I swore to myself, I SWORE I was going to put this game down for a while. But my pal @ciswoman thought she'd figured out why chalice dungeons weren't working (put my chalices in item storage then promptly forgot item storage existed), so I booted it for just a sec to see that she was right, and my wife saw and was like "please Natalie won't you please play more Bloodborne for my entertainment" like some kind of Victorian orphan figure begging for food so here we are. NG++ down the hatch.

Used the Chikage mostly this run. Only reason I didn't the first time, despite forcing katanas in every other game in my backwards introduction to the FromSoft canon, was its midgame placement and my total lack of bloodtinge. I didn't really this run either until the end, but this sword is so stylish I don't even care.