157 - Blasphemous II (feat. Tom O’Mahony)
Added 2024-09-25 06:00:14 +0000 UTCTom O’Mahony (Beneath the Skin, Lions Led by Donkeys) and the lads grab their rosary blades and make for the miraculous city of Cvstodia as they cover The Game Kitchen’s gothic 2023 Metroidvania: Blasphemous II. Topics include the game’s Sevillian origins, the literal Piss-Christ, and the importance of gamifying Catholicism as a merciless, guilt-ridden bloodbath.
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Media Referenced in this Episode:
Blasphemous 2. The Game Kitchen/Team17, 2023.
Blasphemous. The Game Kitchen/Team17, 2019.
“Blasphemous II, EP02: Touring Cvstodia | Dev Diaries” The Game Kitchen. 2023
“Blasphemous II, EP03: “The Art and the Miracle” | Dev Diaries” The Game Kitchen. 2023.
“Spain’s dwindling knife sharpeners” by Tom Burridge. BBC News, Madrid. January 8th, 2014.
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Comments
I like Jesus being my personal friend. I like how I can just talk to this regular, nice guy who also happens to be the absolute God. I don't want to have to make my way through bureaucracy and some corrupt old dudes who think they're better than me just to get what I need. Also, it's a damn good thing I'm a nihilist.
NowhereMan661
2025-09-05 21:00:11 +0000 UTCI am Catholic and I’m here for the religious discourse and humor. This game has so much thought into it. also my family is Irish, so Tom’s accent is making this even more enjoyable and funny for me. I love it when AJ finds an excuse to break out his weird Gregorian chant!
Elizabeth Power
2024-10-09 19:59:05 +0000 UTCYou guys got me to buy this and The Last Faith my first Metroidvania since my childhood
Kyle Reesman
2024-10-03 16:36:11 +0000 UTCreally fantastic ep, this is one of my favorite games and listening made me want to replay it!
Wyatt Yankus
2024-10-01 22:44:55 +0000 UTCEven though I grew up around Catholics-aren't-christians reformed hardliners, these two games really resonate with the impact they had on me. It's the imagery and the worldbuilding obviously, these aesthetics remind me of housewives and middle managers chatting about being washed in blood like it's the weather. But it's also in the gameplay, particularly the traversal - Blasphemous 1 in particular feels so burdensome to play, the penitent one moves so slowly and falls so heavily. The emotional experience of the gameplay reminds me of how I felt back when I thought if I snuck a piece of candy I'd have to answer to the guy who carved the grand canyon
Elah
2024-10-01 11:20:04 +0000 UTCHave you considered covering Fear and Hunger, specifically the second game Termina? I feel like the religious themes are similar to those explored in Blasphemous and fertile ground for discussion
Fatt Mox
2024-09-27 01:08:33 +0000 UTCJosh is the only reader in the group
Jimmy McMillan
2024-09-26 23:25:32 +0000 UTCYou are both correct, Dark Souls 2 is the best one!!
Virginia Paine
2024-09-26 18:33:59 +0000 UTCCurious if any of you have read A Canticle For Leibowitz. More post-apocalyptic sci-fi than dark fantasy but it's another super interesting exploration/twisting of Catholicism. One of my favorite novels and I'd be interested to hear your thoughts!
Thom Coté
2024-09-26 17:57:03 +0000 UTCPlus oneing it has a lot to say about the creativity that birthed the games industry in the 80s, the meta narrative threads between games, the hints to the relationships between those who made the games
S-lappin
2024-09-26 05:16:44 +0000 UTCDarkest Dungeon?
Kyle Reesman
2024-09-25 23:49:21 +0000 UTCThat would make Jason secretly based, which I'm dubious of
John Her
2024-09-25 21:38:31 +0000 UTCOh ye heretical DS2 enjoyers Hbomberguy hath poisoned your souls Repent, lest ye incur Miyazaki's wrath, the developer of the one true Souls
Nathan Woods
2024-09-25 20:57:42 +0000 UTCIt is always good when the Protestant Work Ethic is foiled. Foiling the Protestant Work Ethic justifies all means. Anti-Protestant Work Ethic Aktion
Elah
2024-09-25 19:04:40 +0000 UTCI know they've got plans enough for the next few years but I'd love to hear the boys talk about UFO 50 even if it were a ladscast episode. Just hearing which games they each connected with.
Dergon
2024-09-25 17:22:41 +0000 UTCthis game basically sounds like it was created by the mirror universe catholic version of jason whittaker
Max Johansson
2024-09-25 16:52:50 +0000 UTCSin is stored in the peen, that's why it's the Peenitent movement.
Dergon
2024-09-25 15:19:27 +0000 UTCbut actally tho this episode is wild to me cuz since that game induces an lsd like state ive never been able to take it as a critique of catholicism im just like "well it feels like this normally brackets good so whats the problem" lmao
Lain of the Wired
2024-09-25 15:18:43 +0000 UTCHooting and stamping at the mention of a future Metal Gear episode.
BarFly
2024-09-25 14:07:09 +0000 UTCBlasphemous is great cuz it's just how temporal lobe epilepsy feels lol
Lain of the Wired
2024-09-25 12:32:54 +0000 UTCThe vibe of this game is very "what if Berserk was very Catholic"
Noblesse Oblahaj
2024-09-25 11:48:59 +0000 UTCI grew up in the town where Team 17 are based. When I was in secondary school they provided a number of work experience places to our year 11s (age 15-16). Needless to say those places were massively over-applied for.
Regular Sized Horse (Small)
2024-09-25 09:50:13 +0000 UTCAs a fellow autist, sometimes I love how much I understand your ultra-specific cultural references by heart and sometimes it makes me loathe myself. The first 60 seconds of this episode (Dream of a Fisherman's wife) made me loathe myself.
John Her
2024-09-25 06:45:48 +0000 UTCExcited to see Tom on the pod
Kacey Riley
2024-09-25 06:44:41 +0000 UTC
