Surprisingly for a game that’s so heavy on the story, Blasphemous doesn’t focus very much on the purportedly main character. Which is mostly fantastic, but given the game’s heavy religious imagery, if it had been a failure, one could have worked the pun ‘Smitey No. Not all of these have been implemented yet at the time of writing, but as Blasphemous was only released in September 2019 across the PS4, Switch, Xbox One and PC, it’s understandable that they’re not finished adding content to the game, and undeniable that their Kickstarter campaign was a roaring success. But their goal of $50,000 was met within the first 24 hours, and they went on to meet the requirements for an incredible seventeen stretch goals, including a digital comic, voice acting, hiring additional staff, and several new modes of play. So while this wasn’t their first title, an open ended Metroidvania was a pretty big departure from their last game.
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The aforementioned Kickstarter was launched in May 2017, touting the game as a “dark and brutal non-linear platformer” in which you “vanquish bloodthirsty creatures, the devotees of a twisted religion.” The developers, ‘The Game Kitchen’, had previously worked on The Last Door, a point and click adventure reminiscent of old LucasArts titles, but crammed full of psychological horror. But first and foremost, Blasphemous is just an exceedingly good game. Blasphemous is a Kickstarter project backed by nearly ten thousand supporters that exceeded its $50,000 goal by more than quarter of a million dollars. Blasphemous is an exploration of the self-fulfilling nature of extreme religious fervour. Blasphemous is a hack and slash platformer with a few RPG elements thrown in.
Enter Blasphemous.īlasphemous is many things. And a world so beautifully broken that it manages to be awful and awe-inspiring at the same time.
A satisfying and extremely replayable gameplay loop that’s reliably difficult, but not irritatingly so.
One could happily play a hundred games that tried to do ‘ Dark Souls but 2D’ with a bit of Symphony of the Night thrown in – which is fortunate for me, because that’s approximately how many are released each week – but in such a competitive market, the developer would have to nail absolutely everything in order to stand out a cast, setting and plot with thematic consistency of tragedy, but not hopelessness. While there’s nothing inherently negative about the terms ‘Souls-like’ or ‘Metroidvania’, you could hardly say that the indie scene had experienced a shortage of either of these genres at any point in the last five years.
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