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Which happens anyway, during the story. And is a proper "holy shit"moment.

In fact, my reaction at the time.

Very nearly killed Fazza Gazza 2nd time. First time I'd seen his beast form so couldn't quite get it done.

I reckon third time's the charm.

You'll have gained some insight for that.

I got him to his beast form on my third shot at him but after that I just get murdered all to shit. I can now consistently get him to that point but after about six goes I'm not making much progress. Well, initially I couldn't hit him at all but on my last go of the evening I did get a couple of actual smacks in that so that's progress. I suppose. Sort of? It occurs to me I never even bothered to check what level I am either.

As above, beast form you can pretty much skip with music box giving you an easy charged hit on his back followed by viseral attack. Assuming you don't screwit up like I did in above video.

I can't get the music box to work. I get it out and he just bashes me.

What Grim.. means is you might want to go back to the Hunter's Dream at this point..

Yeah, you need a little bit of a gap. I want to suggest dodging into his attacks gives you an opening to do it, but I'm not sure if that's actually the case. Or just run away.

You canonly use it once per fight with him, mind.

You should be able to dodge yourself enough of a gap, or use it at a gap in his attacks. You're pressing square to use it, right?

Nah, you can use it three times, but only once in his beast form.

Huh. Learn something everyday.

That makes practicing with it easier.

A note on the music box: if you use it three times in his human phase he will turn into a beast, no matter how much health is left.

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Found the hunter who gives you some bits and bobs, including a cape. But I can't find it in my inventory.

Use R1 to go through the inventory types.

Yeah, I know how to do that, it's just not there.

Huh.

Its a gesture, not an item.

Oh, it's a gesture. Shake off cape. Didn't even know you could do them.

I believe its the left side of the touch pad. Or hold x and fling the motion controller around.

I didn't know what gestures were until Googling them right there. And that explains why my character chose to SIT DOWN ON THE FUCKING GROUND right in the middle of a Father Dickface fight last night.

I found one where my character shrunk, grew huge feet and turned invisible!

Just a Tolkien Gesture.

Gestures are only useful when you call someone in to help you. It's customary to bow when they arrive, and wave when they leave. You also bow to people that invade you when you're about to fight. Or you can use them to fuck around with the doll.

You can't disable the motion control, sadly - but it only kicks off if you hold 'X' for a bit.

In the community a bow before a fight in an invasion normally means an honour duel (ie no health items).

Which is why you do it. Healing is stealin'!

Fuck that, I'm healing up constantly.

Oh sure, do it in the game - just not in an invasion.

Try to invade my game with no PS+, bitches.

How did you get the game without PS+?

It's £16 for the GOTY edition at the moment. Sal bought it for me.

It's £7 for one month of PS Plus

Aye, it is. Will I be finished in a month though? Or will it be one of those games I rage-quit once in a while and take weeks to come back to...

Invasion is quite hard to do anyway. For most of the goats, you can only be invaded if you've summoned a helper.

As such, I've never been invaded.

I was invaded a fair few times but I was actively going out of my way to call them into my world in my 2nd play through.

It's a shame there's no equivalent of the dried finger in Bloodborne.

I've done loads of invasions too and they've been wicked fun (not recently mind) although I much prefer Dark Souls 3 for invasions/friendly coop though - PvP combat is much more satisfying than in Bloodborne. They really got their shit together for that.

I'd highly recommend newbies get involved with the invasion/coop aspects of the game. They add new elements to the game that you'll miss with a dry solo play through.

I got invaded without wait that was Dark Souls 3.

If I finish this I'll go back to Dark Souls which I have on Steam.

A big 'if', I guess.

Is it a physical copy?

If it is I'll buy if off you next week.

I've got a physical copy for sale.

£12.

Nah, digital.

Just got Father Gascoigne down to a tiny sliver of health twice in a row. Sigh.

If that happens, remember that your gun does a small amount of physical damage, which might be enough to finish a baddy off without getting near them.

I pretty much use all my bullets parrying his human form. For some reason it doesn't always work.

GotY?

Somebody that I used to know?

Molotovs are also handy in health whittling situations. I believe they're fairly cheap.

And remember you can sacrifice a little life (Up on dpad) to get 5 bullets. is sensible to go in with 25 and try and find a blood vial on the way to boss to get you up to max.

25? I can only carry a max of 20.

I'm wondering if throwing knives are good too. Beasts are susceptible to serration apparently.

You can get an extra 5 on top of your 20, but it costs health. Do it while you're fighting someone crap so you can get the health back from them.

Notice how at the beginning of my video above I start off with reduced health and 20 + 5 bullets. That's available at any time.

I didn't realise you could go above 20. I knew about the bullet thing.

You should ignore all the music box, bullet tricks, item usage and rubbish until you can just smack the shit out of him. So do that, smack a cramp in that ass.