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Punished Miku
Member
Very nice.
ClanOfNone
Member
First one was great, but the difficulty prevented me from finishing it. I managed to limp my way through Hollow Knight, but Blasphemous was on another level.
Portugeezer
Member
Nice, the first one was a true Metroidvania, loved it.
Spaceman292
Banned
I don't know how much they pay their artist, but whatever it is it's not enough.
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Fuz
Banned
You kidding? Hollow Knight is much harder.
TerribleAtThisGame
Member
This. I've beaten the first one three times now and the art is just fucking impressive.
Really excited for the sequel.
200% true
TerribleAtThisGame
Member
Edit: Nope, it's releasing on everything, just checked the website:
Blasphemous2 | Brutal action platformer
Blasphemous is a ruthless platform game set in a dark and nightmarish world where metroidvania style gameplay meets hack’n’slash action.
www.blasphemous2game.com
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Art The Clown
Banned
have the first one on the backlog. Gonna play it this month I think.
Kamina
Golden Boy
drotahorror
Member
First one is one of the best in the genre.
kvltus lvlzvs
Banned
Interesting, to me, the spike jumping section in hollow knight seemed to blow anything in blasphemous out of the water difficulty wise.
Different smokes for different folks, I guess - or in this case, torture implements.
abstract alien
Member
It's definitely better. That's for sure.
PanzerCute
Member
In my veins.
Needlecrash
Member
I really enjoyed the 1st one. Still need to play it again for the true ending. Having 3 main weapons at his disposal, plus air dashing, will be quite an experience here.
SORROW BE THY HEART, PENITENT ONE. FOR THE MIRACLE GROWS.
SORROW BE THY HEART, PENITENT ONE. FOR THE MIRACLE GROWS.
Arsic
Loves his juicy stink trail scent
It approaches a lot of its story and lore like souls games in that it is in item descriptions.
That said the game did with its last dlc also get a true ending added, lots of bosses and cut scenes, and a lead into the sequel Final Cut scene .
kubricks
Member
You sure? I am in the same boat. Completed Hollow Knight (and DLCs bosses) but Blasphemous is somehow very hard to me.
Not sure if it's the floaty jumping, or attack delays, or whatever, I just cannot get into it.
The instant death form falling and spike on a metroidvania style game is quite off putting tbh, might be that's the reason.
MiguelItUp
Member
Been waiting for this. Loved the first game so much. Cannot wait!
Fuz
Banned
Dunno. I didn't have any problems with Blasphemous, while Hollow Knight had me raging quire often.
And fuck the White Palace.
Is that the ending where you need to deal with all the npc stuff? I went to try that one but screwed something up about halfway through and never tried again.
dreamstation
Member
Colours look brighter and image looks too clean maybe? Loved the first game so keen as for this!
nkarafo
Member
I like Blasphemous because it does 2D Pixel Art right.
The vast majority of modern "retro" or 2D games are either those low resolution games where you can't depict any detail (because the devs think "pixel art" means highly pixelated mosaic) or those awful cal-arts/adobe flash looking games with even more awful skeletal animations. There are exceptions but i think Blasphemous is one of the better ones.
The pixel art is higher resolution than a 16bit game but not as high as to lose it's pixel-ness and retro feel. So it looks like a good looking 2D Saturn game, sort of, which i believe is the best pixel art can look. The detailing/shading of the art/sprites is also well done. Shading is one thing most modern 2D games seem to lack, even the ones that are considered good looking without being too low res or suffering from skeletal animation. But they still tend to look very clean with flat coloring.
The vast majority of modern "retro" or 2D games are either those low resolution games where you can't depict any detail (because the devs think "pixel art" means highly pixelated mosaic) or those awful cal-arts/adobe flash looking games with even more awful skeletal animations. There are exceptions but i think Blasphemous is one of the better ones.
The pixel art is higher resolution than a 16bit game but not as high as to lose it's pixel-ness and retro feel. So it looks like a good looking 2D Saturn game, sort of, which i believe is the best pixel art can look. The detailing/shading of the art/sprites is also well done. Shading is one thing most modern 2D games seem to lack, even the ones that are considered good looking without being too low res or suffering from skeletal animation. But they still tend to look very clean with flat coloring.
Needlecrash
Member
Yea, basically you're not supposed to fight one of the bosses and you have to meet with someone else first. When the DLC came out, I LITERALLY just beat the boss I wasn't supposed to. With NG+, you carry over all relics and your beads, so it'll make the experience much faster.
Pimpollo818
Member
muy good
buena fuerte
yes way jose
buena fuerte
yes way jose
TerribleAtThisGame
Member
I've looked at all the footage that's out there and noticed there's a bit of an inconsistency with art styles. That skeleton priest looking boss looks extremely cartoony while other new NPCs/bosses clearly still have the much more morbid looking style. I'm not an expert, so it's hard to explain in detail but I agree that the art looks inconsistent. It's kind of in line with those goofy cartoon trailers they did at one point, I think to announce the DLC, that seemed completely at odds with the game's tone and art direction.
GymWolf
Member
I was thinking the same exact thing about the skeleton boss.
64bitmodels
Reverse groomer.
Examples plz?
TerribleAtThisGame
Member
As far as I recall, the first one has a few inconsistencies like that as well so for now I think I'm just cherry-picking a few examples and over-analyzing them. Let's be real, I'll buy this Day 1 and play the shit out of it anyway lulz.
But joking aside, yeah, whatever that skeleton boss art style is...it sticks out like a sore thumb.
TerribleAtThisGame
Member
It's actually hard for me to tell because I played the original with the scanline option at all times. They're not great but 2D pixel art looks weird to me just...raw on a 55" modern TV.
MR ARCADE FOREVER
Member
I think it's quite the opposite. HK is way harder!
Sidney Prescott
Member
Damn I just actually started playing the first the past couple of days and I've fallen in love with it. It's awesome to see this.
I can definitely see myself picking it up.
I can definitely see myself picking it up.