10 Best Bloodborne Bosses

After defeating The Living Failures, many players were left feeling a tad unsatisfied about the ease at which they dispatched the big blue goobers. It was a pleasant surprise, then, when one of the best bosses in the game is waiting immediately after the hunter has defeated the Failures.

There is a heavy sorrow permeating the fight with Maria. She is guarding a terrible secret and will do anything to keep the player from advancing. Her use of the rakuyo emphasises this, as she stabs herself with it to imbue the weapon with the power of her own blood.

Her move-set is elegant and terrifying, closing gaps with lightning speed and slashing blood and fire in an endless fury. She is clearly fighting out of utter desperation and it lends the duel such a weighted quality.

Fighting in the highest point of The Astral Clocktower, the player must match Maria’s speed and relentlessness. Once the hunter prevails, the secret of Fishing Hamlet is open to them, but Maria’s desperation lingers and fills the player with a continued dread as they move onwards…