Blasphemous

First of all, fantastic game.

Playing as an unknown warrior waking up in the midst of a corpse dumping ground, you find your way through a complex maze of locations seemingly surrounding an overarching cathedral and the connecting locations. On the way, you encounter many bosses which while they don't quite hold the level of challenge found in other games of this style, were still plentiful and challenging. On top of this, there is a barrage of unique enemies to slaughter and many many collectibles to find which will offer further challenge as you try to work out how to get behind a wall or how to reach a collectible up on high. The game map is a decent size and each zone is unique enough to keep things fresh, and I found that even when backtracking through zones 5-6-7-8 times, they never got 'dull' as I would always find new routes, new collectibles or hidden fights.

Definitely recommend to anyone looking for a good challenge, the story itself was beatable in a day but the exploration kept me going for many more hours.