“EVERY ASPECT OF ITS LABYRINTHINE SETTING IS GOTHIC IN THE EXTREME.”
Did you see Mad Max?” asks Juan Miguel López, the concept artist behind this metroidvania’s dark and brooding world. “Well, Mad Max 2 was kind of the same but with money.” An old-fashioned sequel where almost everything that worked in the original has been enhanced, Blasphemous 2 certainly shows how a little extra budget can go a long way.
During our time with it, one of the most obvious upgrades is in the new approach to storytelling: lavish hand-drawn animated cutscenes have replaced the somewhat lifeless still images used in