Lies of P (2023)
Lies of P is a 2023 role-playing (rpg) video game made by Round8 Studio and Neowiz.
Krat was the jewel of the Belle Epoque until its puppets turned on the people they served. Round8 Studio recasts Pinocchio as a lone mechanical boy waking in the ruined city, blade in hand, hunting the truth about his maker and himself. The soulslike bones are all here: punishing melee, perfect-guard timing, a swappable weapon-assembly system and a mechanical arm that hides tricks. Every lie the puppet tells bends the story further from the fairy tale. Art nouveau grandeur rots into rust and blood, and the matter of what makes someone human runs under every fight.
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What is Lies of P about?
Krat was the jewel of the Belle Epoque until its puppets turned on the people they served. Round8 Studio recasts Pinocchio as a lone mechanical boy waking in the ruined city, blade in hand, hunting the truth about his maker and himself. The soulslike bones are all here: punishing melee, perfect-guard timing, a swappable weapon-assembly system and a mechanical arm that hides tricks. Every lie the puppet tells bends the story further from the fairy tale. Art nouveau grandeur rots into rust and blood, and the matter of what makes someone human runs under every fight.
When was Lies of P released?
Lies of P was released on 18 September 2023.
Who made Lies of P?
Lies of P was made by Round8 Studio and Neowiz.
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A few thoughts on Lies of P
The Pinocchio-as-machine premise rhymes with Astro Boy, Tezuka's robot boy reaching for a humanity he was denied. For the uncanny horror of dolls that should not move, Tomie delivers Junji Ito's cold dread. Players chasing the same gothic, unforgiving combat should go straight to Bloodborne, the clear model for Krat's dying, beautiful streets.
Punishing action-RPGs that never let you catch your breath
Lies of P borrows the shape of a soulslike and asks the same thing these action-RPGs do: keep moving even when any fight can kill you. The Witcher 3 and Skyrim send you through decaying kingdoms, God of War remakes a myth in blood and bone, and Red Dead Redemption 2 and The Last of Us carry the same exhausted momentum that pushes Pinocchio through Krat's ruins.
Fairy tales that grow teeth
Lies of P takes Pinocchio's wish to become real and lets it curdle into body horror and grief. Astro Boy and Fullmetal Alchemist ask the same question about a body that was built rather than born, Ranma ½ turns transformation into something stranger, and Tomie, Lord of the Flies and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas all let a childhood story rot from the inside.
Mysteries about who's really pulling the strings
P spends Lies of P hunting the truth about his own maker as much as any killer, and these follow the same thread. Sherlock Holmes and Mr. Mercedes chase a mind behind the crime, American Psycho hides its monster in plain sight, Largo Winch spends whole books untangling who really runs the empire, and Attack on Titan hides a truth larger than its walls.
Puppets and machines that stop taking orders from their makers
Every weapon in Krat, Pinocchio included, was built by someone else's hands, and that's the premise these share too. Portal and Portal 2 turn a helpful voice into a captor, Half-Life 2 sets you against a regime that engineered its own subjects, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Rurouni Kenshin follow fighters remade by someone else who choose their own path anyway.