about the game difficulty

[Tara]

i heard blasphemous is even harder than the first one, especially the normal mobs, problem is this this is still a metroidvenia so i was wondering is the exlporation a pain in the ass or it's stil fun?
also, is the level design like the first one? i wasn't really a fun of the fact that all the areas were basically a "wait and move" honestly

[DyNaMiX]

The game was easier than the first until the final boss where it just goes stupidly difficult...

[Lahoo Eckbert]

It is much harder than the first game that it is uncomparable. The difficulty spike at elevated temples is so insane that I thought of refunding the game, it is basically where the fun ends. I really like the game but the devs kinda made it hard to enjoy this one.
(I know some people say it is easy, etc, but it is just a few sweaty tryhards who think it is a cool flex to say that, game is impossibly hard).

[RobSumGames]

it's not hard, like a at all. There are so many checkpoints, you can just tank almost every boss, as soon as you upgrade a weapon they do crazy damage. Good game with difficulty for casual players

[Lahoo Eckbert]

引用自 RobSumGames：

it's not hard, like a at all. There are so many checkpoints, you can just tank almost every boss, as soon as you upgrade a weapon they do crazy damage. Good game with difficulty for casual players

Those are all lies.

[Aumires]

引用自 DyNaMiX：

The game was easier than the first until the final boss where it just goes stupidly difficult...

It has the same deal as the first game: do the cursed letter quest and you will get something incredibly OP. In the 1st game it was the shield prayer, here is a different one.

You can also bait the boss with jump attack mace and starting fire pillars, he will BBQ himself.

[PlayL4D2!]

引用自 Aumires：

引用自 DyNaMiX：

The game was easier than the first until the final boss where it just goes stupidly difficult...

It has the same deal as the first game: do the cursed letter quest and you will get something incredibly OP. In the 1st game it was the shield prayer, here is a different one.

You can also bait the boss with jump attack mace and starting fire pillars, he will BBQ himself.

Except that none of the powerful items are accessable before beating some key and very difficult bosses.

[Đeath’ş Aļļ | Horst Fuchs]

In one word, its UNBALANCED!

Platforming and exploratio is normal, but difficulty of bosses is very variable. First two or three bosses are kinda normal for a minimum equipement you can find.

Another three or fours were suddently supereasy, i beat them without any preparation, with zero tactic, so much easy.

But last few bosses is hell on earth in Dark Souls style, several times higher difficulty than first three bosses, even with most of upgrades and powerups. Very unfair and sudden difficulty spike.

I liked this game so much, but just until Hymn boss. Dirty trick from devs if you ask me.

[Summoner]

The entire game is too easy for me to the point I am not enjoying it as much as I would like. I have to actively gimp myself and not use beads or OP altars and play with 100% guilt, and also not use the censer, because it becomes a clownfest so easy a video game journo could beat it. Eviterno was also quite easy. The spike death was also removed and you get a lot of movement abilities on top so dying to obstacles is never in question. Disappointing really. I never felt really challenged by anything.

[gungadin22000]

Blasphemous 1 also removed the instant spike death in a patch since everybody hated it.

[JackBurton'sRig]

That one combat arena in the elevated temple is the definition of artificial difficulty, bunch of enemies that hit hard but are easy to dodge, then those hooded sword guys teleport in, they summon those red orbs that follow you around, chipping off a quarter of your health, and then their sword swings do like 75% damage to you, its ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

I spent more time trying to clear that challenge room than ANY of the bosses because that one enemies damage output is so retardedly overclocked, that ♥♥♥♥ needs a nerf like yesterday.

[Antorius]

With a couple of exceptions like Quirce and Isidora, I personally find the bosses in Blasphemous easier than Blasphemous 2. This is largely due to the elevated boss health pools in B2 -- more time to make a mistake and the boss to win by simple attrition -- and quicker attacks, including several that just seem to come out of nowhere and are rather punishing (like Orospina's swipe -- not her lunges -- and Odon's lunge).

Concerning exploration: like everyone, I had moments of supreme frustration with the instant-death spike pits in Blasphemous, but on the whole I did not mind them so much. I find the traversal "puzzles" in Blasphemous 2 to be far more tedious, and the arena areas to be far more annoying, by far. Combined with the aesthetic, music and story/lore of Blasphemous 2 being less dark and interesting -- in my opinion -- than Blasphemous, and the amount of backtracking being much higher in a much bigger map (despite better fast-travel), I have to say that I enjoyed exploration in Blasphemous more.

[Antorius]

引用自 Winterkalte：

Can't fix stupid.

Quite. But one can always hope.

[ihyw]

引用自 gungadin22000：

Blasphemous 1 also removed the instant spike death in a patch since everybody hated it.

It was never removed

[grendel]

I find myself more aggravated while playing 2 than I did in the original. Bosses are certainly more annoying with their unskippable intro animations. As usual, the exploration is the fun part and it's good although I am still early in the game.

[esoteric_nebula]

Blasphemous II is easier than the first one. For example: I got stuck on the first Blasphemous in the first 1 hour. In this game it took me 10 hours of gameplay to get truly stuck. Still a hard game though.