![]() ![]() Its designers, from Spanish studio The Game Kitchen, looked to the architecture and sculpture of their native Seville. The game starts as it means to go on, as the hero – The Penitent One – explores the world of Cvstodia, fighting flagellants, collecting rosary beads, unravelling the secrets of a deity known as The Miracle of Greatest Pain.īlasphemous wears its religious inspirations on its sleeve. It’s an effective introduction to the game’s quasi-Catholic iconography, which pulls on imagery of baptism, vampirism, the catching of Christ’s blood at the crucifixion and the drinking of sacramental wine. ![]() In no time at all, the hero of the video game Blasphemous (2019) has cut down a monstrous church warden and, in a cathedral littered with dead bodies, removes his pointed helmet, holds it beneath a gushing wound in the ogre’s side, waits for it to be filled with blood, then calmly places it back on his head.
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