The graphics move at a steady clip, taking on a "less is more attitude" and managing to convey a sense of foreboding and horror even without the most detailed, three-dimensional monsters to be found. The experience of Blasphemous is a delight and fans looking for a video game that will manage to present a fair challenge can pick this one up, knowing that they'll be playing one of the most disturbing, immersive experiences in video games this year. From the bloody graphics to haunting music, Blasphemous finds its way into your nightmares and is a game begging to be replayed, thanks to its fantastic gameplay.

Blasphemous es todo lo que busco en un metroidvania: adictivo, con un gran diseño y un combate disfrutable. Si además a todo esto le añades una estética y un folclore único con una historia de penitencia y radicalismo religioso tenemos un juego donde perdernos durante horas.

Dudo que mi anécdota tenga interés alguno para cualquiera de vosotros, pero, en mi modesta opinión, creo que es el reflejo de que es un título es único. Porque no existe absolutamente nada igual en el mercado. España es un país de tradiciones y, sin entrar o no en debates estériles sobre su ¿aceptación? en pleno Siglo XXI, disfrutar de un título que coge todo lo que muchos hemos vivido —nos guste o no— y lo retuerce hasta la más atroz de las versiones que podáis imaginar es una sensación única. Además, no penséis que contar con un trasfondo tan especial era suficiente para triunfar; eso nunca habría sucedido si Blasphemous no fuera un videojuego fantástico. 

Blasphemous is a pleasant surprise this year and an indispensable title for fans of metroidvania or souls-like games.

Blasphemous takes a few well trodden genres and mashes them into something that is fun, rewarding and downright beautiful. Its story, themes and macabre nature will not suit everyone but I could not get enough of it. Its difficulty is near-perfect, not too hard but enough of a challenge to please most players. Metroidvania fans, Souls-like fans and gamers who want a challenge will revel in this games gorgeously crafted world. Its a brilliantly crafted experience that needs to be played.

Blasphemous gets so much right, but also creates its own identity with its stellar art style, tight gameplay and platforming, and unique cast of characters

Blasphemous es un juego que creo que todo jugón debería tener en su biblioteca, es uno de los mejores juegos que salió en 2019 y encima es de un estudio español.

Blasphemous me conquistou com seu mundo belo, perturbador e intrincado. A aventura do Penitente é repleta de criaturas bizarras, locais desconcertantes e cenas estranhas, resultando em uma experiência hipnotizante.

De una u otra forma disfrutaremos enormemente explorando su universo como también leyendo la descripción de cada uno de sus objetos y atando los cabos sueltos de su retorcida historia sobre la terrible maldición que arraiga al penitente hacia un mundo de aflicción y tortura.

Acción y plataformas 2D con un sistema de combate profundo y exigente, y unas características de juego influenciadas por el gran Dark Souls. Todo ello envuelto en un magnífico pixel art y una ambientación perfecta de un mundo decadente y brutal, con la religión y toda su imagenería sobre la culpa, el pecado, el castigo, etc. como tema central. De buen grado manejaremos al Penitente por la inhóspita tierra de Cvstodia acabando con cualquier enemigo que se nos cruce en el camino. Sobresaliente.

'Blasphemous' es, simple y llanamente, un gran juego. Ofrece todo lo que prometió cuando fue anunciado y el conjunto se sostiene en todo momento por un gran equilibrio entre sus componentes. The Game Kitchen ha sido muy inteligente a la hora de mirarse en el espejo de los más grandes para coger los mejores elementos de cada uno de ellos y brindarles una personalidad arrolladora. Todo —o casi— está perfectamente diseñado; ni corto ni largo, desafiante, pero sin caer en la frustración y profundo sin llegar a abrumar.

Blasphemous successfully manages to carve out it’s own place among the pantheon of fantastic modern indie Metroidvanias like Hollow Knight, Ori and the Blind Forest and Guacamelee, with consistently stunning enemy and environment design, wonderfully paced exploration, deep and challenging combat and a tone that is all it’s own.

Blasphemous might be derivative, but it's one of the best, if not the best Metroid-like I've played this year. Not only is it downright gorgeous, but the gameplay is uniformly excellent and hunting for its many secrets make it a puzzle well worth exploring.

Blasphemous is not just a video game; it is a digital anthropological artifact, elevating it to the best "Christian" game that I have ever played.

If you love the Metroidvania, the challenging platforms, the detailed Pixel Art and the highly gloomy, heavy and terrifying atmospheres, this game should be a must in your library.

Blasphemous is probably not the best metroidvania you can find right now on Xbox, but surely it is one of the most special and personal.

Blasphemous is a twisted take on religion and Metroidvanias, providing great combat, fantastic visuals and a world that's soaked in both blood and well-written lore

From start to finish Blasphemous kept me engaged. Even when I reached the end I just wanted the game to keep going. I'm not the biggest fan of its approach to storytelling but the combat and exploration borrows from the best the genre has to offer.

Blasphemous rebosa calidad a lo largo y ancho de todo su propuesta jugable y narrativa. Una obra cuidada hasta el más mínimo detalle. Un metroidvania soberbio.

While lacking in sheer variety, what's there is solid. The art style and atmosphere is spectacular, and combat is intense and bloody.

Blasphemous is a fascinating and intricate game with bias in dark Catholicism that offers a host of enemies, abilities and locations for painstaking research. Well executed bosses with original mechanics and a powerful atmosphere should please fans of the genre, despite some issues with platforming and goals closer to the end of the story.

All in all, Blasphemous is a fun game. It provides challenging enemies and platforming sections, but some challenges are less difficult and more unfair. Still, Blasphemous is a demanding experience that will make you feel rewarded for your tribulations.

Blasphemous requires a lot of patience and practice because you have to get really good at the combat. If you like challenging platformers, then this a must-have due to its unique story and art style. However, it may not be for everyone due to its steep difficulty and focus on constant death.

Blasphemous is a Metroidvania with gorgeous pixelated graphics and simple, yet satisfying combat. Tedious sidequests and some minor design flaws hold back this 2D from shining even more.

A tough, well-wrought action-platformer distinguished by some toe-curling portrayals of sin.

If you’re skilled, you can speed through in a little over ten hours, though exploring every nook and cranny of the map and finding all of the collectables can take upwards of double that, especially considering there are two endings to experience. At any rate, Blasphemous is torturously fun, and one of the best the genre has to offer.

If you love SNES platformers and aren't concerned by the possibility of an angry god pressing its "smite" button to rain lightning upon you, Blasphemous is simply a must-play.

Blasphemous is a fantastic souls-like Metroidvania, featuring an exceptional aesthetic design that adds to what is one of the most macabre worlds in gaming today. In addition to this, outstanding combat and a range of interesting enemies, bosses and more - supported by some great level design (with some issues in navigation), this is a game that I can do nothing but recommend to anybody and everybody. It's difficult, challenging and most of all, fun.

I liked Blasphemous a lot, it is a well designed Metroidvania game (more Castlevania than Metroid) without the complexities of many modern titles. it has Castlevania's design philosophy and Dark Souls mechanics while creating a sorrowful world of its own. moment to moment gameplay is not as tight as Castlevania though.

Despite being a bit tedious, Blasphemous offers many satisfying moments like being able to find a shortcut or a shrine when you most need it. Some of the quests are really interesting and even if they're not mandatory to finish the game, I would strongly recommend trying to finish as many of them as possible.

The way the story is told (or rather discovered), the amazing artwork, and the fast-paced combat are aspects of the game that grabbed me throughout my playthrough. You'll indeed have to do a lot of backtracking if you want to complete as much as the game as possible, but the rewards are worth it.

Blasphemous podría catalogarse como un metroidvania 2D -con muchos matices eso sí- de tantos que hay en el mercado, sin embargo su cuidado trasfondo y apartado artístico le convierten en un juego con grandísima personalidad. Gran parte de su puesta en escena está influenciada en el arte religioso y la iconografía andaluza, eso sí, retorciéndola y dándola un toque macabro que ha resultado toda una sorpresa.

Blasphemous isn’t overly complicated with it’s gameplay, and puts it’s focus (wisely) into it’s core. Quality seeps from every disgusting, nightmarish crack as you trudge through, atoning for The Penitent One’s sins. I can’t stress how striking from an artist’s standpoint every aspect of this game is. It’s not a walk in the park by any means either–this is a difficult game, fitting perfectly with the theme. You will stumble and fail on your journey, but you will keep coming back for more. You’ll need more than faith, Penitent One. Have some luck too. You’ll need it.

Blasphemous is a highly stylized and brutally challenging action platformer set in a world of great religious reverence, may be too difficult for some players, also in terms of the cruelty of the themes

Blasphemous is postulated as one of the indies of the year, a great metroidvania, demanding and with a wonderful artistic design and a fascinating lore based on the culture and art of southern Spanish.

As it stands in its current form, I will say that if Blasphemous’ aesthetic interests you even a little, or if you’re a fan of metroidvania-style games, then it’s absolutely worth checking out in its current form.

Blasphemous entra por los ojos con sus gráficos de mucha calidad bidimensional así como por sus cutscenes sangrientas e impactantes, a las que se añade con mucha gracia un lore patrio en el que The Game Kitchen se han regodeado en lo grotesco. Aunque es bastante competente como metroidvania y asimila muy bien los conceptos de Hidetaka Miyazaki en cuanto a exploración, no llega a asaltar el trono de los Hollow Knight, Salt and Sanctuary y demás joyas bidimensionales del momento. Se trata, eso sí, de un juego muy recomendable para quienes disfruten con una propuesta de este tipo cada poco tiempo.

La épica de muchos de sus combates y su gran puesta en escena convierten a Blasphemous un videojuego de acción metroidvania de lo más interesante. Su combate es desafiante y por momentos también emocionante, pero no termina de sacar provecho a todo su potencial. Lo mismo ocurre con la exploración de un mundo de juego tan interesante que duele que no sea capaz de generar mayor interés para descubrir todos sus secretos. El potencial está ahí, y tiene calidad de sobra, pero Blasphemous se ha quedado algo lejos de cumplir con las altas expectativas que había generado.

Besides the astonishing art design and the rich and imaginative dark-fantasy world, Blasphemous doesn't know how to mix perfectly the different genres it belongs to.

Though it can be frustrating that its core gameplay never evolves past the often one-note rhythm of hacking and jumping across different levels, keeping it from reaching greater heights, I still came away impressed with how much Blasphemous stuck close to its haunting, dark storyline. To that end, playing through this send-up to metroidvania games was a satisfying trial to overcome in its own right.

Blasphemous is a solid, beautifully haunting metroidvania. Some rough spots prevent it to really shine but it's still a great experience if the theme interests you.

Lack of depth and variety, and some platforming missteps, stain an otherwise great, oppressive experience.

Blasphemous is an exciting dark-fantasy adventure with religious undertones, yet it struggles to maintain its poise throughout.

Blasphemous is a perfectly competent "Souls-like" game, but while it's high on stark beauty and vicious violence, it comes up short on substance.

A formulaic Metroidvania with satisfying combat and a thick mood in the air, Blasphemous uses its pixel art style and fixation on religious iconography to establish a powerful vision of a forsaken world.

Even though its bursting with a strong identity, Blasphemous struggles to find its own footing in a crowded genre. There are glimpses of what could’ve been an amazing game, but much of it its bogged down due to its over reliance on a dull skill system.

Blasphemous is a great little 2D Souls-like which will definitely appeal to fans of dark and difficult games. It doesn't have the polish of the likes of Dead Cells and is more linear than true Metroidvanias like Hollow Knight, but follows in the bloodied footsteps of titles like Death's Gambit and Slain: Back From Hell.

An accomplished attempt to create a mix of Dark Souls and traditional Metroidvania, but its bizarre visual style ultimately overshadows its other virtues.

Blasphemous is a mostly solid action platformer. Beautiful yet grotesque artwork and fun moment-to-moment gameplay is held back by a few instances of badly flawed level design and some questionable boss mechanics. If you can get past the flaws there's a lot to enjoy here for fans of platformers and for lore hounds that enjoy teasing out meaning from a cryptic story.

Look, I like Blasphemous. It’s a game that’s unique in presentation, and despite the slight disconnect with the game mechanics, it’s a solid adventure game. Most of my criticisms stem from whether or not The Game Kitchen focused on so much heavy lore that it affected the game from feeling more tangible or exploring more innovative gameplay mechanics. But if everything I said is not an issue, then you will have fun with this title. A “fans of the genre” if you will. I’m just not a fan of having lore completely takeover a world I’d rather explore on my own.

En definitivita, comentaros que Blasphemous nos ha parecido un interesante juego de acción, con toques Souls y mucha exploración, al cual le acompaña una confusa aunque interesante ambientación y narración que ciertamente nos remueve algo en nuestro interior, y más si somos gentes que conocemos muy de primera mano el universo donde se inspira y sus tradiciones, y que os animamos a probar y a haceros con él, ya que os va a dar una buena cantidad de horas de juego, un interesante desafío y un concepto general de bases jugables que os conseguirá proponer buenos ratos de diversión.

Blasphemous is a great addition to the genre and it truly feels like a unique creation able to stand fine on its own without taking too much from other games out there. The world and lore are fantastic and enough to keep anyone with a passing interest engrossed to the very end.

The aesthetic is incredible, and the map design of Cvstodia is solid and engaging. Unfortunately the game is too bogged down with a high difficulty level that is more tedious than challenging, dragging the entire experience down into something I can hardly bring myself to play. Blasphemous is a beautiful game that I wish I could enjoy more, but the extremely high difficulty of combat and platforming simply does not mesh well with the amount of exploration and backtracking needed from a world as expansive as this one.

Blasphemous is unforgiving, brutal, and at times, unfair. Beneath the drudgery is a compelling and dark tale waiting to be uncovered. If you are willing to endure its frustrations, you’ll be rewarded with grim and spectacular visuals that’ll be forever burned into your mind, and an equally twisted story to match them.

The Game Kitchen has passionately brought two of gaming’s most-loved genres together in Blasphemous that is worthy of much praise. The slick gameplay and painstakingly crafted art present what can only be considered a product of love in the highest form. While the story is creepy and subtle, there’s a world and a culture to the game that I’m sure many players will instantly fall for. Blasphemous is indelibly hard because there’s simply no way that you’re going to forget how hard its mechanics are testing you. As is often the case with games like it, this is an adventure that will quickly decide whether you want to go on it or not.

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Una terrible maldición conocida como el Milagro ha caído sobre la tierra de Cvstodia y sus habitantes.

Eres el Penitente, el único superviviente de la masacre de la hermandad del Lamento Mudo.

Estás atrapado en un ciclo de penitencia de muerte y resurrección constante, y solo tú puedes librar al mundo de este destino tan terrible y llegar al origen de tu angustia.

Explora este mundo terrorífico y su religión retorcida y descubre los secretos que aguardan escondidos. Realiza combos devastadores y ejecuciones brutales para castigar a las hordas de monstruos grotescos y jefes titánicos dispuestos a desgarrarte en mil pedazos. Encuentra y equípate reliquias, cuentas de rosario y plegarias que te darán los poderes fervorosos para ayudarte a acabar con tu maldición eterna.

Al final de todo, el desempeño estético de Blasphemous se revela como un acto de pura seducción. Un recurso que se sirve de lo cultural específico como fondo en el que impostar unas simples dinámicas de reto y entretenimiento. La posibilidad de que la reconstrucción cultural de un videojuego nacional que dé un giro hacia lo propio y lo interno acaba diluida por su apelación a lo puramente superficial, a algo que se mira pero que no tiene tiempo para conjurar una forma alternativa y esencial de hacer retórica. Ni para que cuando una minoría arrinconada del común denominador cultural aparece por fin en un juego de largo recorrido y alcance no lo haga como un simple circuito de obstáculos y enemigos que no dicen nada, sino algo que se vive, que se escucha y que se comenta. Algo que se juega.

Por ingenioso y cautivador, por bello y turbio, no me cabe duda de que, en los tiempos venideros, el juego seguirá dando de qué hablar. Desempeña sus funciones con genuina lucidez, cristalizándose así en un viaje realmente fantástico. Es francamente difícil, en el fondo, estar a malas con Blasphemous, incluso cuando parece desconocer hacia dónde va. Porque, al final, todo aquello que nos haya hecho mantener un trato reticente queda, en comparación con las buenas ideas, eclipsado.

Blasphemous es realmente impresionante en términos de arte y jugabilidad en el género metroidvania. Si te gustan los juegos de Hidetaka Miyazaki o los metroidvania, definitivamente deberías probar Blasphemous. Si The Game Kitchen sigue mejorando y puliendo lo mostrado en este juego, podríamos ver un Blasphemous 2 destacando como un juego excepcional en el género, atrayendo a jugadores que buscan desafíos emocionantes con la estética grotesca que lo caracteriza.

En un contexto lúdico marcado por la inmediatez y el consumo conspicuo, Blasphemous reclama una experiencia pausada, meditada y metódica. Lejos del pastiche y la ironía, el título sevillano demanda seriedad y reposo. Si Marx parafraseaba a Hegel en su recurrencia de la historia que el siglo XXI, en su confusión y falta aparente de horizonte claro, enlaza con el convulso XVII; necesariamente Blasphemous no es sino la resurgencia de una forma artística que obliga a la introspección, incluso a pesar del dolor que esta produzca.