Every time I see the words, “little hunter,” placed together I think of the boss from Nuclear Throne named Lil’ Hunter. That man is responsible for ending countless good runs.
@@ashikjaman1940 True, but the reason I even mentioned this is because he took away IGN's points because "It was not an upgrade", but it seems I missed the part where he gave them back the points so oh well (Before I get called an IGN fanboy or something, I am not an IGN fanboy I just like fair competition)
@@darcontheassassin2.06 If you are looking for fair competition there are more pressing concerns with the score board like how he continually adds points to himself or IGN for completely joke reasons, and there isn't any real guideline for how many he adds either.
That trick was the only way I got through that area on my first playthrough and it took me like four hours to figure out how to do it after they patched it out lmao. No use for the shield anymore
@@matildawillow7641 You mean the Moon Prescence where you watch a literal cosmic horror descend from the skies, or the bit where you get turned into an Infant Great One? Both of those are heavily Lovecraftian (as he was responsible for the cosmic horror genre), Even some of the deities in HP's work are reffered to as the "Great Old Ones". They're not exactly subtle references.
@@nocomment9532 the bit were it was two charactees looking at each other in tge sun directly frame for frame from japanese anime books... Fighting for the end of time.... Butthead
I mean there's an anime take on Nyarlathotep, it has light novels, OVAs and an actual anime and it's filled to the brim with HP Lovecraft characters. Nyaruko: Crawling with Love.
Since this was a day 1 guide that Vicar Amelia bit mightve been true, on release BB had HORRIBLE memory leak issues that caused bosses to completely lose parts of their moveset, and made a lot of bosses seem way easier than they actually were.
To be fair if they had it running for a long time during and then left it on maybe overnight which isn't uncommon amelia would have 1 attack and so would every other boss bc of the memory leaks
Not just on release it still has it toot hia day but to a lesser degree, its a known fact that if you leave your game open for 15-24 hours the memory gets so jumbled it still happens and most bosses will onlu use 1-2 of there moves on repeat. I experenced this on accident when i left the game running for like 3 days and realised the boss was doing the same move 7 times in a row.
Hope yawl liked this one, I'm really proud of it!! I'm going to be real here, it was very hard to read every single page in full detail and keep everything smooth - I GOT A LOT OF THINGS WRONG!!! THERE ARE POINTS IN THE GUIDE WHERE IT SAYS THE SHIELD IS INFACT USELESS AMONG OTHER THINGS ECT!!!! This is all just meant to be a really funny fun video so don't treat this too seriously!!
I don't know why but this reminded me of "Yeah imho there's a real difference between a toy SCAR nerf sponsored nerf gun - and an actual 12 gauge that just loaded an irl slug"
@@DracoHandsome Even then though, you'd only need to use one. Not gather them all. If they used the insight shops at all during the run it'd make more sense.
Yea! Imagine if you're on a team of like 200 writers. To stand out you're gonna put your own personality into it and stuff. I'm not seriously calling them an idiot or anything this is just a bit of fun!! They did put a lot of time into this!
@@ZeroLenny well i mean to be fair, base game guy just came off as someone trying to make the reader laugh but failing which is kinda admirable to me not gonna lie, and sweet? but dlc guy just seems like a huge dick in real life just by reading how he wrote things lol.
Knowing IGN and being a D1 guide the guy was probably super pressed for time and rushed the review copy. Put some garbage together and keep the boss happy and still having a job
Ooooorrrrrrrrr the best troll ever. And definitely not a scrub because in order to sarcastically refer the shield as absolutely necessary or whatever he said only works by knowing that you need to read the item descriptions in souls games.
@@SorowFame to be fair the sentence “shields are nice, but not if they engender passivity” in the item description does sound like a light jab to souls turtles.
@@M0YO if anything, thats also fromsoft saying relying on it in dark souls and being passive also wouldnt work, shields arent something you completely rely on all the time in all the souls games. it can make many fights much much harder.
Broke: Following an IGN Strategy Guide to help learn a game. Woke: Learning the ropes and getting gud Bespoke: Following an IGN Strategy Guide to purposely play suboptimally as a challenge
@@jexterftw8052 every language has different rules regarding singular and plural, it's inevitable for english speakers to butcher them all while using foreign words
@@petrwarthursty2011 It's weird seeing people who don't know that Hunter is even used as a name when it's relatively common where I live. Never really thought about it.
The red jeweled brooch can be turned into the the red blood gem which is indeed a weapon upgrade And the shield did indeed block frenzy because of a bug that was eventually fixed.
“The games really hard, experienced classic soulsborne FPS drops in some areas, and every now and then the camera can get you killed” 9.1 “it has a little something for everyone”
Gotta say, the base game guide was quite charming, it felt like there was some genuine effort put into it from what the guy learned in the game while adding in some humor. DLC was pretty shite though. What kind of guide tells you to "follow your gut" for navigation?
The kind in a rush who's boss made him beat an extremely difficult game he doesn't enjoy and write a guide for it by that afternoon under threat of that glorious 'at-will employment' legal clause.
That guide had a surprising amount of contempt in it. Not only for the game, but for the player base, and maybe even for the writer himself? The first base bit was... Sad.
@@jacobhoover1654 The Hunters Nightmare is pretty linear. It’s hard to get lost. But “follow your gut” is still shit navigation advice since it wouldn’t help someone who sincerely needs help navigating.
@@No_Plays_Hand_Empty Listen, you didn't need to call me out like that. That got me through Hino-Enma in the beta and I committed to it hard until like halfway through the full game when I realized that high stance axe could basically stunlock every enemy I was encountering and having trouble with to death.
@@ZeroLenny Lenny-Chan if you have a link to the original guide please post it. I just want to read it all and laugh my ass off. In return I offer Gherman.
"A pasty basement dwelling nerd who's never had a girl before" The guide writer must of been projecting pretty hard considering orphan was born like 5 seconds ago
@@tatri292 I mean is a most useless item in entire game because is make sense for the shield is made of the wood not metal and there no stronger version of shield in bloodborne or there no upgrades version of it that make think ign is very not skilled players does pet he review games in 15 years of TH-cam years how many guides are doing better jop then ign?
@@theanimatormustachegrunt3307 when the game first released it was glitch that involved the shield blocking frenzy. Don’t assume ppl are dumb when you yourself don’t know what you’re saying 😂
"Strategy" guides like these are the reason why you still see new Dark Souls players struggling to fight Ornstein and Smough with an unupgraded Drake Sword a decade later in the remaster.
Honestly, when I saw the guide making you grab that madman's knowledge prior to face the first boss, I actually thought it was gonna tell you to summon someone...
Maybe it worked in an earlier version, but it was patched out, this wasn't put into the patch notes and nobody found out about this playing because who the fuck uses the wooden shield?
Yes, I was going 'He's had to carry that thing around for the whole game, is this when it all pays off?' And then it turns out the guide maker likely had too many eyes on his brain when playing.
Can we talk about that fact that this man gave himself a point because the red jewel brooch is a quest item even though you can absolutely pop it to get a blood gem
I was waiting for someone to point this out. I always use it as an early game jewel because is pretty decent. And I never really do the quest because, well, I don't care after I did it once.
Man bloodborne is such a good game. You can beat the bosses through lore. Bloodborne beast- pungent blood spam. Rom the spider- flamethrower. List goes on!
selling the doll outfit is actually what many speedrun routes do, years later... IGN, ahead of their time on day one in all seriousness, the difficulty of some underpaid journalist being forced to make a "DAY ONE" guide (written with god knows how little playtime and preparation) should excuse a lot of this bullshit
You know what would be a good idea? If these big gaming outlets, isntead of writing guides, they had their personalites STREAM the games live and THEN write the guides. Not only would they be crowdsourcing the writing a bit, but they'd have video for weird parts that are hard to describe well with words.
@@drdiabeetus4419 Day one guides are presumably written using specific pre-release copies of the game. Streaming a full playthrough of a game that's not even out is a surefire way to get blacklisted and sued into oblivion.
@@Khornecussion TBF the dude he was responding too was talking about streaming the gameplay that they were using for the guide. He was saying you can't do that because it's actually not made on day one.
The tactic for Rom is actually great principle. I beat him easily first try when I just focused all my attacks on Rom and ignored the spiders. I was a Souls novice at the time 😅
I know it’s not a FromSoft game but a metal gear rising experience would be pretty cool. As someone who forgot to upgrade his weapons up until like the last 3 missions, it most definitely is an “experience”.
Really doesn’t feel like the DLC guide was written by the same person as the base game one. Like the base guide was kinda lame at points but ultimately did accurately guide you to the end of the game, for the most part. The DLC guide is just trash.
Plus, base guide had some charm to it too, along with some humor. It also helped out, in some sense too. The DLC is just absolutely shit and lazy, didn't even try at all, lacking any actual guidance and just a downgrade from the first one.
The first pain point of the guide is actually legitimately good advice if you want to keep your blood echoes before fighting the beast. Pick up madmans knowledge, use it, go to the dream and level up. Of course an easier way is quitting out when you see it the beast, but this was a day one guide.
this guide is honestly blessed, it's so bad that it's good and it feels like its made by some guy who loves the game despite only playing it like 2 times. I want to meet this man and watch him play the game
It's crazy seeing an IGN guide that was finished. The amounts of times I have looked at a guide on IGN, only to find the first page and no actual walkthrough, is insane.
yea exactly what i was thinking cause if you give the kid the brooch shes gonna kill herself and you could send her somewhere to be able to get some item or somethin
Wow, I actually learned something from the IGN guide. I didn't even notice there were lanterns guiding the way in the Forbidden Woods, I just ended up getting lost and clearing the entire area. Great guide, 10/10.
Out of curiosity I wonder if this guide was made before the memory leak issue that made bosses lose parts of their move sets if you played too fast without quitting, was still in the game
honestly, that IGN writer being a little horny for Maria is not even cringe, it's just the natural state of humanity. Frankly, for a day 1, base game guide, by _ign,_ from what you show here that wasn't too terrible! I expected that score to look a lot worse 😅
My heart skipped several beats in anticipation of frenzy blocking. I was like holy shit if this is true Miyazaki is a god level troll and IGN critics are geniuses but alas, now I’m more bummed than ever. Flew just a little too close to the sun. Thanks IGN you absolute twats
@@Yasahiro1011 I have the disc copy of the game. I can replay it version 1.0 no problem and see if that works. If it doesn’t then either the IGN guy is full of S (not surprising) or it might have been an inbetween patch like 1.01 and I don’t have the slightest clue how to get a hold of such version
@@mezmezzy1870 tbh i think the same, i liked these kinda dad jokes that ign does. Lenny sometimes gives me the stereotypical bag side of gen Z vibe, where everything is cringe or boomer humor except: “fOrTnItE bAtTlE pAsS🎶”, but humor is subjective so I do not seriously hate on someones humor. Just if i tend to mock them
My happiness knows no bounds, checked like an hour or so ago if there was any new uploads by big lad but nae luck, BANG new video 13 minutes ago fucking GET IN SON
What I suspect might've happened here, my dear sweet baby angels: Due to popular demand, the author was probably tasked with playing through the game, writing up a walkthrough and getting it online posthaste. So when he finally got around to doing the writing process of the job, he was probably so sleep deprived that he was very confused about what game he was writing about, who he was writing this for, what he was writing and who the fuck he himself even was at that point in time. That's the best explanation I can come up with cause what the actual fuck?! Loving this playthrough, by the way! Awesome idea!
if they were written by two different people, then the second guy could have just not been a fan and downgraded the dlc on purpose, or he was mad salty after finishing it
The "don't kill the spiders" line is the most accurate part of this guide. You don't have to lure them away, you just have to have enough DPS to make them irrelevant.
I'd say, "You have no idea how much I wanted the Shield Frenzy thing to work," but I'm 110% sure you all know exactly what I mean. If that worked it would forever change my view on frenzy as a mechanic.
@@ashikjaman1940 because, they add things that can counter it. Sometimes you find them later than most would like. But, that is part of the fun. You face what SEEMS tobe insurmountable odds just to find a way to beat it!
I've actually seen a video talking about pvp uses a few years ago. apparently it can block the players bullets ? other than that there'S a door you can block, giving you the chance to trap players against a horde of enemies. I guess.
@@PrimordialNightmare it has noticeably high blood defense which means it's actually brilliant for certain specific fights. In particular it can completely hose the Bloody Crow, which is arguably the hardest fight in the game. The Loch Shield from the DLC has similar benefits against arcane. They're niche tools but they do excel in their niche.
The Red Jeweled Broach is also a weapon upgrade actually; Consume it from your inventory to gain a weapon gem. It's not really useful but it is one of the first you get in the game.
@@spidudetoo1212 Someone else commented that it apparently did work in 2015, but it was because of a bug. So IGN stumbled across a weird glitch, used it as the main focus of their build, and then it got patched out.
15:22 oh hey, dats my friend, dorito. I've done a few videos with him and he's in my twitch community :D we game together regularly. Glad he's getting some recognition for being a badass :D
Actually, fun fact, the shield USED to be able to stop frenzy before Patch 1.0.2. Something like that I think. I remember cause my brother, who fatrolls and uses tower shield in fucking DS1, told me.
@@milgos5269 Yeah they may not be good jokes but they made the guide a little more fun. Could be like the dlc guide where it's a terrible guide and has really shitty jokes.
Hear me out; the wooden shield reduces damage in a way that you can reliably rally your health back with one or two attacks. Without the shield your can reliably rally MOST of your lost health back with four attacks. The shield is garbo but it has some use with the right attitude.
Someone else in these comments pointed out, back at release there was an exploit where using the wood shield would prevent frenzy. That's why it was recommended.
Watched this one last out of the series. Definitely feels more mean spirited than the rest and made it less enjoyable. Glad you changed your tone and the series became what it is now❤
Getting the Madman's Knowledge lets you theoretically enter the fight leveled up without having lost any blood echoes, and allows people who might be having too hard a time with the Cleric Beast to have levels in their favor. If you enter the fight and die you'll lose your echoes and not have the chance to level up. Plus, if you go get the MMK you also gain more blood echoes along the way, and most likely will have picked up a ton of blood echoes as well, giving you a few levels when you return to the dream.
Important remark: he might look like he's losing his sanity, but he's actually gaining insight.
arent those the same thing? XD
@@daxtro5492 tell your therapist that 🤣
@@1upJeCK *sitcom funny delivery voice* I cant afford a therapist *laugh track*
@@daxtro5492 bloodborne deserves a sitcom
Hes gaining madmans knowledge
Getting called a "scrub that should get good" by IGN themselves must hurt more than dying to the congregation
I agree
I died to the Rat Vanguard so IGN really probably aren't wrong
I died
@@wurmturm I can’t stand the big rat boss
Yet I soloed fume knight without healing but I died to covetous demon
My favourite part is when moon presence *floats down*
Everyone around the office loved that moment
@@unavailable1396 they really did
@@ComeForth. The funny part is that if something is floating, it's usually moving up. Therefore, if something is floating down, then it's an oxymoron.
Everyone at my office were laughing their asses off about this
i was laughing my ass off at this one
This video is just full of the exaggerated swagger of a sweet baby angel.
Thanks bro offski, what a ninja
@@ZeroLenny You are my dear sweet baby angel, ZeroLenny
@@ZeroLenny we do be fighting dreamers tho
He's such a goddamn sperg, I love him
the exaggerated swagger of a little scrub who needs to git gud
ZeroLenny: TH-camr, Streamer, Meme Police Officer, Spicy Boy and most importantly;
IGN's little hunter
Well, he is a Pretty Princess after all
IGN’s “sweet baby angel”
don't forget Little Scrub who needs to Git Gud
IGN's little pogchamp
Every time I see the words, “little hunter,” placed together I think of the boss from Nuclear Throne named Lil’ Hunter. That man is responsible for ending countless good runs.
When he angrily started yelling about how the red jewelled broach was not a weapon upgrade i died inside a little
I love how people conveniently ignores the comments pointing out this mistake on him.
@@edgarahcow7748 probably because he actually did correct himself in editing. Lenny gave IGN their deserved points.
To be a pedantic ass, the Brooch isn't actually an upgrade itself. You can get a gem if you break it though.
@@ashikjaman1940 True, but the reason I even mentioned this is because he took away IGN's points because "It was not an upgrade", but it seems I missed the part where he gave them back the points so oh well (Before I get called an IGN fanboy or something, I am not an IGN fanboy I just like fair competition)
@@darcontheassassin2.06 If you are looking for fair competition there are more pressing concerns with the score board like how he continually adds points to himself or IGN for completely joke reasons, and there isn't any real guideline for how many he adds either.
It's like Christmas - only instead of presents, there's madman's knowledge
By this time we have more eyes than all of the enemies in the game combine
Unironically very helpful for depth 5 FRC chalice rituals
My man actually bought a dictionary when he could've read it in-store.
Dedication to the content, respect.
Yeah but he riposted the blood starved beast, which is in front of it's head.
Or just used google dictionary...
@@platogkrone7161 it said get your dictionary smh
@@86Fallowcp Okay, but did you actually shake your head or are you just aping other commenters?
@@platogkrone7161 yes
Honestly, the most surprising thing about this run was that the wooden shield actually worked against Logarius.
I looked it up; in 2015, apparently, you COULD block Frenzy with the wooden shield!
It was a glitch.
IGN sharing exploits like true gamers.
Plus 1000 points!
Brruuuuuh. Why would they patch that out?
@@mr._otis9840 Yeah you are literally obstructing your vision to avoid going crazy
@@mr._otis9840 They probably thought it was too powerful. They want you to feel the frenzy lol
That trick was the only way I got through that area on my first playthrough and it took me like four hours to figure out how to do it after they patched it out lmao. No use for the shield anymore
"Enemies from your Japanese horror inspired anime"
Ah yes, HP Lovecraft-san, my favorite manga writer.
the anime comment was accurate, don’t you remember the final cutscenes?
@@matildawillow7641 You mean the Moon Prescence where you watch a literal cosmic horror descend from the skies, or the bit where you get turned into an Infant Great One?
Both of those are heavily Lovecraftian (as he was responsible for the cosmic horror genre), Even some of the deities in HP's work are reffered to as the "Great Old Ones". They're not exactly subtle references.
@@nocomment9532 the bit were it was two charactees looking at each other in tge sun directly frame for frame from japanese anime books... Fighting for the end of time.... Butthead
I mean there's an anime take on Nyarlathotep, it has light novels, OVAs and an actual anime and it's filled to the brim with HP Lovecraft characters. Nyaruko: Crawling with Love.
HAHAHA I’m dead
Since this was a day 1 guide that Vicar Amelia bit mightve been true, on release BB had HORRIBLE memory leak issues that caused bosses to completely lose parts of their moveset, and made a lot of bosses seem way easier than they actually were.
As well as the wooden shield being able to block frenzy
To be fair if they had it running for a long time during and then left it on maybe overnight which isn't uncommon amelia would have 1 attack and so would every other boss bc of the memory leaks
Not just on release it still has it toot hia day but to a lesser degree, its a known fact that if you leave your game open for 15-24 hours the memory gets so jumbled it still happens and most bosses will onlu use 1-2 of there moves on repeat. I experenced this on accident when i left the game running for like 3 days and realised the boss was doing the same move 7 times in a row.
Hope yawl liked this one, I'm really proud of it!!
I'm going to be real here, it was very hard to read every single page in full detail and keep everything smooth - I GOT A LOT OF THINGS WRONG!!! THERE ARE POINTS IN THE GUIDE WHERE IT SAYS THE SHIELD IS INFACT USELESS AMONG OTHER THINGS ECT!!!! This is all just meant to be a really funny fun video so don't treat this too seriously!!
Hi lenny I love you 😘
Next challenge should surely be playing dark souls 2 without ripping on it
@@chunkychicken31deeznutz54 too hard nah
@@ZeroLenny dark souls 2 day 1 ign guide?
Absolute banger lenny only halfway through and it's already one of your best
Lovecraft inspired enemies? I sleep
Enemies right out of your Japanese Horror inspired Animes: *Real shit?*
I mean some of it was inspired by berserk
@@TheReck12 some of it, but in bloodborne there’s more lovecraftian influence than anything else
@@TheReck12 and what was berserk inspired by
I don't know why but this reminded me of
"Yeah imho there's a real difference between a toy SCAR nerf sponsored nerf gun - and an actual 12 gauge that just loaded an irl slug"
@@huleyn135 The author's crippling addiction to Idolmaster
You know man's has his priorities straight when he sacrifices a boss fight for ice cream.
I would give up an entire final raid encounter for it
@@Mara_thorn I can respect that.
Don’t forget, we never used that Madman’s Knowledge either.
Because IGN thought you needed it to get Insight before defeating Cleric Beast
@@DracoHandsome Even though there's no penalty for dying to the boss other than lost Echoes, which you can make up by simply killing enemies?
@@HellRider_ and why not use it level up and don't risk losing echoes?
@@DracoHandsome Even then though, you'd only need to use one. Not gather them all. If they used the insight shops at all during the run it'd make more sense.
@@HellRider_ Yes, it is IGN
Honestly, bless that IGN writer who's behind these guides. Seems like a genuinely well meaning, but a bit cringey, 'scrub'.
Yea! Imagine if you're on a team of like 200 writers. To stand out you're gonna put your own personality into it and stuff. I'm not seriously calling them an idiot or anything this is just a bit of fun!! They did put a lot of time into this!
@@ZeroLenny well i mean to be fair, base game guy just came off as someone trying to make the reader laugh but failing which is kinda admirable to me not gonna lie, and sweet? but dlc guy just seems like a huge dick in real life just by reading how he wrote things lol.
Knowing IGN and being a D1 guide the guy was probably super pressed for time and rushed the review copy. Put some garbage together and keep the boss happy and still having a job
The word "cringe" has lost all meaning
Ooooorrrrrrrrr the best troll ever. And definitely not a scrub because in order to sarcastically refer the shield as absolutely necessary or whatever he said only works by knowing that you need to read the item descriptions in souls games.
IGN guide: never let go of the shield use it always
Bloodborne's entire game design: dont use shields we even make fun of it in the item description
It doesn’t make fun of it, merely warns against using it too much or thinking it’ll work like in Dark Souls.
@@SorowFame to be fair the sentence “shields are nice, but not if they engender passivity” in the item description does sound like a light jab to souls turtles.
@@M0YO point is that it’s not making fun of shields, only those who rely on them too much.
@@M0YO if anything, thats also fromsoft saying relying on it in dark souls and being passive also wouldnt work, shields arent something you completely rely on all the time in all the souls games. it can make many fights much much harder.
@@flamingmanure Shieds works great in Demon Souls/Dark Souls 1. You cant spam roll/dash in this games.
Broke: Following an IGN Strategy Guide to help learn a game.
Woke: Learning the ropes and getting gud
Bespoke: Following an IGN Strategy Guide to purposely play suboptimally as a challenge
Werewolves: exist.
IGN: “It’s like one of my Japanese animes!”
Worst part is it's grammatically wrong as the Japanese language doesn't use many plurals to my knowledge. So It's Anime and not Animes
but werewolves don't exist though...
@@jexterftw8052 every language has different rules regarding singular and plural, it's inevitable for english speakers to butcher them all while using foreign words
@@jexterftw8052 just to let you know, the correct plural form of "pizza" is "pizze"
@@jexterftw8052 That's a line from one of the Metal Gear games
The pure fear and palpable self-loathe when he died to Celestial Emissary was a beautiful thing
my personal headcanon is that he died on purpose for content
@@blindsloth364 probably XD
Being called IGN’s little Hunter is way more uncomfortable when Hunter is your name.
Today i learned there are people named hunter
Your name's Hunter? What a cool as hell name, mine's just conected to the horse "Juan", thank your parents for the non bullyable name
@@petrwarthursty2011 It's weird seeing people who don't know that Hunter is even used as a name when it's relatively common where I live. Never really thought about it.
@@711_skiddlz I mean bruh I live in russia
@@petrwarthursty2011 Yeah I'm saying I never really thought about how weird it is we have so many people named hunter where I live
IGN telling their readers to git gud has actually made my year.
The red jeweled brooch can be turned into the the red blood gem which is indeed a weapon upgrade And the shield did indeed block frenzy because of a bug that was eventually fixed.
IGN be like, Bloodborne makes you really feel like a hunter.
Dark souls makes you feel like you're playing dark souls
IGN be like this is the Dark Souls of FromSoft games.
“The games really hard, experienced classic soulsborne FPS drops in some areas, and every now and then the camera can get you killed”
9.1 “it has a little something for everyone”
@@TSfish94 7.5/10, too much blood.
@@Jormyyy “I know it’s called bloodborne, but a whole ass river of blood? More like ‘van helsing’s pathogen adventure”
Gotta say, the base game guide was quite charming, it felt like there was some genuine effort put into it from what the guy learned in the game while adding in some humor. DLC was pretty shite though. What kind of guide tells you to "follow your gut" for navigation?
The kind in a rush who's boss made him beat an extremely difficult game he doesn't enjoy and write a guide for it by that afternoon under threat of that glorious 'at-will employment' legal clause.
I mean there's only one path to go down lol yinz need to chill lol
That guide had a surprising amount of contempt in it. Not only for the game, but for the player base, and maybe even for the writer himself? The first base bit was... Sad.
@@jacobhoover1654 The Hunters Nightmare is pretty linear. It’s hard to get lost. But “follow your gut” is still shit navigation advice since it wouldn’t help someone who sincerely needs help navigating.
I'm love to see more of these "Game BUT With The IGN Guide" videos. I can't even imagine how bad Nioh would be.
Mid Stance Spear heavy pokes for the whole game let's goooooo
@@No_Plays_Hand_Empty Listen, you didn't need to call me out like that. That got me through Hino-Enma in the beta and I committed to it hard until like halfway through the full game when I realized that high stance axe could basically stunlock every enemy I was encountering and having trouble with to death.
@@No_Plays_Hand_Empty aka the DSP run
NieR Automata with the IGN guide aylmao
@@No_Plays_Hand_Empty Ah yes, the DSP method
I hope you realise that we are going to be demanding an IGN run for just about every souls game now
Poor soul
Every game, ign says the konnesiege (butched spelling) is the best car in nfs heat, I’d love to see a channel do that
@@OhMoonPresence koennigsegg ?
@@jeanhamilton3296 haha yes, I butchered the spelling lol
@@OhMoonPresence don't worry, I still can't pronounce their name lol
He finally pulled out the strategy guide.
Pull out king
Top shelf? Top shelf!
*THIS SHOULD BE EASY*
Mmm
N llm
I honestly like the IGN guides. They may be cringe but they’re encouraging and they are trying their best lmao.
I agree! They are wholesome! Ony end it's all just jokes really
@@ZeroLenny Lenny-Chan if you have a link to the original guide please post it. I just want to read it all and laugh my ass off. In return I offer Gherman.
"A pasty basement dwelling nerd who's never had a girl before"
The guide writer must of been projecting pretty hard considering orphan was born like 5 seconds ago
You did not get laid in first 5 seconds of your life? Seriously what are you doing with your life then?
@@xxXXRAPXXxx God these beta males SMH
So it really is like anime. Orphan-chan is the token loli.
@@Luinta cursed
@@claymore7315 69 nice
I'm so glad the wooden shield is finally getting the recognition it deserves.
i dont know if youre being sarcastic or not
@@tod9141 I mean it was kind of good against Logarius, I'm actually impressed
@@tatri292 I mean is a most useless item in entire game because is make sense for the shield is made of the wood not metal and there no stronger version of shield in bloodborne or there no upgrades version of it that make think ign is very not skilled players does pet he review games in 15 years of TH-cam years how many guides are doing better jop then ign?
@@theanimatormustachegrunt3307 when the game first released it was glitch that involved the shield blocking frenzy. Don’t assume ppl are dumb when you yourself don’t know what you’re saying 😂
I was REALLY excited about the shield blocking the frenzy thing. Shame to find out it’s actually an old glitch.
The benny hill part, im legit crying
I know, it was surprising amazing.
A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one
"Strategy" guides like these are the reason why you still see new Dark Souls players struggling to fight Ornstein and Smough with an unupgraded Drake Sword a decade later in the remaster.
1. Don’t call me out like that please
2. Yeah fair point
3. The old demon king kinda looks laurence
@@igneoushammer8199 the demons look goaty and laurence is a goat so that’s to be expected
whatever makes the execs some quick cash
Reason why fighting cowboys walkthroughs should be made official
Real strategy for O&S:
1: +5 ascended pyro flame
2: great combustion
3: win
Honestly, when I saw the guide making you grab that madman's knowledge prior to face the first boss, I actually thought it was gonna tell you to summon someone...
I was almost excited to learn something when the shield frenzy bit popped up. Amazing buildup. Great video
Same! Feels weird rooting for ign lol
Maybe it worked in an earlier version, but it was patched out, this wasn't put into the patch notes and nobody found out about this playing because who the fuck uses the wooden shield?
Yes, I was going 'He's had to carry that thing around for the whole game, is this when it all pays off?'
And then it turns out the guide maker likely had too many eyes on his brain when playing.
This might be a bit of a stretch but does it work against the brain of mensis?
It may have worked due to bugs in the past...
I get why you liked the first guide, it had a little something for everyone. Now that second one, really didn't make you *feel* like a hunter
Underrated
6/10 too much shield
It made you feel like their little hunter
The shield actually used to be able to block frenzy, but this was a bug, and they fixed it pretty quickly.
"I'm a scrub and I should get good." - the guy who has beaten the game torch only
And all DS2 bosses blindfolded
"Bloodborne is truly the Dark Souls of FromSoft"
-IGN
This physically hurt me.
@@marctaco2624 It gave me conniptions
Can we talk about that fact that this man gave himself a point because the red jewel brooch is a quest item even though you can absolutely pop it to get a blood gem
I was waiting for someone to point this out. I always use it as an early game jewel because is pretty decent. And I never really do the quest because, well, I don't care after I did it once.
And you don't need it, you can just lie to the little girl
He didn’t give himself a point lmao, he gave ign two separate points
@@edgarahcow7748 Fr the quest only gives you a hat for messengers
He gave points to IGN.
The wooden shield can block frenzy.
-IGN
And then, that moment of “Wait. There’s no way, right?”
Apparently it used to on day 1 when it was written, but it was nerfed after a patch
@@alexread6767 It was a glitch that they forgot about then quickly patched out.
It makes more sense than drinking vials of morphine
I Wish the wooden shield did block Frenzy. Because not only would that fit with the Lore, but also make the wooden shield useful.
@Zach A I fell into insanity so hard I broke back through
The Old Blood is LSD, and I have been granted eyes
Imagine owning a printer and not knowing how to print on both sides. +10 for IGN
Y-you can print on both sides of a page?
@@ghastlyanarchy1720 print on one side, grab the paper, flip it over, use it to print again
@@dantucho203 Or, having one that can flip them automatically
@@cristianeric5933 or having the one that prints on both sides at the same time(you know, like ones in printshops)
@@Shonicheck Or having one that prints on both sides and the edges!
Man bloodborne is such a good game. You can beat the bosses through lore.
Bloodborne beast- pungent blood spam.
Rom the spider- flamethrower.
List goes on!
This would make an absolute banger of a series. Souls games and Sekiro with IGN when?
For Souls just git gud scrub
@@arpitdas4263 no, IGN would say "just turn on easy mode"
Sekiro: use cheats and don't feel bad for it
Sekiro would probably be the most entertaining, as it is the most punishing of any souls game
@@littlemoth4956 I can already see ign guide being like: "to beat ishin, you can’t hesitate"
Finally, we have found the actual IGN strategy guide
Dear sweet baby angel felt like a brick to the head from outta left field
My favorite part is when Lenny gets mad he has to sell the doll outfit but then, seeing how many echos it is, he immediately sells them.
Maybe vaati’s mom would be able to beat bloodborne if she used the ign strategy guide.
vaatis mum plays all the games while vaati just reads the item descriptions
selling the doll outfit is actually what many speedrun routes do, years later... IGN, ahead of their time on day one
in all seriousness, the difficulty of some underpaid journalist being forced to make a "DAY ONE" guide (written with god knows how little playtime and preparation) should excuse a lot of this bullshit
At least the base game guide tried to make it fun
You know what would be a good idea? If these big gaming outlets, isntead of writing guides, they had their personalites STREAM the games live and THEN write the guides. Not only would they be crowdsourcing the writing a bit, but they'd have video for weird parts that are hard to describe well with words.
@@drdiabeetus4419 honestly that sounds like a good idea, you should tell them that.
@@drdiabeetus4419 Day one guides are presumably written using specific pre-release copies of the game. Streaming a full playthrough of a game that's not even out is a surefire way to get blacklisted and sued into oblivion.
@@Khornecussion TBF the dude he was responding too was talking about streaming the gameplay that they were using for the guide.
He was saying you can't do that because it's actually not made on day one.
Can’t believe the guide didn’t tell him how to get the tiny tonitrus, seems like an oversight to me
Let's be honest here
The wooden shield clearly carried this run
Logarius: God, that fucking shield is a pain in the ass...
Literally every other boss: what the actual hell man?
Didn’t even need the Loch shield
honestly i would've never beat the bloody crow "fucking 1 shot pistol" of cainhurst if it wasn't for the shield
You couldve parried frenzy with that
I love how the item they literally put in as a joke is the one IGN said you should use above the pistols that make the game a cake walk
Lenny screaming ice cream while fighting the blood starved beast and actually going to get it is one of the most wholesome and cutest things I’ve seen
The tactic for Rom is actually great principle.
I beat him easily first try when I just focused all my attacks on Rom and ignored the spiders. I was a Souls novice at the time 😅
Wait people die to Rom?
@@JagEterCoola Apparently. I was also surprised. But if you let the small spiders dictate the fight, then I can see how Rom becomes dangerous 🤔
@@JagEterCoola Rom is considered one of the hardest bosses in Bloodborne
@@jetthejudge most tedious and tending to become the longest? Maybe. HARDEST? Fuck no
@@tudorciubotaru3497 yeah, kinda...granted the game only has a few select bosses that are actually hard and they're essentially in the DLC.
I know it’s not a FromSoft game but a metal gear rising experience would be pretty cool. As someone who forgot to upgrade his weapons up until like the last 3 missions, it most definitely is an “experience”.
You….. you can upgrade your weapon?
@@aestheticmirror9257 Yep 😭
@@senorbongo4975 this game deserves my apology
Try reading...
@@deugorinth1327 too busy swinging sword
Really doesn’t feel like the DLC guide was written by the same person as the base game one. Like the base guide was kinda lame at points but ultimately did accurately guide you to the end of the game, for the most part. The DLC guide is just trash.
Plus, base guide had some charm to it too, along with some humor. It also helped out, in some sense too. The DLC is just absolutely shit and lazy, didn't even try at all, lacking any actual guidance and just a downgrade from the first one.
The first pain point of the guide is actually legitimately good advice if you want to keep your blood echoes before fighting the beast. Pick up madmans knowledge, use it, go to the dream and level up.
Of course an easier way is quitting out when you see it the beast, but this was a day one guide.
"It's like something out of a Japanese horror anime!"
~a guy playing a Japanese horror game
this guide is honestly blessed, it's so bad that it's good and it feels like its made by some guy who loves the game despite only playing it like 2 times. I want to meet this man and watch him play the game
It's crazy seeing an IGN guide that was finished. The amounts of times I have looked at a guide on IGN, only to find the first page and no actual walkthrough, is insane.
Um actually, Red Jeweled Brooch can be turned into a Blood Gem upgrade.
yea exactly what i was thinking cause if you give the kid the brooch shes gonna kill herself and you could send her somewhere to be able to get some item or somethin
Exactly my first thought. Best use for the brooch is getting a gem.
I was looking for someone who said this.
4:19 Read the text on the screen lads
@@dongle2867 _This._
Wow, I actually learned something from the IGN guide. I didn't even notice there were lanterns guiding the way in the Forbidden Woods, I just ended up getting lost and clearing the entire area.
Great guide, 10/10.
Not enough police chases tho 9/5
Out of curiosity I wonder if this guide was made before the memory leak issue that made bosses lose parts of their move sets if you played too fast without quitting, was still in the game
honestly, that IGN writer being a little horny for Maria is not even cringe, it's just the natural state of humanity.
Frankly, for a day 1, base game guide, by _ign,_ from what you show here that wasn't too terrible! I expected that score to look a lot worse 😅
My heart skipped several beats in anticipation of frenzy blocking. I was like holy shit if this is true Miyazaki is a god level troll and IGN critics are geniuses but alas, now I’m more bummed than ever. Flew just a little too close to the sun. Thanks IGN you absolute twats
The fact it USED to work in Review copies is impressive because that shows the IGN guy did discover it, like damn
@@Yasahiro1011 I have the disc copy of the game. I can replay it version 1.0 no problem and see if that works. If it doesn’t then either the IGN guy is full of S (not surprising) or it might have been an inbetween patch like 1.01 and I don’t have the slightest clue how to get a hold of such version
@@hotnessgaming1396 Imagine if it actually works on 1.0
@@hotnessgaming1396 Any update on if it works on 1.0?
@@lordcommissarspartan it was a glitch in the early days of bloodborne. One from software quickly fixed lol
Lenny: "IGN guy is cringe"
Also Lenny: "WHEN THE IMPOSTER IS SUS"
My man needs to balance out his humor somehow.
Besides, the jokes weren't... That's dead then. still a rotting corpse, but it wasn't decomposed yet!
@@owen723 I meant it kind of like a joke, the jokes are fine, a relic of their time and juvenile fun tbh, I like them.
@@mezmezzy1870 Oh. Well sorry about that, I can be pretty blind sometimes, lol.
@@mezmezzy1870 tbh i think the same, i liked these kinda dad jokes that ign does.
Lenny sometimes gives me the stereotypical bag side of gen Z vibe, where everything is cringe or boomer humor except:
“fOrTnItE bAtTlE pAsS🎶”,
but humor is subjective so I do not seriously hate on someones humor. Just if i tend to mock them
"Why am I strugglin here? I've done this with a fuckin torch" My thoughts exactly
Mad respect for going out and buying a dictionary just because IGN told you to
I love how this is his most brutal challenge, and its just following a guide
My happiness knows no bounds, checked like an hour or so ago if there was any new uploads by big lad but nae luck, BANG new video 13 minutes ago fucking GET IN SON
GET IN
Such fatherly support. What a great dad.
@@mrdewarion I'm no his dad haha
'I've don dis wif ay fockin toach' -lenny in his depression against orphan
Return to the Hunter's Dream and... talk to Sweet Shalquoir?!??!!
That guide for the DLC... holy shit. That is genuinely unacceptable.
What I suspect might've happened here, my dear sweet baby angels: Due to popular demand, the author was probably tasked with playing through the game, writing up a walkthrough and getting it online posthaste. So when he finally got around to doing the writing process of the job, he was probably so sleep deprived that he was very confused about what game he was writing about, who he was writing this for, what he was writing and who the fuck he himself even was at that point in time.
That's the best explanation I can come up with cause what the actual fuck?!
Loving this playthrough, by the way! Awesome idea!
if they were written by two different people, then the second guy could have just not been a fan and downgraded the dlc on purpose, or he was mad salty after finishing it
The "don't kill the spiders" line is the most accurate part of this guide. You don't have to lure them away, you just have to have enough DPS to make them irrelevant.
god pls don't suggest this, i STILL get hosts to this day that try this and die like 10 seconds into the fight LOL
I'd say, "You have no idea how much I wanted the Shield Frenzy thing to work," but I'm 110% sure you all know exactly what I mean. If that worked it would forever change my view on frenzy as a mechanic.
It used to work before they patched it out.
Idk why FromSoft keeps putting in insta-kill (or close enough) statuses in their games
@@ashikjaman1940 because, they add things that can counter it. Sometimes you find them later than most would like. But, that is part of the fun. You face what SEEMS tobe insurmountable odds just to find a way to beat it!
It seems like it would be a good mechanic to add by what most people are saying
the one guy who commented “fuck offski bro” made my day, but the whole video made my week, gotta love this sweet baby angel
I’ve never ever ever seen ANYONE even contemplate the wooden shield as being viable after looking at it.
I've actually seen a video talking about pvp uses a few years ago. apparently it can block the players bullets ? other than that there'S a door you can block, giving you the chance to trap players against a horde of enemies. I guess.
@@PrimordialNightmare it has noticeably high blood defense which means it's actually brilliant for certain specific fights. In particular it can completely hose the Bloody Crow, which is arguably the hardest fight in the game. The Loch Shield from the DLC has similar benefits against arcane. They're niche tools but they do excel in their niche.
Dude that shield thing would've made up for all that Ds1 Pendant stuff.
It used to work
It's a strange feeling to see this guy talk with his actual voice
The synthetizer saying "I'm a pretty princess" is just too majestic to let it go...
The Red Jeweled Broach is also a weapon upgrade actually; Consume it from your inventory to gain a weapon gem. It's not really useful but it is one of the first you get in the game.
23:50 I'm with ign on this, I mean I'm close to complete every souls game but romance and family, I can even imagine how to beat those bosses
31:23 kinda cringe but I still with ign
"The wooden shield can block frenzy apparently! Go try!"
Its a strategy guide you're supposed to SAY if it works or not
i swear its so frustrating lol
I thought about it, and maybe they said that to troll the reader,that and the shield itself, they never mention it otherwise
The guide was probably made with a press-release/pre-release version where the shield actually did block frenzy, but was changed upon release.
@@spidudetoo1212 Someone else commented that it apparently did work in 2015, but it was because of a bug. So IGN stumbled across a weird glitch, used it as the main focus of their build, and then it got patched out.
You died because you weren't using the wooden shield, remember what the guide said? NEVER UNEQUIP THIS ITEM
He didn't he just switched weapon i think
15:22 oh hey, dats my friend, dorito. I've done a few videos with him and he's in my twitch community :D we game together regularly.
Glad he's getting some recognition for being a badass :D
"99 insight and I still can't figure out who asked"
Bro what a fucking savage lmao
“Don’t make this a fight for survival, make this a fight for his.” Is kind of working for me ngl
Actually, fun fact, the shield USED to be able to stop frenzy before Patch 1.0.2. Something like that I think. I remember cause my brother, who fatrolls and uses tower shield in fucking DS1, told me.
damn if this is how ign wrote the bloodborne guide, I'm scared to know what their guides to the darksouls trilogy games are like.
The darksouls trilogy games.
@Stinko De mayo without the unfunny jokes it would lose all the charm
@@milgos5269
Yeah they may not be good jokes but they made the guide a little more fun. Could be like the dlc guide where it's a terrible guide and has really shitty jokes.
I keep coming back to this great ass video every so often to watch from start to finish. It's just so fun to watch
This video is actually incredible. I never thought I'd see the day when IGN's guides were actually followed for more than 3 sentences.
Hear me out; the wooden shield reduces damage in a way that you can reliably rally your health back with one or two attacks. Without the shield your can reliably rally MOST of your lost health back with four attacks. The shield is garbo but it has some use with the right attitude.
The shield can also block bullets pretty well. Can be used semi-reliably against the Bloody Crow of Cainhurst, for example.
Sounds like something a shield would say.
Or you could dodge instead and not need to rally any health at all
Someone else in these comments pointed out, back at release there was an exploit where using the wood shield would prevent frenzy. That's why it was recommended.
My man didn't even take sedatives after reading, truly a good hunter
He didn’t hold the wooden shield to his eyes, that’s why he still got frenzied. Smh.
Ooooh shit Lenny hooked us up with the IGN strategy guide let’s goooo
Watched this one last out of the series. Definitely feels more mean spirited than the rest and made it less enjoyable. Glad you changed your tone and the series became what it is now❤
Getting the Madman's Knowledge lets you theoretically enter the fight leveled up without having lost any blood echoes, and allows people who might be having too hard a time with the Cleric Beast to have levels in their favor. If you enter the fight and die you'll lose your echoes and not have the chance to level up. Plus, if you go get the MMK you also gain more blood echoes along the way, and most likely will have picked up a ton of blood echoes as well, giving you a few levels when you return to the dream.
4:11 Yes it is, actually. You have to use it and you get a weapon gem from it.
This guide is the embodiment of “How do ya do, fellow teenagers?”
'It's like Christmas, but with snakes' actually cracked me up. I make that stupid fucking joke all the time, lmao.