but not as detail as yours. Still hilarious watching you raging against Pthumeru decendant and especially Maneater Boar.

i think it’s really good, i just think his attacks are easy to dodge and there are not a lot of different ones, i died about 10 time on his first fase and only once or twice on his second because i used all my heals on the first lol

The music is so iconic

Another detail around that which I love is the skeletal figure banging on the sealed gate further down the river of blood, outside of the boss room. It’s as if they are trying to escape and banging on the gate to be freed - perhaps pleading to the Healing church who they trusted, seeing as the gate mirrors the ones sealing of Cathedral Ward from Central Yharnam. So it’s as if Ludwig and the Hunters were just unleashed on the populace and slaughtered in their thousands while the Church barred the gates to seal themselves in.

​@@jacobwatkinson6071Indeed, as that is heavily implied to be exactly what went down.

It seems that the Hunter's Nightmare takes a great many inspirations from a story of when Buddha gazed into Hell. He could see down through a pool of water all the layers beneath him, but was invisible to those below, and he saw there a river of blood, where sinners were tormented, crushed to death by a horse headed demon, only to rise again without escape. So we have the river of blood, we have the snail woman dropping from an unseen higher partition where the Fishing Hamlet exists, and finally we have Ludwig, stomping on the condemned.

​@@TheAdarkerglowthanks for sharing that, I had no idea.

you forgot to mention the most important thing, the BEST FUCKING mooonlight greatsword reveal ever

Laurence 💀

I loath that Laurence fight

@@wallcity318 Don't we all?

What is about Laurence?

That’s so cool congrats!

Even is from another universe

Lies of P video soon?🤔

Such a great concept they reused the fuck out of it in Elden Ring

I feel like many of Fromsofts bosses will hold that same iconic status once they've aged a bit like Sephiroth has. FF7 is almost 30 years old now and has had so many other games and media based around it so it's had so much more time for Sephiroth's legend to built on. I think many Fromsoft bosses will be viewed the same way in 10-20 years time.

@@anonymousnate678 never actually thought the idea that the bosses are still years from becoming old legends of gaming but they still have so much of an impact now plus Sephiroth has so many variations at this point it’s hard to keep track of them all

Manhunt scheduled, sorry

I’ve never played FF7 😞

@@EvanExplains honestly I’d personally say it’s worth the one playthrough to go through a piece of gaming history but it’s definitely aged a lot, remake is amazing and I hope rebirth (part 2) continues that

It’s truly one of a kind

Nah pretty sure that spot belongs to pikachu & snorlax.

In all of from software? That would be 9 ball

Everybody gangster till the horse priest pulls out a lightsaber

Iconic big doggo

Next door for the next video may or may not be about Maria and Kos

More coming in this universe

Stay awhile and listen

@@EvanExplains please bro bloodborne is my 2nd or 3rd fav game oat

Wait what?!

wrong universe Evan

SMH BRO ERMMMMM STICK TO DESTINY

Happy you liked the video

It’s the eyes in the neck for me 😊

definitely a great boss!

Laurence fight definitely felt rushed, really was sad about that fight

Only issue I have with that theory is that there are 2 different BLBs in the chalices, one with a head and one without. If Laurence is one of them whos the other one and why is he in the Pthumerian labyrinth? It does make more sense that we find him in the hunters nightmare grand cathedral since thats where his skull is found in the 'real' Yharnam I dont have an issue with him being a cleric beast from a gameplay perspective since he still feels distinct from the one in central Yharnam, but your point about him not even being a proper cleric is a valid argument (if its true). I used to speculate that maybe theyre the same exact beast and that the weak cleric beast is his real world body while the flaming Laurence is his cursed and tormented form in a state of purgatory. Sadly that theory doesnt really add up the more I think about it lol

@@mrzero_7883 it’s not a theory and can be supported with both in-game evidence and through cut data. It’s a cold fact. One of Bloodletting Beast’s ID tags in the game data is “Founder Beast” and Laurence is the founder of the healing church. There’s dialogue for Gehrman where he’s sleeping and calling out to Laurence. Begging for an end to the dream. The entire goal of the game is to acquire a newborn to satiate the moon presence and put an end to the curse. If you follow the intended route to fight Queen Yharnam, you pass through both fights with BLB. Story-wise, he and Gehrman planned to put an end to the hunts, so this makes sense because Laurence would have traveled through the dungeons in order to take the queen’s baby, but ultimately never made it as he succumbed to be beast before he did. Laurence’s physical head is the beast skull in the Grand Cathedral, it’s literally the same head with the same cleaved scar on it, you touch it in order to see the flashback with Laurence and Willem. Everything in Yarhnam is the physical real world. Everything outside of this, the Nightmare, the Frontier, Mensis all exist in a plain outside of reality. So the human Laurence skull and the Cleric Beast form is only there because it’s not his physical form. His actual body is in the Dungeons and Grand Cathedral. What we see in the nightmare is just a manifested projection. You can think of it as something akin to his consciousness being stuck there. Just like Mergo is stuck in Mensis and Orphan is stuck in the fishing village. Their bodies, their physical forms are dead, but their consciousness live on in the nightmare. Now As for all the cut content that further supports all this, there isn’t two BLB. That’s just one. Literally. It’s the same boss model, They just made the head on the headless one invisible because originally, that fight had two phases. The first phase he would speak to you, but all his dialogue was deleted, however you can still glitch the game to play it. Unfortunately because the audio is gone, it just randomly plays patches lines. Laurence has two VA credited in the credits. One did the human Laurence and the second did the beast Laurence. This credit existed before the DLC was even planned. So he clearly voiced some version of him. After the fight you would touch his freshly severed head and get a flashback with him and Gehrman talking about their plan to find a way to end the hunts. Now notice both times you touch a specific beast skull you get a flashback with Laurence being the common denominator between the two? That’s because it’s him. He’s the Bloodletting Beast. You’ll also find that despite being a chopped up boss fight From still reused this idea for both the Guardian Ape boss in Sekiro and the Ludwig fight in the DLC.

Woah woah that’s the next video

@@EvanExplains Left. Well. Alone. Unless, of course, you mean for us to turn to the curatives for those sweetly beckoning secrets... (Why yes I am very much looking forward to that next video!)

If you’re scared of spiders

@@EvanExplains i think the spiders in the nightmare are worse

Update?

@@EvanExplains lol break ended before I could update

To people with arachnophobia

@@EvanExplains ahhh. I'm deaf or dumb. Either way. Great vid nonetheless

*EvanExplains long flowing hair leaves the building*