Lies of P

Are you equipping two weapons at once, by any chance? It's not overly necessary for most of the game and it does help with weight to only use one.

I played most of the game slightly heavy to benefit from the higher frame parts and attack amulets, with the stamina amulets to cover it. Suited my tanky Motivity build.

And there goes the brotherhood, smashed first time, which is not something that usually happens to me. But there's a time for modesty and this isn't it. I beasted the gits. 

I suspect something bad is coming soon as this has been an uncharacteristically successful session this evening....

Haha, that's exactly what it is, spot on. 

I crossed oceans of time to kill you, Parade Master. I am the monster that breathing men would kill. I am...Dracula.

Currently making my way through the factory. I really like it, but don’t love it yet. Not completely sold on the combat as I don’t feel like blocking or dodging are reliable options (dodging in particular) and my parry game is always lousy. There’s so much that’s very good though so I’m sticking with it and seeing if it clicks. I hope it does.

I do want to walk back my "you don't need to parry" position from earlier, at least a little. Doing it during a boss fight yesterday made it a lot easier (and reminded me of a certain Fallen Archbishop fight where I also used it). But I don't think it's essential by any means, and dodging / blocking works just fine for me.

That's good to know there's upgrades that help with guard regain. I'll make sure to make a beeline for them. Yes I also hate multi-phase boss fights. Just give me a good well designed boss fight with one sodding health bar.

FlexibleFeline Yeah I've unlocked the dodge link and it IS better, but not great.

I'm sure it'll click. There's more than enough here to like.

I read somewhere dodge link described as the "I want to play Bloodborne not Sekiro" perk and that's how it's been for me. Works very well, I don't know if it's build specific.

Anyway, yeah count me in on the two-phase two-health-bar boss fight hate group. Just a terrible, terrible idea.

There is also a 'I fucked up my timing' p-organ upgrade that reduces dodge damage if you are fully committing to that.

The other upgrade I wish I had taken earlier was legion recharge. It means you can freely use it in combat without having to twat around drinking potions so, for my build, I always had puppet string or aegis on tap (and aegis is godlike for clutching out fights).

I definitely get the love for LotF. LotF has a very specific and special atmosphere and it's tantalisingly close to greatness but they blew it (on xbox at least). I'm disappointed about this but the game overall is still far from a disappointment as there is so much that is good about it both in following genre conventions and innovating on them.

Re: Lies of P's linearity, it's actually something I came to really love about the game. It does enough to make you scratch your head and search nooks and crannies without overwhelming you. The factory level is a good example - I was bloody determined to beat that lumbering Puppet of the Future but knew there must be a way to solve an...obstacle to attacking him, let's say, to be intentionally vague. There was, and it was satisfying to solve it and to rinse out the whole level (there are more, if not secrets, then things you could easily miss in the factory).

Same. I feel I never really got my legion arm quite right, and ended up chopping and changing Aegis and Flamberge, and broadly regretting I didn't fully upgrade Puppet String as consensus seems to be this is the best option. Still time to do so, I guess, I've just left a submarine and so am presumably in the final area...and I think I have some unused upgrades. 

Nameless puppet largely went down thanks to puppet string and electric grindstone. I spammed that until he was shocked and then piled on him.

COUGHhe still hasn't beaten IsshinCOUGHCOUGH

(edit: I meant DadFE, just in case)