Blasphemous 2

I'll start by saying that if you haven't played the first Blasphemous you don't have to in order to enjoy this game. Though, I highly recommend that you do play the first one as well. This sequel takes the atmosphere, interesting setting, open ended world design, the uniqe/amazing art direction, and solid controls from the first game and makes enough changes to set itself apart from just being more of a good thing. I haven't quite finished it yet, but I'm pretty confident my opinion won't change in the last let of the journey. This game is a banger, if you're looking at the trailer and thinking it looks cool then you won't regret this purchase. If you need more evidence, I almost never buy games day one. I am a hardcore "wait for a sale" enjoyer, and I bought this day one it has been worth every penny.

Game chefs from The Game Kitchen made beautiful sequel! They've saved loved by many atmosphere. They mix up old and new content and it's works well if you beat the 1st part. If you meet the Blasphemous series from 2nd part don''t afraid - sequel it's self-sufficent story and there not strong links up to 1st part. I'm fully satisfied with new game so far.

Adds a new mechanic that's not hard, but extremely tedious. Every time you die, your guilt goes up. This shrinks your fervor bar and makes you take more damage, and gives you more money in return which doesn't mean anything because you're about to lose half your money by the point it builds up. You can reduce it by collecting the guilt fragments from where you died, but unlike last time, your fragment doesn't remove all the guilt, and instead you have to go to the confessor every few deaths. This means you're spending your money, when you already lost half of it on the fragment, which is also lost permanently when you use the confessor, on top of the confessor costing money to use. So every few deaths to a boss, even if you always get your fragment back, you'll lose more than half your money. This time your fragment doesn't even spawn outside the arena when you die to a boss, so you're forced to keep reattempting bosses at a disadvantage unless you want to use the confessor and lose even more money. Punishing you for dying is an idiotic idea and I have no idea how the devs who made such an awesome game the first time dropped the ball this hard.

I've only played for a couple of hours but I have to leave a review. I'm a big fan of the first game. Two flaws with Blasphemous were the poor balance of the power-ups, and some jankiness in the controls. I can't speak to the former yet, but the latter is very much improved. The delay after landing from a height and after dashing is greatly reduced, so the movement feels a lot smoother. This improvement is expanded for all the controls. One of my favourite parts about the first game and this one is simply how fun it feels to jump, grab ledges, climb, and attack. In this sequel it's even better. It's true there are no more pixel art cutscenes. My understanding was that the devs spent a disproportionate amount of time making those. So, now they are replaced with relatively cheap looking cartoons, the same as they were doing for the first game's final DLC. But I respect the decision, because the devs put out a good amount of DLC for the first game at a good pace, and this sequel has come pretty fast. So while the cutscenes aren't impressive, the in-game graphics/art are better than ever, as well as the gameplay, as already mentioned. The music is still excellent too. There's one strange thing I noticed, while playing with headphones certain sound effects of glass breaking produce an unpleasant grating sound like nails on a chalkboard. I didn't notice this through the speakers. I'm going to mention it on other platforms as well, since I believe the devs may be able to fix this somehow.