@yungbeetroot I'm answering this question multiple times almost every day... sort comments by most recent and you will find you answer. Not trying to be rude, but I'm getting tired of typing the same long answer out lol.

@Brenpai Purchased the key that let's you get to Amelia for 10k echoes during that dream visit. Pretty hard to get to Amelia without that 10k, including those echoes from killing cleric beast........ The gate is literally locked unless you purchase the key, or alternatively, run all the way to the bottom of Old Yharnam, wasting several minutes to fight BSB, which opens the alternate gate to Amelia. All of this is standard game progression, has nothing to do with speedrunning even. Since this is a glitchless category, there are no alternatives to earning echoes or skipping Amelia aside from the game developer intended method, which is to fight Amelia and progress to the Forbidden Woods.

@@lGenso ahh okay I completely missed you buying the key, makes sense. You are a god gamer dude keep it up, got my sub

If you skip Cleric Beast, you won't have enough echoes to purchase the key to progress the game to Amelia...... You'll be standing in Cathedral Ward with no way to progress and 3k echoes shy of being able to purchase the key to Amelia. Cathedral Ward gate is locked. This is just standard game progression knowledge. The only way to open the alternate gate is running all way to the bottom of Old Yharnam, fighting BSB, then returning to Cathedral Ward. This loses about 90 seconds vs just fighting Cleric Beast who is on the path to Gascoigne anyway.

If you don't kill her, she randomly appears in different places around the dream each time you return, and you have to search to find her........ obviously playing hide and seek with the doll is slower than her being directly in front of you every single time.

@@lGenso oh I see. Thanks

@seandavis9320 You can't progress to Amelia without doing one of two things: Buying the key for 10k echoes to open the gate or killing BSB by running all the way to the bottom of Old Yharnam to fight the boss then return to Cathedral Ward to use the alternate path. If you don't do one of those two things, after killing Gascoigne, you will be stuck in the lower part of the Cathedral Ward with no way to progress the game. This is how normal progression of the game works. If I choose to run to the bottom of Old Yharnam for the BSB fight, I will lose over 1 minute of time doing that vs killing Cleric Beast, who is already on the path to Gascoigne anyway, and using the echoes from that fight to buy the key to get to Amelia, skipping the entire run through Old Yharnam and saving tons of time. The choice is yours as the player, but one of the two choices is significantly faster.

@@iamamish Affects enemy AI, but very inconsistently.

NG+ categories don't exist on speedrun.com, and since they don't exist, there really isn't any point in me investing hundreds of hours of time into it when there isn't any kind of incentive.

@@lGenso 😔 just i want to watch you play

@ir_7862 Visceral attacking loses about 5 seconds each time and does significantly reduced damaged unless you have a build centered around visceral attacks at high level. Obviously we don't have a level 200 character for speedruns, so visceral attacks are one of the worst and slowest forms of damage available to us. For example, if I visceral Gascoigne after each backstab, I will do around 200 damage (roughly, I don't remember exactly what it is because speedrunners don't visceral bosses, because it's terrible) vs throwing a molly at him which does around 435 damage. Two times the amount of damage and throwing a molly takes 1/3 of the time to do vs the entire, pathetically slow, visceral animation.

@@m4ndoz Affects enemy AI

@@lGenso smart! Your runs are fun to watch, especially any% :)

@@olivierexe2502 Yes I am, but loading screens have no bearing on the speedruns for Bloodborne, since the official timing method is In-Game Time, not Real Time Attack.

@rankpush2062 It's a little embarrassing, but I actually don't have the platinum trophy in this game. The only game in the series I never bothered to platinum, and by far the one I have the most time in. Congrats on your platinum trophy.

@@lGenso yea just enjoy the game platinum isn’t necessary haha

@riugga9596 For this route, you need cleric beast's echoes to buy the key to get to Amelia, otherwise you can't progress.

@Dapryor Scroll the comments, it's a long answer and I don't always feel like typing paragraphs to respond to this question so often lol. The short answer is that it affects enemy tracking.

@@lGenso okay, cool. Thanks!

@SGL_SGMA_YT Talking to her causes her to start moving around the dream randomly every time you return..... Obviously searching around for her is slow.

Patched in 2015.

Negative underflow. Patched in 2015.

@@lGenso Darn, was there was something else left ease grinding for levels besides the special dungeon.

Translation per Google: "I wonder why these guys are exposing their faces, I wonder if they're trying to win over female listeners." Needless to say, this is 100% accurate. Everyone knows the easiest path to winning favor with the opposite sex is by speedrunning Bloodborne.

Patched in 2015.

@PedroRodrigues-je6xp You either need 10k echoes to buy the key to get to Cathedral Ward and fight Amelia, or you have to run all the way to the bottom of Old Yharnam, wasting minutes of time, kill BSB, to do the exact same thing. Killing cleric beast and using the echoes to progress to Amelia saves over a minute of time. Basic game progression.

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Just about every question you're asking here I've answered multiple times in the comments over the years. Rather than me write a novel for you here explaining the entire run, I'm sure if you scroll through you'll find satisfactory answers.

@@matheushenrickhoffmann5532 It was patched in 2015. It's no longer possible.

@@lGenso thanks