Lies of P, is the perfect example of a perfect game and is literally better than all of Fromsoft’s by so much, and also the game that people dislike just because it “copies” Fromsoft’s games… These people are truly blind and stupid cause of fake nostalgia. This game did what Fromsoft couldn’t do. Which is making a consistently good game until the end and never fails to do so! It took all of the good things from the Souls games and combined them together to this masterpiece.
The OSTs, Gameplay, World Design, NPCs and their stories and characters, Bosses, Side Quests, Story, Weapons and making changes to them. And other stuff that I probably forgot making this game perfect.
Gameplay, Gameplay in Lies of P is a mix of Sekiro’s guarding but harder to pull off since the parry (perfect guard) window is very small compared to Sekiro’s… there’s also rolling that can be used, but I recommend everyone to just use the guard system more than the dodging system because of how important it is, you can stagger the bosses or the enemies way faster, and you’re also able to break their weapons depending on how much perfect guard you can do while he attack you. If you weren’t able to parry the enemy, you’re going to get the effect of a normal guard which is: having your health taken, but you can get it back by hitting the enemy or wait for it to heal by itself (it’ll take too much time for it to heal). There are also Legion Arms which have different abilities, some of them can be used as a hook to pull enemies to you or pull yourself to them, other make you attach landmine to the floor and it’ll blow up when an enemy gets near it, a very good use to speedrun bosses or cheese them. There’s the shield legion arm that as the name suggest it’s a shield for beginners and it’s very useful too, there are other legion arms, that it’ll take time to mention and say what they do, but you’ll have to trust me when I say they’re all useful and the upgrades too! Gameplay is as fun as Sekiro nothing much to add for it, other than it doesn’t have that nice guard sound as Sekiro, but that’s not important. Also it’s better than Dark Souls and bloodborne.
NPCs, NPCs in this game are one of the best NPCs I’ve ever interacted with! The NPCs have their own character and stories, and it’s not some just a robot with no emotions and character. NPCs here show actual fear, happiness, sadness, regret and having the most important thing in a Souls game which is “hope”.
Sophia as an example, telling us she awakened us so we can save Krat, but truth is she wanted us to save her. She even told us how scared she is because of what Simon did to listeners like her. She fears death, but at the same time doesn’t want to feel the pain anymore. I genuinely was attached to Sophia as a character and her role too, it broke me when I saw her at that state and I didn’t know what to pick when I did my first Playthrough, but in the end I let her go in peace.
Another example is Lady Antonia, we little of her, but we know she was there for you (when you were a human), for Venigni and Polendina loved her when he awakened his “ego”. She showed how happy she was after you gave her the cure.
Gemini in this game is a 100% must have and I know that no one hates him, everyone loves him. He’s the guide for your run, gives you some lore, and he doesn’t make you feel lonely at all. He sometimes does some jokes or comments on some stuff in a funny way…Having Gemini is an essential part of the game to make the players not feel lonely or get bored at all! I love Gemini and I hope in the DLC and the sequel he’ll have more dialogues.
Red Fox and The Black Cat, these two when you first encounter them seem like some scumbags, the Red Fox being the leader/boss and the young Cat being a follower, they seem like sister and brother, and turns out when you play through the game they are actually siblings! The Black Cat is a young kid from, you can tell that when tells you that he is tired of everything, tired of kidnapping, tired of killing, tired of surviving. This just shows how much they have been running together and how they no longer want any of this. The Red Fox seems as a nice sister too, thanking you and wished for us to be friends. We don’t know what happened to them after the ending, but they probably live in another country and living a normal and decent life. It’s these little details that make you attached to these “simple” NPCs.
Riddler! Oh boy this guy is so important and having him adds a lot to the plot… Every single question he keeps on asking us and having two answers, sometimes one of the answers is blatantly wrong which indicates that you’re an actual puppet, other indicates you’re a human being. Without the help of Riddler you (Carlo aka Pinocchio) won’t realize sooner that you’re actually a human being… well until you defeat Romeo (King of Puppets) and you will awaken to Carlo.
There are other NPCs like the cat, when you try to pet it, it would hiss you, but if you have humanity on you it’ll recognize it and actually let you pet it… again details like this are nice to have.
Bosses, Bosses in this game I have mix feelings about them(in a good way), I would compare them to Dark Souls 3’s bosses. And see how I fight them and it’s difficulty… In Lies of P, The difficulty sometimes spikes from easy to hard and then go easy, that’s actually not a bad thing to be honest… When a new player get in here he’d probably think the game is too easy, and then he’ll get shocked of the hard bosses + helps people to try and actually learn the perfect guard (parry) system. The bosses have their own story too…Romeo (King of the Puppets) is Carlo’s best friend and when he says “I’m Romeo, Carlo’s best friend” hits very hard and without him you might’ve not been able to awaken yourself…
Scrapped Watchman in NG+ with Venigni’s tool you can understand what he was saying… Turns out he was and still tries to protect his friends and the children that the people (adults) took away from him. Same thing a small detail like that is nice to have too.
The Black Rabbit Brotherhood, is an easy boss that I’ve seen people struggle with, and I don’t understand why…They’re fairly easy, you just need to focus only on one person and that’s it easy win… why are people complaining about them so much???? Even thought they’re bunch of scums, they still care about each other.
Nameless Puppet as a final boss works very good just like the Soul of Cinder, and the cutscenes were very good and hit hard, the fight is surprisingly easily and fun too!
There are other NPC bosses that have gone insane, because of either the disease or surviving was too much for them… shows how cruel life is there.
Story in this game unlike all of Fromsoft's games, you can actually understand it without any trouble. The way it tells the story from characters or even from some of the books or letters you find is very nice and isn't tiring to read like Fromsoft's games... When I said this game is perfect I meant it was perfect in every way! Including the story.
World design in this game is incredible some would say they copied it from Bloodbrone, but I say the opposite… this game’s world design compared to Bloodborne is laughable in my opinion. This game beats Bloodborne in everything! The world design is very good, that’s all.
OSTs in this game are incredible, you have a collection of disc music that can be played, and they’re all so good. I LOVE ALL OF THEM… KRAT’S HOTEL THEM, THE FINAL CHAPTER OSTS, ATTACKED KRAT HOTEL OST, SOPHIA’S OST, AND ALL OF THE BOSSES! MY GOD THEY’RE SO GOOD AND THE COLLECTION OH MY GOD SO GOOD TOO.
To sum up, Lies of P is better than all of Fromsoft’s games and the fans are blinded by their stupid “loyalty” so that’s why they dislike the game, other than that any other sane person who actually uses his brain can tell it’s better.
The OSTs, Gameplay, World Design, NPCs and their stories and characters, Bosses, Side Quests, Story, Weapons and making changes to them. And other stuff that I probably forgot making this game perfect.
Gameplay, Gameplay in Lies of P is a mix of Sekiro’s guarding but harder to pull off since the parry (perfect guard) window is very small compared to Sekiro’s… there’s also rolling that can be used, but I recommend everyone to just use the guard system more than the dodging system because of how important it is, you can stagger the bosses or the enemies way faster, and you’re also able to break their weapons depending on how much perfect guard you can do while he attack you. If you weren’t able to parry the enemy, you’re going to get the effect of a normal guard which is: having your health taken, but you can get it back by hitting the enemy or wait for it to heal by itself (it’ll take too much time for it to heal). There are also Legion Arms which have different abilities, some of them can be used as a hook to pull enemies to you or pull yourself to them, other make you attach landmine to the floor and it’ll blow up when an enemy gets near it, a very good use to speedrun bosses or cheese them. There’s the shield legion arm that as the name suggest it’s a shield for beginners and it’s very useful too, there are other legion arms, that it’ll take time to mention and say what they do, but you’ll have to trust me when I say they’re all useful and the upgrades too! Gameplay is as fun as Sekiro nothing much to add for it, other than it doesn’t have that nice guard sound as Sekiro, but that’s not important. Also it’s better than Dark Souls and bloodborne.
NPCs, NPCs in this game are one of the best NPCs I’ve ever interacted with! The NPCs have their own character and stories, and it’s not some just a robot with no emotions and character. NPCs here show actual fear, happiness, sadness, regret and having the most important thing in a Souls game which is “hope”.
Sophia as an example, telling us she awakened us so we can save Krat, but truth is she wanted us to save her. She even told us how scared she is because of what Simon did to listeners like her. She fears death, but at the same time doesn’t want to feel the pain anymore. I genuinely was attached to Sophia as a character and her role too, it broke me when I saw her at that state and I didn’t know what to pick when I did my first Playthrough, but in the end I let her go in peace.
Another example is Lady Antonia, we little of her, but we know she was there for you (when you were a human), for Venigni and Polendina loved her when he awakened his “ego”. She showed how happy she was after you gave her the cure.
Gemini in this game is a 100% must have and I know that no one hates him, everyone loves him. He’s the guide for your run, gives you some lore, and he doesn’t make you feel lonely at all. He sometimes does some jokes or comments on some stuff in a funny way…Having Gemini is an essential part of the game to make the players not feel lonely or get bored at all! I love Gemini and I hope in the DLC and the sequel he’ll have more dialogues.
Red Fox and The Black Cat, these two when you first encounter them seem like some scumbags, the Red Fox being the leader/boss and the young Cat being a follower, they seem like sister and brother, and turns out when you play through the game they are actually siblings! The Black Cat is a young kid from, you can tell that when tells you that he is tired of everything, tired of kidnapping, tired of killing, tired of surviving. This just shows how much they have been running together and how they no longer want any of this. The Red Fox seems as a nice sister too, thanking you and wished for us to be friends. We don’t know what happened to them after the ending, but they probably live in another country and living a normal and decent life. It’s these little details that make you attached to these “simple” NPCs.
Riddler! Oh boy this guy is so important and having him adds a lot to the plot… Every single question he keeps on asking us and having two answers, sometimes one of the answers is blatantly wrong which indicates that you’re an actual puppet, other indicates you’re a human being. Without the help of Riddler you (Carlo aka Pinocchio) won’t realize sooner that you’re actually a human being… well until you defeat Romeo (King of Puppets) and you will awaken to Carlo.
There are other NPCs like the cat, when you try to pet it, it would hiss you, but if you have humanity on you it’ll recognize it and actually let you pet it… again details like this are nice to have.
Bosses, Bosses in this game I have mix feelings about them(in a good way), I would compare them to Dark Souls 3’s bosses. And see how I fight them and it’s difficulty… In Lies of P, The difficulty sometimes spikes from easy to hard and then go easy, that’s actually not a bad thing to be honest… When a new player get in here he’d probably think the game is too easy, and then he’ll get shocked of the hard bosses + helps people to try and actually learn the perfect guard (parry) system. The bosses have their own story too…Romeo (King of the Puppets) is Carlo’s best friend and when he says “I’m Romeo, Carlo’s best friend” hits very hard and without him you might’ve not been able to awaken yourself…
Scrapped Watchman in NG+ with Venigni’s tool you can understand what he was saying… Turns out he was and still tries to protect his friends and the children that the people (adults) took away from him. Same thing a small detail like that is nice to have too.
The Black Rabbit Brotherhood, is an easy boss that I’ve seen people struggle with, and I don’t understand why…They’re fairly easy, you just need to focus only on one person and that’s it easy win… why are people complaining about them so much???? Even thought they’re bunch of scums, they still care about each other.
Nameless Puppet as a final boss works very good just like the Soul of Cinder, and the cutscenes were very good and hit hard, the fight is surprisingly easily and fun too!
There are other NPC bosses that have gone insane, because of either the disease or surviving was too much for them… shows how cruel life is there.
Story in this game unlike all of Fromsoft's games, you can actually understand it without any trouble. The way it tells the story from characters or even from some of the books or letters you find is very nice and isn't tiring to read like Fromsoft's games... When I said this game is perfect I meant it was perfect in every way! Including the story.
World design in this game is incredible some would say they copied it from Bloodbrone, but I say the opposite… this game’s world design compared to Bloodborne is laughable in my opinion. This game beats Bloodborne in everything! The world design is very good, that’s all.
OSTs in this game are incredible, you have a collection of disc music that can be played, and they’re all so good. I LOVE ALL OF THEM… KRAT’S HOTEL THEM, THE FINAL CHAPTER OSTS, ATTACKED KRAT HOTEL OST, SOPHIA’S OST, AND ALL OF THE BOSSES! MY GOD THEY’RE SO GOOD AND THE COLLECTION OH MY GOD SO GOOD TOO.
To sum up, Lies of P is better than all of Fromsoft’s games and the fans are blinded by their stupid “loyalty” so that’s why they dislike the game, other than that any other sane person who actually uses his brain can tell it’s better.