Blasphemous

Blasphemous is an amazing game, rough around the edges in terms of gameplay, but with stunning pixel art and amazing voice acting both in Spanish and English(as a native Spanish speaker I appreciate it, not all games have good voice acting in Spanish), truly appreciate the passion of the developers behind this game, even now(9/4/2021) there are plans of a future free DLC in December so is really a game you should pick up and have in your library. Looking forward to blasphemous 2, took me around 20 hours to complete it (on this platform) and there is still around 10-20 more hours of content I have to try, replayability is a huge deal for me and I really appreciate the devs invested time and effort to make this a thing. There's always room for improvement but as of now the state of the game is almost flawless, throughout constant updates and free DLC you can truly see how much this dev team cares for the game and the community (something rare these days). For below $10 this game is a steal, hope by reading this I can convince you to give it a try, I'm happy to see metroidvanias are still a thing in 2020-21 9/10 —gameplay could be improved —the souls genre mechanics is not necessary in my opinion, yet I'm nitpicking at this point.

No idea what is going on. Why do I have a pointy hat? Why do I not have the reflexes required for this? One false move and it turns into a pinball game as you bounce from enemy to enemy and die. From an art perspective...great job. From a "let's have fun slashing and exploring" perspective...nope.

The story of this game is really strange, bloody, it's a delirium ... but totally assumed and it does you good to have something new. I really feel pleasure to play this game: game design is good, it's not to easy and not to hard, exploration is well reward. My only criticism is to not have new game+ because challenge decreases at the end of the game. Great job The game Kitchen !

No one wanted to like this game more than me. I love Metroidvanias. I'm a traditional Catholic. The sprite art is gorgeous. This was my game! Alas. At every part of the game, something goes wrong. Out of place Dark Souls/Diablo corpse run nonsense causing tedium and discouraging exploration. Ditto with the bottomless pits, which are, naturally, unlabelled in this exploration game where you might think you can jump down but cannot without a lategame powerup. Damage sponge enemies making the beginning of the game really rough. All additions to your core moveset being situational at best making the endgame feel boring since you don't have anything meaningfully new to work with. Parry mechanic being really inconsistent. A few out of place opaque puzzles as if the game suddenly forgot it wasn't La-Mulana for a room or two (I wish). It just goes on and on. Now, I did give the game a 3/5. As stated it looks great, and the sound effects and animations are all very satisfying. You really do feel like a badass swordsman when you're not getting hacked to bits. The story certainly had me invested even if all the dialogue felt a tad grandiloquent. The world design is definitely sound, full of interesting locales and setpieces. While the level design could be frustratingly spike happy, it also had some really cool platforming challenge rooms. Blasphemous is the interesting kind of 3/5 where it does a lot of things well and a lot of things poorly. Love or hate, you won't be bored, at least. Is that worth your money. I'd say no. Buy La-Mulana.

I'm still early in progress but the game is very atmospheric and is addictive. The world is beautiful and the enemies/bosses are very good. At first i also have some difficulties to play with a generic controller. What worked for me is that i downloaded Χ360CE and HidHide programs to emulate the controller as xbox controller and now is working correctly even at the menus.