They're all penitents like the Penitent One, but of different orders loyal to the Miracle at least for the first four or so - they're there to stop the Penitent One from reaching the Child.
First Blasphemous was probably the most Christian game ever made (despite story part having barely anything to do with Christianity). Does this one manage to hold up without going over the top and becoming a meme? Line is pretty thin.
You literally open the game with a higher being from Literal Heaven imploring you to stop the Miracle's dark designs.
>blasphemous 2 looks and plays better than its first entry >AC6 comes out in a few hours >BRCF is fun as frick >girl i like responded to my dm
I WIN I WIN I WIN I WIN I WINNNNNNN HAHAHAHAHA I WON FINALLY ITS MY FRICKING TIME I GET TO PLAY 2 GOOD SEQUELS IN ONE FRICKING DAY AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
im well aware if i dont get a reply within the hour its pretty much over. dating as a 27 year old fricking sucks even being tall and Ganker doesnt help
late-20's dating isn't about being tall and fit, it's about having your shit together, which doesn't even mean "have a high-paying job (though this obviously helps a frickton) but simply that you have a stable income/living situation and are looking for a family.
im well aware if i dont get a reply within the hour its pretty much over. dating as a 27 year old fricking sucks even being tall and Ganker doesnt help
Wait a second is this true? I don't usually respond to anyone who texts me right away, even when it's a girl I like.
Plus I've heard dating coaches tell people never to respond right away unless you're having an active conversation so you don't seem to needy or desperate.
Dating coaches are dumb as frick don't listen to their advice. Literally think about it why would you ignore the person who you like? It makes no sense. Always reply to the person you like asap. It makes no sense to try and be cool by delaying your response. Would you want the person you like to ignore you just because?
10 months ago
Anonymous
>Would you want the person you like to ignore you just because?
Because they're women and women are notorious for doing exactly that.
Chads often do that same behavior too.
>Got rejected by girl >Suddenly checks all my posts >Asks me at work in the mornings when what time do I leave some reason >Wonder if shes gonna ask me if I wanna do something >...
Women are weird.
>girl dropped me like a sack of potatoes after a month of dating... for another girl
I guess some win and some lose
I didn't like her THAT much but we got along very well so that sucks.
First Blasphemous was probably the most Christian game ever made (despite story part having barely anything to do with Christianity). Does this one manage to hold up without going over the top and becoming a meme? Line is pretty thin.
>In what way?
Most people on 4chins, and especially self-proclaimed Christians, have no idea what Chirstianity even is. Their perception of it is pretty basic and generally boils down to one of very few patterns: >Badass crusader beats up brown people, deus vult >Jesus forbids you to jack off, stop posting anime bawds >Look at this cool cathedral, I'm such a culture appreciator
None of these touch main theme. Christianity in its foundations is an extremely macabre religion. Its myth mostly consists of incidents of unreasonably brutal torture. Its main category of holy relics are bodies or body parts of saints or virtuous people. It is generally fascinated with death, corpses and burial. I'm talking about traditional Christianity obviously, protestantism is the new shit which stripped down most of things which were practiced for many centuries.
Blasphemous expresses this fundamental aspect of Christianity perfectly in its aesthetics. They even integrate it into the gameplay, with player collecting bones to put them into ossuary, or getting metroidovania powerups from sacred body part relics. There is also a frick ton of references to smaller things, for example main character's helmet and maybe other obscure stuff I don't get. People who were making this are very deep into this culture and very good with committing it to the game.
No one is attempting to convert you. Were you this angry about people dissecting Evangelion’s superficial Christian veneer too?
Is the Blasphemous anti-religion? I know this game anesthetics would be offensive to my mom's Catholic devotion, but I hear some people say it's not as, well, blasphemous as the game would seem.
Christianity is a fantasy of productive suffering, similar to all other blood magic. Nothing bad happens without a bigger goodness being made out of it somehow, they say.
>Christianity in its foundations
You're going to have to study Christianity more; what you're describing is the retconned Christianity when it became a State Religion and had political power. Its foundation is a mystery religion with a femboy with a bubble butt and squeezable breasts at its helm who could do parlour tricks like turn water into wine.
>femboy with a bubble butt and squeezable breasts at its helm who could do parlour tricks like turn water into wine.
Wow, so this is what being triggered is like.
Let me bask in this feeling for a bit
have a nice day please
Christianity is a fantasy of productive suffering, similar to all other blood magic. Nothing bad happens without a bigger goodness being made out of it somehow, they say.
I’m Italian and the games lore is not hard to understand at all, it’s very clearly based on Roman mysticism embraced by the Spanish and southern Italians. The setting looks like my city but with more gothic touches, which is typical of Seville I guess, we’re more strictly Romanesque (porticoes are the true god)
>In what way?
Most people on 4chins, and especially self-proclaimed Christians, have no idea what Chirstianity even is. Their perception of it is pretty basic and generally boils down to one of very few patterns: >Badass crusader beats up brown people, deus vult >Jesus forbids you to jack off, stop posting anime bawds >Look at this cool cathedral, I'm such a culture appreciator
None of these touch main theme. Christianity in its foundations is an extremely macabre religion. Its myth mostly consists of incidents of unreasonably brutal torture. Its main category of holy relics are bodies or body parts of saints or virtuous people. It is generally fascinated with death, corpses and burial. I'm talking about traditional Christianity obviously, protestantism is the new shit which stripped down most of things which were practiced for many centuries.
Blasphemous expresses this fundamental aspect of Christianity perfectly in its aesthetics. They even integrate it into the gameplay, with player collecting bones to put them into ossuary, or getting metroidovania powerups from sacred body part relics. There is also a frick ton of references to smaller things, for example main character's helmet and maybe other obscure stuff I don't get. People who were making this are very deep into this culture and very good with committing it to the game.
Amerinogs are pseudo-christians. They have no fricking clue. All they know is paying 300 bucks to go see some james brown acting ass homie in some megachurch stadium.
>Christian game ever
It's Roman Catholicism of the Spanish variety
You’re correct with regards to art direction, philosophically I am unsure.
The ending with the Greater Wills and The Miracle seemingly being intertwined and neither truly having agency over the other paints the setting as more Gnostic than Christian. I am basing this solely off the concept of two equally powerful entities locked in stalemate vs 1 all powerful creator entity. Doctrinally it wears a Christian skinsuit.
>Devs said that their game isn't about religion. Its about the religious art that has become so intertwined with Spain that its no longer religious, its cultural. >Every single person on the face of the planet ignores them
Always gets a kek outta me
Is the Blasphemous anti-religion? I know this game anesthetics would be offensive to my mom's Catholic devotion, but I hear some people say it's not as, well, blasphemous as the game would seem.
It depends, is mutilating people and causing them pain wrong? Not everyone would say "yes", just like not everyone would say trans women are men even after taking out "her" "girlwiener" out of one's mouth to reply.
Unless I misunderstood or misremember, it's more "anti-god" than anything, right? Because unless I'm mistaken, it was essentially about The High Wills (This universe's version of God) unleashing the Miracle (The Rapture/apocalypse) unto the world, and through the true ending story path you find out that it released the rapture not out of divine justice as religion had said it would be, but rather out of pure ego and vanity, so rather simply, because it thought that it was it's right to unleash and that it would be just to do so only because it says. But in fact, it was not just in any way and it was purely self-serving, so this would mean that god in itself is blasphemous. Which is where Penitente steps in, to set things right.
Nah, I think you misunderstood: in Blasphemous the proxy for the Holy Trinity is divided, there's an Absent God that went to a higher plane via The Eternal Processions, The Holy Ghost in this version is The Miracle which is merely a tool for the higher beings to enacted their will on the plane of Cvstodia and then there's the figure of Christ that is The Twisted. The when the Absent God ascended it left Cvstodia at peace and The Miracle behind, the people of Cuvstodia in this almost utopia still felt inadequate and some were ridden with guilt and confusion product of the hole left by the Absent God.
One individual grievance and guilt were so potent and sincere that it caught the attention of one of the beings roaming The Eternal Processions and used The Miracle to grant him his wish. The other citizens of Cvstodia took noticed and venerated this occurrence that signified the return of The Divine and created a new cult around it. It's implied that the faith generated by the usage of The Miracle grants it's used more power and heights of existence and the being that used The Miracle, now known as The High Wills, became drunk on it.
The people of Cvstodia intepreted that the most painful and severe the punishment they asked for even the slightest transgressions to the faith, the more glory for their forgiveness they'd take, this made others more faithful and willing to make sacrifices and take punishment. This cycle nourished the powers that The High Wills would harvest. This made The High Wills more covetous of the power of the faith, it tryed to hide the truth of the ascension of The Twisted by taking the witnesses of the event to another planes of existence were they wouldn't be found. The High Wills even got jealous of figures of the church that got more praise than them and punished/deformed them severely. The High Wills and The Sorrow/Painful Miracle were taken as synonyms at this point.
This game recontextualizes the High Wills and makes it seem that much like the Child it's about to birth, they were ultimately the result of the Miracle's machinations. What is consistent is that for all its power, the Miracle must create a new God to act as a guiding nexus of its power, in order to effectively maintain its manifestations in reality. The loss of the High Wills drove it out of Custodia and the birth of the Child would ensure its return to power.
More than that though, Anunciada (the lady in the OP) outright establishes that she comes from "the holy mountains on high, the seat and beginning of all that is holy" and acts as an emissary of benign entities staunchly opposed to the Miracle. The Miracle isn't God, it's the setting's version of the Devil.
>The Miracle isn't God, it's the setting's version of the Devil.
I don't think the Miracle is the "devil", more like the Miracle always needs a "god" to work with, and while this time is "godless", it tries to recreate its own "god" to serve.
Or basically pic related. The Miracle needs a god to work properly, so it is trying to create its own god, but it is imperfect without a god, thus it would create only an imperfect god, thing that would be worse for everyone else so you need to stop it.
The Miracle created The High Wills because the people of Custodia wanted to be punished for their guilt.
Then The High Wills started power tripping and being heavy handed so The Miracle hijacked The Penitent One from The High Wills plan to have him replace Escobar and renew Custodia faith; it had him kill The High Wills freeing the people of Custodia and itself from them.
The Miracle is like a plane that needs some type of pilot to function but like with all things, there are good pilots and shitty pilots.
The Miracle created The High Wills because the people of Custodia wanted to be punished for their guilt.
Then The High Wills started power tripping and being heavy handed so The Miracle hijacked The Penitent One from The High Wills plan to have him replace Escobar and renew Custodia faith; it had him kill The High Wills freeing the people of Custodia and itself from them.
The Miracle is like a plane that needs some type of pilot to function but like with all things, there are good pilots and shitty pilots.
There's some later stuff in the game that does in fact pretty firmly define the Miracle as being evil. Or at least, completely fricking capricious in how it acts and what it does.
The good ending involves your character become Jesus by taking everyone's manifested sins and sacrificing himself to become a tree, thus getting rid of the Miracle. It's more Gnostic than anything, It's very Christian, the people who made it are genuinely ingrained in the culture and are passionate about it, unlike Fromsoft putting cathedrals in their games because they think Christianity is cool and exotic.
Most people will be offended at genuine expressions of Christianity because they don't actually understand their religion or its history.
And the best ending has you destroy the literal demonic wills directing the greater actions of the Miracle in order to force it to frick off, with you being righteously entombed for your sacrifice in saving everyone.
Yeah, Blasphemous 2 is post-Wounds of Eventide after the Penitent One dies due to putting down the High Wills. It's why everything is so hilariously different, because a LOT of time has passed since the last game (multiple characters say anything from "millenia" to fricking "eons").
It just uses the catholic traditions and aesthetics because they were metal as frick, not to push any kind of agenda or whatever.
It reminded me there's still some guys from where I live that still flagellate themselves whenever a representation of the Via Crucis happens. That's dedication.
Someone posted a better version of the right while the one you posted was supposedly from an earlier build, are you sure you're not trying to mislead people anon?
I legit didn't know of the earlier build. They are using this so called earlier version on their steam page as advertisement which is kinda stupid, don't blame me if I fell for it.
I guess it's a relief but that said, I don't like what happened to cutscenes like picrel.
the cutscenes being animated differently is such a non issue, sure it sucks but the main hook was always the IN GAME pixel art not just the cutscenes which arent very long in the first place
Not that anon, but no, this new anime cutscene style is terrible and absolutely clashes with the grim gothic horror fantasy aesthetic of the game. I don't know how anyone can say it's a non-issue, it's so blatant and jarring. That's not going to stop me from playing it though, only because I adore the first game. But that shit really stings to see.
They are literally the first thing that appear in the game, don't mess well with the general art direction and they convey information. Maybe you don't, but some people care about cohesion.
Surprise that the people b***hing are the steak page stalkers. Judge a book by its cover, fool yourself into false convictions. Burn in hell you have a mental disease and proliferate degeneracy in our mating pool.
Yeah, the og cutscenes were great. Calling back to titles like "Flashback" and "Out of this World". In game stuff seems better in general though. Lots of fine details and often beautiful backgrounds. A few of the tile sets (mostly Jondo) kinda felt like something from a cellphone game.
Still doesn't look as good as the first game; the whole thing look cartoony and the hands make it seem like it was made by a 13 yo. It would feel more at home in something like Cup Head.
Someone posted a better version of the right while the one you posted was supposedly from an earlier build, are you sure you're not trying to mislead people anon?
It's funny that despite being corrected they still opted to use the outdated one for their image. The design still lacks a punch to it though, maybe they should've done a different kind of monster rather than another giant skeleton? Melquíades is hard to beat.
I extracted the sprites from the game.
There's still more to extract but i need to go 1 file at a time because the developers did something to unity that the program i use gives me a lot of errors and shits on my PC...
Here, enjoy:
https://www mediafire com/file/flrzjgi3uqi25w4/ConeHeadMan-sequel.rar/file
That's the beauty of it, i already did extract every single sprite from the first game a few weeks ago.
Here:
https://www mediafire com/file/ukgft880jw18gfb/AgonyOfConeHeadMan.rar/file
Enjoy.
That's the beauty of it, i already did extract every single sprite from the first game a few weeks ago.
Here:
https://www mediafire com/file/ukgft880jw18gfb/AgonyOfConeHeadMan.rar/file
Enjoy.
And here is The Penitent One from The 2nd game that i forgot to extract:
https://www mediafire com/file/3up96gbg1cvz5zp/PainOfConeHeadMan.rar/file
Thanks anon
I love studying game sprites and Blasphemous was one of games i wanted to rip off but didn't tried to play yet
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1782150/OVERLORD_ESCAPE_FROM_NAZARICK/
Overlord metroidvania. Game is actually not that bad, but sad thing only Demo_ labeled sprites have good uncompressed pixels. The rest of the game seems to use jpg format sprites so once you try to study pixel art, colors, etc it's way harder since you need to clean it up
10 months ago
Anonymous
You could use a program like XnViewMP to reduce the number of colors used.
I will give it a look, game seems interesting.
10 months ago
Anonymous
>You could use a program like XnViewMP to reduce the number of colors used.
Thanks for reminding me, i had plans for Aseprite lua plugin that will do same but better. Forgot about it because of procrastination, will leave thread and finally put it together
10 months ago
Anonymous
Go for 25 colors-No dithering, that should work for what you want.
10 months ago
Anonymous
I gave a better look at those sprites, the developers are fricking moronic for usind scaled up sprites and added unnecessary watermarks, ruining the sprite.
Here's some advice:
-On Paint or similar Reduce the sprites back to native scale.
-On XnViewMP Reduce color count to 32 no dithering.
Here's my results, the most cleaned-up, 32-bit sprites they've ever seen.
Yeah, but the window to strike in second phase is so small.
Peteneras (ground flame/Holy Water style) Chant melts his health since he's a big target and doesn't move much. Just make sure you don't bother using it while he's munching to go into Phase 2, since he seems to take almost no damage during that animation.
I figured that out. But I died too many times and I can't clear the area to confess.
Peteneras (ground flame/Holy Water style) Chant melts his health since he's a big target and doesn't move much. Just make sure you don't bother using it while he's munching to go into Phase 2, since he seems to take almost no damage during that animation.
you morons keep saying this but the russian who left only did the animated scenes everything else is still the same fricking people and blasphemous 2 looks and plays better than 1. also thats not the current build
>not only using the old model but not showing the cool Saturn Devouring His Son throwback from the second phase or his cool attacks like glass scythe
Disingenuous homosexual
This. Atheism means "not a theist", meaning "uninvolved in religion". Most "atheists" you see online are on a quasi-religious crusade against christianity, often because they got the wrong kind of christian upbringing and rebel against it.
more like most of them believe in "common sense" like egalitarianism and redemption etc. because they don't realize they are just cruising on literal centuries of christcuck morality without the god
>way harder than the first.
it's literally not. the 3 weapons at the start are basically the difficulties. easy, normal, hard, in that order. the hammer weapon is literally game breaking.
Meanwhile the atheistcucks be like >"N-noooo!!!! God isn't real!!!! There was nothing and it just exploded because...it did ok and now there are galaxies planets, humans, aliens and shit!!!! Because every time you blow something up sentient two legged being just randomly appear out of thin air!!! Oh and some parts just randomly disappear and we can tell that 6 gorillion years somehow passed"
watch all the boss fights on yt, they are so fricking uncreative and only half as much as the first one.
if the rest of the game is like that, i'm not buying it.
Nah, I think you misunderstood: in Blasphemous the proxy for the Holy Trinity is divided, there's an Absent God that went to a higher plane via The Eternal Processions, The Holy Ghost in this version is The Miracle which is merely a tool for the higher beings to enacted their will on the plane of Cvstodia and then there's the figure of Christ that is The Twisted. The when the Absent God ascended it left Cvstodia at peace and The Miracle behind, the people of Cuvstodia in this almost utopia still felt inadequate and some were ridden with guilt and confusion product of the hole left by the Absent God.
One individual grievance and guilt were so potent and sincere that it caught the attention of one of the beings roaming The Eternal Processions and used The Miracle to grant him his wish. The other citizens of Cvstodia took noticed and venerated this occurrence that signified the return of The Divine and created a new cult around it. It's implied that the faith generated by the usage of The Miracle grants it's used more power and heights of existence and the being that used The Miracle, now known as The High Wills, became drunk on it.
The people of Cvstodia intepreted that the most painful and severe the punishment they asked for even the slightest transgressions to the faith, the more glory for their forgiveness they'd take, this made others more faithful and willing to make sacrifices and take punishment. This cycle nourished the powers that The High Wills would harvest. This made The High Wills more covetous of the power of the faith, it tryed to hide the truth of the ascension of The Twisted by taking the witnesses of the event to another planes of existence were they wouldn't be found. The High Wills even got jealous of figures of the church that got more praise than them and punished/deformed them severely. The High Wills and The Sorrow/Painful Miracle were taken as synonyms at this point.
You can cross the street while chewing bubblegum, son
it's a good game, but it's inferior to the first one in every single aspect.
there is less of everything, from enemy variety to collectibles, the art design is lacking and it feels just rushed overall.
The platforming is more fun and smoother, the combat is less about "do this exact parry 4 times, don't bother attacking" and more about movement and switching weapons. There are some downgrades but the core game is much better.
Don't forget that with every purchase you sorry not only a trans friendly and inclusive publisher, but also the progressive and queer-friendly people of Ukraine in their struggle against the Russians who are all evil and demonic, even the pixel artists. It hurts me that you don't mention this in your threads, OP.
Most Russians are pieces of shit though, even before this stupid war I knew there was something wrong with how they act online and you homosexual polcumchuggers keep trying to ruin every board just like your own, you come here to talk about trannies instead of the game, you fricking homosexual Black person.
It's irony; the offered her sight but The Miracle still makes her "see" but only through the power of The Miracle; keeping her blind to the truth of what The Miracle really is. She thinks the power granted by her is through sacrifice but in reality is granted by her utility to the faith of the High Wills and her blind cooperation.
For some reason the bosses in this game feel less divines than the previous one, I guess the majority being just humans kinda helped me to feel like that. At least in the first name we only got two human bosses but at least one of these bosses was really important in the plot, here all the human bosses feel like filler.
The guy that made the huge bosses and animations left the studio, I guess along the people hired to take his place M.U.G.E.N. spriters got the offer; don't expect much more than that
That's because most of the bosses in this game are (or were) human, but there are still huge bosses in the game. The overall reason most of the bosses are human is that without the High Wills, the Miracle is vastly diminished and needs to rely on its penitent forces to slow the Penitent One down until the Child can be birthed.
The guy that made the huge bosses and animations left the studio, I guess along the people hired to take his place M.U.G.E.N. spriters got the offer; don't expect much more than that
It is really necessary to play the first one to get the lore? I tried it and just got bored on the first hours, probably it was because I had just finished Hollow knight and had metroidvania fatigue? who knows. Its a pity cause Im Spanish, live in Seville and I was raised in a catholic school so all the "obscure references" are pretty fricking obvious to me. I heard second game is more polished, is it true?
The lore of the first is vastly superior, see this:
Nah, I think you misunderstood: in Blasphemous the proxy for the Holy Trinity is divided, there's an Absent God that went to a higher plane via The Eternal Processions, The Holy Ghost in this version is The Miracle which is merely a tool for the higher beings to enacted their will on the plane of Cvstodia and then there's the figure of Christ that is The Twisted. The when the Absent God ascended it left Cvstodia at peace and The Miracle behind, the people of Cuvstodia in this almost utopia still felt inadequate and some were ridden with guilt and confusion product of the hole left by the Absent God.
One individual grievance and guilt were so potent and sincere that it caught the attention of one of the beings roaming The Eternal Processions and used The Miracle to grant him his wish. The other citizens of Cvstodia took noticed and venerated this occurrence that signified the return of The Divine and created a new cult around it. It's implied that the faith generated by the usage of The Miracle grants it's used more power and heights of existence and the being that used The Miracle, now known as The High Wills, became drunk on it.
The people of Cvstodia intepreted that the most painful and severe the punishment they asked for even the slightest transgressions to the faith, the more glory for their forgiveness they'd take, this made others more faithful and willing to make sacrifices and take punishment. This cycle nourished the powers that The High Wills would harvest. This made The High Wills more covetous of the power of the faith, it tryed to hide the truth of the ascension of The Twisted by taking the witnesses of the event to another planes of existence were they wouldn't be found. The High Wills even got jealous of figures of the church that got more praise than them and punished/deformed them severely. The High Wills and The Sorrow/Painful Miracle were taken as synonyms at this point.
Seems like the gameplay has improved significantly but the “vision” so to speak got cut back in some areas. The devs were a bit over their heads during Blasphemous 1’s production if I recall correctly, which is why its bosses were mostly larger than life and the game more consistently macabre/grotesque.
The guy that made the huge bosses and animations left the studio, I guess along the people hired to take his place M.U.G.E.N. spriters got the offer; don't expect much more than that
They added a shitload more of I-frames so a lot more easy.
Again, you're a moron. Yes - you have more invincibility frames. But the combat is significantly faster and entities move faster and hit MUCH harder than they did in the first.
That guy has 1) played through literally the entire game well before release, 2) 100% edited out any deaths he DID have over the multi-hour experience, and 3) still gets hit a frick ton even WITH the i-frames you're sucking off - several bosses reduce him to low health in seconds.
All of the first game's bosses were either slower or had less viable ways to frick you over barring Crisanta or other later bosses. The real reason they could kill you easily is because you had fewer i-frames or some of their attacks ignored them.
the games are dark souls tier lorewise which means you just look on the wiki to understand wtfs going on anyway, it's fine if you start with 2 but really you might as well play the first one since they're both good (2 is so far anyway) and similar and you'll have more context
seething fanboy. devs decided to not pander white males making it super sterile and trans friendly. penitent one is a straight male but game pretending it's not true.
This guy filter me in first game. I was playing handheld mode on Switch on amtrak across the country and didn't pick up game again. Should I go back and try again with controller? Handheld so delayed movements.
I also played the original on Switch while riding an Amtrak across the country (eventually getting filtered by this dude and just staring out the window of the cafe car). But I eventually manned the frick up, went back, and bladedanced his rooty wiener into the stratosphere, so enjoy being the lesser reality version of Us anon.
Game feels way too easy tbh. The first game was already easy but with the instadeath shit gone and non-bland movement options, everything is pretty much a complete breeze.
>First off:
The sprite work is gorgeous.
The music is evocative and unintrusive
Combat is tight >The bad
The cartoon cinematics are horrible. It doesn't fit the style. The pixel art cutscenes in the first ones were much more impactful. Case in point: when the lady in OP appears she's generic Anime woman n 128937, but in-game is just much more beautiful
The voice acting is weird. Some of the actors (like the one in OP) are emphasising the wrong words or have horrible Spanish pronunciation ("my name is A-nun-ci-ah-ta").
The combat can be tedious. Why, instead of backdashing, do I have to go THROUGH an enemy to dodge him? Why does that only work with some enemies?
I am considering switching languages just to spare myself from the incredibly out-of-place British accent. Between Baldahs Gate and this I am getting real frickin' tired of the isles.
The only interesting part about the game is how the starting weapon choices changes what path you take because they have diffetent movement tech. It's something really unique that I haven't seen done in an MV game before.
Unfortunately, like a gimmick, it's halfassed and unexplored.
Censer is strong but it's 100% offense 0 defense with high commitment animations
Rapier is way stronger than i thought it would be thanks to timed parry deleting half the screen while giving you lighting charges
The first game was more soulful. Everybody has already mentioned the cutscenes but a lot of other things feel meh. The ropes guy whatshisname was a cooler messenger than the angel, and the pentitent one waking up among a horde of his slaughtered bros was grim but now you just wake up in a coffin like it's Dark Souls 3. Also beating the first boss and pouring his blood in your helmet was iconic, nothing this edgy has happened to me so far. The world doesn't really feel "religious" in this one, it's just a random slew of disconnected imagery and half the npcs are wacky spirits instead of suffering people. Maybe it'll get better.
>,and the pentitent one waking up among a horde of his slaughtered bros was grim but now you just wake up in a coffin like it's Dark Souls 3. >t. moron who didn't play the first game
You kinda put into words what I was thinking. The game is pretty good, but as far as the actual artistry involved, I feel like the world and the characters are much hollower. It feels less grounded, like they tried to one-up the last game, whereas the last game was so effortlessly inspired. I still the like the game, but 1 just feels more natural.
The ideal would be the first game but with the platforming and weapon unlocks of the sequel
It really feels like outside of the mechanical improvements, everything else is a downgrade
Some parts of this game feel like it was DLC/expansion content that they just crammed into the sequel instead. Definitely seems like a less cohesive whole.
not reading replies for risk of spoilers but I'm pleasantly surprised by the game. Blasphemous 1 was a solid 8.5/10 for me and I expected marginal improvements here, but pretty much every aspect of the original is improved and every issue I've had with the first game has been addressed in some way. I'm only two hours in but having a lot of fun exploring. Recommend.
I feel like they messed something up with the Counter move. It seems like they're designed for you to spam them and be able to interrupt slashes to parry attacks, but it seems like when you do that, it's impossible to do a counter attack, where if you just stand there and parry in the same window of the enemy attack, you counter properly.
I know, like I mentioned I can pull it off consistently when not spamming attack but when spamming, it seems like it happens only sometimes. The game says the parry can interrupt attacks but I don't know if it actually cancels animations or what.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding how the blades are "supposed" to be used. It seems like if counter can't be used consistently when attacking, they don't really have a strong enough reward for the risk of hanging out in enemies' faces that it demands. The Censer hits hard, wide and has very little risk because of the range. Since the blades are more limited in range and damage, I figured "control" was its role. There are also a lot of attacks that you can't parry, which is wild.
Anyone know if side quest progression is tied to boss fights the way it was in the original? I'm only three hours in and don't think I've encountered anything that could risk issues, but I'm not sure if this game has missable quests and shit in the same way the first one did.
dying stacks a debuff/buff that increases damage taken (roughly 50% at max) and locks up parts of your mana/fervor bar, you're unable to use any mana at max
in turn you get 50% more tears(souls) and more martyrdom mark gain rate, i assume also 50%
Fair enough. I don‘t mind games getting ng+ updates later since i don‘t want to replay a game right after finishing it anyways. There‘s also permanent movement upgrades this time so i wonder if they change the earlier areas and enemies in ng+ to adapt to the full moveset
Don't really get how that's the intended difficulty.
I don't remember it mentioning adding a buff -- I wish the tutorial screens could be reaccessed, there's a lot more going on than the first game.
The game tells you about the system the first time you die
so far not bad
a little clunky but wouldn't be blasphemous if it wasn't
weapon switching pretty fun
bosses are easier than first game
still haven't figured out how to upgrade health
theres a room somewhere in the 1st area iirc thats where the health upgrades are (as long as you have an empty flask in inv.). I'm still looking for a way to upgrade wep damage myself
Does anyone know where you find the Sword, Reugo al Alpa, if you don't pick it at the game's start? I know the Flail, Veredicto, is in the Sacred Entombment(? Up in the northwest map) and the Rapier/Dagger is in the Palace of the Embroiderers, but I haven't figured out where to find the Sword.
While I don't know how to get through those floors myself, I think it's tied to the Sword? The bells are used with the Censer, which you can find in the Sacred Entombments; go to the lefthand end of the City of the Holy Name, then go up to the aqueducts, then keep going left to unlock it. When run, the bells will temporarily make those silver bubbles you've been seeing into platforms, and turn those silvery-gray doors with the faces on them into thin layers of mist that you can permanently break by passing through. The transformation only lasts a few seconds, so you have to be quick!
I'd love to jump in on the hype train, having 100% the first game. However I have a backlog and am currently playing Ender Lilies instead. Does 2 have multiple skins available yet, or is it just going to be dlc?
It's at the far end of the Crown of Towers, an area that is towards the northeast corner of the map; you have to go right from the City of the Blessed Name, through the Grilles & Ruin area until you go can up and right to enter the Choir of Thorns. Just keep going up and right and you'll enter the Crown of Towers. It's past the second save point there, which is on the rightward path above the door to the elevators that drop you back down to Choir of Thorns and then to Streets of Wake.
That's all you require, yeah. Honestly, I don't even know what upgrades there are yet, I've been focused on trying to explore the map myself.
Also, those weird barriers of wood? You can smash them with the Weight of Sin attack - the diving stab you can use by using down + attack whilst in midair with the sword equipped.
Counterattack being automatic is unnecessary and obnoxious. If there’s more than one enemy in front of you, the counterattack will just put you in the hit box of another enemy
Hey, next time you recommend Blasphemous to someone be sure to ask if they know anything general about metroidvanias, because if they end up liking Blasphemous (as their entry into the genre) they're going to look for more games like it. Then, when they find out that it's kind of an outlier in terms of abilities and combat, they're going to be pissed because it's confusing to read Hollow Knight getting insane praise while gating simple shit like dodging and parrying and paywalling maps and stickers.
Yes, but they absolutely can appeal to different people. I find HK exhausting to play and haven't managed to finish a full playthrough. I put 125 hours into Blasphemous.
gave it a pirate
the game feels way too easy, in three hours i havent died once
id like to believe im some gaming prodigy but its more likely that something aint right
art and design are generally inferior to the first but the platforming is less aids so theres that
its okay, if anything the difficulty is my biggest dissapointment so far
played for a bit, the controls are actually smooth now so for me the gameplay is already far better than 1. Artstyle is still top tier, anime cutscenes feel out of place like others said
I really want the game. Loved the first one. Don't have money right now for it. Day1 games are so expensive.
I love 2D games so much. See when a new 3D game releases I have to question if my GPD win max 2021 will run it. With 2D games I just jump in and have fun. 3D games are so stupid it's insane. They are less fun, they are more tiresome to play and you need the latest beefcake moron graphics card to run that trash
no problem, I hope I get a raise too. Too bad the yen is dropping so fast :/ Makes shopping in japan fun, but making money with porn on a japanese website is getting harder
Verdicto is the least fun weapon but it’s disgustingly OP, are you really surprised? It stuns almost everything in one hit and does the most dps by far
I agree, it actually feels a little like you can do combos since you can switch in and out of flame-on mode mid-combo which is cool. I also already have two statues that synergize together for it, for increased damage with it specifically and Flame damage.
Anyone know what the deal is with that creepy disembodied giant hand in the Streets of Wakes that has a bunch of fetishists worshipping it and demands the Penitent One do so as well?
It's good. It kinda answers the High Wills/Miracle divide from the first and adds new stuff too. Only thing I'm wondering about is what the frick is the High Dramatist?
>spoiler
I wonder if it's a reference to The Great Theater of the World (El Gran Teatro del Mundo) by Pedro Calderon de la Barca
so the game is secretly aware that in fact it's a work of fiction
You can crouch and attack, as well as angle the rapier downwards, I think? As well there's the dash-slash. But yeah, the rapier has the worst AOE with its strikes, so you really want to switch to the flail or sword for those little bastards.
I've only played for a few hours but I'm enjoying it so far.
I feel like the flail is way stronger than the sword and swords, even if it is slower.
I like the new weapon upgrade trees and the new currency you get from bosses and killing enough mobs.
I like that having guilt has bigger downsides but also gives more rewards.
The graphics are still great
I'm not sure why they upped the amount of tears you get when there is nothing to spend them on outside of a few items from the merchant.
I only encountered one bug so far. I fought the thread lady boss and died, but when I retrieved my corpse my guilt didn't go away and had to pay the confessor after I beat her.
It has to be.
I died again and my guilt doubled, but when I got my corpse my guilt went back to 1.
It just didn't register my corpse retrieval on my first death.
>I'm not sure why they upped the amount of tears you get when there is nothing to spend them on outside of a few items from the merchant.
There's multiple merchants. I've never run out of things to spend it on after 6 hours, at least.
Those little shits are impossible to kill with the dual blades. Doesn‘t help that i‘m shit at parrying
Spam the dash attack. It looks scuffed but it works.
>I feel like the flail is way stronger than the sword and swords, even if it is slower.
Flail is 100000% offense with no defensive capabilities. In some situations it's kinda dangerous to use because at the very least early it has no hyperarmor moves (2 swords have it on a thrusting barrage for example) so you can get hit out of attacking.
She's in the Streets of Wakes area; from the starting point, which is in the Profundo Lamento area, just keep going right until you find a save point. It's the room directly across from the door you entered by; below is an NPC who will boost your Fervor meter for Feverent Kisses (don't ask me where you collect those) and another who sends you on a mission to find five girls who are in beds surrounded by candles...? Don't really get the deal here, sorry.
For real though, how did they ship the product with this bug still in? It's not even hard to miss and you can trigger it at will with a single simple action
Flail is by far the most fun thus far but they all get their unique gimmicks
Just go to the marked bosses, you will get another ones in the process, but don't go to the topmost left one if you take the flail, it's the one who gives it to you.
Whatever weapons you don't choose will be placed in rooms on the map. >The flail will be in the Sacred Entombments. >The daggers will be in the Palace of Embroiderers. >The sword will be in the Crown of Towers.
Actually I agree. The setpiece bosses in the first game were boring as sin to fight but it's not like the rest of the game was hard. They were fun to look at and see.
The best bosses from the first game were human sized duels but that was only in NG+ and the fight at the bridge, here most of the bosses are just as easy ad the setpiece ones but without the gravitas that made me look forward to seeing in the first game.
So why does the one boss, the guy who fights with the pillar, just have a little girl crawl out of said pillar for phase 2. I saw her clinging to him in the cutscene introducing everyone but I can’t really pin what their relationship is.
It's probably in the statue/item lore somewhere
Glass monk's lore was in a statue you can find in the area, he confessionmaxxed until he could no longer contain the sins
4 hours in
Gameplay wise it's a MONUMENTAL improvement
Too early to say about the atmosphere/lore but dark, abandoned Mother of Mothers beneath the main hub is cool
>weapon swapping is instant and can be used to get rid of endlag from certain moves >weapon movesets are actually pretty fricking useful and have varying utility, some moves have superarmor
>hornet from hollow knight chilling by boss >"would you like me to help you with this boss?" >absolutely >spend 10 minutes laying into him with a flail >she shows up once, his him for no damage, and bounces
If it's anything like the first game - the NPC is there to heal you. But the heal only triggers when you're on critical health. And at that point you're more likely to heal yourself.
Sword is Normal Mode; it has average speed, decent striking area without being as wide as the flail, and it comes with parry + counter-attack by default. Has a toggle-able "blood rage" mode that adds Mystic type damage and, once you get the right upgrades, lets you heal with each attack so long as the rage meter is filled.
Rapiers is Hard Mode. Fastest strike speed, but least damage, and has such a small strike-effect area that you'll need to actively work to hit anything that is below waist-height (like the midget duelists in the Palace of Embroiders), It can parry, but you need to spend a Mark to gain a counter-attack, and it only triggers on a perfect parry - you're supposed to rely more on dodging and its unique dodge+slash attack. Fill up its "tempo" meter with attacks and you'll gain a permanent boost of Electric damage, but get hit once and you lose the buff, so you need to MASTER dodging and parrying to get the most out of this weapon.
>cutscene art style is a downgrade, they should have thrown money at the original pixel artist to get them to stay >music is good although less varied >fewer destructible objects to hit in levels makes environments feel a bit lifeless sometimes >bosses are fun and well-designed, my faves so far are big and little, and that Sekiro-looking geezer before the double jump >world map and level design is decent >the weapon switching is fun to mess around with and adds a measure of variety to the experience >the mirror zapping thing is really fun and I hope they go crazy with it in the lategame levels
Overall I think it's an atmospheric downgrade so far but gameplay and world is still fun so I rate it good out of 10. Feels good to be back pointy helmet bros.
Noice, I've not launched the game yet, there's still room for improvement as they did with the first one, maybe they will upgrade and rework the cutscenes at some point.
Anyone ITT tried The Last Faith beta? I signed up and got the email but they dropped it at the same time as fricking Blasphemous 2 I think so there's no way I'm missing that.
I hope Blasphemous III has a new protagonist, given the fact that The Penitent One has ascended in body and soul to the highest of places, source of all blessings
The atmosphere and story presentation are way worse but my God imagine fricking defending the utterly dogshit "platforming" the original game had now that you've played this. And the weapons too. Genuinely night and day.
There's random nuns behind hidden walls. I've found 2,which rewarded me with the ability to go back to town from any shrine. Pointless because of the spell, but eh
There's multiple of those spooky nuns (Cobijada, they're apparently called), and the more you find, the more powerful the shrines get: >Fast travel from Shrine to City. >Refill Fervour when resting at a shrine. >Teleport between Shrines.
Find them all, and you get a new Altarpiece; the Cobijada Mayor.
>3 weapons to choose >test them from right to left >''alright, two fast options, but it took a while to kill the dummy'' >mace/incense/hammer thing one shots it
World of strength here I come again
You killed something that was parading around the Holy Ghost's power for its own selfish purposes and now the Holy Ghost is without a master and is trying to create its own god, but that won't be good since the Holy Ghost is not itself a perfect being and therefore can't make a god.
I don't think the Miracle was anything truly holy to begin with. Anunciada makes it very clear that it's influence has nothing to do with the actual seat of all holiness.
>It answers prayers and a couple prayed to the Miracle for a child so it answered said prayer.
It only answered said prayer as a ploy to regain its power. Said child (heavily implied to be Radames) was not only born with an unnatural deformity, but was implied to have killed its mother during the birth. The Miracle then used it to spread disease and death to all of the people, thereby forcing them into another cycle of guilt, suffering, prayer, and penance that it could feed upon to strengthen it to birth The Child.
>The old Penitent is the first one? Where was him and his squad in the first game?
Eviterno is OLD. And more than that, he wasn't around in the first because he's the Miracle's greatest actor and too valuable to waste outside of the direct circumstances. It certainly didn't seem to view him as necessary to bring out for the defense of the High Wills, at any rate.
>You revisit the Mother of Mother's so is it the game geographical location as the first?
Same location as the first game, just countless years later.
The High Wills weren't God at all, just a godlike demon. The lady in the OP is an agent of the actual literal Heaven and is acting on the behalf of the genuine benign divine powers who all hate the shit out of the Miracle.
After playing for about an hour i dunno, i really dont. Not really feeling the game overall, the music seems lacking, rehashed enemies already, the pixelart somehow feels inferior compared to the first game or is this just me? Atleast the fricking tonritus is a beast tbh, the other weapons feel janky and no mea culpa.
Kinda torn on the cutscenes, well made but it takes me out of the game but could just be me
I feel like this game is sort of getting lost in its own aesthetics. I liked Blasphemy 1's aesthetics because it was very directly inspired by Christian imagery but with a horror twist. This just feels like standard gothic horror, like it's literally just Bloodborne all over again.
The first one made money, money attracts investors and investors have to follow a code that demands promoting degenerates and condemning christian values... I'll be charitable and say developers hands were tied this time around
>game literally opens with the MC being met with an angel of Literal Heaven tasking him to stop the Devil >NO IT'S CONDEMNING CHRISTIAN VALUES REEEEEEEEEEE
You subhuman make it more and more obvious every fricking day that you only come here to use this site as a staging ground for your nonexistent culture war instead of playing these fricking games.
You fail to understand the difference between allegory and values, the lack of beauty and craftsmanship compared to the first game also makes it evident that divine inspiration is completely gone and it's only used as a skin suit.
It's called fiduciary responsibility, senpai.
It's called been coerced by actual culture warriors and extremist with a fat load of cash they inherited from people who actually earned it
Absolute fricking persecution complex
It's not a much "persecution complex" when very evident that christianity is being persecuted; it's not a "conspiracy theory" when they are actually very vocal about it and publicly celebrated everytime they get a chance
Do you think the Lord really cares what kind of church he is praised in? American is the most Christian country on the planet.
This made me chuckle, ngl, no wonder you're called "The Great Satan"
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You could acquire all weapons in a few hours, anyway. And it's not like you could cripple yourself and only take one weapon, because you need the weapons to unlock more of the map, so picking all of them are obligatory.
Yeah, I know, but your still stuck with it a good while. The Cencer did so much damage and had such a good reach on the training ghost, but still went with Rapier since it had riposte and the dash
The rapier in 1 looks better, and I kinda wish it had fast poking attacks instead of slashes, but oh well
the reason I didn't pick the rapiers after trying them on the ghost is too little damage honestly, felt like my thumb would get fatigued after a while of constant pressing. I really hope there's a way to increase its damage
I would think so, they feel pretty weak so far, and the dash is a bit finnicky as you still take contact-damage
Parried the first boss, the wheel man and the flagelant, they all bounced me back and no counter-attack. A bit disappointing
I really hope they buff the Rapiers a bit. They need a slight damage buff but more importantly, they need a wider window for Parry/Counter to give them some definitive advantage over the other two. The Counter should also turn the Penitent One around if you dash through an enemy, as it makes it hard to follow up a successful counter as-is.
Also, who the frick thought it was a good idea to make the Ruego's buff cost HEALTH as well as have a bar that needs to constantly be charged up to use. Do any of the later upgrades for it make the health cost lower or go away? As-is, it's suicide to use it in boss fights and I don't have enough recovery options to justify using it when running around.
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Getting lightning helped a bit with the damage. Dear god I was glad I got the cencer when facing the fire-breathing skulls. But I still prefer using the rapier against certain mobs, like the bell-giants Bell-people are bullies that trap you in a corner
10 months ago
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Also, you can but a statue early on that gives 25% more active frames for parrying
10 months ago
Anonymous
Is there an artbook for Blasphemous II?
10 months ago
Anonymous
(~)8 bucks on steam
10 months ago
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Comes with the Deluxe, otherwise like
(~)8 bucks on steam
it's there as DLC. I imagine someone will get the .pngs and upload them at some point.
10 months ago
Anonymous
Yeah, I found that but that also applies to Ruego, so it still leaves the Rapiers without a real advantage. I'm also not clear on if that extends the window for a Counter or just the Parry window.
Getting lightning helped a bit with the damage. Dear god I was glad I got the cencer when facing the fire-breathing skulls. But I still prefer using the rapier against certain mobs, like the bell-giants Bell-people are bullies that trap you in a corner
Yeah, they're not completely useless but they have no niche. I just want to feel like it's rewarding to use all three weapons, and I feel like I keep trying to find reasons to use the Rapiers compared to the other two.
you DID unlock the multi-weapon ability right?
10 months ago
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I haven't gotten the sword yet, just at the glass skeleton boss. I've been fine with rapier so far, and the lightning melts him. But there is a chance I will like the sword just all-around more instead of the rapier
Patron Saint of War
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Upload it, fren
I'll wait for someone else to do it. It'll be up on some hentai sites soon enough
censer looks the best so I went with that but I fear the game will be too easy, thinking of restarting with rapiers
You could acquire all weapons in a few hours, anyway. And it's not like you could cripple yourself and only take one weapon, because you need the weapons to unlock more of the map, so picking all of them are obligatory.
You get wall cling like six seconds into the game. As for resolution, it is kinda weird. I don't know what Scale Mode means since there's no description and it's just a Yes/No. Changing it doesn't seem to do anything.
I can say that playing in Fullscreen does do Native resolution since the screenshots I'm taking are in 4K.
Just finished it with 90% completion and 99% map.
Whatever I'm missing must be hidden inside secret rooms, and honestly I don't feel like exploring the whole game again just to hit every wall in the game hoping there's something behind it.
Has anyone found out if there are secret bosses or endings? Besides a few spells, beads and statues, I'm missing two nuns and at least one kiss.
Do I want her to join me in the next confrontation? It didn't go so well for the last chick who joined me in boss fights, but she got a really cool spear
Any word on missable/failable stuff yet? It seems like maybe they avoided that this time, which would be fricking grand. It was my biggest issue with the first game.
People were saying the art style was tonned down and that this game looked souless. Is it really a "sell out" sort of deal or does it live up to the original?
I'm 8 hours in, it's just as good as the first. The only issues so far are the cutscenes being traditional animation rather than pixel art and that unique executions are the exception rather than the rule now, but executions in general aren't focused on nearly as much in this game, nor are parries, so I don't really mind it.
I guess you could say it's toned down in that the enemies you face are less likely to be horrifically deformed, but you're not really facing monsters twisted my the Miracle anymore so it kinda makes sense. There's still lots of gory religious imagery.
1, so far, does have a lot more soul, mostly to clunky pixel art. But the backgrounds are still really nice. But it is still good, just not as good but prettier
I really should have bought a controller sooner holy shit, the difference is like night and day,
and that's even with a shitty "esperanza" controller with sticks that max out a third of the way into any direction with zero fricking nuance, dpad does the job well enough
I can't believe I just left it collecting dust for half a year, grinding through blasphemous 1's NG+ doesn't seem like that much of a chore anymore
I've played for 8 hours and run into one so far, which is the intro. You'll be fine. Most of the stuff that's been affected is just hand drawn artwork where the pixel art stills would have been before.
Valid points, but it seems the game is enjoyable nontheless... There'll be a time when globohomosexual politics won't interfer with the creative process of vidya, but we're very far from it
I heckin love anime, thanks team 17 for sticking it to evil Putler.
played 30 something minutes
seems good
Loreheads, what’s the deal with the new bosses?
>what’s the deal with the new bosses?
they're bosses
you kill them
religious homies
What's their band called?
Da Mirac1e
The Coneheads
They're all penitents like the Penitent One, but of different orders loyal to the Miracle at least for the first four or so - they're there to stop the Penitent One from reaching the Child.
You literally open the game with a higher being from Literal Heaven imploring you to stop the Miracle's dark designs.
>blasphemous 2 looks and plays better than its first entry
>AC6 comes out in a few hours
>BRCF is fun as frick
>girl i like responded to my dm
I WIN I WIN I WIN I WIN I WINNNNNNN HAHAHAHAHA I WON FINALLY ITS MY FRICKING TIME I GET TO PLAY 2 GOOD SEQUELS IN ONE FRICKING DAY AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
>spoiler
good for you anon
Congrats, have fun with the games
Congrats anon, remember do not reveal your power level in one go
>do not reveal your power level in one go
simp ass advice
now bomb rush funk her puqqi if you catch my drift 😉
godspeed anon. report back
Nice one fren
Girl I've been seeing tells me she's also dating someone else
Pain.gif
Tell her you’re happy because that will make dumping her less awkward.
How long did it take her?
not long but we've been friends a long time
I see. Just wanted to be the butthole and give you a reality check if she took like two or more hours.
im well aware if i dont get a reply within the hour its pretty much over. dating as a 27 year old fricking sucks even being tall and Ganker doesnt help
late-20's dating isn't about being tall and fit, it's about having your shit together, which doesn't even mean "have a high-paying job (though this obviously helps a frickton) but simply that you have a stable income/living situation and are looking for a family.
Wait a second is this true? I don't usually respond to anyone who texts me right away, even when it's a girl I like.
Plus I've heard dating coaches tell people never to respond right away unless you're having an active conversation so you don't seem to needy or desperate.
Dating coaches are dumb as frick don't listen to their advice. Literally think about it why would you ignore the person who you like? It makes no sense. Always reply to the person you like asap. It makes no sense to try and be cool by delaying your response. Would you want the person you like to ignore you just because?
>Would you want the person you like to ignore you just because?
Because they're women and women are notorious for doing exactly that.
Chads often do that same behavior too.
If dating coaches provided sound advice, they'd soon lose their job.
>Got rejected by girl
>Suddenly checks all my posts
>Asks me at work in the mornings when what time do I leave some reason
>Wonder if shes gonna ask me if I wanna do something
>...
Women are weird.
Congrats anon
Good for you anon 🙂
Hell yea brother
We're all gonna make it
Same here, mate. Life is good right now.
Got myself an older goth woman recently.
>girl dropped me like a sack of potatoes after a month of dating... for another girl
I guess some win and some lose
I didn't like her THAT much but we got along very well so that sucks.
Did you at the very least frick her?
>girl i like responded to my dm
That's a man
First Blasphemous was probably the most Christian game ever made (despite story part having barely anything to do with Christianity). Does this one manage to hold up without going over the top and becoming a meme? Line is pretty thin.
>First Blasphemous was probably the most Christian game ever made
In what way?
>In what way?
Most people on 4chins, and especially self-proclaimed Christians, have no idea what Chirstianity even is. Their perception of it is pretty basic and generally boils down to one of very few patterns:
>Badass crusader beats up brown people, deus vult
>Jesus forbids you to jack off, stop posting anime bawds
>Look at this cool cathedral, I'm such a culture appreciator
None of these touch main theme. Christianity in its foundations is an extremely macabre religion. Its myth mostly consists of incidents of unreasonably brutal torture. Its main category of holy relics are bodies or body parts of saints or virtuous people. It is generally fascinated with death, corpses and burial. I'm talking about traditional Christianity obviously, protestantism is the new shit which stripped down most of things which were practiced for many centuries.
Blasphemous expresses this fundamental aspect of Christianity perfectly in its aesthetics. They even integrate it into the gameplay, with player collecting bones to put them into ossuary, or getting metroidovania powerups from sacred body part relics. There is also a frick ton of references to smaller things, for example main character's helmet and maybe other obscure stuff I don't get. People who were making this are very deep into this culture and very good with committing it to the game.
its a fricking video game nobody is looking into shit that deeply and getting converted over this dumb shit.
No one is attempting to convert you. Were you this angry about people dissecting Evangelion’s superficial Christian veneer too?
It’s not a commentary on religion.
>people dissecting Evangelion’s superficial Christian veneer
FYI Evangelion is about evil powerful israelites bringing about Tikkum Olam
Who the frick is trying to convert you, you schizo piece of shit?
not everything has to be about proselytism, anon, even if nu/misc/ would want you to believe otherwise
Christianity is a fantasy of productive suffering, similar to all other blood magic. Nothing bad happens without a bigger goodness being made out of it somehow, they say.
>This comment will generate guaranteed replies
>No replies
Pathetic tryhard.
>Christianity in its foundations
You're going to have to study Christianity more; what you're describing is the retconned Christianity when it became a State Religion and had political power. Its foundation is a mystery religion with a femboy with a bubble butt and squeezable breasts at its helm who could do parlour tricks like turn water into wine.
Tell me more.
>femboy with a bubble butt and squeezable breasts at its helm who could do parlour tricks like turn water into wine.
Wow, so this is what being triggered is like.
Let me bask in this feeling for a bit
have a nice day please
Its Platonism for plebs.
the absolute state of Ganker pseuds.
If you're going to call people out, then at least tell them why they're wrong you homosexual.
> Sub 75 IQ reporting in.
I’m Italian and the games lore is not hard to understand at all, it’s very clearly based on Roman mysticism embraced by the Spanish and southern Italians. The setting looks like my city but with more gothic touches, which is typical of Seville I guess, we’re more strictly Romanesque (porticoes are the true god)
You play as a Jesuslike character
>Arose from the dead
>Your goal is to take the sins of the world and sacrifice himself
americuck spotted
Amerinogs are pseudo-christians. They have no fricking clue. All they know is paying 300 bucks to go see some james brown acting ass homie in some megachurch stadium.
Fair play, I chuckled.
Do you think the Lord really cares what kind of church he is praised in? American is the most Christian country on the planet.
God hates America because they sold their ass to the israelites.
>Christian game ever
It's Roman Catholicism of the Spanish variety
You’re correct with regards to art direction, philosophically I am unsure.
The ending with the Greater Wills and The Miracle seemingly being intertwined and neither truly having agency over the other paints the setting as more Gnostic than Christian. I am basing this solely off the concept of two equally powerful entities locked in stalemate vs 1 all powerful creator entity. Doctrinally it wears a Christian skinsuit.
>he never played the Temple OS games
>Devs said that their game isn't about religion. Its about the religious art that has become so intertwined with Spain that its no longer religious, its cultural.
>Every single person on the face of the planet ignores them
Always gets a kek outta me
Have you ever played FAITH?
i keep fricking up and pressing LB to heal
Is the Blasphemous anti-religion? I know this game anesthetics would be offensive to my mom's Catholic devotion, but I hear some people say it's not as, well, blasphemous as the game would seem.
it mainly uses Christhian, specifically Spanish Catholic, aesthetic as it's foundation. It's not really pro or against religion
It depends, is mutilating people and causing them pain wrong? Not everyone would say "yes", just like not everyone would say trans women are men even after taking out "her" "girlwiener" out of one's mouth to reply.
Unless I misunderstood or misremember, it's more "anti-god" than anything, right? Because unless I'm mistaken, it was essentially about The High Wills (This universe's version of God) unleashing the Miracle (The Rapture/apocalypse) unto the world, and through the true ending story path you find out that it released the rapture not out of divine justice as religion had said it would be, but rather out of pure ego and vanity, so rather simply, because it thought that it was it's right to unleash and that it would be just to do so only because it says. But in fact, it was not just in any way and it was purely self-serving, so this would mean that god in itself is blasphemous. Which is where Penitente steps in, to set things right.
High wills were tulpas
At the beginning of B2, it's said Miraglo created the child, not that the child is a miracle itself.
Nah, I think you misunderstood: in Blasphemous the proxy for the Holy Trinity is divided, there's an Absent God that went to a higher plane via The Eternal Processions, The Holy Ghost in this version is The Miracle which is merely a tool for the higher beings to enacted their will on the plane of Cvstodia and then there's the figure of Christ that is The Twisted. The when the Absent God ascended it left Cvstodia at peace and The Miracle behind, the people of Cuvstodia in this almost utopia still felt inadequate and some were ridden with guilt and confusion product of the hole left by the Absent God.
One individual grievance and guilt were so potent and sincere that it caught the attention of one of the beings roaming The Eternal Processions and used The Miracle to grant him his wish. The other citizens of Cvstodia took noticed and venerated this occurrence that signified the return of The Divine and created a new cult around it. It's implied that the faith generated by the usage of The Miracle grants it's used more power and heights of existence and the being that used The Miracle, now known as The High Wills, became drunk on it.
The people of Cvstodia intepreted that the most painful and severe the punishment they asked for even the slightest transgressions to the faith, the more glory for their forgiveness they'd take, this made others more faithful and willing to make sacrifices and take punishment. This cycle nourished the powers that The High Wills would harvest. This made The High Wills more covetous of the power of the faith, it tryed to hide the truth of the ascension of The Twisted by taking the witnesses of the event to another planes of existence were they wouldn't be found. The High Wills even got jealous of figures of the church that got more praise than them and punished/deformed them severely. The High Wills and The Sorrow/Painful Miracle were taken as synonyms at this point.
This game recontextualizes the High Wills and makes it seem that much like the Child it's about to birth, they were ultimately the result of the Miracle's machinations. What is consistent is that for all its power, the Miracle must create a new God to act as a guiding nexus of its power, in order to effectively maintain its manifestations in reality. The loss of the High Wills drove it out of Custodia and the birth of the Child would ensure its return to power.
More than that though, Anunciada (the lady in the OP) outright establishes that she comes from "the holy mountains on high, the seat and beginning of all that is holy" and acts as an emissary of benign entities staunchly opposed to the Miracle. The Miracle isn't God, it's the setting's version of the Devil.
>The Miracle isn't God, it's the setting's version of the Devil.
I don't think the Miracle is the "devil", more like the Miracle always needs a "god" to work with, and while this time is "godless", it tries to recreate its own "god" to serve.
Or basically pic related. The Miracle needs a god to work properly, so it is trying to create its own god, but it is imperfect without a god, thus it would create only an imperfect god, thing that would be worse for everyone else so you need to stop it.
The Miracle created The High Wills because the people of Custodia wanted to be punished for their guilt.
Then The High Wills started power tripping and being heavy handed so The Miracle hijacked The Penitent One from The High Wills plan to have him replace Escobar and renew Custodia faith; it had him kill The High Wills freeing the people of Custodia and itself from them.
The Miracle is like a plane that needs some type of pilot to function but like with all things, there are good pilots and shitty pilots.
There's some later stuff in the game that does in fact pretty firmly define the Miracle as being evil. Or at least, completely fricking capricious in how it acts and what it does.
The good ending involves your character become Jesus by taking everyone's manifested sins and sacrificing himself to become a tree, thus getting rid of the Miracle. It's more Gnostic than anything, It's very Christian, the people who made it are genuinely ingrained in the culture and are passionate about it, unlike Fromsoft putting cathedrals in their games because they think Christianity is cool and exotic.
Most people will be offended at genuine expressions of Christianity because they don't actually understand their religion or its history.
And the best ending has you destroy the literal demonic wills directing the greater actions of the Miracle in order to force it to frick off, with you being righteously entombed for your sacrifice in saving everyone.
Ah yeah, didn't play that. That makes 2 make A LOT more sense. I honestly thought this Penitent One was a different guy.
Yeah, Blasphemous 2 is post-Wounds of Eventide after the Penitent One dies due to putting down the High Wills. It's why everything is so hilariously different, because a LOT of time has passed since the last game (multiple characters say anything from "millenia" to fricking "eons").
so basically the penitent one kills the demiurge, fricking based.
It just uses the catholic traditions and aesthetics because they were metal as frick, not to push any kind of agenda or whatever.
It reminded me there's still some guys from where I live that still flagellate themselves whenever a representation of the Via Crucis happens. That's dedication.
wtf how did they know my name
How is the 2 justified in this game. Shill me it.
>How is the 2 justified in this game.
It came after the first one
It's a huge downgrade from 1. Left is from 1, right is from 2. Reminder that the artist behind the first game left.
That's the old spritework from early access of the game.
I legit didn't know of the earlier build. They are using this so called earlier version on their steam page as advertisement which is kinda stupid, don't blame me if I fell for it.
I guess it's a relief but that said, I don't like what happened to cutscenes like picrel.
the cutscenes being animated differently is such a non issue, sure it sucks but the main hook was always the IN GAME pixel art not just the cutscenes which arent very long in the first place
Nah it's still an issue, they're just so glaringly out of place. Cohesive visual design is important, and that includes for cutscenes.
Not that anon, but no, this new anime cutscene style is terrible and absolutely clashes with the grim gothic horror fantasy aesthetic of the game. I don't know how anyone can say it's a non-issue, it's so blatant and jarring. That's not going to stop me from playing it though, only because I adore the first game. But that shit really stings to see.
They are literally the first thing that appear in the game, don't mess well with the general art direction and they convey information. Maybe you don't, but some people care about cohesion.
Surprise that the people b***hing are the steak page stalkers. Judge a book by its cover, fool yourself into false convictions. Burn in hell you have a mental disease and proliferate degeneracy in our mating pool.
Jesus. Did you ever type something and then realized how much you need to take meds after?
>they didn't even take the time to shade the thorn tiara in any way
Fricking kek
Yeah, the og cutscenes were great. Calling back to titles like "Flashback" and "Out of this World". In game stuff seems better in general though. Lots of fine details and often beautiful backgrounds. A few of the tile sets (mostly Jondo) kinda felt like something from a cellphone game.
*In game graphics from the sequel seems largely superior.
putler fricking OWNED
Still doesn't look as good as the first game; the whole thing look cartoony and the hands make it seem like it was made by a 13 yo. It would feel more at home in something like Cup Head.
you just secured these guys a sale, this was nice to see
I'm not kidding, I'm closing my pc to go buy the game now kek
Someone posted a better version of the right while the one you posted was supposedly from an earlier build, are you sure you're not trying to mislead people anon?
It's funny that despite being corrected they still opted to use the outdated one for their image. The design still lacks a punch to it though, maybe they should've done a different kind of monster rather than another giant skeleton? Melquíades is hard to beat.
Even if that's the release pic, the quality is extremely lower, and it shows.
I extracted the sprites from the game.
There's still more to extract but i need to go 1 file at a time because the developers did something to unity that the program i use gives me a lot of errors and shits on my PC...
Here, enjoy:
https://www mediafire com/file/flrzjgi3uqi25w4/ConeHeadMan-sequel.rar/file
Thanks, Anon.
Thank you very much for your work, are you planning on extracting assets from the first game too?
That's the beauty of it, i already did extract every single sprite from the first game a few weeks ago.
Here:
https://www mediafire com/file/ukgft880jw18gfb/AgonyOfConeHeadMan.rar/file
Enjoy.
Great foldernames, appreciate it
And here is The Penitent One from The 2nd game that i forgot to extract:
https://www mediafire com/file/3up96gbg1cvz5zp/PainOfConeHeadMan.rar/file
Thanks anon
I love studying game sprites and Blasphemous was one of games i wanted to rip off but didn't tried to play yet
Where did you get that sprite from?, looks good.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1782150/OVERLORD_ESCAPE_FROM_NAZARICK/
Overlord metroidvania. Game is actually not that bad, but sad thing only Demo_ labeled sprites have good uncompressed pixels. The rest of the game seems to use jpg format sprites so once you try to study pixel art, colors, etc it's way harder since you need to clean it up
You could use a program like XnViewMP to reduce the number of colors used.
I will give it a look, game seems interesting.
>You could use a program like XnViewMP to reduce the number of colors used.
Thanks for reminding me, i had plans for Aseprite lua plugin that will do same but better. Forgot about it because of procrastination, will leave thread and finally put it together
Go for 25 colors-No dithering, that should work for what you want.
I gave a better look at those sprites, the developers are fricking moronic for usind scaled up sprites and added unnecessary watermarks, ruining the sprite.
Here's some advice:
-On Paint or similar Reduce the sprites back to native scale.
-On XnViewMP Reduce color count to 32 no dithering.
Here's my results, the most cleaned-up, 32-bit sprites they've ever seen.
This guy is wrecking my shit so hard, second phase is a nightmare.
But that guy is slow as frick, plus his moves are super repetitive.
Yeah, but the window to strike in second phase is so small.
I figured that out. But I died too many times and I can't clear the area to confess.
Peteneras (ground flame/Holy Water style) Chant melts his health since he's a big target and doesn't move much. Just make sure you don't bother using it while he's munching to go into Phase 2, since he seems to take almost no damage during that animation.
you morons keep saying this but the russian who left only did the animated scenes everything else is still the same fricking people and blasphemous 2 looks and plays better than 1. also thats not the current build
>not only using the old model but not showing the cool Saturn Devouring His Son throwback from the second phase or his cool attacks like glass scythe
Disingenuous homosexual
>Wasting Goya's genius on this Undertale's Papyrus wannabe
>God doesn't exist
Why do redditors always feel the need to point this out
Why not? Every situation is appropriate.
Because they're not atheists they're failed Christians.
This. Atheism means "not a theist", meaning "uninvolved in religion". Most "atheists" you see online are on a quasi-religious crusade against christianity, often because they got the wrong kind of christian upbringing and rebel against it.
more like most of them believe in "common sense" like egalitarianism and redemption etc. because they don't realize they are just cruising on literal centuries of christcuck morality without the god
Yeah, atheism and antitheism are not even the same thing, but people will still use both terms interchangeably.
>real christianity hasn't been tried before
You fricks sound just like commies.
I hate these little homosexuals.
>t. parrycel
I can't even beat this assshole.
Out of the gate way harder than the first. Frick this guy.
I took the censer first. Frick these dickheads.
>way harder than the first.
it's literally not. the 3 weapons at the start are basically the difficulties. easy, normal, hard, in that order. the hammer weapon is literally game breaking.
Frick, I wanna start over then.
You have to dash through him without any indication that it won't damage you, moronic though it may be.
>nonsensical story
par for the course
>To complex for the idiotic narrow brain of the average atheist
It's nonsense I tell you!
Meanwhile the atheistcucks be like
>"N-noooo!!!! God isn't real!!!! There was nothing and it just exploded because...it did ok and now there are galaxies planets, humans, aliens and shit!!!! Because every time you blow something up sentient two legged being just randomly appear out of thin air!!! Oh and some parts just randomly disappear and we can tell that 6 gorillion years somehow passed"
Scientific speculation is less ridiculous than religion is to be fair.
watch all the boss fights on yt, they are so fricking uncreative and only half as much as the first one.
if the rest of the game is like that, i'm not buying it.
Lack of creativity and troony acceptance come hand in hand, unsurprisingly
I got this tip of a spear that I think I can fix into a weapon? Anyone know how soon I can do that?
Talk about the game or frick off leave
Read this:
You can cross the street while chewing bubblegum, son
it's a good game, but it's inferior to the first one in every single aspect.
there is less of everything, from enemy variety to collectibles, the art design is lacking and it feels just rushed overall.
The platforming is more fun and smoother, the combat is less about "do this exact parry 4 times, don't bother attacking" and more about movement and switching weapons. There are some downgrades but the core game is much better.
Don't forget that with every purchase you sorry not only a trans friendly and inclusive publisher, but also the progressive and queer-friendly people of Ukraine in their struggle against the Russians who are all evil and demonic, even the pixel artists. It hurts me that you don't mention this in your threads, OP.
Most Russians are pieces of shit though, even before this stupid war I knew there was something wrong with how they act online and you homosexual polcumchuggers keep trying to ruin every board just like your own, you come here to talk about trannies instead of the game, you fricking homosexual Black person.
>the pentitent one's penance was being a mute
>crisanta's penance was being blind
>she can still run around and kick ass though
is she like daredevil or some shit, what's even the point
It's irony; the offered her sight but The Miracle still makes her "see" but only through the power of The Miracle; keeping her blind to the truth of what The Miracle really is. She thinks the power granted by her is through sacrifice but in reality is granted by her utility to the faith of the High Wills and her blind cooperation.
Frankly look kinda like a downgrade in the animation department.
>When your penance is your own height
What is her deal anyways? Why’s a baby hanging out with a head controlling a suit of armor?
well
For some reason the bosses in this game feel less divines than the previous one, I guess the majority being just humans kinda helped me to feel like that. At least in the first name we only got two human bosses but at least one of these bosses was really important in the plot, here all the human bosses feel like filler.
The guy that made the huge bosses and animations left the studio, I guess along the people hired to take his place M.U.G.E.N. spriters got the offer; don't expect much more than that
>The guy that made the huge bosses and animations left the studio
He left the studio after making a bunch of assets for 2
That's because most of the bosses in this game are (or were) human, but there are still huge bosses in the game. The overall reason most of the bosses are human is that without the High Wills, the Miracle is vastly diminished and needs to rely on its penitent forces to slow the Penitent One down until the Child can be birthed.
moron
Yeah, that ending A is just really conclusive. I don't see a DLC giving another ending, as much just a crisanta mode.
Crisanta mode would just be you getting your shit kicked in during the ending tho.
Is the game shorter than the first one?
Longer.
I will wishlist it and wait until it goes on sale for Christmas.
I still need to beat BG3, AC6 is coming out today, Starfield in 2 weeks, etc.
>they give you a fricking Tonitrus on giga steroids
noice
I get to beat people to death with a flaming censer, this game is good
>charge skill is actually strong as frick if you know enemy patterns
>ignition into charge consumes no mana while you're charging
>the game locks you in a small room with two bellBlack folk attacking out of sync
yep that's blasphemous i remember
I'm sad that I'm not feeling this one like I did the original.
It is really necessary to play the first one to get the lore? I tried it and just got bored on the first hours, probably it was because I had just finished Hollow knight and had metroidvania fatigue? who knows. Its a pity cause Im Spanish, live in Seville and I was raised in a catholic school so all the "obscure references" are pretty fricking obvious to me. I heard second game is more polished, is it true?
The lore of the first is vastly superior, see this:
as a catholic you'll appreciate it
Who ties together rosary beads for you this time around?
One of the characters you have to find in a literal cave somewhere.
Seems like the gameplay has improved significantly but the “vision” so to speak got cut back in some areas. The devs were a bit over their heads during Blasphemous 1’s production if I recall correctly, which is why its bosses were mostly larger than life and the game more consistently macabre/grotesque.
How is it compared to the first one?
i dropped the first one because despite having great art, the combat was extremely clunky and unfun.
Significantly improved in all areas in regards to combat, movement, and just general jank.
I thought I could actually discuss the game, but then I remembered i was on Ganker
I'm just ignoring all the moronation for talk about the lore, which is all I've fricking wanted to do.
First game was piss easy i could complete with one hand, is this one more skillfull?
Look
They added a shitload more of I-frames so a lot more easy.
Again, you're a moron. Yes - you have more invincibility frames. But the combat is significantly faster and entities move faster and hit MUCH harder than they did in the first.
Dude, how can you call this
faster? You can cheese this game with the dash I-frames
That guy has 1) played through literally the entire game well before release, 2) 100% edited out any deaths he DID have over the multi-hour experience, and 3) still gets hit a frick ton even WITH the i-frames you're sucking off - several bosses reduce him to low health in seconds.
All of the first game's bosses were either slower or had less viable ways to frick you over barring Crisanta or other later bosses. The real reason they could kill you easily is because you had fewer i-frames or some of their attacks ignored them.
A lot easier but you can always play without the favours of handholding
the games are dark souls tier lorewise which means you just look on the wiki to understand wtfs going on anyway, it's fine if you start with 2 but really you might as well play the first one since they're both good (2 is so far anyway) and similar and you'll have more context
woops
Do I need to go finish the first game before playing this?
Yes. This game follows directly after the overall events of the first and its true ending and assumes you already have working knowledge of the lore.
i dont remember the ending to the first one and i never got the true ending. ill probably go back but overall this game is an improvement
Why were people saying there‘s difficulty options? There isn‘t
They say you to wait for the difficulty option to be added, just like the first game, these ones were DLC.
Seems like a shitty Castlevania clone.
Buddy you just described am entire genre
(except for castlevania being mid compared to many)
Game feels like a DLC for the first one. No new conceptually new things. Same like new zelda game for BOTW
>ESL is a moron spouting off literal misinfo and lies
Accurate.
Combat and platforming feels very different though unlike zelda
Where rpg element?
Where romance?
Where kino pixel art?
In POST BG3 world i won't even consider this "trash" as a game.
yeah youre right this game is bad bc its a metroidvania and not an rpg.
You‘re very terrible at this. Go back where you came from
seething fanboy. devs decided to not pander white males making it super sterile and trans friendly. penitent one is a straight male but game pretending it's not true.
youre clearly not playing it heres your attention
I was thinking the same; 2023 feels like The Year of Uninspired Sequels, starring Fire Emblem Engage, Zelda Tears of the Kingdom and Blasphemous II
better than awakening and three houses (not a fire emblem game btw)
>replying
What‘s the performance like for you on switch? I noticed some stutter and some loading screens between rooms were long. Might start over on pc
>still have to finish the first one
Frick I need to hurry
i wonder how many of the shitposters here are also posting in AC threads
Literally all of them. And several are definitely the spergs behind the spammy BG3 threads.
>Manuelito, forgive me...
>And heed the words I've always lived by: "Religion... Bad..."
troony game
This guy filter me in first game. I was playing handheld mode on Switch on amtrak across the country and didn't pick up game again. Should I go back and try again with controller? Handheld so delayed movements.
It‘s not handheld, the switch port just has pretty bad input lag. Don‘t know if the sequel is the same
I also played the original on Switch while riding an Amtrak across the country (eventually getting filtered by this dude and just staring out the window of the cafe car).
But I eventually manned the frick up, went back, and bladedanced his rooty wiener into the stratosphere, so enjoy being the lesser reality version of Us anon.
>2 hours in
>still haven't died
kinda easy so far tbh
>yfw ruined Mother of Mothers
IS IT STILL LOCKED TO 60 FPS?
this pissed me off in the original because they only did it to avoid fixing a glitch.
>dual swords thrusting barrage has superarmor
Finally they learned that high commitment animations need anti stagger protection
>40 leaf bucks
Day of the rake when?
>Mother of Mothers lies forgotten and dark beneath the main hub
huh
I feel like I've heard about Blasphemous I.
Hopefully they will update the cutscenes.
Game feels way too easy tbh. The first game was already easy but with the instadeath shit gone and non-bland movement options, everything is pretty much a complete breeze.
I don't know. I expected more
Ng+ will fix it
>First off:
The sprite work is gorgeous.
The music is evocative and unintrusive
Combat is tight
>The bad
The cartoon cinematics are horrible. It doesn't fit the style. The pixel art cutscenes in the first ones were much more impactful. Case in point: when the lady in OP appears she's generic Anime woman n 128937, but in-game is just much more beautiful
The voice acting is weird. Some of the actors (like the one in OP) are emphasising the wrong words or have horrible Spanish pronunciation ("my name is A-nun-ci-ah-ta").
The combat can be tedious. Why, instead of backdashing, do I have to go THROUGH an enemy to dodge him? Why does that only work with some enemies?
Only been playing for about an hour though
>The voice acting is weird.
First game had the same problem until it was patched. Anyone playing with the Spanish dub?
I am considering switching languages just to spare myself from the incredibly out-of-place British accent. Between Baldahs Gate and this I am getting real frickin' tired of the isles.
I do with English subs. I have a lot of trouble understanding the ones with barthelona accents. Mexican Spanish is way easier for me
That's because Mexican Spanish is lazy.
Castilian is perfecto, amigo.
>mutt spanish
disgusting
>rapier and dagger has aerial Sign of thee Cross, hyperarmor barrage, timed parry, all with inputs remeniscent of Nioh
huh
My boy got the ending he deserved.
I'm genuinely happy for him.
Game was 7/10.
Dude beats Literal Satan twice and finally gets his definitive good ending. He absolutely deserves it.
The only interesting part about the game is how the starting weapon choices changes what path you take because they have diffetent movement tech. It's something really unique that I haven't seen done in an MV game before.
Unfortunately, like a gimmick, it's halfassed and unexplored.
You posted this before in the last two threads, moron.
Yeah no shit Black person. I'm posting it again because people can actually play the game now.
>he says, having not actually played the game
Frick off.
I took the censer and my first boss was the sewing fencer chick; I found the rapier and dagger before I fought her.
It's fun but the censer just fricking wrecks Black folk too hard to not use.
Censer is strong but it's 100% offense 0 defense with high commitment animations
Rapier is way stronger than i thought it would be thanks to timed parry deleting half the screen while giving you lighting charges
Does the lightning last until you take damage? Seems busted
It lasts for a pretty long time at the very least but later skills allow you to trade a lighting charge for a special attack
Wait lightning charges? The rapier has special attacks? I've just been normal attacking.
You have to unlock the skill for it.
Eh, it's okay.
It works perfectly fine for the early game
Not like you're playing it or anything
I'm gonna say it.
The first game was more soulful. Everybody has already mentioned the cutscenes but a lot of other things feel meh. The ropes guy whatshisname was a cooler messenger than the angel, and the pentitent one waking up among a horde of his slaughtered bros was grim but now you just wake up in a coffin like it's Dark Souls 3. Also beating the first boss and pouring his blood in your helmet was iconic, nothing this edgy has happened to me so far. The world doesn't really feel "religious" in this one, it's just a random slew of disconnected imagery and half the npcs are wacky spirits instead of suffering people. Maybe it'll get better.
>,and the pentitent one waking up among a horde of his slaughtered bros was grim but now you just wake up in a coffin like it's Dark Souls 3.
>t. moron who didn't play the first game
i did albeit
also the music is forgettable and too often upbeat
You kinda put into words what I was thinking. The game is pretty good, but as far as the actual artistry involved, I feel like the world and the characters are much hollower. It feels less grounded, like they tried to one-up the last game, whereas the last game was so effortlessly inspired. I still the like the game, but 1 just feels more natural.
The ideal would be the first game but with the platforming and weapon unlocks of the sequel
It really feels like outside of the mechanical improvements, everything else is a downgrade
I agree with this anon.
The numerous hands showing up everywhere but never being explained were weird.
>not the first ip
Of course you agree with yourself
does it have a spanish dub like the first one? asking for muh immersion
Si.
>Penitent one blah blah blah Catholicism blah blah blah Spanish blah blah blah Miracle blah blah blah
Some parts of this game feel like it was DLC/expansion content that they just crammed into the sequel instead. Definitely seems like a less cohesive whole.
What‘s with the camera sometimes spazzing out when you jump
That was SICK, good boss
>rapier girl going full Vergil with entire arena full of Juidgement Cuts
I think it would take me more than two attempts if i had no war censer
We can all agree war censer is easy mode right
It took me two attempts with the Black person HAMMER too.
The first fight I used the rapier and dagger since I thought it'd be easier but died.
2nd fight I just clubbed the c**t to death with the censer.
Just dash
not reading replies for risk of spoilers but I'm pleasantly surprised by the game. Blasphemous 1 was a solid 8.5/10 for me and I expected marginal improvements here, but pretty much every aspect of the original is improved and every issue I've had with the first game has been addressed in some way. I'm only two hours in but having a lot of fun exploring. Recommend.
Black person, two hours in is nothing.
Beat the game then recommend it or not.
It's kind of refreshing to explore and not wander into some Dead Cells/Bloodstained tie in mission.
Releasing this in the same day as AC6 is a massive dick flex
More like tard move. The solace here is that it's on the Switch this time around. So players there will try this out instead.
troony game by troony developer
Using the dual blades is just handicapping yourself. I‘m done using this trash weapon
I feel like they messed something up with the Counter move. It seems like they're designed for you to spam them and be able to interrupt slashes to parry attacks, but it seems like when you do that, it's impossible to do a counter attack, where if you just stand there and parry in the same window of the enemy attack, you counter properly.
>but it seems like when you do that, it's impossible to do a counter attack
There is a counter, but I think you need to unlock it.
I know, like I mentioned I can pull it off consistently when not spamming attack but when spamming, it seems like it happens only sometimes. The game says the parry can interrupt attacks but I don't know if it actually cancels animations or what.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding how the blades are "supposed" to be used. It seems like if counter can't be used consistently when attacking, they don't really have a strong enough reward for the risk of hanging out in enemies' faces that it demands. The Censer hits hard, wide and has very little risk because of the range. Since the blades are more limited in range and damage, I figured "control" was its role. There are also a lot of attacks that you can't parry, which is wild.
You can parry most attacks. Once you unlock parry and counter, if you block at the last possible moment then you do a decent counter.
It's not good against 2 or more enemies but it's bretty gud in a 1 on 1.
Anyone know if side quest progression is tied to boss fights the way it was in the original? I'm only three hours in and don't think I've encountered anything that could risk issues, but I'm not sure if this game has missable quests and shit in the same way the first one did.
>have to die 5 times to unlock the difficulty the game is supposed to be played at
the flail and the prayers are so busted it's not even fun
What are you talking about? Is there an easy mode or something?
dying stacks a debuff/buff that increases damage taken (roughly 50% at max) and locks up parts of your mana/fervor bar, you're unable to use any mana at max
in turn you get 50% more tears(souls) and more martyrdom mark gain rate, i assume also 50%
Don't really get how that's the intended difficulty.
I don't remember it mentioning adding a buff -- I wish the tutorial screens could be reaccessed, there's a lot more going on than the first game.
I feel like I should wait for the eventual DLC that adds NG+, more bosses, and the pentience system back.
Why wait for that? You can always replay it when it comes out
I'm hate coming back to games with new updates unless it's an actual expansion.
Fair enough. I don‘t mind games getting ng+ updates later since i don‘t want to replay a game right after finishing it anyways. There‘s also permanent movement upgrades this time so i wonder if they change the earlier areas and enemies in ng+ to adapt to the full moveset
The game tells you about the system the first time you die
>didn't ship with the challenge modes like in the first game
come on now
this game is a genuine improvement over b1 im having a blast
so far not bad
a little clunky but wouldn't be blasphemous if it wasn't
weapon switching pretty fun
bosses are easier than first game
still haven't figured out how to upgrade health
theres a room somewhere in the 1st area iirc thats where the health upgrades are (as long as you have an empty flask in inv.). I'm still looking for a way to upgrade wep damage myself
I'll tell you in a bit, only a few minutes for the torrent.
Holy shit, Anunciada sound like shit in the english dub.
Is it just me or is the jump way more weighty in this game? Feels a bit annoying
i feel like its a better in this game i feel like you jump higher
Is the spanish dub still god-tier as the first one?
yup
Does anyone know where you find the Sword, Reugo al Alpa, if you don't pick it at the game's start? I know the Flail, Veredicto, is in the Sacred Entombment(? Up in the northwest map) and the Rapier/Dagger is in the Palace of the Embroiderers, but I haven't figured out where to find the Sword.
Also, what happens if you let your Guilt rise?
what resolution does the game run at? I'm not seeing anything in the options
>first real boss already has sub-50% completion
Damn.
I've played for 3.5 hours and haven't reached a boss yet. Most people probably won't play that much in one day.
There are a lot of directions to go and it's way to reach a dead end and end up exploring an entirely different part of the map.
how do you get through these floors, also what the frick are those giant bells for
play the game you will find out 🙂
yeah i got the sword 🙂
You need the Censer to activate the bells.
>also what the frick are those giant bells for
Hit those with the mace to open some secret platforms.
While I don't know how to get through those floors myself, I think it's tied to the Sword? The bells are used with the Censer, which you can find in the Sacred Entombments; go to the lefthand end of the City of the Holy Name, then go up to the aqueducts, then keep going left to unlock it. When run, the bells will temporarily make those silver bubbles you've been seeing into platforms, and turn those silvery-gray doors with the faces on them into thin layers of mist that you can permanently break by passing through. The transformation only lasts a few seconds, so you have to be quick!
I'd love to jump in on the hype train, having 100% the first game. However I have a backlog and am currently playing Ender Lilies instead. Does 2 have multiple skins available yet, or is it just going to be dlc?
2 is lots of fun but i dont remember the story at all from 1 and i never got the true ending
Where the hell is the praying blade? I‘m like 4 hours in and still haven’t found it
It's at the far end of the Crown of Towers, an area that is towards the northeast corner of the map; you have to go right from the City of the Blessed Name, through the Grilles & Ruin area until you go can up and right to enter the Choir of Thorns. Just keep going up and right and you'll enter the Crown of Towers. It's past the second save point there, which is on the rightward path above the door to the elevators that drop you back down to Choir of Thorns and then to Streets of Wake.
Thanks. The only upgrade i have is the war censer, dual blades and walljump. That‘s enough to get it right?
That's all you require, yeah. Honestly, I don't even know what upgrades there are yet, I've been focused on trying to explore the map myself.
Also, those weird barriers of wood? You can smash them with the Weight of Sin attack - the diving stab you can use by using down + attack whilst in midair with the sword equipped.
All you need is faith.
bros i wanna beat this before going into AC6 can we keep the thread alive somehow? im going to sleep soon the shitposters have left
Counterattack being automatic is unnecessary and obnoxious. If there’s more than one enemy in front of you, the counterattack will just put you in the hit box of another enemy
Hey, next time you recommend Blasphemous to someone be sure to ask if they know anything general about metroidvanias, because if they end up liking Blasphemous (as their entry into the genre) they're going to look for more games like it. Then, when they find out that it's kind of an outlier in terms of abilities and combat, they're going to be pissed because it's confusing to read Hollow Knight getting insane praise while gating simple shit like dodging and parrying and paywalling maps and stickers.
t. refunded and bought Blasphemous 2 instead
HK and Blasphemous are both good games
Yes, but they absolutely can appeal to different people. I find HK exhausting to play and haven't managed to finish a full playthrough. I put 125 hours into Blasphemous.
goodnight bros i hope theres a thread in the morning
trash and boring, plays like a flash game. Made for zoomers
if you post this in an AC6 thread youll get more replies
Does anyone know what the deal is with the NPCs in the three rooms around the save point on the far side of the teleportal in the Streets of Wake are?
One is the girl who adds extra slots to your Rosary, but there's something ominous about the way her candles go out each time she does it...
gave it a pirate
the game feels way too easy, in three hours i havent died once
id like to believe im some gaming prodigy but its more likely that something aint right
art and design are generally inferior to the first but the platforming is less aids so theres that
its okay, if anything the difficulty is my biggest dissapointment so far
played for a bit, the controls are actually smooth now so for me the gameplay is already far better than 1. Artstyle is still top tier, anime cutscenes feel out of place like others said
shitty cutscenes need to be cut, they suck
They’re kino sorry
I really want the game. Loved the first one. Don't have money right now for it. Day1 games are so expensive.
I love 2D games so much. See when a new 3D game releases I have to question if my GPD win max 2021 will run it. With 2D games I just jump in and have fun. 3D games are so stupid it's insane. They are less fun, they are more tiresome to play and you need the latest beefcake moron graphics card to run that trash
It’s only $30 anon, I can send you a key if you need
no problem, I hope I get a raise too. Too bad the yen is dropping so fast :/ Makes shopping in japan fun, but making money with porn on a japanese website is getting harder
Thank you for the offer :3
Yeah same, but i am poor as frick atm.
Holy shit people have no taste.
>most shitters using the easy mode weapon
As expected
Verdicto is the least fun weapon but it’s disgustingly OP, are you really surprised? It stuns almost everything in one hit and does the most dps by far
Veredicto is fun as frick once upgraded.
I agree, it actually feels a little like you can do combos since you can switch in and out of flame-on mode mid-combo which is cool. I also already have two statues that synergize together for it, for increased damage with it specifically and Flame damage.
Anyone know what the deal is with that creepy disembodied giant hand in the Streets of Wakes that has a bunch of fetishists worshipping it and demands the Penitent One do so as well?
It's part of a sidequest if you refuse not to kneel to it enough times - it boosts your fervor.
What did she mean by this?
Turns out she was just asking if I wanted lore
She asks the "are you a little baby who can't beat a boss on his own" question after that one.
oh that#s what I thought. Like the girl that I kept from turning into a dust cloud in the first game
Game is too short and easy.
DESPERATELY needed a boss that actually pushed your shit in
They'll probably add some for ng+ like they did with the first game
How's the lore?
It's good. It kinda answers the High Wills/Miracle divide from the first and adds new stuff too. Only thing I'm wondering about is what the frick is the High Dramatist?
>spoiler
I wonder if it's a reference to The Great Theater of the World (El Gran Teatro del Mundo) by Pedro Calderon de la Barca
so the game is secretly aware that in fact it's a work of fiction
Stop spoonfeeding anglos.
That shit reminds me of what Ice-Pick Lodge did with Pathologic.
Biblical
>mfw just found out you can attack the poison spraying bubble to move it around
neat
Where tf can i use weight of sin to find hidden areas?
I believe it's for these wood floors
I tried and nada. Maybe I need to upgrade it?
>the mansion with those jumping fleaBlack folk from SOTN except they have insane amount of poise
Those little shits are impossible to kill with the dual blades. Doesn‘t help that i‘m shit at parrying
You can crouch and attack, as well as angle the rapier downwards, I think? As well there's the dash-slash. But yeah, the rapier has the worst AOE with its strikes, so you really want to switch to the flail or sword for those little bastards.
I've only played for a few hours but I'm enjoying it so far.
I feel like the flail is way stronger than the sword and swords, even if it is slower.
I like the new weapon upgrade trees and the new currency you get from bosses and killing enough mobs.
I like that having guilt has bigger downsides but also gives more rewards.
The graphics are still great
I'm not sure why they upped the amount of tears you get when there is nothing to spend them on outside of a few items from the merchant.
I only encountered one bug so far. I fought the thread lady boss and died, but when I retrieved my corpse my guilt didn't go away and had to pay the confessor after I beat her.
Pretty sure that isn‘t a bug and actually intended
It has to be.
I died again and my guilt doubled, but when I got my corpse my guilt went back to 1.
It just didn't register my corpse retrieval on my first death.
>I'm not sure why they upped the amount of tears you get when there is nothing to spend them on outside of a few items from the merchant.
There's multiple merchants. I've never run out of things to spend it on after 6 hours, at least.
Spam the dash attack. It looks scuffed but it works.
Dash attack seemed pretty bad vs most enemies since they hit you after the attack before you can dash/jump away
>I feel like the flail is way stronger than the sword and swords, even if it is slower.
Flail is 100000% offense with no defensive capabilities. In some situations it's kinda dangerous to use because at the very least early it has no hyperarmor moves (2 swords have it on a thrusting barrage for example) so you can get hit out of attacking.
Where's the rosary bead npc?
She's in the Streets of Wakes area; from the starting point, which is in the Profundo Lamento area, just keep going right until you find a save point. It's the room directly across from the door you entered by; below is an NPC who will boost your Fervor meter for Feverent Kisses (don't ask me where you collect those) and another who sends you on a mission to find five girls who are in beds surrounded by candles...? Don't really get the deal here, sorry.
For real though, how did they ship the product with this bug still in? It's not even hard to miss and you can trigger it at will with a single simple action
Most fun weapon?
Flail or daggers?
Are you stuck with one for the entire playthrough?
Flail is by far the most fun thus far but they all get their unique gimmicks
Just go to the marked bosses, you will get another ones in the process, but don't go to the topmost left one if you take the flail, it's the one who gives it to you.
Whatever weapons you don't choose will be placed in rooms on the map.
>The flail will be in the Sacred Entombments.
>The daggers will be in the Palace of Embroiderers.
>The sword will be in the Crown of Towers.
What's with the lack of big setpiece bosses this time around?
The dude who designed most of the artwork, bosses and cutscenes left the studio.
They acquired some good taste and made bosses that are characters instead of just you hitting the background image
Actually I agree. The setpiece bosses in the first game were boring as sin to fight but it's not like the rest of the game was hard. They were fun to look at and see.
The best bosses from the first game were human sized duels but that was only in NG+ and the fight at the bridge, here most of the bosses are just as easy ad the setpiece ones but without the gravitas that made me look forward to seeing in the first game.
Quirce was the best boss from the first game.
You mean Isadora voz de los muertos.
No frick that prostitute
How "big"?
Glass monk is huge in phase two and he's one of the first bosses
So why does the one boss, the guy who fights with the pillar, just have a little girl crawl out of said pillar for phase 2. I saw her clinging to him in the cutscene introducing everyone but I can’t really pin what their relationship is.
It's probably in the statue/item lore somewhere
Glass monk's lore was in a statue you can find in the area, he confessionmaxxed until he could no longer contain the sins
That's brad from Lisa the Painful
So how is it? Loved Blasphemous 1
4 hours in
Gameplay wise it's a MONUMENTAL improvement
Too early to say about the atmosphere/lore but dark, abandoned Mother of Mothers beneath the main hub is cool
>weapon swapping is instant and can be used to get rid of endlag from certain moves
>weapon movesets are actually pretty fricking useful and have varying utility, some moves have superarmor
>hornet from hollow knight chilling by boss
>"would you like me to help you with this boss?"
>absolutely
>spend 10 minutes laying into him with a flail
>she shows up once, his him for no damage, and bounces
What did she mean by this?
If it's anything like the first game - the NPC is there to heal you. But the heal only triggers when you're on critical health. And at that point you're more likely to heal yourself.
So, sword or rapiers? Trying to avoid the big ass hammer since it's easymode
Sword is Normal Mode; it has average speed, decent striking area without being as wide as the flail, and it comes with parry + counter-attack by default. Has a toggle-able "blood rage" mode that adds Mystic type damage and, once you get the right upgrades, lets you heal with each attack so long as the rage meter is filled.
Rapiers is Hard Mode. Fastest strike speed, but least damage, and has such a small strike-effect area that you'll need to actively work to hit anything that is below waist-height (like the midget duelists in the Palace of Embroiders), It can parry, but you need to spend a Mark to gain a counter-attack, and it only triggers on a perfect parry - you're supposed to rely more on dodging and its unique dodge+slash attack. Fill up its "tempo" meter with attacks and you'll gain a permanent boost of Electric damage, but get hit once and you lose the buff, so you need to MASTER dodging and parrying to get the most out of this weapon.
Thank you for keeping the thread alive brothers
Ost is amazing
10 hours in, my worthless thoughts so far:
>cutscene art style is a downgrade, they should have thrown money at the original pixel artist to get them to stay
>music is good although less varied
>fewer destructible objects to hit in levels makes environments feel a bit lifeless sometimes
>bosses are fun and well-designed, my faves so far are big and little, and that Sekiro-looking geezer before the double jump
>world map and level design is decent
>the weapon switching is fun to mess around with and adds a measure of variety to the experience
>the mirror zapping thing is really fun and I hope they go crazy with it in the lategame levels
Overall I think it's an atmospheric downgrade so far but gameplay and world is still fun so I rate it good out of 10. Feels good to be back pointy helmet bros.
Forgot to mention, floating breasts is sexy but I miss my bro Deogracias.
The Spanish VA for Deogracias is the same guy who voices the Rock in Spanish. It was an unexpected crossover
Noice, I've not launched the game yet, there's still room for improvement as they did with the first one, maybe they will upgrade and rework the cutscenes at some point.
The guy doesn't want to work with them because they won't sell the game in russia because they are fricking annoying podemitas or worse.
Anyone ITT tried The Last Faith beta? I signed up and got the email but they dropped it at the same time as fricking Blasphemous 2 I think so there's no way I'm missing that.
i saw a torrent for it, i might just wait because i want to beat B2 before i play anything
I did, it‘s alright. Clunky as hell compared to blasphemous 2 but it has potential
Also the beta is only like 20-30 mins anyways
mirror zapping is the coolest shit
I hope Blasphemous III has a new protagonist, given the fact that The Penitent One has ascended in body and soul to the highest of places, source of all blessings
did you already beat 2? im like 78% through my run on 1 but i never finished it.
I watched a video on youtube with the good and the bad ending
but I'm still deciding if I buy the game
weird approach but do whatever pleases u
Crisanta is coming back.
The atmosphere and story presentation are way worse but my God imagine fricking defending the utterly dogshit "platforming" the original game had now that you've played this. And the weapons too. Genuinely night and day.
>The atmosphere and story presentation are way worse
I wholeheartedly agree
>The atmosphere and story presentation are way worse
Incorrect.
Wow who balanced these weapons. The flail is pretty much tard mode.
Huge damage.
Massive range.
Best jump attack.
Multihit.
Completely fricking mogs everything else.
no parry so its hard to defend yourself
This isn't Blasphemous 1. Barely anything needs to be parried. You just brainlessly jump attack everything and cast a spell every now and then.
part of me feels like going back to beat 1 but i also dont wanna miss out on these threads cause i know they wont last long here
Is there any other metroidvania coming this year? crowsworn was delayed until 2024
The last faith which will be released on October something . It actually looks good.
Hollowknight silksong lmao
idc how long SS takes it probably will be here next year
This statement will always be true
the mace swings so fricking slow it sucks
the mace really fricking sucks against the knife b***hes who swing in a circle my god
People are slowly discovering that defense is okay sometimes
what did she mean by this?
There's random nuns behind hidden walls. I've found 2,which rewarded me with the ability to go back to town from any shrine. Pointless because of the spell, but eh
There's multiple of those spooky nuns (Cobijada, they're apparently called), and the more you find, the more powerful the shrines get:
>Fast travel from Shrine to City.
>Refill Fervour when resting at a shrine.
>Teleport between Shrines.
Find them all, and you get a new Altarpiece; the Cobijada Mayor.
I have 60k tears, do shops ever get new inventory?
>3 weapons to choose
>test them from right to left
>''alright, two fast options, but it took a while to kill the dummy''
>mace/incense/hammer thing one shots it
World of strength here I come again
i need to finish aeterna noctis and ive never beaten dead cells past 1BC
What the frick is it even about? The protag killed God in the last game, what else is there that could be a threat?
You have to kill Jesus before he's even born.
You killed something that was parading around the Holy Ghost's power for its own selfish purposes and now the Holy Ghost is without a master and is trying to create its own god, but that won't be good since the Holy Ghost is not itself a perfect being and therefore can't make a god.
I don't think the Miracle was anything truly holy to begin with. Anunciada makes it very clear that it's influence has nothing to do with the actual seat of all holiness.
It answers prayers and a couple prayed to the Miracle for a child so it answered said prayer.
The old Penitent is the first one? Where was him and his squad in the first game?
You revisit the Mother of Mother's so is it the game geographical location as the first?
>It answers prayers and a couple prayed to the Miracle for a child so it answered said prayer.
It only answered said prayer as a ploy to regain its power. Said child (heavily implied to be Radames) was not only born with an unnatural deformity, but was implied to have killed its mother during the birth. The Miracle then used it to spread disease and death to all of the people, thereby forcing them into another cycle of guilt, suffering, prayer, and penance that it could feed upon to strengthen it to birth The Child.
>The old Penitent is the first one? Where was him and his squad in the first game?
Eviterno is OLD. And more than that, he wasn't around in the first because he's the Miracle's greatest actor and too valuable to waste outside of the direct circumstances. It certainly didn't seem to view him as necessary to bring out for the defense of the High Wills, at any rate.
>You revisit the Mother of Mother's so is it the game geographical location as the first?
Same location as the first game, just countless years later.
did you not see the cliffhanger i.e. giant human heart floating in they sky at the end of the last game
well its' up to no good
The High Wills weren't God at all, just a godlike demon. The lady in the OP is an agent of the actual literal Heaven and is acting on the behalf of the genuine benign divine powers who all hate the shit out of the Miracle.
>the monk is hinting that Miracle itself wants repentance
huh
>mfw I got the double jump after killing the creepy homosexual with a katana at the bottom of the map
Frick you Mr Smiles.
After playing for about an hour i dunno, i really dont. Not really feeling the game overall, the music seems lacking, rehashed enemies already, the pixelart somehow feels inferior compared to the first game or is this just me? Atleast the fricking tonritus is a beast tbh, the other weapons feel janky and no mea culpa.
Kinda torn on the cutscenes, well made but it takes me out of the game but could just be me
I fricked up. I chose the censer first so I dont know how to parry anymore
You'll get the other two weapons before killing the third boss.
Bro to the end.
I feel like this game is sort of getting lost in its own aesthetics. I liked Blasphemy 1's aesthetics because it was very directly inspired by Christian imagery but with a horror twist. This just feels like standard gothic horror, like it's literally just Bloodborne all over again.
The first one made money, money attracts investors and investors have to follow a code that demands promoting degenerates and condemning christian values... I'll be charitable and say developers hands were tied this time around
>game literally opens with the MC being met with an angel of Literal Heaven tasking him to stop the Devil
>NO IT'S CONDEMNING CHRISTIAN VALUES REEEEEEEEEEE
You subhuman make it more and more obvious every fricking day that you only come here to use this site as a staging ground for your nonexistent culture war instead of playing these fricking games.
You fail to understand the difference between allegory and values, the lack of beauty and craftsmanship compared to the first game also makes it evident that divine inspiration is completely gone and it's only used as a skin suit.
It's called been coerced by actual culture warriors and extremist with a fat load of cash they inherited from people who actually earned it
It's not a much "persecution complex" when very evident that christianity is being persecuted; it's not a "conspiracy theory" when they are actually very vocal about it and publicly celebrated everytime they get a chance
This made me chuckle, ngl, no wonder you're called "The Great Satan"
It's called fiduciary responsibility, senpai.
Absolute fricking persecution complex
Which weapon did you start with?
https://strawpoll.com/BJnX8Rm88nv
I dunno if I should go for Cencer or Rapier
censer looks the best so I went with that but I fear the game will be too easy, thinking of restarting with rapiers
Yeah, I know, but your still stuck with it a good while. The Cencer did so much damage and had such a good reach on the training ghost, but still went with Rapier since it had riposte and the dash
The rapier in 1 looks better, and I kinda wish it had fast poking attacks instead of slashes, but oh well
the reason I didn't pick the rapiers after trying them on the ghost is too little damage honestly, felt like my thumb would get fatigued after a while of constant pressing. I really hope there's a way to increase its damage
I would think so, they feel pretty weak so far, and the dash is a bit finnicky as you still take contact-damage
Parried the first boss, the wheel man and the flagelant, they all bounced me back and no counter-attack. A bit disappointing
Well, that didn't take long at all
You could end with all of the weapons in like 2-3 hours if you are fast enough.
I really hope they buff the Rapiers a bit. They need a slight damage buff but more importantly, they need a wider window for Parry/Counter to give them some definitive advantage over the other two. The Counter should also turn the Penitent One around if you dash through an enemy, as it makes it hard to follow up a successful counter as-is.
Also, who the frick thought it was a good idea to make the Ruego's buff cost HEALTH as well as have a bar that needs to constantly be charged up to use. Do any of the later upgrades for it make the health cost lower or go away? As-is, it's suicide to use it in boss fights and I don't have enough recovery options to justify using it when running around.
Getting lightning helped a bit with the damage. Dear god I was glad I got the cencer when facing the fire-breathing skulls. But I still prefer using the rapier against certain mobs, like the bell-giants
Bell-people are bullies that trap you in a corner
Also, you can but a statue early on that gives 25% more active frames for parrying
Is there an artbook for Blasphemous II?
(~)8 bucks on steam
Comes with the Deluxe, otherwise like
it's there as DLC. I imagine someone will get the .pngs and upload them at some point.
Yeah, I found that but that also applies to Ruego, so it still leaves the Rapiers without a real advantage. I'm also not clear on if that extends the window for a Counter or just the Parry window.
Yeah, they're not completely useless but they have no niche. I just want to feel like it's rewarding to use all three weapons, and I feel like I keep trying to find reasons to use the Rapiers compared to the other two.
I haven't gotten the sword yet, just at the glass skeleton boss. I've been fine with rapier so far, and the lightning melts him. But there is a chance I will like the sword just all-around more instead of the rapier
I'll wait for someone else to do it. It'll be up on some hentai sites soon enough
You could acquire all weapons in a few hours, anyway. And it's not like you could cripple yourself and only take one weapon, because you need the weapons to unlock more of the map, so picking all of them are obligatory.
Got bored of the first game because it was too easy aside from the NES-era instadeath pits. Is this one better?
ah shit I'M FRICKING SORRY ;_;
Literally who?
It was always going to happen anon. You just sped it along.
Done pirating the game.
Wish me luck, Anons.
Link?
gog games to
all games on gog are there
AHHH THERE'S TOO MANY PLACES I CAN'T GO TO. I CAN'T KEEP TRACK OF ALL THIS
Dude, you have markers for a reason.
Keep going down, kill Mr Smiles and you'll get the double jump.
Wtf, game bugged at Anunciada's first appearance.
You are not worthy.
No in-game option to change resolution of the game and wall cling is an acquired ability now.
Disheartening.
How does wall clinging work? Is it Rapier-Dagger only?
Ivy Of Ascension
You'll find it after you exit the main hub.
You get it in within 30 minutes of starting you'll see
You get wall cling like six seconds into the game. As for resolution, it is kinda weird. I don't know what Scale Mode means since there's no description and it's just a Yes/No. Changing it doesn't seem to do anything.
I can say that playing in Fullscreen does do Native resolution since the screenshots I'm taking are in 4K.
Just finished it with 90% completion and 99% map.
Whatever I'm missing must be hidden inside secret rooms, and honestly I don't feel like exploring the whole game again just to hit every wall in the game hoping there's something behind it.
Has anyone found out if there are secret bosses or endings? Besides a few spells, beads and statues, I'm missing two nuns and at least one kiss.
Do I want her to join me in the next confrontation? It didn't go so well for the last chick who joined me in boss fights, but she got a really cool spear
you DID unlock the multi-weapon ability right?
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Upload it, fren
Any word on missable/failable stuff yet? It seems like maybe they avoided that this time, which would be fricking grand. It was my biggest issue with the first game.
>menu flipping uses U/O and Y/P but you can't change it
Why..
I changed my right half controls to the numpad due to the healthy distance between my hands, but you can't change all controls.
This.
Also, rapier basic attack animation is boring while the censer is too strong. Ended up using the vanilla weapon instead.
People were saying the art style was tonned down and that this game looked souless. Is it really a "sell out" sort of deal or does it live up to the original?
I'm 8 hours in, it's just as good as the first. The only issues so far are the cutscenes being traditional animation rather than pixel art and that unique executions are the exception rather than the rule now, but executions in general aren't focused on nearly as much in this game, nor are parries, so I don't really mind it.
I guess you could say it's toned down in that the enemies you face are less likely to be horrifically deformed, but you're not really facing monsters twisted my the Miracle anymore so it kinda makes sense. There's still lots of gory religious imagery.
1, so far, does have a lot more soul, mostly to clunky pixel art. But the backgrounds are still really nice. But it is still good, just not as good but prettier
People usually just b***h about the cutscenes, but the rest is fine. And even the cutscenes are not that bad.
looks a lot better than the first one in game
I really should have bought a controller sooner holy shit, the difference is like night and day,
and that's even with a shitty "esperanza" controller with sticks that max out a third of the way into any direction with zero fricking nuance, dpad does the job well enough
I can't believe I just left it collecting dust for half a year, grinding through blasphemous 1's NG+ doesn't seem like that much of a chore anymore
Seeing the abandoned Mother of Mothers is kinda sad
Ok, I'll buy this shameless cashgrab, but only if there's a toggle for the horrendous anime cutscenes, please tell me there is
I've played for 8 hours and run into one so far, which is the intro. You'll be fine. Most of the stuff that's been affected is just hand drawn artwork where the pixel art stills would have been before.
Does the game has Spanish dub at least? God I hope the put a toggle for the anime cutscenes or maybe update it with pixel art...
Si.
What the game lacks are some graphic options, the1st game atleast has some filter selection.
>GAH ANIME CUTSCENES
>GAH RUSSIAN
>RAHHHH SOULLESS SOULLES SOULLES
how do you end up this mindbroken
>GAH RUSSIAN
What?
Valid points, but it seems the game is enjoyable nontheless... There'll be a time when globohomosexual politics won't interfer with the creative process of vidya, but we're very far from it