Would you say you prefer it over Blasphemous?

Yes, S&S is like a Souls in a metroidvania way.

Yes, the game is extremely opaque and very hard to play without consulting a wiki.

Absolutely, that's what I feel about it.

Yes. It’s my first time playing it. At the moment I like it. It recalls me the feelings of Salt and Sanctuary that I love it.

But it has some things that could be improved and the level of difficulty of some areas are too high. I would appreciate more checkpoints to solve this.
Also I have at the moment some confussion on how the things work. For example, I recently got my third “potion” and I have no idea how I did. I also guess that I can improve my character like if I level up it, but apparently you dont have levels or I dont know how to do it.

Also I had to search in google how to close the game in the PC version.

This week Blasphemous (the past week I played (and finished) Resident Evil 4 Remake)