Recently i’ve been playing Blasphemous. I adore Metroidvanias, regardless of the theme, but this one i felt was kind of special because of the art direction. First i thought it was very obvious. Grim, dark, bloody, etc. But coming from a country which still have quite a few “Holy Blood processions” and not so rare to see a Saint’s bone enshrined in a church, i did feel it reached a little bit deeper than just gore (plus the personal aspect of having experienced similar rites).
While Catholic it’s also Spanish, Spanish to the core, Catalan Gothic architecture, Goya-esque horror intertwined with contra reformation Catholicism and much more. It just felt so familiar, although it shouldn’t since the story isn’t about Catholicism, nor real history, etc.
So … what game struck a chord with you? Culturally speaking? Made you feel it was speaking to you on a different level, something very obscure, but also makes you think “hey, i know …
Legend
Link to the tweet.
It seems that EA Motive might return with Dead Space. Why tf did they need to shut down Visceral if they were just going to revive the franchise? It was EA corporate’s ineptitude that caused the franchise to fail by DS3.
If you have not seen it yet, GVMERS did a GREAT documentary on the Dead Space franchise, and what went wrong. Visceral wanted to take it in a good direction.