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Well, it's too bad the game didn't quite click with you. I consider it a very good game and have beaten it a few times, but I do understand how the checkpoint system, parry mechanics and non-linear exploration elements can be unappealing to others. Upgrading the checkpoints to fast travel points does solve a lot of the backtracking issues though.
most of what i enjoyed about the game was exploring to discover more about the world and the setting. Combat being fun along the way with that and the AMAZING music nailed it for me.
This is one of my favorite games! Sorry to see you didn’t enjoy it quite as much. The combat was simplistic but I absolutely love the atmosphere and art of this game.
yeah, to each his own! I loved Blasphemous so much more than, for example Super Metroid because the art, enemies, music and combat was interesting enough to where I didn't care about backtracking as much. And also, I used the icon system on the map so I could place specific markers in areas to better manage where I needed to go.
My family is from Spain and seeing how this game is filled with Spanish cultural allusions I was instantly hooked on this. A lot of the enemies and world design comes from Spanish festivals, old Spanish paganism and folk tales. Even the majority of the music being classical flamenco pieces is a love letter to Spanish culture. Then on top of that, taking all that Spanish and catholic culture and then distorting it into a death-metal/grindcore art style helped to draw me in even more. I would have bought the art book if it wasn't like 100$ lol
That's one of the reasons I absolutely loved the game, as a Brit this was "fresh" to me and was fascinating. I've spent a considerable amount of time researching Northern European Folklore (predominantly Britain, Republic of Island and Scandinavian territories) and Blasphemous provided a compelling argument (not that one was needed) to research this aspect of Spanish culture.
The art book was absolutely worth the price. I was lucky enough to snag one - it's very well put together and thoughtfully made. I think there's digital copies of it out there as well. Seeing all of the drafts of penitent and sketches of monsters/areas really gives an insight into how much they cared to get things in this game right.
I remember purchasing Blasphemous when it came out and I fell off the game pretty quick. I replayed & finished the game last year on the switch and it's became one of my favorite games I've ever played. I'm sorry you didn't enjoy it as much as I did but I'm glad you atleast gave it go for a honest opinion.
Same here. I did finish the game on release, but it became sooo much better with the Stir of Dawn DLC that it's now my 2nd favorite metroidvania (1st is Super Metroid). I also really love the anti-religious vibes and twisted game world. Not something you see everyday.
The three different NG+ modes are way more fun than a normal NG. The DLC bosses are much more challenging than base game bosses too but they're all locked behind NG+ mode. I'm glad it's not linear though, I prefer it the way that it is. I haven't been this obsessed with a game world's lore since Bloodborne so finding all the hidden items/areas and putting in the effort to unlock the third secret ending where you basically get to kill "God" and get a tease for the sequel is what makes this such an enthralling experience. I love this game so much, it's incredible for what it is.
are the dlc bosses really locked behind NG+? on my first playthrough now fighting Isidora from the dlc and she’s definitely not locked… idk about the snake thing, havent made it there yet
Looks like you didn't break the Bell in Jondo. It actually is pretty linear for a Metroidvania type game as you don't really have to revisit areas after you beat the boss. Your only requires to go back if you want upgrades and collectables, with the odd exception. But I found it like each area was its own kind of level but you are right it's not always clear what to do. It can be frustrating as hell but I love this game. One of my favorites
I feel like you didn't really pay attention to the tame trying to teach you things. I really can't imagine how you could have missed the fact that you were removing chains from Jondo so you could ring it.
I’m surprised that, you loving the big puzzle area of the game, couldn’t figure out the most obvious and main backtracking puzzle in that area based on your map at the near end of the video
It's not, but it's the first mechanic the game explicitly asks you to learn and then has many rooms with shield enemies that are best to parry while you're still figuring out how to play. Overall it's not a parry game.
I agree with you on most points, but I think the music is suposed to comunicate sadness, because you play a penitent. The protagonist feels sad and just thinks about his sins, hense the calm tone of the soundtrack.
"Souls fans, I have news for you: parry systems does not equal smart combat". I cannot think of a single Demon/Dark souls enemy that REQUIRES parrying to beat. There are many approaches to defensive in combat in that series, spacing/positioning, dodge rolling, blocking, hyper armour, using ranged weapons/magic. Parrying is another tool in that toolbox, it's a high risk high reward defensive tool in the hands of a normal player, pulling off a risky parry is exhilarating but parrying is also something that allows players to demonstrate a high level of skill and knowledge against that enemies attack timing. One of the greatest strengths of that series is presenting challenges and you drawing/finding your preferred options and tools to overcome that challenge. The souls series has a high amount of player expression and skill expression. Anyway I understand you're literally saying Souls fans say parrying=smart combat but the implications of specifically pointing to souls fans implies the souls games require their parry systems in order to have their "smart" combat which is misinformed. Rant over I get a little triggered when people approaching video game analysis will do disservices to games they don't have a good understanding of but regardless I really enjoy your content and find it engaging keep up the good work. I'm not sure if you'd have time but if you're looking for another 3D action game you might like DmC Devil May Cry, it's combat is somewhere between GoW and DMC but with its own unquie elements going off your discussions on "character action" style games I'm super curious of your thoughts on it I have a feeling you might like it though it's generally disliked due different developers/creative direction.
your comment is on point, I think it's funny how from creates a game that focuses on parry and "action games fans" people kill it, and platinum had already made mgr a long time ago, which is also a game that focuses a lot on parry, they are probably more accepted because it is a studio "that knows good combat"
I've interacted with enough from software fans to know that plenty think that when I say I don't enjoy parrying and I find lack of animation canceling unsatisfying, it means that I just suck and want brainless button mashing combat. Especially the sekiro fans. So I don't take back what I said. If I should have said FS fans instead of specifically Souls, fine. It's not about whether there are enemies that REQUIRE parrying. It's that if you don't enjoy parries and non-cancellable melee attacks like souls and sekiro, you're inferior. I hear it daily.
@@underthemayo You're definitely not inferior for not liking parry systems and I strongly disagree with anyone who makes those claims. Sounds like some elitist trolls. If we're talking about Sekiro then yes that game it's essential to learn to parry to finish it. I'm really curious on your takes on cancelable/non-cancelable attacks now. It's interesting how these styles are balanced aswell, enemies in older souls games and monster hunter are slow and telegraphed but you're character's actions are also very deliberate and have to commit to animations. It's more about reading/game sense/spacing than reactions. On the other hand games with more non-committal attacks usually have faster attacking enemies and often more on-screen. More relying on quick offensive and twitch reflexes for defensive. I think I know which you enjoy more but it'd be interesting to see you draw some lines of what you do/don't like.
I'm only 1 minute and 30 seconds into this video and genuinely I don't know why people would expect you to like this game. You don't like souls games or metroidvania. The combat isn't anything to write home about either and I literally adore this game. I dunno it's kinda weird to me that someone would think "well even though he didn't like when the messenger became Metroidvania, and he said he didn't like souls-like games or parry systems, he might like blasphemous!"
There's a certain kind of person who, if they like something, they're psychologically incapable of grasping the concept that someone else might _not_ like it, because it's great and people like things that are great, right? This is also why you get people attacking critics for writing critical (even if not entirely negative) reviews of things they like.
I don't know why they label this game a Soulslike. It's a Metroidvania to the core. An action/adventure game with some platforming and RPG elements. I guess it might be because of the indirect storytelling but that isn't even exclusive to Soulslikes. Nor checkpoints.
I think of Blasphemous and Hollow Knight as "Soulsvania." I want to explore, but the game wants to train me for difficult boss fights. Does every enemy take five hits and half my health? Should I risk looking for upgrades, or is the game punishing me to say I shouldn't be in this part of the map yet? Do they actually expect me to farm for money? Combat-heavy games work better when they're linear.
It’s very interesting that Mayo likes Dead Cells, roguelike metroidvania (!) with tons of exploration, useless items, backtracking, it even has parries. Literally why? Not the first time Mayo’s video leaves me confused.
I really wish I could've loved Blasphemous, I love the art style, the music, the oppressive atmosphere, but there's something off about the combat for me and i can't quite put my finger on it, and there's also one thing I utterly despise in 2D games, instant death pits, they're everywhere in this game, coupled that with the very scarce checkpoints and having to retread 10-15 minutes everytime I messed up one jump, frustrated me and got old really fast. I made it about 70% through and I just couldn't bring myself to finish it. I personally consider Hollow Knight to be much harder than Blasphemous but it never felt a fraction as frustrating to play and I had a lot of fun the whole way through, and I do think that's what completely turned me off from Blasphemous, I just wasn't having fun playing it and it's a shame because on paper it's a game I'm supposed to really really like, but it unfortunately didn't click with me.
Blasphemous has been my favorite game for about 3 years and I'm glad you had some fun with it, im ngl that it made me bit sad that Blasphemous "souls like" combat and checkpoint system was what you disliked most but if is not your cup of tea you do you bother
I don't get the 'souls-like' comparison, when the combat is far more like a castlevania. They did a great job on making the hitboxes pixel-perfect and giving visual/audio feedback on hits/blocks.
Im glad that you, at least, give it a try! I just spend like 48 hours exploring aaaaaaaaalll the map hahahaha and then i need to RE START a new run for the TRUE MAGNIFICENT FINAL. Good video bro!
Saw the title and was immediately like "yeah this dude has made it clear he doesn't like souls-likes or metroidvanias why the fuck would y'all recommend a SOULSVANIA lmao" Glad you still checked it out though. I'm a huge fan of soulsvanias so this game looks amazing to me. It's been on my list for a while, will definitely buy it once I'm done with my existing library.
@@Upsetkiller456 I think the souls aspect that traditional metroidvanias miss are the boss designs/mechanics. Ori is a metroidvania but if the exact game was in 3D it would still just be a metroidvania, not a souls like. It maybe somewhat valid to say that all souls likes are metroidvanias but not all metroidvanias are souls likes though
I’m not big on parrying either but I feel like you don’t even have to with this. I’ve gone through this game three times and I love it. Maaaaan you sure are hard on a game.
He won't like it because it switches between pseudo horror game and action game. He clearly likes a unified experience. At least I found it frustrating that there is pointless non linearity. I like non linearity in fitting games.
Cause people just ask me to play stuff and send it to me. I don't go researching it. I just play it and feel it out. Plus, as I've said in this series, I don't mind playing genres that I'm not a fan of. Even a game that I don't love can show me something new and make me glad that I played it, and I'm glad I played this one too. Hope that's enough.
I think you should probably try out Valfaris. It's pretty similar to this game, but with linear level design and more Contra style gameplay. The game lets you equip 1 primary, 1 secondary and 1 melee weapon. All that you find more of throughout the game and can upgrade. Meleeing enemies actually gives you energy which serves as ammo for your primary weapon. There's also an interesting checkpoint mechanic. I think theyre mostly not too far apart from each other. And the game basically rewards you with a bigger max health pool if you decide to skip a checkpoint. So if you think: "Hey this last part was pretty easy, and I wouldn't have a problem re-doing it if I died" you can consider skipping a checkpoint for more max health. (Though if you die and respawn at your last activated checkpoint, you always have the option to still use the checkpoint that you initially skipped in trade of the extra max hp that you got)
Wait Mayo despite not being that much of a fan of a game STILL recommends it!?! No way, that’s…that’s impossible. It can’t be! Remember everyone, “a game that isn’t made for everyone isn’t a game that should be made, [IN MY OPINION]”
That literally makes no sense. You are saying M rated games should never be made because little kids can't play them? You either messed up your double negative sentence structure or you didn't think very hard on this subject. PS. Opinions can still be wrong.
I feel like most of the things you didn't enjoy were just because of personal preference rather than anything wrong with the game. I love parry systems, and let me remind you, you love the maruder and he's basically a big "parry me with bullet" sign.
That actually makes sense. I still think a lot of the games you dislike are because the whole point of the game is something entirely different from what you enjoy, not really the fault of the game.
@@ananmaysahu4563 Sure, that happens. But I can usually find things I like in a game that doesn't work for me. AND, sometimes a game that would typically not be to my tastes at all ends up becoming a favorite, like Slay The Spire. I have a video on that.
Good video Mayo. I'm about to approach Blasphemous for the second time, the first one didn't click for me. I hope this time it will. The only one thing that I would have added to this video, if I may suggest, is some extra comment about the atmosphere. Blasphemous is not only jumping, parrying and slashing, but a lot is about artstyle, music and lore.
My favorite metroidvania is Ori and the Will of the Wisps, so check out the Ori games at some point - they're very accessible to newcomers and the objective is always clearly defined.
I've got nearly 600 hours on hollow knight, but I just couldn't get into the ori games, at the start I found myself being stuck for so long not knowing where to go, checking every corner but not making any progress, and having to look up walkthroughs every 20 minutes isn't fun.
A fun game I would recommend would be X Men Origins Wolverine. Movie sucked, but the combat in this game is quite entertaining P.S. Parries aren't a crucial mechanic in souls games. I've beaten all the souls games without having the ability to parry
@@scottroxford5715 Crucial usually implies that something (in this case parrying) is the decisive or critical factor in your success or failure. I would sooner say that it's crucial to master dodge rolling and soul management rather than parrying. Parry is high risk and high reward and only applicable in certain combat scenarios. That's at least my understanding of this.
@@scottroxford5715 Haven’t played bloodborne but DS3 became a cakewalk after my second/third playthrough and I know nothing about parrying, I just completely ignored it.
@@JPC555 That's why I said Bloodborne and not Dark Souls cause in Dark Souls you can just level yourself up and cleave through everything with no effort. You CAN do that to some extent in Bloodborne but enemies and bosses tend to be more aggressive and you can only have so much stamina before getting hard capped. Plus the games are totally different.
@@inferior3199 If you treat it that way which is why I stressed that Bloodborne becomes a cakewalk when you understand how parrying works, the damage scaling combined with a bloodtinge build. Bloodtinge is basically "How to Break the Game 101" which is why it's so limited in the game because all the bloodtinge weapons are busted. With a bloodtinge build you don't even need to find an opening to shoot an enemy, it could be on the first frame of their attack and if you shoot them it puts them in a visceral state. The Second Amendment beats Orphan of Kos basically.
hey mayo when I was playing blasphemous I have some of the same problems you have with it, it's not that I think it's bad it's just not really my thing. I also recomend you to play Postal: Brain Damaged, it's a shooter like dusk but since it's postal you can piss on the enemies and also piss cancel reload animation, very fun
Ori (the first game, Blind Forest) is linear, with optional exploration for hearts and XP. You can spend a resource to save anywhere. You might dig it.
Glad to see you tried it! I also really enjoyed the game until I got tired of the parrying and map design. I got very far in, but eventually, the parrying, the collectables, the map that you can't really traverse quickly like you can in a Metroid title... it just made me put the game down. I'm not a Soulslike fan at all, but I do like this game.
i gotta say tho that the parrying can be 100% ignored, maybe cuz this was literally the first souls like game i ever played and i only had played metroidvanias before, but i didnt bther to learn parrying until i was 80h in to the game and decided to start mastering every single system so if u dont like parrying, i found it to be optional
I know a linear action game you might like, it's called Madness Project Nexus, there's no filler, no backtracking, and a lot of action going on the screen, it cost around 25 bucks, there's also an arena mode where you can create your own guy.
I quite liked Blasphemous. the world connects in interesting ways and has a shit ton of secret rooms but for me it was pretty clear where to go so a bit of a shame you couldn't find your way. the combat is quite simplistic but the game makes the best out of it and some of the bosses can get pretty intense. it has amazing pixel art which is impressive and the music is nice but sometimes a bit repetitive in the base game. yes Jondo is definitely the best level in the game
How does it tell you where you need to go? For example, how was I supposed to know where to take the hairy egg on its various stages of it's journey? I didn't know where the game wanted me to take it. I had to look online to that the first destination was the tree where you fight the flying lady.
@@sub7se7en that’s an optional item and secret quest you can follow, not part of the main story, that wasn’t meant to be told to you, I’m on about the main quest, Deogracias literally tells you exactly where you need to go from the start of the game and after every area, it’s also fairly obvious if you just take a glance at your map and go where you haven’t been before.
I think you should give the Guacamelee games a shot, those games tend to be more linear and more on platforming and combat than exploration, some fans bash them for that but I think it adds to how good those games are.
@@underthemayo They might be more up your alley since the combat is more mandatory and requires you to learn it rather than being supplementary to the exploration.
the core of blasphemous isn't the parry system. i almost neve parried in any of my playthrough, but the metroidvania exploration system... if you don't appreciate this kind of mechanic, obviously the game won't amuse you. i loved it
My dude, i just cant agree that parry systems work in any game. theres a reason why i dont play darksouls or cuphead. parry systems are frustrating because they require patience under pressure when all you really should have to do is set up an attack. they make it incredibly difficult to control the combat. 10/10 would not recomend. much love man. see you in hell.
It's a shame he didn't like it. Not sure how he got lost or something bc compared to other Metroidvanias this one is pretty easy. Especially when you get a considerable amount of pin items you can use in the map. This game and the second one has become of my favorites in this genre. There's plenty of ways in which you can move around with the portals and the rest shrines (especially when you donate to the church in town to unlock that ability).
Honestly, you should give it another try. I had the same opinion as you until I finished what was essentially the tutorial/early game (i.e., finishing the 3 humiliations, as stated by Deogracias). The game really opens up after that and the exploring and backtracking aspect becomes so satisfying that I played the game to its finish right after. As others have said, the map indicates places you haven't been to with an empty side on a square.
I was a little hesitant to watch this video honestly. Because I love this channel but I love blasphemous. So I was thinking I really don't want to hear this guy shred the game. But I was to curious to pass it up. And I was yet again pleased with what I saw. I realized my difference with you as a gamer. The things I can enjoy while you may not. There's nothing you said where I couldn't see your point, and that's been a recurring factor in all your videos. I'm glad you got a chance to enjoy parts of blasphemous. It's too bad you got stuck and didn't get a chance to complete it. I'm used to metroidvania games so I didn't really get stuck or need a guide to pass something. Anyway love this channel. Keep it up because it's great, and based off what you say I trust your insight into what makes games good so now I want to try Sifu which I was otherwise uninterested in
Thanks! I really do try to make it clear when I'm just saying it's not to my personal tastes instead of saying something is "bad". If I think it's bad, I'll really let you know. Get on Sifu! And watch my The Club tutorial.
@@underthemayo right but you opened my eyes on a few things I never saw and realized how right you were so it actually ruined some things for me 🤣 but I'm wiser for it so I'm grateful. Just really didn't want that to happen with this game. Yeah man I'll check it out when I get my paycheck
@@underthemayo well ruin away because it's teaching me. I recently just woke up to the fact that I constantly play a bunch of games that are either average or I just don't like at all. I started playing nothing but old school games like doom quake resident evil and god of war. I found your channel shortly after that and I really like it and respect your views because they are intelligent. So if if you're advising me to play a game I'll check it out for sure
People in this comment section are so nice! Mayo doesnt like (or has specific gripes with) Blasphemous, and people react with "I loved it, but I understand why you didn't because of XYZ, glad you gave it a shot!" Compare this to ultrakill where everybody is losing their minds lmao
That might be because this is actually a decent video, unlike most of the Ultrakill videos. The mejor diference is that this is mostly an video of his experience, wich he didnt enjoy much mostly because this wasnt his type of game, were in the Ultrakill videos he constantly talks bad about the game while playing in the most unfun way possible instead of learning the game and then telling developers what they should do with their game
While it is arguable that Blasphemous holds back too much information, I really like metroidvanias that let players discover and figure things out for themselves. And after last year's final DLC update, no items you collect are truly useless now. I know many UA-camrs have explained their frustrations with Blasphemous, but something about it just made me get addicted to it, even enough to give it an immediate NG+ playthrough, which I never do. Minority opinion, but I love this game more than Hollow Knight and it's my 2nd favorite metroidvania behind Metroid Dread.
Too late, he played Bayonetta. And he played a non-platinum game called Sekiro, a game which is 90% parry-based. But he makes it clear that those games have great combat but it's just not for him.
It sucks that you don't enjoy metroid-style games because it means that I don't get to wholeheartedly recommend to you my favourite game of all time (or possibly my second to celeste) super metroid. It has my favourite movement of any game ive ever played, more so than even celeste and ghostrunner and its map design is ingenious to a degree that no other game has reached in my eyes. Every room is instantly recognisable and i could literally draw the map of super metroid from memory on a piece of paper. The game uses landmarks, enemy placements and visual queues to intelligently and effortlessly guide the player to the way forward. Finding hidden upgrades feel gratifying because they give you an instant boost to your arsenal. You will never get given a seemingly useless quest item in super metroid because every E-tank, reserve tank, missile, super missle and power bomb improves your character. The atmosphere created through its music and visuals is second to none for me. The game employs smart shortcuts between areas so that long backtracking sessions are few and far between. And once you master the games hidden tech, such as the wall jump, shinespark, mock ball, short charge and bomb jump? Suddenly the entire map of planet zebes is cracked wide open and you can complete the game using some ludicrous routes, including but not limited to beating mother brain and escaping the planet having beat all four main bosses in the complete reverse order that is intended. Despite how much i personally adore super metroid, im confident you wouldn't enjoy it one bit due to the way it's structured, which makes me a little sad but it is what it is
actually a metroidvania contra game would be awesome, it could be like an alternate metroid. sadly metroid has mostly become linear, which is weird when metroid helped create the metroidvania genre.
I can get Mayo not liking free roam 3rd person cameras and harp on it. I can get Mayo not liking mindless metroidvanias. I can get Mayo being reserved towards style meters. But I cannot stand his bitching over parry systems in games. I LOVE parrying and having to time your blocks to enemy attacks.
@@underthemayo No,no mayo. You not liking something mean does not mean you simply don't enjoy everything in every game but it clearly means you hate it and is objectivly bad
@@obitosenju3768 If I am a chad block and parry enjoyer, and Mayo has been complaining about not liking to parry since Sekiro, then I will call it "bitching". If the condiment man thinks I'm full of shit he can roast me himself. Ain't nobody needing you to strawman
@@underthemayo But you see how the fact that you bring it up for each game that has that, while admirable for the sake of consistency, could get tedious for viewers to hear multiple times to the point where they may call it "bitching" despite not being inherently wrong or a big issue seeing as how you preface it by saying it's a matter of taste? It's like watching Reviewbrah except he absolutely hates fries and will talk smack about them every time.
Ah! You fell for the classic blunder I see. You forgot the most important part of playing Blasphemous: having Powerwolf in the BG while slaying the damned!
Weird because exploration was my favorite aspect of this game while combat was kinda just there for me. I was really immersed in the world because of how extensive it was. Though I agree that Jondo was definitely a standout
Blasphemous was… ‘nearly’ there. Something put me off playing it further than I did, it didn’t pull me in like SoTN or the GBA castlevanias, but It was decent in terms of gameplay and movement/feel
Great video Mayo! I think for what you enjoy about the combat-systems in Blasphemous you'll also lightly find in Katana ZERO. Enemy attack & pattern variety aren't to the same extent, but how you deal with them are. I also wonder what you would think of 'One Step From Eden' & 'Furi' :)
Loved the setting, story and aesthetic of this game, even bought the soundtrack but you move way to slugglishy and the map is a pain to navigate.I hope the devs see this, because if there is a sequel and it doesn't have the annoying Metroidvania map I will 100% be buying it.
DMC 3 when? Been waiting for that forever. Will you do a review on slay the spire? I played it a while ago and am really unsure about what exactly made the game special for you because I found it to be way too rng dependent, one way strategy only. After I'd beaten the heart, (assassin main) I just felt done with it for good. Have you tried nioh? It's made by the devs of the 3d ninja Gaiden games but it's got soulslike and Diablo elements so not sure how you'd feel about it.
3:25 Do you REALLY have to kill all those enemies again? Anyway, the way you are describing parrying makes me think you would like Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. Only a handful of fights require you to wait about a second for a good parry from time to time. Otherwise, you keep attacking and parry only when you would get attacked.
@@lememe9781 There is a trick. The game tells you to hold down while attacking but it never freaking works. If instead, you hold the slide button, it works 100% of the time and the lantern jumps become easy. I had to find that tip on reddit before my life in this game became so much easier.
I def think Blasphemous and Bloodstained both suffered from obtuse design decisions. There are points in this game where they literally give you no context or clues on how to proceed and the onus is on the player to figure it out by trying things. Bloodstained had a few similar moments. And let’s not get it twisted: I like solving puzzles and engaging w an unfolding puzzle box of a castle map, but I like the games to actually communicate information to me in a meaningful way and not just try to be cute and hope we all figure it out. I’ve got shit to do, I don’t have time to keep backtracking all over your map all day lol I think SotN struck an amazing balance where it gives just enough hints for you to explore on your own, and everyone has been trying (and mostly failing) to replicate that in the games that have come since
I appreciate you sharing your opinion although I wholeheartedly disagree with your assessments. To me the back tracking is a huge feature in this game. Love the metroidvania map design.
Let me sum the video up so no one has to waist their time, hates metroidvanias, wants a game to hold his hand, obviously he's never played a dark souls game in his life if he thinks you have to parry all the time, refuses to use his markers blames the game, refuses to talk about the god like bosses, sound design, music ect. He just wants something easy, he doesnt want to work for the win lmao
"i played dark souls for about 5 hours" not according to the dark souls 1 b roll clips from the sekiro vid thats from fightingcowboy vids so show a steam play time of the hours u put in otherwise we cant take your word for it
Why do indie developers feel the need to make every game a metroidvania? It ruined The Messenger, and it ruined this game (also, I dont know if you made it that far, but the plataforming near the end of the game gets ridiculous, and as you mentioned, checkpoint being so afar, makes you bored, and you start playing badly)
hey mayo, this might seem like a dumb question but how come you enjoy fighting the marauder but don't like parry systems? they have pretty similar ideas at the core. so is it that there are other demons to fight while fighting the marauder, keeping your engaged, or something else?
I finished the game and i totally agree with your criticism. They failed to incorporate an important element of Metroidvania genre. The issue is that in Symphony of the Night you get tools and skills that make re-exploring the map much plausible and fun. This game fails to offer that. It's as tedious to explore even after you get most upgrades.
I love this game (spent some 60+ hours in it) but I too feel like it should be less of a souls-like, especially when it comes to controls. There's a bit of a delay when you press attack and it drives me nuts. You also can't cancel. Hits should land instantaneously (think MK) imo and this should be compensated by tougher enemies instead.
If you like Blasphemous and want a challenge, check out Aeterna Noctis. I think Blasphemous is one of the best Metroidvanias ever made, but have to say that Aeterna Noctis might be better. Much harder game but very rewarding and not unfair. When you die its because you aren't good enough not because an enemy teleported right on top of you. An absolute must play for any Metroidvania fan that wants a challenge.
Hi mayo, me again, once again recommending Nioh 2, another game from team ninja and is a souls like with hyper fast gameplay, not to spoil it all but I'll give a rundown of some basics, animation cancels, weakpoints on enemies, skill trees, and 10+ super diverse and fun weapons. Seriously one of my favorite games of all time.
I'm sure you've moved on, but there's an obscure mechanic that solves backtracking: donating 20,000 tears (gold) at the church lets you teleport between save points. The game doesn't announce that; it just happens. There's a lot the game should explain better. Instead, it gets lost under all the flavor text. If you do revisit it, the late game has some great puzzles. But it's easy to get locked out of the true ending at 100% completion because you fought two bosses in the wrong order. It's infuriating. I'm not putting another 20-30 hours into NG+ to see it.
Sounds a lot like my experience with Axiom Verge... I LOVED the run & gun gameplay, the various abilities, and the pixel art was amazing at parts, but I just couldn't stick with it because the exploration felt fucking miserable, which is kind of a death sentence for a Metroidvania. I love Hollow Knight because movement is fast and fluid, the areas are all visually distinct, the map screen is large and the rooms are shaped pretty distinctly on it, and there's many generous fast travel points for such a huge world. Axiom Verge was like the exact opposites of Hollow Knight. Slow clunky movement, samey areas, a cramped unintelligible map screen, and barely any fast travel. It felt like literally being lost in an alien world, which I will say *does* initially sound *really cool* on paper, but I promise you it was just miserable and impenetrable and dense in a bad way. Unfortunately it sounds like Blasphemous feels the same way.
on the note of that series, i always wondered why a doom guy like you hasn't done a vid on Serious Sam ? Either the 1st 2 games or the latest (a fan-project)? its "basically" doom
![Blasphemous 2: Mea Culpa - All Bosses [No Damage] + New Ending C](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/H2D9i5CO9VM/mqdefault.jpg)
"Will you try Blasphemous 2?"
Maybe! I liked the first one enough to give the sequel a try. If even just for a few casual hours to see what it's all about. We'll see!
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Maybe you can try out "Styx: Shards of Darkness/Master of Shadows" next. Those are nice stealth games. Good video btw. Keep them coming.
Maybe check out the Darksiders series if you haven’t already. I recommend Darksiders 1, 2 and genesis. You might not like darksiders 3 as much.
@@potatomodem1079 On the list!
The "v" in "Cvstodia" reads as a "u", like in latin, so it would spell "Custodia"
Dude's a schmuck.
Mayo’s not hyperborean enough
Oh my fucking god he said he knows how to say it and it’s a joke, did you even watch the video
@@OpiumEditzSigmaGarv I'm guessing this is his burner.
@@GodandNothinghavealotincommon look in the bottom left corner when he pronounces it. 0:36
Well, it's too bad the game didn't quite click with you. I consider it a very good game and have beaten it a few times, but I do understand how the checkpoint system, parry mechanics and non-linear exploration elements can be unappealing to others. Upgrading the checkpoints to fast travel points does solve a lot of the backtracking issues though.
Yeah, it's just expensive & when I last played it, it wasn't obvious how you do it.
Nah man the games boring
most of what i enjoyed about the game was exploring to discover more about the world and the setting. Combat being fun along the way with that and the AMAZING music nailed it for me.
@@fourtruths3324 in your opinion
@@nightrain1121 it has a great story and setting but for me the gameplay lacks something. If it had better gameplay the game would be perfect.
This is one of my favorite games! Sorry to see you didn’t enjoy it quite as much. The combat was simplistic but I absolutely love the atmosphere and art of this game.
Read a book with pictures. If you like art and atmosphere that is
@@elguitarTom areu retard? Lol
Wasn't this the dude that didn't like Doom?
@@elguitarTomAre you brain dead?
yeah, to each his own! I loved Blasphemous so much more than, for example Super Metroid because the art, enemies, music and combat was interesting enough to where I didn't care about backtracking as much. And also, I used the icon system on the map so I could place specific markers in areas to better manage where I needed to go.
Rule of Thumb: if Mayo doesn't like it, I probably will
What if I kinda like it?
My family is from Spain and seeing how this game is filled with Spanish cultural allusions I was instantly hooked on this. A lot of the enemies and world design comes from Spanish festivals, old Spanish paganism and folk tales. Even the majority of the music being classical flamenco pieces is a love letter to Spanish culture. Then on top of that, taking all that Spanish and catholic culture and then distorting it into a death-metal/grindcore art style helped to draw me in even more. I would have bought the art book if it wasn't like 100$ lol
That's one of the reasons I absolutely loved the game, as a Brit this was "fresh" to me and was fascinating. I've spent a considerable amount of time researching Northern European Folklore (predominantly Britain, Republic of Island and Scandinavian territories) and Blasphemous provided a compelling argument (not that one was needed) to research this aspect of Spanish culture.
Even without any family links to Spain, the art, music and lore hooked me in, too. For such a small team, they produced a fantastic game
The art book was absolutely worth the price. I was lucky enough to snag one - it's very well put together and thoughtfully made. I think there's digital copies of it out there as well. Seeing all of the drafts of penitent and sketches of monsters/areas really gives an insight into how much they cared to get things in this game right.
I remember purchasing Blasphemous when it came out and I fell off the game pretty quick. I replayed & finished the game last year on the switch and it's became one of my favorite games I've ever played. I'm sorry you didn't enjoy it as much as I did but I'm glad you atleast gave it go for a honest opinion.
Same here. I did finish the game on release, but it became sooo much better with the Stir of Dawn DLC that it's now my 2nd favorite metroidvania (1st is Super Metroid). I also really love the anti-religious vibes and twisted game world. Not something you see everyday.
After the snow area it all clicked for me, loving it
The three different NG+ modes are way more fun than a normal NG. The DLC bosses are much more challenging than base game bosses too but they're all locked behind NG+ mode. I'm glad it's not linear though, I prefer it the way that it is. I haven't been this obsessed with a game world's lore since Bloodborne so finding all the hidden items/areas and putting in the effort to unlock the third secret ending where you basically get to kill "God" and get a tease for the sequel is what makes this such an enthralling experience. I love this game so much, it's incredible for what it is.
are the dlc bosses really locked behind NG+? on my first playthrough now fighting Isidora from the dlc and she’s definitely not locked… idk about the snake thing, havent made it there yet
All 5 of the Amanecidas from the Stir of Dawn DLC are locked behind NG+ but Sierpes and Isidora became part of the main story.
it's not god, the high wills are just a way to enable gods will, the miracle has not been seen by anyone
Looks like you didn't break the Bell in Jondo. It actually is pretty linear for a Metroidvania type game as you don't really have to revisit areas after you beat the boss. Your only requires to go back if you want upgrades and collectables, with the odd exception. But I found it like each area was its own kind of level but you are right it's not always clear what to do. It can be frustrating as hell but I love this game. One of my favorites
You don't like parrying, right? What do you do to kill a Marauder, Mayo?
I whiff punish him into combo. There's no block button in Doom.
@@underthemayo so, you press a button to counter and deal damage, like a parry
@@underthemayo it's still wait for the enemy to attack then deflect it to deal damage
Mechanically it is a parry
@@underthemayo doom has the energy shield, so yes, there is a block button
Mayo then proceeds to not reply. Hmm...
He does know that you can beat dark souls without ever perrying once right?
I feel like you didn't really pay attention to the tame trying to teach you things. I really can't imagine how you could have missed the fact that you were removing chains from Jondo so you could ring it.
Ah, another video of Mayo suffering and not enjoying something that isn't Doom. Never gets old. Let's get him to play Breath of The Wild next.
What keeps me coming back to this game is the evocative world design and art direction.
I’m surprised that, you loving the big puzzle area of the game, couldn’t figure out the most obvious and main backtracking puzzle in that area based on your map at the near end of the video
I feel like Nayo wasn't paying attention to the game.
0:43 "Oldschool religion talk"? What are you? A teenage girl? "Like, whatever"
Don't recall anybody saying that parrying is a make-or-break gameplay feature, but ok
It's not, but it's the first mechanic the game explicitly asks you to learn and then has many rooms with shield enemies that are best to parry while you're still figuring out how to play. Overall it's not a parry game.
I agree with you on most points, but I think the music is suposed to comunicate sadness, because you play a penitent. The protagonist feels sad and just thinks about his sins, hense the calm tone of the soundtrack.
Does this guy seriously think souls game revolve around parrys?
More sekiro than dark souls.
@@underthemayo then way do you so often say that you dont like souls games because of parrying
"Souls fans, I have news for you: parry systems does not equal smart combat".
I cannot think of a single Demon/Dark souls enemy that REQUIRES parrying to beat. There are many approaches to defensive in combat in that series, spacing/positioning, dodge rolling, blocking, hyper armour, using ranged weapons/magic.
Parrying is another tool in that toolbox, it's a high risk high reward defensive tool in the hands of a normal player, pulling off a risky parry is exhilarating but parrying is also something that allows players to demonstrate a high level of skill and knowledge against that enemies attack timing.
One of the greatest strengths of that series is presenting challenges and you drawing/finding your preferred options and tools to overcome that challenge.
The souls series has a high amount of player expression and skill expression.
Anyway I understand you're literally saying Souls fans say parrying=smart combat but the implications of specifically pointing to souls fans implies the souls games require their parry systems in order to have their "smart" combat which is misinformed.
Rant over I get a little triggered when people approaching video game analysis will do disservices to games they don't have a good understanding of but regardless I really enjoy your content and find it engaging keep up the good work.
I'm not sure if you'd have time but if you're looking for another 3D action game you might like DmC Devil May Cry, it's combat is somewhere between GoW and DMC but with its own unquie elements going off your discussions on "character action" style games I'm super curious of your thoughts on it I have a feeling you might like it though it's generally disliked due different developers/creative direction.
your comment is on point, I think it's funny how from creates a game that focuses on parry and "action games fans" people kill it, and platinum had already made mgr a long time ago, which is also a game that focuses a lot on parry, they are probably more accepted because it is a studio "that knows good combat"
I've interacted with enough from software fans to know that plenty think that when I say I don't enjoy parrying and I find lack of animation canceling unsatisfying, it means that I just suck and want brainless button mashing combat. Especially the sekiro fans. So I don't take back what I said. If I should have said FS fans instead of specifically Souls, fine. It's not about whether there are enemies that REQUIRE parrying. It's that if you don't enjoy parries and non-cancellable melee attacks like souls and sekiro, you're inferior. I hear it daily.
@@underthemayo You're definitely not inferior for not liking parry systems and I strongly disagree with anyone who makes those claims. Sounds like some elitist trolls.
If we're talking about Sekiro then yes that game it's essential to learn to parry to finish it.
I'm really curious on your takes on cancelable/non-cancelable attacks now.
It's interesting how these styles are balanced aswell, enemies in older souls games and monster hunter are slow and telegraphed but you're character's actions are also very deliberate and have to commit to animations. It's more about reading/game sense/spacing than reactions.
On the other hand games with more non-committal attacks usually have faster attacking enemies and often more on-screen. More relying on quick offensive and twitch reflexes for defensive.
I think I know which you enjoy more but it'd be interesting to see you draw some lines of what you do/don't like.
I'm only 1 minute and 30 seconds into this video and genuinely I don't know why people would expect you to like this game. You don't like souls games or metroidvania. The combat isn't anything to write home about either and I literally adore this game. I dunno it's kinda weird to me that someone would think "well even though he didn't like when the messenger became Metroidvania, and he said he didn't like souls-like games or parry systems, he might like blasphemous!"
I think they just like him suffering and honestly Idk why. Seeing someone playing something they are clearly not into feels like torture to me
They literally told him to play dying light, a open world game with shallow combat and a weak story. They don’t know wtf they are talking about.
There's a certain kind of person who, if they like something, they're psychologically incapable of grasping the concept that someone else might _not_ like it, because it's great and people like things that are great, right? This is also why you get people attacking critics for writing critical (even if not entirely negative) reviews of things they like.
The moment you pronounce Cvstodia I knew you didn't pay attention to the game
I don't know why they label this game a Soulslike. It's a Metroidvania to the core. An action/adventure game with some platforming and RPG elements. I guess it might be because of the indirect storytelling but that isn't even exclusive to Soulslikes. Nor checkpoints.
Cuz game journalists cant beat it lol
@@spaceysteam5206 That old narrative. Souls games ain't that hard.
I think of Blasphemous and Hollow Knight as "Soulsvania." I want to explore, but the game wants to train me for difficult boss fights.
Does every enemy take five hits and half my health? Should I risk looking for upgrades, or is the game punishing me to say I shouldn't be in this part of the map yet? Do they actually expect me to farm for money?
Combat-heavy games work better when they're linear.
It’s very interesting that Mayo likes Dead Cells, roguelike metroidvania (!) with tons of exploration, useless items, backtracking, it even has parries. Literally why? Not the first time Mayo’s video leaves me confused.
Have you seen him play Elden Ring? He's like an old man holding a controller.
I really wish I could've loved Blasphemous, I love the art style, the music, the oppressive atmosphere, but there's something off about the combat for me and i can't quite put my finger on it, and there's also one thing I utterly despise in 2D games, instant death pits, they're everywhere in this game, coupled that with the very scarce checkpoints and having to retread 10-15 minutes everytime I messed up one jump, frustrated me and got old really fast.
I made it about 70% through and I just couldn't bring myself to finish it. I personally consider Hollow Knight to be much harder than Blasphemous but it never felt a fraction as frustrating to play and I had a lot of fun the whole way through, and I do think that's what completely turned me off from Blasphemous, I just wasn't having fun playing it and it's a shame because on paper it's a game I'm supposed to really really like, but it unfortunately didn't click with me.
+++ same. Also it got deleted from steam in my country cuz we don't want to tolerate nazis near our borders lol xD truly blasphemous.
Instant death pits yeah. That's why I love Metroid
Agree with everything you’ve said. Blasphemous felt like I had accidentally walked past some basic crucial upgrade to make the combat click.
I wrote a comment before reading this and I share many of the same opinions about Blasphemous.
@@MrBoBrilO que?
Blasphemous has been my favorite game for about 3 years and I'm glad you had some fun with it, im ngl that it made me bit sad that Blasphemous "souls like" combat and checkpoint system was what you disliked most but if is not your cup of tea you do you bother
I don't get the 'souls-like' comparison, when the combat is far more like a castlevania. They did a great job on making the hitboxes pixel-perfect and giving visual/audio feedback on hits/blocks.
Im glad that you, at least, give it a try! I just spend like 48 hours exploring aaaaaaaaalll the map hahahaha and then i need to RE START a new run for the TRUE MAGNIFICENT FINAL. Good video bro!
The developers of Blasphemous were obvious fans of Berserk as well as Warhammer 40k.
they based the world on spanish catholicsm and folk lore
Saw the title and was immediately like "yeah this dude has made it clear he doesn't like souls-likes or metroidvanias why the fuck would y'all recommend a SOULSVANIA lmao"
Glad you still checked it out though. I'm a huge fan of soulsvanias so this game looks amazing to me. It's been on my list for a while, will definitely buy it once I'm done with my existing library.
Souls like is legit just 3D Metroidvania
@@Upsetkiller456 I think the souls aspect that traditional metroidvanias miss are the boss designs/mechanics. Ori is a metroidvania but if the exact game was in 3D it would still just be a metroidvania, not a souls like. It maybe somewhat valid to say that all souls likes are metroidvanias but not all metroidvanias are souls likes though
Bro dismissed the most important rosary bead 💀
Its actually 2D survival horror game. Believe it or not.
Wow we could not have a more different mindset on this game. I fucking love this game and I love the elements you say you dont
I feel exactly the same about the game. I loved the combat especially when fighting bosses. The exploration was what made me drop it
I’m not big on parrying either but I feel like you don’t even have to with this. I’ve gone through this game three times and I love it. Maaaaan you sure are hard on a game.
He is not harsh. He says all the time he is not into souls likes or metroidvanias. He says at the end the game is really good but not his thing
@@obitosenju3768 Kinda weird that he liked Dead Cells considering it’s a Metroidvania AND a procedurally generated world
@@newdivide9882 well dead cells is not a Metroidvania so prob because of that.
DMC3 better be soon
Yes.
Game suck
He won't like it because it switches between pseudo horror game and action game. He clearly likes a unified experience.
At least I found it frustrating that there is pointless non linearity. I like non linearity in fitting games.
@@theskorpio1 yes and no
@@theodorealenas3171 s-s-skill issue
I mean if you don’t like metroidvanias not sure why you’d play it… it’s pretty heavily advertised as a metroidvania.
Cause people just ask me to play stuff and send it to me. I don't go researching it. I just play it and feel it out. Plus, as I've said in this series, I don't mind playing genres that I'm not a fan of. Even a game that I don't love can show me something new and make me glad that I played it, and I'm glad I played this one too. Hope that's enough.
I think you should probably try out Valfaris.
It's pretty similar to this game, but with linear level design and more Contra style gameplay.
The game lets you equip 1 primary, 1 secondary and 1 melee weapon. All that you find more of throughout the game and can upgrade. Meleeing enemies actually gives you energy which serves as ammo for your primary weapon.
There's also an interesting checkpoint mechanic. I think theyre mostly not too far apart from each other. And the game basically rewards you with a bigger max health pool if you decide to skip a checkpoint. So if you think: "Hey this last part was pretty easy, and I wouldn't have a problem re-doing it if I died" you can consider skipping a checkpoint for more max health.
(Though if you die and respawn at your last activated checkpoint, you always have the option to still use the checkpoint that you initially skipped in trade of the extra max hp that you got)
And it's fucking METAL
Wait Mayo despite not being that much of a fan of a game STILL recommends it!?! No way, that’s…that’s impossible. It can’t be!
Remember everyone, “a game that isn’t made for everyone isn’t a game that should be made, [IN MY OPINION]”
That literally makes no sense. You are saying M rated games should never be made because little kids can't play them? You either messed up your double negative sentence structure or you didn't think very hard on this subject.
PS. Opinions can still be wrong.
@@verdanthyborian2322 You do realize I was quoting someone, right?
I feel like most of the things you didn't enjoy were just because of personal preference rather than anything wrong with the game. I love parry systems, and let me remind you, you love the maruder and he's basically a big "parry me with bullet" sign.
The marauder is a whiff punish enemy, and he is ONE in a roster of 20 demons. Whiff punishing and parrying are very different.
That actually makes sense. I still think a lot of the games you dislike are because the whole point of the game is something entirely different from what you enjoy, not really the fault of the game.
@@ananmaysahu4563 Sure, that happens. But I can usually find things I like in a game that doesn't work for me. AND, sometimes a game that would typically not be to my tastes at all ends up becoming a favorite, like Slay The Spire. I have a video on that.
Doesn't like metroid or dark souls.
Plays game inspired by both and doesn't like it.
Bread is food.
It's a viewer recommendation video series... Sometimes I play stuff I like, sometimes I don't.
Good video Mayo. I'm about to approach Blasphemous for the second time, the first one didn't click for me. I hope this time it will. The only one thing that I would have added to this video, if I may suggest, is some extra comment about the atmosphere. Blasphemous is not only jumping, parrying and slashing, but a lot is about artstyle, music and lore.
2:04 OH NO! Is it gonna be like the Doom 3 video all over again? Sleep tight, sweet prince....
My favorite metroidvania is Ori and the Will of the Wisps, so check out the Ori games at some point - they're very accessible to newcomers and the objective is always clearly defined.
Plus how fluid it feels, and the art style. Ori and the Will of the Wisps is a great game!
Just played the first game. On to the sequel!
@@blipblap614 Have fun, it's even better (especially the gameplay department)
I've got nearly 600 hours on hollow knight, but I just couldn't get into the ori games, at the start I found myself being stuck for so long not knowing where to go, checking every corner but not making any progress, and having to look up walkthroughs every 20 minutes isn't fun.
@@moth5799 How did you get stuck on Ori but not Hollow Knight???
A fun game I would recommend would be X Men Origins Wolverine. Movie sucked, but the combat in this game is quite entertaining
P.S. Parries aren't a crucial mechanic in souls games. I've beaten all the souls games without having the ability to parry
But they are even if you don't personally use them, Bloodborne becomes a cakewalk when you know how parrying works combined with a bloodtinge build.
@@scottroxford5715 Crucial usually implies that something (in this case parrying) is the decisive or critical factor in your success or failure. I would sooner say that it's crucial to master dodge rolling and soul management rather than parrying. Parry is high risk and high reward and only applicable in certain combat scenarios. That's at least my understanding of this.
@@scottroxford5715 Haven’t played bloodborne but DS3 became a cakewalk after my second/third playthrough and I know nothing about parrying, I just completely ignored it.
@@JPC555 That's why I said Bloodborne and not Dark Souls cause in Dark Souls you can just level yourself up and cleave through everything with no effort. You CAN do that to some extent in Bloodborne but enemies and bosses tend to be more aggressive and you can only have so much stamina before getting hard capped. Plus the games are totally different.
@@inferior3199 If you treat it that way which is why I stressed that Bloodborne becomes a cakewalk when you understand how parrying works, the damage scaling combined with a bloodtinge build. Bloodtinge is basically "How to Break the Game 101" which is why it's so limited in the game because all the bloodtinge weapons are busted. With a bloodtinge build you don't even need to find an opening to shoot an enemy, it could be on the first frame of their attack and if you shoot them it puts them in a visceral state. The Second Amendment beats Orphan of Kos basically.
I swear the only game this guy and I have common is DOOM Eternal
hey mayo when I was playing blasphemous I have some of the same problems you have with it, it's not that I think it's bad it's just not really my thing. I also recomend you to play Postal: Brain Damaged, it's a shooter like dusk but since it's postal you can piss on the enemies and also piss cancel reload animation, very fun
And generally he should play whatever "Hmmmp" plays.
Or... Maybe he does?
I love these sort of videos, Your experience may be a mixed bag but this sounds really cool to me(minus the tedious exploration).
Ori (the first game, Blind Forest) is linear, with optional exploration for hearts and XP. You can spend a resource to save anywhere. You might dig it.
Glad to see you tried it! I also really enjoyed the game until I got tired of the parrying and map design. I got very far in, but eventually, the parrying, the collectables, the map that you can't really traverse quickly like you can in a Metroid title... it just made me put the game down. I'm not a Soulslike fan at all, but I do like this game.
i gotta say tho that the parrying can be 100% ignored, maybe cuz this was literally the first souls like game i ever played and i only had played metroidvanias before, but i didnt bther to learn parrying until i was 80h in to the game and decided to start mastering every single system so if u dont like parrying, i found it to be optional
that "useless" item can get you money, just need to meet someone in albero
Ahem. In old Latin, the U looked like a V. So the setting is really called Custodia, but with that little quirk.
I know a linear action game you might like, it's called Madness Project Nexus, there's no filler, no backtracking, and a lot of action going on the screen, it cost around 25 bucks, there's also an arena mode where you can create your own guy.
I quite liked Blasphemous.
the world connects in interesting ways and has a shit ton of secret rooms but for me it was pretty clear where to go so a bit of a shame you couldn't find your way.
the combat is quite simplistic but the game makes the best out of it and some of the bosses can get pretty intense.
it has amazing pixel art which is impressive and the music is nice but sometimes a bit repetitive in the base game.
yes Jondo is definitely the best level in the game
Did you hear about our lord and savior Dead Cells?
(it can be a frustrating experience though, but it's quite addictive)
The game literally tells you directly where you need to go, where you just running past everything and every NPC?
How does it tell you where you need to go? For example, how was I supposed to know where to take the hairy egg on its various stages of it's journey? I didn't know where the game wanted me to take it. I had to look online to that the first destination was the tree where you fight the flying lady.
@@sub7se7en that’s an optional item and secret quest you can follow, not part of the main story, that wasn’t meant to be told to you, I’m on about the main quest, Deogracias literally tells you exactly where you need to go from the start of the game and after every area, it’s also fairly obvious if you just take a glance at your map and go where you haven’t been before.
@@nightrain1121 nope. Not obvious at all
@@1fighisimo then that’s your own fault, not the game.
I think you should give the Guacamelee games a shot, those games tend to be more linear and more on platforming and combat than exploration, some fans bash them for that but I think it adds to how good those games are.
I've always wanted to try it.
@@underthemayo
They might be more up your alley since the combat is more mandatory and requires you to learn it rather than being supplementary to the exploration.
the core of blasphemous isn't the parry system. i almost neve parried in any of my playthrough, but the metroidvania exploration system... if you don't appreciate this kind of mechanic, obviously the game won't amuse you. i loved it
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My dude, i just cant agree that parry systems work in any game. theres a reason why i dont play darksouls or cuphead. parry systems are frustrating because they require patience under pressure when all you really should have to do is set up an attack. they make it incredibly difficult to control the combat. 10/10 would not recomend. much love man. see you in hell.
It's a shame he didn't like it. Not sure how he got lost or something bc compared to other Metroidvanias this one is pretty easy. Especially when you get a considerable amount of pin items you can use in the map. This game and the second one has become of my favorites in this genre. There's plenty of ways in which you can move around with the portals and the rest shrines (especially when you donate to the church in town to unlock that ability).
compre este juego para un viaje de vacaciones y termine jugandolo mas de 60 horas, lo ame!
Honestly, you should give it another try. I had the same opinion as you until I finished what was essentially the tutorial/early game (i.e., finishing the 3 humiliations, as stated by Deogracias). The game really opens up after that and the exploring and backtracking aspect becomes so satisfying that I played the game to its finish right after. As others have said, the map indicates places you haven't been to with an empty side on a square.
Thru this video I actually bought the game since it was on sale and i'm having such a great time
I fell in love with it. Ended up buying one of the T-shirts from the store 😆
Would love a The Darkness 2 video.
You might like Katana Zero. Side scroller action game with tight and simple controls. Its short but good.
you don't really need to parry for the first section, I just jumped over them or dodged
mayo "people recomend me games and the i say if i like it or not" also mayo "not a review series"
I was a little hesitant to watch this video honestly. Because I love this channel but I love blasphemous. So I was thinking I really don't want to hear this guy shred the game. But I was to curious to pass it up. And I was yet again pleased with what I saw. I realized my difference with you as a gamer. The things I can enjoy while you may not. There's nothing you said where I couldn't see your point, and that's been a recurring factor in all your videos. I'm glad you got a chance to enjoy parts of blasphemous. It's too bad you got stuck and didn't get a chance to complete it. I'm used to metroidvania games so I didn't really get stuck or need a guide to pass something. Anyway love this channel. Keep it up because it's great, and based off what you say I trust your insight into what makes games good so now I want to try Sifu which I was otherwise uninterested in
Thanks! I really do try to make it clear when I'm just saying it's not to my personal tastes instead of saying something is "bad". If I think it's bad, I'll really let you know. Get on Sifu! And watch my The Club tutorial.
@@underthemayo right but you opened my eyes on a few things I never saw and realized how right you were so it actually ruined some things for me 🤣 but I'm wiser for it so I'm grateful. Just really didn't want that to happen with this game. Yeah man I'll check it out when I get my paycheck
@@brycebates6399 I'm great at ruining things for people lol. But I make up for it by introducing people to new awesome stuff too.
@@underthemayo well ruin away because it's teaching me. I recently just woke up to the fact that I constantly play a bunch of games that are either average or I just don't like at all. I started playing nothing but old school games like doom quake resident evil and god of war. I found your channel shortly after that and I really like it and respect your views because they are intelligent. So if if you're advising me to play a game I'll check it out for sure
People in this comment section are so nice! Mayo doesnt like (or has specific gripes with) Blasphemous, and people react with "I loved it, but I understand why you didn't because of XYZ, glad you gave it a shot!"
Compare this to ultrakill where everybody is losing their minds lmao
This is just a better video than the ultrakill ch2 one tho.
That might be because this is actually a decent video, unlike most of the Ultrakill videos.
The mejor diference is that this is mostly an video of his experience, wich he didnt enjoy much mostly because this wasnt his type of game, were in the Ultrakill videos he constantly talks bad about the game while playing in the most unfun way possible instead of learning the game and then telling developers what they should do with their game
Parries arent required in souls games. Only Sekiro specifically which is just a miyazaki game the fans just include it in the souls umbrella.
While it is arguable that Blasphemous holds back too much information, I really like metroidvanias that let players discover and figure things out for themselves. And after last year's final DLC update, no items you collect are truly useless now. I know many UA-camrs have explained their frustrations with Blasphemous, but something about it just made me get addicted to it, even enough to give it an immediate NG+ playthrough, which I never do. Minority opinion, but I love this game more than Hollow Knight and it's my 2nd favorite metroidvania behind Metroid Dread.
I couldn't get in to Hollow Knight. Something about the artstyle and combat just put me off.
Doesn't like parrying??? Don't let this man play a Platinum game
He's already played Bayonetta, keep in mind: PLAYED not BEATEN.
Too late, he played Bayonetta. And he played a non-platinum game called Sekiro, a game which is 90% parry-based. But he makes it clear that those games have great combat but it's just not for him.
It sucks that you don't enjoy metroid-style games because it means that I don't get to wholeheartedly recommend to you my favourite game of all time (or possibly my second to celeste) super metroid. It has my favourite movement of any game ive ever played, more so than even celeste and ghostrunner and its map design is ingenious to a degree that no other game has reached in my eyes. Every room is instantly recognisable and i could literally draw the map of super metroid from memory on a piece of paper. The game uses landmarks, enemy placements and visual queues to intelligently and effortlessly guide the player to the way forward. Finding hidden upgrades feel gratifying because they give you an instant boost to your arsenal. You will never get given a seemingly useless quest item in super metroid because every E-tank, reserve tank, missile, super missle and power bomb improves your character. The atmosphere created through its music and visuals is second to none for me. The game employs smart shortcuts between areas so that long backtracking sessions are few and far between. And once you master the games hidden tech, such as the wall jump, shinespark, mock ball, short charge and bomb jump? Suddenly the entire map of planet zebes is cracked wide open and you can complete the game using some ludicrous routes, including but not limited to beating mother brain and escaping the planet having beat all four main bosses in the complete reverse order that is intended.
Despite how much i personally adore super metroid, im confident you wouldn't enjoy it one bit due to the way it's structured, which makes me a little sad but it is what it is
I saw Dead Cells mentioned and thought: I'm surprised Mayo hasn't done a video on it. I think it's a fun game but overall it wasn't for me.
actually a metroidvania contra game would be awesome, it could be like an alternate metroid. sadly metroid has mostly become linear, which is weird when metroid helped create the metroidvania genre.
I can get Mayo not liking free roam 3rd person cameras and harp on it.
I can get Mayo not liking mindless metroidvanias.
I can get Mayo being reserved towards style meters.
But I cannot stand his bitching over parry systems in games. I LOVE parrying and having to time your blocks to enemy attacks.
He doesn't like style meters, yet never mentioned it when reviewing god of war. Hmm...
I didn't bitch about it. I said I don't enjoy it.
@@underthemayo No,no mayo. You not liking something mean does not mean you simply don't enjoy everything in every game but it clearly means you hate it and is objectivly bad
@@obitosenju3768 If I am a chad block and parry enjoyer, and Mayo has been complaining about not liking to parry since Sekiro, then I will call it "bitching". If the condiment man thinks I'm full of shit he can roast me himself. Ain't nobody needing you to strawman
@@underthemayo But you see how the fact that you bring it up for each game that has that, while admirable for the sake of consistency, could get tedious for viewers to hear multiple times to the point where they may call it "bitching" despite not being inherently wrong or a big issue seeing as how you preface it by saying it's a matter of taste? It's like watching Reviewbrah except he absolutely hates fries and will talk smack about them every time.
Ah! You fell for the classic blunder I see.
You forgot the most important part of playing Blasphemous: having Powerwolf in the BG while slaying the damned!
Weird because exploration was my favorite aspect of this game while combat was kinda just there for me. I was really immersed in the world because of how extensive it was. Though I agree that Jondo was definitely a standout
Blasphemous was… ‘nearly’ there. Something put me off playing it further than I did, it didn’t pull me in like SoTN or the GBA castlevanias, but It was decent in terms of gameplay and movement/feel
Great video Mayo!
I think for what you enjoy about the combat-systems in Blasphemous you'll also lightly find in Katana ZERO. Enemy attack & pattern variety aren't to the same extent, but how you deal with them are.
I also wonder what you would think of 'One Step From Eden' & 'Furi' :)
Loved the setting, story and aesthetic of this game, even bought the soundtrack but you move way to slugglishy and the map is a pain to navigate.I hope the devs see this, because if there is a sequel and it doesn't have the annoying Metroidvania map I will 100% be buying it.
you do realize that a game cannot be a metroidvania without having a metroidvania map, right?
DMC 3 when? Been waiting for that forever.
Will you do a review on slay the spire? I played it a while ago and am really unsure about what exactly made the game special for you because I found it to be way too rng dependent, one way strategy only. After I'd beaten the heart, (assassin main) I just felt done with it for good.
Have you tried nioh? It's made by the devs of the 3d ninja Gaiden games but it's got soulslike and Diablo elements so not sure how you'd feel about it.
I love Metrovanias but more focused on action, I guess. Blasphemous is a solid game, but it just isn't for me
3:25 Do you REALLY have to kill all those enemies again?
Anyway, the way you are describing parrying makes me think you would like Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. Only a handful of fights require you to wait about a second for a good parry from time to time. Otherwise, you keep attacking and parry only when you would get attacked.
Parrying in blasphemous is really easy, The most difficult part is doing lantern jump that it’s not easy
@@lememe9781 There is a trick. The game tells you to hold down while attacking but it never freaking works. If instead, you hold the slide button, it works 100% of the time and the lantern jumps become easy. I had to find that tip on reddit before my life in this game became so much easier.
parry sucks balls in that game
I def think Blasphemous and Bloodstained both suffered from obtuse design decisions. There are points in this game where they literally give you no context or clues on how to proceed and the onus is on the player to figure it out by trying things. Bloodstained had a few similar moments. And let’s not get it twisted: I like solving puzzles and engaging w an unfolding puzzle box of a castle map, but I like the games to actually communicate information to me in a meaningful way and not just try to be cute and hope we all figure it out. I’ve got shit to do, I don’t have time to keep backtracking all over your map all day lol I think SotN struck an amazing balance where it gives just enough hints for you to explore on your own, and everyone has been trying (and mostly failing) to replicate that in the games that have come since
I appreciate you sharing your opinion although I wholeheartedly disagree with your assessments. To me the back tracking is a huge feature in this game. Love the metroidvania map design.
Let me sum the video up so no one has to waist their time, hates metroidvanias, wants a game to hold his hand, obviously he's never played a dark souls game in his life if he thinks you have to parry all the time, refuses to use his markers blames the game, refuses to talk about the god like bosses, sound design, music ect. He just wants something easy, he doesnt want to work for the win lmao
Yeah, because doom eternal holds your hand all the time. Especially on nightmare.
"i played dark souls for about 5 hours" not according to the dark souls 1 b roll clips from the sekiro vid thats from fightingcowboy vids so show a steam play time of the hours u put in otherwise we cant take your word for it
Why do indie developers feel the need to make every game a metroidvania? It ruined The Messenger, and it ruined this game (also, I dont know if you made it that far, but the plataforming near the end of the game gets ridiculous, and as you mentioned, checkpoint being so afar, makes you bored, and you start playing badly)
They don't
Man's really getting mad because a game genre exists
hey mayo, this might seem like a dumb question but how come you enjoy fighting the marauder but don't like parry systems? they have pretty similar ideas at the core. so is it that there are other demons to fight while fighting the marauder, keeping your engaged, or something else?
I finished the game and i totally agree with your criticism. They failed to incorporate an important element of Metroidvania genre. The issue is that in Symphony of the Night you get tools and skills that make re-exploring the map much plausible and fun. This game fails to offer that. It's as tedious to explore even after you get most upgrades.
I love this game (spent some 60+ hours in it) but I too feel like it should be less of a souls-like, especially when it comes to controls. There's a bit of a delay when you press attack and it drives me nuts. You also can't cancel. Hits should land instantaneously (think MK) imo and this should be compensated by tougher enemies instead.
It may be because you're playing on PC. You may not have the same issue on a console.
@@sub7se7en I play on Switch and on pc. It is can only be a deliberate design choice as jumps are instantaneous.
@@JoeyFTL Ah okay. I don't think I've noticed it. Perhaps it's a windup that I'm not realizing is there. Honestly, no clue.
If you like Blasphemous and want a challenge, check out Aeterna Noctis. I think Blasphemous is one of the best Metroidvanias ever made, but have to say that Aeterna Noctis might be better. Much harder game but very rewarding and not unfair. When you die its because you aren't good enough not because an enemy teleported right on top of you. An absolute must play for any Metroidvania fan that wants a challenge.
Hi mayo, me again, once again recommending Nioh 2, another game from team ninja and is a souls like with hyper fast gameplay, not to spoil it all but I'll give a rundown of some basics, animation cancels, weakpoints on enemies, skill trees, and 10+ super diverse and fun weapons.
Seriously one of my favorite games of all time.
this man does not like soulslikes so he will prob not like nioh
LMAO i was legit gonna tell you to look at the messenger if you hadn't already and then you mention it like halfway through
I'm sure you've moved on, but there's an obscure mechanic that solves backtracking: donating 20,000 tears (gold) at the church lets you teleport between save points.
The game doesn't announce that; it just happens. There's a lot the game should explain better. Instead, it gets lost under all the flavor text.
If you do revisit it, the late game has some great puzzles.
But it's easy to get locked out of the true ending at 100% completion because you fought two bosses in the wrong order. It's infuriating. I'm not putting another 20-30 hours into NG+ to see it.
Sounds a lot like my experience with Axiom Verge... I LOVED the run & gun gameplay, the various abilities, and the pixel art was amazing at parts, but I just couldn't stick with it because the exploration felt fucking miserable, which is kind of a death sentence for a Metroidvania.
I love Hollow Knight because movement is fast and fluid, the areas are all visually distinct, the map screen is large and the rooms are shaped pretty distinctly on it, and there's many generous fast travel points for such a huge world.
Axiom Verge was like the exact opposites of Hollow Knight. Slow clunky movement, samey areas, a cramped unintelligible map screen, and barely any fast travel. It felt like literally being lost in an alien world, which I will say *does* initially sound *really cool* on paper, but I promise you it was just miserable and impenetrable and dense in a bad way. Unfortunately it sounds like Blasphemous feels the same way.
on the note of that series, i always wondered why a doom guy like you hasn't done a vid on Serious Sam ? Either the 1st 2 games or the latest (a fan-project)? its "basically" doom
You should play Metro Exodus. I feel like it is the perfect in-between of a shooter and a thought-based survival horror.
Everyone told me to play Tunic