Plot

[LittleBigPanda]

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Can anyone explain the plot of the new part?)
I did not understand everything, why the penitent appeared in a new place, what kind of new miracle? and what's wrong if it was born? How is the girl leading us connected to this, who is she?
And who did the penitent become in the good ending? god? What kind of man was behind him at the end of the video, looking like either a god or an angel?)
unclear

[my butt is erect]

At least I'm not alone in barely knowing what happened in this game.

[ranzoo_tr]

I would say, the penitent doesn't want to loose his title of "Son of the Miracle", so when he heard about the new challenger, he shows up to beat him up.

[rrReyn]

well, in the ending A the protagonist ends up in a place "all blessings are coming from" or something like that. There are all the good characters there, so it's probably Heaven. Then the Miracle is the twisted version of that, it listens to people's prayers and answer in grotesque forms. The Penitent One is supposed to stop the "false good". To simplify it even further: the good guy have to defeat evil force and then he gets the happy end.
But maybe i am missing something and the story is much deeper then that somehow

[f.ultron]

The man behind him is "The Twisted One". He was a major "behind the scenes" figure in the first game and he's the one the symbol of the first game comes from. He was a man who prayed the Higher Wills (the equivalent of God in the game) to be punished for his guilt. He prayed until he contorted and became one with the log he was sitting on. In doing so, he created the "Miracle".
As for the Miracle, it's an invisible power that converts human emotions, dreams and psyche into reality, usually something grotesque and harmful.
The Twisted One is, as far as I can tell, the only character object of veneration in the Blasphemous universe that is benevolent towards humanity.

As for the plot of Blasphemous 2, I am still trying to figure it out. I'm not sure why the various boss characters try to stop the Penitent One in his quest, or even what the Penitent One's quest is supposed to be.

[DoremianCleff]

I can summirize a bunch, but i have no brains to make it sensible.

Basically in Blasphemous 1 you succesfully got rid of "the Miracle", as in the idea of it. You kinda won and put an end to it's madness for a while. But MIracle didn't die or disappear, albeit it was weakened. With all it's will, Miracle focused on one pair that desired for a child and chanelled it's will through them, creating the new Miracle. And people who witnessed the birth became it's saints or whatever you'd want to call it.

Miracle 2.0 actually has nothing to do with The Miracle and it has no agency of it's own and doesn't even know what it's purpose. So you KINDA can think of it as the "man create ultimate machine and it become self aware" kinda way. All that Child of a Miracle knows that it was born with a purpose and that people really crazy about it. Which is kinda the important part of a 2nd game, since by the time you reach it, you still don't have any clue why or what not.

I honestly don't know what the deal with Penitent squad. The Penitent One is understandable - he doesn't want the perpetuation of suffering through faith, so he gathers sins and guilt and fights in behalf of all Custodia. The rest of the gang seems to have no agenda other than "We need to protect the child".

The woman that follows you through the game is just a neutral observer. Probably born of original miracle. Her goal is just to witness what has to happen. Sorta like an angel that convey will of universe to chosen few.
Penitent one just took a nap in a stone sarcophagus. And he was probably moved around a bunch for processions and what not. People of Custodia really love processions.

As for the second ending - there is a place called "The Dream" where everything ends up be. If you are not alive and not bound to reality in some way (as a ghost of a holy corpse), you are sent to the Dream, which is actual after life. So after fulfilling his role, Penitent one ascend into a dream, no longer bound by duty. Which is interesting, since Penitent one been to Dream a bunch of times, tho never in his own and place looked kinda ♥♥♥♥.