game aesthetic sucks. everything some stupid puppet or nutcracker clown bullshit. oh and of course you got the british cop bot w/ a mustache and billy club. most generic take on the worst aesthetic
We're off to kill the Wizard, the terrible Wizard of Oz. We hear he is a whiz of a wiz if ever a wiz there was. If ever oh ever a wiz there was, the Wizard of Oz is one because because because because because because
because of the sinister things he does. We're off to kill the Wizard, the terrible Wizard of Oz.
>do a speedrun >ignore everthing and everyone one else >ignore all sidequests and NPCs >do no listen to records, ignore telephone calls or anything to rise humanity >let Sophia live >reach Geppetto at the end >only option was to give heart, I could not refuse
so to get the free from strings ending you actually need some humanity then?
then for that ending the pivotal choice is letting Sophia live? there's so much confusing stuff of people saying you have to always tell the truth and that you had to have no humanity to get this ending, but they don't mention this shit about not even getting a final choice to even face nameless puppet
What are you talking about, moron? Fextralife pages are always the most autistically detailed pages.
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Anonymous
The funny part is that Fextralife were the ones saying you needed to tell all truths for that ending and everyone fricking parroted them. Looks like they removed it after the comments started bashing them
Whole record
You'll get a >springs are reacting
type message after it ends
You can run around the hotel and do things while it plays, but it has to play till thr end.
You need lvl 4 >lvl 1 >Your springs are reacting >lvl 2 >Ergo is whispering >lvl 3 >You feel warmth >lvl 4 >Your heart is pounding
You can also interact with the cat to see your lvl, at max lvl P will hug it.
9 months ago
Anonymous
I think you can get away with level 3 to get the true ending. Level 4 for Golden Lie
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>Need max level humanity for LE SECRET weapon >It's actually garbage
I have no idea why the secret weapon is trash and you have to do all that shit to get it.
9 months ago
Anonymous
C/C scaling feels pretty bad, but the blade fable art is pretty good and the moveset is great. I'm going to do a NG+ run with it soon, hopefully the damage doesn't frick me too bad.
9 months ago
Anonymous
Every regular handle is scaling balanced at C/C, only special weapons ever have more total scaling than C/C.
9 months ago
Anonymous
Sure, but the other NG+ weapon is B/B
9 months ago
Anonymous
15% less damage at 100/100 than other weapons with the same base damage. Although now that I compare all of the special weapons' base damages, it has the second lowest base damage behind the umbrella. I guess the only reason to use it is the ability to attack while blocking, but you can use aegis for that.
9 months ago
Anonymous
I think you can get away with level 3 to get the true ending. Level 4 for Golden Lie
I'm aiming for the "normal" ending, that is old man telling you frick you after beating the final boss so may be I only need to reach level 3 humanity? (You feel warmth)
9 months ago
Anonymous
I think only one ending is tied to humanity? To get the ending you're talking about, you just have to spare Sophie, don't know if you even need a certain humanity level. When Gepetto asks you for your heart you just have to refuse, fight the Nameless Puppet, and you get the ending.
The true ending is locked behind max humanity that's really the only requirement for it, and it's not hard to get at all. You also unlock white hair P.
9 months ago
Anonymous
this happened to me
Yeah you need the grey hair
as i said, I didn't do anything ot level humanity so I couldn't even refuse geppetto at the end even though I let Sophia live
9 months ago
Anonymous
Where is that cat??
9 months ago
Anonymous
chilling in different spots around the hotel. on a couch near alidoro, on the second floor on top of that luggage.
Yes. If you stay fully puppet then you're a robot who can't refuse Gepetto. You need humanity to get the option to refuse him. The Rise of P ending needs even more. You don't need gray hair for free from the strings but I think it needs to be long at least.
You guys all have to rush the game and come to every thread talking end game spoilers and shit. Its the same with every game. It sucks. I'm enjoying the game and just got to the dark bunny town or whatever but can't browse at all without being spoiled. Thumbs down. Booo
I was surprised no Stromboli or anything to do with Pleasure Island outside the mad donkey, though I guess they wanted to stay away from the stuff people already know and tackle the things from the books not in the movies
>TFW have over half the records >Every track/song is kino and good
I'd unironically buy the soundtrack or download it if it ever releases on Apple Music or something maybe I'm in the minority but the music in the game is fantastic.
Oh wow, thanks! Now I can just listen to them whenever I want. I'm glad to see others appreciated the OST as much as I did. A lot of good comfy songs to listen to at night, or when it's raining outside.
Fall is coming and it's getting chiller in my town, so good comfy fall/winter music.
Neowiz made the DJMax games so every record is a cover from those games
which is fricking insane because every record is great and feels like it's made just for Lies of P, the P version of Feel is so much better than the DJMax version.
>Most depressing backstory >Kids enjoyed playing with him >He enjoyed playing with the kids >Find one child who is sick and says he misses Murphy >When fighting Murphy he says he misses the children >Wants to get revenge for them >Feels angry and sad >Says he misses the sound of the whistle that the kids would blow around him >When you defeat him he says he feels cold like his friends >Can find the whistle >Blow it outside the boy's window >He thinks it's Murphy coming to visit him >Can get a wooden puppet the kids made for him >Murphy never let go of it
This shit is bugging me so much, does it say anywhere in game what the stalkers were actually originally doing? They had to have been around before the puppet frenzy because the legendary stalker interacted with Carlo so wtf was their job. Fextralife is shit for lore and the other wikis aren't very fleshed out yet.
Melania actually gets naked though, though personally I think Laxa is hotter because she's essentially fight you in her underwear/lingerie. I imagine her and Simon where fricking constantly. She's not a very fleshed out or developed character.
There is "some" lore in the game about her but for the most part none of it is explained. She was a legendary stalker that chose to follow Simon and fell in love with him. Or she believed Simon could fix/save the world/city and was one of the only people to fully overcome the petrification disease to "ascend" basically.
I was ACTUALLY going to take a screenshot of that and post it in the thread so people could tell me who that was. I assumed as well that it was Laxasia BEFORE she turned, but I have no idea. It'd make sense if it was Laxasia, don't know who else it could be. Cecillia maybe? I doubt it though, unless Gepetto cucked Simon and they both loved the same woman.
We know that Simon loved Sophia, but she rejected him, but Sophia mentions her mother had the same ability as her, so maybe Sophia's mother? But the woman in the portrait has brown hair, not blue, so who knows.
I just assumed the photo was Sophia pre-kidnapping and all the ergo/experiments turned her hair blue, which isn't that strange given that P's hair changes too
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Yeah that could be a theory as well, like that's what she looked like before she awakened her powers. You could just compare her face shape or facial features with the woman in the portrait to see if it's really her.
Melania actually gets naked though, though personally I think Laxa is hotter because she's essentially fight you in her underwear/lingerie. I imagine her and Simon where fricking constantly. She's not a very fleshed out or developed character.
There is "some" lore in the game about her but for the most part none of it is explained. She was a legendary stalker that chose to follow Simon and fell in love with him. Or she believed Simon could fix/save the world/city and was one of the only people to fully overcome the petrification disease to "ascend" basically.
>Ergo obtained from Laxasia the Complete. It is packed with immense power.
A treasure hunter may want this rare Ergo.
The Alchemist Adriana was baptized by the elixir and she became the first whole being.
Everything about her was perfect except the fact that her feelings for one person could not be erased.
Simon cucked Laxasia for Sophia only to get cucked by P-man.
>Simon cucked Laxasia for Sophia only to get cucked by P-man.
Makes sense, we know Simon loved Sophia and Luxasia loved Simon, but he obviously didn't care for her the way she cared for him. So both Simon and Laxasia got cucked by people they loved.
Most people were upset that not a single boss weapon had advanced scaling, so you aren't the only one asking that/upset by it. There are only, I think, six advanced scaling weapons in the game.
Flame dagger
Acid spear
Acid greatsword
Electric pizza cutter
Flame sawblade
Electric cudgel/club
One anon last night in the thread said he beat the entire game with the flame dagger, which I thought was kind of impressive considering the damage isn't very good, but it's a fast weapon and you can keep applying burning DoT on bosses/enemies.
>The light adv blades all have a buff that increases the damage by 50%.
Wait...what? Are you fricking serious? I didn't know that. Does it actually tell you that in game because I never saw anything indicating that. I saw where a few weapons have an increased critical hit chance, but that was it.
It's their fable art. It doubles your elemental damage, so it's actually a bit more than a 50% damage boost.
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Oh you're talking about the fable art that BOOSTS elemental damage, yeah I know about that, but didn't know it was a 50% increase, that's quite a lot. I thought it was like some 10% increase.
>Acid greatsword
The greatsword isn't actually advance, you have to use the main special to coat it in acid. It's the carcass hammer thing that's advance in base form.
I don't think the lack of ADV scaling weapons is THAT bad since you can intermix the handles to get the exact elemental weapon you want but I wouldn't have minded 1 or 2 more of em since a good number of them are lategame are weirdly hidden
damn Im so glad I picked the status ailment amulet instead of the weapon. it just makes areas so much faster on repeat playthroughs. not to mention no poison from green man gaming
on ng+3 and i still dont have the complete gepetto and vegnini story trophies, how do? also dont have the play piano perfect tune or whatever. i got the heart pounding in ng and i guess i shouldve played the piano then to get that trophy.
To get the piano trophy you have to go BACK to the hotel AFTER the credits roll and play the piano. It'll be glowing/lit up to indict you can play a perfect piece. If you chose to go right into NG+ you can miss out on that trophy.
To get Gepetto's trophy you have to check his desk/office as well AFTER the credits roll and you go back to the hotel, there is a letter on his desk, and I think that might only be available in the bad ending where you give up your heart to him.
I have no idea how to get Vegnini's trophy, figured you have to solve all the cipher boxes or something to do with Arcalino riddles.
>I have no idea how to get Vegnini's trophy, figured you have to solve all the cipher boxes or something to do with Arcalino riddles.
I got it, you need to talk to Arlecchino in the last trinity room and ask him about Venigni. Not sure if there are prerequisites to unlocking that dialogue. You'll get a toy you need to give to Venigni, and after you do, you get the trophy.
Laxasia was easy, manus was one try easy, nameless puppet was easy. Why did they nerf this game so fricking hard, before the patch i was dying to bosses 10-20 times
I died more to this fat bastard than I did to every other boss, dunno why he filtered me so much.
Beating King of Puppets right after him was like I was in easy mode.
Two Dragons is really fun. Landing the charged R2 deflect and also having it stagger feels amazing. I find it's better for attacks that are heavily telegraphed and heavily delayed due to the initial startup. I just used it on NG+ to wreck swamp monster, the boss you originally get it from.
>P wakes up on the Blue Fairy train >train has no destination >it's status is "Final st" instead of cancelled
it's the little things
I do wonder about that random bloody letter you get that just points out the 9pm train to St Marien though, seemed pointless
>Military Shovel is the ONLY weapon in the game with a SPIN TO WIN move >Hits 11 times with five fable bars
Just thought it was a funny technique, don't know how broken it is. The damage on it isn't all that great, but the fact you can spin in a circle, control the movement/direction, and hit 11 times is funny.
When you do the quest for the gentleman on Rosa Isabella street to find his wife, if you TELL THE TRUTH to him and then come back later, you'll find him dead and can loot the bloody wedding ring off his body. You can only get it if you TELL HIM THE TRUTH and say that his puppet wife didn't love him.
I just imagine he commits suicide as you find him dead in the exact same spot he was standing.
>TELL HIM THE TRUTH and say that his puppet wife didn't love him.
But she did. If you save the test subject guy from Arche Abbey who can read ergo memories, he'll let you read her last words, which was that she loved him.
You discover it later
There's a NPC guy who is a experimental test subject that tires of consuming ego, and he tells you to investigate her body. This is near the end of the game.
>Spoiler
I actually didn't know that. I saved the dude and tried to FRICKING find him but never could, says he's at the entrance to Rosa Isabella street but for the life of me I could not find him at all. It's neat to know that's what happens though.
9 months ago
Anonymous
He's on that bridge where you can hear the French singing
9 months ago
Anonymous
It's misleading, he's actually further along, just before the street where you fought the clown.
9 months ago
Anonymous
Technically it is the right stargazer to teleport to but you need to have opened the shortcut.
this shit was kino because when you first talk to the husband and he mentions having a puppet wife, at this point in the game it's still questionable how "human" a puppet can become besides P, and if you read that message before a lot of the later story beats, it would kind of spoil a lot.. By the time you meet the test subject, it's very clear that they can also become human and so you're now allowed to see the "true" answer of whether or not their love was real
pretty sure he and the butler robot had something to say about it, which then triggers the achievement for getting all of his story. but maybe i am just misremembering
NTA but you know what? I probably didn't get the trophy because I got the fricking bad ending on my first playthrough. I solved all of the riddles and spoke to Archalino or whatever, but since Vagnini dies and is replaced with a puppet in the bad ending, I guess it was too late to speak with him about it.
It was neat that he makes the cure for the disease and the game explains it. I thought it was just getting handwaved that he makes it to keep Antonia going, but after learning who he is of course he can make a cure
It was neat that he makes the cure for the disease and the game explains it. I thought it was just getting handwaved that he makes it to keep Antonia going, but after learning who he is of course he can make a cure
He's an immortal from a secret society of alchemists that wants to rebuild/resurrect the metal angel that they believe is god by collecting all the arms of god that were scattered when the metal angel broke itself apart. He is also the one that created the Ouroboros Eye weapon
P becomes an immortal at the end of the game, which is why he says we have a new "immortal brother" and in a letter he states that he looks forward to running into P on the eternal timeline. Why he was in Krat I have no idea? I'm guessing for the Arm of God or just to observe what would happen with Simon and Ergo.
Yea it's really freaky. I went into NG+ real fast to get the true ending. I think it's because you formed a bond, at least I did, with these NPCs and just knowing what happens is gut wrenching.
Geppetto's letter creeped me the frick out >you killed all these guys and now I want you to stay locked up in this ruined shithole all alone while I create a paradise for us both, love you son, I'm the only one you need 🙂
the bad ending was the last ending I got, and hearing all the replacement puppets calling you Carlo (as if Geppetto was trying to push the point across) while listening to Shadow Flower fricking broke me
There's just something so fricking twisted about it
That's why it's the "bad" ending. It's meant to be dark and depressing, because it is. Everyone is fricking replaced with puppets and Carlo kills everyone and Gepetto basically just wants to build a city of puppets to replace everyone who died.
Gepetto even admits when Carlo died it broke him, so it's no surprise he's insane, also lost his wife as well. He also admits he didn't want any of this to happen, but basically just accepts that it's how things went.
for this ending I only have to get enough humanity for P's hair to grow large right? but not enough for it to turn white later
and then let Sophia live and refuse to give heart to the old man at the end, correct?
Useless puppet = low humanity and not giving Sophia peace
Sorry son = high humanity and giving Sophia peace
9 months ago
Anonymous
It's just based on humanity. I had high humanity and gave her peace but got the normal "free from the strings ending" because it wasn't quite high enough to get the gray hair. It wasn't low enough to lock me into the bad ending though.
9 months ago
Anonymous
Can you get locked into the bad ending? I thought that just requires you giving heart? Do you not get a choice if its too low?
9 months ago
Anonymous
If you have low humanity and you kill Sophia then you're locked into it. I believe that's the only way to get locked into it, as long as you let Sophia live, you can refuse to give Gepetto your heart.
There are three endings, but the true ending with the white hair is tied to high humanity, if you don't have high enough humanity you'll only be able to get one of the other two endings.
9 months ago
Anonymous
low humanity should be just getting the long hair then
I did not even get that in the speed run I did this morning and at the end, the only option was to give your heart to geppetto, could not even refuse
I'm not exactly sure how much humanity I had (the cat let me pet her at least), let Sophia live and told Simon I liberated her (not peace), then refused to give up my heart and that's how I got the ending
On the subject of endings, I'm wondering, does the bad ending play out any differently if you pick to give your heart at the stargazer if you die during the nameless fight, instead of when Geppetto asks for it?
Is gold coin fruit literally just for the dude and his cube? I don't even understand how to use that thing. A lot of fanfare for the tree just for that
The cube is situational at best. You also use them to respec if you want to do that and you use them for a couple side quests like curing Antonia’s petrification disease and ending on good terms with Fox and Cat
There's two blades for each element that have it innately and then 3 more that each have a fable art element buff. I'm not sure if advance effects elements when applied as a buff.
Venigni is great, but sounds like he's on Discord
Others are up and down, it feels like they only did one take for most of them, and the writing feels unedited from the first pass TL
Venigni is great, but sounds like he's on Discord
Others are up and down, it feels like they only did one take for most of them, and the writing feels unedited from the first pass TL
I might be weird or just less critical, but I thought the voice acting was fantastic from the majority of the characters. Gepetto, Vagnini, the puppets, Antonia, etc.
Sophia's VA sounded kind of amateurish though. Simon's VA was pretty good as well.
I liked most of them, especially Vegnini. Sophia and Eugenie was a bit meh for me, the former which confused me considering she was decent as Millicent from Elden Ring
When you do the quest for the gentleman on Rosa Isabella street to find his wife, if you TELL THE TRUTH to him and then come back later, you'll find him dead and can loot the bloody wedding ring off his body. You can only get it if you TELL HIM THE TRUTH and say that his puppet wife didn't love him.
I just imagine he commits suicide as you find him dead in the exact same spot he was standing.
NTA, but I guess I didn't see the message. I saw her corpse next to the stairs, but didn't see any message written in oil.
If that's true then that's really sad, damn. I'm gonna have to go back to the area in-game and see if I can find it/see it.
You discover it later
There's a NPC guy who is a experimental test subject that tires of consuming ego, and he tells you to investigate her body. This is near the end of the game.
I beat it two days ago and I'm still thinking about it. What a fantastic game. If these devs make another I will be auto buying it. Hope it sold enough to warrant another game..
Wonder what their new gimmick would be. The weapon crafting was kind of cool but honestly I used a Boss Weapon for my entire playthrough almost and didn't mess with the assembly just used whatever the default weapon was
Random thought, is "ergo" perhaps a mistranslation? Ego makes more sense, considering it is a core component of a person's personality, part of what makes someone human.
Probably relates to this
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogito,_ergo_sum
>Project Moon games focus on a substance called Cogito and awakening a human's "true" ego >Lies of P focuses on a substance called Ergo and awakening a puppet's ego
Those Koreans sure love making their games about what it means to be truly human, huh? I say this as someone who adores PM games and loved Lies of P, but it's a funny connection.
>Protagonist is named Lewis >Alice is the Sophia/Fire Keeper of the game >Throw down with the trove of monsters they can make out of Wonderland >Could throw some twist where Alice was the Red Queen or White Queen and real Alice is fricking shit up
Run in
Run to back of arena
Quit out
Continue game
They'll all be standing around with no AI
Kill big boi
Win fight
The current speedrun (as far as I know) uses it, works on current patch, even console
>one of the easiest bosses in the game >people are resorting to glitches in order to beat it
What the frick? I beat them on my third attempt and it was piss easy once you realize how the fight works
>save Belle >get Autism or whatever the frick his name was's letter >frick the quest up on purpose to see what happens and tell Belle the truth >go back to Austin >he's gone fully mad, and Belle's dead on the floor >what a sad ending 🙁 >get to post-raided hotel >Belle's there >wat >just keeps repeating the same failstate line until the end
fricking time magic
I killed him at the Relic of Trismestigus after you call him out on his bullshit
I didn't really do anything "evil" as P but man it was so fricking satisfying when he goes "you can't hurt me, you're just a puppet, the frick are you going to do about it?" and then you just shank him and oneshot him. What happens if you let him live?
Wait, why is Trident bad?
I just beat the game with Coil Mjolnir/Explosive Pick, was going through the special weapons and thought it had a real satisfying moveset
Is it the built in critical?
Don't feel bad, I still cant get past Andreus. Granted im doing it pretty half-hearted. Pretty depressed and just not up to playing videogames these days. I also don't really get my rocks off from torturing myself with these kinds of games (prefer other kinds of torture), so I might just summon and hopefully that helps a bit. Wish you could summon other humans in this game, that'd be neat. Wish me luck.
Just summon, anon. And fight his ass second phase.
That's a really cool boss fight because you technically can fight two different fights in phase 2, as his ass behaves differently.
Andreus was a fricking wall for me and past him I never had another issue that couldn’t be overcome after just a few tries. If you want some advice >phase 2 is easier if you focus the monster body instead of the true body. It’s easier to parry in general or at least dodge. His true body is constantly stretching and flailing all over the place >Salamander Dagger tears him apart. Level it up to a decent amount if you can >feel free to summon because if nothing else it gets you to phase 2 faster before the spectre bites it >if you can get him low in his second phase just whip all your thermite at him and finish the thing
Thanks vros. Been getting to his 2nd phase and I do fight the monster face, but I usually die there. I use motivity; rapier handle + greatsword. Only fought him like 15 times so far. Been trying to build up the self-will to go in there and get my shit pushed in. But i've just been playing less punishing games, lol.
Andreus was a fricking wall for me and past him I never had another issue that couldn’t be overcome after just a few tries. If you want some advice >phase 2 is easier if you focus the monster body instead of the true body. It’s easier to parry in general or at least dodge. His true body is constantly stretching and flailing all over the place >Salamander Dagger tears him apart. Level it up to a decent amount if you can >feel free to summon because if nothing else it gets you to phase 2 faster before the spectre bites it >if you can get him low in his second phase just whip all your thermite at him and finish the thing
>>if you can get him low in his second phase just whip all your thermite at him and finish the thing
This advice applies for every boss in the game, just switch to whatever throwable they are weak to.
Swamp monster actually gave me more problems than this fricker. Specifically due to his jump attacks, I could parry the first 2 but the red one was impossible to time correctly.
im shocked the yaoi for this game is so little, you'd think they'd eat these designs up like semen-laced candy but it's been very lacking.
Dollfrickers are also lacking by the way.
I can only write and I'm in such a depressed mood since getting the endings that it's killed my boner But I assure you I WILL write that twink bussy getting split open at some point
Prevented people from turning into carcasses or becoming infected with the petrification disease so their ergo to be harvested by the alchemist god machine, which he intended to hijack for his son resurrection purposes.
Ergo is the coalesced form of human souls. More dead humans meant more Ergo pumped into the air to be collected and absorbed by the P-Organ. I don’t think he counted on Simon Manus using the Puppet Frenzy to suck up a bunch of Ergo for his own purposes
Kind of wish there was a phase 9 for the p-organ (hehe) for NG++ that just completely breaks the game. Give me a reward for beating these fricked bosses 3x times. Stuff like
>Kuro's charm equivalent so you don't take damage from blocking >Double grinder (either swappable or just make it have 2 effects when you use it) >Removes the damage debuff on mismatched handle/blade comboes >Completely remove caps on items in active inventory. >Pulse Cells always heal you to full.
People talking about this game feel like people talking about a fake game.
>You need the grey hairs to get the good ending. >Go pick up the cat to see how much humanity you have >you need to talk to the robot butler to advance the story
How in the FRICK do you people think Trident is better than Proof of Humanity? Do most people just not have Proof of Humanity yet? The only downside is you don't even get Proof of Humanity till the very end of the game, but it's a great NG+ weapon.
I guess Trident is good for a first playthrough since you get it way earlier.
Some people prefer the moveset I assume. I really dont care for the moveset for proof of humanity, even if it completely fricks things up if you stack enough crit.
Trident does more damage and has a better moveset. The running R2 is great and the charged R2 is just as good. The fable art is also faster and more effective.
>Fable art is better
No it isn't, that shitty two part combo on the trident can't compare to fricking LINK SLASHU on Proof of Humanity that hits like 8 fricking times and P literally jumps up and does a sick spin attack as well. The trident fable art is some stab and then jump up and stab downward. It's two fricking hits VS like 8 hits.
In terms of fable art damage/skills, Proof of Humanity trumps Trident, and Proof of Humanity has an art that increases it's crit rate even further. Trident doesn't have that, or I don't think it does anyway.
Learn timings and you won't have to worry about being interrupted. The fable art is really quick, if you time it right you can easily get the whole combo in. You can call it high risk-high reward I guess, frankly I think it's worth it over the trident. You'll get more damage out of Proof of Humanity.
Trident does more damage and has a better moveset. The running R2 is great and the charged R2 is just as good. The fable art is also faster and more effective.
To be fair you never need to level your hp in souls games ever. ALWAYS crank your damage stat, leave hp and stamina. You get more than enough anyway. Levelling hp in souls = instant easy mode.
>you can block red attacks on ng++
I mean it already felt way easier than ng but this is pretty much baby mode now.
Anyone been past ng++? Does it get any harder? I've been facerolling every boss 1st try.
You forgot the dogs with sawblades and grenades for heads.
The clowns explode as part of their comedy routine
The dogs have sawblade heads to assist with chopping down wood for logging
The babies exist for sex education
You forgot the dogs with sawblades and grenades for heads.
>sexy clown girl robots that have bombs in them >those disfigured baby puppets
For what purpose were these even made for?
I also theorized that different puppets were made for different things. You had maid and butler robots which obviously assisted the nobility/rich. You also had entertainment puppets like the clowns and jesters, and you even had military looking style puppets as well. You had police themed looking puppets, puppets with pitchforks who probably helped with farming or some kind, factory type puppets that helped with mining, etc.
Honestly I wish there was more of that. I'd have loved to see like some butler/maid puppets with rivet gun arms or their feet replaced with wheels or some crazy shit.
The animation makes it look like they’re ripping open their chest to expose their core and overload it into an explosive weapon. I don’t think they’re normally supposed to be exploding.
Can someone explain to me what the puppet frenzy actually did?
It’s established that puppets went crazy and ignored their programming, started killing people. Pretty simple.
But it’s later revealed that Romeo was only trying to stop the alchemists and the monsters (carcasses) that had been created. But that doesn’t make sense. Since every single NPC is scared of the puppets, if the puppets wernt attacking humans, like Romeo says if you can understand his dialog, then why are the puppets attacking everyone? Why are they attacking you? Why does Gepetto get you to kill so many puppets if he’s still ultimately in control of them? Why didn’t he send us after the alchemists right away? All Gepetto actually wanted was the Hand of God right?
The story makes 0 sense once the “twists” are revealed.
Romeo and the puppets thought they were saving the city from the petrification disease the Alchemists started (which had already spread too much hence the mindless bloodshed)
Gepetto didn't give a frick about the puppets or controlling them, he wanted a frickton of ergo generated to revive his son with P's heart.
Likely that Romeo and Team Puppet were triggered by Geppetto and thought they were doing good by purging the majority of humans because of the disease and alchemists. In practice they were really just contributing to the ergo surge that both Geppetto and Simon were going for for their own ends.
The puppets could not hurt humans at all due to the Grand Covenant. Geppetto basically flipped the switch off and went "go ham"
I presume they couldn't frick with Geppetto either due to him being the proverbial administrator. What makes Carlo unique is that he was exempt from Law 0 which is partly why Romeo tries to warn him what Geppetto likely had planned for him.
I don’t understand why 90% of the weapons have to be huge. Why not do a 50/50 split or something. So far the only weapons I can tolerate are the starting sabre and rapier.
I used the rapier for over half the game, it was basically the only weapon I could stand and enjoyed using. I mostly ran a DEX build for the entire game and used a DEX scaling weapon. The rapier can get A rank scaling on technique so it's why I stuck with it for most of the game. The only S rank technique weapon I believe is the chinese sword katana.
There aren't many weapons that can get S rank scaling and that was disappointing to me.
>P holds all pole handles near the middle and tip like a fricking moron so they end up having the same if not WORSE range than one handers, but with half the speed
Who the frick came up with this design?
I just got home, sat down, boots up my game... and P has the bone cutter.
I don't remember even acquiring this and I don't recognize where I am. Did I sleep play the game?
Yes, but I don't live with them. My roommate unironically only likes to play Super Mario Bros on the NES and nothing else, as much as I've gotten him to try.
He does specifically love the ambience of Bloodborne and it's one of two games he'll watch me play (the other being RDR2), but he's shown little interest in Lies of P, sadly.
nope that was me you have cute feet
Thank you, I'm glad you came by last night, I trimmed my toenails two nights ago. Thanks for the compliment and the bone saw!
But he's boring sometimes. He was on grinder when I came in, I don't wanna see that! Or he's working on his business, which is most very boring stuff where he's expanded far enough to hire three people do the fun part while he does the boring paperwork as boss and owner.
He's a lawyer, though, so I never can be sure with him.
He'd get offended if you say that, but he also votes Republican and spends his internet time arguing politics with his neighbors on Facebook, so I guess by our standards he is most of the way to normie.
kek really? I saw one guy complaining about that but just assumed he was moronic or it was a "reload the area" type thing. thats perfect, I hope they dont "fix" it
Is the Red Fox telling the truth about Black Cat's condition or are they just scamming you? They do give you their masks, meaning they stopped being stalkers, basically.
>Gets out of the way the second you bump into them >Doesn't lag behind >Doesn't hog my glory by actually killing any of the enemies >Cant die >Follows you perfectly without getting in the way or being annoying
I spared them, if for no other reason than that was an excellent companion mission.
>if you spare Black Cat he points out how you've done nothing but be kind to him despite what they've done >says maybe you can be real friends someday >the Fox knows that Cat isn't really her brother but loves him anyways and is equally as apologetic to you about fricking you over
I didn't like them on my first run but after finding out about their backstory and why they're doing what they do it makes way more sense and they're two of my favorites now.
You don't need to fight them if you give them a Gold Coin Fruit? I feel bad for not trusting the Fox and giving her one now. I didn't give Gold Coin Fruit to anyone in general and I'm pretty sure it's the reason Antonia died in my first playthrough.
Those coins were so useless I just gave them out to whoever asked. The mechanic is gay making me run to tree every time I visit the hotel to farm the coins just to spend them on useless cubes or to sell them for more ergo.
>The mask worn by the Black Cat. It has an internal device that supports fading eyesight. Before the boy who had lost his sight closed his eyes for the last time, he thought of how he had lied that he was her lost younger brother, and how much he wished that it had been the truth.
>The mask worn by the Red Fox. It is a mask of the aristocrats, crafted with sophistication and refinement. After turning her back on her house, her sole interest was her younger brother she had found on the streets. She had sensed the boy's guilt long before, but she accepted him as her sole family.
So they're not actually siblings, Black Cat lied to Fox about being her long lost sibling, while Fox knows/suspects it but cares for him like a little brother anyway.
>if you spare Black Cat he points out how you've done nothing but be kind to him despite what they've done >says maybe you can be real friends someday >the Fox knows that Cat isn't really her brother but loves him anyways and is equally as apologetic to you about fricking you over
I didn't like them on my first run but after finding out about their backstory and why they're doing what they do it makes way more sense and they're two of my favorites now.
the thing that threw me off on the first run is that when she says her brother is going blind (after Victor) he puts on an obviously fake act saying stuff like "are you there?"
Made me not trust them. Werent they apart of the hotel raid anyway?
They were but they very much did not want to, and only did it because the Alchemists promised treatment for Black Cat's sight. Later on they point out that they only give them enough treatment to keep him alive, but never enough to fully cure him so they're forced to do what the Alchemists want or else Black Cat goes blind/dies. When you spare them at the end and give each of them a Gold Coin Fruit, the Fox is excited because it might be enough to fully cure the Cat and they'll finally be able to get the frick out of Krat.
I can forgive them for that, but the one I can't forgive is Alidoro. Man backstabbed everyone in the hotel (Fox and Cat didn't really know any of the hotel NPCs so it wasn't personal to them) and not only that, he specifically hoped Eugenie would die because he found her annoying and hated her gloves. I'm glad that Hugo replaces him if you kill him because I was seriously thinking "I'm going to give up any new boss weapons this run just to kill this motherfricker, but you know what? Worth it." when I killed him, was very relieved and it was cool to see Hugo take up the Alidoro mantle and sell you boss weapons
[...] You don't need to fight them if you give them a Gold Coin Fruit? I feel bad for not trusting the Fox and giving her one now. I didn't give Gold Coin Fruit to anyone in general and I'm pretty sure it's the reason Antonia died in my first playthrough.
Antonia always dies regardless, but if you help with the cure and hand over a fruit, her pain gets relieved, she's a lot more upbeat afterwards and when she does die it's much more of a peaceful death.
So out of curiosity with big post credit spoilers. If an Oz game actually ends up happening, how do you think they will alter certain characters stories and what sort of bosses/monsters will there be?
So if P's hair grew longer does it mean I'll get the lying ending regardless or can I still frick up by being honest?
I don't wanna lie to Eugenie about Alidoro
Nah, it's another "surprise second phase" boss with refilled HP and worse moveset. I'm done for the forseeable time. For everything nice this game does, it does the same horrible shit the Souls series does.
laxasia banishes another scrub to the shitter realm, love to see it
Nah, just tired of bad design. I says it how I sees it. A few other bosses were badly designed, but I pushed through those. Lux is just noise on the screen. The devs won't get any higher praise when they can't fix what their predecessors shit the bed on. It's all so tiresome.
Nah, it's another "surprise second phase" boss with refilled HP and worse moveset. I'm done for the forseeable time. For everything nice this game does, it does the same horrible shit the Souls series does.
I agree but at the same time she was the boss that FINALLY justified using the Specter-heal cube for me.
Git gud. Her first phase is easy and buff with acid which she's weak to. Break her shield in phase 1 aswell to make phase 2 easier then just dodge around like a spastic in phase 2 instead of trying to perfect guard everything aside from the opening which you want to perfect guard all the projectiles and her lunge.
>the Lies of P speedrun involves stabbing your dagger in a completely random spot on the ground in an out of bounds area you're not supposed to be in
How do people find this shit?
>30k players + >at least 10% of them have recording software available >when those 10% of players encounters a bug they record and share online >some pooprunner will see this bug video and check if its easily replicated
It's very simple, for example, on the second day I discovered the skip on the Opera because I was trying since the start of the game to use the jump animation to get over things, so yesterday I watch a speedrunner and what a surprise its part of the main route the skip.
18 minutes if anyone's curious, I did wonder if the booster could let you skip anything, can't wait for it to go to 20mins like Dark Souls' have become. I'm surprised that whole out of bounds area has collision at all, maybe an area you were meant to be able to go through normally?
I'm so fricking annoyed that you only get one chance to kill Alidoro that gets removed for no reason when you accidentally quit out of his dialogue menu. I have to do an entire new playthrough because of that.
Best I can describe how I feel about him is pic related. No where close to based obviously but he just barely stops himself before the dialogue gets too Marvel-y. Kind of wish that his tone was kept in that robotic voice when he first talked to you.
NG+ is fricking HARD dude fueco is filtering me as much as he did the first time. I thought the emphasis in this game of learning every attack would make it easy the second time around but I guess its been too long.
I'd love to be using a +5 Proof of Humanity right now but I COULDN'T FRICKING BUY UNNLIMITED UPGRADE MATERIALS AFTER I BEAT THE GAME. Dear Neowiz, please add this you asiatics so I can stop using my Ouroboros.
After about level 80 the ergo cost to level up basically stops increasing. In souls games the cost grows exponentially so that leveling becomes extremely slow. But lies of P the cost is like 15,000 at level 90 and 16,000 at level 180.
But NG+ enemies and bosses give huge amounts of ergo. Like 50,000+ for late game bosses. I beat the game level 90, I finished NG+ at level 185 and I didn’t farm once, and in ng+ I only died about 5 times in entire playthrough, so I only killed most enemies once.
It’s also dumb how low softcaps are. I had effectively maxxed out effectivness from Health, all 3 damage stats, and my capacity let me equip the strongest defensive gear while using my heaviest weapon that I actually used.
By the end I was leveling up damage stats to gain 1 extra damage per two levels. Since I didn’t need more hp or capacity. The only stat I ignored was stamina since I never had issues with stamina.
While I think its weird you never leveled stamina, I 100% agree soft caps are way too low. By 30 points in a stat your returns go to shit for every stat except maybe capacity which seems to give decent value for quite a while. Even on NG getting your primary damage stat to 40-50 isn't completely unreasonable, but you have no real reason to do so. You get like 20 more attack at 50 than you do at like 35 with S scaling. Its silly.
Small weapons don't need stamina pool they need stamina regen. The best 'stamina' stat is Capacity because it lets you keep your weight low for faster regen or swap a weight ring out for a stam regen ring.
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Even if that was true, with how generous levels are in NG+, you can easily pump both.
>look up guide on how to get free from puppet strings achieve >always tell the truth >let sophia live >tell manus i liberated her (this is was apparently a lie even though i chose let her live) >refuse heart >did all of this >only have the option to give heart, no option to refuse
wtf is this bullshit now i need to do another fricking run
guides are so fricking worthless nowadays there's something else you need to do which i guess i didn't do
Stop conflating truth/lies with meaning anything. Its about being a human. Guides are worthless
Ending 1: grey hair, kill sophia, tell simon, refuse gep
Ending 2: grey hair, kill sophia, lie to simon, refuse gep
Ending 3: do not refuse gep. Any hair fine
Easiest boss in the game, just target his other head and phase 2 is just phase 1 again. I can't believe this guy filtered so many people they had to nerf him.
It’s actually a shit fight because he has a sideswipe move that’s impossible to dodge and almost impossible to parry. I only managed to beat him because I got the aegis and used that whenever he would try to side swipe me.
This game kind of falls apart if you have a decent block weapon and armor
t.just beat manus in 10 minutes with base hp because every time i tried to deflect and missed id still block anyway, taking like 5% damage
Is this what shield users in souls feel? Fricking disgusting.
Nvm, I kicked that cops ass. Just fable fricked him until staggered. After that I'm about almost 2 hours in, it's actually fun. I'm impressed and I'm loving it so far.
NG+ Nameless Puppet is entirely unreasonable. As an experiment i installed the easy mode mod where everything does x2 less damage to you, and he can STILL 2 shot you.
game aesthetic sucks. everything some stupid puppet or nutcracker clown bullshit. oh and of course you got the british cop bot w/ a mustache and billy club. most generic take on the worst aesthetic
>why is this game about mechanical puppets full of mechanical puppets i'm going insane aaaaaa
It's the opposite for me. I really like the puppet designs but the monsters are bland and generic. It really kills the second half of the game
Same here, the carcasses fricking suck and are obviously TLOU inspired.
damn, that sounds like the game might be shit...
Need more opinions from more anons.
I wish they used more of the grim aesthetic. As in the Black Rabbit Brotherhood which is my favorite bossfight so far
Clockpunk is kino you pleb. The game is strongest when it's doing its own thing instead of apeing Bloodborne.
Cute!
god I can never time their blocks.
List of NG+ rings? Is there fap+1?
there's a fap +1 and +2
Is there a list of all dark moon moonstone of covenant locations?
Soulsborne Oz will be kino
Imagine how annoying the Wicked Witch boss fight will be.
>female protagonist
NO
>cute girl who does everything you tell her and can dress up
YES
We're off to kill the Wizard, the terrible Wizard of Oz. We hear he is a whiz of a wiz if ever a wiz there was. If ever oh ever a wiz there was, the Wizard of Oz is one because because because because because because
because of the sinister things he does. We're off to kill the Wizard, the terrible Wizard of Oz.
Whats the tagline boys?
>we're off to see the wizard...
>there is no place like home.
>if i only had a heart.
>do a speedrun
>ignore everthing and everyone one else
>ignore all sidequests and NPCs
>do no listen to records, ignore telephone calls or anything to rise humanity
>let Sophia live
>reach Geppetto at the end
>only option was to give heart, I could not refuse
so to get the free from strings ending you actually need some humanity then?
Yeah you need the grey hair
then for that ending the pivotal choice is letting Sophia live? there's so much confusing stuff of people saying you have to always tell the truth and that you had to have no humanity to get this ending, but they don't mention this shit about not even getting a final choice to even face nameless puppet
the fextralife page explains everything
said nobody ever
What are you talking about, moron? Fextralife pages are always the most autistically detailed pages.
The funny part is that Fextralife were the ones saying you needed to tell all truths for that ending and everyone fricking parroted them. Looks like they removed it after the comments started bashing them
you need to crank up your humanity stat by lying and listening to records
Do you need to listen to the whole record, or can I just select it and move on? I don't want to sit and listen to shitty korean pop shit.
you need to have a nice day actually
Whole record
You'll get a
>springs are reacting
type message after it ends
You can run around the hotel and do things while it plays, but it has to play till thr end.
Autists should be euthanized, except the useful ones like John carmack.
but do I need to at some specific level? you get messages like "The Ergo is whispering" and "your heart is poundng"
You need lvl 4
>lvl 1
>Your springs are reacting
>lvl 2
>Ergo is whispering
>lvl 3
>You feel warmth
>lvl 4
>Your heart is pounding
You can also interact with the cat to see your lvl, at max lvl P will hug it.
I think you can get away with level 3 to get the true ending. Level 4 for Golden Lie
>Need max level humanity for LE SECRET weapon
>It's actually garbage
I have no idea why the secret weapon is trash and you have to do all that shit to get it.
C/C scaling feels pretty bad, but the blade fable art is pretty good and the moveset is great. I'm going to do a NG+ run with it soon, hopefully the damage doesn't frick me too bad.
Every regular handle is scaling balanced at C/C, only special weapons ever have more total scaling than C/C.
Sure, but the other NG+ weapon is B/B
15% less damage at 100/100 than other weapons with the same base damage. Although now that I compare all of the special weapons' base damages, it has the second lowest base damage behind the umbrella. I guess the only reason to use it is the ability to attack while blocking, but you can use aegis for that.
I'm aiming for the "normal" ending, that is old man telling you frick you after beating the final boss so may be I only need to reach level 3 humanity? (You feel warmth)
I think only one ending is tied to humanity? To get the ending you're talking about, you just have to spare Sophie, don't know if you even need a certain humanity level. When Gepetto asks you for your heart you just have to refuse, fight the Nameless Puppet, and you get the ending.
The true ending is locked behind max humanity that's really the only requirement for it, and it's not hard to get at all. You also unlock white hair P.
this happened to me
as i said, I didn't do anything ot level humanity so I couldn't even refuse geppetto at the end even though I let Sophia live
Where is that cat??
chilling in different spots around the hotel. on a couch near alidoro, on the second floor on top of that luggage.
different spot every time you go to the hotel
I've never seen it once!
Yes. If you stay fully puppet then you're a robot who can't refuse Gepetto. You need humanity to get the option to refuse him. The Rise of P ending needs even more. You don't need gray hair for free from the strings but I think it needs to be long at least.
so at what level of humanity should I aim then? I already did 3 laps and finishing the game again is a pain
>speedrun game
>don't understand how game works
God you trannies are moronic.
You guys all have to rush the game and come to every thread talking end game spoilers and shit. Its the same with every game. It sucks. I'm enjoying the game and just got to the dark bunny town or whatever but can't browse at all without being spoiled. Thumbs down. Booo
My wife Angie is better.
I too love plagiarized designs signifying how creatively empty a triple A game company is.
Man they really wanted to make a circus level huh
I was surprised no Stromboli or anything to do with Pleasure Island outside the mad donkey, though I guess they wanted to stay away from the stuff people already know and tackle the things from the books not in the movies
Simon is Stromboli and you go to his island where he turns people into monsters
Stromboli’s the puppet guy, but coach man
Stromboli is named Mangiafuoco in the book, Fuoco is him, though Parade Master also is clearly inspired by him. So he's in the game twice.
I figured the Arcanist stronghold was supposed to be the Pleasure Island parallel
Finally, a quality thread OP.
ok then stay moronic
no u
Shout out to my homie Venigni the realest one out there
best npc in the game
He's a real G, he's actually everything he claims to be
Hope DLC/next game doesn't ruin that.
Does the damage for fable slots mean slots in total, or filled slots?
only EXTRA filled slots
It's so over
Honestly made me sad, she knew you were just a puppet but she treated you like a grandson and acknowledged you as a real person/Carlo.
she was a nice lady
it's a great moment when you listen to that record and "your heart is pounding".
Just like changing haircut after meeting Romeo
Antonia diddled young Carlo and that's fricking based.
>TFW have over half the records
>Every track/song is kino and good
I'd unironically buy the soundtrack or download it if it ever releases on Apple Music or something maybe I'm in the minority but the music in the game is fantastic.
Here's all the records. There's one that isn't obtainable in game, a golden version of Misty E'rA.
https://files.catbox.moe/8d70za.zip
Oh wow, thanks! Now I can just listen to them whenever I want. I'm glad to see others appreciated the OST as much as I did. A lot of good comfy songs to listen to at night, or when it's raining outside.
Fall is coming and it's getting chiller in my town, so good comfy fall/winter music.
My man. You stay comfy anon.
Do you have the other music too? I can't find the track that plays when you find Sophia in the Abbey/the final part of the tower climb
This is everything else. That track is called Monastery.
https://files.catbox.moe/pt30qd.zip
thanks
There's just something about finding out that all of the records are just remixes of tracks from a rhythm game.
Yeah anons said this I think on the first day or even before it came out, but it's also a neat bit of info.
holy shit this is so much worse than the P version
Neowiz made the DJMax games so every record is a cover from those games
which is fricking insane because every record is great and feels like it's made just for Lies of P, the P version of Feel is so much better than the DJMax version.
I've been listening to this Ooh La La ass music for days now.
Why is there 5 trinity vaults? Can't that moron arlecchino count?
>Most depressing backstory
>Kids enjoyed playing with him
>He enjoyed playing with the kids
>Find one child who is sick and says he misses Murphy
>When fighting Murphy he says he misses the children
>Wants to get revenge for them
>Feels angry and sad
>Says he misses the sound of the whistle that the kids would blow around him
>When you defeat him he says he feels cold like his friends
>Can find the whistle
>Blow it outside the boy's window
>He thinks it's Murphy coming to visit him
>Can get a wooden puppet the kids made for him
>Murphy never let go of it
Fricking heavy stuff, made me sad.
Oh shit that quest was bugged or missable so I didn't get it on my first run. I need to go see if it's fixed
Would be cool if you kept the whistle between runs and could play it during the fight on NG+ for some reaction.
fricking huge picture
rip
>Thought she'd pass away while playing the piano
>Could have been a kino moment
>She doesn't
Do you keep your piano skills and hair in NG+?
hair yes, pia no
Heh
This shit is bugging me so much, does it say anywhere in game what the stalkers were actually originally doing? They had to have been around before the puppet frenzy because the legendary stalker interacted with Carlo so wtf was their job. Fextralife is shit for lore and the other wikis aren't very fleshed out yet.
They were armed bodyguard for elite people.
Sweepers were bodyguards for nobility, Bastards were outsiders who came with the Alchemists. Pretty much mercenaries/thugs.
>Most badass weapon in the game
>Devs for some reason didn't make an obtainable boss weapon
>Everyone wanted it though
nah that'd be the eldest rabbit's buster sword.
should be a 50 durability weapon
Reminder that the Black Rabbit girl a cute
Man I wish we got those
>strips in her 2nd phase
>filters gazillions
She's basically Malenia 2.0
Melania actually gets naked though, though personally I think Laxa is hotter because she's essentially fight you in her underwear/lingerie. I imagine her and Simon where fricking constantly. She's not a very fleshed out or developed character.
There is "some" lore in the game about her but for the most part none of it is explained. She was a legendary stalker that chose to follow Simon and fell in love with him. Or she believed Simon could fix/save the world/city and was one of the only people to fully overcome the petrification disease to "ascend" basically.
Simon has a portrait of a woman on his desk next to his will, she doesn't look like laxasia but maybe...
I was ACTUALLY going to take a screenshot of that and post it in the thread so people could tell me who that was. I assumed as well that it was Laxasia BEFORE she turned, but I have no idea. It'd make sense if it was Laxasia, don't know who else it could be. Cecillia maybe? I doubt it though, unless Gepetto cucked Simon and they both loved the same woman.
We know that Simon loved Sophia, but she rejected him, but Sophia mentions her mother had the same ability as her, so maybe Sophia's mother? But the woman in the portrait has brown hair, not blue, so who knows.
I just assumed the photo was Sophia pre-kidnapping and all the ergo/experiments turned her hair blue, which isn't that strange given that P's hair changes too
Yeah that could be a theory as well, like that's what she looked like before she awakened her powers. You could just compare her face shape or facial features with the woman in the portrait to see if it's really her.
>Ergo obtained from Laxasia the Complete. It is packed with immense power.
A treasure hunter may want this rare Ergo.
The Alchemist Adriana was baptized by the elixir and she became the first whole being.
Everything about her was perfect except the fact that her feelings for one person could not be erased.
Simon cucked Laxasia for Sophia only to get cucked by P-man.
>Simon cucked Laxasia for Sophia only to get cucked by P-man.
Makes sense, we know Simon loved Sophia and Luxasia loved Simon, but he obviously didn't care for her the way she cared for him. So both Simon and Laxasia got cucked by people they loved.
I don't get why they didn't do it. It would be the perfect weapon for Advance/Motivity builds.
On that topic why in the frick are there ZERO Advance scaling boss weapons?
Most people were upset that not a single boss weapon had advanced scaling, so you aren't the only one asking that/upset by it. There are only, I think, six advanced scaling weapons in the game.
Flame dagger
Acid spear
Acid greatsword
Electric pizza cutter
Flame sawblade
Electric cudgel/club
One anon last night in the thread said he beat the entire game with the flame dagger, which I thought was kind of impressive considering the damage isn't very good, but it's a fast weapon and you can keep applying burning DoT on bosses/enemies.
The light adv blades all have a buff that increases the damage by 50%.
>The light adv blades all have a buff that increases the damage by 50%.
Wait...what? Are you fricking serious? I didn't know that. Does it actually tell you that in game because I never saw anything indicating that. I saw where a few weapons have an increased critical hit chance, but that was it.
It's their fable art. It doubles your elemental damage, so it's actually a bit more than a 50% damage boost.
Oh you're talking about the fable art that BOOSTS elemental damage, yeah I know about that, but didn't know it was a 50% increase, that's quite a lot. I thought it was like some 10% increase.
>Acid greatsword
The greatsword isn't actually advance, you have to use the main special to coat it in acid. It's the carcass hammer thing that's advance in base form.
Oh you're right, it has no advanced scaling, which is moronic because one of it's fable attacks coats the blade in acid.
I don't think the lack of ADV scaling weapons is THAT bad since you can intermix the handles to get the exact elemental weapon you want but I wouldn't have minded 1 or 2 more of em since a good number of them are lategame are weirdly hidden
It's all ogre now
That's about everything I wanted to do in this game, catch you guys on the flip side, maybe when a trailer for Lies of D comes out
Why do you have so much ergo what the frick dude?
NG+ and higher shit out Ergo. I'm level 264 halfway through the swamp in NG++.
damn Im so glad I picked the status ailment amulet instead of the weapon. it just makes areas so much faster on repeat playthroughs. not to mention no poison from green man gaming
on ng+3 and i still dont have the complete gepetto and vegnini story trophies, how do? also dont have the play piano perfect tune or whatever. i got the heart pounding in ng and i guess i shouldve played the piano then to get that trophy.
To get the piano trophy you have to go BACK to the hotel AFTER the credits roll and play the piano. It'll be glowing/lit up to indict you can play a perfect piece. If you chose to go right into NG+ you can miss out on that trophy.
To get Gepetto's trophy you have to check his desk/office as well AFTER the credits roll and you go back to the hotel, there is a letter on his desk, and I think that might only be available in the bad ending where you give up your heart to him.
I have no idea how to get Vegnini's trophy, figured you have to solve all the cipher boxes or something to do with Arcalino riddles.
thank you. though i couldve sworn ive done all cryptic vessels and riddles in ng and heard vegnini talk about alerchino or whatever
>I have no idea how to get Vegnini's trophy, figured you have to solve all the cipher boxes or something to do with Arcalino riddles.
I got it, you need to talk to Arlecchino in the last trinity room and ask him about Venigni. Not sure if there are prerequisites to unlocking that dialogue. You'll get a toy you need to give to Venigni, and after you do, you get the trophy.
The most blatant korean marketing.
Laxasia was easy, manus was one try easy, nameless puppet was easy. Why did they nerf this game so fricking hard, before the patch i was dying to bosses 10-20 times
most of those bosses you mentioned didn't even get nerfs, you just got better at the game
Same. Fricking long flame was my hardest boss. I’m so ashamed.
Games are supposed to be fun.
Exactly. If they’re too easy they’re no fun.
I died more to this fat bastard than I did to every other boss, dunno why he filtered me so much.
Beating King of Puppets right after him was like I was in easy mode.
You have to fight another one but hes easier the second time lol
He’s easy, just tiresome cause he’s health bar is so large. It’s a battle of attrition.
Two Dragons is really fun. Landing the charged R2 deflect and also having it stagger feels amazing. I find it's better for attacks that are heavily telegraphed and heavily delayed due to the initial startup. I just used it on NG+ to wreck swamp monster, the boss you originally get it from.
>P wakes up on the Blue Fairy train
>train has no destination
>it's status is "Final st" instead of cancelled
it's the little things
I do wonder about that random bloody letter you get that just points out the 9pm train to St Marien though, seemed pointless
>Military Shovel is the ONLY weapon in the game with a SPIN TO WIN move
>Hits 11 times with five fable bars
Just thought it was a funny technique, don't know how broken it is. The damage on it isn't all that great, but the fact you can spin in a circle, control the movement/direction, and hit 11 times is funny.
uroboros eye is pretty fun
Welcome to Hotel Krat
I wonder if he says anything different if you give him the bloody wedding ring instead of the regular one
>bloody wedding ring
How do you get that?
When you do the quest for the gentleman on Rosa Isabella street to find his wife, if you TELL THE TRUTH to him and then come back later, you'll find him dead and can loot the bloody wedding ring off his body. You can only get it if you TELL HIM THE TRUTH and say that his puppet wife didn't love him.
I just imagine he commits suicide as you find him dead in the exact same spot he was standing.
Brutal. Wonder what happens if you give the receptionist the bloody ring instead
>TELL HIM THE TRUTH and say that his puppet wife didn't love him.
But she did. If you save the test subject guy from Arche Abbey who can read ergo memories, he'll let you read her last words, which was that she loved him.
>Spoiler
I actually didn't know that. I saved the dude and tried to FRICKING find him but never could, says he's at the entrance to Rosa Isabella street but for the life of me I could not find him at all. It's neat to know that's what happens though.
He's on that bridge where you can hear the French singing
It's misleading, he's actually further along, just before the street where you fought the clown.
Technically it is the right stargazer to teleport to but you need to have opened the shortcut.
this shit was kino because when you first talk to the husband and he mentions having a puppet wife, at this point in the game it's still questionable how "human" a puppet can become besides P, and if you read that message before a lot of the later story beats, it would kind of spoil a lot.. By the time you meet the test subject, it's very clear that they can also become human and so you're now allowed to see the "true" answer of whether or not their love was real
no dialogue with Vegini after you kill the puppet that killed his parents
pretty sure he and the butler robot had something to say about it, which then triggers the achievement for getting all of his story. but maybe i am just misremembering
NTA but you know what? I probably didn't get the trophy because I got the fricking bad ending on my first playthrough. I solved all of the riddles and spoke to Archalino or whatever, but since Vagnini dies and is replaced with a puppet in the bad ending, I guess it was too late to speak with him about it.
you get the dialogue with both of them after you give venigni the doll from him
So is the game actually good or not?
It is genuinely good, well worth playing, amazed it was day 1 goypass
Yeah it's incredible. Story and gameplay were on point. Makes me sad for the garbage lore fromsoft games had after BB
I hate this b***h so much, it's unreal.
Not as much as ch8 Cookie Monster, but still...
What's his endgame?
He wants to get to the goth club and find a nice girl to dance with
To produce more immortal twink brothers
FRICK ALCHEMISTS
NO SUCH THING AS A GOOD ALCHEMIST
It was neat that he makes the cure for the disease and the game explains it. I thought it was just getting handwaved that he makes it to keep Antonia going, but after learning who he is of course he can make a cure
Who is he exactly? I got the secret ending but I didn't really understand what was happening. It kind of implies that he is the same as P?
He's an immortal from a secret society of alchemists that wants to rebuild/resurrect the metal angel that they believe is god by collecting all the arms of god that were scattered when the metal angel broke itself apart. He is also the one that created the Ouroboros Eye weapon
P becomes an immortal at the end of the game, which is why he says we have a new "immortal brother" and in a letter he states that he looks forward to running into P on the eternal timeline. Why he was in Krat I have no idea? I'm guessing for the Arm of God or just to observe what would happen with Simon and Ergo.
To be the Nick Fury of the Fairy-tale Universe of Games from asiatics (FUGG)
The aftermath/post game hotel of the bad ending made me feel uneasy compared to most horror stuff and I don't fricking know why...
Yea it's really freaky. I went into NG+ real fast to get the true ending. I think it's because you formed a bond, at least I did, with these NPCs and just knowing what happens is gut wrenching.
Your wish is my command, Sir Carlo
Geppetto's letter creeped me the frick out
>you killed all these guys and now I want you to stay locked up in this ruined shithole all alone while I create a paradise for us both, love you son, I'm the only one you need 🙂
the bad ending was the last ending I got, and hearing all the replacement puppets calling you Carlo (as if Geppetto was trying to push the point across) while listening to Shadow Flower fricking broke me
There's just something so fricking twisted about it
That's why it's the "bad" ending. It's meant to be dark and depressing, because it is. Everyone is fricking replaced with puppets and Carlo kills everyone and Gepetto basically just wants to build a city of puppets to replace everyone who died.
Gepetto even admits when Carlo died it broke him, so it's no surprise he's insane, also lost his wife as well. He also admits he didn't want any of this to happen, but basically just accepts that it's how things went.
I just wanted everyone to be happy... ;_;
Yes
for this ending I only have to get enough humanity for P's hair to grow large right? but not enough for it to turn white later
and then let Sophia live and refuse to give heart to the old man at the end, correct?
For Rise of P you need high humanity and to give Sophia peace (so Carlo gets white hair)
high humanity = white hair then?
I think the white hair is dependent on what you do with Sophia. Giving her peace being what leads to white hair
Only if you have high enough humanity. Giving her peace without high enough humanity doesn't give you the hair.
Useless puppet = low humanity and not giving Sophia peace
Sorry son = high humanity and giving Sophia peace
It's just based on humanity. I had high humanity and gave her peace but got the normal "free from the strings ending" because it wasn't quite high enough to get the gray hair. It wasn't low enough to lock me into the bad ending though.
Can you get locked into the bad ending? I thought that just requires you giving heart? Do you not get a choice if its too low?
If you have low humanity and you kill Sophia then you're locked into it. I believe that's the only way to get locked into it, as long as you let Sophia live, you can refuse to give Gepetto your heart.
There are three endings, but the true ending with the white hair is tied to high humanity, if you don't have high enough humanity you'll only be able to get one of the other two endings.
low humanity should be just getting the long hair then
I did not even get that in the speed run I did this morning and at the end, the only option was to give your heart to geppetto, could not even refuse
In English we should say his hair grows "long" not "large".
I'm not exactly sure how much humanity I had (the cat let me pet her at least), let Sophia live and told Simon I liberated her (not peace), then refused to give up my heart and that's how I got the ending
On the subject of endings, I'm wondering, does the bad ending play out any differently if you pick to give your heart at the stargazer if you die during the nameless fight, instead of when Geppetto asks for it?
did you let Sophia live for the free of strings ending?
Is gold coin fruit literally just for the dude and his cube? I don't even understand how to use that thing. A lot of fanfare for the tree just for that
You also use it to respec.
Oh ok, neat
The cube is situational at best. You also use them to respec if you want to do that and you use them for a couple side quests like curing Antonia’s petrification disease and ending on good terms with Fox and Cat
There's two blades for each element that have it innately and then 3 more that each have a fable art element buff. I'm not sure if advance effects elements when applied as a buff.
thoughts on the voice acting in thia game?
Venigni is great, but sounds like he's on Discord
Others are up and down, it feels like they only did one take for most of them, and the writing feels unedited from the first pass TL
I might be weird or just less critical, but I thought the voice acting was fantastic from the majority of the characters. Gepetto, Vagnini, the puppets, Antonia, etc.
Sophia's VA sounded kind of amateurish though. Simon's VA was pretty good as well.
I liked most of them, especially Vegnini. Sophia and Eugenie was a bit meh for me, the former which confused me considering she was decent as Millicent from Elden Ring
Arlecchino is an incredible standout. He makes the other VAs look bad. I like Sophia too though.
What did this dude mean by calling P an awakened brother or whatever?
P is an Immortal like him, P(aracelsus)
Joined the cool immortality club of which there are multiple routes toward.
>The dead puppet women who writes in oil how she loves her human husband before she dies
This fricking game, man
NTA, but I guess I didn't see the message. I saw her corpse next to the stairs, but didn't see any message written in oil.
If that's true then that's really sad, damn. I'm gonna have to go back to the area in-game and see if I can find it/see it.
You discover it later
There's a NPC guy who is a experimental test subject that tires of consuming ego, and he tells you to investigate her body. This is near the end of the game.
I beat it two days ago and I'm still thinking about it. What a fantastic game. If these devs make another I will be auto buying it. Hope it sold enough to warrant another game..
Wonder what their new gimmick would be. The weapon crafting was kind of cool but honestly I used a Boss Weapon for my entire playthrough almost and didn't mess with the assembly just used whatever the default weapon was
Random thought, is "ergo" perhaps a mistranslation? Ego makes more sense, considering it is a core component of a person's personality, part of what makes someone human.
Probably relates to this
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogito,_ergo_sum
Nah, it isn't. They use both throughout the game without mix up. It's just a homage to Ergo Cogito Sum. You need to start THINKING before you exist.
>Project Moon games focus on a substance called Cogito and awakening a human's "true" ego
>Lies of P focuses on a substance called Ergo and awakening a puppet's ego
Those Koreans sure love making their games about what it means to be truly human, huh? I say this as someone who adores PM games and loved Lies of P, but it's a funny connection.
To be honest this gave me chills and I'm excited to see where it leads.
>Tfw if we get a third game we go to Alice
kino is on the horizon lads
>Protagonist is named Lewis
>Alice is the Sophia/Fire Keeper of the game
>Throw down with the trove of monsters they can make out of Wonderland
>Could throw some twist where Alice was the Red Queen or White Queen and real Alice is fricking shit up
Frick that, I'm not buying unless I'm playing as Alice.
stop spamming your weird hentai game
>mfw I just glitch Black Rabbits 1 now and go on my merry way
Frick that fight lmao
Vid?
Run in
Run to back of arena
Quit out
Continue game
They'll all be standing around with no AI
Kill big boi
Win fight
The current speedrun (as far as I know) uses it, works on current patch, even console
this is what people do to the abyss watchers, down to the lack of AI activating. kek
>one of the easiest bosses in the game
>people are resorting to glitches in order to beat it
What the frick? I beat them on my third attempt and it was piss easy once you realize how the fight works
There isn't a single black person in Krat... It's refreshing.
>white male protagonist who looks good
>game sells like hotcakes
I wonder how many characters will be turned black in the eventual Non-Fromsoft Bloodborne remake.
There are Asians, which is as moronic as black people being there
Not when they're there explicitly to justify the best weapon in the game being a katana. Plus the devs themselves are Korean.
Oh yeah, I forgot about that nothing character. They should’ve replaced her with a vending machine.
>Miss Belle on my first playthrough
>Find her in NG+
>Tell her the truth
>actually doesnt get you the record
NG++ here I come
>save Belle
>get Autism or whatever the frick his name was's letter
>frick the quest up on purpose to see what happens and tell Belle the truth
>go back to Austin
>he's gone fully mad, and Belle's dead on the floor
>what a sad ending 🙁
>get to post-raided hotel
>Belle's there
>wat
>just keeps repeating the same failstate line until the end
fricking time magic
It's called LIES of P man
It freaked me the frick out seeing Alidolo again lol. If you beat the game you know what I mean.
I don't, because I put my sword through that snake as soon as it was an option
I killed him at the Relic of Trismestigus after you call him out on his bullshit
I didn't really do anything "evil" as P but man it was so fricking satisfying when he goes "you can't hurt me, you're just a puppet, the frick are you going to do about it?" and then you just shank him and oneshot him. What happens if you let him live?
>want to use other legion arms
>can’t because the aegis is too good and I’ve dumped too many upgrade points into it
You dont have the puppet string maxxed? why? its clearly the best arm
I never used the puppet string, I loved the falcon eyes just for that dodge shot alone
>I'm a One Winged Angel!
>Duel of Fates theme
How am i supposed not to laugh at this shit
How do I give Sophia peace? By plapping her blue haired baby oven?
>12 FRICKING HOURS
I DID IT BROS!
You mean 12 hours in total to get to that point, right? Not that the fight took 12 hours. Because that would be embarrassing.
Honestly it was more like 4 with large breaks between coming to a total of 12 hours
>trident
Anon, I'm sorry but... you didn't actually beat it.
>NOOOOOOOOOO YOU DIDN'T USE THE HECKING WEAPON I DID
Actually have a nice day
Wait, why is Trident bad?
I just beat the game with Coil Mjolnir/Explosive Pick, was going through the special weapons and thought it had a real satisfying moveset
Is it the built in critical?
Huge base damage with crit chance.
Just you wait until you fight the nameless puppet
>maybe this is what real freedom feels like. thanks, carlo...
Don't feel bad, I still cant get past Andreus. Granted im doing it pretty half-hearted. Pretty depressed and just not up to playing videogames these days. I also don't really get my rocks off from torturing myself with these kinds of games (prefer other kinds of torture), so I might just summon and hopefully that helps a bit. Wish you could summon other humans in this game, that'd be neat. Wish me luck.
Just summon, anon. And fight his ass second phase.
That's a really cool boss fight because you technically can fight two different fights in phase 2, as his ass behaves differently.
Thanks vros. Been getting to his 2nd phase and I do fight the monster face, but I usually die there. I use motivity; rapier handle + greatsword. Only fought him like 15 times so far. Been trying to build up the self-will to go in there and get my shit pushed in. But i've just been playing less punishing games, lol.
Andreus was a fricking wall for me and past him I never had another issue that couldn’t be overcome after just a few tries. If you want some advice
>phase 2 is easier if you focus the monster body instead of the true body. It’s easier to parry in general or at least dodge. His true body is constantly stretching and flailing all over the place
>Salamander Dagger tears him apart. Level it up to a decent amount if you can
>feel free to summon because if nothing else it gets you to phase 2 faster before the spectre bites it
>if you can get him low in his second phase just whip all your thermite at him and finish the thing
>>if you can get him low in his second phase just whip all your thermite at him and finish the thing
This advice applies for every boss in the game, just switch to whatever throwable they are weak to.
you clearly do not want to be playing this game and no one asked about your shitty depressing life
Literally one of the easiest bosses except for that one BS move he does like once
Swamp monster actually gave me more problems than this fricker. Specifically due to his jump attacks, I could parry the first 2 but the red one was impossible to time correctly.
For me it's the Shovelnir and the Live Baton
So was the puppet frenzy indiscriminate or was that Romeo killing all the diseased people?
Carlo and Romeo were so fricking homo, they definitely fricked
no wonder they got petrification aids or whatever
im shocked the yaoi for this game is so little, you'd think they'd eat these designs up like semen-laced candy but it's been very lacking.
Dollfrickers are also lacking by the way.
I can only write and I'm in such a depressed mood since getting the endings that it's killed my boner
But I assure you I WILL write that twink bussy getting split open at some point
can you give sophia peace and still gove geppetto your heart?
Yes
I wish more of the cryptic vessels were like the hermits. I was surprised when there was more to do than just open a chest.
Anon that's a mouse
I thought the content of my post would provide enough context.
That's a mouse you moron.
why the frick would you use a mask in this game? homie is beautiful
I wish there were more accessories that didn't cover his face, P is so fricking cute, I don't want to hide it behind ugly masks
>not a single glasses option
Venigni's shades doesn't count.
Why the frick would anyone wear anything other than the box art outfit? They clearly chose it because it looks the best.
nah, officer drip is unmatched
Because Venini da Panini's drip exists. Those shades alone were worth the deluxe edition dosh.
I kept reading it as vengini at first before hearing ot pronounced.
It’s Ve-NIG-ni
I still pronounce it ven-jeye-knee whenever I see him.
When does P get Long hair?
So, is this game selling well? im loving it and i hope we get more of it.
>cheevo for getting all normal weapons
>cheevo for getting all boss weapons
>no cheev for all amulets
>no cheev for all costumes
ogey
>2 more of these frickers pop up out of nowhere
>1 falls from the ceiling
>no cheev for all costumes
i think thats because some costumes were locked behind paywall
alright let's dial back the gay a little
no
sooo why did gepetto wanted to kill humans?
>did wanted
Because they're ESL morons like you
Prevented people from turning into carcasses or becoming infected with the petrification disease so their ergo to be harvested by the alchemist god machine, which he intended to hijack for his son resurrection purposes.
Ergo is the coalesced form of human souls. More dead humans meant more Ergo pumped into the air to be collected and absorbed by the P-Organ. I don’t think he counted on Simon Manus using the Puppet Frenzy to suck up a bunch of Ergo for his own purposes
Does Sophia have a weird back posture or is it me? It's like someone kicked her in the back and broke it
I thought she might be pregnant at first but I think it might have something to do with how her dress hangs off her? Dunno
she looks hunch backed because of the thick coat hanging off her shoulders
Kind of wish there was a phase 9 for the p-organ (hehe) for NG++ that just completely breaks the game. Give me a reward for beating these fricked bosses 3x times. Stuff like
>Kuro's charm equivalent so you don't take damage from blocking
>Double grinder (either swappable or just make it have 2 effects when you use it)
>Removes the damage debuff on mismatched handle/blade comboes
>Completely remove caps on items in active inventory.
>Pulse Cells always heal you to full.
Shit like that.
I mean, phase 7 is already pretty damned meaty with good upgrades. Block fury attacks, weight tier -1 and extra amulet are all rad.
People talking about this game feel like people talking about a fake game.
>You need the grey hairs to get the good ending.
>Go pick up the cat to see how much humanity you have
>you need to talk to the robot butler to advance the story
It's what we call "soul".
Christ I hate those fricking dual-wield spiked club Jester puppets so much
I've ran into two so far and there's always been Carcass enemies next to it. Just bait them into fighting each other then get in some cheese hits.
How in the FRICK do you people think Trident is better than Proof of Humanity? Do most people just not have Proof of Humanity yet? The only downside is you don't even get Proof of Humanity till the very end of the game, but it's a great NG+ weapon.
I guess Trident is good for a first playthrough since you get it way earlier.
Some people prefer the moveset I assume. I really dont care for the moveset for proof of humanity, even if it completely fricks things up if you stack enough crit.
>Fable art is better
No it isn't, that shitty two part combo on the trident can't compare to fricking LINK SLASHU on Proof of Humanity that hits like 8 fricking times and P literally jumps up and does a sick spin attack as well. The trident fable art is some stab and then jump up and stab downward. It's two fricking hits VS like 8 hits.
In terms of fable art damage/skills, Proof of Humanity trumps Trident, and Proof of Humanity has an art that increases it's crit rate even further. Trident doesn't have that, or I don't think it does anyway.
>get poked once through the slow shitty animation
nice combo there and wasted fable charges
>Muh Super armor
Learn timings and you won't have to worry about being interrupted. The fable art is really quick, if you time it right you can easily get the whole combo in. You can call it high risk-high reward I guess, frankly I think it's worth it over the trident. You'll get more damage out of Proof of Humanity.
Whatever nerd. Trident simply feels better to play and has higher base damage with better movesets.
Trident does more damage and has a better moveset. The running R2 is great and the charged R2 is just as good. The fable art is also faster and more effective.
Hunter's Amulet increases in 5% the Ergo gain, 5%, what an useless amulet
>did all of act 6,7 and 8 on ng++ in the time it's taken Aris to still not beat swamp monster
i thought this guy was good at games
He chose the most gimped build to play with, not upgrading his vitality and sticking with the low damage umbrella
To be fair you never need to level your hp in souls games ever. ALWAYS crank your damage stat, leave hp and stamina. You get more than enough anyway. Levelling hp in souls = instant easy mode.
he's unironically bad at most games
He's DSP for stoners, he was never good at games
Would it be gay if I took a picture of P to my hairdresser and asked for his haircut?
Yes
Why is P able to lie? Why does he look human? Why wasn’t he affected by rule 0 or the grand covenant?
Because he's Carlo.
They have to be programmed to follow it when they're created, Gepetto didn't program it into him because he felt it would be disrespectful to Carlo.
because sneeds belonged formerly to chucks
>you can block red attacks on ng++
I mean it already felt way easier than ng but this is pretty much baby mode now.
Anyone been past ng++? Does it get any harder? I've been facerolling every boss 1st try.
I don't want to ruin it forever but sooner or later people are going to start calling Fable Arts FArts so it may as well be my fault
i just farted irl
>sexy clown girl robots that have bombs in them
>those disfigured baby puppets
For what purpose were these even made for?
You forgot the dogs with sawblades and grenades for heads.
Yeah those too. Like was there like some kind of an underground robo dog fighting ring going on in not!france or something?
The clowns explode as part of their comedy routine
The dogs have sawblade heads to assist with chopping down wood for logging
The babies exist for sex education
I also theorized that different puppets were made for different things. You had maid and butler robots which obviously assisted the nobility/rich. You also had entertainment puppets like the clowns and jesters, and you even had military looking style puppets as well. You had police themed looking puppets, puppets with pitchforks who probably helped with farming or some kind, factory type puppets that helped with mining, etc.
It's reasonable to assume after frenzy the puppets started modifying themselves, since we already know they were making more of their own.
Honestly I wish there was more of that. I'd have loved to see like some butler/maid puppets with rivet gun arms or their feet replaced with wheels or some crazy shit.
The animation makes it look like they’re ripping open their chest to expose their core and overload it into an explosive weapon. I don’t think they’re normally supposed to be exploding.
I wish I had a gf puppet
More like Hotel Krap amirite fellas?
>TFW getting my ass kicked by Victor in NG+
Damn that's sad, Victor is like the easiest. Huge windups and the widest dodge windows in the game.
Victor shouldn’t even qualify as a boss, are you for real?
Can someone explain to me what the puppet frenzy actually did?
It’s established that puppets went crazy and ignored their programming, started killing people. Pretty simple.
But it’s later revealed that Romeo was only trying to stop the alchemists and the monsters (carcasses) that had been created. But that doesn’t make sense. Since every single NPC is scared of the puppets, if the puppets wernt attacking humans, like Romeo says if you can understand his dialog, then why are the puppets attacking everyone? Why are they attacking you? Why does Gepetto get you to kill so many puppets if he’s still ultimately in control of them? Why didn’t he send us after the alchemists right away? All Gepetto actually wanted was the Hand of God right?
The story makes 0 sense once the “twists” are revealed.
git gud
Romeo and the puppets thought they were saving the city from the petrification disease the Alchemists started (which had already spread too much hence the mindless bloodshed)
Gepetto didn't give a frick about the puppets or controlling them, he wanted a frickton of ergo generated to revive his son with P's heart.
Likely that Romeo and Team Puppet were triggered by Geppetto and thought they were doing good by purging the majority of humans because of the disease and alchemists. In practice they were really just contributing to the ergo surge that both Geppetto and Simon were going for for their own ends.
The puppets could not hurt humans at all due to the Grand Covenant. Geppetto basically flipped the switch off and went "go ham"
I presume they couldn't frick with Geppetto either due to him being the proverbial administrator. What makes Carlo unique is that he was exempt from Law 0 which is partly why Romeo tries to warn him what Geppetto likely had planned for him.
I don’t understand why 90% of the weapons have to be huge. Why not do a 50/50 split or something. So far the only weapons I can tolerate are the starting sabre and rapier.
I used the rapier for over half the game, it was basically the only weapon I could stand and enjoyed using. I mostly ran a DEX build for the entire game and used a DEX scaling weapon. The rapier can get A rank scaling on technique so it's why I stuck with it for most of the game. The only S rank technique weapon I believe is the chinese sword katana.
There aren't many weapons that can get S rank scaling and that was disappointing to me.
Well that's why they put in daggers for little peepee pisspiss boys like you.
Actually women can only feel 4 inches of a penis so my penis isn’t small, it’s the perfect size.
You shouldn't believe everything your father tells you.
>P holds all pole handles near the middle and tip like a fricking moron so they end up having the same if not WORSE range than one handers, but with half the speed
Who the frick came up with this design?
never enjoyed hammers in souls games but LoP coil mjolnir is so fricking fun
Anyone else laugh at loud at the sequel bait? I didn't expect it at all.
It made me smile and get chills honestly, absolutely unexpected but I think it has a shitton of potential
Yeah it genuinely took me off guard. I am totally down for Fableborne
I beat the first boss first try. Did people really have that much trouble with it?
First boss?
no. He’s quite easy.
I have a co-worker that still hasn't beaten it. He's been trying since the demo originally came out. He needs to quit playing games period.
Just tell him to summon
Yeah, took me a bunch of times, I'm not expert
long grey hair >= short hair > long black hair
Why does the game waste my time with shitty one shot kill butlers? Give me a fricking challenge!
I just got home, sat down, boots up my game... and P has the bone cutter.
I don't remember even acquiring this and I don't recognize where I am. Did I sleep play the game?
Do you have siblings? I caught my brother playing my game late at night after he decried it as gay.
Yes, but I don't live with them. My roommate unironically only likes to play Super Mario Bros on the NES and nothing else, as much as I've gotten him to try.
He does specifically love the ambience of Bloodborne and it's one of two games he'll watch me play (the other being RDR2), but he's shown little interest in Lies of P, sadly.
Thank you, I'm glad you came by last night, I trimmed my toenails two nights ago. Thanks for the compliment and the bone saw!
Monitor your roommate closely
But he's boring sometimes. He was on grinder when I came in, I don't wanna see that! Or he's working on his business, which is most very boring stuff where he's expanded far enough to hire three people do the fun part while he does the boring paperwork as boss and owner.
He's a lawyer, though, so I never can be sure with him.
>this level of normalgay
Fricking disgusting.
He'd get offended if you say that, but he also votes Republican and spends his internet time arguing politics with his neighbors on Facebook, so I guess by our standards he is most of the way to normie.
nope that was me you have cute feet
P's perfectly small suckable penis
PLAP
STAB STAB STAB STAB STAB
GET DEAD GET DEAD GET DEAD GET DEAD GET DEAD
She looks like she fricks puppets
I got so much satisfaction from murdering her brother
Wait, is Victor supposed to be really fricking easy?
I got him first try
yeah the boss balance in this game is all over the place
yes. He is aggressive and never lets up but his timings are all really honest and predictable
I'm so glad that the true ending boss has no summon, forcing people to git gud.
Spamming those electric throwables at him when he stops moving to explode in his second phase also wrecks his shit
>turns out everyone beat the game
kek really? I saw one guy complaining about that but just assumed he was moronic or it was a "reload the area" type thing. thats perfect, I hope they dont "fix" it
>Can't get your own Black Rabbit Brotherhood gear
Is the Red Fox telling the truth about Black Cat's condition or are they just scamming you? They do give you their masks, meaning they stopped being stalkers, basically.
Telling the truth. At the end of the game they dont want to fight and both ask for golden fruit. Fox girl hopes this may cure him outright
Frick 'em, should have helped me with the Brotherhood if they wanted something of mine
but Anon they helped you part of the way with the pitiable damage!
>Gets out of the way the second you bump into them
>Doesn't lag behind
>Doesn't hog my glory by actually killing any of the enemies
>Cant die
>Follows you perfectly without getting in the way or being annoying
I spared them, if for no other reason than that was an excellent companion mission.
You don't need to fight them if you give them a Gold Coin Fruit? I feel bad for not trusting the Fox and giving her one now. I didn't give Gold Coin Fruit to anyone in general and I'm pretty sure it's the reason Antonia died in my first playthrough.
Those coins were so useless I just gave them out to whoever asked. The mechanic is gay making me run to tree every time I visit the hotel to farm the coins just to spend them on useless cubes or to sell them for more ergo.
They were being legit
The description for his mask confirms it.
>The mask worn by the Black Cat. It has an internal device that supports fading eyesight. Before the boy who had lost his sight closed his eyes for the last time, he thought of how he had lied that he was her lost younger brother, and how much he wished that it had been the truth.
>The mask worn by the Red Fox. It is a mask of the aristocrats, crafted with sophistication and refinement. After turning her back on her house, her sole interest was her younger brother she had found on the streets. She had sensed the boy's guilt long before, but she accepted him as her sole family.
So they're not actually siblings, Black Cat lied to Fox about being her long lost sibling, while Fox knows/suspects it but cares for him like a little brother anyway.
>if you spare Black Cat he points out how you've done nothing but be kind to him despite what they've done
>says maybe you can be real friends someday
>the Fox knows that Cat isn't really her brother but loves him anyways and is equally as apologetic to you about fricking you over
I didn't like them on my first run but after finding out about their backstory and why they're doing what they do it makes way more sense and they're two of my favorites now.
the thing that threw me off on the first run is that when she says her brother is going blind (after Victor) he puts on an obviously fake act saying stuff like "are you there?"
Made me not trust them. Werent they apart of the hotel raid anyway?
They were but they very much did not want to, and only did it because the Alchemists promised treatment for Black Cat's sight. Later on they point out that they only give them enough treatment to keep him alive, but never enough to fully cure him so they're forced to do what the Alchemists want or else Black Cat goes blind/dies. When you spare them at the end and give each of them a Gold Coin Fruit, the Fox is excited because it might be enough to fully cure the Cat and they'll finally be able to get the frick out of Krat.
I can forgive them for that, but the one I can't forgive is Alidoro. Man backstabbed everyone in the hotel (Fox and Cat didn't really know any of the hotel NPCs so it wasn't personal to them) and not only that, he specifically hoped Eugenie would die because he found her annoying and hated her gloves. I'm glad that Hugo replaces him if you kill him because I was seriously thinking "I'm going to give up any new boss weapons this run just to kill this motherfricker, but you know what? Worth it." when I killed him, was very relieved and it was cool to see Hugo take up the Alidoro mantle and sell you boss weapons
Antonia always dies regardless, but if you help with the cure and hand over a fruit, her pain gets relieved, she's a lot more upbeat afterwards and when she does die it's much more of a peaceful death.
Hugo switching masks was an actual jumpscare
they are not lying
In the original tale of Pinocchio, the cat pretends he is blind, to which Lies of P takes a step further and makes him actually blind.
So out of curiosity with big post credit spoilers. If an Oz game actually ends up happening, how do you think they will alter certain characters stories and what sort of bosses/monsters will there be?
Lion, tinman and scarecrow will be the main bosses
What if they make a soulsborne with a 4 man party?
I want to kiss P's tummy.
So who are H and Lumacchio in Medoro's notes?
H is probably short for Alidoro's true name.
So if P's hair grew longer does it mean I'll get the lying ending regardless or can I still frick up by being honest?
I don't wanna lie to Eugenie about Alidoro
Need silver hair P to get the true ending
Not lying to her is fine if you don't want to
there's a bit of leniency, listen to records and lie as much as possible but you can fudge a few
>Laxasia
The fun stops here. I don't think it's worth a second playthrough, bros.
Summon, lube up your weapon with some fire and go cube yourself and you'll walk through it, promise
Nah, it's another "surprise second phase" boss with refilled HP and worse moveset. I'm done for the forseeable time. For everything nice this game does, it does the same horrible shit the Souls series does.
skilliest issuest
Nah, just tired of bad design. I says it how I sees it. A few other bosses were badly designed, but I pushed through those. Lux is just noise on the screen. The devs won't get any higher praise when they can't fix what their predecessors shit the bed on. It's all so tiresome.
>yfw
these fricken AI images are a laugh man
I agree but at the same time she was the boss that FINALLY justified using the Specter-heal cube for me.
skill issue
just use iframes when the enemy attacks to avoid damage
worst boss in the game for sure
Git gud. Her first phase is easy and buff with acid which she's weak to. Break her shield in phase 1 aswell to make phase 2 easier then just dodge around like a spastic in phase 2 instead of trying to perfect guard everything aside from the opening which you want to perfect guard all the projectiles and her lunge.
Just beat her first try on ng++
laxasia banishes another scrub to the shitter realm, love to see it
God, the Live Puppet's axe handle is so cool but so slow
Bosses i had to summon a specter for:
>Puppet King
>Green Black person
>Laxasia
Those still need to be nerfed and then the game is fine.
Maybe the devs expected you to use specters?
Same way Elden Ring goes from pointlessly frustrating to fun when you actually use your ashes.
>Alidoro starts talking shit when he thinks the Grand Covenant is protecting him from me Patient Smash-ing him
Genuine and certified fricking kino.
19 hours and a half, level 79, at the Barren Swamps after circling back to the Puppets of the Future and killing the big baby/childlike miniboss.
How many hours or acts do I have left?
You’re near the final act. Maybe another 8-10 hours at the pace you’re going?
Behead Alidoro.
>the Lies of P speedrun involves stabbing your dagger in a completely random spot on the ground in an out of bounds area you're not supposed to be in
How do people find this shit?
a whole ass discord of autismlords combing every inch of the game, testing with whatever launching glitch they find
???
>30k players +
>at least 10% of them have recording software available
>when those 10% of players encounters a bug they record and share online
>some pooprunner will see this bug video and check if its easily replicated
It's very simple, for example, on the second day I discovered the skip on the Opera because I was trying since the start of the game to use the jump animation to get over things, so yesterday I watch a speedrunner and what a surprise its part of the main route the skip.
>so yesterday I watch a speedrunner
Guys? I hope you don't do this unironically
18 minutes if anyone's curious, I did wonder if the booster could let you skip anything, can't wait for it to go to 20mins like Dark Souls' have become. I'm surprised that whole out of bounds area has collision at all, maybe an area you were meant to be able to go through normally?
I'm so fricking annoyed that you only get one chance to kill Alidoro that gets removed for no reason when you accidentally quit out of his dialogue menu. I have to do an entire new playthrough because of that.
>there are people who didnt like Gemini
wtf
Hated the riddle guy too. I don’t know if the characters are insufferable or if it’s just the American accents.
Riddle guy at least makes sense for why he's that way when you finally meet him.
Best I can describe how I feel about him is pic related. No where close to based obviously but he just barely stops himself before the dialogue gets too Marvel-y. Kind of wish that his tone was kept in that robotic voice when he first talked to you.
he is so annoying
The Wishes of D is going to be so fricking kino
short hair > long hair > blue hair
the falseflag "lies of p better than (from game)" guy made another thread because he saw this one is nearing the bump limit lol
NG+ is fricking HARD dude fueco is filtering me as much as he did the first time. I thought the emphasis in this game of learning every attack would make it easy the second time around but I guess its been too long.
skill/build issue
t. 1st tried every boss on ng++
Then you learned nothing
Ng+ was hard at first but then the levels start rolling in like crazy. First of all, use a better weapon.
I'd love to be using a +5 Proof of Humanity right now but I COULDN'T FRICKING BUY UNNLIMITED UPGRADE MATERIALS AFTER I BEAT THE GAME. Dear Neowiz, please add this you asiatics so I can stop using my Ouroboros.
>then the levels start rolling in like crazy
People keep saying that. How far in does that hit? What are the ergo increases?
After about level 80 the ergo cost to level up basically stops increasing. In souls games the cost grows exponentially so that leveling becomes extremely slow. But lies of P the cost is like 15,000 at level 90 and 16,000 at level 180.
But NG+ enemies and bosses give huge amounts of ergo. Like 50,000+ for late game bosses. I beat the game level 90, I finished NG+ at level 185 and I didn’t farm once, and in ng+ I only died about 5 times in entire playthrough, so I only killed most enemies once.
It’s also dumb how low softcaps are. I had effectively maxxed out effectivness from Health, all 3 damage stats, and my capacity let me equip the strongest defensive gear while using my heaviest weapon that I actually used.
By the end I was leveling up damage stats to gain 1 extra damage per two levels. Since I didn’t need more hp or capacity. The only stat I ignored was stamina since I never had issues with stamina.
While I think its weird you never leveled stamina, I 100% agree soft caps are way too low. By 30 points in a stat your returns go to shit for every stat except maybe capacity which seems to give decent value for quite a while. Even on NG getting your primary damage stat to 40-50 isn't completely unreasonable, but you have no real reason to do so. You get like 20 more attack at 50 than you do at like 35 with S scaling. Its silly.
Small weapons don't need stamina pool they need stamina regen. The best 'stamina' stat is Capacity because it lets you keep your weight low for faster regen or swap a weight ring out for a stam regen ring.
Even if that was true, with how generous levels are in NG+, you can easily pump both.
>look up guide on how to get free from puppet strings achieve
>always tell the truth
>let sophia live
>tell manus i liberated her (this is was apparently a lie even though i chose let her live)
>refuse heart
>did all of this
>only have the option to give heart, no option to refuse
wtf is this bullshit now i need to do another fricking run
guides are so fricking worthless nowadays there's something else you need to do which i guess i didn't do
Stop conflating truth/lies with meaning anything. Its about being a human. Guides are worthless
Ending 1: grey hair, kill sophia, tell simon, refuse gep
Ending 2: grey hair, kill sophia, lie to simon, refuse gep
Ending 3: do not refuse gep. Any hair fine
I thought for free from puppet string ending you needed to be more puppet than human. That's why Gepetto calls you a worthless puppet.
You straight up cant get anything but the bad ending if you dont kill sophia?
So if they have robot technology in this world why do they still ride carriages?
>tfw we're never getting a sequel
We will though?
surely they wouldn't tease one.... and then not make it? right?????
Literally impossible
Have your own opinion for once. Jesus
Git gud homosexual
Easiest boss in the game, just target his other head and phase 2 is just phase 1 again. I can't believe this guy filtered so many people they had to nerf him.
It’s actually a shit fight because he has a sideswipe move that’s impossible to dodge and almost impossible to parry. I only managed to beat him because I got the aegis and used that whenever he would try to side swipe me.
git gud
Just started playing this, but I'm a baby and the first cop is fricking handing my ass to me every time. I've got so close.
This game kind of falls apart if you have a decent block weapon and armor
t.just beat manus in 10 minutes with base hp because every time i tried to deflect and missed id still block anyway, taking like 5% damage
Is this what shield users in souls feel? Fricking disgusting.
I know, it feels awful winning using strategy and forethought.
Nvm, I kicked that cops ass. Just fable fricked him until staggered. After that I'm about almost 2 hours in, it's actually fun. I'm impressed and I'm loving it so far.
Welcome to the... puppetry?
Someone needs to workshop a classy slogan for all the recruits we have.
Great looking game too btw.
NG+ Nameless Puppet is entirely unreasonable. As an experiment i installed the easy mode mod where everything does x2 less damage to you, and he can STILL 2 shot you.
How much do you need for the golden lie? My heart is pounding
Don't be so gay now
I missed 2 lies and still got it before the last lie or 2. You have some wiggle room.
I got it after white hair.