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I legit feel bad for the Big Guy based on what I've seen so far beyond the immediate plot of:
Spoiler for second episode
where the guards are gracious and the grounds are grand, the warden really listens and he understands.
Gundam Maxter drops tomorrow.
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Almost as long a wait as Star Citizen...
The bosses are pretty poor but the influence was clear.
Great visuals and set-pieces though, all classic Blasphemous gruesomeness. Very fluid movement and fun combat. I hope it follows the pattern of the original and gets more polish and DLC stuff.
I grabbed Veredicto first and was missing my parry a lot. It does feel a bunch different, which I enjoyed.
also I remembered the time when I was a kid when I told a doctor about my feelings of despair and my panic attacks and angst and he decided I was faking because I knew what "angst" meant, so I must have looked this up for prescriptions (for what, Zoloft? kids aren't exactly lining up for it) and gave me propranolol (didn't help.)
that's about the time I decided to add doctors to my mental list of grown-ups that I cannot depend on.
LOTS OF MOODS
Was sitting in a different church today than my usual one and the person doing the homily talked about how Jesus befriended sex workers. I mean it's a progressive church so I shouldn't be surprised at their choice of words, but it's still a good distinction from "whores."
There's not a lot of time left, and I'm so close to being guaranteed the second Pity I could probably still get Yelan since I'm getting a steady supply of primos from story missions.
But I've not been opposed to Childe and it would a much more casual time getting him.
And if the overarching theme of Blasphemous 1 was Guilt, it seems like the overarching theme of the sequel is Devotion
How is that something so heinous it would necessitate The Miracle to reassert itself? well
It seems like the acts of the last game really inspired the populace of Custodia to take after The Penitent One. the capirote and the garments of procession were adopted and coopted by the new leadership of the land post Miracle in honor of the Penitent One's acts. But the actual lesson behind what they did, the moral and ethical necessity of ending the endless guilt, was lost. People just transferred their faith unto this new edifice, built (quite literally) on top of the old faith; a new testament on the foundations of the old one but missing the reason the original came to its conclusion.
this is best exemplified by the fact that the supposed source of inspiration for this change, The Penitent One's own tomb, is a distant pilgrimage site removed from the new faith's core; and it's not that detached from reality - consider the Church of the Sepulcher in Jerusalem compared to where the might, the glory, the wealth and the power of Christianity sits ensconced in the vaulted domes of the Vatican in Rome
this detachment, this misconception, goes on for so long and to such an extent that a married couple hoping for a child turn in desperation to the Miracle - the horrible thing that was so instrumental in their suffering, but still capable of great acts. It'd be like christians praying to the devil because Jesus left
and so the lunar entity (which is not the High Wills, who were the manifestation of the guilt-based faith of the old Miracle) who up until this point was aware but distant from this outpouring of faith, stepped in. "oh you have absolutely got to be shitting me with this," it is probably thinking. "these assholes want the Miracle back?! ok, something here has gotten clearly out of hand and it's symptomatic of a much larger issue. Welp, second verse, the same as the first - you want a child, people? well get fucking ready."
It's doubtlessly cruel and capricious, but it's also... catholically appropriate? or at least, Abrahamically appropriate. remember Old Testament God - of Sodom and Gomorrah, of the Binding of Isaac, of Moses hitting a rock in frustration to get water pouring out and him getting his wish, only for him to be punished by being denied entry to Israel by God because he didn't wait for the Almighty to say it was ok to start rock hitting time
which is why it is also appropriate for The Penitent One to be back - and not just back, but with their arm replaced with thorned dead wood, the metaphorical symbol the games uses for Guilt. This time you're not just carrying it wrapped around your weapon, the pain spurring you onwards towards redemption - it is part of you, brought on by your very deeds; indeed, by your own right hand. That this was not your intention does not absolve you of the responsibility to amend it, for you are its origin, and the only way it can be made right
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Yeah I remember the Binding of Isaac, never got full platinum though, who wants to take a one-hit ghost through all that?
[edit] and give Kokomi a buff to underwater swimming
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Even if it makes them grow into a giant and have all their skin ripped off, or get infested with bees and start melting into honey, or fused together with your two siblings into one hideous three-faced abomination. At the very worst, they're thinking 'gosh, I wonder what I did to deserve this' while absolutely believing that they do deserve it. There's no perceived difference between curse and blessing.
I finished my playthrough of B2 over the weekend, and I think I like the first one a little better overall. But the first one went through a lot of changes after release to smooth out gameplay and improve things, plus it had some great DLC, so I hope the second game follows suit.
I got both endings, bad and good, and I think the good ending is one of the most beautiful video game endings ever.
I did this.
3 times.
Although I did have the item that gives you one extra hit per room.
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I wouldn’t mind another Bennet from the event going at the moment.
Also this Mushroom people quest in Sumeru is miserably long.
I think you just need to go there? There's supposedly some way to warp to it but I can't recall where it's at, otherwise it's basically just trekking all the way there through Sumeru's desert regions.
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You def don’t need to do the mushroom ppl quest.
You just go to a place at the north central edge of the desert part, there will be a port with a boat.
You won’t be able to do a ton there until you finish the Archon quest tho (which is NOT the ‘shroom folk stuff).
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