We’re now less than a month away from the release of Lies of P, the Soulslike game developed by NEOWIZ. In what is likely to be one of the last interviews before launch, DualShockers spoke with Game Director Choi Ji-won at Gamescom 2023. The developer revealed that multiple playthroughs will be required to fully understand the story. There will also be three different endings, likely based on Pinocchio’s ability to lie in certain instances.
One thing we planned in advance is that you wouldn’t want to just play it once. If you have only played it once, then it’s not complete. We really highly recommend you play it several times.
Basically, there are three endings. But we really, really, really recommend playing the ending until the very, very, very end.
Lies of P was first unveiled with a gameplay teaser released in November 2021. Last June, Francesco got his hands on a preview build and came away positively impressed:
What Lies of P definitely seems to get right even in this early build on PC is performance, which seems to have become a rarity lately with so many broken PC ports. The game not only pre-compiles shaders for a better experience, but it also runs great with no stuttering whatsoever, even with a lot going on, features a lot of graphics options, support for both AMD FSR 2 and NVIDIA DLSS (though not Frame Generation), framerates up to 240 FPS and more. With DLSS at the quality preset and high settings, the game runs at an average of 100 FPS on my system (i7-10700 CPU, RTX 3070 GPU, and 16 GB RAM), so there’s no doubt that the developer did some great optimization work, something that much bigger teams seem unable to do for some reason.
Despite being far from the most original Soulslike I have played, I have to admit I enjoyed my short time with Lies of P way more than I expected. With its unique setting, solid mechanics, good enemy variety, intricate, but not confusing, level design, and promises for bigger things to come as P gets closer to Geppetto and to becoming a real human, Lies of P is setting up to be one of the best Soulslike not developed by FromSoftware in a very long time.
Lies of P will launch on September 19th for PC, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, and Xbox One, although the Digital Deluxe Edition grants owners three days of early access. The game will be included on Game Pass on day one. A collaboration with Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty has already been announced.
