Lies of P

Oh I've done almost no levelling, I got to him without dying and got stuck straight in. In fact I'm not even sure I levelled more than one point. I quite like it though and will put more effort in when it comes out, I don't want to do too much as I won't want to do it all again at launch.

Heh this is a bit good isn't it? Demo is super generous, I'm onto the 3rd boss (I think) about 2 hours in and level 28.

Some niggles;
- some really dodgy floor collision, get stuck on stuff all the time.
- have to pretty much lock on to attack
- can't attack other enemies when locked on
-cant dodge roll when locked on
-not immune when opening doors or getting on ladders
-stupid that you have to go back to the hotel to level even though you could level on the first 'bonfire' before you reach it

Pretty impressed though. It's a really good soulsborne clone, and I like the setting and world.

I beat the first boss then deleted..saw enough that I'll want to play it at some point. Wasn't blown away but it was solid. Re first boss I just found parry to work great once I understood the moves. I wasn't paying attention but it seemed to give me health back like Bloodborne when I went in after taking damage.

Loving this, only played an hour and not defeated first boss yet, but I'm into it, will definitely try and finish the demo. Bit of time until September so hopefully they'll polish it up somewhat and fix the niggles others have mentioned.

Theres 2 different skills mapped to the blade and the handle. I used the rapier for example, the blade uses 3 bars and does a big attack but pressing l1+triangle uses 1 bar and is a parry. Later on you can mix and match so you can have the handle for parrying but the blade part comes from a different weapon.

I'm guessing that it's a forced attempt to get people to come back to the hotel as that's where the blacksmith and p organ upgrades are too in addition to prob meeting new npc's and starting quest lines from there. Just an odd choice to have the first stargazer you see have the ability to level you up and set up that expectation. Might also help if loading times between the world and the hotel were quicker.

New trailer, looks like some bosses in there

Couple of additional location videos too - as expected shows enemies, weapons etc:

Liked the look of this until I found out it’s another souls-like boooooo

Oh well guess on GP it’s still worth a dabble for 1hr until I find it infuriating and delete it like every other souls-like I’ve ever tried lol!

I’ll wait for the sales I think.

Lies of P sounds like me zipping my flies up as an old man.

Zuluhero Reportedly, they did, but I guess you've read that

Pretty much as expected. The "Best Non From Software Souls game" is high praise given how many clones are out there that don't quite capture the magic. Nioh has been the best example of it so far and even that is widly different with it's approach to combat being better while it's levels are worse. I certainly got that feeling going through the demo, perhaps because it plays it's Bloodborne inspirations so closely, but just the way the levels connected, the shortcut porn, it kinda made me forget I wasn't playing a From Soft game for a moment.