DO NOT BUY Lies of P - Terrible Game

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So

recently I've been playing the brand new

Lies of P, and as an avid fan of Dark

Souls, Elden Ring, and soulslike games in

general, I knew I just had to play this

game. Unfortunately, so far it's been kind

of bland, boring, and uninspiring. So in

comparison to my favorite soulslike game,

which was Elden Ring, this game is kind of

lacking in luster in several departments.

So this game is set in kind of like an

Edwardian Victorian England very gloomy

looking European town, and you are

Pinocchio, a puppet. Yeah, the game story

is based on the traditional Disney tale of

Pinocchio and how he lies. So you play as

Pinocchio and you're searching for your

master or your father Geppetto, and on

this journey you've got to fight against

all of these robotic kind of

puppet-looking policemen. The enemy models

do get kind of tiresome and boring. At

first it was kind of cool, I was like, oh

hey, look, puppet-looking Edwardian

policemen, but then it got kind of

repetitive and tedious. All of the enemies

basically look just the same, and even the

bosses basically look just the same as the

trash mobs but much bigger and much

larger. So this game basically plays

exactly like Elden Ring. So you've got

souls, but in this game they're called

Ergos, and you collect them from defeating

enemies, and you lose them if you die.

And then you have a chance to go and

recollect them where you died, but if you

die before recollecting them, then you

lose them all over again. Very original,

not. And then you can use these Ergo

points at the store to buy new weapons or

to upgrade your weapons or to get potions

and little things like that and gadgets

and amulets and didgeridoos. There's also

like a stargazer thing which is basically

exactly the same as bonfires or Sites of

Grace where you go to either refresh

your potions or you go there to spend your

Ergos to level up and you can choose to

increase your stamina or your vitality or

your HP or your attack power or your

magical power. So basically, just like

Dark Souls games, you've got this very big

leveling up system where you spend points

from killing the enemies, and you also

reset— all the enemies respawn when you

use the Stargazer to reset your potions

and level up. So you constantly have to

fight the enemies and then reset the

enemies, and then if you die, the enemies

respawn, and then you're just basically

fighting in the same areas over and over

again to kind of like farm Ergo so you can

make your character more powerful. In case

you get stuck on the boss and you need to

level up more, you'll just grinding and

grinding and grinding Ergo Points in the

same area and then spending them at the

Stargazer and then respawning all the

enemies again. It's a very tiresome and

tedious process. The game can get very

frustrating, especially when you fight a

boss and then you die and then you have to

run all the way back through all of the

trash mobs to get back to the boss again.

It really is very unforgiving in terms of

where it puts you back when you get

defeated by a boss, and you end up having

to fight through a whole bunch of trash

mobs that you've already fought like 100

times already. It would be really nice if

they just put you at the beginning of the

boss where the boss fight starts. I just

really wish they streamlined the game a

bit more and didn't try to copy Dark Souls

or Elden Ring so much and just placed you

at the beginning of the boss battle again

so you can fight the boss, which is the

main thing you want to do, not just waste

your time on these stupid trash mobs which

don't really pose much of a challenge.

Now, as a gamer, I do like to be mentally

challenged, but I find this game to be not

challenging in the right way. It's just

frustrating. Like, you get completely

swarmed by a load of mobs and they're just

whacking at you, and because the control

system and the movement is not exactly

super responsive or fluid. It does

sometimes feel like you're getting whacked

unfairly because it's not really your

fault that the control system wasn't super

responsive. I found the graphical fidelity

of the game to not be super great, and the

optimization and performance of the game

was not exactly amazing, even on my rig.

I've got a Razer Blade Pro gaming laptop

with RTX 3060 graphics card and 16GB of

RAM running on a Core i7 10th generation.

Now I know this is not exactly the best

specs in the world, and I did buy this

system a couple years But still, this

system was pretty expensive and it really

shouldn't be running this poorly at these

settings. I ran the game on default

settings, which by default it sets onto

high without any DLSS enabled,

and the game was just struggling to run

above 30 FPS. Even in some points it was

running between 20 and 30 FPS, and I had

to turn the game's graphics down to low

and also enable DLSS Hyper High

Performance with sharpening scaled down to

even be able to maintain between 40 and 50

FPS. I found the customization and the

options when it comes to choosing what

kind of gameplay or what kind of combat

style you want to go for didn't really

feel like it was very deep. You can change

weapons and there are a few weapons

available later on in the game, but as of

what I've seen, it's just basically

swordplay with a few magical

electricity-based attacks and there wasn't

a huge amount of customization in

comparison to Elden Ring where the game

basically throws at you like a complete

arsenal of weapons like halberds and

claymores and one-handed swords,

two-handed swords, fists, weapons, whips,

spears, pikes, shields. There were just so

many ways you could play the game in Elden

Ring, and that wasn't even touching on the

magical parts of the game. You could play

as a wizard and use magic and staffs or

staves and wands and stuff like that. And

with the melee in Elden Ring, you could do

like dual wielding heavy swords, dual

wield claymores or spikes. This game, in

comparison to Elden Ring, the melee

options are not as great or not very deep

compared to the amount of customization in

playstyles that you can find in Elden

Ring. And I did find the combat to be

feeling Kind of lacking in luster and felt

like it left more to be desired. At times

I felt like the game played a bit like a

mindless hack and slash where I was just

mashing light attacks with some heavy

attacks, maybe some fist attacks, which

can almost one-shot most enemies and do a

lot of damage. But the enemies just kind

of rushed me and I was just spamming my

attacks and it felt more like I was

playing a Dynasty Warriors hack and slash

game than a slow-paced methodical hack and

slash Souls-like game like Elden Ring.

It's very clunky and slow to move the

character around, especially if you're

carrying too many things. Also, you can't

even make your own character. You kind of

have to play as the character that's in

the game, and I'm not really a big fan of

his looks. I think it's a he, kind of

looks like a she sometimes. I don't know,

these days they like to mix the genders,

don't they? But I'm not really a fan of

the style of the character. He's too

feminine, too like twig-like, not very

strong-looking. I like to play as big,

butch, manly, full of muscles kind of

characters with massive armor and like

massive weapons, and this character is not

really my cup of tea. But I guess some

people might like it. It would have been

nice if you could create your own

character like in Elden Ring or Dark Souls

games. You can always create your own

character and choose your own kind of

outfits and armor styles. But because this

is a heavily story-driven game, then

you're kind of stuck with the main

character and the way he looks, and you

can't really do much customization in that

regard. So for those reasons, I don't

really feel like I can recommend this game

too much. If you're hoping for like a good

soulslike experience and you're not too

fussy, then you might be able to enjoy

this game. But as for me, who has slightly

higher standards compared to Elden Ring.

I found this game to be very shallow and

very lacking. It's a nice attempt to make

a soulslike game, and they have copied a

lot of elements from games like Elden

Ring. And I guess I could give them a pat

on the shoulder for kind of doing a good,

okay job, but it just kind of falls short

for me, and I would have to give it a 6.2

out of 10. I don't really recommend buying

it as of now.