I played the demo all the way to hotel krat, and thats all i needed to pre order the delux edition. But to see that other people are really enjoying it, makes me even more hype. I been iching for another souls game, and here we are.
I'm at the endgame now and am so floored by the themes of grief, deception and hubris. It scratched so many itches being a Bloodborne/Lovecraft fan and since Pinocchio has been my favorite story since I was 3 years old, and that Lies of P absolutely makes it all the more gruesome without straying too far from the source material. It's now one of my favorite games and will be for a long time. Tight parry window aside, it's definitely the best and most earnest a Souls replica has gotten to date.
Thanks for sharing. I'm playing now, about 15 hours in and really enjoying it but agree about the difficulty spikes. I always look forward to your reviews and hope to see more Lies of P content from you soon!
@@mikerzisu9508 well I like to think I'm a better souls player since Bloodborne but it feels harder I think...I think I'm more understanding of what's required of me as a player now though so the hard difficulty doesn't seem as unfair...most of the time
@@slofiend I will be trying it this weekend for the first time. The biggest difference I can see so far is that dodging seems like it isn't nearly as effective as it was in bloodborne. It looks like blocking, parrying and perfect guard are the way to go in this
100%, dodging doesn't work well at all....that said, I suck at perfect guard and I'm still surviving...I'm in chapter five now, so about halfway through and still enjoying it @@mikerzisu9508
Just a heads up. If you’re backed into a corner like that or in tight corridors you have to switch to or use a rapier or similar so you are making forward thrust instead of wide swings. You weren’t stun locked you were hitting the wall and the sword kept bouncing off. A rapier would easily push the enemies back and actually put them into what could be considered a stun lock.
Switching weapons is very slow in this game, so yes you can but you can be dead before you arm your new weapon. But good point it will push the enemies backwards. I played mainly rapier do I didn't get too much of those unless I would get staggered which is annoying.
Im loving the game, been playing it since last night. The difficulty is there, but I dont feel like its as difficult as any fromsoft game. Im speaking from the position of a souls vet though. I highly suggest that if anyone is thinking about trying this game they should. Its beautiful and fun and the challenge is still there.
You‘re in the beginning, the last bosses are brutal, way harder than in From Softs. So called Souls Vets couldn‘t finish Nioh 1 and 2 or Wo Long. There are huge differences in difficulty levels imho. From Softs are very slow, Sekiro is the exception
@@sensoeirensen I'm 20 hours in. I don't know how long it is, I hope that some of the bosses give me some trouble. I've heard there are some more difficult bosses later in the game. I haven't gotten to them yet though I don't think. I truly don't think it is more difficult than the soulsborne games. And I beat Nioh, no problem, although I didn't care for the game much. Haven't played Nioh 2 or Wo Long and don't really care to, so I can't speak on those games.
@@sensoeirensenI'm a souls vet also and have hundreds of hours in Nioh 1 & 2 but Wo Long was a joke so we wont mention that lol. But which boss in Lies of P gave you trouble? I'm asking because I am going to start my first run and want to see if this statement is true.
The legion arm thing is not a bug, it doesn't upgrade it's ability plus one. It upgrades all the scaling plus one. For instance the fulminis has motivity B, technique D, advance B. With the ring all of those go up by 1
So that is what that does. At first I thought it would give an upgrade level but it didn't do that. I did notice the higher damage but did not know the details.
I’m about finished with my second playthrough of it and I’ve been having such a blast overall. For a small Korean studio, not to mention their first actual game…they managed to really do an incredible job. It’s not perfect, there are some definite issues with boss quality (looking at you Walker of Illusions, Bullshit Rabbit Brotherhood, and Door Guardian) but I truly enjoyed the story, the graphics and soundtrack are top tier, and they managed to design a really intricate and integrated world. My complaints about this game are absolutely minimal. Really looking forward to the DLC and the sequel.
For those who didn't play the demo: The deflection works like Sekiro's, it doesn't disbalance the enemy for a riposte like in BB. Standard block: recoverable hp loss (easy but costly) Perfect guard: no hp loss and build enemy's nonvisible stagger meter. eg. When the Watchman boss does a chain attack, chain deflections are needed. This is the core part of the game and everything else is built around it. The nerfed roll during lock on is to encourage deflection/
@@Wilhelm4131nah bro it’s not just “cheaper” it’s basically free bc I didn’t know this game was coming to gamepass so for me it is free I was already paying gamepass for about 10 other games each about $50 min in price so basically it’s free not just cheaper and I have a ps5 as well so I’m not a a fanboy of either I mainly play on pc
Man i love souls games and this really is a love letter to from software and what a gem we got im on chapter 9 and i do not want this game to end. No matter how much i love playing these games tho im still a noob when it comes to very difficult bosses and for 60 quid i dont want to spend hrs trying to kill a boss so i just have fun 100% the games and cheese my way by every boss if i cant do it on first two trys so i never have stress especially when you can only summon an Ai companion 🤣✌️but i love this genre and Lords of the fallen looking Amazing in the trailers. Its a souls like year for gaming.
So what really surprised me besides how good the game is it only took them a little over 3 years to make the game🤯.. for how good the game is and how polished it is i don't think the 3 year development of the game is getting enough attention and enough credit.. i personally think in the age of 6 to possibly 9 year development periods we are seeing now and the sorry state some of those games are in at release who have far bigger teams at thier disposal we should rly start asking what the hell is going on and what are they doing with all that time and effort?.🤔
I'm near the end of the game, and I'm at 63 hours. People said it only takes 30 hours to beat, I have NO IDEA how that would be possible. I do try to get most items, but not near 100% more like 80-90%, so still not sure how it would be so short. Anyone else near this amount of time played?
I share many of your same experiences and thoughts/feelings of this great game. I decided after some waffling back and forth to give myself to the lies of P and then go back to elden ring after it's DLC as I have not played that since a month after launch.
Nice video, I hope someone already explained the amulet “bug” , is not the built tier but the abilities tier the one that gets upgraded. For example a legion are scaling A with mobility starts scaling S. Got it? 🙌🏼
Boss amulet increases the scaling of the legion arm, not its unlocked abilities according to other videos I watched. Wording seems a bit confusing, as I had though it unlocked abilities too.
I love Elden Ring and it’s arguably the better game overall because it offers so much but I have to admit I prefer the straightforward story telling of Lies of P. I don’t have to google a bunch of lore just to sorta get an idea of what is going on.
On PC with a 3090 it runs perfectly maxed out. On SteamDeck in windows 11 with game pass it also runs great. The game is amazing, only issue is that the perfect block window is really small. It’s not as predictable as let’s say Sekiro. Funny you had to mention about the difficulty of this verses Elden Ring, which was very easy. Lies of P is a true FromSoftware clone…..it’s amazing this is the studios first real game and it’s this good.
Really looking forward to this game. Bad timing though, it arrives next week while I am out of town. I just platinumed Sekiro yesterday so I am hoping that carries over to this game a bit.
I replayed sekiro 5 times, there is a little dejavu with the mechanical hand and movement, but it's not very similar, sekiro will forever be the best game I've ever played.
wow, so I can play this on game pass for pc. A couple of questions:- 1) how good is quest tracking? quest tracking on Elden Ring was terrible. I am not asking for easy mode, but I missed so much on Elden Ring. Inever bumped in to the pot dude (Alexander?) when he was stuck, so completely missed his entire story line. 2) can you make a perma save that you can go back to, and replay content once you realised you f***d up? that upset me in other games, you screw up you deal with the consequences, no re-loading back to 30 mins earlier. 3) the story line, Is it good? not gonna lie, if I was in charge and the devs said we should write a souls like game based on Pinochio, I would laugh them out of the office. 4) if you hit a diffuclty spike, and get slaughtered, can you reload, and re-spec maybe, or level up and go back, or does it mean restarting the game from scratch. 5) is it purely single player? As in othe souls like games you can get invaded by other players, which I was never really a fan of. you have 30 mins free time, you have your goal, some twat spawns and kills you, I have to log off acomplishing nothing, even if you kill them you lost your 30 mins fighting another player. I have a job and a family, time is precious.
The amulet isn’t a “tier” like that it’s the scaling of the legion, easily misread or misunderstood, but I thought the same originally until a friend pointed it out
Tuesday can’t get here soon enough for me..I was wondering if you could share the weapon combo that made The Cyrus Montana you were rocking the other day lol
Looks like DF will finally be excited to cover this game's PC performance in a sea of broken messes (looking at you Jedi Survivor). Cant wait to see Alex's relief and joy covering this game that might finally bring us hope for more AAA like PC games to actually be properly optimized. It is shocking a small studio figured out how to eliminate shader compilation stutters that the bigger studios either can't figure out or are just lazy. To top it all off they really maxed out UE4 with this game on a visual level. I thought this was done in UE5!! Hoping Lords of the Fallen will be a similar polished PC experience! Lies of P could very well be a GOTY contender
I'm putting starfield to the side for now until they optimize it better. Lies of p runs amazing on my 4080. Starfields performance compared to this game is crap. My PC gets a workout running starfield and it shouldn't be with the quality of graphics.. Starfield is fun but they need to fix it.
Dom if you ever need a vid idea, you should do one explaining the difference in difficulty between Elden Ring and other soulsborne games. Because there is A LOT of conflicting information and no consensus on where Elden Ring slots into the difficulty ranking, with opinions (from souls vets) ranging from "it's easily the hardest" to "it's one of the easiest." I'm guessing this means the answer is a complex one.
The thing is that most souls games have a fixed difficulty curve giving you a fair amounts of paths to shape your experience, like grabing very early some broken giant bonk at the cost of having no defense. But in ER you have a much much bigger amount of paths to shape your experiencie. So it may be a very hard game if you play it with some builds, or the easiest one by having early a broken build that kill bosses like they were butter. So, since the game offers you those options early I would say ER is easier, because you have much more ways to cheesee the game since the beginning, but that easy difficulty is only unlocked if you want to take that path, if you chose a more traditional gameplay style you will suffer a lot.
They realized the sheer amount of cheesy bullshit players were gonna metagame and utilize so in an effort to balance it, they in turn gave the bosses more bullshit than in any previous soulslike title they made. That’s why there’s such a discrepancy. And we mostly have the fact that they felt compelled to stoop to the “muh open world” crowd to thank for that
I played most major releases this year so far and I honestly think LoP is a solid contender for GOTY. Starfield was a huge, overrated caramel onion...playing Lies was so refreshing after that half-baked turd.
Is it possible? Another great game in 2023? This game will be epic.. I'm still in Starfield (just in 50hrs and basically beginning), I wanted to go back to Remnant 2 one more time and Hogwarts Legacy around the holidays but I have to find some free time for Pi.. Elden Ring, after 300hrs is something I really want to play one more time but it won't be possible this year because there are soooo many fantastic games. Great, let's buy and play Pinokio :)
I've found a few amulets that have bugs all have been from bosses. Also one thing I really hate is in this game my first attack can be 129 than my next be 549 like what the fuck is up with that
Eh in criticityoi could say the game forced you to play one specific way. Actually the dodge is garbage in this game, you get stun locked which gets you stuck in combos. Your character can at times feel much slower than the opponents creating a feel of unfairness. Boss too often have two phases with two full bars. There are a lot of poijts missing in the review and after 50h not spotting them is strange. However the game is as close as we will get to a dark souls game until a next one comes along. I disagree with the combat feeling fluid though, it's clunky in it's own way to be fair. The movement for instance has breaks in between animations do it breaks the fluidity and creates for long wind ups, unlike dark souls which had a smoother transition. It'd a game engine issue, since Unreal is really more into the shooting meaning the top body and the lower body should move independently. Other than that nice video.
While the game is "decent", it is quite unacceptable that important dodge mechanics that are present in other souls-likes/souls games, are locked away via progression until you get a certain item later on. It makes it feel incredibly clunky until you get those specific unlocks.
I don’t think they do a good job with the two phase bosses. Just give us more difficult one phase bosses. Or have phase 2start at half health or something
I tried the demo awhile back and couldn’t really get a feel for the gameplay. I’m Souls vet with literally a few thousand hours in between the Dark Souls trilogy and Elden Ring, but I never got to play Bloodborne or Sekiro I’ve heard the gameplay is closer to those and the thing I really couldn’t get used to was how useless my dodge felt or the parrying system, anybody got any tips?
Dodge can be enhance with the skill tree and parry have a stricter window than Sekiro so there's no tips other than learning the patterns and tighten your timing for parry. The problem is, boss attacks animations are usually robotic and stiff, even the human bosses. So it's hard to time the parry properly until you get the full timing from the windup to the attack release.
@@SHwoKing thanks, I think the biggest problem I’ve had is the boss’s movement patterns like you mentioned, they’re just not clicking with me, I couldn’t even get past the first one, granted I haven’t spent THAT much time trying. I love the aesthetic though so I’m just gonna have to get back on the demo and practice.
Utilize the perfect guard system - it’s essential. In the same vein, I’d recommend leaning towards heavier blades as they provide a better guard resistance (essentially how much chip damage you receive on a normal block) Note that even normal blocking with heavy blades is certainly a viable strategy due to a similar system to Bloodbornes “rally” where you can regain health after blocking by quickly attacking. You can also upgrade how much health you get back thru upgrades to the P organ There is a notable lack of a poise mechanic, making using heavy weapons more difficult. However, due to the blade / handle system, you can put a high guard resistance blade on a high Dex handle (such as a rapier or glaive) for the best of both worlds.
Wait…no gimmick bosses? What the heck is the Door Guardian? 😂 That’s a gimmick boss if I’ve ever seen one. Not a bad thing, it’s just that ever souls game seems to have one or two of them.
this is exactly what I keep telling people Yes the look is souls like but it has a different feel because it's a different game made by a different company... you got to git gud and learn those mechanics
It's rubbish. The bosses are just elaborate QTEs which you have to memorise. The NPCs and enemies are always in the same places for you to memorise. What a joke ! Your build makes only a small difference to your combat success. All your time spent developing your character with weapon load-outs, buffs and trinkets is gameplay filler. I've seen all types of combat on UA-cam from players using different builds and nobody is OP. The game is linear and totally scripted with player options just a ruse. Just watch how the post-stagger big combo has to be performed standing in a particular red circle. WTF ?! They should have had difficulty settings like so many other games. At least the story is good.
this game is literally no where near the best souls like game ever created xD thats just dishonest or you have literally played no other souls like games.
" I experienced no clunkyness with the combat" Sincerely no offense ment but...how can you say this for a game with 0 recovery frames and poor dodge ?( unless you upgrade it later on after half the campaign) . If UA-cam allowed me i would post a clip from another video where the character gets hit and before he regains controls of the character he get hit again and dies...i can back this up cause i finished the demo....yeah its atmosphere its great but..please tell the truth.. the combat is clunky. People should know what they are getting into
Amazing game so far I’m 10 hours in and it’s def challenging I feel the perfect guard is a little tighter than in the demo or it must be me The lore environments and enemies are awesome
@@stevenjohnson8736You can definitely compare it to dark souls and it's pretty hard as well. At some points it was a bit harder but overall doable if you are a veteran
Souls likes are always harder than true from soft games and since they are always a little bit clunky too I never finish them. Thankfully this is on game pass so I can try it risk free!!
Most of them aren't very good in my opinion. Code vain had potential but it was just boring, and nioh its fun but not that good. Wo Long was fun enough for me to finish the game.
@@NuclearAbyss "nioh its fun but not that good." My intentions are far from starting some kind of idiotic and pointless flame thread, or personally attacking you for only god knows what reasons. But if i have to be honest, having the audacity of considering both Nioh and Nioh 2 as "not that good souls-like games", has to be one of the shittiest takes i've ever seen from quite some time, from when a bunch of From Software haters started to talk shit about Elden Ring during the CNT precisely.
@@jador9641 The world/level design its not very good, the balance of the game its not very good. The end game its very by the numbers, it comes down to equipping the hire lvl gear. Its a good action game, but not 10/10 or even a 9 by a long shot. you might like nioh a lot, but as a souls like it lacks a lot of the best features of souls, level design, music, challenging but fair feeling. So far everything we seen and by the demo, lies of P seems to be one of the best souls likes. with lords of the fallen having a chance at being very fun. but we will have to wait and see.
Nioh 2 is the hardest souls game I have ever played. Some players got stuck in the missions, but the real challenge is the end game content (Depths of the Underworld). Floors 16-30 are the bloodiest and unforgiving souls content for me. I decided to quit since I am getting 1-2 shots dead. I am already satisifed with my achievement and skills so I had to stop. Lies of P is nowhere near Nioh 2 for me.
I didn’t play Elden Ring because the whole knight in shining armor fighting dragons and casting spells do not appeal to me in the slightest. Despite having played Dark Souls 3 before and begrudgingly getting the platinum. Many years before all that, though, I played Bloodborne. And that game is a masterpiece. My first entry into any FromSoft game, I learned how punishing it can be and embraced the fast action and aggressive gameplay, which later would help me with Sekiro. So to walk around Krat, blocking and butchering puppets right now (currently at the workshop, dealing with King Fuocco), is not out of place for me. I do wish they got rid of the weight stat and requirements- they were non existent in Bloodborne, why have them here.
Yeah you did miss a lot. Eldin has some bloodborne elements and places to it. You are really missing out on something epic which we might never experience again
Why many reviewers said this game very good while i think the game is just too bland and boring? Nothing rlly creative than previous souls, i feel the game is too ordinary than future souls like wukong (superior combat) and lord of the fallen (better world design/hav 2 worlds)
@@zinAab79 well darksouls are darksouls theyre same franchise, but ER has massive improvement than previous souls, the openworld, world building, build variety are massive.. Lies of p is just like playing another same soulslike or even downgraded than previous souls with a bit of gimmick, it just boring man. Look at wukong, the graphic, the nature placement are so artistic (elden ring also has art in their world), the fighting also look incredible, the bosses, kungfu tiger etc look awesome, also look at lord of the fallen concept switching between world are so fresh and appealing. This game is just overhyped.
I played the demo all the way to hotel krat, and thats all i needed to pre order the delux edition. But to see that other people are really enjoying it, makes me even more hype. I been iching for another souls game, and here we are.
well you could already play it then with the pre access right?
@@S_F_S mmm idk. i ordered the Physical deluxe edition. ill look into it.
@@NuclearAbyss oh ok I thought you had the digital deluxe
@@S_F_S I looked into it and ya its only for the digital. Its fine tho, I'll wait.
Game pass = free why buy lol
I'm at the endgame now and am so floored by the themes of grief, deception and hubris. It scratched so many itches being a Bloodborne/Lovecraft fan and since Pinocchio has been my favorite story since I was 3 years old, and that Lies of P absolutely makes it all the more gruesome without straying too far from the source material. It's now one of my favorite games and will be for a long time. Tight parry window aside, it's definitely the best and most earnest a Souls replica has gotten to date.
Thanks for sharing. I'm playing now, about 15 hours in and really enjoying it but agree about the difficulty spikes. I always look forward to your reviews and hope to see more Lies of P content from you soon!
Does it feel as hard or harder than bloodborne?
@@mikerzisu9508 well I like to think I'm a better souls player since Bloodborne but it feels harder I think...I think I'm more understanding of what's required of me as a player now though so the hard difficulty doesn't seem as unfair...most of the time
@@slofiend I will be trying it this weekend for the first time. The biggest difference I can see so far is that dodging seems like it isn't nearly as effective as it was in bloodborne. It looks like blocking, parrying and perfect guard are the way to go in this
100%, dodging doesn't work well at all....that said, I suck at perfect guard and I'm still surviving...I'm in chapter five now, so about halfway through and still enjoying it
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Just a heads up. If you’re backed into a corner like that or in tight corridors you have to switch to or use a rapier or similar so you are making forward thrust instead of wide swings. You weren’t stun locked you were hitting the wall and the sword kept bouncing off. A rapier would easily push the enemies back and actually put them into what could be considered a stun lock.
If you think about it that makes sense and is common sense but many haven't thought about it...including me. Good job.
@@2genders-tk2ue thank you friend
Clearing the enemies before trying to open a chest would be a good idea.
Switching weapons is very slow in this game, so yes you can but you can be dead before you arm your new weapon. But good point it will push the enemies backwards. I played mainly rapier do I didn't get too much of those unless I would get staggered which is annoying.
@@RitualCombat lol best defense card in the deck.
Im loving the game, been playing it since last night. The difficulty is there, but I dont feel like its as difficult as any fromsoft game. Im speaking from the position of a souls vet though. I highly suggest that if anyone is thinking about trying this game they should. Its beautiful and fun and the challenge is still there.
You‘re in the beginning, the last bosses are brutal, way harder than in From Softs. So called Souls Vets couldn‘t finish Nioh 1 and 2 or Wo Long. There are huge differences in difficulty levels imho. From Softs are very slow, Sekiro is the exception
@@sensoeirensen I'm 20 hours in. I don't know how long it is, I hope that some of the bosses give me some trouble. I've heard there are some more difficult bosses later in the game. I haven't gotten to them yet though I don't think. I truly don't think it is more difficult than the soulsborne games. And I beat Nioh, no problem, although I didn't care for the game much. Haven't played Nioh 2 or Wo Long and don't really care to, so I can't speak on those games.
@@jrobb2118 bro you started only last night and you've already hit the 20 hour mark?? Go get some sleep!😂😂
@@trinigooner8865 Lol I am good, the game was available early for me last night.
@@sensoeirensenI'm a souls vet also and have hundreds of hours in Nioh 1 & 2 but Wo Long was a joke so we wont mention that lol. But which boss in Lies of P gave you trouble? I'm asking because I am going to start my first run and want to see if this statement is true.
The legion arm thing is not a bug, it doesn't upgrade it's ability plus one. It upgrades all the scaling plus one. For instance the fulminis has motivity B, technique D, advance B. With the ring all of those go up by 1
So that is what that does. At first I thought it would give an upgrade level but it didn't do that. I did notice the higher damage but did not know the details.
The wording on it needs to be fixed because it confuses everyone. I had to look it up to figure out what it did
I’m about finished with my second playthrough of it and I’ve been having such a blast overall. For a small Korean studio, not to mention their first actual game…they managed to really do an incredible job. It’s not perfect, there are some definite issues with boss quality (looking at you Walker of Illusions, Bullshit Rabbit Brotherhood, and Door Guardian) but I truly enjoyed the story, the graphics and soundtrack are top tier, and they managed to design a really intricate and integrated world. My complaints about this game are absolutely minimal. Really looking forward to the DLC and the sequel.
For those who didn't play the demo: The deflection works like Sekiro's, it doesn't disbalance the enemy for a riposte like in BB.
Standard block: recoverable hp loss (easy but costly)
Perfect guard: no hp loss and build enemy's nonvisible stagger meter. eg. When the Watchman boss does a chain attack, chain deflections are needed.
This is the core part of the game and everything else is built around it. The nerfed roll during lock on is to encourage deflection/
My issue was the deflect never felt right, the timing was really waffy
Why are you spamming this EVERY GODDAMN video I watch, I see this exact comment everywhere.
Feels like I'm taking crazy pills...
Right! They could work neowiz or are just hardcore about it lol @@StardustCrusader18
So in other words I’m a hate this game thanks
Thanks for this review, I really trust your judgment. I’m playing Lies of P now, and loving it way more than I thought I would.
Thank you so much for your Super Thanks! 🤩 Lies of P was a great game to play through but unfortunately did not get the love it deserved!
About 5 hours in, played the demo as well.
This game is amazing so far. Deep mechanics, awesome atmosphere and gameplay!
Its free on gamepass! No reason to not play and finish it. Best day one game after starfield two amazing 10/10 games for me
Yes, great that this game is on Game Pass. Would have bought it otherwise.
Already downloaded it.
Just waiting for the 19th
Its not free you still have to pay for game pass its just cheaper
@@Wilhelm4131nah bro it’s not just “cheaper” it’s basically free bc I didn’t know this game was coming to gamepass so for me it is free I was already paying gamepass for about 10 other games each about $50 min in price so basically it’s free not just cheaper and I have a ps5 as well so I’m not a a fanboy of either I mainly play on pc
Man i love souls games and this really is a love letter to from software and what a gem we got im on chapter 9 and i do not want this game to end. No matter how much i love playing these games tho im still a noob when it comes to very difficult bosses and for 60 quid i dont want to spend hrs trying to kill a boss so i just have fun 100% the games and cheese my way by every boss if i cant do it on first two trys so i never have stress especially when you can only summon an Ai companion 🤣✌️but i love this genre and Lords of the fallen looking Amazing in the trailers. Its a souls like year for gaming.
I hear there are summons you can call for help in a boss fight. Is that true?
Yep there are
yea. For now they are only AI but maybe they add coop in the future
Yes, but try to beat the bosses without summons, it just feels better. Summons feel out of place in this game
Yes there are, byt only main bosses, not mini-bosses. If you're unsure whether to buy - there's a free demo, so just try the demo to help you decide.
Yea. There is but weak ass summon sadly
Tip: Use your throwable items. They can do alot of damage especially those tailored to your build.
yep
Throwables carried me through two playthroughs.
Liked and subscribed! I always marvel at these newer channels that are good as older channels.
So what really surprised me besides how good the game is it only took them a little over 3 years to make the game🤯.. for how good the game is and how polished it is i don't think the 3 year development of the game is getting enough attention and enough credit.. i personally think in the age of 6 to possibly 9 year development periods we are seeing now and the sorry state some of those games are in at release who have far bigger teams at thier disposal we should rly start asking what the hell is going on and what are they doing with all that time and effort?.🤔
I'm late to the game and on nameless puppet 😂. I'm gutted I didn't see you do a walkthrough for this as you were my go to for elden ring + dlc 😢. ❤
Got the Deluxe Version cant wait to start it tomorrow thanks for the review Bro
I'm near the end of the game, and I'm at 63 hours. People said it only takes 30 hours to beat, I have NO IDEA how that would be possible. I do try to get most items, but not near 100% more like 80-90%, so still not sure how it would be so short. Anyone else near this amount of time played?
100% better than I'd hoped.
I share many of your same experiences and thoughts/feelings of this great game. I decided after some waffling back and forth to give myself to the lies of P and then go back to elden ring after it's DLC as I have not played that since a month after launch.
Nice video, I hope someone already explained the amulet “bug” , is not the built tier but the abilities tier the one that gets upgraded. For example a legion are scaling A with mobility starts scaling S. Got it? 🙌🏼
Boss amulet increases the scaling of the legion arm, not its unlocked abilities according to other videos I watched. Wording seems a bit confusing, as I had though it unlocked abilities too.
I love Elden Ring and it’s arguably the better game overall because it offers so much but I have to admit I prefer the straightforward story telling of Lies of P. I don’t have to google a bunch of lore just to sorta get an idea of what is going on.
Good or not it's on game pass so I'll at least play it until we get some Elden ring dlc announcements
On PC with a 3090 it runs perfectly maxed out. On SteamDeck in windows 11 with game pass it also runs great.
The game is amazing, only issue is that the perfect block window is really small. It’s not as predictable as let’s say Sekiro. Funny you had to mention about the difficulty of this verses Elden Ring, which was very easy. Lies of P is a true FromSoftware clone…..it’s amazing this is the studios first real game and it’s this good.
Really looking forward to this game. Bad timing though, it arrives next week while I am out of town. I just platinumed Sekiro yesterday so I am hoping that carries over to this game a bit.
I replayed sekiro 5 times, there is a little dejavu with the mechanical hand and movement, but it's not very similar, sekiro will forever be the best game I've ever played.
wow, so I can play this on game pass for pc.
A couple of questions:-
1) how good is quest tracking? quest tracking on Elden Ring was terrible.
I am not asking for easy mode, but I missed so much on Elden Ring. Inever bumped in to the pot dude (Alexander?) when he was stuck, so completely missed his entire story line.
2) can you make a perma save that you can go back to, and replay content once you realised you f***d up? that upset me in other games, you screw up you deal with the consequences, no re-loading back to 30 mins earlier.
3) the story line, Is it good? not gonna lie, if I was in charge and the devs said we should write a souls like game based on Pinochio, I would laugh them out of the office.
4) if you hit a diffuclty spike, and get slaughtered, can you reload, and re-spec maybe, or level up and go back, or does it mean restarting the game from scratch.
5) is it purely single player? As in othe souls like games you can get invaded by other players, which I was never really a fan of. you have 30 mins free time, you have your goal, some twat spawns and kills you, I have to log off acomplishing nothing, even if you kill them you lost your 30 mins fighting another player.
I have a job and a family, time is precious.
2-5 everythings good. 1 what u expect from an open world rpg. U have to compare it with dark souls
Started playing it today and got to where I did when the demo ended. Can't wait to dive in tomorrow.
can´t wait to play, hopefully they fix the bugs after the full release. thanks for the video dom
The amulet isn’t a “tier” like that it’s the scaling of the legion, easily misread or misunderstood, but I thought the same originally until a friend pointed it out
Tuesday can’t get here soon enough for me..I was wondering if you could share the weapon combo that made The Cyrus Montana you were rocking the other day lol
Regarding the performance, did Denuvo give you any trouble?
Also, how does it play on keyboard and mouse?
Thanks!
I’m so excited for this. Thanks for the review
Game is unique in its own right, even though it wears its Souls Like tag proudly.
Looks like DF will finally be excited to cover this game's PC performance in a sea of broken messes (looking at you Jedi Survivor). Cant wait to see Alex's relief and joy covering this game that might finally bring us hope for more AAA like PC games to actually be properly optimized. It is shocking a small studio figured out how to eliminate shader compilation stutters that the bigger studios either can't figure out or are just lazy. To top it all off they really maxed out UE4 with this game on a visual level. I thought this was done in UE5!!
Hoping Lords of the Fallen will be a similar polished PC experience! Lies of P could very well be a GOTY contender
subbed, this game looks incredible, thank you for the review
I would not call it the best souls like game yet but its getting there i kustvmade it to area IV and im loving every bit of it
Looking forward to flitting between this and Starfield 😍 great review as usual Dom! 😊
I'm putting starfield to the side for now until they optimize it better. Lies of p runs amazing on my 4080. Starfields performance compared to this game is crap. My PC gets a workout running starfield and it shouldn't be with the quality of graphics.. Starfield is fun but they need to fix it.
@@jimmytimber7074 Tbh, Starfield has been pretty stutters on console today 🙄
Too slow and clunky enmies are absolute poise machines and ganks everywhere.
I CAN'T WAIT FOR THIS!!
Dom if you ever need a vid idea, you should do one explaining the difference in difficulty between Elden Ring and other soulsborne games. Because there is A LOT of conflicting information and no consensus on where Elden Ring slots into the difficulty ranking, with opinions (from souls vets) ranging from "it's easily the hardest" to "it's one of the easiest." I'm guessing this means the answer is a complex one.
The thing is that most souls games have a fixed difficulty curve giving you a fair amounts of paths to shape your experience, like grabing very early some broken giant bonk at the cost of having no defense.
But in ER you have a much much bigger amount of paths to shape your experiencie. So it may be a very hard game if you play it with some builds, or the easiest one by having early a broken build that kill bosses like they were butter. So, since the game offers you those options early I would say ER is easier, because you have much more ways to cheesee the game since the beginning, but that easy difficulty is only unlocked if you want to take that path, if you chose a more traditional gameplay style you will suffer a lot.
They realized the sheer amount of cheesy bullshit players were gonna metagame and utilize so in an effort to balance it, they in turn gave the bosses more bullshit than in any previous soulslike title they made. That’s why there’s such a discrepancy. And we mostly have the fact that they felt compelled to stoop to the “muh open world” crowd to thank for that
Can you please tell me if you can turn off the HUD ?
Yes you can.
It's crazy that you're not doing Baldurs gate 3 vids. Ride the algorithms wave.
Being honest about “Lies” of P😏
I saw the deluxe edition would allow me to play early and bought it didn’t wanna wait til Monday and I regret nothing
I played most major releases this year so far and I honestly think LoP is a solid contender for GOTY. Starfield was a huge, overrated caramel onion...playing Lies was so refreshing after that half-baked turd.
Love your review ❤ 👍can't wait to buy this beautiful challenging game
Is it possible? Another great game in 2023? This game will be epic.. I'm still in Starfield (just in 50hrs and basically beginning), I wanted to go back to Remnant 2 one more time and Hogwarts Legacy around the holidays but I have to find some free time for Pi.. Elden Ring, after 300hrs is something I really want to play one more time but it won't be possible this year because there are soooo many fantastic games. Great, let's buy and play Pinokio :)
I've found a few amulets that have bugs all have been from bosses. Also one thing I really hate is in this game my first attack can be 129 than my next be 549 like what the fuck is up with that
can one level up before bosses? Or is it like Sekiro/AC6 where one is really stuck with what one has?
I grinded because I wasn't strong enough for the first boss and it worked, I kept doing it and am able to progress.
@@maii87 that's good to hear :-) thank you
I ran into a big mid fight with the white lady and it was like I was a ghost she stop fighting but I couldn't hit her
You read it wrong it give you better scaling with stats unequip it check you legion arm then re equip it and look at the scaling go up
Eh in criticityoi could say the game forced you to play one specific way. Actually the dodge is garbage in this game, you get stun locked which gets you stuck in combos. Your character can at times feel much slower than the opponents creating a feel of unfairness. Boss too often have two phases with two full bars. There are a lot of poijts missing in the review and after 50h not spotting them is strange. However the game is as close as we will get to a dark souls game until a next one comes along. I disagree with the combat feeling fluid though, it's clunky in it's own way to be fair. The movement for instance has breaks in between animations do it breaks the fluidity and creates for long wind ups, unlike dark souls which had a smoother transition. It'd a game engine issue, since Unreal is really more into the shooting meaning the top body and the lower body should move independently. Other than that nice video.
While the game is "decent", it is quite unacceptable that important dodge mechanics that are present in other souls-likes/souls games, are locked away via progression until you get a certain item later on.
It makes it feel incredibly clunky until you get those specific unlocks.
Very great review with important information.
I literally thought I just sucked at the game. Most bosses feel like fighting Malenia or Ornstein/smough for the first time... 3:50
He kicked my arse way more than I was anticipating lol
I don’t think they do a good job with the two phase bosses. Just give us more difficult one phase bosses. Or have phase 2start at half health or something
I tried the demo awhile back and couldn’t really get a feel for the gameplay. I’m Souls vet with literally a few thousand hours in between the Dark Souls trilogy and Elden Ring, but I never got to play Bloodborne or Sekiro I’ve heard the gameplay is closer to those and the thing I really couldn’t get used to was how useless my dodge felt or the parrying system, anybody got any tips?
Dodge can be enhance with the skill tree and parry have a stricter window than Sekiro so there's no tips other than learning the patterns and tighten your timing for parry. The problem is, boss attacks animations are usually robotic and stiff, even the human bosses. So it's hard to time the parry properly until you get the full timing from the windup to the attack release.
@@SHwoKing thanks, I think the biggest problem I’ve had is the boss’s movement patterns like you mentioned, they’re just not clicking with me, I couldn’t even get past the first one, granted I haven’t spent THAT much time trying. I love the aesthetic though so I’m just gonna have to get back on the demo and practice.
players like us have to wait till lords of the fallen. thats our DS4
Utilize the perfect guard system - it’s essential. In the same vein, I’d recommend leaning towards heavier blades as they provide a better guard resistance (essentially how much chip damage you receive on a normal block)
Note that even normal blocking with heavy blades is certainly a viable strategy due to a similar system to Bloodbornes “rally” where you can regain health after blocking by quickly attacking. You can also upgrade how much health you get back thru upgrades to the P organ
There is a notable lack of a poise mechanic, making using heavy weapons more difficult. However, due to the blade / handle system, you can put a high guard resistance blade on a high Dex handle (such as a rapier or glaive) for the best of both worlds.
Game is fantastic but the bosses are a real pain, I'm still progressing though, I'm enjoying the game so much.
Lies of P: is the best souls like
Upcoming Lords of the fallen: Hold my beerl
Nah
bah... i need money... watching this wants me having this game so badly...
game pass is $10 amonth, and you get starfield as well. less than a cup of coffee a week.
@@viciousfish6145 i cant even buy cigarettes right now... :)
Wait…no gimmick bosses? What the heck is the Door Guardian? 😂 That’s a gimmick boss if I’ve ever seen one. Not a bad thing, it’s just that ever souls game seems to have one or two of them.
I think its even better than expected
Exactly.
Is it just me or is this the best optimized game for PC this year. I can't believe the performance I'm getting.
this is exactly what I keep telling people Yes the look is souls like but it has a different feel because it's a different game made by a different company... you got to git gud and learn those mechanics
Hopefully, you let the developers know about the boss reward items being bugged and all the other issues you had.
They aren't bugged. He just didn't understand the way those work
I'm only two hours in, but the game seems easier than any souls-like game I've played so far.
The door guard boss is gimmick boss
Ive played the demo and i really liked it. But i have to ask, is the dodge the same as the demo?
Dodge has a few extra frames now and the parry timers are tighter than they used to be, both are effective, takes a bit of getting used to
Good to know, personally i didnt liked the dodge, and i played a few souls games myself. I'll still wait for a sell and give it a go then
So any good or as good as we hoped. Maybe decide ;-) Two are mutually exclusive ;-)
Motivity or technique?
Did they fix the iFrames and parry timing windows?
The parry timing is pretty tight. Sekiro parry timing is more forgiving. Sekiro is still the more difficult game though imo.
I’ve never r ally played a souls like before and this game is a masterpiece. The setting, combat, choices etc. game is phenomenal
Go play dark souls 3 thats the masterpiece
I absolutely hate the speared enemies. they are my arch nemesis lol
I want to like this game but the controls just seem so slooow.
Been playing since 9 pacific time last night
It's rubbish. The bosses are just elaborate QTEs which you have to memorise. The NPCs and enemies are always in the same places for you to memorise. What a joke ! Your build makes only a small difference to your combat success. All your time spent developing your character with weapon load-outs, buffs and trinkets is gameplay filler. I've seen all types of combat on UA-cam from players using different builds and nobody is OP. The game is linear and totally scripted with player options just a ruse. Just watch how the post-stagger big combo has to be performed standing in a particular red circle. WTF ?! They should have had difficulty settings like so many other games. At least the story is good.
i would appreciate it if you had gave it a score out of 10 cause you could rate it at 7 and still say it's good
This game is really really good!!! I’m loving it !!!
P organ was a bit stiff
They probably will put out a day one patch when it officially drops. Hopefully a dev sees this video about the bug.
Andreus was the hardest boss for me
the game felt like something new after the 3rd boss to me, at first it feels like another souls wanna be
Gamepass we winning
Absolutely love this game. Im 8 hours in its top notch totally worth playing.
Is an incredible game!
this game is literally no where near the best souls like game ever created xD thats just dishonest or you have literally played no other souls like games.
Is there a character creator, or do we have to play as the Femboy?
You are Timothée Chalamet, the young French Willy Wonka 😆
" I experienced no clunkyness with the combat"
Sincerely no offense ment but...how can you say this for a game with 0 recovery frames and poor dodge ?( unless you upgrade it later on after half the campaign) . If UA-cam allowed me i would post a clip from another video where the character gets hit and before he regains controls of the character he get hit again and dies...i can back this up cause i finished the demo....yeah its atmosphere its great but..please tell the truth.. the combat is clunky. People should know what they are getting into
this game looks so amazing
Beautiful game.
this first Demo Boss wasn't enjoyable at all, I really hope the finished game do better with dodging, hit boxes etc
It's exactly the same gameplay as the demo.
@@SHwoKing Nope the hitbox, dodge frame and parry frames are changed
Amazing game so far I’m 10 hours in and it’s def challenging I feel the perfect guard is a little tighter than in the demo or it must be me The lore environments and enemies are awesome
is the gameplay play the same like dark soul or harder
@@stevenjohnson8736You can definitely compare it to dark souls and it's pretty hard as well. At some points it was a bit harder but overall doable if you are a veteran
@@stevenjohnson8736Its not like Dark Souls, uts a mix between Bloodborne and Sekiro
Souls likes are always harder than true from soft games and since they are always a little bit clunky too I never finish them. Thankfully this is on game pass so I can try it risk free!!
Most of them aren't very good in my opinion. Code vain had potential but it was just boring, and nioh its fun but not that good.
Wo Long was fun enough for me to finish the game.
@@NuclearAbyss "nioh its fun but not that good."
My intentions are far from starting some kind of idiotic and pointless flame thread, or personally attacking you for only god knows what reasons.
But if i have to be honest, having the audacity of considering both Nioh and Nioh 2 as "not that good souls-like games", has to be one of the shittiest takes i've ever seen from quite some time, from when a bunch of From Software haters started to talk shit about Elden Ring during the CNT precisely.
@@jador9641 The world/level design its not very good, the balance of the game its not very good. The end game its very by the numbers, it comes down to equipping the hire lvl gear. Its a good action game, but not 10/10 or even a 9 by a long shot.
you might like nioh a lot, but as a souls like it lacks a lot of the best features of souls, level design, music, challenging but fair feeling. So far everything we seen and by the demo, lies of P seems to be one of the best souls likes. with lords of the fallen having a chance at being very fun. but we will have to wait and see.
Nioh 2 is the hardest souls game I have ever played. Some players got stuck in the missions, but the real challenge is the end game content (Depths of the Underworld). Floors 16-30 are the bloodiest and unforgiving souls content for me. I decided to quit since I am getting 1-2 shots dead. I am already satisifed with my achievement and skills so I had to stop. Lies of P is nowhere near Nioh 2 for me.
I didn’t play Elden Ring because the whole knight in shining armor fighting dragons and casting spells do not appeal to me in the slightest. Despite having played Dark Souls 3 before and begrudgingly getting the platinum.
Many years before all that, though, I played Bloodborne. And that game is a masterpiece. My first entry into any FromSoft game, I learned how punishing it can be and embraced the fast action and aggressive gameplay, which later would help me with Sekiro.
So to walk around Krat, blocking and butchering puppets right now (currently at the workshop, dealing with King Fuocco), is not out of place for me. I do wish they got rid of the weight stat and requirements- they were non existent in Bloodborne, why have them here.
Then you missed on one of the best games of all time for having a simple mind .. I feel bad for you
Yeah you did miss a lot. Eldin has some bloodborne elements and places to it. You are really missing out on something epic which we might never experience again
well the "X: is totally lame. FROMSOFT would never do that
It’s not a Fromsoft game. Relax
@@drnkds yeah i know. but wtf were they thinking?
Why many reviewers said this game very good while i think the game is just too bland and boring? Nothing rlly creative than previous souls, i feel the game is too ordinary than future souls like wukong (superior combat) and lord of the fallen (better world design/hav 2 worlds)
We just like Souls man. Sometimes that's all it takes to scratch that itch.
Nothing really creative than previous souls? so basically dark souls sequels and ER, the same formula with small tweaks, and we love them for that.
@@zinAab79 well darksouls are darksouls theyre same franchise, but ER has massive improvement than previous souls, the openworld, world building, build variety are massive.. Lies of p is just like playing another same soulslike or even downgraded than previous souls with a bit of gimmick, it just boring man. Look at wukong, the graphic, the nature placement are so artistic (elden ring also has art in their world), the fighting also look incredible, the bosses, kungfu tiger etc look awesome, also look at lord of the fallen concept switching between world are so fresh and appealing. This game is just overhyped.
This might be a gamepass game ill actually go buy just to support the developers
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