I've been playing Metroidvania games since the 90s and Blasphemous is one of the best games I've played. Awesome art! Great music! I love the story! These aspects are so good and make for the fact that the game is, most of the time, huge fun. It's not easy, but certainly a good challenge, most of the time. Here's the bad: There were many times when frustration shot up and I just wanted to rage-quit the game for what I feel was just unfair. When you have to get up several platforms, get hit, fall down into the next hit, to fall down into the next hit, to fall down into the insta-death spikes. There are platform rooms which are hard enough to beat imho, and adding this to your dumb bad luck is just infuriating. Other than that, I only have to say I would not have been able to beat the game without checking online guides. Some "quest" leads I simply didn't understand as such, others I forgot between plays - I guess I should have taken notes -, so some kind of journal with reminders or the different dialogues to read through again would have been appreciated. If these two issues don't bother you, get the game. It's really a great jewel in the dark sea of bad and mediocre games and I can't wait to play the sequel!
