Blasphemous 2 Review Thread
Game Information
Game Title: Blasphemous 2
Platforms:
- PlayStation 5 (Aug 24, 2023)
- Xbox Series X/S (Aug 24, 2023)
- PC (Aug 24, 2023)
- Nintendo Switch (Aug 24, 2023)
Trailer:
Developer: The Game Kitchen
Publisher: Team17
Review Aggregator:
OpenCritic - 84 average - 97% recommended - 32 reviews
Critic Reviews
AltChar - Semir Omerovic - 100 / 100
Attack of the Fanboy - J.R. Waugh - 4.5 / 5
CGMagazine - Andrew Farrell - 8.5 / 10
Checkpoint Gaming - Tom Quirk - 8.5 / 10
Console Creatures - Luke Williams - Recommended
Cultured Vultures - Mike Worby - 8.5 / 10
Destructoid - Timothy Monbleau - 8.5 / 10
GGRecon - Jack Roberts - 5 / 5
Game Informer - Brian Shea - 8.8 / 10
GameGrin - Conor McGuigan - 7.5 / 10
Gameblog - KiKiToes - French - 8 / 10
Gameffine - Jay Krishnan - 90 / 100
GamesRadar+ - Joe Donnelly - 4.5 / 5
Geek Culture - Jake Su - 8.5 / 10
IGN - Travis Northup - 8 / 10
IGN Spain - Mario Seijas - Spanish - 9 / 10
Kakuchopurei - Jonathan Leo - 90 / 100
Nintendo Life - PJ O'Reilly - 9 / 10
NintendoWorldReport - Alex Orona - 8 / 10
PSX Brasil - Marco Aurélio Couto - Portuguese - 85 / 100
PlayStation Universe - Garri Bagdasarov - 9 / 10
Polygon - Paulo Kawanishi - Unscored
Push Square - Simon Fitzgerald - 9 / 10
Rectify Gaming - Henry - 8.8 / 10
Rock, Paper, Shotgun - Matt Cox - Unscored
Shacknews - Nicholas Tan - 8 / 10
Spaziogames - Domenico Musicò - Italian - 7.9 / 10
TechRaptor - Joe Allen - 7.5 / 10
TheSixthAxis - Steve C - 9 / 10
WayTooManyGames - Heidi Hawes - 9 / 10
ZdobywcyGier.eu - Paweł Bortkiewicz - Polish - 8.5 / 10
This game definitely interests me, should I play the first game before playing this one?
While I guess you ask because you want to know if the story of the first is important to the second and I can't answer that because I only played the first. But If you like hard but rewarding Metrodvania games and you are interested in the weird and interesting religious/horror pixel aesthetic I say: definitely play the first Blasphemous!
Oh nice! The aesthetic is what drew me in the first place.
I just started BG3, so maybe I should put that on pause to play this since BG3 seems like a long haul.
I can vouch only for the first one. Its so cool. Ths aesthetics, the lore, the story, the bosses... Oh and a banger soundtrack!
If this interests you, no reason not to play the first! I personally bounced off of it, but I don't think that is the game's fault.
The game's combat strikes a unique balance between "slow and deliberate" (ala Dark Souls) and traditional fast-paced platformer combat. I went in wanting the game to feel like Hollow Knight, and it is definitely not the same. You don't play a bouncy lil bug man, you play a big heavy knight. Big heavy knight + platforming felt like a weird combo to me, so I put it down. But not every game is for everybody!
I think the only thing I might have changed about the first game is removing relic slots. It felt a little needless to limit the number of keys/exploration upgrades the player can use at any one time. Other than that, solid game.