Lies of P PC Overview

Lies of P is Developer Spherical 8’s newest motion RPG that has given Bloodborne followers some much-needed reprieve with its many related gameplay parts. Like many Soulslikes, the sport presents tough-as-nails issue, epic battles, and an intriguing albeit spinoff story. My expertise with the sport was nice, however not with out apparent hurdles.

A Twisted Setting

Lies of P is a darkish and twisted retelling of the traditional story of Pinocchio. The sport is about within the fictional metropolis of Krat, the place puppets have killed the people they serve and now roam the town, inflicting chaos. We be taught early within the sport that that is Gepeto’s fault for some purpose, in order his puppet, it’s as much as you to cease all of the chaos by defeating all of the grasp puppets of mayhem.

Lies of P takes a whole lot of blatant inspirations from the Souls sequence, particularly Bloodborne. The sport has an identical gothic Nineteenth-century Victorian aesthetic with outfits and structure to match the period. Fortunately, the developer was in a position to do justice to the theme by way of excellently rendered and modeled environmental objects, crisp fashions and motions, and nice reflections, however the lighting in some areas may have been carried out higher.

As for the story, whereas the sport does the mandatory exposition to introduce characters to the world, it does the remainder of the world-building and narrative clarification by NPC dialogue and environmental storytelling like most Soulslikes. As such, should you’re a fan of the narrative fashion from Souls Video games and Soulslikes, you then’re in luck, however should you’re a fan of the normal construction, you then’ll be left dissatisfied with Lies of P’s narrative. The story is inoffensive, and as a reimagining of the traditional story, it does sufficient to differentiate itself with all its enjoyable and weird variations.

Refined Gameplay

By way of gameplay, Lies of P gives a whole lot of nice parts seen in most soulslike video games. Like Bloodborne, motion is comparatively painless. Dodges are swift, however rolling feels clunky, so for probably the most half, dodging away from shut harm all the time proved extra advantageous than rolling away.

A number of ranges within the sport are intricately layered, enemies are aggressive and have distinctive AI patterns that present new sorts of challenges by way of distinctive eventualities. Sadly, a type of methods is damaging. One facet of Soulslikes that usually will get ignored is poise. That is the aspect of gameplay that permits you to not get staggered and maintain buying and selling blows with enemies so long as you have got sufficient stable protection. Whereas it is available in a number of varieties, in a number of Soulslikes, it sadly doesn’t exist in Lies of P. As such, combating enemies, particularly bosses, had an surprising degree of issue not seen in every other Soulslikes. 

One other annoying facet of the sport is the parry mechanic, which is so much lazier than in different Soulslikes, as as a substitute of getting a devoted parry button, gamers need to time a block proper in the meanwhile of an assault. Whereas less complicated than different video games, utilizing the strategy does get complicated throughout boss fights, particularly if you block proper earlier than you should.

A Completely different Soulslike

Talking of bosses, I have to admit that the bosses in Lies of P are my favourite a part of the sport. A number of bosses provide several types of troublesome eventualities and new challenges to overcome. Some bosses are sluggish, methodical, and hard-hitting, whereas some are sooner and extra frantic making them more durable to trace. All of them make taking part in the sport extraordinarily entertaining.

Other than fight, Lies of P has a considerably completely different leveling and ability system than its counterparts. Whereas gamers can grind out mobs to degree up every of their stats and purchase weapons, it additionally gives Legion Arms; secondary weapons that supply extra versatility with ranged choices and add different parts like electrical energy, explosives, and extra. The sport additionally has P Organs; one other aspect that enables gamers to unlock expertise round a number of elements of the sport by way of its ability tree.

Lastly, Lies of P presents gamers a mechanic that lets them mix a number of weapon sorts to toughen weapons or weapons with completely different elemental sorts. Nonetheless, whereas the mixture mechanic gives a recent new aspect that’s completely different from different Soulslikes, some combos like placing a greatsword on a smaller deal with, are basically ineffective, as they don’t present a lot of a gameplay distinction. Efficiency-wise, Lies of P runs nice on PC, particularly on my RTX 3060 PC. Body charges are secure, with no glitches or crashes.

Closing Ideas

General, whereas Lies of P is extremely spinoff of video games like Bloodborne, and has a story that borrows a whole lot of their parts, it nonetheless does justice to every aspect it replicates with enjoyable and refreshing gameplay parts and impeccable visuals.