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Courtesy: The Game KitchenĬabeza also cites the influence of Spanish painters including Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Francisco Goya, Jusepe de Ribera, Diego Velázquez and Francisco de Zurbarán – in particular, a series of paintings Goya made between 18 that includes A Procession of Flagellants. It’s part of our idiosyncrasy it’s within our cultural DNA.’īlasphemous, 2019. ‘We, as a studio, have been influenced by religious art, but here in southern Spain all that religious art is really more popular culture than religion.

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‘Seville is full of religious images,’ I’m told by Enrique Cabeza, the game’s creative director.

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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