you picked the most unforgiving to start with game in the series. have fun
for a tip against were-gascigone, dodge side to side instead of backwards or he'll just combo you to death
I dunno, I played SotFS after BB and found that beginning even more brutal. I found the game much harder in general, although the boss fights were actually easier for the most part.
I played DS1 and 2 prior to bloodborne and I'd say the initial run through the city is tougher than any other first area and Gascigone is probably the hardest first boss in the game. Compared to Asylum/Taurus or the Last Giant or really whatever else, Gascigone will fuck you to death if you do not immediately realize how he works. The others at least give you some room to bumble
Yharnam and Old Yharnam were brutal, for sure, but I died far more in Forest of Fallen Giants and Heide's Tower (and Lost Bastille, good lord, if we want to go that far). The lack of mobility in DS2 (and I frames tied to agility) were difficult to adjust to for me in DS2 (and having you health bar decrease with each death...) whereas in BB you basically have action game movement. ---
An orgy is totally different from grooming 36 albatrosses or striking 8 pigs or building a dam with 12.5 beavers -HJ