Bloodborne (Out now)

Pretty standard first boss monster, beat him after a couple of tries, had much more trouble with the two werewolves on the way to him.

I dug this; a one-on-one duel with another hunter with my abilities, with a beast form right at the end. Quality!

Pretty easy, especially with Alfred's summon right outside the door.

The one I've had the most trouble with so far. She wasn't necessarily that hard but she had so much health that the fight dragged on and I inevitably made a dumb mistake.

Really interesting, but a piece of piss.

I had a little trouble with these guys at first, but the next day I switched back to my Blunderbuss and had an attempt where I was in the right mood and I eviscerated them

I'm worried about missing sweet sweet lore but the Chalices aren't doing a lot for me. Crap rewards, repetitive rooms. . . when Balla complains about a game being procedurally generated before he even plays it, hes thinking of taking the majesty of From's level and world design and replacing it with this. I might dip in now and then but I'm not expecting to finish these. They also don't scale with New Game + apparently so I can come back any time if I really desperately want to see the couple of bosses I'm missing out on.

I think I was supposed to fight him earlier than I did because I was taking off huge chunks.

Piece of piss, really. I don't even really remember the fight, I'm sure I killed him first time by just getting behind him and smacking him about.

Had a few stupid deaths because I kept fannying about with the music box item to stun him. Grand boss though, definitely forced me to be a bit more aggressive and not as passive as I could be in Souls.

Summoned yer man Alfred for this and ended up having no bother at all. A common theme here is that for the most part, I found the big beast bosses to be easy as hell.

Rinse and repeat, once again. Just got behind her and smacked her up, no problemo.

I definitely fought this guy way too early - looking at recommended boss orders, he's meant to come after Brygenwerth - and paid the price for it. The camera was terrible in this fight which I think was more to do with how much he hopped about compared to other big beasties. A fucker.

An interesting concept in that the boss itself isn't the real threat, but to be honest, a massive pushover. I enjoyed having a wimpier foe after the last boss, though.

I don't mind the boss battles in the Soulsbourne series where there's multiple enemies. I think it tests a different skillset than just learning a bosses moveset and I enjoyed how there was one close, one mid and one long range threat each. Decent lads.

Aye, easy enough. The little spiders hit hard but it was more about running towards mama spider and whacking her whilst dodging her beams. No real issues here.

I realise this boss name doesn't give any hints to what it could be.

Honestly, not impressed with this lad. Once you realise the main gimmick is running up the stairs and whacking the bell ladies, the main boss was more of an annoyance than anything else. Reminds of Gaping Dragon in that sense in that making sure you kill the Channeler up top before the boss itself is one of the main mechanics of the fight.

This was like that stupid boss in Dark Souls 3 that was just a bunch of priests. I liked when the one alien got big though, that was funny.

Again, I realise this stupid joke name reveals nothing and I can't think of a way to explain it, so I'll just say it's Ebrietas.

Aye, pretty tough cookie this one. I used the NPC summon and managed to dodge her nasty magic by running behind her while the summon tanked the damage. Looking it up, I should have fought this boss much later than I did.

First timed this lad, which felt ace. The humanoid bosses are where Bloodborne really shines I'd say, and King Dickhead here was no different. Got a couple of sick parries on him and felt like a boss doing so.

Aye, much like Buska, no real issues with Amygdala. Just got under it and dodged those feet and smacked them legs.

This was a weird fight. The puppets he summoned in the chase sequence were not threats at all and his magic attacks were pretty simple to dodge. Just felt like more of an annoyance than anything. I liked his silly hat.

One of the coolest phase transitions in all of Souls. The fight itself was a little frustrating as his big sweeping slashes caught me out more than I'd like to admit. Got him thanks to an NPC summon helping out in the end.

I fought these pricks when I was half asleep and they pasted me when they used Sephiroth's meteor attack from the ending of FF7, but got them on my next try. Not too threatening, all told, just need to stay calm.

Humanoid BB boss, cool hunter lady, fair but punishing moveset and fun as hell to parry? Easily my favourite boss in the game so far. Took me a few tries but I was never frustrated.

Got me a few times with his nasty three hit combo, but after I learned to dodge through it and got behind him, he was a piece of piss.

When I first faced off against the Orphan, I genuinely felt like it was impossible. Huge damage, a seemingly unrelenting moveset, huge sweeping attacks and tanky as hell. But over a number of attempts, I began to see gaps where I could attack, or spaces where I could sneak in a charged attack and backstab punish. It was so fun learning this fight... and then phase 2 happened.

Phase 2 was easily the most frustrated I've been in this game. I knew I needed to attack after he landed following a jump attack, but his obscene damage and arena wide attacks kept getting me. This was the only boss I had to go away and farm Blood Vials on. I eventually got him, but I was more relieved than satisfied in the end. If this was a one phase deal, I think I'd happily call this fight my favourite. But that second phase kinda put a damper on the whole thing.

Not that tough. The level itself was much more of a challenge, particularly those eyeball-covered bastards who can kill inflict frenzy with a glare.

I had a little trouble keeping track of him when he jumped, but once I got the hang of that, this guy wasn't too tough. Very susceptible to parries and that.

When I first dropped down here, I spent quite a while exploring the boss arena because part of me felt like there was a trick or I was supposed to spare it. When I gave up and got stuck in, it was a piece of piss.

The area was a bit of a bitch but it did a great job of teaching me to always kill the summoners first. Subsequently, the boss itself wasn't that tough at all.

The boss was very easy and even the area wasn't too difficult, but in both cases I made everything worse than it needed to be. For starters, I fucking hate brainsuckers and I was getting seriously pissed every time they stole insight, even though I have more than I'll ever need. Then I spent a while assuming the boss would be more complex than it actually was; I was fucking about trying to use the make contact gesture and stuff. Turns out he just hides among the minions.

The Resi tribute with the wolf through the window was good though. I remember when this seemed like a game about werewolves . . .

This felt like a boss from a different game, like a Batman or something. Piece of piss.

Cool monster, fun fight.

Cool monster, fun fight.

Great final boss. Not hard or anything, but it felt great when I nailed him with a parry and finished him off.
And yes, to the surprise of nobody, even though it looked like a happier prospect I refused to hit a button marked "submit"