How To Ascend Save File Blasphemous 2

Hannah Arendt

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04-12-2024

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Blasphemous 2, with its challenging combat and sprawling world, encourages multiple playthroughs. However, carrying over your progress between runs isn't immediately obvious. This guide clarifies how to ascend your save file, allowing you to carry over specific elements into a New Game+.

Understanding the Ascend System

The "Ascend" feature in Blasphemous 2 isn't a simple New Game+. It's a system designed to let you retain certain aspects of your previous playthrough while introducing new challenges and rewards. Instead of carrying over everything, you select which elements to preserve for your next journey.

What Carries Over When Ascending

Ascending your save allows you to carry over the following:

• Tears of Atonement: This crucial currency, used for upgrading your abilities and acquiring items, is retained.
• Relics: These powerful items provide various buffs and advantages in combat. Your acquired relics will be available for selection.
• Fervour: Fervour, the resource that fuels your special attacks, remains intact.
• Blessings: The passive boosts earned by completing specific challenges.
• Unlocked Areas: Your exploration progress. You won't have to rediscover every location.
• Certain Weapons: While not all weapons carry over, some specific weapons will be available from the start. The game will make it clear what carries over.
• Completed Prayers: The completion status of specific prayers will be carried over.

What Doesn't Carry Over

To maintain a level of challenge, several things are not transferred to a new game:

• Health and Fervour Levels: You'll begin a new game with your base stats for health and fervour.
• Most Items: The vast majority of your collected items will not carry over.
• Weapon Upgrades: All weapon upgrade progress is reset.
• Enemy Health and Enemy Locations: While areas remain unlocked, enemies will reset to their initial states.

How to Ascend Your Save

The process of ascending is straightforward:

1. Complete the Main Story: You must first complete the main game's storyline.
2. Return to the main menu: After the credits roll, you will be given the option to Ascend.
3. Select "Ascend": Choose the Ascend option from the menu.
4. Choose your carried items: Select which items you want to bring into your next game.
5. Start your new game: Begin your new, ascended playthrough.

Making the Most of Ascend

By strategically choosing which items to carry over, you can tailor the difficulty and playstyle of your subsequent playthroughs. Experiment to discover what combination of relics and blessings suits your preferred method of approaching the challenging world of Blasphemous 2.