Blasphemous 2

6.5/10 Frustrating metroidvania. It rides on the original game's success and strong points while dilluting the experience with bloat and forceful implementation of metroidvania aspects. Boss fights are badly designed and not fun, especially Eviterno with his huge hitboxes, input-reading endless strings and barely any safe windows to heal or cast anything. This ♥♥♥♥ boss is a waste of time and was the cherry on top to stop playing after tedious backtracking and random map design. Gameplay: - Improvement over the original in terms of variety, but horribly balanced. Vendicto is the best weapon by far and the other two are very situational; S&C is impractical most of the time. Auto-ledge grab is terrible and leads to getting hit a lot of time. Boss design sucks where you have a metroidvania with heavy movement and soulslike moveset, but you have bullet hell bosses that disappear and fly (making S&C terrible in most boss fights). A lot of abilities are useless and outclassed by other abilities. There is also a lack of variety in the limited number of reused enemies varying by elements. Overall, combat is decent and weapons are sometimes fun, but the clunkiness and balance ruins it; switching weapons is also not viable because two of them reset their buff meters when switching. S&C needs a rework as it uses its buff as s crutch which is impractical in bullet hell bosses and when contact damage is a thing + low range. Parrying is also not done well as riposte is only available for specific attacks from specific enemies, and parrying itself has huge knockback which can knock you out of the room resetting enemy health or put you in stunlock positions. Map design: - Terrible. It is a bunch of themed areas that make no sense and have no visual or logical flow or transition save for a few higher ground areas. It is a bunch of themed areas with random identical-looking hallways that are hard to remember with no landmarks and you have to open the map every block you move. Secrets/metroidvania backtracking is abyssmal. It is random and badly implemented partially due to the spammy random map design mentioned before; you don't remember where secrets are and have to rely on the limited legend/marking map system. A lot of progression-locked puzzles stacked on top of each other meaning you have to revisit the same scattered secrets or pointers to added to the map multiple times to see if you finally get it or progress paritally through them. With that said, navigation is also a problem as every inch of the map is littered with either enemies or traps in tight hallways, hence why the developers use fast travel systems as a crutch rather than organic shortcuts and smart map design or more immersive area transition systems. Music: - Really good by industry standards. The composer is well-know by know from the first game, but the latter had better music and atomsphere. Blasphemous 2 has more generic music that sounds like dilluted and flattened or crowded sountracks from the original which had more distinct notes and tunes. It is the same instruments and themes but the soundtracks feel noisier with less distinctive notes. Art/atomsphere: - Really good pixel art and backgrounds. The oppressive dark atomsphere of the original game is lost though and the scanlines CRT filter is not well implemented leading me to use a custom Reshade CRT filter; the in-game CRT filters are too dark and don't have sliders.

本人没有玩过恶魔城游戏，（以前一直觉得这是一个很牛批系列，毕竟小时候因为家庭各种原因没怎么玩过游戏。) 这次是真被这游戏恶心到了，地图重复使用，完全没有玩到觉得地图很惊艳，反而是三个武器和几种需要收集的能力然后回头反复。这真的不是恶趣味吗？如果你让我回头，可以把剧情或者怪物调的让人也惊艳一点吗？丝毫没有，就是纯粹的恶心你。为了回头探索而回头探索，可能说整个游戏时长几个小时就解决了。但是为了拖游戏时长，这个游戏时长如果不看攻略，可以毫不夸张的说，你可以玩到几十上百小时。我不知道这样的意义何在？探索的意义是无止境的折磨吗？我好像有点同情以前的游戏高玩了。纯纯折磨啊，如果折磨的是技术还好。这是为了治疗路痴吗。玩了大概40%左右了，没有了玩下去的欲望，完全就是强迫症在支撑。

Its amazing. I love the movement system. The cutscenes are FIRE too.

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Como secuela, funciona marabillosamente: logra recuperar o espírito do orixinal, mais dando novo xiro con novas armas e funcións, aparte de escenario novo que aínda así recupera espazos clásicos como Madre de Madres. Ademais, libera en parte cousiñas incómodas como o de buscar os confesores, e sube bastante en dificultade nos xefes. En conxunto, se ben ao principio molesta algo, co paso das horas creo que é un xogo máis redondo que o xa xenial Blasphemous, malia que por exemplo as armas sexan pouco versátiles (ao final a min compensábame ir sempre con Veredicto excepto para puzzles e un par de inimigos onde era mellor cubrirse e atacar). Tamén, que conste, que ten o mesmo erro que na primeira entrega, cunha narrativa bastante pobre e caótica, cun lore con potencial pero pouco redondeo. Algo que, ademais, leva a iso de dobre final e extras que só consigues con guía. Pero supoño que é parte do metroidvania actual, sabendo que a xente vai tirar de xogo meta mirando en google mentres explora. En resumo: si, divertido, coa dificultade axustada (podía ser máis duro, pero tamén faría coñazo o de reexplorar), espectacular nos escenarios e o lore xerado... Pero podía contar mellor.

Generally a great journey and fun build experimentation to make it your own. Downsides are some really difficult bosses at times that require pretty precise side scroller techniques, but its worth it in the end.