Blasphemous

Depois de alguns anos, finalmente vim fazer a análise do que se tornou o meu metroidvania favorito de todos os tempos. Blasphemous apresenta um universo destruído e sombrio, onde uma entidade conhecida como O Milagre pune justamente aqueles que demonstram a maior devoção. Em vez de recompensar a fé, ele transforma a culpa de seus seguidores em maldições agonizantes eternizadas em seu ser ou em criaturas grotescas, perpetuando um ciclo de sofrimento infinito. É um conceito perturbador, mas executado de forma brilhante. O que mais me marcou foi a forma como o jogo utiliza a cultura espanhola e o catolicismo barroco para construir sua identidade. Essa inspiração está presente em praticamente tudo, seja da arquitetura aos personagens, dos inimigos aos chefes, e até na maneira como a história é contada. Poucos jogos conseguem criar uma atmosfera tão única e, sinceramente, eu adoraria ver mais obras explorando essa temática com o mesmo cuidado que Blasphemous. Os cenários também merecem destaque. Cada região transmite a sensação de que aquele mundo já foi próspero, mas acabou consumido pela influência do Milagre. Ruínas, igrejas, montanhas e cemitérios retratam sua própria história sem precisar de muitas palavras, enquanto a direção de arte em pixel art transforma cada área em um lugar memorável e perturbador. As cutscenes também são um espetáculo à parte, todas produzidas em pixel art e mantendo a identidade visual do jogo do início ao fim. Mais do que um simples metroidvania, Blasphemous constrói e aborda um mundo que desperta curiosidade a cada passo. Explorar Cvstodia não é apenas encontrar novos caminhos ou melhorias, mas tentar compreender os mistérios de uma terra devastada pela culpa e pela fé com as promessas de um falso deus. Outro aspecto que merece muitos elogios é a trilha sonora. Carlos Viola fez um trabalho excepcional, criando composições que combinam perfeitamente com cada região e cada chefe, reforçando a atmosfera melancólica e grandiosa do jogo. Minha única reclamação fica por conta da movimentação do Penitente, que em muitos momentos parece extremamente engessada. Às vezes ele simplesmente se recusava a agarrar numa escada ou na quina de uma plataforma, o que acaba por resultar em mortes muito frustrantes. No geral, Blasphemous é uma obra marcada pela culpa, pela fé e pelo sofrimento. Sua narrativa, direção de arte, trilha sonora e ambientação se complementam de forma brilhante, criando uma experiência única e difícil de esquecer. Além disso, o jogo ainda recebeu três DLCs gratuitas que expandem a aventura com novas missões, chefes e um novo desfecho para a história. Recomendo fortemente para qualquer fã de metroidvanias ou para quem procura um jogo com uma identidade verdadeiramente única. Nota final: 9,6/10 OBS: Se você pretende platinar o jogo, saiba que será necessário concluí-lo mais de uma vez. E sim existem conquistas perdíveis, então vale a pena ficar atento para não precisar repetir uma campanha apenas por causa de um único objetivo ou item (acabou acontecendo comigo...) .

It annoying that the cloud saves on steam deck don't work on pc. They should not be fully verifying games with compatability issues.

The game has a phenomenal atmosphere, amazing location soundtracks, and a great Dark Souls-style lore delivery. However, it can feel incredibly tedious at times. The backtracking is overwhelming, fast-travel portals are highly non-obvious and cost a ridiculous 20k Tears, and the instant-death spikes are infuriating. Dying to spikes means you have to run through hordes of enemies all over again, which led me to uninstall and quit the game several times. Ultimately, I pushed through and finished it. Despite all the frustration, I would still recommend it to fans of the genre.

Seems good at start but after a long time i realize im playing this out of spite. Most bosses i clear on first try but keep dying to stun locks, crappy jump platforming with enemies who either oneshot you or push you on spikes to die instantly or into the abyss to die instantly. With this in mind I spent most of the time doing runbacks. All equpiment i find exploring doesnt really do anytning you need and you can keep progressing without it making exploring or finding stuff feeling wasteful as you dont need any abilities or powers to progress. Annoying and irritating game and i recommend trying other metroidvanias/actionplatformers.

Genuinely ♥♥♥♥ and ball torture simulator. This game is BRUTAL. If you enjoy that kind of game then have fun with it. But no fast travel around means you have to manually backtrack to EVERY location unless you unlock something thats SUPER expensive. The music, and designs of everyhting are amazing, but honestly I despise this game. I played Hollowknight and many many other metroidvanias but this one takes the cake as the most annoying to play. Genuinely feels like a chore, but hey maybe you love that.

Almost gave up on this one. After playing for couple hours it just clicked. The artstyle is my fav. The boss fights were challenging, the hardest was for me the second boss and the final boss. I love the platforming. It was defineity challenging. What i hate most is back tracking. Thankfully there is shrine near the boss fights otherwise this would be hell. Beside that i dont really know the story, for this kind of game...gameplay comes first so i really dont pay attention or read lores but they do got cool cutscense and dialogues. Overall i had fun. 85% completed 4/5

Blasphemous is a marriage of Castlevania and Dark Souls, and often times it reaches the same highs as those two IP. But, it also hits the same lows, sometimes even more so than the inspiration it borrows from. I haven't been this frustrated playing a Metroidvania in a long time, on one hand you get visceral combat, arguably the most gorgeous pixel art ever put into a game, and a hauntingly macabre world on the brink of total desolation with the Miracle to blame. The music is stellar, the character models and sprite work make Hotline Miami seem amateurish, and the gorey and brutal combat feels punchy and impactful. But my God, this game doesn't want you to have fun with it. At times, I felt like the developer actively hated me. 1) Fast Travel is locked behind a 20,000 Tears tithe at the church. Prior to saving up this obscene amount, you have to rely on a paltry handful of portals dotted around the map. This game came out post Dark Souls THREE, by then FROM figured out nobody wants to do Lost Izalith-tier runbacks when the game arbitrarily kills them with Bed of Chaos' trash hitboxes. Blasphemous has no excuse for how long, excruciating and tiresome many of the runbacks are, which even when you can afford the upgrade like I did around the halfway mark, it doesn't take away the sting of having to run all that way back to collect your Guilt because you got stunlocked by gas and fell into a pit of spikes that instakilled you. 2) Enemy design is the best and worst of this game. You get some really simple but effective gimmicks like flying enemies, stationary hazards, a Bell-wearing enemy that behaves like a raging bull. All good. What isn't good is the f*cking retarded ♥♥♥♥ like a corridor full of projectile spamming enemies with ghosts that fade in and out along the way that chip damage you on contact with no way for you to jump out of the way because their sprites are so tall. The amount of deaths I had to being stunlocked, knocked down and then continuously tick-damaged as the Penitent one fails to get up made me want to strangle myself like David Carradine, minus the orgasm. 3) Crucial upgrades are many times too far out of the way of the beaten path, and worse yet, you only have 3 of these crucial upgrade slots at one time. There's no need for this. All the abilities are absolutely necessary especially in end and post-game. We should have them autoequipped as passives the moment we find them. 4) No auto-marking of collectibles you pass by. This is QoL you got in ORI in 2014, Blasphemous has no excuse. 5) Many questlines are vague and obtuse just because Dark Souls is vague and obtuse. You don't need to copy EVERYTHING Fromsoft does, especially when their quest design is one of the worst aspects of their games. I got all the items I needed for the true ending by playing normally, but turns out I killed a certain boss too early, so I'm locked out of getting a key that allows me to use those key items to get a Mea Culpa upgrade and access to said ending. 6) I had to play this with a controller about 1/3 of the way through. The game, despite being in full screen, does not lock your cursor to the window and if you play KB/M you are GOING to end up clicking off the screen, especially mid-jump and end up dying. This is terrible for any PC game and shouldn't be the norm any year past 2012 when PC ports started to get refined. If I have to use a controller for a non hack-n-slash like DMC/NG, you failed. Is Blasphemous worth your time? Absolutely. It has a breadth of unlocks, cool bosses (except the Snake, that boss is awful), great music, brutal combat that feels like DOOM married to a Priest on a crusade against wretched Abomination, and a real feeling of progression as you play. Would I replay it again? Maybe sometime in the future. Just be prepared to be very, very frustrated. The game itself is easy. I cleared most bosses on my first attempts, but traversal with the gank squads of stunlocks and chip damage are so bad I'd rather play Hollow Knight when it gets bad, and I think that game is the most Epstein-coded trash out there. Ninja Gaiden 2 on Warrior dookies all over this game's difficulty, and not one time in that game did I feel like I was devoid of any control over my victories and defeats. 7/10. I don't know anything about the sequel and hope it addresses the majority of these issues.

Una épica aventura con tintes católicos, una banda sonora increíble y un pixel art hermoso. Es una obra de admirar, y que lo pongan con su edición deluxe en descuento es como pan caído de los cielos para el amante de los metroidvania.

The art design and atmosphere are flawless; it is almost like a moving painting. Unfortunately, unresponsive controls, clunky platforming physics, and unfair punishment overshadow this potential. I wish the gameplay was as fluid as its visual achievement.