Blasphemous runs with this image in a fictional setting, utilizing Christian concepts for the purposes of building a drama centered on guilt and suffering. The core of the game’s aesthetic is (Spanish) Catholicism in all its contradictory, gory splendor, a fantastic collage of themes and images from across the history of a religion that became the highest reference of irrationalism and obscurantism in Europe during the course of early modernity.īy the end of the 18 th century, the image of Catholicism was tainted, the source of Gothicism as well as the perfect reversal of the image of Enlightenment. This self-baptism kickstarts the trials of Blasphemous, the latest game by indie Spanish studio The Game Kitchen, in which the revelation of a supernatural entity referred to only as “The Miracle” has twisted the world of Cvstodia into divine shape, its blessings indistinguishable from maledictions. After your first duel in Blasphemous, your character the Penitent One anoints themselves with the blood of the fallen monster, pouring it inside their helmet so as to entirely cover their head, gruesomely dripping into the neck and chest.
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