Lies of P is AMAZING - I Highly Recommend this

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So

recently I've been playing the amazing

Lies of P, an incredible new entry into

the soulslike genre of games. This game

has really blown me away. So in Lies of P,

you'll play as the main character, the

protagonist Pinocchio, who is a human

puppet, and he's searching for his master

Geppetto. A completely original story,

and you'll be exploring the city of Krat,

fighting various mechanical and robotic

enemies. So the combat system and the

fighting mechanics are extremely smooth

and satisfying to play. If you've ever

played a Soulslike like Elden Ring or Dark

Souls, you'll feel right at home with this

game. The control layouts are very similar

to a game like Elden Ring. You've got your

left bumper button which does like a guard

or a block, you got your right trigger

doing heavy attacks, and the right bumper

button doing lighter attacks, with the B

button doing rolls. You also click down

the right thumbstick button to target your

enemy. And the enemy design in this game

is really cool, as you'll see I'm fighting

against these kind of Victorian

British-esque policemen who look like

puppets. They kind of look like robotic

puppets, but they actually bleed, as you

can see all of the red fluid splattering

all over the place. One really cool

feature is how when you fight enemies and

the blood sprays everywhere, it actually

gets onto your clean white shirt and it

kind of makes you look like you're

bloodied up from battle. I think that's a

really cool effect and really helps deepen

the immersion of the game. There's also

some really cool boss battles. For

example, this really big and tall

policeman who's just swinging this massive

club at me. And it's kind of like Elden

Ring or Dark Souls games. You've got to

anticipate his attacks, learn his attack

patterns, and try and block or roll out of

the way and wait for the perfect timing to

do your own attacks. And it is quite

challenging. It took me, I think, 2 goes

before I was able to beat this boss. He

did take me down the first 2 tries, but

after learning from my mistakes, I was

able to utilize my own skills and attacks

take him down, and it felt pretty

satisfying, as you would expect from a

Souls game. And then there was this other

massive boss called the Parade Master who

looked like this mechanical robot kind of

clown jester thing, and it just completely

destroyed me. I managed to get its health

down to maybe 80 or 85% before he

took me out, so I would have to learn his

attack patterns a bit better before I can

attempt to take this guy down more. But

the challenge of having a really difficult

boss or adversary standing in your way and

trying to learn how to defeat it, maybe

power up a bit more and get new abilities

or new equipment to help you is a very

satisfying game mechanic. The game can be

very unforgiving in true Souls-like style,

but it never feels like the game is unfair

or you die because of some unfair mechanic

in the game. Always felt like you died

because you weren't good enough and you

have to get better. I never felt like the

movements of the character or the control

system got in the way of my ability to

either beat an enemy or roll away or

dodge. And if I did get hit in the face,

it's probably my fault because I was too

slow to respond to the enemy's attack.

The atmosphere and the visuals of the game

are very unique, and I have to say are

very stunning. I love the way you're in

this old-looking dystopian apocalyptic

kind of Victorian setting, and it's

raining, and it just looks like something

really bad has happened because

everything's on fire, everything's

destroyed. There's no people around apart

from these weird puppet mechanical robot

things. The sound design and the sounds of

the weather, like the rain and the

enemies' movements— the sound design is

really great. I'll just let you listen to

some of the sound for a bit.

There's a very satisfying squelching

splashing sound whenever you slash at the

enemy and this big splatter of blood comes

flying out. It's very rewarding and feels

great to play. So kind of like in Dark

Souls or Elden Ring, you pick up these

things called Ergos and they act just like

souls. You collect them by defeating

enemies. If you get killed, then you'll

chance to go and recollect them. If you

die again before recollecting them, then

you lose all of them. And once you've

collected quite a lot of Ergos, you can

then go to this shop and spend them on

different items. Right now I don't really

have many things available, but later on

in the game there's going to be much more

variety in terms of weapons and equipment

and potions that you can buy to help aid

you on your quests in the game. And the

weapons are quite interesting. You start

off with a very simple cutlass kind of

saber, but there are other weapons later

on in the game that you can customize and

create your own kind of personal

playstyle. As you can see, there's a lot

of stats on each of the weapons and it can

get quite complicated. So I think there's

great room for customization in terms of

the kind of equipment that you're going to

be choosing from. And if you're really

into stats, then I think there's quite a

lot of things you can get your head stuck

into here. As for the performance of the

game, I feel like the game does run pretty

well and it's very optimized for PC,

unlike some games— hint hint, Starfield.

Okay, my computer is not the best or the

most powerful gaming computer in the

world, and on the default settings I was

struggling to maintain good frame rate. I

was able to maintain maybe 20 to 30 FPS

with my system. I have an RTX 3060, 16GB

of RAM with an Intel i7 10th generation,

and I bought this computer a couple years

ago, so it's not really up to date

nowadays. But I was able to play this game

on high quality settings at around 30 FPS.

But I did go into the settings, and there

are quite a lot of options when it comes

to graphic fidelity settings. As you can

see, there's so many things you can choose

from to make the gameplay much better for

you. I turned on the NVIDIA DLSS to high

performance mode, and I also turned down

the general graphics to low,

and I also turned down the sharpening a

bit. And I was able to get up to 50 FPS,

between 50 and 60 FPS, which made the game

just play so much better. It felt so much

better with this smooth gameplay now.

Okay, the graphics weren't as good as it

was before on default settings, but I

think the game still looks pretty damn

good even on low settings with sharpness

turned down. The lighting effects and the

design of the game just looks really good

even if you're playing on low settings.

Another thing I really like about the

gameplay environment is all of the little

wooden obstacles and little items,

they're all fully destructible and have

ragdoll physics. So you're fighting around

them and enemies flop onto them and

destroy the little wooden crates or the

wooden wagons. And you can attack the

barrels and little things like that and

they explode and fall apart, just kind of

like in Elden Ring or in other Dark Souls

games. The environment is quite

destructive. So yeah, I have to say I am

quite enjoying this game. I think it's a

very good soulslike game and I would

easily recommend this game. I think the

gameplay is solid, the theme and the

setting and the visuals of the game look

great. I think the story is intriguing.

Obviously it's like a reimagining of the

classic Pinocchio tale with puppets and

like a puppet master. I don't know what

the story is going to be like deeper into

the game, but it seems very interesting

and intriguing. The main character looks

pretty cool, and the game really runs

great on a variety of different

performances. It's currently on Steam for

£50 or your regional equivalent, or you

could play it for free on Xbox Gaming Pass

as long as you're paying for like the

subscription for Ultimate Pass. So I

really don't see how you can pass up

playing this game when it's basically

free. Free on Xbox Gaming Pass, which,

you know, I have Xbox Gaming Pass. It's

only £12 a month and you get access to all

these games for free, as long as you're

not impatient and you don't blow a load of

money to buy the early access game, which

I would not recommend paying so much more

money, so much more money just to play the

game, what, 2 days earlier, 3 days

earlier, 5 days earlier? I was stupid and

I bought the premium deluxe digital

version of Starfield, which cost over

$150, just so I could play this stupid

game 5 days earlier, which I'm kind of

salty about even now. I should have just

waited 5 days so I could play the game for

basically free. So yeah, I would think I

could recommend this game, especially

since, you know, it's basically free as

long as you're already paying for Xbox

Game Pass. And you should definitely give

it a try if you liked Elden Ring games or

Dark Souls games or soulslike games in

general. I give it an 8.2 out of 10. Very

good, nice game.