#witch of hemwick

[crudelydrawnhunters]

She is playing tag with her new friends, The Witch of Hemwick, and Mad Ones.

[ryuuza-art]

Soulstober Stories Part 2:

Slowly getting used to Bloodborne's gameplay now, as I move onto the Cathedral and beyond.

4. Vicar Amelia

Again, I'd heard of Amelia, but wasn't sure what to expect, so I absolutely loved her transition from human to beast form! She introduced sweeping floor attacks, making staying on top of her tricky, but I learned to keep my distance and look for the right opening to attack.

Dealing with her healing during the second phase was... trying, at first. At least numbing mist helped somewhat during my second playthrough!

5. Witch of Hemwick

I'd forgotten exactly why the Witches gave me so much trouble (aside from there being two), but as I looked up references, I remembered the endlessly spawning Mad Ones & that they could revive each other if you didn't kill them quickly enough. Such relief when it was over! 😭

6. Darkbeast Paarl

The Darkbeast was fun! Challenging, but not frustrating and I love the blue lightning design. Once I applied some bolt resistance, it became more a test of my reflexes, with its quick, cat-like movements. It certainly made up for the shock of being beaten and dragged to the gaol! 😂

(I did *not* enjoy the Loran variant in the Chalice Dungeons. It's a lot more powerful and aggressive and if you try to lock on, the camera can prove more deadly than the boss! That music is permanently etched into my brain. 😭 )

[mordredscrown]

Bloodborne chibis Pt. 2

>> Bloodborne chibis Pt 1

[guiding-moonlight]

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Witch of Hemwick - A Call Beyond by Domenico Cava

[unsanctitude]

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[amygdalae]

God PLEASE post the bloodborne ones I bet they're incredible

alright here they are

[ohnoitstbskyen]

The Witch of Hemwick teaches you Insight

Yeah so Bloodborne has a thing about eyes. Eyes are insight, the ability to see is thematically incredibly important to the game - get enough insight points, which are denoted an eye, and you'll start to perceive the world beyond that which is merely mundanely visible.

And so it's appropriate that the Witch - or witches - of Hemwick have a bossfight that revolve around their ability to turn invisible. In fact, if you enter the fight with zero insight it becomes incredibly easy, because you are required to have a certain amount of insight to even perceive and be affected by the monsters they summon to fight you.

It's also noteworthy the scholarly scientists of Byrgenwerth are running around all excited about their discovery of the power of eyes and eyeballs, while out in the Charnel Lane, pretty clearly, there's this coven of old eyeball-covered Witches who figured this stuff out a while ago. One more small knock against the arrogant self-regard of Byrgenwerth's scholars, I suppose, their vain certainty that they could learn to control an irrational universe with science. The Witches, for what it's worth, seem substantially more in control of the otherworldly powers they commune with than the Byrgenwerth alumni.

My full analysis of the Witch of Hemwick