Hands-on preview: Lies of P can’t deny how much it wants to be Bloodborne.
We recently checked out the newly announced demo of the fantasy SoulsborneThere must come a point when making a Soulsborne that a development team has to look at each other and say “I think we’ve referenced one specific game a little bit too much.” In the case of Lies of P, this conversation perhaps happened too late into development.Summer Game Fest
This is a Soulsborne if ever there was one. As soon as we were introduced to the game’s bonfire equivalent, we then wondered what souls would be called in this universe, how the game would gate the boss arenas, and even what the game’s UI looks like when you’re picking up items. There’s homage and then there’s Lies of P.Combat in the game is melee based, with the demo asking you to pick between three styles of weaponry, based on your preferred flavor of attack.
The world itself is beautiful and very inventive. It’s populated by puppets that have gone rogue and seemingly wiped out the entire city of Krat, which blends European architecture with Victorian signage and storefronts. It’s a great setting for a game like this, even if the huge carriages left in the various ditched make it feel even more like it’s trying to emulate Bloodborne.
They don’t seem the smartest, which we suppose is canonically fair enough, but more than once they ran past us completely and became personally acquainted with the pavement below, which we concede could simply be some demo strangeness.
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