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This game is good. I like good games. More good games, please

So if you've already gotten Nyx (say from the Awards, or just from farming her in-game), this is still worth getting (uh, is it still gettable?) because it comes with a free Warframe slot. Slot good! Slot normally cost platinum! Just sell your extra copy of Nyx from your inventory, or dispose of it in special secret spoilery ways.

I hate this game just because I'm bad at it lol
Anyway you should get it

After beating the first boss you get to turn into a big dog and run around

So yeah you will in fact be terraforming the planet, which means your surroundings will change dramatically. Usually to your benefit, sometimes not so much.
You're dropped onto the barren planet as a lone miserable slob in a spacesuit with a multitool and some supplies. You initially have no way to generate food. To survive long-term you need to do a mixture of base building and exploring, good luck!
Anyway it's good.

Idk how a game with no music or sound effects can be this good but there you go

Okay mild spoilers but you start out as a puny lazy failson of a wizard and before very long you find yourself commanding a small army of subservient wizards who cast spells over and over again for you as needed. You have to manage your mana usage as well as your servant wizard usage among other stuff. But that's not to say that you can just rely on your wizards to automate everything for you; for one thing you can only have so many wizards (especially on Modern mode), and for another thing some spells you really don't want to just go casting as soon as they're available.

Also like many games of its type you'll be starting over a bunch, in fact in this game there's lots of awesome quest rewards that only start to take effect the next time you restart; sometimes the excuses for why this is the case are pretty silly but hey they work.

This game's definitely better on a widescreen monitor, although all the panels you end up cramming into that space can get pretty overwhelming. Fortunately this game introduces its concepts to you a little at a time, so you aren't completely snowed under with data.

Like my body, this game is old.

Unlike my body, it just keeps getting better over time.

Quick and dirty review:

* Much like the first game, it's pretty gory.
* Much like the first game, it's pretty weird, at least in terms of aesthetics and atmosphere. I don't pretend to fully understand the plot, either.
* It's pretty hard. If you're familiar with soulslikes in general, you might laugh to hear this: you don't lose any of your money when you die. Instead, like the first game, you accumulate some "Guilt," and you have to retrieve a Guilt fragment where you died in order to make the Guilt go away. In Blasphemous 2, Guilt not only reduces your maximum Fervor (magic juice, basically) but also reduces your defense. (it also has a positive effect: you get more money from killing enemies.) But even when you pick up your Guilt fragments, it doesn't take away all the Guilt you accumulated. You can pay an NPC to take all the Guilt away, but the more your Guilt, the more it costs. Yes, this makes boss fights particularly nerve-wracking, as you slowly accumulate more and more Guilt with repeated deaths and get weaker and weaker. Still, it's not, like, ridiculously difficult or anything. Muscle memory and memorization of boss patterns outpaces the Guilt gain fairly reliably. Except that one boss. We don't talk about that one boss.

I finally managed to crash the game with an infinite loop by messing up my brackets, over 170 hours in
Yes there's an achievement for crashing this game

Primarily, this is a good story told in an unusual and interesting way. Don't expect too much more than that and you shouldn't be disappointed (although it's also fun to try to find the achievements).