The story itself is told in a nice mix of voiced dialogue and animated cutscenes which, with the gorgeous art style, looks fantastic. Indeed, the gratuitous amount of blood and the manner in which you dispatch your foes is also evident, the combat finishers often decapitate or slice them in half and you’ll also witness other grotesque imagery throughout the story. Right from the outset you’ll notice that you’re not the only one of your kind, just the last surviving one and the game opens in a gory spectacle. The Penitent One himself isn’t characterized outside of being a devout follower and you’re left to your own devices as to how to set upon your task. The game has a heavy religious overtone and delves deep into all the tones, after all, a title such as Blasphemous should tell the story in its own right. The Great Miracle has failed and it’s up to The Penitent One to travel the land to seek out the Golden Visages. The backdrop of the story sees you control The Penitent One during the Age of Corruption in a land rife with religious belief. It’s a bold attempt, a few other metroidvania have attempted it with middling degrees of success and Blasphemous is certainly ambitious. Lots of developers have taken up the mantle of trying to push the genre in new and exciting ways and The Game Kitchen have attempted their take on the genre with Blasphemous, a game with a gorgeous art style seeped heavily in religious overtones while incorporating pieces of the Soulslike (games influenced by Dark Souls) genre to add a nice little twist off it. The tail end of this generation has seen a resurgence of the metroidvania genre with popular releases such as Bloodstained and Hollow Knight to name just a few.
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