Blasphemous News

Hello Sinners,

Welcome to the first of our community blog posts that will focus on giving you an insight into different areas of the new content that will be arriving in The Stir of Dawn.

The Miracle willed that the first of these four posts would focus on something the team are very excited to bring to Blasphemous, full Spanish voice acting for all speaking characters.

Below you will find a series of short videos that introduces some of the Voice Actors and shows their incredible work in action, including brand new characters that appear in The Stir of Dawn DLC!

Friend and foe alike await you below...




Rafael de Azcárraga (@AzcarragaDe) - Pontiff Escribar

Rafael has been incredibly active in video games since 2002! Fans of God of War will recognise his voice as Kratos in the latest entry of the God of War saga.

Heed his words, lest he bless you forever in death...

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Mario García (@Mario_Garrcia) - Esdras and Jocinero

A popular actor who is active on Social Media. His voice acting career is parallel to Tom Holland's, who he has voiced since they both were kids. Mario has been the voice of Spiderman in the latest movies and in PS4's Spiderman as well.

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Laura Pastor (@laurapastor89) - Young Viridiana

Well known for her voice in movies like The Incredibles (Violet Parr), How to Train your Dragon (Astrid), Frozen (Anna). Laura’s other characters include Ladybug and Hermione Granger.

PENITENTE!

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Inma Font - Candelaria

Heralding from the South of Spain. Her powerful and cracked voice easily reminds listeners of a flamenco singer. Inma is known for voicing multiple Dragon Ball Z characters!

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Claudio Serrano (@ClaudioSensasao) - Gémino and Jibrael

Claudio is active in social media and loved by the gamer community.

Well known for being Batman in all Christian and Ben Affleck movies, including all video games and LEGO products. He was also Otto in The Simpsons. He works a lot on videogames and keeps a close relationship with the Spanish video game industry and specialised press. He was also Days Gone main character, Deacon and Altair in the first Assassin's Creed.

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Laura Monedero (@LMonederoR) - Pious Woman and Golden Face

Laura's dubbing career has exploded recently with incredible roles such as Spider-Gwen, Captain Marvel, Nala in the latest The Lion King movie, Seladon in "The Dark Crystal: The Age of Resistance". She was also Mipha in Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

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Ramón de Arana (@RaymonDeArana) - Nacimiento

Fans of God of War will recognise Ramón as Atreus from 2018' God of War! BOY!

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Alfonso Vallés - Diosdado

Alfonso has also voiced Solid Snake (Metal Gear Solid), Gangplank (League of Legends), Coach (Left 4 Dead 2), Ed O'Neill in "Married with Children" and he's the recurring Castilian voice of actors like Mickey Rourke, Terry Crews or Josh Brolin.

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Jordi Boixaderas - Deogracias

Before voicing Deogracias, Jordi’s most recent contribution has been voicing Bayek from Assassin's Creed Origins, but he's also well known for voicing Hollywood stars like Russell Crowe, Sean Bean, Dwayne Johnson "The Rock"or Daniel Craig. He nailed Leonidas in 300 and Maximus Decimus Meridius in Gladiator.

Penance never truly ends...

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The Stir of Dawn will also feature Sandra Villa as Altasgracias, Juan Fernández as Cleofás and even more talented actors! You'll just have to explore Cvstodia to discover them...




We hope you enjoyed a first full listen at some of the Spanish voice acting that will be available when The Stir of Dawn arrives on August 4th.

All players are free to use both the updated English and new Spanish voices, which can be changed in your game settings.

Join us again next week when we'll be sharing details on True Torment NG+, the Penitence System and more...

Sinners,

You have been patient and pious since the announcement of free DLC coming to Blasphemous at the end of last year.

Now today we are very excited to share that on August 4th you'll be returning to Cvstodia in 'The Stir of Dawn', a free DLC for all owners of Blasphemous...

Initially planned for earlier on in the year, the team instead decided to further expand on their initial plans following community feedback to create a DLC truly worthy for those that take on the mantle of The Penitent One.

By the blessings of The Miracle that time is now upon us as The Penitent One awakens an ancestral power long forgotten by the Miracle...

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The Stir of Dawn will take the Blasphemous experience to the next level with:

• New Game+
  
• A new, optional 'Three Penitence' system.
  
• New storylines, NPCs, bosses, enemies and areas to discover.
  
• New Executions & Counter attack mechanic.
  
• Revamped map system with more fast travel locations.
  
• New items, animations and level art reworks.
  
• Updated voice acting, including a full Spanish language option.
  
• Balance changes including: Buffed Prayers, Rosary Bead & Sword Heart updates plus enemy tweaks!
  

And more!



Each week on the run up to launch we'll be delving deeper into what awaits you in The Stir of Dawn DLC with News Posts here on Steam that will share a behind the scenes look from the Developers at some of the new mechanics and features you'll be encountering come August 4th.

The Amanecidas of the Miracle await you...

Hello Sinners,

Today we come to you with a blessing in the form of a 40% discount on the cost of Blasphemous during the Team17 Steam Publisher Sale.

For those yet to take their vow of silence and raise Mea Culpa as The Penitent One, much awaits you...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGVB8TAILYc

Act with haste for this discount will not be around for long.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/774361/Blasphemous/

See the full Team17 publisher sale here.

For those who have already joined the Brotherhood of the Silent Sorrow, know that your patience will soon be rewarded as we prepare to reveal more about the free DLC coming soon to all Blasphemous owners.

Whilst we have been quiet on what this DLC will contain, let it be known that soon we'll be getting... straight to the point.

Hey everyone,

We hope you're all having a great start to 2020!

Today we're just dropping a small hotfix to address a couple of issues that we've been able to fix whilst we work on that free DLC we teased at the end of last year.

Check out the change list below:

• Fixed a bug where on some occasions, the top floor of the Archcatedral Rooftops could be reached without obtaining the third mask.
  
• Fixed a bug where certain controllers would not retain their button re-bindings after restarting the game.
  
• Fixed a bug where if the player collected all cherubs before visiting Jocinero for the first time, they would not receive the rewards.
  

We're continuing to keep an eye on your feedback and bug reports, so don't worry if a bug you've reported hasn't been squished in today's hotfix - chances are we're working on it!

Speak soon, Penitent Ones.

Hi everyone!



I'm Maikel, from the design team at Blasphemous. I just wanted to take this chance to thank you all out there, on behalf of the whole team at The Game Kitchen.

When we started this project, back in 2017, we couldn't imagine this getting so much attention. Not even close! The amount of love and support that Blasphemous has got after we released it 3 months ago it's astounding. We owe you a lot, and that's why we wanted to share some things with you.



Last week, Blasphemous got not one, but two awards at the Fun & Serious game festival! We were nominated alongside really awesome games, so it's an incredible honor to bring these awards home.

But more importantly, and as you might already imagine after reading the post title, we've been working really hard in some juicy tweaks and changes. The last patches were focused on fixing stuff that was broken and squashing bugs. But this one, the biggest update in Blasphemous so far, it's focused on YOUR feedback.

We've been listening and reading your comments on the steam forums, reddit, twitter, your emails... You name it. We've had little time to reply to most of you (as there were a lot!), but we've been busy working! With this patch, we tried to make Blasphemous feel better and more accessible than ever, refining and polishing the experience as much as possible without actually changing the core game.

Without further ado, I'll leave you with the patch notes. Stay until the end!

The Game Kitchen.





These improvements were made thanks to feedback from you, our players. Thank you to everyone who took the time to share their experiences on platforming in Blasphemous, we hope you enjoy these changes.

• Collision detection during jumps tweaked to improve jump feeling.
  
• Jumping in mid-air is now possible for a few frames after running off a platform (Coyote time / ghost jump).
  
• Grab cancel action added.
  
• The Penitent One is now be able to jump off walls, ledges and ladders by pressing the Grab cancel action.
  
• The Penitent One still can hold down to fall while hanging from a ledge, but the holding time has been adjusted.
  
• The Penitent One will only climb a ledge if the players press Up, to prevent accidental climbing.
  
• Damage while wall climbing now doesn't prevent further wall climbing. Before it was only available after touching the ground again.
  

The new controller screen was rebuilt from the ground up, including a much wider range of controller compatibility. Who’ll be the first person to achieve true penance using a steering wheel setup?

On a more serious note we hope these widened options provide more accessibility for those with different controller wants and needs.

• Extended controller support. Even playing with a dance mat is possible!
  
• Mouse buttons and swipe gestures added.
  
• Improved control screen UI.
  
• Every action is now rebindable.
  
• Button tooltips are shown correctly after rebinding actions in every UI screen.
  

Following some comments we’d seen here on the forums and social media, the team made some changes to reduce player downtime in areas that include moving platforms.

This should maintain a challenge for players, without the slow down in pace.

• Fixed a collision issue that made some players go through them on certain jumps.
  
• Added and reworked some annoying moving platforms to shorten wait times and improve level navigation.
  
• Iterated a few areas featuring moving platforms, to improve platforming and navigation, and make wait times shorter.
  

• Added full Japanese language support.
  
• Fixed several typos in different languages.
  

• Fixed a bug that caused TPO to pass through walls in certain jump conditions.
  
• Removed ladder landing screen shake effect
  
• Fixed a bug that caused falling attacks to continually loop in rare situations.
  
• Improved Weight of Sin timing.
  

• Improved navigation in shortcut between Sleeping Canvases and Mercy Dreams (The infamous room full of spikes!)
  
• Slight geometry tweaks in Wasteland of the Buried Churches and Archcathedral Rooftops.
  

• All spike traps have been corrected to prevent a strange behaviour forcing guilt fragments to appear in Albero.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused Guilt Fragments to get stuck in between scenes under the elevator at Library of Negated Words sometimes.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused Guilt Fragment appearing right in front of the burning tree on Perpetva's fight to be impossible to retrieve.
  

• Damage effects and other Vfx were not being shown on PC builds.
  
• Reflections were not working in scenes like the Halite Lake and the dark room after Melquiades.
  
• Fixed level sprites.
  
• Added decorative sprites of wax below red and blue candles on scenes.
  
• Socorro's animation loops fixed.
  
• When using a controller to exit the teleport menu, TPO didn't make an exit animation and remained invisible.
  
• Fix snow falling inside screen space (Mountains).
  
• Fixed door sprites clipping through the penitent one in Wasteland of Buried Churches.
  
• Fixed an issue with the Retribution animation
  
• In certain locations, the head of The Penitent One could be seen sticking out when falling down a pit.
  

• The Great Elevator in Archcathedral Rooftops could cause a softlock
  
• Interacting with Our Lady of the Six Sorrows a second time could cause a softlock
  
• Dying when falling through a pit with the inventory open could cause a softlock
  

• Mea Culpa level could be increased several times at the same shrine.
  
• The Penitent One could be hit while resting on a certain Prie Dieu.
  
• Fixed transitions to a few screens in which enemies will start attacking The Penitent One if the loading time took too long.
  
• Players could bypass abyss deathtraps when falling into them using the Weight of Sin skill.
  
• Removed an extra blue candle on Engracias' room that shouldn't be there.
  
• Fixed transitions where TPO would be facing the opposite direction they came from.
  
• Hanging chains of giant clapper in Jondo sometimes disappeared when they shouldn't
  
• Fixed Penitent One falling off the world when sliding through the door of the Bridge of the Three Calvaries.
  

• Duplicated Golden Thimble on gemino quest.
  
• Shroud of Dreamt Sin could be lost on force quit.
  
• Altasgracias' Egg could be lost on force quit.
  
• Escribar cutscene 3 doesn't show properly sometimes.
  
• Viridiana can be exploited if TPO leaves the boss room before she vanishes.
  
• Offering the 3rd mask to the Elevator and force quitting won't let the player access the fourth level.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the last conversation with Our Lady of Our Six Sorrows to never be played.
  

• Chalice of Inverted Verses couldn't be refilled in certain conditions.
  
• Chalice of Inverted Verses empties itself after the pontiff cutscenes.
  

• Our Lady of the Charred Visage's laser could still fire and doesn't disappear even after she's dead, and still deals damage.
  
• Players could skip fighting Quirce using air impulse to reach the other side of the gap that led to his battle.
  
• Fixed Warden of the Silent Sorrow collider.
  
• The Penitent One will appear and perform the execution animation from both sides of Crisanta.
  

• Monfràgora errors fixed.
  
• Tizona flickering fixed.
  
• Amargura collider issues fixed. Improved hitbox.
  
• Guardainfante shockwave animation fix.
  
• Fixed Wraith enemy and projectile colliders.
  

• Fixed flasks refilling after defeating Ten Piedad and Charred Visage bosses due to an outdated saving state script.
  
• Mouse is now hidden by default.
  
• Map icon location fixes.
  

Backer credits updated and fixed.
Credits updated.


Just in case any console players are also here, this patch will be coming to all other platforms in the new year.




Your journey of penance is far from over...



We’re excited to share that the first free DLC for Blasphemous will be coming in early 2020…



More details coming very soon!