Blasphemous

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  1. Oshiri_Maeda
    Sep 28, 2020
    6
    great style, pretty satisfying fighting mechanics, however, quite poor platforming part. the biggest issue is the game gets quite tedious - there are so few teleports (or lack of them at all in some areas), that backtracking is such a huge part of the game. quite a pain in the ass to backtrack through corridors of levels you ve been many time (with all mobs alive). its not hard, its justgreat style, pretty satisfying fighting mechanics, however, quite poor platforming part. the biggest issue is the game gets quite tedious - there are so few teleports (or lack of them at all in some areas), that backtracking is such a huge part of the game. quite a pain in the ass to backtrack through corridors of levels you ve been many time (with all mobs alive). its not hard, its just tedious.
    oh, and spikes. there are lots of them, they kill instantly and you have to run through several levels again to get to the same point and try again. just kills all the desire to try again, to be honest, especially with such a poor platforming.
    also, magic is useless. hence, the penalty for dying is meaningless.    … Expand
  2. joshbreviews
    Oct 19, 2019
    7
    First trailer I saw for this, I really, REALLY wanted to love this game.

    But...it's okay. Not bad, not great. Easy stuff first. Graphics are good. It's pixel art, yet very detailed. Art style is GREAT. The macabre, gothic, and gory setting is really cool. Nice to immerse yourself in and explore. Music is okay. Nothing noteworthy, nothing bad. Now the gameplay. This is why it's so    First trailer I saw for this, I really, REALLY wanted to love this game.

    But...it's okay. Not bad, not great.

    Easy stuff first. Graphics are good. It's pixel art, yet very detailed. Art style is GREAT. The macabre, gothic, and gory setting is really cool. Nice to immerse yourself in and explore. Music is okay. Nothing noteworthy, nothing bad.

    Now the gameplay. This is why it's so hard to recommend.

    Metroidvania's usually give you a plethora of weapons and abilities to play with. In Blasphemous, you get the one sword you start with. Already a bad start. You get other abilities, but they are heavily gated because of high cost, meaning you get to play with a new skill just once in a blue moon. To make things worse, the abilities don't really add much further depth to the gameplay. To make things even worse, the combat abilities are highly situational; you're just better of playing it safe by using the standard 3-hit combo. They added a parry, though, which is nice and satisfying.

    The biggest issue with Blasphemous is that it simply doesn't have that same steady and satisfying progression Metroidvanias tend to have. In Castlevania, and the recent hit Bloodstained, you're always being rewarded for pushing onward, without making you OP. You're always unlocking abilities that let you access areas that were previously inaccessible to you. You're constantly unlocking new armor and weapons to try, and then to possibly keep, if you like. In Blasphemous, your character feels EXTREMELY static. No new armor. No new weapons. You'll kill enemy after enemy, boss after boss, and you won't feel like you've achieved anything. You wont' feel like you've gotten stronger at all despite toughing it out for so long. Maybe it's an artistic decision - it's a dark game, so apply a dark and heavy feeling by keeping your player character weak? There are beads to give you buffs, but unfortunately they are as insignificant as it sounds. They add very minor buffs to you that you really won't feel. Sounds good on paper, awful in practice. Additionally, they add instant game overs from pitfalls and spikes. Not cool. It feels really bad to fall into a pit and die despite having worked so hard to preserve your life and healing items. Even the old school Symphony of the Night didn't do this. In SotN, you take heavy damage instead so that you don't have to repeat from the last checkpoint. Bad decision to add instant game overs.

    Tying in to progression, Blasphemous imitates Dark Souls' grim and vague storytelling. Vague storytelling is fine if done right. However, in Blasphemous they take it too far. Item descriptions often barrage you with terms and characters you're not familiar with. The NPCs in the world often do the same, referencing weird terms and characters...and you're just expected to nod along. It's weird. Not good storytelling. Perhaps it's a metaphor for religion as a whole, such that you are not meant to understand - you are simply meant to not think, but to only accept and obey? I don't know. On paper sounds promising, but in practice it's just bad storytelling.

    Blasphemous suffers from being made by a small team, I think. I'm tempted to give this a 6, but I'm giving it a 7, because small teams are awesome and they deserve love for this amazing world and concept they built. They've got something really promising here. I hope this game makes enough money to warrant B2; and hopefully then, they'll expand operations so that they can accommodate all the things that make Metroidvanias great.    … Expand
  3. pmasterfunk
    May 15, 2022
    7
    Blasphemous is a pixel art metroidvania game made in the aesthetics of Spanish Inquisition catholicism. Important themes are guilt, sin, penitence, and lots of disembowelment and beheadings. How is it? It's pretty good, but I do find some stuff kinda finicky.

    Visually, it's quite well done. A lot of it is ugly, and I don't mean badly done, I mean intentionally ugly because enemies are    Blasphemous is a pixel art metroidvania game made in the aesthetics of Spanish Inquisition catholicism. Important themes are guilt, sin, penitence, and lots of disembowelment and beheadings. How is it? It's pretty good, but I do find some stuff kinda finicky.

    Visually, it's quite well done. A lot of it is ugly, and I don't mean badly done, I mean intentionally ugly because enemies are dirty and greasy and bloody and disturbing looking. At some point I got a bit tired of seeing disturbing imagery, though YMMV. The library and art gallery portions of the map were pretty cool. In fact, most backgrounds are pretty impressive.

    Audio wise, the voice acting is very good. Music is fine, it's never annoying but for the most part it's very low and atmospheric, so kinda forgettable for me.

    Story-wise... It seems that it's interesting, but I honestly couldn't really understand what was going on. I ended up reading a lot of fandom pages to try and figure stuff out, who these enemies were and why I was fighting them. It's reminiscent of Souls game in that regard; the story isn't fed to the player at all, one has to actively search for it, and in all honesty that doesn't really work for me. If you love that kind of story-telling style, you'll probably enjoy Blasphemous' story.

    The story isn't the only obscure part of the game that kind of annoys me. Quests can be pretty convoluted, and I didn't really actively try to complete them as much as I accidentally picked up random items that NPCs wanted. For a metroidvania, I don't think this is really problematic, although one key item (not necessary to finish the game, though) requires a set of actions obtuse enough that I would never have figured it out without a walkthrough. I didn't actually know until after I'd finished the game how I'd accumulated all those extra accessory slots, because they're not called accessory slots, they're called "mYsTeRiEs Of ThE rOsArY". I honestly thought I was getting lore dumps for the Extras option from the main menu with a name like that. Just call it a freaking accessory slot. I hate it when a Japanese games invent stupid names, I think it's stupid here, too. The menu kinda sucks, I only really want to use it to change loadouts, and the three pages for that use aren't next to each other and I never could tell which tab image represented which page. The random items all have massive text lore dumps that I just find infinitely unappealing. Again, if you like that stuff, you'll probably like Blasphemous.

    How is basic gameplay, you ask? It's fine, but I don't think it's such a standout. I often felt like the controls weren't responding to my inputs, it never felt crisp and clean like, say, Hollow Knight. It's unclear to me when or why some enemies and attacks can be dodged through with the slide and others can't. Ladders are surprisingly frustrating to latch onto while jumping. Hitboxes while on ladders are kinda wonky, which doesn't really sound like an issue apart from that one place where lightning bolts are flying everywhere and I felt like I kept getting hit - and falling back down to the bottom of the stage - when I was confident I had cleared the attack. I often got knocked over by enemy attacks, only to get up and get knocked over immediately again, like, 5 times in a row. A few late game enemies take insane amounts of hits - I'm talking 20 to 25 hits - and do about a third of a full health bar of damage in one hit - a hit that often leads to getting knocked over. On some level, they're not that hard, but slowing down to kill a bullet-sponge of a mook isn't my kind of fun. It feels more like a roadblock than a challenge, and the game is already a bit slow to begin with. Bosses on the other hand are great. Varied and original, challenging without being frustrating, they're definitely the highlight of the action.

    Some people seem to complain about spikes, which really wasn't an issue for me beyond one challenge room, so I dunno, it's not that bad.

    Would I recommend Blasphemous? Depends. If you like Souls games and metroidvanias, yeah, probably. If you don't like either of those things, I'd say avoid it.    … Expand
  4. BastiBlank
    Jan 16, 2020
    7
    -79-
    This game could be one of the best metroidvanias out there as the looks and style are consistent to the -bone- and the game oozes atmosphere with a great world. The problems lie in the somewhat clunky controls and some bad design decisions in different areas though. You still get used to the controls after some time and at the end of the game it felt quite okay, yet I see why people    -79-
    This game could be one of the best metroidvanias out there as the looks and style are consistent to the -bone- and the game oozes atmosphere with a great world. The problems lie in the somewhat clunky controls and some bad design decisions in different areas though. You still get used to the controls after some time and at the end of the game it felt quite okay, yet I see why people could complain about the weighty and clunky feel of them. As said, the pixel art is the most gorgeous and stylized I've ever seen, there are some nice ideas in quests and world design and it felt really good to progress through the game (albeit difficult and time-consuming backtracking). One more thing to criticize: The music can be very monotone and uninspired sometimes.

    Overall I still recommend this game to anyone who is interested in the style and a brutally religious world. The game excels on conveying characters and that world.    … Expand
  5. Defoxx
    Dec 1, 2020
    5
    Неплохая смесь метроидвании и souls-like, игра на одно прохождение. Из плюсов могу выделить неплохую стилистику игры.
  6. KrakenOfPepsi
    Jan 7, 2020
    7
    Blasphemous boasts an incredibly gorgeous and intricately detailed pixel art-style which gives the likes of Hyper Light Drifter and Owl Boy a serious run for their money. The setting is horribly violent and depressing, and it never lets up once in the time you’ll have with it. The story itself takes a great deal of inspiration from The Bible and the Holy Inquisition, but doesn’t exist toBlasphemous boasts an incredibly gorgeous and intricately detailed pixel art-style which gives the likes of Hyper Light Drifter and Owl Boy a serious run for their money. The setting is horribly violent and depressing, and it never lets up once in the time you’ll have with it. The story itself takes a great deal of inspiration from The Bible and the Holy Inquisition, but doesn’t exist to advocate or protest The Bible, but simply just take a great deal of inspiration from its themes and narrative. The narrative and lore actually ended up being my favorite part of Blasphemous, I loved how twisted and unrelenting its tale of suffering was, and how it intertwined with its different gameplay mechanics. Upon looking into the games story and world, so much of the games seemingly obscure requirements for beating the game and getting the true ending became far more apparent and made much more sense. The savage world and its enigmatic characters were all interesting and enjoyable, and I was always itching to find out more about while playing.

    Initially the game opens up, letting you tackle three bosses/areas in any order you’d like, but once you’ve completed all three bosses there’s one last big area to complete. But unfortunately that’s where Blasphemous’ important choices end. There are heaps of different abilities and pieces of equipment to try out, but I never found any of them to crucial to beating the game, or even really that fun to use and I have a few specific issues with them;

    - Rosary Bead and Mea Culpa Heart affects were usually pretty minute, and not all that helpful. Most of them had affects that were just not useful at or, or that were so minute in their affects that I didn’t even notice them. The only Rosary Beads that I ended up using consistently were the ones that gave you more HP, MP and defense, which are arguably the most boring.

    - I believe there are only seven Prayers (spells) in the game, and considering you can only have one equipped at once there is simply just not enough variety to make them fun to use. The abilities are fairly fun to use at first, but combined with the fact that you have a very finite MP bar, the abilities have fairly limited practical uses and only being able to have one equipped at once means you’re not only barely using them but you also get stuck with just one at a time – and you can’t even change them unless you’re at a checkpoint. They really should have let you equip multiple at once, or given them more versatile uses because I found that on their own they’re not all that helpful or fun to use, and that I was barely using them.

    - Relics unlock different abilities which are required for finding new areas or hidden objects. This is fine in theory, but two improvements could have been made. 1. You can only have 3 of these 5 relics equipped at once, meaning you have to interchange them instead of just being able to use them all at once. There's no reason to not be able to have all of these effects active at once, it just ends up making them less satisfying to find/use and are tedious to swap in and out. 2. These effects are underwhelming, they do things like make additional platforms appear and give resistances to uncommon hazards like poison smog and water

    The game struggles a little bit with its equipment and abilities, fortunately the games areas are so fun to explore on their own that it is ultimately still very fun to play anyways. Every area has distinct enemies, environments, beautiful music, obstacles and environments to experience, and each is as fun as the last. The games platforming really shines when it’s combined with combat encounters, trying to navigate treacherous traps and tight platforms all while dealing with enemies makes for some really distinct and intense combat encounters, because the game merges the two seamlessly with great success. The controls are tight and responsive, making platforming and combat feel tight and responsive. The great variety in enemies, bosses paired with the amazing animations make for an engaging combat system which is as fun to watch as it is play.

    Blasphemous is certainly worth your time, it’s art direction and story is without a doubt worth the price of admission alone. It controls perfectly, the level design is great, the combat is tight and responsive and all the areas are interesting and fun to explore. It however suffers from some very weak, boring, useless and restraining abilities and items. A lot of potential here, and I look forward to seeing what the developers do next.    … Expand
  7. IMR707
    May 23, 2021
    7
    Great art, sound and OST. The gameplay though is quite basic. The biggest thing that turned me off is the punishing backtracking especially if you missed out the teleport zone. You have to go back the whole way back in order to unlock the teleport zone.
  8. Sepherim
    Mar 3, 2020
    6
    Blasphemous es un entretenido metroidvania que cumple sin aportar nada nuevo ni original al género. Unos cuantos mapas con los habituales secretos y enemigos, quizás menos en cantidad de lo esperado ya que es un juego relativamente corto. Una dificultad que no está mal pero tampoco es la más difícil del mundo (menos los últimos 2 bosses que ya son más difíciles). Por el resto, una historiaBlasphemous es un entretenido metroidvania que cumple sin aportar nada nuevo ni original al género. Unos cuantos mapas con los habituales secretos y enemigos, quizás menos en cantidad de lo esperado ya que es un juego relativamente corto. Una dificultad que no está mal pero tampoco es la más difícil del mundo (menos los últimos 2 bosses que ya son más difíciles). Por el resto, una historia macabra de un Milagro del Dolor, unas cuantas referencias e imaginario de la Semana Santa y esas cosas, y listo. A nivel gráfico y de diseño está bastante bien, ya que han logrado una estética bastante única y propia. El sonido cumple sin aspavientos ni sorpresas. Y el juego tiene algunos bugs importantes que se dan ocasionalmente y unos controles que no siempre responden todo lo bien que deberían. Por el resto, un juego como digo bastante entretenido. Un 6.… Expand
  9. FromTheBonfire
    May 31, 2020
    7
    I love the atmosphere of this game based on Spanish folklore and the gore aspects of it. But maybe I would've made the combat a little bit more complex and wouldn't hide the executions *one of the best things about the game) behind randomness.
  10. DavidCol
    Aug 6, 2020
    5
    Parecía un excelente juego de aventura en 2D pero no me termino de convencer, hay una curva de aprendizaje para poder bloquear y derrotar a los enemigos que en otros juegos en 2D como Castlevania, Megaman o Metroid es mucho más sencilla; hay diálogos oscuros y extraños, no me gusto tampoco que hubieran precipicios con muerte instantánea. Tiene aspectos positivos como los jefes gigantes yParecía un excelente juego de aventura en 2D pero no me termino de convencer, hay una curva de aprendizaje para poder bloquear y derrotar a los enemigos que en otros juegos en 2D como Castlevania, Megaman o Metroid es mucho más sencilla; hay diálogos oscuros y extraños, no me gusto tampoco que hubieran precipicios con muerte instantánea. Tiene aspectos positivos como los jefes gigantes y enemigos bien hechos, las graficas están bien pero los otros aspectos mencionados, para mi, afectan la experiencia.… Expand
  11. VooDoo1349
    Jun 9, 2021
    7
    Ахуевший визуал и пиксель арт
    Ахуевшая музыка
    И настолько же хуёвый гейм-дизайн, и техническая реализация в целом
  12. F3T1W
    Aug 27, 2021
    6
    A platformer with a chic, bloody religious atmosphere, sensitively crooked controls and satisfying leveling
  13. Tampasco
    Dec 30, 2022
    7
    Um jogo com uma atmosfera maravilhosa, com uma narrativa contada similar com Dark Souls, porém o que ele se propõe a ser desafiador ele não consegue tanto, mas ele é um bom jogo metroidvania.
    Nota Final: 7,4
  14. The_D4RknesS
    Aug 18, 2023
    6
    Souls like pure! I'm not a masochist to try to finish this rubbish!!! I still tried to play because I loved the 90s graphics and graphic violence but the game is difficult and very stressful
  15. turgaysenturk
    Aug 13, 2023
    6
    Blasphemous falls somewhere between good and bad. While the gameplay is fun, combat mechanics are limited. Platforming offers a challenging experience for those who enjoy difficulty. Boss fights vary in toughness. The story didn't engage me so I need to watch videos to understand but I'm not sure I want to understand it though. Overall, Blasphemous offers a mixed experience – enjoyableBlasphemous falls somewhere between good and bad. While the gameplay is fun, combat mechanics are limited. Platforming offers a challenging experience for those who enjoy difficulty. Boss fights vary in toughness. The story didn't engage me so I need to watch videos to understand but I'm not sure I want to understand it though. Overall, Blasphemous offers a mixed experience – enjoyable elements mixed with limitations.… Expand
  16. ManHoof
    Jul 29, 2023
    6
    The game is good. The main advantage of the game is the graphics. It is very peculiar and unique in some ways. The voice acting and story are also good. Yes, the plot is not obvious, as in most souls games, but everything is within the genre. The bosses are quite atmospheric.
    Among the disadvantages are weak combat mechanics, lack of variability in the combat system, and primitive game    The game is good. The main advantage of the game is the graphics. It is very peculiar and unique in some ways. The voice acting and story are also good. Yes, the plot is not obvious, as in most souls games, but everything is within the genre. The bosses are quite atmospheric.
    Among the disadvantages are weak combat mechanics, lack of variability in the combat system, and primitive game design of locations.    … Expand
  17. johnyct9760
    Dec 9, 2019
    7
    Alright so games like Blasphemous are why there needs to be a 1 out of 10 scale rather than this thumbs up thumbs down sh*t, cause if there was ever a game "in the middle" this would be it. The looks and sound amazing great art direction great sound, and for the most part it plays well-enough but.... it never really quite clicks I always found myself not feeling empowered as a player. AndAlright so games like Blasphemous are why there needs to be a 1 out of 10 scale rather than this thumbs up thumbs down sh*t, cause if there was ever a game "in the middle" this would be it. The looks and sound amazing great art direction great sound, and for the most part it plays well-enough but.... it never really quite clicks I always found myself not feeling empowered as a player. And by that I mean I never felt like the hero that this troubled game world needed... I felt more like a some guy that is that's exploring a lot and dying a lot and thank god I have unlimited lives because by god I'm going to use them all (and not to toot my own horn but I am really good at these kinds of games so if I was dying this much new players watch out.)

    Now feels like a good time to address the challenge-o-meter on this one on a scale of 1 to 10, 3 it too easy, 5 is your making progress but never super challenged, and eight is frustratingly hard this game sits at a solid 8.2, if it were any (and I do mean even the tiniest bit) harder it would simply be NOT FUN. There were a few times I really felt we had crossed over from the land of video GAMES over to video WORK and that's just never cool.

    Lastly a few things to be advised on the map is big and creative BUT the fun is sapped out of it because (nood mistake team 17 that NEED and could so easily be fixed) there are like nowhere close to enough fast travel points so my first play through was around 15 hours and for real about 1/2 of that was spent running and slicing my way to singular upgrade locations or going back to a earlier level to get an up-grade. So the backtracking is real and tediously part of this game. But the game always looks good and plays good for the most part so said back-tracking isn't the kiss of death it could be, but still be prepared to do A LOT (and I mean A LOT) of it.

    In the end I'm going to give this a 7.0 out of 10 and that feels really appropriate cause there is so much about this game that scores right in that place of the edge of good game status, if there was just 1 or 2 more things that weren’t in place about this game it would suck, but it doesn’t so its… kind of ok.    … Expand
  18. andrew9
    Jul 15, 2022
    5
    blasphemous .
  19. CyberAngel
    Sep 30, 2019
    5
    Remember that level in Anor Londo on the rooftops with those two archers in Dark Souls? Blasphemous is just like that. All the time. Ugh.
  20. nervengas
    Sep 10, 2020
    5
    backtracking, insta-death traps, clunky unresponsive combat.... I'm not sure what ppl are smoking when they compare this game to dark souls, this is a 'metroidvania' type game, a genre that should have died a decade or so ago, since the only thing it excells at is wasting a lot of time.
    also the art is gorgeous, story is weird and interesting, music isn't bad either. If you like to play    backtracking, insta-death traps, clunky unresponsive combat.... I'm not sure what ppl are smoking when they compare this game to dark souls, this is a 'metroidvania' type game, a genre that should have died a decade or so ago, since the only thing it excells at is wasting a lot of time.
    also the art is gorgeous, story is weird and interesting, music isn't bad either. If you like to play games that feel like jobs, or if you're simply a demented masochist, then I can highly recommend playing this game to you. Otherwise, stay away. Watch a let's play, read the lore on the wiki (idk if there's one). It's just not worth the effort.    … Expand
  21. JonsGone
    Jul 10, 2020
    6
    Good enough short metroidvania.
    15+ hours length.
    More vania than metroid. Great pixel art. Gorgeous aesthetic based on classical paintings and catholicism. Dark souls influence is very much present. Some clumisness here and there. Gameplay is very slow-paced, you CANNOT rush things. Mechanics would have been annoying if the game had been any longer. Very few ways of moving    Good enough short metroidvania.
    15+ hours length.
    More vania than metroid.
    Great pixel art.
    Gorgeous aesthetic based on classical paintings and catholicism.
    Dark souls influence is very much present.
    Some clumisness here and there.
    Gameplay is very slow-paced, you CANNOT rush things.
    Mechanics would have been annoying if the game had been any longer.
    Very few ways of moving quickly through the map.
    Movement is probably the worst part of the game.
    Aim for 100% only if you really love it, theres not much point to it otherwise.
    Overall a pleasant experience.    … Expand
  22. SilverOrlov
    Apr 3, 2023
    7
    At first I really hated this game. And then I ended it on two endings.
    In fact, it’s a little difficult for me to give any specific rating, since for me it’s between something like this: Objectively - 7, subjectively in emotions - 8.
    A slightly strange variation on a religious journey with agony, punishment, cool phrases and normal sound. The atmosphere is really what you need. A soft    At first I really hated this game. And then I ended it on two endings.
    In fact, it’s a little difficult for me to give any specific rating, since for me it’s between something like this: Objectively - 7, subjectively in emotions - 8.
    A slightly strange variation on a religious journey with agony, punishment, cool phrases and normal sound. The atmosphere is really what you need. A soft death system that doesn't make every defeat a small personal grief. The plot... well, not a masterpiece, but something new, for which you can definitely praise the creators. And for some bosses too.
    But what I won’t praise for sure is for the other part of the bosses, which are just boring. Especially I’ll note the fire nun with her wildly random pattern of fire attacks from two hands. At the very beginning of the game, it is not so much difficult as it is very annoying when you are losing.
    Platforming. I think not a single game review on YouTube has bypassed how stupid it is implemented here.
    Contact damage, which is either there or not. It is not clear whether it will be or not (hello to the nuns with a censer). The monsters themselves do not take damage from the environment. The way the enemy passes through the lava flow looks very stupid and primitive.
    Periodically crooked hitboxes. Once I died on a completely empty place next to the spikes (one of the Miriam's trials).
    Half of the prayers and beads are complete bullsh*t. Half are extra-strong. I was especially pleased with the two discs with which I passed many bosses on the second play-through.
    I still recommend this game for purchase, because you can get used to many bad moments, and the game itself, nevertheless, is quite interesting and addictive. But, probably at a discount prices.    … Expand
  23. VIGIA
    Mar 1, 2020
    5
    Tiene aspectos interesantes, pero en lo más importante falla; el control es nefasto, el plataformeo es terrible, y el juego es difícil artificialmente, porque no se maneja bien, porque las magias y pociones tardar un eternidad en utilizarse (y en los combates contra jefes eso puede ser letal), las quest secundarias no son interesantes, y se basan en mecánicas tediosas... En fin, solo loTiene aspectos interesantes, pero en lo más importante falla; el control es nefasto, el plataformeo es terrible, y el juego es difícil artificialmente, porque no se maneja bien, porque las magias y pociones tardar un eternidad en utilizarse (y en los combates contra jefes eso puede ser letal), las quest secundarias no son interesantes, y se basan en mecánicas tediosas... En fin, solo lo recomiendo si se da una muy buena oferta… Expand
  24. churros
    Oct 11, 2020
    6
    Pros:
    + amazing pixel art
    + good combat and platforming

    Cons:
    - confusing mechanics
    - cryptic descriptions
    - bland music
  25. random_gamer
    Feb 8, 2022
    7
    Blasphemous is a really nice metroidvania/action platformer. Unfortunately there are some big flaws which really hold it back from becoming an amazing game.
    Like usual I will first list my pros and cons:
    pros: + The artstyle is absolutely gorgeous and unique. Hands down the best thing about this game + Similiar to the artstyle the animations and finishers look really nice and are    Blasphemous is a really nice metroidvania/action platformer. Unfortunately there are some big flaws which really hold it back from becoming an amazing game.
    Like usual I will first list my pros and cons:

    pros:
    + The artstyle is absolutely gorgeous and unique. Hands down the best thing about this game
    + Similiar to the artstyle the animations and finishers look really nice and are very brutal
    + Free DLC, which is always amazing
    + The lore and world built here is absolutely unique, grim and similarly to Dark Souls very cryptic. I love it
    + The map is nice, structured and offers many pins to mark places of interest
    + Hitting baddies feels good
    + Very nice quests with different interesting NPCs

    cons:
    - This is the typical kind of game which throws way too much stuff at you which is not needed. Best example: the abundance of sword hearts and magical spells. Less is sometimes more
    - The platforming can feel clunky every now and then
    - The bosses look amazing but are a bit boring and too similiar for my taste
    - The game becomes too easy too quickly. There was no real challenge anywhere (except from maybe the human bosses)

    All in all playing through Blasphemous was a fun time. Unfortunately because of the abundance of different stuff which in my opinion does not add much to the experience and gets boring quickly (picking up another magic spell I will never use gets old quick) as well as no real challenge for about 90% of the game held it back from becoming an amazing Metroidvania.
    I would still recommend it to any metroidvania fan for the artstyle alone. It is gorgeous.    … Expand
  26. eded9999
    Sep 27, 2019
    6
    A bit short for a metroidvania.
    Lore is a mess, they just throw a bunch of catholic reference into a mixer.
    Some minor issues with inputs and settings.
    It's not specially bad or specially good. Average.
  27. thatpower
    Apr 13, 2021
    7
    A really good souls metroidvania with fantastic atmosphere and soundtrack. Easily the best part about it is the setting - one of the most unique and memorable universes in gaming history. Bad stuff: the controls are unresponsive and clunky, the bosses are OK at best, and some areas are just plain awful (primarily the sewers). Overall still a great experience, highly recommend if you likeA really good souls metroidvania with fantastic atmosphere and soundtrack. Easily the best part about it is the setting - one of the most unique and memorable universes in gaming history. Bad stuff: the controls are unresponsive and clunky, the bosses are OK at best, and some areas are just plain awful (primarily the sewers). Overall still a great experience, highly recommend if you like dark fantasy, metroidvanias and challenging games.… Expand

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77

Generally favorable reviews - based on 21 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 21
  3. Negative: 0 out of 21
  1. Hooked Gamers
    Jan 29, 2020
    70
    A gore-laden feast for the most barbaric among us, Blasphemous truly is a punishing game in the best possible way. I just wish it had a more gripping story to go with it.
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  2. The Overpowered Noobs
    Nov 13, 2019
    70
    Blasphemous is a truly unforgettable experience that stands out in the Metroidvania genre.
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  3. Softpedia
    Nov 4, 2019
    80
    Despite being a bit tedious, Blasphemous offers many satisfying moments like being able to find a shortcut or a shrine when you most need it. Some of the quests are really interesting and even if they're not mandatory to finish the game, I would strongly recommend trying to finish as many of them as possible. The way the story is told (or rather discovered), the amazing artwork, and the fast-paced combat are aspects of the game that grabbed me throughout my playthrough. You'll indeed have to do a lot of backtracking if you want to complete as much as the game as possible, but the rewards are worth it.
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