For this month's "Maps Of The Month" featurette, I wish to draw your attention to eishiya's Blasphemous (PC) maps.
You are The Penitent One, the sole survivor of the massacre of the "Silent Sorrow". Wielding a sword and mastering abilities earned by Relics, you seek to free the world from a curse known as "The Miracle". Will you succeed, or die trying? Well, you
will die. Again and again...
Blasphemous (stylized in lower-case as "blasphemous") is a Spanish indie game that features impressive art. There is a variety of locales, each drawn with such detail, including lots of religious iconography. There are definitely some strange and disturbing sights. Yet it's beautiful, in that eerie way, where you don't want to look away, even when you should be creeped out. eishiya has laid out all of this horrific splendour into maps that can help you - and The Penitent One - to navigate the cursed land of Cvstodia. Who wouldn't want help in a world like this, as you take on challenging sidequests and titanic bosses while you scour the land for useful Relics? (eishiya won't help you avoid getting torn in half by a giant baby, though - that's on you.)
eishiya is clearly a fan of indie "Metroidvania" games, having also mapped
Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight and
Catmaze in recent years, and earning "Maps Of The Month" honours for those games, as well.
So to recognize the effort put into mapping this gorgeous nightmare, eishiya's Blasphemous (PC) maps will be known as VGMaps.com's Maps Of The Month for August 2020.
