Yeah I know haha lol downvote me and insult me. I likely won’t even be returning to this thread I just haven’t seen this talked about here outside of one thread I made months ago when the demo came out.

Well I got 72 hours early access with the preorder and due to some work and fam things haven’t got as much time as I won’t with it yet. Definitely haven’t beaten it and probably about 15 hours in. It is frankly absolutely amazing how well this game came together and plays and looks even better than the demo.

1) For anyone put off typically by the difficulty of these games: Lies of P isn’t that….really. It’s a very very challenging game that does some interesting things if you didn’t like needing to perfect parry in Sekiro you might wanna skip this one however Lies of P does offer mitigation and strategies for you if you can’t just for some reason nail that optimal path. The game honestly isn’t that hard I haven’t died anywhere near I normally would in a game like this. It offers you dummies to practice the stagger, or what they call groggy, system right before the initial boss before the hub and the initial credits.

2) This game absolute oozes style and polish and love and care. From the blood splatter onto your character after a special kill, the animations, the city, it is absolutely inspired in a way by BB visually but takes advantage of a decades worth of technology improvements to make it look 20x better than it ever did

3) And finally to address something usually putting off some gamers from souls likes. The story. This is NOT a story and narrative told in Miyazazi and FromSoft fashion. It has lore, fascinating lore, but it’s not 95% lore. There is a compelling narrative and through line here even on the level or I’d say much above Sekiro. It speaks very philosophically about things like the human consciousness and condition or what it even means to be human and how much or that can be sacrificed and be maintained

I know I know too long didn’t read lol haha td01241 sucks. I just wanted to put this here for anyone still either on the fence, or typically not “clicking” with these games for various reasons. I 100% think you should jump in head first and man imo this game is better than Elden Ring in very certain ways. Elden ring wanted to be all things to all people. This doesn’t. It has very original ideas and new concepts brought to the genre is a hyper focused on delivering more or less a tight experience with a bit more wiggle room than Sekiro for struggling players who can’t master 1 single mechanic. Also, finally, yes you can summon spirit NPCs for bosses but takes a valuable consumable resource.

Grounding this entire dark fantasy story of some truly horrific shite in Pinocchio was also truly a brilliant idea and a match made in heaven. The lie and truth mechanic inherent to the story is present and shows up often. Yes it has story and gameplay impacts on who you lie to and who you tell the truth to, however I won’t mention anything else about it because how that mechanic not only affects the story the gameplay itself is such a joy to experience for yourself.

And to end this massive endorsement if anyone still isn’t sure but is curious the demo is still free and available and is VERY generous with it’s length of more or less 5 hours of the game depending on player and 3 major bosses. However know that as I said above while all the same game is the same the demo isn’t as polished or nailed down mechanically which matters a ton in this game that has a huge amount of focus on perfect blocking. Also do note however that unlike say FF16 your demo data does not transfer at all to your full game purchase you will start from scratch

Also something I just remembered Bloodborne fans will be happy to know a certain version of the rally mechanic is back and present but this post is long enough play the game and see for yourself.

Everyone here knows I love FF, and I am telling you this game is objectively better than FF16 which was pretty good sometimes great in its own right. Go get this game for real.

This post was edited on 9/18/23 at 5:22 am