27:01 Thank you for pointing this out! Too many people give Geppetto a pass for what he did because 'he missed his son and it was out of love' and they don't realize how at the end of the day, he only wanted to make himself feel better. Rather than reflect on his actions and let his son rest in peace, he chose to defile him (both his body and his memory) and 'fix' him into his own version. He didn't love Carlo, he loved the IDEA of Carlo. And in turn he only valued the idea of P, which is why he rejected P the moment he didn't obey his command. Geppetto was never a good man, he was just good at pretending.
Eh, I believe he genuinely grieved his lost son and regretted the time he never spent with him. You can hear him mourn in the boss fight with the Nameless Puppet of how he "should have read him his favorite story" and been more present in his life. Problem was, Gepetto could not accept his failure and move on and sought to bring Carlo back to become a "proper" family. What he did was definitely psychotic, but I still can't help but to have pity and sympathy for the man. Maybe I just have a bleeding heart.
I love that you mentioned some stuff in the lore that most others don’t mention. It makes it far more interesting than just recounting the main story to pad view time
This is an incredibly done work and I'm inspired to say why. I often appreciate the world-building and storycraft more than the mechanics of souls-likes, so I seek out these distilled narrative pieces. This is truly the gold standard of lore videos, and I hope future contributors to the genre use this as inspiration when crafting their own work. Your narrative was concise, you identified the driving relationships between characters and the factions, and your choice of accompanying footage and cutscenes were dynamic and non-repetitive, which is a pitfall a lot of novice documentarians succumb to. A lot of these more complex narrative games do force players to grapple with philosophical concepts, which means that secondhand retellings can get caught up in their attempt to describe all avenues of interpretation, often to the detriment of the story. But good stories use vagueness as a tool. You and your team did an excellent job understanding that principle, and weaved the questions of agency and uncomfortable truth in a very non-distracting way. Good lore summaries require excellent storytellers. For the sake of art, I hope everyone involved in this piece keeps expressing their creative minds.
Thank you so much for the kind words, it's greatly appreciated. Consolidating and retelling these great, but often intricate, stories to help people connect with the games they love is the purpose behind the channel. I work individually on these projects so they take some time to produce, but I love wordcraft and the art of the story. Glad to hear it brings others pleasure
Finally, a good lore dump of the game, and non-bias. MFs be putting out lore videos like "Well, I really hated these characters because they really annoyed me" like??????
This video is exactly what I was looking for. I would like to see more regarding characters met in Lies of P, like the sisters, or Venigni, or Alidoro and the people from the cave at the swamp. Great video, subscribed :)
i am 67% of my first playthtough right now and i can say they do storytelling 1000 times better than from. i used to watch all ds, er lore videos to get a clue. lies of p is so clear and simple in this. like not too much, just right amount to stay focused and engaged into the gameplay and events
I was heavily biased on Spider-Man 2 being my favorite game of last year but I finished this once the new year started and what a way to bring in the new year. Shot up to my top 10 no contest
You really opened to my eyes up to how incredible the writing in this game is; I love that it's all actually in-game and doesn't require something as ridiculous as VaatiVidya's overactive imagination to fill in gaping plot holes. Your voice is fine by the way- much better than most narrators on TH-cam as it's neither forced nor nasally- and I love how you pronounced Geppetto as it shows an effort to respect the source material. Wonderful video and I hope you realize you're doing a great job at making something of value for others!
Also I wish I could have thrown some money your way by making my comment a Super Thanks but the feature isn't enabled on your channel. If you go into creator studio and go into the monetization tab I believe there's something there which will tell you that you can enable it. I don't know why it isn't on by default for some creators but there you go.
For me it is less about Vaati and more about how vague the fromsoft games are. Vaati just tries his best at trying to fill in the holes but basically like 60 to 70 percent is speculation.
romeo should be the protagonist of another game. raising a puppet resistance army to fight against your own creator while protecting the civilians- would make for a hell of a story.
I envisioned a twist where we get to tell the characters about Geppetto's betrayal and that drives them out of the hotel, where they meet their demise one by one. Alternatively, if you don’t tell them which would be lying to them, they stay in the hotel but, they still meet a tragic end, highlighting their inevitable fate from the moment they meet you."
@@gagemead27 yeah at the end of the game a guy is on a train speaking to a lady on the phone he reveals they heard about P “a new form of humanity” and the his is looking for Dorothy Then they show her on a roof top clicking her heels
@@DimirDaddy the guy is the alchemist Giangio, who sells crystal for cube in exchange of gold coin fruit. And his real name is Paracelsus, and since he has been lying since the moment we met him, the title of the game, Lies of P, could be also Lies of Paracelsus. Cheers!
It's less likely that our P is the tin man and more likely that Dorothy could either be after his heart or the means to make a heart like his for the tin man. Our character is cut and dry Pinocchio. He even becomes a real boy.
He is not ffs. He is Pinocchio, and most of all he lose his ergo in the end. How can he be the tinman if the next game won't even be in krat? This is the stupidest theory ever made
I probably could’ve gotten the best ending, but I didn’t know. I need to give her peace cause that’s sounded just like killing her and I thought they’d be an alternative solution. A better end than the simple stop of torment. I’m pretty sure I gained enough humanity as well.😢
Lies Of P’s story reminds me heavily of The Director’s pursuit to revive his wife: Allison Church from Red vs Blue, only this time the equivalent of The Flood got involved
EDIT: watched the rest of the videos in the playlist and you indeed do answer most my questions. im restarting my playthru lol i started playing this game again recently and i fell in love with it once more. loved the video, but i still have some lore questions. such as who exactly is Gemini? what is/who are the Trinity and how is Arlecchino related to it? the game mentioned a "Battle for the Workshop Tower" that happened between the Bastards + Stalkers and the Alchemists, whats that about? and of course the little teaser at the end hinting at a sequel or a DLC, how would that play into the story? and finally, Gianglio and the Gold Fruit Tree still seem pretty obscure to me. perhaps when I watch your other two videos I'll have more answers (I've watched this and the video on Romeo). or perhaps someone else does dive deeper into that stuff?
Love the video! I've been working on finishing a playthrough of LoTF2 and Lies of P is next up. I'm a sucker for the lore on the Souls genre and this was great. I'm curious though, what's the piano music you use (the one that starts at 4:00)? It's really touching and I like the atmosphere it brings to the story.
I love the music too! I definitely recommend watching their judge cleric lore video if you haven't already, especially the latter part of the judge's fate section; the piano music just fits so well with it.
I love every video you make involving Lies of P!! I have to know, what is the name of the piano pieces that play throughout the video? Is it an ost from the game?
It get worse the further Into the game you go lol try to get very consistent at perrying and leveling cause you won’t be able to be laxasia or the bosses after her without it.
@@peachdaddy I ran passed by the clown. I defeated the King of puppets on my 3 third try. I still cant beat that damn clown after 20+ tries. He is mocking me and i cant stand it.
@@marcoh703what helped me was to focus on playing defensively and not get greedy. He’s very good at punishing your aggression, so focus 100% of ur attention on learning the parry timings to get his stagger up. also throwables lol
@@marcoh703u can "repair" your weapon to make him launch his punch, do that until stagger mode and punish him, then fatal attack, then again take distance and grindstone ur weapon
This was a great summary! Just one pointer: please have the volume of your voice mixed a bit louder. I get that you’re talking in a dramatic way to add intrigue to the topic but you can just raise the volume in post. The volume of the in game examples you use is wayyy louder than you and is kinda jarring.
All the lore videos I've seen now I've played through this 3x I've fallen in love with it. Yet no one has mentioned the saint Marie staue is identical to the lies of p ending Sophia holding P. She is standing in that room awaiting you did she know the future already and see the end? Why was that staue identical?
He was the partner of a famous Stalker that Carlo admired who transferred all his Ergo into a cricket automaton body. There's not much more to him than that, which is a little disappointing.
@@Nocturva Me too. LOL. The content was great but it was distracting because it comes off as the native English speaker suddenly saying croissant or Barcelona the way that native French/Spanish people would.
I need to start by saying that you have done an excellent job with this video as it definitely describes the lore and the story the way it actually is. Here's the problem, I think whenever the story and lore gets narrated the way you have done it, the game sounds lackluster, overly complicated, and too far up its own @$$. It's really a beautiful game, a very VERY beautiful game that i recommend for eveyone to play. But really, you do not have to know all of this to have a deep and thoughtful understanding of this game... Experiencing it first hand will let you have that 😊 This story is a rather distant backdrop to what the game is really about which is much more simple and relatable. It is a deconstruction of Pinocchio, and fairytales in general, and I think it's done brilliantly. That's the brilliancs of it, it's that it's done in an artistic amd stylized manner 😊 You will think about stuff while you're playing it, but they won't be non philosophical or psychological in nature.... You don't need the full lore enjoy it, heck I'd argue you don't need any becasue even without the plot, the gameplay mechanics, level design, art direction, and sountrack are top notch. The plot? It's the adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi. Have you watched the Disney movie or are familiar with the synopsis? Good because that's all you need. I still appreciate all the effort you'be put into this video, and I highly recommend it to people who have already finished the game and are wondering "WTF did I just play?" 😂 This and many others that go into a deeper discussion about the symbolism and the references in the game because, like a true Souls, it's more than meets the eye.
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I didn't understood like P had sacrifices himself, just give the ergo of the blue fairy and black out
Since it is an Italian name I guess my mind was going for an Italian pronunciation, but as mentioned in another comment I've already corrected it for future videos
@@TheLorebrarians My comment might of come off a tad dickish. And I swear I wasn’t going for that 🤣. Loved the vid! I just heard that and my eye twitched every time lol.
@@TheLorebrarians Italian here. You actually pronounced it pretty good. Thanks for giving some consideration to the original work. To all the people complaining, you should see what MY brain does when the average anglo speaker pronounces Geppetto and Pinocchio. No offense.
No, just the language and voice I've been cultivating over the course of the channel's five year lifetime (before prevalence of AI programs) which is apparent after even a brief time on the channel. What I find shocking today is how being well-read/spoken earns AI accusation. You may not like the narration; I can understand that. But writing is something that gives me great creative pleasure, why would I ship that over to ChatGPT for "simplicity"?
5:56 isnt it absolutely intriguing, that the two entities he is describing Are basically Jesus Christ and The serpent Jesus being the sacrificial God that was ripped to shreds because he loved us so much that he wanted to give us eternal life I mean you don't even have to be familiar with the biblical account to understand that is type and Shadow of the savior By his stripes we are healed For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whomsoever should believe on him should have eternal life.... That should sound familiar from what he just discussed at that time stamp And the serpent is obvious, the oroboros, aka Satan, aka the snake in the garden of eden, thrown down to eat the dust of the earth, to constantly repeat the cycle of evil until his time is up It's pretty clear that the makers of the lies of p are familiar with this biblical account The greatest story ever told is continuously rehashed over and over in many forms, sllight changes are made here and there so as to give freedom of expression to the designer but inevitably.... The crux of the matter is, smart story will always be retold, because it is written into our very DNA 🧬 are we not all puppets of the master? P was different because he had free will He was different because he was above the law He was different because he could lie...
Good story, not great, but good. I feel the petrification disease plot wasn't properly structured. Story wise, which led to it being virtually uninteresting, weak, and borderline confusing. Lies of P is littered with cool concepts, but their story execution needs some work. Simon Manus was a waste of potential, in fact the last act was a waste of potential
I didn’t like the story of the game because from the beginning the game tries to pretend to be a game with a traditional method of storytelling, there is even a dialogue box and choices to lie or not. But then the game throws everything into the trash, by the end new dialogue options stop appearing, the characters don’t comment on important details of the story, and all the choices to lie or not are ruined by one not at all obvious “wrong” random choice and don’t affect anything.
oh, and y' all know who Sofia or Sophia is supposed to represent? Go watch or read the ' true ' oldest and most complete " story'' of Creation that Archeologists have found in those Naghammadi texts some sheepherders boy uncovered accidently.. Sophia, first Light.
Your voice was not the problem bro. It was just the game audio, it blasted up and down. It was still a great video and I'm still gonna watch whatever you put out. @@TheLorebrarians
*sigh* I love you guys. I really do. I believe I brought this up in another video. The main character isn't P, he's Marco. He's referred to as such throughout the entire game. The P in the title is a misdirection. The story of Pinocchio does play out in some fashion throughout the game, but at the end it's revealed the Cube restock character was actually Paracelsus. It's his lies that have brought about all the misfortune of the game, by giving the alchemists the Arm of God and seeing what they do with it. Ultimately searching for other sources of immortality. I haven't watched the whole video yet, so it's possible you're calling him P at the start as a misdirection for a later reveal. But if you aren't, then that is a mistake - and a big one. Not trying to be disparaging, just trying to help. If I'm incorrect and this is mentioned later, feel free to yell at me :).
I have future videos in the series that will tackle the Alchemists and paracelsus! I use P mostly because it's simpler than referring to him constantly as "Geppetto's puppet" or "puppet of geppetto". And there is no denying this character's parallels to pinocchio in the tales. So for me p=puppet=pinocchio. Now, as you stated there is another "P" in Paracelsus whose deception could be more plausibly linked to the title. I would argue it isn't wrong to refer to the playable character as P but I appreciate the feedback and possible confusion, hopefully can dispel it in future projects
I did five play throughs of Lies. A slow 60 hour one and then four more faster ones. Brilliant game. You get it. I tried telling someone else you're Carlo and was down voted into oblivion. Even though Romeo calls you Carlo, Antonia says you remind her of him, and in the rise ending Geppetto realizes you are the son he was trying to bring back. Can't wait to see what these guys do next.
what is that intro. What is with these lore channels using the most eloquent vocabulary they can muster to tell absolutely nothing. Just talk specifics in normal language and you will get the point across way better. pretentious stuff, this.
Dark souls is also a clone to 90s souls games so there’s that. Don’t put one game series over others and lessen a games value by saying it’s a clone or souls-like.
@@peachdaddyi def wouldn’t say dark souls is a clone to kings field lol I wouldn’t even go so far to say kings field is a souls like they are extremely unique in their own way. If you were to compare dark souls to any early from soft games you could argue armored core as it has the most crossovers L/R hand wep swap, stam management, weight, build types, story telling elements that let players speculate with the addition of hidden items/goals.
How does it not payoff on its setups exactly? It’s not like the game doesn’t have a climax and all of the main story elements are explained at one point. If anything it’s story is way less barebones than DS and even then saying DS doesn’t have a story is already bad faith, because it does.
I have thought about it, but it would be a difficult niche to enter as there are several very popular channels covering the content. Also, a little daunting since there is so much lore and I'm not too familiar with it, but nonetheless a great universe!
@@TheLorebrarians if u ever decide to make a vid I would be so happy for I and with all seriousness only watch lore vids from Ur channel the long in depth neatly put storytelling is what captures my interest ❤️
27:01 Thank you for pointing this out! Too many people give Geppetto a pass for what he did because 'he missed his son and it was out of love' and they don't realize how at the end of the day, he only wanted to make himself feel better. Rather than reflect on his actions and let his son rest in peace, he chose to defile him (both his body and his memory) and 'fix' him into his own version. He didn't love Carlo, he loved the IDEA of Carlo. And in turn he only valued the idea of P, which is why he rejected P the moment he didn't obey his command.
Geppetto was never a good man, he was just good at pretending.
Eh, I believe he genuinely grieved his lost son and regretted the time he never spent with him. You can hear him mourn in the boss fight with the Nameless Puppet of how he "should have read him his favorite story" and been more present in his life. Problem was, Gepetto could not accept his failure and move on and sought to bring Carlo back to become a "proper" family. What he did was definitely psychotic, but I still can't help but to have pity and sympathy for the man. Maybe I just have a bleeding heart.
Sympathy and empathy for his loss not for his following actions.@@hunterg.1300
I love that you mentioned some stuff in the lore that most others don’t mention. It makes it far more interesting than just recounting the main story to pad view time
This is an incredibly done work and I'm inspired to say why.
I often appreciate the world-building and storycraft more than the mechanics of souls-likes, so I seek out these distilled narrative pieces. This is truly the gold standard of lore videos, and I hope future contributors to the genre use this as inspiration when crafting their own work.
Your narrative was concise, you identified the driving relationships between characters and the factions, and your choice of accompanying footage and cutscenes were dynamic and non-repetitive, which is a pitfall a lot of novice documentarians succumb to.
A lot of these more complex narrative games do force players to grapple with philosophical concepts, which means that secondhand retellings can get caught up in their attempt to describe all avenues of interpretation, often to the detriment of the story. But good stories use vagueness as a tool. You and your team did an excellent job understanding that principle, and weaved the questions of agency and uncomfortable truth in a very non-distracting way.
Good lore summaries require excellent storytellers. For the sake of art, I hope everyone involved in this piece keeps expressing their creative minds.
Thank you so much for the kind words, it's greatly appreciated. Consolidating and retelling these great, but often intricate, stories to help people connect with the games they love is the purpose behind the channel. I work individually on these projects so they take some time to produce, but I love wordcraft and the art of the story. Glad to hear it brings others pleasure
I wasnt interested in this game when it first came out but damn, you made me realize how beautiful it is
It has a very compelling story and the atmosphere is great, would recommend checking it out if you can!
You could have talked about Camille, Carlo's mother. Her ergo was put into a maid puppet. She made the Saintess Statue.
Whattttt???? Damn bro, thats so interesting thanks for this fact
WAAAAAAAAT?!
Where have you received this info ?
@@revanknight796 The First Discovery note, the Camille statue outside the Opera House, etc.
Lies Of P is just breathtaking. I almost missed it! Whew that was close!
Subscribed initially for MtG stuff, but this game was so much fun! Glad y'all are covering it.
Appreciate it, got more videos in the series forthcoming!
Finally, a good lore dump of the game, and non-bias. MFs be putting out lore videos like "Well, I really hated these characters because they really annoyed me" like??????
You deserve more subs!
This video is beautifully made!
Lies of P deserves more love and I cant wait for what Neowiz cooks up next.
Because of this video, I'm definitely going to play it for myself now! The way you told it's story, WOW!
So glad you enjoyed, good luck with the playthrough!
I'm on ng+4 and 1 boss away from the platinum trophy :) it's a masterpiece
This video is exactly what I was looking for. I would like to see more regarding characters met in Lies of P, like the sisters, or Venigni, or Alidoro and the people from the cave at the swamp. Great video, subscribed :)
This video is super well put together and deserves millions of views i appreciate the content man
What a cool story. It can go real dark or real hopeful and almost fairytale-like with those endings.
Lies of Peak is my second favorite game of 2023... It's amazing
i am 67% of my first playthtough right now and i can say they do storytelling 1000 times better than from. i used to watch all ds, er lore videos to get a clue. lies of p is so clear and simple in this. like not too much, just right amount to stay focused and engaged into the gameplay and events
Its genuinely my favorite game since Sekiro
@@samthemessiah9330same
What's your most favorite?
"Lies of Peak" lol that had to have been on purpose
My first ever souls like game, and also my favorite game of all time.
this game had me shed tears for the first time in a long time man
I was heavily biased on Spider-Man 2 being my favorite game of last year but I finished this once the new year started and what a way to bring in the new year. Shot up to my top 10 no contest
You really opened to my eyes up to how incredible the writing in this game is; I love that it's all actually in-game and doesn't require something as ridiculous as VaatiVidya's overactive imagination to fill in gaping plot holes. Your voice is fine by the way- much better than most narrators on TH-cam as it's neither forced nor nasally- and I love how you pronounced Geppetto as it shows an effort to respect the source material. Wonderful video and I hope you realize you're doing a great job at making something of value for others!
Also I wish I could have thrown some money your way by making my comment a Super Thanks but the feature isn't enabled on your channel. If you go into creator studio and go into the monetization tab I believe there's something there which will tell you that you can enable it. I don't know why it isn't on by default for some creators but there you go.
damn Vaati catching a stray somehow
What do you have against vaati?
For me it is less about Vaati and more about how vague the fromsoft games are. Vaati just tries his best at trying to fill in the holes but basically like 60 to 70 percent is speculation.
romeo should be the protagonist of another game. raising a puppet resistance army to fight against your own creator while protecting the civilians- would make for a hell of a story.
I envisioned a twist where we get to tell the characters about Geppetto's betrayal and that drives them out of the hotel, where they meet their demise one by one. Alternatively, if you don’t tell them which would be lying to them, they stay in the hotel but, they still meet a tragic end, highlighting their inevitable fate from the moment they meet you."
So it's Bloodborne meets Stephen Spielberg's A.I even down to the Pinocchio theme
On another hand it’s like breaking all the laws in FullMetal Alchemist
@@DrippleDragon This game gives a fair amount of FMA vibes, not sure if its intentional or not though.
I mean in elden ring there are a ton of berserk refrences@@mundomundovich2265
Amazing video! This is the best story analysis I have watched regarding this game, thank you!
Coming in blind to a game’s lore this time around. Thank you!
For some reason, around 4:30 I was expecting to see the hand of Adyr lol.
Great vid. Just played it. Story makes the gameplay worthwhile.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Damn you didn’t cover the post credit scene where we discover he may be the Tinman in another character’s story
OH? Lies of Oz tease?!
@@gagemead27 yeah at the end of the game a guy is on a train speaking to a lady on the phone he reveals they heard about P “a new form of humanity” and the his is looking for Dorothy
Then they show her on a roof top clicking her heels
@@DimirDaddy the guy is the alchemist Giangio, who sells crystal for cube in exchange of gold coin fruit. And his real name is Paracelsus, and since he has been lying since the moment we met him, the title of the game, Lies of P, could be also Lies of Paracelsus. Cheers!
It's less likely that our P is the tin man and more likely that Dorothy could either be after his heart or the means to make a heart like his for the tin man. Our character is cut and dry Pinocchio. He even becomes a real boy.
He is not ffs. He is Pinocchio, and most of all he lose his ergo in the end. How can he be the tinman if the next game won't even be in krat? This is the stupidest theory ever made
such an amazing video. loved every second of it!! no joke
I didn't have any expectations for this game, but it blew me away. Fell in love with it. Only downsides are, ot ends and no arm of god legion arm
There's gonna be a dlc so cross your fingers!
@peintheelite I won't be around for it. Amusing all the games I want to play come out in June. Ah well.
Where are you going? @@elusiveDEVIANT
I probably could’ve gotten the best ending, but I didn’t know. I need to give her peace cause that’s sounded just like killing her and I thought they’d be an alternative solution. A better end than the simple stop of torment. I’m pretty sure I gained enough humanity as well.😢
A great discovery and one of best games of 2023. Way better than Lords of the Fallen.
This video didn't have to go as hard as it did 😭. Great job man 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Glad you enjoyed it!
This video deserves way, waaay more views
This is a great summary!! Thanks
Honestly I really hope this game gets a Nutcracker based DLC with the Rat King as the final boss
My dad suggested this game I’m glad he did
Lies Of P’s story reminds me heavily of The Director’s pursuit to revive his wife: Allison Church from Red vs Blue, only this time the equivalent of The Flood got involved
EDIT: watched the rest of the videos in the playlist and you indeed do answer most my questions. im restarting my playthru lol
i started playing this game again recently and i fell in love with it once more.
loved the video, but i still have some lore questions. such as who exactly is Gemini? what is/who are the Trinity and how is Arlecchino related to it? the game mentioned a "Battle for the Workshop Tower" that happened between the Bastards + Stalkers and the Alchemists, whats that about? and of course the little teaser at the end hinting at a sequel or a DLC, how would that play into the story? and finally, Gianglio and the Gold Fruit Tree still seem pretty obscure to me.
perhaps when I watch your other two videos I'll have more answers (I've watched this and the video on Romeo). or perhaps someone else does dive deeper into that stuff?
Love the video! I've been working on finishing a playthrough of LoTF2 and Lies of P is next up. I'm a sucker for the lore on the Souls genre and this was great.
I'm curious though, what's the piano music you use (the one that starts at 4:00)? It's really touching and I like the atmosphere it brings to the story.
I love the music too! I definitely recommend watching their judge cleric lore video if you haven't already, especially the latter part of the judge's fate section; the piano music just fits so well with it.
Lore daddy with another one
Ah, he shed a tear when Geppetto died. I didn't know that because I wore a mask. Good to know...
I love every video you make involving Lies of P!! I have to know, what is the name of the piano pieces that play throughout the video? Is it an ost from the game?
i really appreciate this video and this game. my fav game with similar theme would still be nier automata though
Guys 😭😭😭 he didn't mention Romeo King of Puppets 😭😭 Carlo's best friend :(
(At the monad charity house part)
But he mentions him later so ig its fine
Great video!
Love this game! (still cant beat the clown robot and im in despair)
It get worse the further Into the game you go lol try to get very consistent at perrying and leveling cause you won’t be able to be laxasia or the bosses after her without it.
@@peachdaddy I ran passed by the clown. I defeated the King of puppets on my 3 third try. I still cant beat that damn clown after 20+ tries. He is mocking me and i cant stand it.
@@marcoh703what helped me was to focus on playing defensively and not get greedy. He’s very good at punishing your aggression, so focus 100% of ur attention on learning the parry timings to get his stagger up. also throwables lol
@@marcoh703u can "repair" your weapon to make him launch his punch, do that until stagger mode and punish him, then fatal attack, then again take distance and grindstone ur weapon
Why do you think he was just "unconscious" in the true ending? I definitely read that as him giving up his life for Sophia.
Fantastic video though.
His face twitches when Sophia's hand draws close, and she says "it's so good to see you"
@@TheLorebrarians how did i miss that lol. Man that makes me happy, my boy is alive 🥲
Such a great game thank you
This was a great summary! Just one pointer: please have the volume of your voice mixed a bit louder. I get that you’re talking in a dramatic way to add intrigue to the topic but you can just raise the volume in post. The volume of the in game examples you use is wayyy louder than you and is kinda jarring.
The audio could use a bit of tweaking for the next vid, the in-game dialogue segments were louder than you talking
This would make an awesome movie
What if it's not lies of Pinocchio but lies of puppets
It is
Great game, great video. Got my like and sub 👍
Great video 💪
Appreciate it!
All the lore videos I've seen now I've played through this 3x I've fallen in love with it. Yet no one has mentioned the saint Marie staue is identical to the lies of p ending Sophia holding P. She is standing in that room awaiting you did she know the future already and see the end? Why was that staue identical?
Thanks
Bloodborne #1 🥇 Lies of P #2 🥈
Can someone please plain who Gemini is?? I bet he’s some sort of Royalty or something, assassinated by the Old Families.
He was the partner of a famous Stalker that Carlo admired who transferred all his Ergo into a cricket automaton body. There's not much more to him than that, which is a little disappointing.
Quality content for sure, but I think I just got spoiled(spoilered) 😢😅
I guess that's on me though. Should have known.
@@GiorgiBitsadze
Because it is. What did you expect when going to a complete story video? :D
I feel like you're taking the piss when you say Geppetto like that.
Love the candid feedback, already corrected in future videos
Same i felt that way too 😂 actually stopped listening bc of it lmao
@@Nocturva Me too. LOL. The content was great but it was distracting because it comes off as the native English speaker suddenly saying croissant or Barcelona the way that native French/Spanish people would.
I need to start by saying that you have done an excellent job with this video as it definitely describes the lore and the story the way it actually is.
Here's the problem, I think whenever the story and lore gets narrated the way you have done it, the game sounds lackluster, overly complicated, and too far up its own @$$.
It's really a beautiful game, a very VERY beautiful game that i recommend for eveyone to play. But really, you do not have to know all of this to have a deep and thoughtful understanding of this game... Experiencing it first hand will let you have that 😊
This story is a rather distant backdrop to what the game is really about which is much more simple and relatable.
It is a deconstruction of Pinocchio, and fairytales in general, and I think it's done brilliantly. That's the brilliancs of it, it's that it's done in an artistic amd stylized manner 😊
You will think about stuff while you're playing it, but they won't be non philosophical or psychological in nature....
You don't need the full lore enjoy it, heck I'd argue you don't need any becasue even without the plot, the gameplay mechanics, level design, art direction, and sountrack are top notch.
The plot? It's the adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi. Have you watched the Disney movie or are familiar with the synopsis? Good because that's all you need.
I still appreciate all the effort you'be put into this video, and I highly recommend it to people who have already finished the game and are wondering "WTF did I just play?" 😂
This and many others that go into a deeper discussion about the symbolism and the references in the game because, like a true Souls, it's more than meets the eye.
I didn't understood like P had sacrifices himself, just give the ergo of the blue fairy and black out
I think he gives the ergo that Sophia gave to him upon death.
Damn. Look how your channel has grown.
The P stands for Paul Atreides. Just look at him.
And his personal war against thinking machi- I mean puppets
Lies of Paul
They should make a Fullmetal alchemist soul like
Gj dude
Someone take this guy’s thesaurus away 💀
So if ergo is soul, and ergo makes puppets animate, and puppets can become human, are humans just another races puppets?
Baller
This is Yoko Taro level
Why do you say his name like that? Do you separate names by syllable? Gepp-et-to 😖
Since it is an Italian name I guess my mind was going for an Italian pronunciation, but as mentioned in another comment I've already corrected it for future videos
@@TheLorebrarians My comment might of come off a tad dickish. And I swear I wasn’t going for that 🤣. Loved the vid! I just heard that and my eye twitched every time lol.
@@BRBakasame 😂
I came to the comments for this immediately 😂
@@TheLorebrarians Italian here. You actually pronounced it pretty good. Thanks for giving some consideration to the original work.
To all the people complaining, you should see what MY brain does when the average anglo speaker pronounces Geppetto and Pinocchio. No offense.
Blud is not italian 💀
This sounds so unnatural at times, did you use ChatGPT to pretty up the language of the script...?
No, just the language and voice I've been cultivating over the course of the channel's five year lifetime (before prevalence of AI programs) which is apparent after even a brief time on the channel. What I find shocking today is how being well-read/spoken earns AI accusation. You may not like the narration; I can understand that. But writing is something that gives me great creative pleasure, why would I ship that over to ChatGPT for "simplicity"?
The game’s story and plot are awesome. The game’s unending enemy delays are terrible.
Bring Magic back man. Wtf...
Academy of ideas guy narrator? 😅
5:56 isnt it absolutely intriguing, that the two entities he is describing
Are basically Jesus Christ and The serpent
Jesus being the sacrificial God that was ripped to shreds because he loved us so much that he wanted to give us eternal life
I mean you don't even have to be familiar with the biblical account to understand that is type and Shadow of the savior
By his stripes we are healed
For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whomsoever should believe on him should have eternal life....
That should sound familiar from what he just discussed at that time stamp
And the serpent is obvious, the oroboros, aka Satan, aka the snake in the garden of eden, thrown down to eat the dust of the earth, to constantly repeat the cycle of evil until his time is up
It's pretty clear that the makers of the lies of p are familiar with this biblical account
The greatest story ever told is continuously rehashed over and over in many forms, sllight changes are made here and there so as to give freedom of expression to the designer but inevitably.... The crux of the matter is, smart story will always be retold, because it is written into our very DNA 🧬
are we not all puppets of the master?
P was different because he had free will
He was different because he was above the law
He was different because he could lie...
I havent fi ished alll the chapters...i shouldnt watch 😮
Good story, not great, but good. I feel the petrification disease plot wasn't properly structured. Story wise, which led to it being virtually uninteresting, weak, and borderline confusing.
Lies of P is littered with cool concepts, but their story execution needs some work. Simon Manus was a waste of potential, in fact the last act was a waste of potential
Hi I'm Poof the 🐔👊 er 💨🃏
Take a shot everytime he says Gepppatttoo
Spoiler: You'll die of alcohol poisoning
I didn’t like the story of the game because from the beginning the game tries to pretend to be a game with a traditional method of storytelling, there is even a dialogue box and choices to lie or not. But then the game throws everything into the trash, by the end new dialogue options stop appearing, the characters don’t comment on important details of the story, and all the choices to lie or not are ruined by one not at all obvious “wrong” random choice and don’t affect anything.
oh, and y' all know who Sofia or Sophia is supposed to represent? Go watch or read the ' true ' oldest and most complete " story'' of Creation that Archeologists have found in those Naghammadi texts some sheepherders boy uncovered accidently.. Sophia, first Light.
Bro. You gotta give an audio warning holy shit that was loud as fuck.
Appreciate the feedback, music or voice-over? I have hard limiters set to -2.5db but will look into it
Your voice was not the problem bro. It was just the game audio, it blasted up and down. It was still a great video and I'm still gonna watch whatever you put out. @@TheLorebrarians
*sigh* I love you guys. I really do. I believe I brought this up in another video. The main character isn't P, he's Marco. He's referred to as such throughout the entire game. The P in the title is a misdirection. The story of Pinocchio does play out in some fashion throughout the game, but at the end it's revealed the Cube restock character was actually Paracelsus. It's his lies that have brought about all the misfortune of the game, by giving the alchemists the Arm of God and seeing what they do with it. Ultimately searching for other sources of immortality. I haven't watched the whole video yet, so it's possible you're calling him P at the start as a misdirection for a later reveal. But if you aren't, then that is a mistake - and a big one. Not trying to be disparaging, just trying to help. If I'm incorrect and this is mentioned later, feel free to yell at me :).
I have future videos in the series that will tackle the Alchemists and paracelsus! I use P mostly because it's simpler than referring to him constantly as "Geppetto's puppet" or "puppet of geppetto". And there is no denying this character's parallels to pinocchio in the tales. So for me p=puppet=pinocchio. Now, as you stated there is another "P" in Paracelsus whose deception could be more plausibly linked to the title. I would argue it isn't wrong to refer to the playable character as P but I appreciate the feedback and possible confusion, hopefully can dispel it in future projects
I did five play throughs of Lies. A slow 60 hour one and then four more faster ones. Brilliant game.
You get it. I tried telling someone else you're Carlo and was down voted into oblivion.
Even though Romeo calls you Carlo, Antonia says you remind her of him, and in the rise ending Geppetto realizes you are the son he was trying to bring back.
Can't wait to see what these guys do next.
Wait, Marco? Do you mean Carlo?
what is that intro. What is with these lore channels using the most eloquent vocabulary they can muster to tell absolutely nothing. Just talk specifics in normal language and you will get the point across way better. pretentious stuff, this.
When the script is written by an English major but not a Communications major
So,same story as just like every final fantasy game until ffx... And
Also,bloodbourne...
Intro too long
Very Overrated game
bro just cant beat the parade boss :))
There is no story for this game just bare bones set up but people seem to love lack of story in these dark souls clones
Way to tell us you're a dumbass without actually telling us lol
Dark souls is also a clone to 90s souls games so there’s that. Don’t put one game series over others and lessen a games value by saying it’s a clone or souls-like.
@@peachdaddy what 90s souls games, pray tell?
@@peachdaddyi def wouldn’t say dark souls is a clone to kings field lol I wouldn’t even go so far to say kings field is a souls like they are extremely unique in their own way. If you were to compare dark souls to any early from soft games you could argue armored core as it has the most crossovers L/R hand wep swap, stam management, weight, build types, story telling elements that let players speculate with the addition of hidden items/goals.
How does it not payoff on its setups exactly? It’s not like the game doesn’t have a climax and all of the main story elements are explained at one point.
If anything it’s story is way less barebones than DS and even then saying DS doesn’t have a story is already bad faith, because it does.
The way you say gipetto seriously pisses me off
I'm sorry, I can't listen to your voice for 45 minutes 😢
Did you ever think about doing Warhammer 40k content? Has some damn dope lore
I second this, would probably be the best 40k lore channel out there if he covered it considering how in depth his content is.
I have thought about it, but it would be a difficult niche to enter as there are several very popular channels covering the content. Also, a little daunting since there is so much lore and I'm not too familiar with it, but nonetheless a great universe!
@@TheLorebrarians if u ever decide to make a vid I would be so happy for I and with all seriousness only watch lore vids from Ur channel the long in depth neatly put storytelling is what captures my interest ❤️