Started this BL4 thing...
And I'm having a great time!
It is my 3rd run on Bloodborne... I have previously played DeS and DS 1 to 3 so while I had some hiccups (only did DLC at NG+...) it went smoothly enough.
Now the way I have played has always been to take advantage of my stats... farming whenever a boss was giving me trouble. Getting a ton of HP and stamina. I thought to myself, hey, let's do it differently this time.
Definitely a different challenge! Gascoigne wrecked me a couple times after his transformation before I finally utilized Molotovs in this game. Amelia first went down easily because I used an NPC summon... but then it wouldn't stop bothering me. Started again, killed her on my own after 10ish tries.
Then came the Shadows. I knew I needed more damage so I spent a lot of time grabbing all the chunks in the woods, Cainhurst and Nightmare Frontier. But even with a +8 axe and its transformed heavy attack sending them flying it was still ROUGH. Took me a week or so all in all.
My method is to kill the mage first. I died many times to the candle guy's flame, being greedy. Once I could take the mage down reliably, I was consistently getting shredded by their stretchy melee attacks going through obstacles. Then I finally got them down to the final phase... and proceeded to get killed by the massive snakes what felt like 10+ times.
Finally just a while ago I went full ham on the last guy. No healing, no nothing, just whack him with the axe in one hand for speed. PREY SLAUGHTERED! One of the most triumphant feelings I've had with Fromsoft games yet and I've had a lot!
Whew... now onto Rom. She will be tricky but I will figure something out.
So yeah, enjoying this. Try it too if you haven't!