Blasphemous Gets New Stir Of Dawn DLC, Adding New Game Plus, New Story Content And More

Awesome. This was a great game. I’ll happily play again at some point.

Best Addition: You can pet the dog!

Blasphemous is a pretty good game but it's not great, in my opinion. I found it really frustrating at times and was left questioning whether I was actually enjoying myself or not. Twice I've gone back to it and ended up giving up after a certain point. I'm playing through Valfaris just now and really enjoying it. Can't believe NL awarded that a 6/10. It's a 9/10 all the way .

Loved this game and wished there was more. And soon there will be? BRILLIANT!!

Cool. Really like this game

Wow, such an amazing addition, and for free. The QoL stuff is pretty good, one of my concerns was the lack of quick travels, and they're adding more. Nice. Also the new story and bosses look great! Time for a second replay XD

By the way, the game is on sale now. If you don't have it yet, I really reccomend it, it's a great metroidvania game, rather tough sometimes but very enjoyable, and the graphics are outstanding. Only for adults, though, as you can see in any trailer XD

Ah, there it finally is! Am I ready for more punishment? Heck yes!

suuuuhhhhweet. I’m in like flint.

Such a lovely announcement for such a depressing game. (I love it to death, FYI) can’t wait to explore these new features.

Can’t help but feel this game was inspired in part by Clive Barker and his novella The Hellbound Heart (the basis for the Hellraiser films...)

This is a nice move! Thank you!

Team 17 is een good publisher. It has a nice catalogue and they give away free stuff all the time. Pretty underrated.

@Zuljaras Oh no doubt about that either; the sadomasochist themes are prevalent in both works methinks.

@DoktorTotenKopf
According to interviews with the devs it was mostly inspired by Spanish Catholicism and several Spanish gothic religious paintings.
Hellbound Heart is a fantastic book but was deliberately not meant to be part of any religious tradition (even though Barker kind of spoiled that with Scarlet Gospels when he made the Cenobites just another type of hell-based demon).

This is a fantastic game though, can't wait to give the new stuff a go.

@DevlinMandrake fascinating stuff, innit?

I might give this another try after I've finished my umpteenth play of Curse of the Moon 2. That said, I do remember quickly getting frustrated by the difficulty and not really enjoying it. I prefer Metroid-style games to not be so punishing while I'm trying to explore. I can only concentrate on exploring or combat but not both! 😉

@BulkSlash Interesting, I've just finished Curse of the Moon 2 and found that a lot harder than Blasphemous.

This is excellent news by the way, as this is one of my favourite metroidvanias this generation. Can't believe they're putting it out for free either.

Passed this game 100% just a few weeks ago. The biggest issue I had with it was it was difficult to know where to go on the map to activate the next bit of the story. Won't bother with the DLC but good on them for releasing new free stuff.

@OorWullie Agree entirely with this. I found that I just wasn't enjoying playing it. The graphics the world and the music were great but I gave it up, haven't hot the time to waste on something so frustrating. Hopefully the balancing includes the difficulty...

I liked this game at first but,for me,it started to become tedious after 20hrs or so.I stopped playing and didn't go back to it. The fast travel points were far too sparse and i just didn't enjoy running from one side of the map to the other numerous times in order to try and progress forward. Its good they're adding free content but i'm not sure i'll go back to it to be honest

I really enjoyed the demo of Blasphemous, but I haven't bought in yet, as I just don't have the time right now for a full game of that magnitude. ^_^;;

This sort of free expansion does strengthen my cravings, though!

The game is currently on sale on the UK eShop (50% off). Might as well buy it in preparation for the DLC and QoL features. Always loved the art style.

@OorWullie I found the frustration fueled my rage to finish it even more.

Is this game as hard or harder than Hollow Knight?

@SpaceboyScreams if you find Hollow Knight difficult you'll find Blasphemous similarly difficult because they've both got similar mechanics when it comes to fighting enemies, you have to learn your skill set and the enemy's movements so you can avoid taking damage and then counterstrike. I would say it's a little easier for the most part but there's one or two bosses I found to be harder than anything in HK, they really tested my patience. But it's great fun when you do manage it!

@SpaceboyScreams
No, it's not as good or hard as HK.
HK has a comparable overall difficulty as Blasph, but HK has some REALLY HARD extras, Trials of fools, Boss Rush, Radiant bosses, Platform hell. Really hard and good stuff, but totally optional.
Also Blasph is a lot shorter than HK, but this new content will help that.

I physical release would be awesome. Limited Run Games copies are extortionate on eBay

I beat this a few weeks back and loved it. I was missing just a tiny bit of map and maybe two body parts. All the statues were destroyed, and I died on some spikes. When I went back for my ghost, it was on the spikes... thats when I put the game down. This sounds like a great opportunity to revisit it.

Yes yes and more yes, will get on this after completed Paper Mario

Why'd didn't I pick this up in the sale 😞

I got the game on sale recently and am really enjoying it. Can't wait to try the DLC.

I have enjoyed finishing the game last year. Now with an interesting DLC I would revisit the miracle for a fresh run

Guess I’ll be redownloading this one.

Maybe I’ll give it a try again, because last time I played it m, attack and defense felt unresponsive and thought the level design was pretty bland. Great art style and animation though.

As the immortal Jake the Dog once said-

“BRING IT ON!”

Yes! What an amazing game, and it got much better (for free).
Get it guys, if you like metroidvanias. You won't regret it.

Btw, the spanish dub is brilliant. Amazing actors and voices. They've done such a good job.

This game is so good.

@Makina In my opinion, no game at all can be compared to Hollow Knight, but that doesn't mean they are bad. Of course not. Blasphemous, Monster Boy, Ori, Axiom Verge... are really good games all of them, brilliant metroidvanias. But HK is too much, that's all. Nearly perfect.
It's like comparing BotW with pretty much any other open world game. There are awesome games with open worlds, amazing ones, but BotW is just too good. This is the same thing. Games that are simply on another level.

Now how about a physical copy that has all the dlc on it? I already own a physical and would happily buy a upgraded one with all dlc.

@the_beaver I really like Hollow Knight but never got into it beyond like 6 hours or so of play because of one glaring issue to me. It has no proper map system from the get go and any map related unlocks are things you need to equip which makes you feel weaker just to be able to see where things are on your map. That is the one and only failure the game has to me and it did turn me off from it. Take a game as old as super metroid, they got the map system right and it stands the test of time because of it. It is a great game like I said but not for me (and I have an excellent memory so that is not an issue).

@Jokerwolf funny thing,m is that nowadays I'm unable to replay Super Metroid XD. I think it has aged really bad. Metroid Zero Mission (basically the same thing) is a much better game if you play it now imo, without nostalgia.
So yes, it' s all about tastes XD

@the_beaver I agree in some regards Zero Mission is better but it is like 20 years its senior too lol. Hollow Knight is good but their map thing is objectively a bad design choice from a game design standpoint. That is literally the only thing I do not like about the game. Everything else is amazing about it.

It seems the majority of the new stuff can only be found in New game +, wich means you have to play the whole game again. And even harder this time. Sorry, but I just finished the game recently and it was HARD. I am not in the mood to do it all over again at a higher difficulty (and this soon) just to reach the dlc. So sadly it won't be consumed by me. Hopefully we see a sequel someday.