Played some Lies of P (up until and including the first boss fight before the hotel) at a friend's place. The game seems to provide exactly the "Bloodborne at home" experience I expected out of it. What I played wasn't bad, but also kind of bland (there was nothing memorable about the level design and combat so far).
The first boss took me a few tries. Somehow I kept expecting to be able to cancel at least out of the last few frames of my attacks. Wasn't Bloodborne like that? Somehow the stiffness of the combat really took me off guard.
I would continue playing if I owned the game. But definitely can't say I'm instantly sold on purchasing it myself. Maybe eventually.
blog - scores - collection Don't worry about it. You can travel from the Milky Way to Andromeda and back 1500 times before the sun explodes.
I hate that these "souls-likes" exist. We have From already and that's a thing, but unless your game is better than that, then what's the point. Do something else.
AGermanArtist wrote: ↑Sun Aug 10, 2025 8:10 am
I hate that these "souls-likes" exist. We have From already and that's a thing, but unless your game is better than that, then what's the point. Do something else.
I hate that these "doom-likes" exist. We have Id Software already and that's a thing, but unless your game is better than that, then what's the point. Do something else. Spoiler
I understand the sentiment, but some souls like games are actually really fucking cool, like Nioh or Salt and Sanctuary. Devs do their own things with the ideas. Even the whole "soulslike" as a minigenre is largely just From doing From things and the mainstream didn't catch on until around the time of Demon's Souls and DS1. But From have been doing their From thing since the King's Field games. The whole, deliberate combat. Slow pace. Large world. Punishing environment. Demon's Souls just classed it up a bit with 3rd person camera and some glowy lighting.
There are plenty of shitty soulslikes out there, but that's true for every genre and every subgenre and every sub-subgenre. Metroidvania as a subgenre is wayyyy more full of complete ass garbage than soulslikes.
I'm not gonna defend how fucking ubiquitous soulslikes have been in the games market for the last 15 years, but that's just what happens when normies latch onto trends. It happened with Jojo too, but that doesn't mean Jojo is shit. Jojo is still cool. It just kinda sucks normies know about it now.
