Vidjama Gmaes Work

A Twink Between Worlds.

I picked up Lies of P, and by picked up I of course mean downloaded from Game Pass on my Series S. I played the demo many moons ago and quite enjoyed the aesthetic of the world, the mannequins, and the uh…protagonist. Needless to say even if the game wasn’t launching on Game Pass I’d definitely be there on day one to…rent it from Gamefly on the PS5.

Sorry, I’m still a cheap bastard.

So I’ve been spending the last few hours catching up to where I was in the demo and kinda marveling at how much the game kicked the shit out of me during my earlier playthroughs. After a few months of cooling down from the game’s mechanics I expected it to kick my ass. And it did. The Parade Master killed me a good few times. I actually think I did worse against the Parade Master this time than I did my first playthrough of the demo.

The Mad Donkey I actually managed to kill on my first try with potions left over. Shocking. Somehow my brain over the last few months digested proper parrying etiquette and could get close enough to do back attacks. Or the Xbox controller works better than the PS5 and Steam Deck. I don’t know. I even fared better against that big bastard you get the baton from.

What I do know is that now I just have to take down the Scrapped Watchmen, which shouldn’t be too hard. Yes I plan on using the summon system because I don’t hate myself that much. Well, I do. But I’m still going to cheese this game as much as possible because screw it.

I’m told the game has a skill tree that opens up once you beat the Scrapped Watchmen that helps make the game a little less jank to control. You have to whip out the twink’s P-Organ and fill his slots, and now I know they’re doing this deliberately. Allegedly this lets you customize Pinocchio to your playstyle more, and I’m looking forward to seeing and talking about how it works.

It’s still a lot of fun going through the levels and progressively unlocking faster traveling routes and shortcuts. I have died plenty of times from the mini-bosses and never really feel myself getting frustrated like I do in other games. It says a lot with these Souls-like games where death is swift and comes often, but rarely feels like the game is cheating to kill you. I can usually figure out where I’ve screwed up that got me killed, even if the game does feel a bit unfair at times.

Unless I cave my own skull in with the controller after my guy misses a hit because he swung the sword too close to a wall and it clinked. But that’s enough twink talk for one day.