Lies of P Is The BEST Souls-Like Game (Critique)
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10/10 game since Geppetto is voice acted by Morgott
Morgott trying to make a perfect son to fill the hole in his heart
No heckin way. Never would've guessed.
Apparently the P in P-Organ has some kind of translation to blood in Korean from what I heard.
@@shindig9000It's pretty straightforward. The Korean word for "blood", at least according to Google Translate, is "피", which is romanized as "pi".
"P-Organ" thus literally means "blood organ".
@@FurnaxIkki
Thank you for the more specific details 🙏
Great job man. Youre a natural at narrating
10/10 but unfortunately didn’t get the deserved praises from the main stream media! Absolutely phenomenal game! Better than souls games cuz you can also perfect parry and all
Not all of our attention spans are the size of a gnat! Thanks for the more longform commentary. I loved this game and appreciated your extended coverage of it!
lol this comment is upvoted and hearted, why? an hour long video is an hour, bub. that's a long time to sit down and watch something regardless of the subject. you didn't have to be disrespectful to those who wouldn't consider this topic worthy of an hour of bloviated gushing but you chose to be, anyway. Your attention span might not be the size of a gnat but your manners seem to match up.
@@h445 says you berating a random TH-cam commenter. Irony much?
@@h445seems like OP hit a nerve?
@@h445This comment is oddly and incredibly personal to such a general comment. You got hurt because you felt it addressed YOU, directly didn't it?
That sub 1 second TikTok attention span of yours got called out and it hurt didn't it?
Well you have two options. Cry about it more and do nothing. Or improve your attention span so you're not so self conscious about your shortcomings.
So far you've demonstrated you'll pick the former instead of the latter. But go ahead, prove me wrong.
@@h445Lmao you got cooked dawg
Really great review! Can't wait for more like that! But Romeo was not a puppet-friend. He was a human who died due to the petrification disease (it's in one of the loading screens) and apparently Gepetto turned him into a puppet (it's partially alluded to by an item description if I remember right).
I was looking for this comment after he said Romeo was Carlos puppet friend. After Carlo died he asked Gepetto to turn him into a puppet as he also had the petrificiation disease.
My favorite game this year and the best thing I've played since Elden Ring. I'm on NG+++ and still loving it. I'm so invested in the world. I actually stop and read every letter, item description and I always look around the rooms and levels to see what else I might pic up visually that adds to the narrative. I haven't done that in a game since Bloodborne.
This game easily scratches your bloodborne fix and it pays homage well
It’s cause the game respected our time for exposition. Didn’t have us reading a novel of boring text for a lore dump every 5 minutes to the point where we just skip. Games now days create their story as an afterthought and thus the story is usually a bore. The pacing of this story is awesome and also interesting right off the bat and only after the story starts to hook you do they give more exposition at which point the player is willing to read more!
@@wakandaforever616 not really. Thought they were going for an interesting story but then it ended up as a dull rip off of the story and it was hard to care until the end
im on my 1st playtrough and i already explore everything and read every letter. ive 52 hours and still in late game but to be fair it took me 10 hours to beat the blackrabbit hood 😂
i play without summons and qubicks.
Personally, I like the first Black Rabbit Brotherhood fight. One of the best fights of the game in my book. It rewards perfect guards immensely by making the main boss much more manageable when his siblings come in by making his attacks do significantly less damage and reducing his actual range making his swings less likely to hit you. His siblings don't actually do much damage, they more do chip damage to you, and they only come in at certain health intervals so you can opt to focus on them really quick and then return to the main boss once they're out of the way. Plus frankly they're just really fun to listen to jabber on and on. It's a nice change of pace from everyone else who takes themselves way too seriously
I like the second a lot as well. I nearly shit myself when the Eldest popped out of the liars coffin, and fighting all three of them was pretty manageable as they really only had you fighting one at a time with another running in and hitting you once before backing off.
@@sekiro_the_one-armed_wolf that moment with the Eldent popping out the coffin made me pop lol. Fighting the BRB felt like the developer putting tests up to that point to test your skills.
Yea you are right the fight really grew on me made me used to perfect parry now I'm not afraid to try them out it works so well
Lol I never perfect parried but I got damn good at rolling in this game. What made BRB manageable was that they were easily staggerable so as long as you were hyper aggressive against them they couldn’t hit you.
It was a breath of fresh air after fuckin andreus😭😭
This game really took me back to what it felt like finally beating bloodborne for the first time, really looking forward to what the devs have up their sleeves in the future.
Don't insult Bloodborne like that
I don't think this game feels like Bloodborne at all. Lords of the Fallen plays more like Bloodborne by leaps and bounds.
How dare you have an opinion! Boo this man! The Souls Like gaming community is full of man babies. Anyway, developers reportedly have some dlc on the way.
@@blodiaaa6990 lies of p is infinity better lmaoo
@@alejandrobagg2591 Lol Lies of P literally took concepts from every single souls game. It's their direct inspiration. Everything from game design, combat, and music is taken from those games. Bloodbornes lore is also heaps above lies of P. Sorry🤷♂️. Lies of P is a good game and well crafted though
I came into Lies of P with little to no experience with souls-like. The game hooked me with its presentation and lore. I really like that the game is linear because it keeps the experience focused. I knew I had all the tools to solve the problem in front of me. It also made the difficulty more tolerable. Even when I used cheesy tactics on bosses, defeating them felt so satisfying. My only gripe with the game is the knock back on some boss attacks when you perfect parry. I came out absolutely loving this game and cannot wait for what comes next from Round 8.
Which buttons are you pressing?I can’t get past the first five minutes.
The grapple hook can mitigate the knock back some bosses have on perfect blocks. Also the twin dragon swords if I recall has a built in parry that stuns any boss out of their animations so it would force the knock back to not matter or not even happen at all.
@@uclapac10I recommend watching some "How to parry in lies of P" videos they will help you a lot.
This was my first ever souls-like/souls game and I love it (and hate it)
17:40 this sequence in particular might have me sold.
This game sucks
I disagree
@@victord.monkey9081I was being a salty clown I fully disagree with my own statement I love this game after giving it a second try
@@OMNIEDITZZZ I agree
This game makes me hate video games forever.So many hoops to jump through to even get to the place where you are finally sitting down and ready to play the game.The developers trick people into spending sixty dollars for games that most people can’t play.Why is it fun to make your game so maddening hard,no one can play it.A great game that will get swallowed up with a huge October and November.
I can't stand playing souls-like but i love the lore and presentation. This game made me want to try playing a souls-like again. Its sooooo good!
🤣 🤣 🤣 I LOVE THAT A GIANT WRENCH HEAD GETS DULL AND NEEDS SHARPENING
I'm now at the second boss and starting to give up on the game. The levels are extremely simple and the character is way too immobile for the bosses. Blocking, dodging and perfect blocking is extremely inconsistent. Most of it is skill issues but even the training dummy can hit through my perfect blocks 70% of the time. I sucked at Sekiro and suck at this.
Dodges are little dodgy at the start but youll upgrade them right after. I do agree that the parry timing is shorter than Sekiro but its so satisfying when you get it.
It seems that youre on the Puppet police boss, try parrying his attacks. Start by doing it early (and keeping blocking to not get staggzred) and shorten the parry time each time. Youll have so much fun once you get in the rythm
Lies of P is a homage done right. A love letter to the souls genre while sprinkling new ideas along the way. And it is polished...as games should be.
Souls fans, hold me down, please... where would you rank this game? Is it really good for a non-From Soulslike, or is it good enough to stand even beside those games? If Bloodborne is a 10/10 for the genre, where is this game honestly? Would you say its better than the lesser-loved Souls games, like DeSR or DkS2?
I'm gonna buy it regardless, so no need to hype it up. I'm just thankful for anyone taking the time to reply. Just trying to decide if I should be playing it right now, or if it can wait. Thanks!!
imo it dont hold a candle to any fromsoft game
Never did a full playthrough of BB because im an xbox player but I did do all the rest of FS games.
Imo, LoP is a 9/10 (if we inclede the upcoming patch)
21:00 break is an absolutely absurd status which puts your stamina regeneration into the lower single digits... the higher the break, the more reduction there is. one hit youll barely notice, if you get more than half your bar however and dont have the gold potion equiped to your bar.
if you use block strats against an enemy with break you will be absolutely helpless until it wears off. in NG+ a bunch of enemies who didnt have break, get break. its not a huge problem, because most enemies with break are easily dodged or otherwise evaded.
but if you do make the mistake of blocking... you will know suffering
Really enjoying this video 🔥
I got lucky with the brotherhood because I used the scythe and that things heavy attack swings 360 so with the summon tanking I just cleared them and staggered them hahahah. My worst fight was door guardian until I figured out to just run to the left around him hahaha
Wait pause does he die reviving sophia? Or just fall asleep?
Something that really stood out to me the more I thought about it, was that Pinocchio was a parable about how children should never be naughty and always obey their parents. But what about parents that don't have their children's best interests at heart? What about parents who don't want a child, but an obedient puppet? A lot of Carlo and Romeo's interactions seem to be them getting up to general kid mischief, while in the original Pinocchio, Romeo's mischief of eating candy and staying up late earned him an awful death. I really appreciate the way Lies of P addresses this idea, that children shouldn't be submissive and obedient to their parents - sure, there are bad and cruel people in this world, but a parent's job is to meet their child halfway and accept them as they are. Geppetto's unwillingness to accept either of his sons as they were was ultimately what caused the failure in both those relationships.
I'm still horribly curious about Romeo and how he became a puppet. Someone mentioned geppetto turned him into one as he was dying from the petrification disease, but the whole thing makes me very curious. Mad Donkey seems to recognize P as a doppelgangar of Carlo, which makes me wonder if perhaps Romeo and Mad Donkey were in the same gang of stalkers.
This makes me REALLY want to read Pinocchio.
@@depotagents that’s actually very apt and inline with what the devs said they wanted to do with the story of Pinocchio; subversion. Well done!
I must be getting good at the genre because I actually think this game isn’t that hard.
Finished the game on new game last week. Currently working on new game + for 100%. To be honest, I didn’t have many problems my first time through. I have a lot experience with this genre ended up beating most of the bosses within 2 attempts. Exceptions to this are the Black Rabbit Brotherhood 1 & 2, the Green Swamp Monster, Laxasia, Simon Manus, and the Nameless Puppet. New game + is much harder and I’ve found boss fights to be much more challenging. I didn’t use perfect guard much in my first play through until the Nameless Puppet. He beat me 7 times before I got his timing down. I’m trying to force myself to use perfect guard in this play through so I’ve been dying a lot more.
So fun fact. You state you can't recommend this for new soulslike players. However this is the first soulslike game I've ever beaten, having tried Souls 1 and 3 and Wo long previously and quit out of frustration. 😂
I COMPLETELY AGREE. Closest I have ever seen and felt from a non fromsoft souls like
This is my first soul-like game (or soul game in general) ever and I LOVE it! At the beginning I just wondered if I‘m simply to bad in this game but after I found out this is a soul-like and you will lose all the time, I was totally fine with it and it’s sooo satisfying if you defeat a boss under 4 tries!! 😁 And I love the lore sooo much. It’s such a masterpiece!
Repeated mispronunciation of 'motivity' aside, great vid ;) you got a sub my friend.
I love souls games but i can't be waiting 4-6 years for my fix so any studio that brings a fresh twist but keeps the core mechanics is a win.
the dorothy reference is kinda crazy. hopefully its saved for a sequel, cause a philosophical fairytale souls-like game universe sounds so fucking sick.
PLUS there’s a reference to dorian gray, gepetto said he commisioned the portrait of carlo from d.gray. i havent heard a ton of buzz about this game, i really hope its found an audience cause for a first triple A game, neowiz really nailed this out of the park
Honestly yeah, them going through these old fairytales and making souls games from them sounds like a genuinely unique idea I haven't seen done before, or at least to this level of care, skill and polish.
This studio could genuinely rival and surpass fromsoft.
This is the first AA game created to show what's Unreal Engine 5 capable of for the new generation of games. Unbelievable.
I hope with everything they do a fairytale series. ❤
Don Quixote references as well, among other classic literature
@@akapilka its an unreal engine 4 game though , thats why its so optimized
That crank part I totally Agree with you, it makes some handles way more powerful than others, specially the Special Weapons wich are very Strong with high scaling. I felt i didn't could achieve enough damage witht he Handle I wanted, and also some handles give you a Very Slow Moveset in comparison to others.
I actually thought it was a from software when i 1st started playing it, fav game so far this year.
No its not.
Great arguments, ill delete my 4 playthroughs and refund the game. Thank you so much
@@victord.monkey9081 You said it not me.
Feel bad for the black rabbits ??? NEVER
I am blown away by this game. The team that built this work of art really understand what it is that makes a good souls game. It’s a love letter to fromsoftware and the rest of us.
2 things I think holds this near perfect game back are
1: parry windows are too short, add 2-3 more frames
2. Weapons need better scaling, in ng+3 it feels like im swinging around toothpicks. Throwable in comparison are much much much stronger in almost every aspect, they’re the secret lies of p easy mode.
Whyyyy did you have to spoil the last twist and the end boss?? That is so frustrating. Great review otherwise, but I'm scared to subscribe if that's going to be a normal thing in your vids
I'm glad all these people are loving this game. It's fantastic.
Amazing video! This is probably my game of the year. It blew me away, and is the closest anyone has ever gotten to Fromsoft, in my opinion
Playing the new Lords of the Fallen just makes me realise how much better Lies of P is. Sure I can't be a badass medieval knight, but the game is so polished and knows exactly what it wants to be. Quite a perfect game tbh.
I only played Elden Ring and Wo Long, so not a hardcore Souls player, and yet still decided to play Lies of P. The game is definitely more difficult, but I still had fun. I still think either the upgrades to dodging should not have been locked behind the p-organ or the parry window could be more forgiving, but the gameplay itself was pretty solid as far as I was concerned, and I loved the story and setting. I decided to play the game simply because it was a grim take on Pinnochio, and I have no regrets so far.
Too everyone complaining about them copying or using ideas from other amazing games too make us more amazing games need to go cry in a corner give me darksouls 123456789
Elden ring 1235456789
Sekiro 123456789
Lies of p 23456789
Blood borne 23456789
Shit I’ll take a Snow White souls if a formula works use it and give us good shit. make more new ideas too.
Love this game my goty armoured core was good too but the studio that made lies of p deserves a huge clap on the back this is there second game and it’s a banger my biggest criticism is the green monster was ass I liked the linear approach compared to dark souls I actually liked that you don’t need a full on play-through guide to enjoy this experience it lightly guides you and is easy enough to traverse giving a different experience.
I played the demo and... I don't know, I honestly didn't like it. It felt outdated, stiff and kinda boring.
Still nothing beats Sekiro and Elden Ring.
Gamepass ftw 😊
Lies of P is a masterpiece, plus perfectly optimized day 1. Lords of the fallen should be ashamed.
It wasn't perfect from day one. Don't get me wrong I love it and almost have the platinum for it, but it's had bugs and glitches, they demo had some whacky scaling that was changed in final release. They're both great games, I'm enjoying LotF, Lies of P is just an amazing game on another level, but it wasnt perfect
@@TommasoFirmini i disagree on your point of LotF being a good game, even decent is bit too high. LotF is disrespectful towards your time. Game is not changing past 10hrs - you'll be solving same enviormental puzzles - oooh, there's no wall here in umbral, there's a ladder in umbral, fetch some platforms, use lamp to ride a platform - you'll be fighting same enemies the whole second and third act of the game, when you're not fighting previos bosses as regular mobs. And they are easy, painfully easy, so what devs do? copypaste a whole lot of them to overwhelm you. Story is painfully banal too, so there's this evil guy, right, but is he evil? Spare me.
@@ВячеславШолохов-ф9пvery bad critique of lords of the fallen.
I had 1 bug in all of my 5 playthroughs. And i beat the game twice before the first patch, thats perfection when it comes to optimization.
@@kami3449 on contrast with LotF, i had 10fps in menu and game crashed after character creation
Ah, excellent. Another hour+ video game analysis from a creator I’ve never seen before about a game I’m hopelessly biased towards. Very good, thank you for the video.
The main criticism I have for Lies of P is just the fact that the game is essentially difficulty checked by how well you understand the games systems. On one of my later runs I did a level one run but still used all other forms of min max other than using consumables and found that I was doing considerably more damage than what I saw a lot of people online doing. Just knowing the best weapons, amulets and P-Organs as well as knowing how to best utilize the games other random systems made a level one run not even challenging with the exception of some later bosses having fury attacks that would one shot me.
i definitely prefer longer, more in-depth videos where everything is explored as best as possible.
My favorite part of this game - enemy variety.
If you’ve played Wo long or the new LotF, you will appreciate this game having so many different enemy types.
How? I know Wo Long and LOTF don't have great enemy variety, but Lies of P isn't that much better
@@f.p.2010You must be joking lol
@@thedoomslayer586380% of enemies are just "puppet guy"
@@f.p.2010this must be a joke lmao, lies of p has so many different enemies it feels like its never gonna end, even the last chapter has a bunch of new enemies
@@Gabzew you cannot be serious
About furry attacks and that you "can't dodge", It means u can't I-frame through them normally, if your dodge puts u outside their hitbox yeah u kinda dodge that.
Also there a boss amulet that let u i-frame throught them, and in NG++ u can get a P-organ upgrade to block them.
Gepetto is such a great villain!
its soo good , Im in love with this game
Just started playing yesterday but if I understand correctly, what they mean with not being able to dodge red attacks is that you get no i-frames for them.
Magnificent game
The game is fantastic. My game of the year. I am dreading another patch for Lies. Really hope they do not nerf the difficulty further. Imo I actually think throwables and the aegis shield need a nerf. Raise the challenge a bit. Fantastic combat. Only real negative foe me in lies was the overall linearity. It was just too linear imo. Late game areas were notably more dull than early and midgame areas too. Bring on that DLC.
I would love to see more videos from Lies of P and some lore hunting from You, also keep the good work up mate 👍
Havent watched yet but only stopped because it was 1 hour exact..... NICE
10/10 review
Lies of P is the first ever soulslike I've ever played because I was so drawn to it's story and how it retells Pinocchio. I was surprised I was able to adapt to the difficulty since I have zero experience in 3d soulslikes so I wasn't confident in how well I'll do in this game
I love this game dearly and I'm having a blast in NG+
Just finished the whole video. Is this really your first long-form critique? This is super well done, dude. Happy you mentioned wanting to do more like this in the future! I would absolutely watch it
This is my first time seeing a video of yours, and I’m a fan for sure. New sub, and again I’m looking forward to you stepping into more long-form stuff!
I platinumed this game after 127 hours and I loved every minute. Bloodborne is my favourite game and I thought I’d always be comparing the 2 but I really didn’t. The game is great in itself. Yes there are some similarities but considering this is the studios first stab at a souls like I think they completely knocked it out of the park. I’m very excited to see what they do next with it
My first soul's game was Elden Ring, but it really didnt click with me... i thought maybe its the genre i have an issue with. Lies of P changed that mind set - god i love this game and i was genuinely sad to finish it the other day. Excited for the next thing they have to offer - don't want to spoil the full ending, BUT SIGN ME UP.
I think what the game means by “you can’t dodge furious attacks” is : you can’t dodge through it but of course you can dodge by not being in the hitbox
I am sure that Romeo was a friend of Carlos. They both lived and studied at the Monad Rose House boarding school. There is a report of an outbreak of the Petrification Disease at the Rose House. It killed everyone including the alchemist Valentinus Monad the leader of the Alchemists before Manus. I assume that after the outbreak Geppetto pickup the ergo of his son and his friend and installed it in these more advanced puppets. Also, my baseless speculation is that Manus was unleashed the PD on the Rose House to kill Valentinus to gain control of the Alchemists and more importantly Sofia Monad.
In the Opera house some puppets are buffed by golden puppet strings that look like the strings that Geppetto uses to control the Nameless Puppet and you weirdly meet Geppetto outside the back of the Opera house after defeating the King of Puppets. I think this all means at least at that point in the story Geppetto was doing everything he could to kill you. He doesn't want you to destroy the general of his puppet army.
The original Alidoro's story is really interesting. He is actually Eugenie's lost brother. He stayed away from her to protect her. He was for a time an Alchemist but not agreeing with what they were doing he left the org and blew the whistle to the reporter Medoro. That report was stopped by the powers controlling Krat. Then he went into hiding taking on the alias of Alidoro treasure hunter. He probably didn't mind losing a finger to save his sister. He was eventually killed by his greedy partner and replaced.
I absolutely love this game! It’s so much more fun and replayable than I ever hoped it would be
This game is a fucking masterpiece. Period.
I hadn't considered the nameless puppet possibly trying to destroy the heart to end it all. I only thought of it as a killing mschine. I like that posibility. Good theory!
I had more fun with P than any From's games. The attention to detail and combat are fantastic. But the best part is P gave me a story.
Also: i played BB for the first time this year, right before P came out. Sorry, but P is better in about every way. I think BB has been severely overhyped over the last 8 years and isn't quite what people are rememberig. Nostalgia is one hell of a drug.
Even if Bloodborne is overhyped(with i disagree but leve this topic alone) remember that BB is form 2015.
in that year this game dont have no competion and Lies of P copy BB in many wayes so dont disrespect Bloodborne.
Also "Nostlagia" argument is boring and overused in internet so haevy.
I'm around 1/3 of the way through Lies of P and I am in LOVE with this game.
I need to make a correction: You can feel free to recommend this game to anyone who is NOT a fan of souls-like games.
This was the first souls-like game I played in my life, and it made me fall in love with the genre.
Obviously I had difficulty, and it is for those people that it is not appropriate to recommend: for people who don't like difficulty and get sick of games in which they get stuck in a difficult part.
It might not be interesting to recommend it to anyone who hates high difficulty in video games and/or staying in the same game for a long time. I was already used to having a repertoire of being a fan of Arcade and Shoot 'em Up games (two genres considered difficult) and at the same time liking RPGs.
The game is difficult, but it's not an unfair or annoying difficulty, it's a difficulty that feels extremely natural, the difficulty curve is friendly, and every defeat always leaves you with the feeling that it's all your fault, and that getting better will solve it, but it is not an extremely demanding "get better" like Sekiro, but rather a "get better" that follows your speed of evolution in the game.
17:40 it is possible to get away from range of attack, but you can't dodge it - you can't go through the attack with i-frames. Dodging attack in souls game means ysing i framea of dodge.
When it says you can't dodge furry attacks it just means you can't get s on them. There is a skill in the p organ near the end that adds s to it too
Tbh ever since beating Lies of P, I went back and played Elden Ring and Sekiro and the Combat Feels so Slow but more Fluid and the most recent experience I have from playing Lords of the Fallen feels like a breeze going through the walls they offer, and I think it's because of Lies of P setting the difficulty level Higher for the Recent Souls-like titles
You are actually not a human being if you're saying lies of p where you stand and do nothing is faster than a game you have to parry 100 attacks in a row or a game with cavalry combat.
@@BovineIntervention saying that you stand and do nothing in lies of p is an extremely dishonest description of the combat and not accurate whatsoever. i’d even say that you practically have to parry “100 times in a row” in LOP when playing efficiently combined with well timed dodges which is the opposite of standing and doing nothing, and the point about calvary combat is dumb because elden rings “calvary combat” is very shallow and not prevalent at all really. kind of a silly take you just made m8, kind of makes me think you haven’t played lies of p
@@BurnInBliss you literally stand and do nothing in lies of p lol. In sekiro bloodborne and elden ring you literally have to run jump and use everything in your arsenal to win. In lies of p you parry use a grindstone stand there and win. It's pretty dishonest to say actually having the ability to go from mounted to foot combat isn't prevalent but thinking lies of p is a good example of fast movement. You are just insane kid.
@@BovineIntervention i’m still convinced you haven’t played lies of p, there is a lot of movement, distance management , adjusting, dodging, timing fable arts/combos properly, etc. it’s practically impossible to just stand there and just parry every move unless you are in the top 1% of players who have all boss attack patterns memorized and even then, at that level in any souls game, it’s the same shit and would even argue elden ring, sekiro and dark souls are way more simple. lies of p is pretty generally regarded as being harder then most fromsoft games. seems like you are speaking from a place of ignorance so i’ll let you believe what you want “kid” lmao
@@BurnInBliss I 100% the game and you're just trying to make the game sound more complicated than it is because you're a nut gobbler. Sekiro has boss phases that are unblockable or that you have to jump or grapple away from, in lies of p literally everything is parryable and no you don't have to be a god because the game is easy and there's a damn perfect parry auto grindstone. You are absolutely delusional if you are saying a game where you can beat bosses while moving at a snails pace and one plus 5 weapon and a grindstone you don't even have to spec into is anywhere near as deep or difficult as games where you can rotate between spells or dual wielding or power stance weapons or fight mounted.
Lies of P is my first souls and i f'in love it!
If you want to improve your videos, don’t stipulate how you’re new at this, just get to the point.
Otherwise, great video
A lot of Souls game has great lore...but in my opinion story and lore in Lies of P is on another level..the deep desings etc for example the Tower of Alchemist literally is the Tower of Babel etc..love devs who take their time to set up their universe...is just so sweat!
A little bit side note- Romeo is Carlos's friend, not a puppet when they grow up. He made a deal with Geppetto to become a puppet, because he was dying to petrification disses
What makes it even half as good as the souls story? It’s not bad but it is nowhere near as complex, nuanced, iconic, creative, or interesting as the souls games. Literally every single twist and turn was easy to see coming and there are maybe like two or three questions left at the end. I genuinely do not understand how you could say this is on a level entirely above the souls lore
The worldbuilding and world design in the souls games is objectively better in how they convey story, in simple and very complex ways. Dead bodies on the ground is not unique worldbuilding, and that’s about all lies of p tells through its environment. Is where people died.
Please tell me how on earth you think this is better let alone on the same level as souls. It’s fine to like it but a really average tower level really takes it over the souls games for you? That is insane
I really liked the black rabbit brotherhood. A great ensemble fight, the likes of ornstein and smough I think.
Somehow and I'm not sure how this fight was the easiest fight for me and maybe the entire game.
This game is so good and it's so easy for them to make more games like this based on other folktales which could add cool new mechanics
I could be horribly wrong and prejudice here but I feel like those who are calling it derivative or a copycat are newer fans to the genre, specifically Elden Ring's influx of new consumers to the genre. Now I'm sure that doesn't apply to all but as a long-time fan I couldn't be happier to see such high quality work and competition in a genre that is easily my favourite.
yeah no. I'm a long time fan too and I'd still call it a copycat
Lies of P was mh first entry into playing any "souls" or "souls-like" games. I remember sitting back after a rough patch in the game, knowing that the reason wasn't bad design, but I had not gotten better as a player. Sadly, I never finished the game, since I don't have a console, and it was at a house sitting job and the owners came home way earlier than expected.
Even after that, I loved the game and I cannot wait to see what Round 8 does next and to finally finish this masterpiece.
I’m excited for you to jump back in the game is incredible. Personally I do still think there are some design issues. But with this being your first souls game, you’d have to play the others games to get perspective. Those games aren’t perfect either but yeah
The fact you got this at one hour perfectly gives my ocd an orgasm.
I'll stay subbed if you keep doing FANTASTIC critiques like this! Love this form of content
After a hour, this is awesome to see! You’re a good storyteller/some one to listen too!
Disagree with lies of p not a good introduction to non souls like players. I’m not a souls like player and I just had to play lies of p and got over my apprehension toward souls likes. Finished the game several times on Xbox and PlayStation in fact. Did it convert me to a souls player? No I’m a lies of p player 😂
Really love this game. Makes me excited for what they will do next and the DLC. Though, as much as I like the linearity of this game in how streamlined each level is, I kind of want to see them take a crack at doing something a bit more open, like Fromsoftware's games. They were able to outdo From in many ways so I'd be interested in how they would fare in that kind of level design too.
this game is truly something special
This masterpiece is what got me into the souls games. It was my first game and even after playing all Fromsoft games its still my favorite... I've finished it nine times and I still enjoy it every time... it's been made much easier but still it presents challenges.
The key is the sweet perfect guard... oh my oh my the sound of perfect guarding deserves an award!
Good if belated news: the devs have announced that the Rising Dodge skill is going to be made available by default.
Did this already happen? I don't recall seeing that as a skill on my P Organ.
Gank fight aside, I really loved the black rabbit brotherhood. Kinda felt bad killing them. Wouldnt hate to see more of them, like a prequel comic or something. Overall a very good game.
The advice i'd have for anyone struggling is use the tools at your disposal, don't just focus solely on guarding, one thing i liked about this game, that i think started in Bloodborne was throwables scaling with your stats, use those if you need to!
Great video! From an average dad gamer perspective, I kind of disagree about using throwables though. Unless you're already a Souls/parry/dodge God, the reality is that you need to be able to beat the enemy (i.e. already know all their moves, patterns) before it's worth using throwables. Otherwise they will still beat you and you will have lost all your throwables. Just my opinion though.
I think you only found it too difficult because you didn't use all the tools the game offers you, if you only try to defeat bosses and elite enemies using parrying/block/dodge and ignore everything else then yeah it's super difficult, but that's not how the game is meant to be played, it's not Dark Souls, it's not Sekiro and it's not Bloodborne, it takes elements from all of them but remixes them in its own ways and adds its own twist to the formula and its own new systems as well.
If you watch the gameplay by the devs you will clearly see they use all the tools in the game to win fights, they use the legion arms, the throwables (which are OP), and also the fable arts many of which are also OP in both defense and offense (and can be buffed by P-organ upgrades and amulets), and that's not even touching on the hidden mechanics in some of the weapons that you need to experiment a lot with the weapon assembly system to discover.
So I'll disagree with you about the difficulty, i'd recommend it to anybody who is familiar or interested in action games even if they never played any souls games before, and judging by the overwhelmingly positive reception the game got It's obvious that most people figured out how to use the tools presented to overcome the challenges of the game specially the bosses.
For me lies of p was the game I did the most with souls games and souls like, I played sekiro just a bit and Elden ring and watched a good amount of souls videos but I was very bad at both games could barely beat a enemy and then I tried lies of p it was hard but for some reason I got the hang of it and it felt better when I did it way easier and crisp and after I got half way I went back on sekiro and Elden ring I was clearing everything way faster then I use to and lies of p somehow helped a more newer player like me which I think was cool about lies of p and I like how the game is similar to a mix of souls games like sekiro and also bloodbourne which I finally got
Haha I love the black rabbit brotherhood fights. Probably my favorites in the game for some reason. Breaking the big guy’s weapon is incredibly satisfying.
This is a Souls game done right. Especially the narrative and, lore keeping you engaged. Hidetaka Miyazaki has competition that's a good thing.
I feel like this game has had the most heart and soul poured into it of any game this year. The world, the boss fights, gameplay, characters and especially the music just have so much love and care put into them. I know its bordering on slander but I think I might love it more than Elden Ring now..
Except the dual wield jester puppets, scariest enemy in any game ive played.
ER was a good game sure but in many ways it was a step back. A return to the spam dodge against everything gameplay that got very old by its release. You had games like bloodborne and especially sekiro that changed up that dynamic into something even more precise yet fast paced rewarding skill even moreso
Yeah they just made dark souls 3.5 open world edition. So liking Lies of P more than ER just seems natural.
@@thedoomslayer5863 you don't spam dodge in elden ring, in a lot of cases you get punished for that. The bosses play very differently to DS3 bosses, positioning is a lot more important
I'm almost done with it. I'm at the Door Guardian. I don't want it to end. Best game I've played since Eden Ring.
Arlecchino is hands down the best character in the game also since there is the lying System i thought and would have liked if Pinocchio would actually talk like in sekiro
This is the best souls like I’ve played to date. Hope they stick to this genre 9/10 for me
Although it was funny watching the shovel man pounding compilations...i do agree with the roll back up thing