This.
It's eceleb schlock at this point. Ganker just doesn't want to admit it because then the hive mind would be forced to consider it shit, so they're willing to turn a blind eye.
Both of you are idiots. It's neither "pro" nor "anti". It's just a story designed around Spanish Catholicism, but neither encourages it nor denounces it. It looks similar and uses it thematically, but in the end it's just fricking that: a theme. If you honestly think a game where you can help a giant kid birth an old man out of his chest and turn three mutant sisters fused together into a ball of hair has anything to do with "pro" anything, you really need to stop huffing the chemicals under your sink.
I've said this before, but all you have to do is present the underpinning theology of catholicism honestly and catholics will think its pro catholic while anti catholics will think its anti catholic.
Just honestly say "yes the world is fallen and will fall further still, you are born tainted by sin and redeemed only through the humiliation and tortuous death of the logos made flesh, now go and live as he lived put your faith in eternal life after death". People will think you are parodying catholics if they already have an issue with the theology.
People are so biased that they apply their own opinions to factual statements.
If you describe what abortion is, both sides will see it as you supporting their opinion on the topic. People are so entranced by the us vs them mentality that they can't see things from a neutral standpoint. To the Left the Right is fascist white supremacists who want to instill sharia law and stop black people from voting but for the Right the Left is moloch worshipping revelers who want to murder children and have sex with the ones they don't murder.
The worst part is most people do not have the capacity to change, instead of hearing the other side out honestly they will retreat into echo chambers. The only way out is civil war, balkanization (which is basically civil war), or just watching America slowly degenerate as China takes over as the world superpower.
the game is not inherently anti-christian, snowflake. perhaps anti-catholic, but even then, it's all just a weird exploration of Spanish culture and folklore
This game is absolute garbage. It's the prime example of how a cool artstyle can't save a shitty gameplay.
imagine getting filtered by one of the easiest metroidvanias
Dedicated Christian here, the game is absolutely not anti christian, and is based on a religion that doesn't exist. But does still take a lot of inspiration from Christianity.
Blasphemous is a 10/10 just because of its thematic setting. I fricking love dark-fantasy catholicism. This is one of the best scenes in any game ever made:
>The creepy as frick boss fights >The insane, fricked up backstory that gets worse and worse as you play the game >The amazing artstyle and OST
One of my top 5 games for sure
this is one of the most popular indies right now and not hidden at all, so I'm just gonna name a few other good indies, hidden or not:
Axiom Verge
The Messenger
Astalon
Furi
Ruiner
Katana Zero
Aggelos
Ori 1 and 2
Kaze and the Wild Masks
Dandara
Celeste
A Hat in Time
unless you're talking about some extra DLC boss, the final boss is one of the easiest in the game. You suck hard
I'm playing this game right now and just killed the skellie bishop thing.
I'm enjoying it, trying to beat all the bosses with the no heal trinket shit, until now bosses didn't take many tries, but that just might be because of my Alien Soldier experience.
Also I don't know what the frick is going on, must be because I'm an orthodox christian.
>I don't know what's going on.
You should have a trinket that lets you talk to spirits. Certain npc's will explain how fricked up the "miracle" is. There are also notes you can find. It will make sense eventually, not saying anything else since you just started getting to the really, really good part.
If you haven't already, make sure you hit the giant stone statues with your sword.
I'm playing this game right now and just killed the skellie bishop thing.
I'm enjoying it, trying to beat all the bosses with the no heal trinket shit, until now bosses didn't take many tries, but that just might be because of my Alien Soldier experience.
Also I don't know what the frick is going on, must be because I'm an orthodox christian.
The confessor statues. Make sure you smack them with your sword.
I've that trinket and been reading all the lore from items and other stuff.
It's just the whole sin shit that is confusing me, what could have you possibly done so grave that you get turned into a fricking tree.
I hope more will be explained later, I'm currently 60% done.
Liking this "game" is a dead giveaway you suffer from terminal shit taste. It's only saving grace is the art style, the gameplay objectively sucks.
Blasphemous is the cinematic experience walking simulator of Meteoroidvanias.
This. It’s janky, the penitent one feels stiff, and the combat is atrocious. Idk how these people can even enjoy the game when your average dime a dozen hollow knight clone #468 has infinitely better gameplay.
I don't like the theme of this game. It highlights what is wrong with Christianity as a whole, a negation of vitality, attraction and desire of suffering as some redeeming force. It's anti-life.
I fricking loved this game. Spanish guitar and gothic pseudo-Christian themes go together so well. I love how well the music and dialogue fits in with the boss fights.
I started it and it seems pretty good, I dont know where the hate comes from, controls fine, enemies are easy to dispatch so far, the you die and the game gets harder is dumb thats about it.
I adore the art and atmosphere of the game. That being said, I can hardly get excited for the thousandth iteration of "Indie Metroidvania With Souls-Like Mechanics".
+1 to death's gambit
I wish it got another DLC so I would have an excuse to replay it
Vigil: The longest Night is a great and overlooked metroidvania. I liked it so much I finished it twice
https://store.steampowered.com/app/720560/Vigil_The_Longest_Night/
Ender Lilies is another good one, and it's the first game I actually unlocked 100% of the achievements for since it made completing sections so easy.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1369630/ENDER_LILIES_Quietus_of_the_Knights/
>Ender Lilies
I'm playing it right now, and it infuriates me to no end. I wanted to do a spoilerless first playthrough, but the game heavily implies that killing monsters = absorbing corruption = bad, so I have to assume that I need to kill as little as possible, except trying to run past enemies is extremely annoying sometimes, especially those fricking AOE eyes, and there are gauntlets where the only way to pass through is to kill all enemies, and sometimes those morons kill themselves by jumping into water which still counts as a kill. So now I'm blasting my ass through it trying to avoid everything, and I don't even know if there's a threshold I might've already passed or if it just doesn't fricking matter in the first place.
Also frick contact damage, most of hits I receive are from dodging right into the enemy or moving forward while attacking.
>the game heavily implies that killing monsters = absorbing corruption = bad, so I have to assume that I need to kill as little as possible
fricking autists lmao
Okay, well I'm going to ruin your spoilerless playthough so you can maybe actually enjoy the game by telling you that the game doesn't care about you killing enemies and I'm kind of surprised you got the impression that it did. You're going to get mad at the end of the game when you find out it didn't matter so you might as well get mad at me spoiling it now and get it out of the way so you can just play the game.
A lot of lore I've seen suggested that priestesses suffered from too much of the shit absorbed, so I thought it has to do with the ending, and the level achievements names as well.
>I wanted to do a spoilerless first playthrough, but the game heavily implies that killing monsters = absorbing corruption = bad
I didn't get that, I killed at will and managed to complete it 100%
It wasn't THAT hard and it was also an interesting fight in a game with some really unique boss fights.
The Bysurge fight on the elevantor was some of the most kino thing I've seen.
I bought the game since it was on sale, started getting salty at the controls, had to google how to open the fricking settings menu because those inbred devs can't put it on ESC like everyone else, changed my settings, played 3 minutes and uninstalled then refunded.
Frick you if you make a game after 2010 and it doesn't have key hotbinding or settings on ESC.
Who the frick puts settings on Map?
>Ill allocate a huge chunk of my pathetic companys resources to develop in the steaming pile of garbage of a platform I always wanted 🙂
they can do what they want. still moronic for them to go into vr. making such a bad decision aint based
I liked the aesthetic but the music was too samey with little variation, controls felt clunky and unresponsive and the game wasn't very enjoyable. If they ever make a sequel I hope they ditch the metroidvania side scroller and make it a 3D game like Blade of Darkness. Maybe low poly as a stylistic choice.
I saw somebody playing this game on twitch and he busted a clearly Catholic-inspired nun's face open and then disemboweled her. Literally how on earth is this game even remotely pro-Christian, I'm not going to bother googling it but I guarantee the developers are atheists. Have (marital) sex, touch grass, and repent.
It's not a hidden gem tho, this game is as mainstream as it can get
Its not that popular
Wha?
This.
It's eceleb schlock at this point. Ganker just doesn't want to admit it because then the hive mind would be forced to consider it shit, so they're willing to turn a blind eye.
This game is absolute garbage. It's the prime example of how a cool artstyle can't save a shitty gameplay.
Spot the guy who got bodied by one of the early bosses.
> Bodied
The only boss that needs multiple tries in this piss easy game is the sea serpent and the catacomb's holy Mary, you stupid casual
dlc crisanta is harder than both those bosses THOUGH
I remember all the homosexuals crying about the game getting 6 and 7/10 scores from critics before they even got to play it
The artstyle is garbage too.
And those cropped bits and pieces are supposed to prove that? That's some of the most pathetic argument I've seen, even for Ganker's standards
legit autism
I really wanted to try this game but I don't want to support anti-christian devs
God is imaginary. Souls aren't real. Jesus never existed.
but this game is pro-christian
Did you even play it?
Did you, moron?
Both of you are idiots. It's neither "pro" nor "anti". It's just a story designed around Spanish Catholicism, but neither encourages it nor denounces it. It looks similar and uses it thematically, but in the end it's just fricking that: a theme. If you honestly think a game where you can help a giant kid birth an old man out of his chest and turn three mutant sisters fused together into a ball of hair has anything to do with "pro" anything, you really need to stop huffing the chemicals under your sink.
Is like the chuunification of the christian mythology, to put in a way. Honestly pretty cool.
Yes, do you even understand spanish catholicism?
>spanish catholicism
How is it different from regular Catholicism?
I've said this before, but all you have to do is present the underpinning theology of catholicism honestly and catholics will think its pro catholic while anti catholics will think its anti catholic.
Just honestly say "yes the world is fallen and will fall further still, you are born tainted by sin and redeemed only through the humiliation and tortuous death of the logos made flesh, now go and live as he lived put your faith in eternal life after death". People will think you are parodying catholics if they already have an issue with the theology.
Good point.
People are so biased that they apply their own opinions to factual statements.
If you describe what abortion is, both sides will see it as you supporting their opinion on the topic. People are so entranced by the us vs them mentality that they can't see things from a neutral standpoint. To the Left the Right is fascist white supremacists who want to instill sharia law and stop black people from voting but for the Right the Left is moloch worshipping revelers who want to murder children and have sex with the ones they don't murder.
The worst part is most people do not have the capacity to change, instead of hearing the other side out honestly they will retreat into echo chambers. The only way out is civil war, balkanization (which is basically civil war), or just watching America slowly degenerate as China takes over as the world superpower.
>the Left is moloch worshipping revelers who want to murder children and have sex with the ones they don't murder.
That's how it is here in Canada, so I'd imagine it's the same everywhere.
china has already collapsed m8
China is like bitcoin it always implodes and comes out stronger than before. They have been collapsing in various ways for thousands of years.
It was ambiguous at first but after the DLC it’s pretty clear it got nothing to say about Christianity kek. What a shitshow
This is like saying that Lord of the rings is pro-norse mythology because it's a bastardized version of it
>nti-christian devs
Wut
the game is not inherently anti-christian, snowflake. perhaps anti-catholic, but even then, it's all just a weird exploration of Spanish culture and folklore
imagine getting filtered by one of the easiest metroidvanias
>one of the easiest metroidvanias
maybe that's the reason he calls it garbage you fricking moron?
t. protestant burger
Dedicated Christian here, the game is absolutely not anti christian, and is based on a religion that doesn't exist. But does still take a lot of inspiration from Christianity.
Catholics are not Christian
No one cares, go argue about it on Facebook
>Idol Worship breaks the second amendment
wtf i'm a catholic now
>anti christian
>devs from fricking Andalucia
Bro?
Blasphemous is a 10/10 just because of its thematic setting. I fricking love dark-fantasy catholicism. This is one of the best scenes in any game ever made:
?t=13
>The creepy as frick boss fights
>The insane, fricked up backstory that gets worse and worse as you play the game
>The amazing artstyle and OST
One of my top 5 games for sure
i dont get it, it's good because it has themes that shock children?
Well, most jesusfreaks are manchildren or women with daddy issues, so yeah. That's a good way to put it.
Don't let the LARPers fool you, most of the 'jesusfreaks' on this site are literally just pretending.
The final boss is shit. You have to look up how to get a secret item specifically designed to beat him.
I didn't look up shit, casual.
this is one of the most popular indies right now and not hidden at all, so I'm just gonna name a few other good indies, hidden or not:
Axiom Verge
The Messenger
Astalon
Furi
Ruiner
Katana Zero
Aggelos
Ori 1 and 2
Kaze and the Wild Masks
Dandara
Celeste
A Hat in Time
unless you're talking about some extra DLC boss, the final boss is one of the easiest in the game. You suck hard
I need to marry you, anon. I can already imagine us living the rest of our lives playing vidya.
>hidden
I hope they make a sequel and the final boss is martin luther
I'm playing this game right now and just killed the skellie bishop thing.
I'm enjoying it, trying to beat all the bosses with the no heal trinket shit, until now bosses didn't take many tries, but that just might be because of my Alien Soldier experience.
Also I don't know what the frick is going on, must be because I'm an orthodox christian.
>I don't know what's going on.
You should have a trinket that lets you talk to spirits. Certain npc's will explain how fricked up the "miracle" is. There are also notes you can find. It will make sense eventually, not saying anything else since you just started getting to the really, really good part.
If you haven't already, make sure you hit the giant stone statues with your sword.
The confessor statues. Make sure you smack them with your sword.
I've that trinket and been reading all the lore from items and other stuff.
It's just the whole sin shit that is confusing me, what could have you possibly done so grave that you get turned into a fricking tree.
I hope more will be explained later, I'm currently 60% done.
>what could have you possibly done so grave that you get turned into a fricking tree.
Be female and near Zeus?
Dendrophilia.
haha just looked on the steam store and it looks like sidescroller garbage
Literally the only type of games I play anymore.
Videogames peaked with sidescrollers.
you can stop pretending now
Liking this "game" is a dead giveaway you suffer from terminal shit taste. It's only saving grace is the art style, the gameplay objectively sucks.
Blasphemous is the cinematic experience walking simulator of Meteoroidvanias.
This. It’s janky, the penitent one feels stiff, and the combat is atrocious. Idk how these people can even enjoy the game when your average dime a dozen hollow knight clone #468 has infinitely better gameplay.
I don't like the theme of this game. It highlights what is wrong with Christianity as a whole, a negation of vitality, attraction and desire of suffering as some redeeming force. It's anti-life.
So you don't like it because it points out why your religion is shit? Seems like a cope to me, and I don't like the game, either.
No, I don't like the game and I don't like Christianity.
Playing without the Spanish dub is an affront to God.
Games should indicate what the original language is somewhere so you dont have to go Online to find out.
I fricking loved this game. Spanish guitar and gothic pseudo-Christian themes go together so well. I love how well the music and dialogue fits in with the boss fights.
This game is like a diamond.
In that it's way too overvalued for the piece of crap it actually is.
the main dev is a fricking butthole whos ruining the games kitchen form the inside
I started it and it seems pretty good, I dont know where the hate comes from, controls fine, enemies are easy to dispatch so far, the you die and the game gets harder is dumb thats about it.
>defeated the bosses in the wrong order
Am I moronic?
I adore the art and atmosphere of the game. That being said, I can hardly get excited for the thousandth iteration of "Indie Metroidvania With Souls-Like Mechanics".
This. Thank me later.
This too. You're welcome.
it's shit
>dev replied to my steam review to tell me to play it again after it got updated
lmao
>>dev replied to my steam review to tell me to play it again after it got updated
The update makes it so much better. I couldn't bother to finish it the first time before they rereleased it as Death's Gambit: Afterlife.
You can trust me, a random stranger on the internet with niche tastes.
+1 to death's gambit
I wish it got another DLC so I would have an excuse to replay it
Vigil: The longest Night is a great and overlooked metroidvania. I liked it so much I finished it twice
https://store.steampowered.com/app/720560/Vigil_The_Longest_Night/
Ender Lilies is another good one, and it's the first game I actually unlocked 100% of the achievements for since it made completing sections so easy.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1369630/ENDER_LILIES_Quietus_of_the_Knights/
>Ender Lilies
I'm playing it right now, and it infuriates me to no end. I wanted to do a spoilerless first playthrough, but the game heavily implies that killing monsters = absorbing corruption = bad, so I have to assume that I need to kill as little as possible, except trying to run past enemies is extremely annoying sometimes, especially those fricking AOE eyes, and there are gauntlets where the only way to pass through is to kill all enemies, and sometimes those morons kill themselves by jumping into water which still counts as a kill. So now I'm blasting my ass through it trying to avoid everything, and I don't even know if there's a threshold I might've already passed or if it just doesn't fricking matter in the first place.
Also frick contact damage, most of hits I receive are from dodging right into the enemy or moving forward while attacking.
>the game heavily implies that killing monsters = absorbing corruption = bad, so I have to assume that I need to kill as little as possible
fricking autists lmao
Okay, well I'm going to ruin your spoilerless playthough so you can maybe actually enjoy the game by telling you that the game doesn't care about you killing enemies and I'm kind of surprised you got the impression that it did. You're going to get mad at the end of the game when you find out it didn't matter so you might as well get mad at me spoiling it now and get it out of the way so you can just play the game.
Does milli actually sings or was the band used for marketing?
A lot of lore I've seen suggested that priestesses suffered from too much of the shit absorbed, so I thought it has to do with the ending, and the level achievements names as well.
>I wanted to do a spoilerless first playthrough, but the game heavily implies that killing monsters = absorbing corruption = bad
I didn't get that, I killed at will and managed to complete it 100%
>Worst boss level design ever.
Tundra Lord Kaern
It wasn't THAT hard and it was also an interesting fight in a game with some really unique boss fights.
The Bysurge fight on the elevantor was some of the most kino thing I've seen.
>female protag
Dropped.
I can hear your fedora tipping.
I bought the game since it was on sale, started getting salty at the controls, had to google how to open the fricking settings menu because those inbred devs can't put it on ESC like everyone else, changed my settings, played 3 minutes and uninstalled then refunded.
Frick you if you make a game after 2010 and it doesn't have key hotbinding or settings on ESC.
Who the frick puts settings on Map?
>keyboard
Holy moron
If your game isn't 3D or a fighting game, I have no reason to use a controller.
>game company goes to develop for other niche platforms instead of refining on what made them successful
do morons really?
>devs make games they actually want to make instead of milking some shit
based as frick
>Ill allocate a huge chunk of my pathetic companys resources to develop in the steaming pile of garbage of a platform I always wanted 🙂
they can do what they want. still moronic for them to go into vr. making such a bad decision aint based
The artists probably jumped ship so they have no way of making another 2D game that looks that good.
they already announced Blasphemous 2 though
no one asked for this
you're garbage
ew
Why do third world indies aways try to jump to VR? Even big companies struggle making hits on it, you are not going to make it Juan
Im absolutely never using that VR shit and I think you're super goofy if you do
MOVE ASIDE SOULgayS
Any game reviewed by mandalore looses all of it's SOVL.
It was okay. Didn't really leave much of an impression and the controls felt more clunky than I'd have liked.
>controls felt more clunky than I'd have liked.
Articulated the thoughts out of my mind.
Style over substance.
when are we getting platformers that aren't boring metroidvanias
I liked the aesthetic but the music was too samey with little variation, controls felt clunky and unresponsive and the game wasn't very enjoyable. If they ever make a sequel I hope they ditch the metroidvania side scroller and make it a 3D game like Blade of Darkness. Maybe low poly as a stylistic choice.
I saw somebody playing this game on twitch and he busted a clearly Catholic-inspired nun's face open and then disemboweled her. Literally how on earth is this game even remotely pro-Christian, I'm not going to bother googling it but I guarantee the developers are atheists. Have (marital) sex, touch grass, and repent.
salt and sanctuary has the deepest lore out of any metroidvania
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_cJ_GxvoB1qVVBhUWM0bFFlcUE/view
Is Blasphemous the game with the best artdirection and setting Ever? for me,yes
Needed more naked breasts and pussy though.
Underrail
Valdis