You’re Pinocchio, so there’s really no choice to be anyone besides Pinocchio. Lies of P oozes grotesque beauty and these encounters are some of the most solid examples of that.Įven so, it seems one of the few things that Lies of P has to shed from the soulsborne to keep its narrative was character creation. It only gets better from there with creatures and special puppets that feature interesting designs and require unique tactics if you’re going to overcome them. Your very first main boss in the game is a circus ringmaster-like giant of a puppet that eventually pulls off his own head to swing it at your like a club. Lies of P makes up for this somewhat by having bosses and sub boss encounters that are fun and engaging to tackle. There’s a brief stint where you get to take a break from them to fight something new, but even those newer enemies end up being a mostly zombie-like menace of which a few limited varieties are used far too generously. They’re all puppets of some kind, dressed up or armed in one way or another. It feels like you don’t get to see much variety and creativity in Lies of P’s smaller foes. Throughout much of Lies of P, the small fry enemies are a low point of the game. I can’t always say the same about the enemies in the game. There are the Stalkers, who were humans tasked with fighting the puppets should they ever fail, as well as the Church, the Alchemists, and so many more groups and figures that make sure Pinocchio’s journeys through Krat are almost never dull.
Geppetto and Pinocchio are just the tip of the iceberg.
It’s further aided by an interesting menagerie of characters and factions. From the city rooftops, to the puppet factory, down to a forgotten village and cathedral, there is so much grimy beauty throughout the game. The game is absolutely beautiful with picturesque glimpses of the broken city around every turn. There is so much to soak in from Lies of P’s environments. It even plays into the nature of honesty in the original Pinocchio story with options to lie at various important parts of the story and change the course of your narrative. The classic stories of characters like Pinocchio and Geppetto are woven into a unique and grim world of steampunk and magic, in which the nature of the puppets’ creation and the prosperity they brought to Krat takes an ever darker turn as you slay the puppets and save what humans you can. What follows is a dive into the tragedy of Krat, its history, its successes, its failures, and its secrets, and they are all incredibly intriguing to explore. By the time the dust has settled and the blood has dried, Pinocchio is finally awakened and heads out into the city to unravel the mysteries of the rampage. That is, until they suddenly all go berserk at once and begin killing every living thing around them. The city is one in which “puppets” (more like jaunty-looking robotic automatons) tend to its citizens every need. Lies of P takes us to the illustrious city of Krat, where a tragedy has occurred just before our story begins. Lies of P might be about as good as I’ve ever seen a game do at chasing after the soulsborne style, and while it does have scratches in its finish, it’s still polished enough to stand on its own as the real deal. It mixes elements of the classic story of Pinocchio with a deadly outbreak of murder and chaos, as well as a truly interesting weapon crafting system.
Lies of P is perhaps one of the most interesting to try. Every once in a while, we get a game that tries to capture the magic of FromSoftware’s Dark Souls formula on its own terms.
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