From the producers who played "Dark Souls"

Not a bad game by any means, just failed to grab me. Stopped about half way in and I just wasn't really that impressed. Visually it's fantastic of course. But the game just ended up feeling like a greatest hits compilation of the Fromsoft library. Not inherently a bad thing but I wasn't a fan of the implementation of certain aspects to it.

I'll get back to it eventually, probably on Steam instead of Game Pass. But to make a comparison, I'd always rather go see new band than a tribute band. I've got a lot of other games in my library I'd rather get around to finishing first. So Lies of P isn't really high priority for me.

Shitpost game that flew under everyone's radar. It's very cool when it wants to be but it's also very dumb.

The setting and characters are so in media res that it feels like the second season of a show where the writing took a noticeable downturn.

Platinum does it again by putting a cool combat system on a Nintendo console exclusively, meaning any combination of perfect dodges and air juggle satisfaction will cause the framerate to dip to 20.

Decidedly leans more RPG than other genre entries with simple skill trees for each of your robot demon partners.

Enemy variety is a step up with lots of targets to make you strategically switch your fighting style, while some enemies border on puzzle with a health bar, it never becomes tedious to expose their weak point and go to town.

Bosses however range from boring to peak Platinum, with the most fun boss in the game being some cyberpunk asshole named Kyle.

The investigation sections and minigames are amusing on a first play, but I can't imagine slogging through them for a Pure Platinum run of hour long levels with a dozen ranked fights.