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I showed my artist the hunter's mark symbol and asked him to put his own interpretation on it, and he came up with the metal shards, saying it represented the constant deaths being put back together into a whole. It was originally going to be black and white, but my blood seeping through made us both go "this is SICK" so I paid him extra and he put red into it!

"A man in a cage who moans and flings tentacles at you"

Micolash, Host of the Nightmare is an absolute cretin. He wears a cage on his head, and can summon tentacles from the void to hit you.

And I was NOT kidding about the moaning.

"A magical spider guarded by a legion of spider-ostriches"

Rom, the Vacuous Spider is not really a spider, but she is magical, and she spawns actual spiders who jump up and stick their heads into the floor of the arena, like ostriches famously do (but actually do not.) Also the floor is the ocean but don't worry about that.

"Prince Phillip with a scythe"

Martyr Logarius guards the way to Queen Annalise! He uses his scythe to cast magic skulls at you, but will still hit you with it if he gets the chance.

Look at that. A perfect resemblance.

"A deer monster who explodes its legs at you and shits lava everywhere"

Laurence, the First Vicar is one of the hardest fights in the game and also one of the least-fun bosses overall. I sure do love having my nimble dodging game being turned into "the floor is lava".

"A baby who crawls out of its dead mother and wields its own placenta like a yoyo"

The Orphan of Kos is the DLC's final boss! I wonder how many people associate bloodborne with babies? I know someone who didn't pick this option because, in her words, "anything baby-related definitely a boss", and another who said it was "so fucking mental it couldn't possibly be fake".

"A skeletal Dark Beast arcing with blue lightning ORIGINAL CHARACTER DO NOT STEAL"

Darkbeast Paarl is Bloodborne's own Sonic OC! More edge than broken glass!

"Three fat men with a single gun"

The Merciless Watchers are three men with braziers, clubs, and a single gun between them! They are also regular enemies through most of the area where you fight them!

"Blue aliens from outer space who shoot lasers at you"

The Celestial Emissary is literally just a mob of blue aliens which you mow down until you figure out which one is the real boss and it gets mad at you. This one scored the highest but it's totally in this stupid, wonderful game.

This boss is so easy that the only way I found a screenshot of its laser attack was by looking up post-game challenge versions of it. There are no clear images of it. I have NEVER seen the laser attack myself. It dies too quickly to actually use it.

"A 'horse' who spews sticky white fluid from its other mouth"

Ludwig the Accursed/the Holy Blade is the first boss of the DLC, one of the hardest bosses in the entire game, and yet one of my favourite. The whole game builds up to this incredible experience, an entire character arc in a single fight: the man who became a beast and then found himself again. And the music...

If you look up a video of any of these bosses, please make it Ludwig.

"A loving, caring wet nurse with no head and six swords"

Mergo's Wet Nurse is one possible final boss of the game. Nobody really knows her deal. She's just there to protect the invisible aborted god-baby whose consciousness is kept alive by aliens. I wouldn't worry about it. This one got scored the lowest!