Complaining that a game is too easy can be risky, cause elitist gamer attitude sucks. But for Blasphemous 2, its a type of game that comes with the expectation of challenge, so for my personal single-player experience it never really felt like my exploration paid off, I could have just straightlined to the end and nothing would have changed.

I feel like this video needs an update, currently the bosses have been patched to deal a lot more damage even with rosary bead resistances and you can no longer attack infanta in the coffin.

What about Afilaor huh? The guy who sharpens knifes... that guy was great too. Orospina was a lot of fun, she just needs buffs on her dmg and health pool

I thought Afilaor (the blacksmith samurai) was actually pretty challenging, but he didn't even get a mention in this video, so I must be in the minority.

I found that the rapier's electricity effect from not taking damage plus the amount of damage boosting statues you could stack made it far easier to melt bosses compared to Blasphemous which had significantly less damage boosting options for rosary beads. Even so in the original game there were several bosses that melted pretty fast (i.e. Exposito) or were a bit too easy (i.e. Crisanta if you could parry decently). The DLCs definitely improved the game so hopefully that will be the case for the sequel.

Eviterno is like final performance from grime, both make sure to kick your ass for at least an hour

The fight of eviterno was a masterpiece , but most important his 2nd phase ost became my favorite , really the best fight in my all games bosses fight !

I think the developers did a great job of balancing the difficulty. Just because a boss is easy doesn’t necessarily make it less fun. Like Blasphemous 1, I had fun my entire play through. I think the combat and how good it feels plays a part in that.

the reason these bosses feel easy is because they behave the same as Blasphemous 1 bosses, albeit a lot less balanced, yet the Penitent One's mobility has increased drastically. Especially if you were used to the first game's jank, it's like you're playing with a Super Mario star in B2. I'm expecting or rather hoping for Game Kitchen to adjust the difficulty in further patches or use DLCs to give us the real challenges (which the OG Blasphemous lacked without its DLCs, too, if we're being honest)

After the huge patch some weeks ago, I feel that this video is no longer representative of what a new player's first-time playthrough of Blasphemous 2 will feel like. A great deal has changed as far as balancing goes and the patchnotes are available on Team17's website for anyone curious. Suffice it to say, don't let this videp dissuade you from playing this great game! If you played and beat it within the first couple of months that it was out, I highly recommend either replaying it now, or at least replaying it upon release of the inevitable DLC (which I can't wait for). ETA: Also, dont @ me to say I should play B1; i have beaten that MFer every which way already. I love both B1 and B2, and by the time B2 gets more content, it will probably surpass B1 for me (it's close to doing so already).

I felt that the difficulty is just right for me, i died 2-3 times from each boss. But at the endgame I find the time stopping spell that trivialize the whole boss after that point. Which prompt me to do a second run with a weapon only run for bosses(I need blood magic to clear the spearmen). It is an entirely different experience where I actually need to memorize bosses moveset, I got pretty good countering eviterno's moveset at the end, with no parry just dash. It was a great experience overall.

I actually found that the game had a good level of challenge because I only found 2 or so health upgrades which meant most of the bosses 2 or 3 shotted me and they all felt like roadblocks (except for the preceptor guy). Also I never found the person you give rosary beads to so I could only have 1 bead lol I honestly don’t really get the difficulty complaint since I personally found the bosses in blasphemous 2 far harder than anything in a game like hollow knight which only has a few hard bosses such as pure vessel or absolute radiance with the rest being complete pushovers (especially in the pantheons)

The absolute jump in difficulty after dummying every boss before was a huge but welcome surprise. It was a very slow progress over the course of an hour getting better and better against him as he has so many different moves, but beating him was easily the most satisfying moment of the game. Dude is the Isshin Sword Saint of 2D metroidvanias.

As someone who exclusively used Veredicto and therefore didnt have a parry I can say that sliding completely hardcounters Eviterno. You can literally slide through all his attacks, not even needing much precise timing since he always approaches you. Especially once his big swing and the three step leap attack come out its over for him with how big his recovery windows are there coupled with the hyperbeam and veredictos high damage.

I cannot express how unnerving it was to hear the Pizza Tower scream while looking at Blasphemous footage.

Honesty the difficulty is about the same as the last game in terms of encounters and bosses. It’s just that it was designed to be less frustrating and the new tools we get are what reduce the difficulty. But for me most of the difficulty in the first game came from a few bosses and the platforming. This version allows more good dps options. lI still do think they should adjust the difficulty for more challenge or add a new game plus that aids this problem though

I think my skill really went up playing this game, it took me 10 tries beating the guy in severed tower, and i got so good that i beat eviterno with 5 flask left (out of 6), 3rd try, and you bet i was so proud of that

Eviterno and Afilaor are definitely my fav bosses in the game

Man i must be the worst gamer of all time, i die so many time at bosses like afilaor lesmes and orospina not to mention eviterno, that gave a really hard time

Great video with pretty accurate conclusions! We have patched the game and increased the difficulty of all mid and late bosses precisely for the same reason you shared in the video: "the game doesn't train you for the final combat". If you ever give the game another chance you will notice the difference. 😉

I have a theory that the Blasphemous team, in terms of mechanics, arrived on the same roadblock that the From team arrived after Ds1 (just ignore Ds2, which was made by team B and has separate structures and mechanic choices): if FromSoft didn't increase the speed of its bosses, the slow-paced system of Ds1 and Demons Souls (and also of From's older games) would be very obvious in the next games; Therefore, the difficulty of the gameplay would have to exist in more elaborate levels with fewer bonfires and increasingly obtuse systems of punishment BEFORE the player encounters the boss, in a game logic that player would have to fight the boss already injured and experimenting difficulty through the lack of player options to heal or act with logic, even with a slow-paced boss. However, it became apparent that people preferred more epic boss encounters over level design punishment; for this reason, From Soft started to 'facilitate' the level and player could play safe and have epic boss encounters with a fair way to heal and think with clarity, always puting a save system near the boss, as well as fast-travel from the beginning in the games, so that the player could visit his hub without going through the level and always focus on the bosses 100%. The Blasphemous team will have to think the same: the slow-paced combat system can't greatly improve the fight with the bosses and keep it balanced. Either the level design is hindered by making the fight with the bosses a torture with precarious items, or the speed of the enemies is increased. The problem is that, in Blasphemous 2 - more than in Blasphemous 1 -, there are a lot of bonfires (I don't remember the name of that object, sorry), in addition to the fast-travel right at the beginning; as well as a wider variety of weapons, combos etc.; then, the slow-paced fight gets trivialized by the player, who destroys the bosses very easily. The solution for a Blasphemous 3 (if it exists) will be a game with fewer bonfires and fast-travel only at the end of the game, or faster bosses - as From Soft has adopted in its games since DS3.

Not every boss needs to be Eviterno though. It's what makes fights like his so special when you slam into them.

Really enjoyed Blasphemous 2, Eviterno was really the only hard boss for me (specifically the 2nd phase but it was fun) probably took me at least 20 attempts… every other boss took me like… 2-5 attempts max and the last boss fight took me 1… 1 attempt.

*Eviterno phase 1*: meh *Eviterno phase 2:* 2X speed, 10X damage, 100X range This Old man made me cry, well him and that creepy blacksmith, Afilaor.

The boss difficulty curve in this game has been super weird for me personally. I actually felt the first 3 main bosses were decently challenging, especially when your health pool is still pretty low. The dude with the whetstone on his back was also pretty fun and slightly challenging... but after that I just started cruising through bosses in 1 or 2 attempts maximum, which was quite surprising. Right when I was starting to feel that Blasphemous 2 had lost its edge... Eviterno phase 2 introduced itself. This sumbitch right here is giving me a run for my money. I can do phase 1 no damage pretty easily, but phase 2 is like nothing else in this game.

Eviterno was robbed the Final Boss Spot

I remember first fighting eviterno, and it taking multiple days to beat, but on my second playthrough I did him first try and loved every second of it, definitely the best boss in blasphemous 2, and one of my favourites of all time, such an epic boss!!

Awesome boss fight, lost to him quite a few times... But then I figured out a way to trivialize him xD Use the time freeze spell (complete the cursed letter sidequest to get it), get behind him, crouch and use the spinning move of Veredicto (my main weapon, that I had buffs on). This will recharge your fervor quickly allowing you to freeze him again (the fervor cost is quite high btw). Rinse and repeat. He can still get you in the more agressive stage of the 2nd phase though xD So be careful... Hopefully this helps out someone who's struggling with the boss 😁

Bro you forgot the ghost we can summon, that fella melts the bosses life and if you boost its damage it straight up desintegrates bosses, its fun!

That crescendo that hits once that phase 2 starts is fucking majestic

I dunno, I felt like B1 + 2 were the same in terms of difficulty with the bosses. There's a bit of challenge but you can beat them in one or two tries until you reach the last two bosses of the game. So, imo I feel like this game wasn't too different from the first in that regards.

No mention of the Sentinal boss, he was awesome too

I thought the difficulty was spot on. Not too easy or too rough. The bosses were hard enough to really get into their rythym during repeat tries.

Altarpiece resonances really come in handy for his 2nd phase like the one that slows time everytime you use a bile flask and the one with the parry window if you learn his patterns and parry decently his attacks actually slow down quite a bit, giving you breathing room to counterattack. It also helps to have the time stop prayer if you have the patience enough to do the quest, another alternative would be the tiento prayer though its not as OP as it used to in the first game, which can be a good or bad thing depending on how you wanna approach the Eviterno fight. Hope this helps out to people out there.

I can completely agree with you, in B1 i have fought every boss a couple times till i got the mechanics and in B2 it was like i killed 70% of them in the first try. The last one was a shock at first and i died so much on it, till i finally got it. I also hope the updates will bring a bit more difficult bosses

Damn That title change I really don't agree tho Incarnate, Orospina, Radames and Benedicta are also amazing

eviterno took me 4 hours, i didnt know if i could beat him but felt good to finally get there

I just melted Eviternos healthbar with the crouching spin attack of veredicto, with the extra miasma sauce didn't even take a minute. Yet I loved that boss.

I have to confess, I couldn't learn this boss's patterns and parrying seemed impossible so after dying a whole bunch of times I tried using Sarmiento's dash lunge attack and surprisingly I beat Eviterno first try with health to spare. Dash lunge is a pretty useless ability for most enemies bc it has a large recovery and you usually end up exactly where the enemy's attack starts so I reflexively avoided using it on harder enemies. Eviterno has a lot of attacks that don't punish this move and the extra distance makes it very easy to dodge both projectile attacks and AoE attacks. There's a chance that maybe the combat just clicked for me at that moment but most likely that move is just broken against Eviterno.

Orospina - "we have Lace from Silksong at home" boss. Has only 3 main attacks, yet I'm still struggling with parrying her upward slash. From the lore perspective, she's a guardian of the mansion, but in reality - she's just another maniac, a spider-wannabe, who would never be able to fulfill her desires if not for the Miracle needing her. Lesmer - pretty much a zombie, a head that doesn't decompose in a set of armor. Quite an easy boss by himself, considering he was cut from the first game because he was too familiar to Circe. Probably the hardest boss from all 3 initial bosses. Odon - he's a silent husk, a drowned man, much more of a zombie than even Lesmer. He took me quite a lot of tries on my first try because of his fast halberd thrusts, so I disagree with him being weak. Benedicta - she can curb-stomp you, if you didn't come with magic-resistant beads, plus she's got quite a variety of attacks. Especially when you must guess, from which side her drills are going to begin their movements. Yes, she doesn't have a lot of health, but it's just as platforming challenge to fight her as a boss battle. And yes, Eviterno is a good boss, but he can be trivialized when you understand, how each of his attacks can be avoided with finely timed dodges. It's not elden ring, his patterns are pretty consistent and fair, and you can even dodge under his wide arc slash if you time it right.

I would have enjoyed this battle much more if it weren't for the tedious first phase and the unavoidable dialogue. Eventually, I resorted to using the time freeze and Veredicto spin attack to defeat him and called it a day.

Eviterno's first phase is absolutely pointless, it's easier than any other boss but the first. He doesn't have enough health in the second phase as I was able to kill him before becoming completely comfortable with his move set. I wish they remove the first phase and add in more variety to his move set and increase his health.

Love how you call a two-hit opportunity a massive window to stack damage.

I really hit a wall with this boss as well. Otherwise I had little issue with every other boss. I had to experiment with prayers and gear until I found something that worked for me which ended up being a poison prayer build and the mace. After I tried that it only took me a few tries. I just whittled him down with poison. Overall a great game that I felt like just needed some more enemy types so they didnt have to recycle them so much.

When he did the one attack that calls upon the rest of the penitents I genuinely lost my shit

its time for people to learn that difficulty isn't everything in a boss fight. Look at a series like dark souls. The best bosses, gael, soul of cinder, artorias, etc, are all not too difficult.

While I don't agree that the game was too easy as I hate grinding something for hours upon hours, I do agree that Eviterno was the greatest boss that game has and leagues ahead of the others in intensity. You just can't sit at all during that second phase and when you finally master it and beat him, you really feel like you had a proper fight among equals. Really stood out to me as one of the best boss fights I've had in the last few years. Orosphina was great as an experience as was Afilaor (the knife sharpening dude) and I'd love to see such bosses more where the sound creates a huge part of the fight and atmosphere, but Eviterno is just on another level.

A Spanish KZfaq said it. "Be prepared to completely stomp on the later bosses with your upgrades and then get stomped by Eviterno"

Blasphemous 2, much like the first one, is a game that lives and dies by its aesthetics, so that will always have more efort put in than everything else. It's true that the bosses are easier, but they certainly became more interesting in therms of presentation and the fights themselves. The devs have have already said that they are looking on every social media possible all the reviews, complaints and feedback that they can find, so it's possible that they might upgrade them in the future.

idk, i struggled with a lot of bosses, i dont think any boss took me less than 10 attempts after the tutorial ones. also looking at the fotage in the video idk how they're doing like almost triple the damage i was, i dont feel like i missed anything to be lacking so much damage.

Let's hope Crisanta shows up in the dlc. A colaboration with her and the Penitent would lift this game up alot

I personally love both Blasphemous 1 and 2, after sinking houndreds of hours into both of them collectively i can say for certain that Blasphemous 1 is harder, but i feel like Blasphemous 2 bosses aren't easier just because, in my opinion Blasphemous' 2 combat was so improved over Blasphemous' 1 that the game felt easier. B1's combat is sluggish, you dont have much movement, just jump, slide, and walk. The addition of the Air dash and 3 different weapons in B2 makes the game easier because you have more tools to work with. I really love this saga and i hope they add DLC's like in the first game, one's which challenge your understanding and level of adaptability of the combat. Blasphemous as games that represent the culture of my country, i really hope they keep supporting them and making them more awesome and interesting, with even more banger soundtracks of course!

i probably spent like 4 hours in that boss fight my fingers started hurting

I main the rapiers and feels like every boss is fairly decent. By the time I got to Eviterno, I already practiced enough dodging and parrying so it only took me 3 tries.

I feel like the main issue with Blasph 2 isn't necessarily it's lack of difficulty but the fact they didn't know how to correctly balance a game around being easy, even in easy games you want challenges and memorable moments and a ton achieve that goal splendidly, just look at most nintendo titles. The issue here is that you don't have to engage with the game's challenges at all to overcome them and there's no consequence for failure. I think this is especially egregious in the platforming, there is a lack of any obstacles in those segments, be they traps or enemies and the ones there deal very low damage and no knockback, thus can simply be ignored and all this without even mentioning how easy they are to avoid. See for example the falling wax in the upside down tower.

Funny enough it only took me 2 tries to take down eviterno yet again I was using reugo alba blood pact and life leech alongside a resonance that halts time whenever I use a bile flask. I think people forget that the altarpieces and resonance altarpieces combo do actually give insane boost that’s why the bosses seem so easy alongside rosary beads actually providing insane resistance. I don’t know if the Spanish kitchen dev company wanted to approach the game with a much more linear and easier gameplay to appeal their game more to newer people to metriodvania style like game

It probably felt easier because of the pain and suffering we went through with the first one, right?

took me three days to beat that man

Did you get to the PaCo platforming section?

Benedicta was actually a difficult fight for me, mainly because I didn't really like the triple fireball prayer so I just never used it much. What I ended up using was two miasma prayers Liviana Of The Blighted Blades and Jabera To The Poison Of Jealousy. I also used Veredicto for the fight but never ignited it because whenever I tried to ignite it I could never land a hit, so instead I just used Veredicto to get fervour to cast the prayers I used to actually deal damage.

I kinda cheesed eviterno lol. I kept freezing time and using the spin attack on the incense bell. Since i know there has to be a future ng+ ill beat him legit on the next playthrough

What was the game you quick showed at 2:30?

Eviterno is super easy if by this time you have the prayer that allows you to stop time

I thought this game was challenging. Not to challenging but also not to easy. Had a really great time with it. When you really think this game was to easy then maybe you play to much video games so your more used to it.😉

I feel like contact damage screwed my over the most in blasphemous 2. Enemies don't freeze when you parry,so enemies that lunge at me will touch me after a parry and hurt me.

El Penitente pasará.

Really nice analysis about the game, actually feel the game a little short and with no memorable bosses, ussualy they took me at least 4 tries to get them knocked. But Eviterno put al the sauce into it, aggresive batle, fast and the sense of danger of the second phase was neat.

Eviterno was perfectly executed. It’s hard to describe the feeling when it suddenly “clicks” and you go from getting clowned to ultra-instinct mode. And that feeling only comes with a challenging but well designed boss fight.

If I have to be honest, to me it was still quite a challenge for many of the bosses, with Eviterno still being the coolest and the hardest. So unfortunate that once again the final boss is easy.

Ódon one of my hardest fights in the game, I struggeled 2 hours with him 😂

New age shadeskip

Eviterno works best by not parrying, just dodge. U can dodge his jump attack, strike 3 times with Ruego al Alba, dodge, 3 hits, dodge, 3 hits. Now you gotta jump over his blastthings and repeat; Boss done. I pulled it off in like 5 Trys and was actually a bit dissapointed, especially after doing the real last boss first try two times in a row. Blasphemous 2 was fun but too easy for me. I never got really frustrated, which is actually not good in those kind of games for me ^^

Truely, Daddy kicks ass. In mostly beautiful and brutal paterns way. And last boss is just "meh, ok. Die."

The difficulty was no worse in 2 than 1. The difference is you have way more mobility and weapon options, and that the mace does a lot more damage. In the first game, the most difficult bosses were Crisanta, Escribar and the DLC bosses. Base game bosses took a few tries, same as this game.

I think they just buffed them with the new update too.. i just got to Svsona, looking to see how much they buffed the bosses.

I like a game that gives you options. So for example, say you dont like the new baby mode mechanics in monhun and dont want to use them. The game makes it very hard to do that. You'd need a complete overhaul mod. Say you think Beads nix any difficulty in B2 and thats where we have an open and shut clear cut case of the player taking every over prep (gained by exploring or otherwise going out of their way for) and complaining about it. It would be one thing if you were forced to use a bead like the guilt bead to get into challenge rooms in B1, but there is nothing stopping you from not using beads because they make the game too easy. There's similarly nothing stopping you from not using altar pieces if you feel you're melting bosses. Or Prayers you find too useful. Hell, there's nothing stopping you from only using one weapon. A newcomer comes to this game having a much lower baseline of skill and knowledge than you or I. The additions present are enough for a newcomer to have a good challenge. "But only people who played the first are-" no. There are going to be plenty who ignore that its a sequel or pick up 2 solely because it lacks the frustrating jank of B1. Thats an invalid argument. Just because you and I came from 1 doesn't mean anything.

I tried many times but then I used Verdicto and the time stopping chant. Use chant, get 4-5 hits in that almost build up fervour again use chant and BOOM he was smoked.

And then you realise that by stacking the bonuses to Sarmiento & Centella you can cheese his phase 2 by spamming the slide attack. 🤣

Why u always change the titles of your videos? Like the last video of Crowsworn.

Blasphemous 2 is not a game. It is a tutorial for phase 2 of Eviterno.

Daddy...as a joke, only works if you don't overkill it. You said it constantly.

Man. I missed all of this cause i decided to cheese him 💀. Eh, once the dlc comes ill make sure to fight him proper.

Just got to eviterno today. Got through his first phase first try. And then immediately got bodied lol

0:05 A copy&paste Video essayist saying this is pure hilarity.

I would suggest putting physical and mystical res, get the fervor and spell buffs, summon Aubade spirit and watch him slowly die. For reference, I let him hit me 30 times with full 6 hits needed to kill me and 6 flasks just to test out how amazing this boss is. I'm fine with you loving the boss, but you using all the tools at your disposal for all other bosses and then ranking just this one without using them is a bit unfair.

I like how you think. So many games these days become too easy when you find enough items for a good setup, which means that being better at the game means you'll get an *easier* challenge. You could take away those options and have the player fight with only their skills, but instead you can make the game hard enough that players need strong setups AND strong skills.

I get the game logic of why crisanta lost to eviterno. But he really didn't hold a candle to crisanta. And don't even get me started on isidora. Blasphemous 2 was great but the difficulty wasn't there. Hopefully dlc will add some more tough bosses.

Glad to report they must’ve buffed some of these bosses, I died at least 4 times on most of these bosses. Even with resistance beads they still hit like a dump truck, the boss that took me the least amount of tries was the one is the wax tower. Maybe I just suck 🥴 but I’m fairly certain they’ve addressed these difficulty issues now

Eviterno is the only boss that took me more than three tries. And that's including the final boss. He took at least 10 tries. I liked the fight, and wish the game had more fights like that. Pretty much every other fight in the game, you can dodge or block everything on reaction, so it's entirely feasible to win on the first try. Eviterno is the only fight where you really need to learn the boss's move set.

The similarities between Hornet and Orospina are just uncanny. From character design to fighting pattern.

Second boss is the only boss that I never died to. when I get the parry, I thought, "oh, im gonna die so many times from trying to parry" but nope. her movement is so easy, i parry many of them easily. also, I didn't know that stacking the resistance will lower the damages that much. also also, Eviterno is a boss that I thought Im not gonna beat/gonna take a long time to beat so I quit after just a few attempts, probably 5-7. Next day, as always for me, which to dual/dagger/fast weapon, I beat him. man, I love dodges that have i-frames in video games.

Maybe all damage and defense of bosses have to be tuned up, i dont like artificial difficulty that is just raising up numbers but that probably is going to make players have no option but actually learn the moveset of the bosses that trust me is harder to learn than the bosses of blasphemous 1. I feel like eviterno is the skill check because i didnt struggle with him as much as everyone, i went beating all the bosses without receiving damage in my blind playthrough and surprisingly he was one of the easiest bosses to beat hitless

While I love the aesthetic of Blasphemous 2, I agree with the lack of challenge. I accidentally blundered into Lesmes and Infanta before Orosipna and wow. I was over prepared.

You've articulated EXACTLY how I felt about the game....easy til THAT fight! Fun game regardless. Awesome video, ty!

"only character with interesting lore" do Deogracias and Esdras not exist to you?

i defeated him using only ground dash and sarmiento y centella, surprisingly works well, i looked really dumbed and noob doing that, but is safer and effective

I loved the second installment but Eviterno almost bested me. I got so close on my second try and then never came close for the next dozens of times I tried to beat him. When I did, it was heavenly. And then they give you the golden child and make you fight against elements after very hands-on combat... I hated the final final boss and overall wished the game was a little harder, but I had a good time regardless.

Honestly Lesmes and Infanta were a pain in the ass first time around but after getting it down I managed to beat them after beat beating the other ones Edit: Eviterno took me so long to beat but after waiting for his attacks I managed to get a cycle and then the "3rd phase" as I like to call it took me a while.

How powerful is eviterno lore wise compared to the penitent one?

Really hoping the post launch gives us some dick smashers. I feel like the elemental resistance got ultra buffed while the damage stayed the same yk?