My dad walked by to grab a drink and ended up sitting down on the couch and watching me for like an hour and a half, cheering me on until I beat him. Needless to say I felt real proud of myself that night.
I think it would be too difficult to nail him in one try but it could be cool if you get the prompt to submit before every rematch. So it's up to you if losing enough eventually breaks your spirit.
*Fun Fact:* In the DLC of the last PS4 exclusive "Ghost of Tsushima" you can go to a location called bloodstained shrine. If you give yourself damage and heal in front of it a small cutscene will play where your character is hulled in black feathers while a flute version of Gehrman's theme plays in the backround. Afterwards you receive the "Yharnam helm" and the "Yharnam cloak" which are very reminiscent of our good ol' hoonter's attire...;)
Found this a couple weeks ago without knowing it was on Iki island. The second I heard the theme I panicked, screamed, stopped the game, freaked out, restarted the game, and got the most bad ass outfit for that armor, hell yeah.
Liked Ghost of Tsushima but I will never play the dlc because they also make you pay for the PS5 upgrade within the same package. Which is garbage because the game runs on PS5 anyway, just not with the "next gen features". Sucker Punch got greedy and really fucked that one up, shame on them
@@ASmartNameForMe the nightmare doesn't end. The ending you kill Gehrman, you take his place. The ending you let him kill you, you basically free yourself from the nightmare but the nightmare still exists and cycle goes on. The ending you kill the moon presence, you take its place. As for the nightmare existing after you leave it, the one that hosted it was Gehrman and the one who created it was the Moon Presence, similar to how Nightmare of Mensis' host was Micolash through Mergo's Wet-Nurse or the Hunter's Nightmare's host Lady Maria through the Orphan of Kos exists. The Nightmares all exist through the host who called a great one to hear their call or plea. And thus won't cease to exist lore-wise (though not gameplay-wise so that you won't be locked out of content) until you rid of the great one who created it. The closest you've gotten to ridding of the Hunter's Nightmare was when you fight the Moon Presence itself although instead of ridding the Hunter's Dream, you merely usurped the moon presence its ownership of it.
@@lutelatti I know theres no real canon ending but deracine does hint at this ending, so It seems fromsoft at least prefer that ending. And youre right about your character inheriting the dream, I meant that youre character probably doesnt repeat the whole hunter going out for its bidding.
DS1: A man treated as a deity, fallen from grace DS2: A vile woman who has betrayed all to snuff out a curse DS3: A man who searched for the Dark Soul until the world ended, only to find out he has to die in order to obtain it BB: A man who wants to free you from a horrible nightmare
Sekiro(not Shura): a chill old man who died in peace but his edgy grandson brought him back from the dead, so he's like "pitiful grandchild... oh well, I'm back with the energy I once had, how about we fight for fun?"
Sekiro: a shinobi immortal wanting to save his immortal master edit: i apologize for my comment as i am not in a good situation to have understood about thy comment about the final bosses of each FS games, as i am also about to end sekiro for the first time
Me: Uh no I don't want to submit my life. Gehrman: "Dear oh dear, what was it..." Me: Um... **Gehrman stands up** Me: My butthole is starting to squeeze shut. **Gehrman pulls out his weapon** Me: Is..is that a fucking scythe?! **Boss bar appears** Me: The First...? Aw shit...
@@ASmartNameForMe To be fair, the entire game is essentially a hopeless death march for everyone regardless of how well you do your job, and the doll is kind of hot.... Not trying to justify doll sex or anything.... just sayin.....
“One must die, one must live. No victory, no defeat. The survivor will carry on the fight. It is our destiny… The one who survives will inherit the title of boss. And the one who inherit the title of boss will face an existence of endless battle.” -The Boss, MGS3
Both Gehrman and Boss were fought in a field of flowers... Both were mentors to the player characters, both sacrificed everything for others, and both only want respite from the horrors they have had to endure.. And both were given eternal peace by their students...
I could never accept death when Gehrman offers it to us. We're the last hunter, if we get to leave, Gehrman will be a prisoner to the dream forever. It's not about helping ourselves ascend or getting the burial blade It's about helping a man who spent his life helping others
Gerhman had committed some messed up shit (I.E. the Fishing Hamlet) but I agree. No matter his sins not even HE wouldn't deserve it has bad as he got it.
DS1: the first lord of cinders DS2: a creature from the abyss DS3: an entity made from all past lords Bloodborne: an old crippled man that got up from his wheelchair tô beat the shit out of you.
The worst part is that you can, despite the player hunter never speaking truly understand their relationship with Gehrman. They don't want to fight each other, The Hunter wants to set Gehrman free of this hell, the only thing Gehrman wants is to finally die after possibly being trapped for hundreds of years, but he doesn't want you to suffer his fate. He'd endure eternity as the slave of a demonic god rather than let anyone else feel the same pain he has. Two warriors, two friends, doing everything they can to end the others misery and suffering, yet neither is willing to condemn the other to a immortal life of loneliness and nightmares
@@shadyshack1601 Because the Moon Presence has a hold on Gehrman, as long as he lives, he will unwillingly continue to be the host of the Hunter's Dream, and thus he will always fight to continue being the host. It's like a curse placed on him, one he doesn't want others to suffer, so he would rather have hunters willingly accept their liberation from the hunt at his hand than trying to beat him and be cursed to be the next host of the dream.
That moment when you realize the last fight of the game (unless you've gotten all three umbilical cords) is two people trying to mercy kill each other. Bloodborne is such a tragedy.
@@dujeperinic1984 Yes. If you use 3 of the 4 umbilical cords in the game you fight the Moon Presence and get the secret ending after defeating Gehrman. You can use them anytime you want as long as it's done before you beat Gehrman. You have to use them though, not just have them in your inventory.
@@malsserenity3679 so if i haven't killed the impostor doctor i would have gotten all 3 i got my first one from idk where but i know that the doctor and mergo drop the cords
@@dujeperinic1984 Probably the first one you got is from the old abandoned workshop in Cathedral Ward. You can get another if you follow Arianna's quest
Lawrence became a beast. Micolash went mad. Willem is in a vegetative state. His pupil and dear love, Maria, suicide. And this poor man is still hoping they'll rescue him someday, ignoring everything about them. We're truly his last rope, whetever he likes it or not.
@@elizabest4246 What's the evidence for that? Didn't he say he was "steeped ... in the stench of blood and beasts"? And if the sword helped him regain some rationality during the fight, how could that be the source of his curse? I'd say it did the opposite: prolonged the transformation and beasthood.
To be fair, they all pretty much had it coming for the atrocities they committed. They literally violated a village and defiled/tore open a great one and took it's kid all for Wilhem and Bergynwerth. Hence the hunters curse.
Writing inspired by the music at 4:37 : The Hunter and Gehrman stand in the field of flowers, both exhausted and bloodied. Yet summoning their final strength, they charge at each other one last time. Alas your blade drew quicker and Gehrman is fatally wounded. Bested, he drops his scythe and falls to the ground. The First Hunter kneels, coughing as his garb gets stained from blood. You stand by his side in his final moments, letting him know he won’t be alone as he’d always was. He looks at you with contempt, deeming you foolish to give into the bloodthirst. But you smile back. For the first time in a long while, he felt the warmth of a smile, one he had long since forgotten. And with that smile, a realisation dawned upon him. This fight had never been borne of malice or foolishness, but a brave gambit to free his soul from the very beginning. Stunned, he faces you with sadness in his eyes, knowing the terrible burden you’ll shoulder. Yet there too was also a glimmer of gratitude in that failing gaze. With his dying breath, he utters his final words, a reminder to you who shall replace him as the Dream’s captor: _“The Night and Dream, were long”_ And so passes the First Hunter
@@dellixxia6321 it's different for everyone and Gehrman was fairly easy for me until I decided fight him without parrying on ng+6. It took me many attempts. As to the orphan, I had a much harder time with Laurence than I had with the orphan. Weird I know.
2:29 is such a beautifully tragic phrase. There's something about hearing this part and knowing Gehrman's backstory that pulls on my heartstrings in a very unrelenting manner.
I actually teared up trying to fight him. I would give up gaming if I could experience this battle again. Him getting up from his wheelchair, and limping towards you to kill and set you free from this hell. Trying his hardest to not let you suffer as he did, even if he truly wants to leave. The pain you hear when you eavesdrop him crying to release him from the dream is basically enough evidence that he doesn’t want to be there anymore, yet still tries to make you leave.
Gehramn is probably the most selfless character in the game. Enduring eternal solitude in the dream, saving all the hunters and sending them to return to their lives. He does this for everyone but himself, and when you, the player, tries to save him, he fights you to try and stop you from going through the hell he's been through. Not to mention he's a badass. Goddamn this guy is amazing in so many ways.
Depending on your motives for fighting him, both hunters were trying to sacrifice their very humanity and soul to spare the other from the same fate. There’s something incredibly tragic and noble about that.
This game. Each Souls game, has a different emotion for each Final Boss. Gwyn. You expect something epic, but you find a broken man, a hollow, another hollow you must kill, so you can extend the age of fire. Aldia. You encounter someone who teaches you an important lesson. After seeing the poor state of Vendrick, who ended just like Gwyn, after ending Nashandra's life. Aldia asks you that question... What do you desire? Soul of Cinder. The epic battle you desired in the first journey, fills you with adrenaline. You know you have to end the cycle. You fight the soul of the ones who helped Gwyn to continue the age of fire. Elden Beast. You expected Márika, yet you encountered Radagon, but after all, you fight the beast of the Greater Will, an eerie entity with auric, cosmic power. But... Gehrman? You have to.. No. You BOTH have to kill each other. You both.. have to set free your friend from this Dream. This is not a battle. This is just pair of comrades trying to take sacrifice to help the other. After hearing this Soundtrack. After completing the Soulsborne games.. I wanted to write this, somewhere in the Soulsborne OSTs.. and this is by far, the best choice.
Remember, Gehrman was a horribly broken down and miserable man, the kind who wished for death but could never truly receive it because he was merely a pawn of a far greater being, the only thing he could do was cry in his sleep. He didn't try to kill you out of maliciousness or control, his entire reason for attempting to put you down was because despite how destroyed he was on the inside he still didn't wish that same fate upon you even if it meant his own freedom. He was truly a great man.
+Templar Knight Not necessarily humanity overall, just yours. Just like Dark Souls 2 where you are the only one who eventually gains the immunity to being Hollow, your character finally achieves the one thing every key player in the game has been going after.
You are too freaking right. How the hell Bloodborne's soundtrack lost to Metal Gear Solid V's soundtrack? They obviously didn't listen to this masterpiece of a soundtrack. MGSV's soundtrack was entirely forgettable and unmemorable.
"...Oh Laurence...Master Willem... Somebody, help me... Unshackle me, please, anybody... I've had enough of this dream... The night blocks all sight... Oh, somebody, please..."
"Oh, well... What was it? ...the hunt? ...the blood? ...or the horrible nightmare? ...it doesn't matter. It always comes to hunter's helper to clean up this sort of messes. * scene fades to black * Tonight, Gehrman joins the hunt"
+The Haunter of the Dark Is it ever explained why one cannot just commit suicide? If dying and being rid of the dream is what Gehrman wants, he could pretty easily just do it himself, right? Doesn't seem like the kinda guy who would willingly stick around anymore.
Everyone who has played Bloodborne for the first time can agree that even after playing through till the end, you're still a little unsure of the lore but this fight with the music especially gives such a deep sense of sacrifice. The whole time I couldn't help but think, "he doesn't want this, does he?"
+ crippled man standing from his wheel chair + has a scythe + that scythe transforms + gets godlike aura halfway through the fight and super armor = many layers of badassery on top of perfection
To this day, after the platinum on Elden Ring, after all the From games i will never forget the feeling this game gave me when i got it free on Ps plus. It took me 50+ tries for Cleric Beast only, i uninstalled the game 3 or 4 times but kept on installing it back for no reason and I can proudly say that this game,BLOODBORNE, gave me the most amazing experience i ever got in any form of media. Thank you BB, I hope we meet again in a sequel or a new DLC
@@doot7730 it would be just too much. One of the greatest qualities of this game is how much things happened in the past of a single city that brought us in such an hideous context. It might not be a very large word, but it's surely vast and rich. A new dlc or a new story for a (im)probable sequel might be fitting, but a whole world to explore for the same lore is unnecessary
A different hunter at the same night would go crazy imo. with entirely new beasts, hunters and parts of yharnam. Also adding a little more story too. He would also have to pass by the aftermath of the other hunter and for the final boss formless oedon.
+Normie Reedus Try to invade a max lvl security sniper FOB and tell me again, how easy it is. Seriously though, the singleplayer was lacking in story and gameplay. Maps had subpar design, when compared to Ground Zeroes and the open world was lackluster, with next to no additional interaction.
+JakeDuck Hahaha talking about story on a video about a game that has virtually no story and relies 100% on graphics and gameplay. Just let me get a nice waft of that hypocrisy.
Gehrman's an old man who's been sitting in a wheelchair for who knows how long. The first time he stands in what has to be years, and he still manages to pose a huge threat. Just imagine him in his prime
What's better is the guy had freakin peg leg....A freaking *PEG* leg. We were fighting a disabled old man and still we still got our asses handed to us.
This boss fight was pure feels. The student fighting with the teacher, who helped him settle into this nightmare, not out of hatred, but respect and mercy. To put the teacher out of this nightmare. The teacher figthing to release the student from the nightmare. A tragic fight to death, where the winner is the loser and neither want to lose for the sake of the other. Fromsoft doesnt just makes games, they make art.
They knocked it out of the park with this fight, the soundtrack makes it so clear that he really doesn't want to fight you, he wants to release you from the nightmare peacefully. The fight is challenging, the arena is amazing, the soundtrack is beautiful and the lore just brings it all together into one of the best fights FromSoft have ever made.
EGrahamBass I can agree to that. The whole setting for the Gerhman fight was amazing, but what nails Gwyn for me so much is that all you hear about is Gwyn. The game makes Gwyn out to be a god but when you get to him, its just a shell of what he was (and he can still kick your ass). Top the lead up with the almost melancholic piano track, and its just plays out great. Without the lead up though, Gerhmans atmosphere wins hands down though.
Yeah that was one of the things that really struck me about Gwyn was just how much of a husk he looked in comparison to what I'd imagined. I've got to say I'm really impressed overall with Bloodborne, in my eyes it's at least on par with DkS1 and perhaps even a bit better, what're your thoughts on it?
EGrahamBass Exactly the same. Its better in many ways but Dark Souls still did some things better. Covenants come to mind, BB is lacking. My GOTY so far though. Only Phantom Pain can match it.
3:42 This is the point where you realise this isn’t simply a win/lose battle. It’s a clashing of fates, where the loser is to bask in eternal peace while the winner is to endure eternal hell. The First Hunter Vs The Last Hunter, both risking a destiny worse than all those that came in between.
You can't win in this situation. You either beat up an old man, or you get beaten up by an old man. There's zero bragging rights for either of the conclusions.
This may sound stupid, but when I was writing my final anatomy exam, I was really slow at first, couldn't concentrate on it properly. I had stopped for a moment because it was going so poorly, looked around me, out the window... and out of nowhere 3:41 started playing in my head, over and over again (I studied with this song). I got a real boost of inspiration, complete focus on the test, and I passed easily. Still remember that moment. I don't think I would've done well if not for the song.
Can't imagine the beating Gherman gave you that instilled that kind of focus but hey we take motivation where we get it. Makes sense too since there's no pause you'd have to learn to slip into a zen mode I've been there
Imagine that Gehrman remembers every Hunter before you. That they're there, with you both, while you fight. 3: 41 And they sing for his victory, for Gehrman's victory. Singing so Loud but so peaceful. They know you're gonna lose, even if you win...
Beating Gerhman is my last Bloodborne memory (couple of weeks ago), my father was sitting next to me cheering me like "bitch u cant dodge shit" Dad passed few days ago, now this boss battle seems so important, i was thinking about the NG+ but it seems wrong to get to this battle without him now.
Gwyn was a hollow man, wanting to desperately hold onto a golden age in a world that had long moved on from his reign Aldia questioned you, making you see how pointless it was to save or walk away from that world, that world without any hopes or dreams, friends betraying each other and traumas in every single ally you met The Lord of Cinder was *you* , the hollow that decided the fate of the world so long ago. Filled with the souls of previous Lords, not speaking for a second but silently asking you "Is it good to go on? What is there to save?" Gael faith on a new world free of all the imperfection of that in which he lived in, imagining how beautiful the painted world would be; rises his sword for the first time against the only true friend he ever knew. A last sacrifice must be made....you...or him Isshin just wanted to fight against a true honorably opponent that could make him feel alive for the last time in his life. His grandson broke traditions and what was just to reach the goal of a united Ashina....maybe with his grandfather return it could happen. And there it stood "The Saint" Isshin, to feel his heart racing for one last battle But Gerhman...He didn't wish for a golden age to return, he wasn't driven by a dream or a sense of glory. He wanted to free you, to finally put you to rest, to wake up from that horrible nightmare; sacrificing *for you* instead of sacrificing *you* . But all hunters must rest, and you my friend; you earned this.
This track is perfectly reflective of this final encounter. There is no glory in this fight. There is no triumph. There is not the extinguishing of a great threat to save the citizens of Yharnam as a whole nor the conquest of a grand evil. It is a fight between two victims of circumstance who are willing to fight to the death in order to save the other. It is beautifully and tragically poetic in a way few other scores are.
no other choice, the only thing both of you know is the HUNT, the hunter style of combat was created by Gehrman and you will use it to end his eternal torment, in tragedy there is triumph.
He was such an awesome boss fight too. He was your own size, a fellow hunter, but a stone-cold veteran filled with a rageful remorse, an experienced wisdom brought upon by pain and scars. He knows, as you don't, that there is no escaping the nightmare, the world has become nonredeemable, and the only way out is to wake up through an acceptance of death. Only then, can the hunter hope to escape the dream. The way he moved, ultra fast, playing a lot like a good hunter should, shooting his firearm looking for a good moment to parry, rushing you, and so on, but at the same time, very slow and deliberate when not near you. I love the way he can absorb the raw power of the night and moon in the hopes of winning and saving you, but he can't. You're too powerful, you forgot how to give up a long time ago.
+IamCaptainMan he was when you fsee gerjman for the 1st time hes already lost , already taken by th emoon presence nothing more then a puppet , a doll....als ypu can hear gerhman talking while sleeping he ask for his friend laurence , master willi , he cries.....thats why this song is sad , reminds a slow dance to the deaths hand and augure of the dark
Latin lyrics: English Venator Hunter. Ah mi supra venata Ah, I have hunted. Anima tor feci si vre re mal I did it all to cleanse my soul from evil. Venare insidiosus An insidious hunt Mira tenebrarum The wonderful darkness (or "These mysterious nights") Hic sic scitis miserere aeterna This way I knew eternal mercy (or "miseriae aeterna") (or "eternal misery"). Instance 2: English: Latin lyrics: Venator My Hunter Ah mi sumo vela mala Let the evil be hidden (from you) Anima do res mihi somne restas My life devoted to sustaining the Dream Luna insidiosa The insidious Moon Mira tenebrarum The wonderful darkness (or "These mysterious nights") Di vises mi miserere aeterna Great One, look upon me and grant eternal mercy (or "miseriae aeterna")Or (Great One has looked upon me and grant this eternal misery) Instance 3: Latin : English : Venator Hunter A mi sumo vena mala Take my sickly vein Anima doles mihi solve recta My soul hurts, free me, rightly Luna insidiosa The insidious Moon Mira tenebrarum The wonderful darkness (or "These mysterious nights") Di vises mi miserere aeterna (or "miseriae aeterna") Great One, look upon me and grant eternal mercy (or "Great One has looked upon me and grant this eternal misery").
Instance 4: Latin lyrics: English: Venātor abyssum venārator Hunter, who hold in awe the abyss Tū nōlī at esse supplētūrum But you are never supposed to be a scapegoat Supprēmum sic falcem quatiam semel modo I would swing this scythe once again, to offer an end to your nightmare Mē parti si finem praebētō But please, give me an end to my role.
Ludwig’s Theme was technical perfection. Lady Maria’s Theme was technical elegance. Gehrman’s Theme is a tragic masterpiece. Beautifully ominous, overpowering might and sorrowful waves of pain. The First Hunter’s theme will always be the best soundtrack out of any Soulsborne game, in my opinion.
All final boss themes ranked in my opinion:- 12. King Allant 11. Burnt Ivory King 10. Isshin, The Sword Saint 9. Aldia, Scholar Of The First Sin 8. Manus, Father Of The Abyss 7. Moon Presence 6. Orphan Of Kos 5. Gwyn, Lord Of Cinder 4. Sister Frieda and Father Ariendel 3. Slave Knight Gael 2. Gehrman, The First Hunter 1. Soul Of Cinder But absolutely nothing can beat Ludwig's theme in my opinion. That's my favourite in all of Soulsborne + Sekiro.
Completely I haven’t played it yet and I found this at my recommended and I DONT REGRET ANYTHING it’s too good these days I only have one objective play this game I found out that now is on of so am trying to find it
@@SpaceClord Bloodborne is undeniably the best one best combat levels bosses enemies and hell it has good build variety without have much crap in it like HOW infinite post game content with chalice dungeons that have just enough grind with ease of access that they are addicting also the music is the best in the series and gehrman is the best boss ever 2cd has to be gael but gehrman has a good story like not in video game terms but overall he is the best final boss and his music is the best again even the gameplay is so good. The game is just good in so many areas hell even some of the worser bosses are better than most of the bosses in ds1 and ds2 even though I love ds2 bosses I only like alot of them because of the character being fun to play with but Bloodborne has that too. The worst boss witches of hemwick is a solid c+ and most of them are memorable even again that boss even chalice dungeons have regular enemies as bosses sometimes but they still good and the actual exclusive bosses are really really good
Today, I earned the Platinum Trophy, and it felt like a significant journey had come to an end. Afterward, I decided to finish the Night and the Hunt.. and the Terrible Dream. I freed Gehrman and found myself tearing up during the honourable final battle.
And you know this game is the reason why ds2 is a disaster because i heard Miyazaki moved into Bloodborne in the middle of ds2 development (feel free to correct me) Edit: aight maybe i treat ds2 too hard, you guys can stop fighting now
@@jack_hunt1103 miyazaki was working on bloodborn and was not on dark soul 2. dark soul 2 had good moment, especialy the 3 dlc. but after seeing was was cut form the game and how the gutter looked. dark soul 2 could have been really good.
@SauDude “There's more people in the BoB arena than in the entire DS3 multiplayer” You've got to be kidding. DS3 has the most active playerbase out of all From Software games. More people play DS3 online than DS1 and DS2 combined. “Music is more climatic” It's obvious that little effort was put into Majula's OST. It is definitely not more climatic than the Firelink Shrine OST from DS3, but music is subjective.
Lucas Dollar Not really, my Hunter did what was truly right. If you sneak up on Gerhman as he sleeps, you can easily see just how much suffering has been writhing inside of him for so long. He acts stoic and benevolent, as if he is your kindly mentor always doing what is best for you...but in truth, he is more a victim of nightmares than you are. Forced to fill his current role by the Moon Presence, a decision with consequences he did not at first understand, Gerhman may have wished for death all along. Unfortunately, he seems set in his interpretation of your refusal. As far as he is concerned, your battles have warped your mind. Rather than solemnly put you to rest, he now rises from his chair to rip you from the dream by force. To free him from his curse, however, is to take that burden upon your own shoulders...unless you have eyes on the inside. Only then can you truly end the cycle.
Yeah...I sincerely doubt that's true. You merely have to look at the reactions his battle has elicited in the game's fans. It's all a matter of opinion, and the idea that he is the best or second best boss is fairly common.
I have lost my faith in humanity, Bloodborne didn't even get nominated for best games sound track of the year when it is clearly the highest quality and the tone of each song fits it each fight, scene perfectly, conjuring up the perfect emotional feelings for the scene. Some one please grant the reviewers eyes, i mean ears!
It seems the most memorable characters and last bosses of the Bloodborne/Souls series share the same thing in common: sacrifice. Gwyn sacrifices himself to preserve the age of fire, linking the fire to the souls of men so they may forever kindle the dying flame, and leaving him a husk of his former glory. Artorias sacrifices his sanity, soul, and body all to hold back the abyss, eventually being consumed in the process but not before laying the groundwork for the player to finish the job. The Ivory King sacrificed himself to battle against the chaos, sealing himself in a realm of ice to prevent its escape. Gael sacrifices his mind, body, and spending centuries to gather the appropriate pigment for his lady so that a new painting could be made to preserve the lasting remnants of the age of fire for the next cycle; to give peace to a few souls seeking a cold, gentle place to dwell. And Gehrman makes one of the most grueling sacrifices; to be stuck in an endless nightmare, separate from time and reality, hosting the dream that holds the only chance mere mortals have to contest the Old Gods and their mysterious tyranny. He gives himself to the Moon Presence, a Great One, the embodiment of the hunt, so that hunters may in turn dispose of the nightmares let loose by careless men, without fear of death. He cries out in pain, seeking for reprieve, but in his composure he relents when someone seeks to take his place. He makes this sacrifice for the good of all men, to give them some peace from the horrors he has witnessed. When it comes time to release hunters from the dream he fights holding nothing back to spare us from his fate. I think it is fantastic that video games can construct such interesting characters. No better medium can bring together all the emotion that games can - with music, dialogue, action, and visual symbolism all wrapped into one. This song really explores all that Bloodborne is - calm and eerie, explosive and octane, swift and strategic, frightening frontier to explore, whose immense tragedy wrought by those seeking to ascend to a greater plane of existence leads us to question our own sanity.
What about Vendrick and Aldia? They, too, are fitting in this theme. Both dedicating their lives to find a solution for the curse, a means to escape, yet while Vendrick went hollow, just after giving someone worthy of it the means to block the curse, having sacrificed his mind to it, Aldia sacrificed his body, his very soul to shatter the hold the curse holds on him, becoming something hideous, not unlike the Bed of Chaos. And yet, where everyone else failed... He prevailed. The success is questionable, but he is the only one who remains unharmed by the curse, and even retains his sanity.
Gwyn is a fucking dick though. He didn’t sacrifice anything. He cursed humanity in his weakness. He’s the opposite of a martyr and doesn’t deserve to be compared to the likes of anyone you listed. He is solely responsible for the curse of the world of Dark Souls. It all comes back to Gwyn’s unwillingness to accept that he was not everlasting like the dragons he toppled.
Gwynn sacrificed for greed and fear. Artorias out of duty and perhaps, love for what he held dear. The Ivory king out of love for his queen, even when he knew she was a child of the abyss, all he wanted was her overcoming that darkness. Aldia and Vendrick out of sheer will to break the curse that plagued us all for so long. Gael for his new master, so that she could complete her painting. And Gherman, to make sure that hunt goes on and Yarnam wont fall for the beastly curse. In the end how noble their deed might be, they all feared what was yet to come.
This was truly one of the best fights not a giant monster vs a small man, not a corrupted soul fighting aimlessly at everything around it... just a mentor and a student locked in honourable combat the mentor fighting to save the student the pain of holding his curse and the student fighting to free their teacher from the pain he's suffered for so long
That's sure one way to look at it. I like to look at it as two hunters fighting for what they believe is right. You as the player have a choice, have Gehrman kill you, or one final duel. When I got to Gehrman I thought "It took me so long to get here, and to just die now wouldn't be worth the wait." The battle is a Hunter trapped in a nightmare since the very beginning, trying to make sure this new hunter does not end up in the same spot that he is. And the new hunter is fighting to make sure what he has done, hasn't gone down in vain. It is a duel, between two hunters, fighting for what they believe is correct in their eyes. That's why Gehrman gives you the option of release, he doesn't want you to end up where he was. This is one of, if not the most emotional boss in all of soulsborne. People can correct me on that seeing how I haven't played ds2 or demon souls. But Gehrman is making sure the hunter doesn't end up locked in this never ending nightmare. There are subtle clues of Gehrman not liking the dream. You can find him asleep in the hunter's dream sometimes and he will say stuff like "Oh, Laurence... what's taking you so long... I've grown too old for this, of little use now, I'm afraid..." and if you kill Kos before killing the Wet Nurse, the doll will give you hidden dialogue; "Oh, good hunter. I can hear Gehrman sleeping. On any other night, he'd be restless. But on this night, he sounds so very calm. ...perhaps something has eased his suffering" by killing his personal nightmare, he can finally rest. "Tonight, Gehrman joins the hunt. . ." will be the most iconic line from this game. This is by far, the best boss in Bloodborne.
@@endofslayer8071 Tbf Gehrman does really kill you. What he does is end your dream. He alone has the power to end your dream but only if you do so willingly otherwise your will clings to the dream which is why you respawn if you dont let him kill you in the dialogue option.
@@music79075 I know Gehrman really kills you. It's the player's choice if they want to (what they thought would make them lose everything) let that happen. Also, another reason as to why Gehrman can't kill you in the actual fight is you as a player think you are stronger than Gehrman, and the Moon Presence realizes this once you kill Gehrman (my first ending.) So by having the player think they are stronger than a human trapped in a dream, it gives them a false sense of hope that they can end the nightmare for good. But then the player realizes that his Great One is in control of the nightmare, but there is no way to end the nightmare, because even if you kill the Moon Presence, you become a Great One to take its place.
@@endofslayer8071 Though you become a TRUE great one not one of the others who've only tried to get to that level of understanding. With that power you could control the nightmare or be rid of it.
This has got to be one of the most tragic boss battles I fought. Gerhman is not corrupt or evil in any way, but only wishes to release you from the nightmare peacefully. You, naive and scared, wish to survive out of fear of what's to come next. So you fight, that's the only way you've known how to survive the nightmare. Or, perhaps, you are not afraid and are willing to put others before yourself. Each hunter having enough respect for each other that they fight not out of any grudge, but to offer the other mercy. Each willing to sacrifice their own freedom, and possibly even humanity, so that the other can finally be freed from this hellish world. That's two possible reasons for your character to fight, and each are depressing.
+Callidus Xlll That really gives an entirely different context to every single fight in the entire game. Fucking mind-blowing. Sure, a lot of the Hunters you face are probably corrupted and warped with selfish intents, but the true ones - the *real* Hunters - are just doing their job. Hunting is the only way they know how to help anymore. It's the only thing they're still good at. If they stopped hunting, it'd be a dishonour and waste of everything they'd done up to that point. Death is the only way out, but they can't bring themselves to do it themselves. If every Hunter abandoned their duty, it would be the ultimate surrender of mankind. The Hunt is humanity desperately fighting back against inevitable doom. The pandora's box has been opened, and in our attempt to advance ourselves, we drew the short straw in natural selection. The Cosmos will keep unfolding itself in perpetual complexity, and we will have been sacrificed for its amusement. This is the sad irony of it all; the pursuit of insight would eventually just have made us ultimately aware of our utter lack of purpose. A grain of sand screaming into the infinite void. Expecting confirmation. Deep down every Hunter probably knows this; it's all for nothing in the end. But surrender isn't possible at this point. We Hunt because we must. Because it's everything we can do. Because we're afraid.
shadow heart Thanks for the feedback, heh. I dunno, I just kinda went with it. I sort of just fucking love the philosophical topics that are present in Bloodborne. Definitely never been into something Lovecraftian like this before. Nihilism, m8. It's cool... until you experience it yourself. Suicidal thoughts aren't nice at all. No one deserves that. Wow, I am rambling. Cheers, and good hunting. Fear the Old Blood.
+tá muid go léir ag dul a bás I mean, it is inevitable that every decision we make (or think we make) is going to be fundamentally informed by our most basic drives as biological, chemical organisms. We generally prefer life to death, and we generally really like sex. These are given, of course, but that's what our understanding of reality tells us. Could there be a secret plan behind it all, though? Are we all, as thinking agents, manipulated and steered in direction by some yet unknowable force? What we have to accept is that we cannot know. At least not right now. We can't possibly tell the difference between a truly individualistic or deterministic universe... so there's really not much use in thinking about it. At least, that's my take. What personal conclusions you draw from this realisation, however, can change everything about who you are. Really. This perpetual feeling of powerlessness, the inability to understand the things that seemingly should be able to be understood. Right? We deserve to know the answers! Why wouldn't we? We scream at the cosmos... and nothing happens. No greater order is revealed. The universe doesn't care. It just is. So, what does this mean? Does it mean there just aren't any answers to be found? Or is the explanation for everything simply a paradox? Meaning, there is an answer, but it doesn't make any logical sense. Or is the answer perfectly logical, and we just aren't able to understand it, due to our physical limitations? Are our brains just not able to unpack the mystery, despite it perhaps being right in front of us? And what does that mean, anyway? Is it just a fact of nature that the explanation for the cosmos simply cannot be understood by a physical organism? Or could we understand it if we were just *slightly* more advanced? Do we have to wait for evolution to catch up? Or - and this is the cool part - is there some part of biology that necessarily keeps us from reaching the answers? Is there some lock, some barrier, that ensures no thinking agent can ever reach that point? Because... it would destroy us? Because life would end? Because the univserse would stop experiencing itself? Dude.
4:17 hits so hard emotionally The workshop burning, the flowers and dirt flying up from each swing of you and Gehrman’s weapons. The crack of gunfire, blood spattering across the white flowers, knowing whoever wins will be forever damned, but fighting to win because neither Gehrman or the Hunter can bring themselves to allow the other to suffer that. Bloodborne is my favorite game of all time
This is the beauty that is Bloodborne. At the end, there is no triumph, no victory, no peace to be had. At the end, all that remains is two hunters, desperate to save the other from the nightmare. For one hunter, it's to save the other from eternal torment of the nightmare. For the other hunter, it's to save his mentor; willing to suffer a terrible nightmare so the other can be free. Either way, there is no win. Only two hunters remain, and only one will be freed. Both wish to be free, yet won't allow the other to take their place; they are truly selfless. This is the beauty that is Bloodborne
We don't really know the Hunter's motives. Sure, he could have decided to free Gehrman, but that's not how he sees it. Gehrman is unimpressed, he thinks his last pupil either got blood drunk, or is a madman who enjoys the hunt, or he just likes living in a power trip of immortality. At this point the hunter has also seen things that go far beyond the beast plague, he is enlightened and he probably either sees the truth of things or he wants to know more. It's an rpg after all, so every player can choose their own reason for defying the old man, but let's be honest: there is not one good person in the universe of Bloodborne (with the exception of some of the npcs who stay indoor in Yharnam and maybe Chapel Guy), and the Hunter himself can choose to do horrible things, the way I see it he could very well just be seeking more power.
"Are you winning, son?"
"I won, father. I set Gehrman free."
“Are ya winning, son..... *gasps* Shura!”
I feel my heart crack
.... That's my Son .....
.....That is My Son......
My dad walked by to grab a drink and ended up sitting down on the couch and watching me for like an hour and a half, cheering me on until I beat him. Needless to say I felt real proud of myself that night.
@@altf4towin986 good job you did it! :D
2 hunters fighting to save the other
Wow, that's the deepest think I heard
That's so f***ing true, m8.
@@s-bob17 mommy won't see you swear on the internet, don't worry
@@s-bob17 Why don't you care about your mom?
@@s-bob17 fair enough
To set Gehrman free, you become Gehrman.
P A I N
Hey, hi, you're famous:D
Oh hey Ari
Lol
I used to watch your Genji overwatch videos back in the day. Good to see you
Stfu,im a slug god
Imagine if you died to Gehrman you'd get the awakening ending
It'd be cruel but tragically beautiful
Holy SHIT that would bring me to rage in my own tears like: "I'm so sorry but who's Gehrman?"
@@thepanzerofthelake732 My gods I didn't even consider how the Hunter wouldn't even remember Gehrman!
I’d definitely be screaming at my tv crying yelling “NOOOOO”
The feeling of defeating him would be so amazing tho with that pure adrenaline of knowing the cost of restarting
I think it would be too difficult to nail him in one try but it could be cool if you get the prompt to submit before every rematch. So it's up to you if losing enough eventually breaks your spirit.
The winner loses, the loser wins.
Sup vicar Lawrence
@@DANTEEEEEEEE oh damn
Ah I see you man of culture as well
Understatement on “the winner loses.”
That's deep as fuck brah.
You know you've done fucked up when a Man gets out of his wheelchair to kick your ass.
+Lawry Luminaria That looked so badass the first time I've seen it.
+Lawry Luminaria tonight gerhmans joins the hunt
you- ohh im so fcked now man.....
+jonathan bungi Tuhnight *stands up slowly, crackling back* Ooh, Mah hip... Ol Man Gerhman joins ta' Hunt.
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May I add that I wrecked all of you arses with just one leg.
(I shit you not, a leg of mine is a pegleg)
*Fun Fact:* In the DLC of the last PS4 exclusive "Ghost of Tsushima" you can go to a location called bloodstained shrine. If you give yourself damage and heal in front of it a small cutscene will play where your character is hulled in black feathers while a flute version of Gehrman's theme plays in the backround. Afterwards you receive the "Yharnam helm" and the "Yharnam cloak" which are very reminiscent of our good ol' hoonter's attire...;)
Found this a couple weeks ago without knowing it was on Iki island. The second I heard the theme I panicked, screamed, stopped the game, freaked out, restarted the game, and got the most bad ass outfit for that armor, hell yeah.
Liked Ghost of Tsushima but I will never play the dlc because they also make you pay for the PS5 upgrade within the same package. Which is garbage because the game runs on PS5 anyway, just not with the "next gen features". Sucker Punch got greedy and really fucked that one up, shame on them
@@ThomasVvV They thought we liked it super much like a monkey. But in reality, we only like it as a GentleMonkey.
I was glad that they had put in the game especially with that calm and relaxing flute
@@ThomasVvV they can make a ps5 upgrade for ghost of tsushima but not one for bloodborne
7 years later, the "Prey Slaughtered" still hits more like a "Friend Liberated"
Contact me for your Christmas reward 🎁🎄🎄..
"The Night....and The Dream....were long...." 😢
Should’ve said “Dream Awakened”
Or "You Defeated"@@graypython
Or “hunter freed”
Ah yes. The Soulsborne series
Also known as: Killing old men to sad music, the series
coyote47713 Beating up the elderly to sad music is pretty hilarious though, you have to give Fromsoft that.
@@vega2300 on paper yes, in practice...... *Sniff* n-no it's not...
if only Sword Saint *spoiler* had a sad theme too
@@thomasclowater9471 ok who tf puts a spoiler warning AFTER the spoiler.
Da glock saint doesnt have a sad theme tho
“Tonight, Gehrman joins the hunt”
The first hunter vs the last hunter
What a poetic end
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Remember that the game only takes place during one night lmao. And you take the place of gehrman in one of the endings
@@lutelatti well in the more canon ending you end the nightmare and the cycle so it isn't too far fetched to say that
@@ASmartNameForMe the nightmare doesn't end.
The ending you kill Gehrman, you take his place.
The ending you let him kill you, you basically free yourself from the nightmare but the nightmare still exists and cycle goes on.
The ending you kill the moon presence, you take its place.
As for the nightmare existing after you leave it, the one that hosted it was Gehrman and the one who created it was the Moon Presence, similar to how Nightmare of Mensis' host was Micolash through Mergo's Wet-Nurse or the Hunter's Nightmare's host Lady Maria through the Orphan of Kos exists. The Nightmares all exist through the host who called a great one to hear their call or plea. And thus won't cease to exist lore-wise (though not gameplay-wise so that you won't be locked out of content) until you rid of the great one who created it.
The closest you've gotten to ridding of the Hunter's Nightmare was when you fight the Moon Presence itself although instead of ridding the Hunter's Dream, you merely usurped the moon presence its ownership of it.
There's also no one canon ending btw.
@@lutelatti I know theres no real canon ending but deracine does hint at this ending, so It seems fromsoft at least prefer that ending. And youre right about your character inheriting the dream, I meant that youre character probably doesnt repeat the whole hunter going out for its bidding.
DS1: A man treated as a deity, fallen from grace
DS2: A vile woman who has betrayed all to snuff out a curse
DS3: A man who searched for the Dark Soul until the world ended, only to find out he has to die in order to obtain it
BB: A man who wants to free you from a horrible nightmare
Ds2: a man who lost everything, who guides you to know the truth of the world. But anyway, it won't matter
ER: Moby Dick
ER: a devastated queen going against the gods and their will and is punished for it along with her other half
Sekiro(not Shura): a chill old man who died in peace but his edgy grandson brought him back from the dead, so he's like "pitiful grandchild... oh well, I'm back with the energy I once had, how about we fight for fun?"
Sekiro: a shinobi immortal wanting to save his immortal master
edit: i apologize for my comment as i am not in a good situation to have understood about thy comment about the final bosses of each FS games, as i am also about to end sekiro for the first time
-Are ya winning, son?
-No one is winning here dad...
Kid in wheel chair: Stands up
Everyone in class:
3:42
"Dear, oh dear. What was it? The math? The social studies? Or the horrible gym?"
Tonight, I JOINS THE CLASS...
@@SoftBank47 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
He's only dangerous if he pulls out a transforming scythe.
Me: Uh no I don't want to submit my life.
Gehrman: "Dear oh dear, what was it..."
Me: Um...
**Gehrman stands up**
Me: My butthole is starting to squeeze shut.
**Gehrman pulls out his weapon**
Me: Is..is that a fucking scythe?!
**Boss bar appears**
Me: The First...? Aw shit...
lmao
this night ghernam join the hunt...
+alejandro ramirez It's Gehrman.
+Aknaught92 lol, i find you everywhere. your comments are epic, keep'em coming
TheFirstHunter Oh God, he's on to me
*jumps out the window*
I don't see a final boss...
I see a friend :)
based
Me too that's why I refused him
@@ninjahattori7576 turn based 😉
_P A I N_
Fren :3
No, Gehrman. It wasn't the hunt.
It wasn't the blood.
It wasn't the horrible dream.
I just want to give you peace.
It was the doll
@@hussien04 THE DOLL IS EVIL!!
@@pavkata9568 and cute
Gehrman: *NO U*
cheeseball
No, Gehrman... It wasnt the hunt, the dream, or the blood.
It was the doll.
@@ASmartNameForMe To be fair, the entire game is essentially a hopeless death march for everyone regardless of how well you do your job, and the doll is kind of hot....
Not trying to justify doll sex or anything.... just sayin.....
Now i dont feel bad anymore that i excessively abused the doll 😏
@@TheDocbach *demonic screeching*
@@cheftrinker09 I used the doll to test weapon damage throughout the whole game.
@@user-pr8pw5qk9t in NG she is pretty much oneshot by anything but in ng+ i use her as dummy too :D
Parry him all you want. You can't parry the feels.
shut up shut up shut up >:'(
@@MegaBlair007 you can visceral his chest, but you can’t visceral your tears
@@senorbongo4975 why did he have to suffer like that man? He just wanted the best for the hunters and the beasts :c
You can take geting hit in the balls but you can take away the PAIN😔
Is this all you comment? I seen you comment this on like 3 different gwyn theme videos
“One must die, one must live. No victory, no defeat. The survivor will carry on the fight. It is our destiny… The one who survives will inherit the title of boss. And the one who inherit the title of boss will face an existence of endless battle.”
-The Boss, MGS3
Both Gehrman and Boss were fought in a field of flowers... Both were mentors to the player characters, both sacrificed everything for others, and both only want respite from the horrors they have had to endure.. And both were given eternal peace by their students...
Perfect comment
fits perfectly
The goat
Never made the links between theses fights! Nice catch!
I could never accept death when Gehrman offers it to us.
We're the last hunter, if we get to leave, Gehrman will be a prisoner to the dream forever.
It's not about helping ourselves ascend or getting the burial blade
It's about helping a man who spent his life helping others
for me it DEFINITELY was about getting that burial blade I love scythes😂😂
Gerhman had committed some messed up shit (I.E. the Fishing Hamlet) but I agree. No matter his sins not even HE wouldn't deserve it has bad as he got it.
@@alfredobandoni7531Lawrence and Ludwig definitely got it wayyyyy worse
@@morfeyy-Ludwig was happy with his sacrifice, but Laurence lived in unbearable regret
Even with this, Gehrman fights you with full strength and prays to his captor for strength
DS1: the first lord of cinders
DS2: a creature from the abyss
DS3: an entity made from all past lords
Bloodborne: an old crippled man that got up from his wheelchair tô beat the shit out of you.
DS3 DLC: a really old crippled man who has beat the shit out of everyone
Free* the shit put of you
Sekiro: Old man crawls out of his grandson to save his land and wipe the floor with you.
Ds2 a talking dragon flesh
perfect description!
The sad part is they don't even hate each other.
2 hunters fight to save the other
@@lemskio9624 you got the goddamn point
Underrated comment
😭😭😭
@@lemskio9624 you like your own comment cringe
Even after Elden Ring, Gehrman’s theme still stands the test of time for me as my most favourite fromsoft boss theme
i feel like thats the one the elden ring lacks
that one boss fight that brings the tears
no matter how good elden ring was it just doesn't compare...there isnt that beautiful and heartbreaking side to it that bloodborne has.
Bloodborne > Elden Ring
@@ohboihethick6298 yeah, there is
@@ashcrow9233 no
The worst part is that you can, despite the player hunter never speaking truly understand their relationship with Gehrman.
They don't want to fight each other, The Hunter wants to set Gehrman free of this hell, the only thing Gehrman wants is to finally die after possibly being trapped for hundreds of years, but he doesn't want you to suffer his fate. He'd endure eternity as the slave of a demonic god rather than let anyone else feel the same pain he has.
Two warriors, two friends, doing everything they can to end the others misery and suffering, yet neither is willing to condemn the other to a immortal life of loneliness and nightmares
Well said
why can't they just kill each other at the same time? like counting from 3 while hugging each other
@@shadyshack1601 GENIUS
@@shadyshack1601 Because the Moon Presence has a hold on Gehrman, as long as he lives, he will unwillingly continue to be the host of the Hunter's Dream, and thus he will always fight to continue being the host. It's like a curse placed on him, one he doesn't want others to suffer, so he would rather have hunters willingly accept their liberation from the hunt at his hand than trying to beat him and be cursed to be the next host of the dream.
That moment when you realize the last fight of the game (unless you've gotten all three umbilical cords) is two people trying to mercy kill each other.
Bloodborne is such a tragedy.
If i get 3 cords, that means i get the true ending right?
@@dujeperinic1984 Yes. If you use 3 of the 4 umbilical cords in the game you fight the Moon Presence and get the secret ending after defeating Gehrman. You can use them anytime you want as long as it's done before you beat Gehrman. You have to use them though, not just have them in your inventory.
@@malsserenity3679 so if i haven't killed the impostor doctor i would have gotten all 3 i got my first one from idk where but i know that the doctor and mergo drop the cords
@@dujeperinic1984 Probably the first one you got is from the old abandoned workshop in Cathedral Ward. You can get another if you follow Arianna's quest
@@jecumo85 aannnddd who is arianna?
Lawrence became a beast.
Micolash went mad.
Willem is in a vegetative state.
His pupil and dear love, Maria, suicide.
And this poor man is still hoping they'll rescue him someday, ignoring everything about them.
We're truly his last rope, whetever he likes it or not.
*cries louder
I cried
You’re forgetting Ludwig...he was cursed by the very weapon he used to save the city.
@@elizabest4246 What's the evidence for that? Didn't he say he was "steeped ... in the stench of blood and beasts"? And if the sword helped him regain some rationality during the fight, how could that be the source of his curse? I'd say it did the opposite: prolonged the transformation and beasthood.
To be fair, they all pretty much had it coming for the atrocities they committed. They literally violated a village and defiled/tore open a great one and took it's kid all for Wilhem and Bergynwerth. Hence the hunters curse.
God, Bloodborne is such a masterpiece
Writing inspired by the music at 4:37 :
The Hunter and Gehrman stand in the field of flowers, both exhausted and bloodied. Yet summoning their final strength, they charge at each other one last time.
Alas your blade drew quicker and Gehrman is fatally wounded. Bested, he drops his scythe and falls to the ground. The First Hunter kneels, coughing as his garb gets stained from blood. You stand by his side in his final moments, letting him know he won’t be alone as he’d always was.
He looks at you with contempt, deeming you foolish to give into the bloodthirst. But you smile back.
For the first time in a long while, he felt the warmth of a smile, one he had long since forgotten. And with that smile, a realisation dawned upon him. This fight had never been borne of malice or foolishness, but a brave gambit to free his soul from the very beginning. Stunned, he faces you with sadness in his eyes, knowing the terrible burden you’ll shoulder. Yet there too was also a glimmer of gratitude in that failing gaze. With his dying breath, he utters his final words, a reminder to you who shall replace him as the Dream’s captor:
_“The Night and Dream, were long”_
And so passes the First Hunter
Holy shit this made me cry
Now that is beautiful my friend
This is beautiful
WOW that was amazing 😭
I ain’t reading all that… but from what I read it’s pretty good.
“the night... and the dream... were long.”
And it’s all over
For you
T O O L O N G
"You must accept your death. Be freed from the night."
The mission, the nightmares, they are finally .....over.
May he never witness it again
"Wait , it's all a nightmare?"
*always has been*
@C *A Great One
Nice joke
*swiftly beheads the hunter for his mercy*
The Old Hunters DLC first area be like:
@@1ztype343 more like simply waking him up. .. if he kills you the nightmare you wake up in the real world
"We didn't realize we were making memories, we just knew we were having fun."
-Gehrman, the First Hunter
Totally not Pooh bear
Huh, I remember a yellow bear saying this
Pooh, the first bear
@@pedro-5379lmfao
I don’t think Gehrman was having fun though 😅
This is the song that the merchants play on their violins in elden ring.
Wait really? All merchants or specific ones???? I need to check this
@@khalidalammadi71 The one in the Altus Plateau near the transporter plays this, but that´s the only one I recall
Close, but no I don't think so. If it's a Kitamura piece it usually sounds a bit same in some parts.
@@silkysnow6793 Nah. The one at the bridge connecting east and west Limgrave and the merchant at Siofra river play it too.
@@lesharke8785 The closest I hear is 3:28, but I think its just a common pattern in these uneasy souls tracks.
He was only protecting us from his own fate
No winner this time
A First & The Last Hunter fighting each other to save each other lifes
Maaan ur profile pic is perfect for the comment
@@voraxity965 i was about to say that lol
@@melikshah9595 lmao
his is the hardest boss in the game, because is hard to pay attention when your eyes are full of tears.
Hes also hard
I beat him on my first try and Flora right afterwards. But the Orphan... now that's something.
@@dellixxia6321 it's different for everyone and Gehrman was fairly easy for me until I decided fight him without parrying on ng+6. It took me many attempts.
As to the orphan, I had a much harder time with Laurence than I had with the orphan. Weird I know.
@@malafakka8530 Well, Laurence is literally a butcher of BB players, so you're not the only one with that
@@ellis4091 I guess you are right and my impression is probably due to Orphan being mentioned so often.
2:29 is such a beautifully tragic phrase. There's something about hearing this part and knowing Gehrman's backstory that pulls on my heartstrings in a very unrelenting manner.
It has a lot of baroque and victorian vibes, maybe it’s the strings, also the secondary melody in that part that not many people notice is amazing
It's my favourite part.
I also really love the section at 3:06. It sounds like someone crying out for help, but no one is there to answer.
I actually teared up trying to fight him. I would give up gaming if I could experience this battle again. Him getting up from his wheelchair, and limping towards you to kill and set you free from this hell. Trying his hardest to not let you suffer as he did, even if he truly wants to leave. The pain you hear when you eavesdrop him crying to release him from the dream is basically enough evidence that he doesn’t want to be there anymore, yet still tries to make you leave.
Gehramn is probably the most selfless character in the game.
Enduring eternal solitude in the dream, saving all the hunters and sending them to return to their lives. He does this for everyone but himself, and when you, the player, tries to save him, he fights you to try and stop you from going through the hell he's been through.
Not to mention he's a badass. Goddamn this guy is amazing in so many ways.
so wait now the player has to suffer eternal hell?
@@technolibra Until the next hunter passes though and frees you from your curse.
@@technolibra Depends on the ending you got.
Jinx You can become a real great one and with that, well, you can probably free everyone and end the dream.
Im not crying....
2 hunters. One wouldn't stand for the other to bear his fate, one wouldn't let the other to suffer as he did.
Depending on your motives for fighting him, both hunters were trying to sacrifice their very humanity and soul to spare the other from the same fate. There’s something incredibly tragic and noble about that.
@@vestige1671 yeah, the hunter doesn't get the recognition they deserve
I know this is hella light, but when I read "stand" I laughed
wdym i wanted to take his placew i wanted to become space squid
@@DronesOverTheMoon Gerhman wasn't a great one, he was a slave to a great one
No words will ever describe the sensation we feel at 03:41.
The absolute perfection.
That part is amazing but 1:47 always gets me good. So sad and heart wrenching.
Hit me like a fucking truck. This entire piece is heartbreaking but that moment legitimately made me want to cry.
2:30
This is the hardest boss in the game because you cant see through all the tears.
This game. Each Souls game, has a different emotion for each Final Boss.
Gwyn. You expect something epic, but you find a broken man, a hollow, another hollow you must kill, so you can extend the age of fire.
Aldia. You encounter someone who teaches you an important lesson. After seeing the poor state of Vendrick, who ended just like Gwyn, after ending Nashandra's life. Aldia asks you that question... What do you desire?
Soul of Cinder. The epic battle you desired in the first journey, fills you with adrenaline. You know you have to end the cycle. You fight the soul of the ones who helped Gwyn to continue the age of fire.
Elden Beast. You expected Márika, yet you encountered Radagon, but after all, you fight the beast of the Greater Will, an eerie entity with auric, cosmic power.
But... Gehrman?
You have to.. No. You BOTH have to kill each other. You both.. have to set free your friend from this Dream. This is not a battle. This is just pair of comrades trying to take sacrifice to help the other.
After hearing this Soundtrack. After completing the Soulsborne games.. I wanted to write this, somewhere in the Soulsborne OSTs.. and this is by far, the best choice.
Fantastic analysis.
This comment is amazing actually
Coming here sometimes to listen this masterpiece and now I have this comment, so accurate and perfect
Chapeau.
Sekiro final boss, anger. You fight an old man that comes out of an Ashina fanboy and proceeds to try to glock you to death meanwhile wearing pjs
Remember, Gehrman was a horribly broken down and miserable man, the kind who wished for death but could never truly receive it because he was merely a pawn of a far greater being, the only thing he could do was cry in his sleep.
He didn't try to kill you out of maliciousness or control, his entire reason for attempting to put you down was because despite how destroyed he was on the inside he still didn't wish that same fate upon you even if it meant his own freedom.
He was truly a great man.
True
The ending in which one eats three umbilical cords (nom) is a bit similar to one of the ME3 endings, to be quite honest.
+Templar Knight Not necessarily humanity overall, just yours. Just like Dark Souls 2 where you are the only one who eventually gains the immunity to being Hollow, your character finally achieves the one thing every key player in the game has been going after.
+Sergei Ivanovich Mosin well said. I'm going to post that on FB if you don't mind :)
*prepare to cry: BloodBorne edition*
sad soundtrack of poor old man getting parried to death :(
9 years and still the best..
what a great game
Man, could you imagine just how ball crushingly badass Gehrman must have been in his prime?
The dude could possibly solo the whole 5 bosses of the old hunters
He killed the Orphan in the waking world actually.
He probably never saw "You Died" on the screen like ever.
@@hypebeastmanoffical He did, though. All because of you
@@juankgonzalez6230 nah he probably saw "You Are Free" because of you
Not giving this game any awards for the OST is one of the shames of the gaming industry as far as I am concerned.
You are too freaking right. How the hell Bloodborne's soundtrack lost to Metal Gear Solid V's soundtrack? They obviously didn't listen to this masterpiece of a soundtrack. MGSV's soundtrack was entirely forgettable and unmemorable.
I mean...MGS also has good music...
+Crinkled Casanova they were literally rehashed songs from the 80s, nothing really as incredible and original as Bloodborne's.
Spiny Slasher Originality isn't always better. Some people prefer nostalgia.
Crinkled Casanova yeah and nostalgia isn't always good. Nostalgia is the epitome of bias.
Tonight, Gehrman hits the blunt
lol
Jamon, the first blunter
Did this fight for my first time tonight. Absolutely blown away that all the horrors were leading up to this beauty.
"...Oh Laurence...Master Willem... Somebody, help me... Unshackle me, please, anybody... I've had enough of this dream... The night blocks all sight... Oh, somebody, please..."
"Oh, well... What was it? ...the hunt? ...the blood? ...or the horrible nightmare?
...it doesn't matter. It always comes to hunter's helper to clean up this sort of messes.
* scene fades to black *
Tonight, Gehrman joins the hunt"
"The night ... and the dream ... we're long ... "
"my name is jeff..."
:/
+lunarwolf After hearing him say this, I don't think I could ever choose the accept death option.
+The Haunter of the Dark Is it ever explained why one cannot just commit suicide? If dying and being rid of the dream is what Gehrman wants, he could pretty easily just do it himself, right? Doesn't seem like the kinda guy who would willingly stick around anymore.
You can Visceral Attack Gehrman, but you can't Visceral Attack feels.
Alternative
You can visceral attack Gehrman, but that's not gonna keep the feels from visceral attacking you.
NeoMatrix77777 DAMN IT
Rip
I get that reference
And Gehrman will visceral attack you back.
"You must accept your death. Be freed from the night."
Even if you choose violence, he still treats you with dignity and sympathy. 💔
Everyone who has played Bloodborne for the first time can agree that even after playing through till the end, you're still a little unsure of the lore but this fight with the music especially gives such a deep sense of sacrifice. The whole time I couldn't help but think, "he doesn't want this, does he?"
Onions all over the shop. You'll start crying, sooner or later :'(
Matthew Mullen just don’t form an emotional bond to the onions - then they won’t bother you
@@cheezywizard5292 What about Onion Knights of Catarina... it's hard not ot form attachments to their jolly personas
You're right. I just started crying from laughing so hard at that comment 😂 that made my day.
My depressed old man mercy kill list is growing far larger than it probably should
Ahhh the sweet onions.
The garden + Gehrman + sad lore + this song = perfection
+ crippled man standing from his wheel chair + has a scythe + that scythe transforms + gets godlike aura halfway through the fight and super armor = many layers of badassery on top of perfection
It's most likely a graveyard-like room because that room has many headstones
damn right
+the workshop on fire
i think he is overrated
This fight is so sad. First time fighting gehrman I nearly cried tbh.
To this day, after the platinum on Elden Ring, after all the From games i will never forget the feeling this game gave me when i got it free on Ps plus. It took me 50+ tries for Cleric Beast only, i uninstalled the game 3 or 4 times but kept on installing it back for no reason and I can proudly say that this game,BLOODBORNE, gave me the most amazing experience i ever got in any form of media. Thank you BB, I hope we meet again in a sequel or a new DLC
Personally I'd love a Bloodborne sequel that also takes elden rings open world
@@doot7730 it would be just too much. One of the greatest qualities of this game is how much things happened in the past of a single city that brought us in such an hideous context. It might not be a very large word, but it's surely vast and rich. A new dlc or a new story for a (im)probable sequel might be fitting, but a whole world to explore for the same lore is unnecessary
A different hunter at the same night would go crazy imo. with entirely new beasts, hunters and parts of yharnam. Also adding a little more story too. He would also have to pass by the aftermath of the other hunter and for the final boss formless oedon.
How this game isn't being recognized more for its soundtrack is beyond me.
+Normie Reedus Try to invade a max lvl security sniper FOB and tell me again, how easy it is. Seriously though, the singleplayer was lacking in story and gameplay. Maps had subpar design, when compared to Ground Zeroes and the open world was lackluster, with next to no additional interaction.
I liked the game. imo. gotta problem with it? get out.
TheMisterHobbes Says you.
***** yee
+JakeDuck Hahaha talking about story on a video about a game that has virtually no story and relies 100% on graphics and gameplay. Just let me get a nice waft of that hypocrisy.
Gehrman's an old man who's been sitting in a wheelchair for who knows how long. The first time he stands in what has to be years, and he still manages to pose a huge threat. Just imagine him in his prime
Maximillian Fox Reminds me of Gwyn and good 'ol Arty.
***** The first hunter.
What's better is the guy had freakin peg leg....A freaking *PEG* leg.
We were fighting a disabled old man and still we still got our asses handed to us.
Well, he is the first hunter after all lol
***** No, please no. Then they would make all sorts of memes with the chick from Planet Terror. Nicolash Cage is enough!
“Did you do it?”
“Yes…”
“What did it cost?”
“…everything…”
This boss fight was pure feels. The student fighting with the teacher, who helped him settle into this nightmare, not out of hatred, but respect and mercy. To put the teacher out of this nightmare. The teacher figthing to release the student from the nightmare. A tragic fight to death, where the winner is the loser and neither want to lose for the sake of the other. Fromsoft doesnt just makes games, they make art.
They knocked it out of the park with this fight, the soundtrack makes it so clear that he really doesn't want to fight you, he wants to release you from the nightmare peacefully. The fight is challenging, the arena is amazing, the soundtrack is beautiful and the lore just brings it all together into one of the best fights FromSoft have ever made.
EGrahamBass I think its right up there with Gwyn in terms of atmosphere (and challenge if you dont parry)
I'd say the atmosphere is even better in this fight than with Gwyn, and I did parry Gerhman but he's way tougher to parry than Gwyn imo.
EGrahamBass I can agree to that. The whole setting for the Gerhman fight was amazing, but what nails Gwyn for me so much is that all you hear about is Gwyn. The game makes Gwyn out to be a god but when you get to him, its just a shell of what he was (and he can still kick your ass). Top the lead up with the almost melancholic piano track, and its just plays out great. Without the lead up though, Gerhmans atmosphere wins hands down though.
Yeah that was one of the things that really struck me about Gwyn was just how much of a husk he looked in comparison to what I'd imagined. I've got to say I'm really impressed overall with Bloodborne, in my eyes it's at least on par with DkS1 and perhaps even a bit better, what're your thoughts on it?
EGrahamBass Exactly the same. Its better in many ways but Dark Souls still did some things better. Covenants come to mind, BB is lacking. My GOTY so far though. Only Phantom Pain can match it.
Girls in the garden:
"Oh my god, Stacy! That flower looks so good in your hair! 😍"
Boys in the garden:
Nice
Epic samurái battle.
yes
Beatin' up an old man?
Lol that is straight up facts
Tonight German joins the hunt
Perfect ost
Perfect boss fight
Perfect story
Perfect game😔🖤
"Tonight, Gehrman joins the Hunt"
" The night.. and the dream... were long"
" PREY SLAUGHTERED "
"NO ITS BROTHER MURDERED "
*Starts Crying*
No. It's mercy and freedom.
BROTHER FREED
*HUNTER AWAKENED*
.
"Brotherhood Farewell".
3:42 This is the point where you realise this isn’t simply a win/lose battle. It’s a clashing of fates, where the loser is to bask in eternal peace while the winner is to endure eternal hell. The First Hunter Vs The Last Hunter, both risking a destiny worse than all those that came in between.
Michael Keaveney if you lose you respawn lol
@@ceral1871 Well, thanks for ruining it.
@@MichaelKeaveneyCZcams have you never played bloodborne?
@@ceral1871 Yes. I have played it.
@@ceral1871 Do you even lore?
You can't win in this situation.
You either beat up an old man, or you get beaten up by an old man.
There's zero bragging rights for either of the conclusions.
This may sound stupid, but when I was writing my final anatomy exam, I was really slow at first, couldn't concentrate on it properly. I had stopped for a moment because it was going so poorly, looked around me, out the window... and out of nowhere 3:41 started playing in my head, over and over again (I studied with this song). I got a real boost of inspiration, complete focus on the test, and I passed easily. Still remember that moment. I don't think I would've done well if not for the song.
Well done Hunter.
@@thomasmurphy3761 corny
@@temp6423bro loves being a dick
That’s the spirit
Can't imagine the beating Gherman gave you that instilled that kind of focus but hey we take motivation where we get it.
Makes sense too since there's no pause you'd have to learn to slip into a zen mode
I've been there
This violin is the most deadly weapon in the game.
It singes....to the bone. It huuurts...
And this is coming from snake
The string family is indeed one of the most powerful instruments.
"your that ninja"
You could say that about ds3 as well
Bloodborne is quite possibly the greatest game of this generation.
Its a literal masterpiece
Of all time
Many game fail to capture the atmosphere like bloodborne
It is
The greatest game of my lifetime. I'll die happy knowing I experienced it.
Masterpiece
Imagine that Gehrman remembers every Hunter before you. That they're there, with you both, while you fight.
3: 41 And they sing for his victory, for Gehrman's victory. Singing so Loud but so peaceful. They know you're gonna lose, even if you win...
this makes it even deeper now that i think about it
That's the beauty of From Software, even when you win, you accomplish nothing.
Beating Gerhman is my last Bloodborne memory (couple of weeks ago), my father was sitting next to me cheering me like "bitch u cant dodge shit"
Dad passed few days ago, now this boss battle seems so important, i was thinking about the NG+ but it seems wrong to get to this battle without him now.
May he rest along with his memories.
You and your family have my deepest condolences 🙏
May your father rest in peace..
He sounded like a great man, My sincerest condolences go out to you.
come on dude, no need to make us cry more :/
if u wanna god ng+, imo u should, he probably would like that u did this
The fact that he's limping the whole fight just adds insult to injury.
tfw a frail, emotionally destroyed old man with a peg leg can still kick your ass
Just like with sif
Derpchief the fact rhat he’s STILL quicker than you when he’s like 100 with one leg is insane
What a shame
He was a good man
@@nathanielstewart5073 except when he murdered Kos lmao
I still love him though.
Gwyn was a hollow man, wanting to desperately hold onto a golden age in a world that had long moved on from his reign
Aldia questioned you, making you see how pointless it was to save or walk away from that world, that world without any hopes or dreams, friends betraying each other and traumas in every single ally you met
The Lord of Cinder was *you* , the hollow that decided the fate of the world so long ago. Filled with the souls of previous Lords, not speaking for a second but silently asking you "Is it good to go on? What is there to save?"
Gael faith on a new world free of all the imperfection of that in which he lived in, imagining how beautiful the painted world would be; rises his sword for the first time against the only true friend he ever knew. A last sacrifice must be made....you...or him
Isshin just wanted to fight against a true honorably opponent that could make him feel alive for the last time in his life. His grandson broke traditions and what was just to reach the goal of a united Ashina....maybe with his grandfather return it could happen. And there it stood "The Saint" Isshin, to feel his heart racing for one last battle
But Gerhman...He didn't wish for a golden age to return, he wasn't driven by a dream or a sense of glory. He wanted to free you, to finally put you to rest, to wake up from that horrible nightmare; sacrificing *for you* instead of sacrificing *you* . But all hunters must rest, and you my friend; you earned this.
Orphan of kos came into the world and seconds later he died, saddest story ever period.
@@Based1889 Rules of Yarhnam
"are you winning son?"
Some latin shit...
Single tear drops...
"No father I don't think I win"
VENATOR A MI SUMO VELA MALA..Good hunter let me free you from this evil.
This track is perfectly reflective of this final encounter. There is no glory in this fight. There is no triumph. There is not the extinguishing of a great threat to save the citizens of Yharnam as a whole nor the conquest of a grand evil. It is a fight between two victims of circumstance who are willing to fight to the death in order to save the other.
It is beautifully and tragically poetic in a way few other scores are.
This is such a concise breakdown absolutely 👏
no other choice, the only thing both of you know is the HUNT, the hunter style of combat was created by Gehrman and you will use it to end his eternal torment, in tragedy there is triumph.
He was such an awesome boss fight too. He was your own size, a fellow hunter, but a stone-cold veteran filled with a rageful remorse, an experienced wisdom brought upon by pain and scars. He knows, as you don't, that there is no escaping the nightmare, the world has become nonredeemable, and the only way out is to wake up through an acceptance of death. Only then, can the hunter hope to escape the dream.
The way he moved, ultra fast, playing a lot like a good hunter should, shooting his firearm looking for a good moment to parry, rushing you, and so on, but at the same time, very slow and deliberate when not near you. I love the way he can absorb the raw power of the night and moon in the hopes of winning and saving you, but he can't. You're too powerful, you forgot how to give up a long time ago.
Nah boi he like twice da playa's size and he got supa powas he aint on yo level fo' shit you know what am sayin' nigga boi
+IamCaptainMan Gascoigne and Gehrman were actually gigantic, it's ridiculous
+Sir Gus the Mighty lmao you got it
even the dolls bigger than us xD were basically a midget throughout the whole game
+IamCaptainMan he was when you fsee gerjman for the 1st time hes already lost , already taken by th emoon presence nothing more then a puppet , a doll....als ypu can hear gerhman talking while sleeping he ask for his friend laurence , master willi , he cries.....thats why this song is sad , reminds a slow dance to the deaths hand and augure of the dark
This is just so, dangerously glorious.
And at the same time, wistfully tragic
Latin lyrics: English
Venator Hunter.
Ah mi supra venata Ah, I have hunted.
Anima tor feci si vre re mal I did it all to cleanse my soul from evil.
Venare insidiosus An insidious hunt
Mira tenebrarum The wonderful darkness (or "These mysterious nights")
Hic sic scitis miserere aeterna This way I knew eternal mercy
(or "miseriae aeterna") (or "eternal misery").
Instance 2: English:
Latin lyrics:
Venator My Hunter
Ah mi sumo vela mala Let the evil be hidden (from you)
Anima do res mihi somne restas My life devoted to sustaining the Dream
Luna insidiosa The insidious Moon
Mira tenebrarum The wonderful darkness (or "These mysterious nights")
Di vises mi miserere aeterna Great One, look upon me and grant eternal mercy (or "miseriae aeterna")Or (Great One has looked upon me and grant this eternal misery)
Instance 3:
Latin : English :
Venator Hunter
A mi sumo vena mala Take my sickly vein
Anima doles mihi solve recta My soul hurts, free me, rightly
Luna insidiosa The insidious Moon
Mira tenebrarum The wonderful darkness (or "These mysterious nights")
Di vises mi miserere aeterna (or "miseriae aeterna") Great One, look upon me and grant eternal mercy (or "Great One has looked upon me and grant this eternal misery").
Instance 4:
Latin lyrics: English:
Venātor abyssum venārator Hunter, who hold in awe the abyss
Tū nōlī at esse supplētūrum But you are never supposed to be a scapegoat
Supprēmum sic falcem quatiam semel modo I would swing this scythe once again, to offer an end to your nightmare
Mē parti si finem praebētō But please, give me an end to my role.
Ludwig’s Theme was technical perfection.
Lady Maria’s Theme was technical elegance.
Gehrman’s Theme is a tragic masterpiece. Beautifully ominous, overpowering might and sorrowful waves of pain.
The First Hunter’s theme will always be the best soundtrack out of any Soulsborne game, in my opinion.
I respect your opinion but ahm ahm *Gwyn's theme*
bloodborne just has the best goddamn music period. i don't know what happened with sekiro but they failed to top bb's music.
All final boss themes ranked in my opinion:-
12. King Allant
11. Burnt Ivory King
10. Isshin, The Sword Saint
9. Aldia, Scholar Of The First Sin
8. Manus, Father Of The Abyss
7. Moon Presence
6. Orphan Of Kos
5. Gwyn, Lord Of Cinder
4. Sister Frieda and Father Ariendel
3. Slave Knight Gael
2. Gehrman, The First Hunter
1. Soul Of Cinder
But absolutely nothing can beat Ludwig's theme in my opinion. That's my favourite in all of Soulsborne + Sekiro.
Unknown the sekiro music isn’t exactly traditional Japanese. I have no clue what you could possibly be implying
Unknown it’s possible, but it doesn’t matter, because good music doesn’t have to be bloodborne style or whatever
Jokes aside, the entire Bloodborne Soundtrack is a piece of art, even the game itself.
Completely I haven’t played it yet and I found this at my recommended and I DONT REGRET ANYTHING it’s too good these days I only have one objective play this game I found out that now is on of so am trying to find it
Pc
Soulsborne game tend to have great pieces of music art
it is also a great simulator that will give you the experience of living in london
@@SpaceClord Bloodborne is undeniably the best one best combat levels bosses enemies and hell it has good build variety without have much crap in it like HOW infinite post game content with chalice dungeons that have just enough grind with ease of access that they are addicting also the music is the best in the series and gehrman is the best boss ever 2cd has to be gael but gehrman has a good story like not in video game terms but overall he is the best final boss and his music is the best again even the gameplay is so good. The game is just good in so many areas hell even some of the worser bosses are better than most of the bosses in ds1 and ds2 even though I love ds2 bosses I only like alot of them because of the character being fun to play with but Bloodborne has that too. The worst boss witches of hemwick is a solid c+ and most of them are memorable even again that boss even chalice dungeons have regular enemies as bosses sometimes but they still good and the actual exclusive bosses are really really good
Actually cried when heard this in Elden Ring.
Yet another confirm of how BEYOND reality Bloodborne music is.
Today, I earned the Platinum Trophy, and it felt like a significant journey had come to an end. Afterward, I decided to finish the Night and the Hunt.. and the Terrible Dream. I freed Gehrman and found myself tearing up during the honourable final battle.
the souls series and sekiro are masterpieces, we can all agree on that.
But this game, bloodborne, was miyazaki's dream child, this is HIS game.
And you know this game is the reason why ds2 is a disaster because i heard Miyazaki moved into Bloodborne in the middle of ds2 development (feel free to correct me)
Edit: aight maybe i treat ds2 too hard, you guys can stop fighting now
@@jack_hunt1103 miyazaki was working on bloodborn and was not on dark soul 2. dark soul 2 had good moment, especialy the 3 dlc. but after seeing was was cut form the game and how the gutter looked. dark soul 2 could have been really good.
@SauDude “There's more people in the BoB arena than in the entire DS3 multiplayer” You've got to be kidding. DS3 has the most active playerbase out of all From Software games. More people play DS3 online than DS1 and DS2 combined. “Music is more climatic” It's obvious that little effort was put into Majula's OST. It is definitely not more climatic than the Firelink Shrine OST from DS3, but music is subjective.
@SauDude That's not very nice :(
@SauDude sheesh admit that someone has an opinion. No need to insult
"Tonight, Gehrman joins the hunt."
Rizaun :')
When he speaks those words. You know you have made the worst fuckin mistake of your life o.o
Lucas Dollar Not really, my Hunter did what was truly right. If you sneak up on Gerhman as he sleeps, you can easily see just how much suffering has been writhing inside of him for so long. He acts stoic and benevolent, as if he is your kindly mentor always doing what is best for you...but in truth, he is more a victim of nightmares than you are. Forced to fill his current role by the Moon Presence, a decision with consequences he did not at first understand, Gerhman may have wished for death all along.
Unfortunately, he seems set in his interpretation of your refusal. As far as he is concerned, your battles have warped your mind. Rather than solemnly put you to rest, he now rises from his chair to rip you from the dream by force.
To free him from his curse, however, is to take that burden upon your own shoulders...unless you have eyes on the inside. Only then can you truly end the cycle.
Yep. I know all about his lore ^^ but hes by far the greatest boss ever developed by FROM
Yeah...I sincerely doubt that's true. You merely have to look at the reactions his battle has elicited in the game's fans. It's all a matter of opinion, and the idea that he is the best or second best boss is fairly common.
Beat fucking game ever man. There is no other game as close to perfect as bloodborne
Sekiro has already done this.
@@LuM4rexnot even close
This never fails to make me cry. In this fight there is no anger, no hatred...it's just two people saving each other in a hopeless world
I have lost my faith in humanity, Bloodborne didn't even get nominated for best games sound track of the year when it is clearly the highest quality and the tone of each song fits it each fight, scene perfectly, conjuring up the perfect emotional feelings for the scene.
Some one please grant the reviewers eyes, i mean ears!
I see what you did there.
The reviewers didn't have enough insight.
madmans knowledge?
+Benny Bop Maybe Kos didn't grant eyes in their brains.
Gascoigne deterred them from hearing greatness
It seems the most memorable characters and last bosses of the Bloodborne/Souls series share the same thing in common: sacrifice.
Gwyn sacrifices himself to preserve the age of fire, linking the fire to the souls of men so they may forever kindle the dying flame, and leaving him a husk of his former glory.
Artorias sacrifices his sanity, soul, and body all to hold back the abyss, eventually being consumed in the process but not before laying the groundwork for the player to finish the job.
The Ivory King sacrificed himself to battle against the chaos, sealing himself in a realm of ice to prevent its escape.
Gael sacrifices his mind, body, and spending centuries to gather the appropriate pigment for his lady so that a new painting could be made to preserve the lasting remnants of the age of fire for the next cycle; to give peace to a few souls seeking a cold, gentle place to dwell.
And Gehrman makes one of the most grueling sacrifices; to be stuck in an endless nightmare, separate from time and reality, hosting the dream that holds the only chance mere mortals have to contest the Old Gods and their mysterious tyranny. He gives himself to the Moon Presence, a Great One, the embodiment of the hunt, so that hunters may in turn dispose of the nightmares let loose by careless men, without fear of death. He cries out in pain, seeking for reprieve, but in his composure he relents when someone seeks to take his place. He makes this sacrifice for the good of all men, to give them some peace from the horrors he has witnessed. When it comes time to release hunters from the dream he fights holding nothing back to spare us from his fate.
I think it is fantastic that video games can construct such interesting characters. No better medium can bring together all the emotion that games can - with music, dialogue, action, and visual symbolism all wrapped into one.
This song really explores all that Bloodborne is - calm and eerie, explosive and octane, swift and strategic, frightening frontier to explore, whose immense tragedy wrought by those seeking to ascend to a greater plane of existence leads us to question our own sanity.
What about Vendrick and Aldia? They, too, are fitting in this theme. Both dedicating their lives to find a solution for the curse, a means to escape, yet while Vendrick went hollow, just after giving someone worthy of it the means to block the curse, having sacrificed his mind to it, Aldia sacrificed his body, his very soul to shatter the hold the curse holds on him, becoming something hideous, not unlike the Bed of Chaos. And yet, where everyone else failed... He prevailed. The success is questionable, but he is the only one who remains unharmed by the curse, and even retains his sanity.
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Gwyn is a fucking dick though.
He didn’t sacrifice anything. He cursed humanity in his weakness. He’s the opposite of a martyr and doesn’t deserve to be compared to the likes of anyone you listed.
He is solely responsible for the curse of the world of Dark Souls. It all comes back to Gwyn’s unwillingness to accept that he was not everlasting like the dragons he toppled.
Gwynn sacrificed for greed and fear.
Artorias out of duty and perhaps, love for what he held dear.
The Ivory king out of love for his queen, even when he knew she was a child of the abyss, all he wanted was her overcoming that darkness.
Aldia and Vendrick out of sheer will to break the curse that plagued us all for so long.
Gael for his new master, so that she could complete her painting.
And Gherman, to make sure that hunt goes on and Yarnam wont fall for the beastly curse.
In the end how noble their deed might be, they all feared what was yet to come.
Gwyn was selfish as fuck tho
اقسم بانه افضل اوست في تاريخ الالعاب تجف الاسطر في وصفه وتخشع الاحرف في حقه
حبيت الوصف يستاهل قيرمن شايبنا المتعافي اوست عظيم مثله 😔👏
“Ah, young hunter, have you heard the tragedy of Gehrman the First Hunter? I thought not, it’s not a story the old ones would tell you.”
This was truly one of the best fights not a giant monster vs a small man, not a corrupted soul fighting aimlessly at everything around it... just a mentor and a student locked in honourable combat the mentor fighting to save the student the pain of holding his curse and the student fighting to free their teacher from the pain he's suffered for so long
That's sure one way to look at it. I like to look at it as two hunters fighting for what they believe is right. You as the player have a choice, have Gehrman kill you, or one final duel. When I got to Gehrman I thought "It took me so long to get here, and to just die now wouldn't be worth the wait." The battle is a Hunter trapped in a nightmare since the very beginning, trying to make sure this new hunter does not end up in the same spot that he is. And the new hunter is fighting to make sure what he has done, hasn't gone down in vain. It is a duel, between two hunters, fighting for what they believe is correct in their eyes. That's why Gehrman gives you the option of release, he doesn't want you to end up where he was.
This is one of, if not the most emotional boss in all of soulsborne. People can correct me on that seeing how I haven't played ds2 or demon souls. But Gehrman is making sure the hunter doesn't end up locked in this never ending nightmare. There are subtle clues of Gehrman not liking the dream. You can find him asleep in the hunter's dream sometimes and he will say stuff like "Oh, Laurence... what's taking you so long... I've grown too old for this, of little use now, I'm afraid..." and if you kill Kos before killing the Wet Nurse, the doll will give you hidden dialogue; "Oh, good hunter. I can hear Gehrman sleeping. On any other night, he'd be restless. But on this night, he sounds so very calm. ...perhaps something has eased his suffering" by killing his personal nightmare, he can finally rest.
"Tonight, Gehrman joins the hunt. . ." will be the most iconic line from this game. This is by far, the best boss in Bloodborne.
@@endofslayer8071 Tbf Gehrman does really kill you. What he does is end your dream. He alone has the power to end your dream but only if you do so willingly otherwise your will clings to the dream which is why you respawn if you dont let him kill you in the dialogue option.
@@music79075 I know Gehrman really kills you. It's the player's choice if they want to (what they thought would make them lose everything) let that happen. Also, another reason as to why Gehrman can't kill you in the actual fight is you as a player think you are stronger than Gehrman, and the Moon Presence realizes this once you kill Gehrman (my first ending.) So by having the player think they are stronger than a human trapped in a dream, it gives them a false sense of hope that they can end the nightmare for good. But then the player realizes that his Great One is in control of the nightmare, but there is no way to end the nightmare, because even if you kill the Moon Presence, you become a Great One to take its place.
I like how you say mentor when Gehrman was gone from the hunters dream for a solid 90% of the entire game lol
@@endofslayer8071 Though you become a TRUE great one not one of the others who've only tried to get to that level of understanding. With that power you could control the nightmare or be rid of it.
This has got to be one of the most tragic boss battles I fought. Gerhman is not corrupt or evil in any way, but only wishes to release you from the nightmare peacefully. You, naive and scared, wish to survive out of fear of what's to come next. So you fight, that's the only way you've known how to survive the nightmare.
Or, perhaps, you are not afraid and are willing to put others before yourself. Each hunter having enough respect for each other that they fight not out of any grudge, but to offer the other mercy. Each willing to sacrifice their own freedom, and possibly even humanity, so that the other can finally be freed from this hellish world.
That's two possible reasons for your character to fight, and each are depressing.
+Callidus Xlll That really gives an entirely different context to every single fight in the entire game. Fucking mind-blowing. Sure, a lot of the Hunters you face are probably corrupted and warped with selfish intents, but the true ones - the *real* Hunters - are just doing their job. Hunting is the only way they know how to help anymore. It's the only thing they're still good at. If they stopped hunting, it'd be a dishonour and waste of everything they'd done up to that point.
Death is the only way out, but they can't bring themselves to do it themselves. If every Hunter abandoned their duty, it would be the ultimate surrender of mankind. The Hunt is humanity desperately fighting back against inevitable doom. The pandora's box has been opened, and in our attempt to advance ourselves, we drew the short straw in natural selection. The Cosmos will keep unfolding itself in perpetual complexity, and we will have been sacrificed for its amusement. This is the sad irony of it all; the pursuit of insight would eventually just have made us ultimately aware of our utter lack of purpose. A grain of sand screaming into the infinite void. Expecting confirmation.
Deep down every Hunter probably knows this; it's all for nothing in the end. But surrender isn't possible at this point. We Hunt because we must. Because it's everything we can do. Because we're afraid.
+Arvid Axelsson Holy mother of shit. Your comment is amazing in every possible way. Thank you for that mind blowing monologue sir. (and/or madam)
shadow heart Thanks for the feedback, heh. I dunno, I just kinda went with it. I sort of just fucking love the philosophical topics that are present in Bloodborne. Definitely never been into something Lovecraftian like this before. Nihilism, m8. It's cool... until you experience it yourself. Suicidal thoughts aren't nice at all. No one deserves that. Wow, I am rambling.
Cheers, and good hunting. Fear the Old Blood.
+tá muid go léir ag dul a bás there is a 2D Game soon to be released called EITR, it is very similar to bloodborne, check it out if you haven't.
+tá muid go léir ag dul a bás
I mean, it is inevitable that every decision we make (or think we make) is going to be fundamentally informed by our most basic drives as biological, chemical organisms. We generally prefer life to death, and we generally really like sex. These are given, of course, but that's what our understanding of reality tells us. Could there be a secret plan behind it all, though? Are we all, as thinking agents, manipulated and steered in direction by some yet unknowable force? What we have to accept is that we cannot know. At least not right now. We can't possibly tell the difference between a truly individualistic or deterministic universe... so there's really not much use in thinking about it. At least, that's my take.
What personal conclusions you draw from this realisation, however, can change everything about who you are. Really. This perpetual feeling of powerlessness, the inability to understand the things that seemingly should be able to be understood. Right? We deserve to know the answers! Why wouldn't we? We scream at the cosmos... and nothing happens. No greater order is revealed. The universe doesn't care. It just is.
So, what does this mean? Does it mean there just aren't any answers to be found? Or is the explanation for everything simply a paradox? Meaning, there is an answer, but it doesn't make any logical sense. Or is the answer perfectly logical, and we just aren't able to understand it, due to our physical limitations? Are our brains just not able to unpack the mystery, despite it perhaps being right in front of us? And what does that mean, anyway? Is it just a fact of nature that the explanation for the cosmos simply cannot be understood by a physical organism? Or could we understand it if we were just *slightly* more advanced? Do we have to wait for evolution to catch up? Or - and this is the cool part - is there some part of biology that necessarily keeps us from reaching the answers? Is there some lock, some barrier, that ensures no thinking agent can ever reach that point? Because... it would destroy us? Because life would end? Because the univserse would stop experiencing itself?
Dude.
EVERYTIME, every single time that i listen to this soundtrack it makes me tear. No matter how many times i listen to it.
4:17 hits so hard emotionally
The workshop burning, the flowers and dirt flying up from each swing of you and Gehrman’s weapons. The crack of gunfire, blood spattering across the white flowers, knowing whoever wins will be forever damned, but fighting to win because neither Gehrman or the Hunter can bring themselves to allow the other to suffer that.
Bloodborne is my favorite game of all time
Gehrman joins the hunt...
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and so my feels ;-;
This is the beauty that is Bloodborne. At the end, there is no triumph, no victory, no peace to be had. At the end, all that remains is two hunters, desperate to save the other from the nightmare. For one hunter, it's to save the other from eternal torment of the nightmare. For the other hunter, it's to save his mentor; willing to suffer a terrible nightmare so the other can be free. Either way, there is no win. Only two hunters remain, and only one will be freed. Both wish to be free, yet won't allow the other to take their place; they are truly selfless. This is the beauty that is Bloodborne
Such is the tragedy of the hunt, the blood and the terrible dream, both desire freedom, but they refuse to forsake the other to gain it.
"There is no win"
Three parts of an umbilical cord beg to differ ;)
We don't really know the Hunter's motives. Sure, he could have decided to free Gehrman, but that's not how he sees it. Gehrman is unimpressed, he thinks his last pupil either got blood drunk, or is a madman who enjoys the hunt, or he just likes living in a power trip of immortality. At this point the hunter has also seen things that go far beyond the beast plague, he is enlightened and he probably either sees the truth of things or he wants to know more. It's an rpg after all, so every player can choose their own reason for defying the old man, but let's be honest: there is not one good person in the universe of Bloodborne (with the exception of some of the npcs who stay indoor in Yharnam and maybe Chapel Guy), and the Hunter himself can choose to do horrible things, the way I see it he could very well just be seeking more power.
This game lives rent free in my mind.
"The night....and dream....were long..."