I like the graphics...but it's just not my genre.
Mea culpa, I guess.

Quod totum tempus remittuntur.

Liked the first one, but the problem with this genre (metroidvania) is that every game feels very samey. I play like one a year and that's enough to get my fix. A map of randomly assorted rectangles with obscure progression and constant backtracking, where you are going to miss like 40% of the stuff unless you are playing with a guide and have to basically re-run through the entire game once you unlock all the traversal options and abilities etc.

I prefer just a chain of levels of ever increasing difficulty to go through. So more games in the vein of Valfaris, Slain, BloodRayne Betrayal or Foregone.

Blasphemous 1 was one of the better metroidvanias I played and will eventually get to 2 probably. But really have to space out my entries in this genre to maintain fun factor.

I mean, they're not randomly put at all, but yeah that's what people like about the genre, the exploration and backtracking, just like in a shooter you're going to shoot, it's pretty much the heart of it

That said I did find Blasphemous 2 extremely continuist even for MV (and sequel) standards lol, everything felt recycled