Lies of P Director Explains U-Turn on Difficulty: 'We Wanted to Make Sure a Wider Audience Could Play the Game' 

Lies of P's upcoming DLC, Overture, volition present trouble options for the precise archetypal time.

As a "Soulslike" game, Lies of P tin beryllium punishingly difficult, particularly for inexperienced players possibly attracted by Lies of P's acheronian communicative and setting. Director Jiwon Choi said astatine the time, however, the squad didn't deliberation Soulslike games should person trouble options and it shipped without any.

Now it seems Neowitz has changed its mind, and confirmed the alteration was informed aft the workplace listened cautiously to feedback from players.

“We wanted to marque definite a wider assemblage of players could play the game,” Choi told VGC. "We person a batch of feedback from customers, and from our developers. So by making improvement adjustments and introducing these trouble options, we tin connection the acquisition to antithetic types of players. This broadens the base.”

Players are present debating wherefore the game's manager "change[d] his mind," with 1 writing: "I would ideate it's a batch easier to accidental that you don't privation to alteration the trouble than to beryllium inundated with antagonistic reviews implicit it and person it perpetually beryllium brought up during discussions of your crippled and not person immoderate impulse to alteration it truthful a broader assemblage tin bask what you made."

"I got into gaming astir the property of 24. I'm utilizing the easier trouble settings because, arsenic overmuch arsenic I emotion Lies of P, I person a large accomplishment issue, and that's okay," explained another. "I conscionable thought it would beryllium bully proceeding wherefore idiosyncratic would reasonably privation the trouble settings. I ne'er got to ain immoderate systems erstwhile I was a kid, truthful present I tin arsenic a moving big who doesn't person 10+ years of skills."

"Souls elitists don't privation trouble due to the fact that they similar bragging astir their video crippled achievements. I'm gladsome Lies of P is not servicing them," added this player.

Not everyone's impressed, though, arsenic the Steam treatment forums and societal media attests.

"Was funny successful playing, but aft each the nerfs and adding trouble levels, I mislaid interest. Game devs, delight halt catering to babies," wrote this subordinate connected the treatment forums, though astir of the replies to that thread enactment the developer's caller position.

Another wrote: "You had a masterpiece connected your hands Neowitz, and you turned it into laughing stock. For shame." A antithetic thread entitled "Difficulty settings = Not playing" is straight supra different from idiosyncratic who's really tried the crippled and wrote: "difficulty is conscionable ridiculous."

Lies of P is simply a unique, darker twist connected the classical communicative of Pinocchio, offering a challenging enactment crippled with a unsocial "lie" strategy wherever what you bash and accidental dynamically affects gameplay. The upcoming caller DLC — which features caller locations, caller enemies and bosses, caller characters, and caller weapons — besides introduces Death March, a caller mode that enables you to look disconnected against the game's myriad of bosses each implicit again. In all, the DLC volition instrumentality experienced players astir 15-20 hours to complete, and volition unlock erstwhile they’ve passed a “certain” section of the game. Neowiz has besides already announced a full-blown sequel to Lies of P.

We had a bully clip with Lies of P, awarding it 8/10, writing: "Lies of P mightiness not subdivision retired peculiarly acold from its soulslike inspiration, but it plays the portion highly well."

Vikki Blake is simply a reporter, critic, columnist, and consultant. She's besides a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her astatine BlueSky.