Lies of P Director Says Overture DLC Isn’t Connected to Base Game’s Massive Final Cutscene Reveal

Ever since the upcoming DLC for Lies of P, Overture, was announced, fans person been speculating astir what mysteries it mightiness contain. And astatine the Game Developers Conference past week, IGN learned astatine slightest 1 enigma it won’t explain: the basal game’s buck-wild twist of a last cutscene.

For those who haven’t yet finished Lies of P, here’s the spoiler-free version: there’s a cutscene that plays astatine the extremity of the crippled that seems to suggest wherever Neowiz mightiness beryllium taking the Lies of P beingness next. It’s a beauteous chaotic twist of a scene, which has near fans speculating however it mightiness beryllium implemented and whether we’ll get an mentation successful the DLC. However, Lies of P manager Jiwon Choi confirmed that this cutscene isn’t DLC-related. All he’d accidental beyond that was, “Please enactment tuned for further announcements successful the future.”

Concept creation for Lies of P: Overture

Neowiz has already announced a full-blown sequel to Lies of P, which means it’s apt this cutscene is alternatively related to that. But we don’t truly cognize immoderate details astir Lies of P 2 either, conscionable that it’s being worked on. And Choi wouldn’t stock immoderate sequel hints successful our chat with him, either.

“What I tin surely archer you is erstwhile we stock specified quality oregon media and assets with you, you'll cognize for definite that we are acceptable to contiguous it to you. And that follows precise our strict absorption connected prime [amid] each the unit that we talked astir successful the past. So that is the 1 committedness that I tin stock with you, that erstwhile we really stock those contents with you and the news, we volition beryllium acceptable to stock that with you.”

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The country we’re referring to that we asked Choi astir is, of course, the Dorothy scene. We wrote astir this successful item here, but the abbreviated mentation is that the game’s last cutscene depicts Paracelcus speaking to idiosyncratic connected the phone, yet mentioning that helium volition “find her, for sure. Another cardinal of ours: Dorothy.” We’re past shown the unmistakable striped sock legs and ruby slippers of Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz, suggesting that immoderate comes adjacent for Lies of P, it volition necktie into different nationalist domain “fairy tales”. But we inactive don’t cognize however oregon why, and we present besides cognize it won’t beryllium successful Overture.

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We did negociate to glean a fewer hints astir what will beryllium successful the DLC. Choi recommends that portion they privation for Overture, Lies of P fans should replay the basal game, arsenic determination are clues successful the satellite of the crippled already that suggest what mightiness beryllium coming:

“When you play done the basal crippled again, you'll spot galore hints that we scattered passim the full experience,” Choi said. “A batch of hints and a batch of windows into the world, and you'll beryllium capable to really spot that and acquisition that successful expansion…There are galore things that I really wanted to execute erstwhile we were moving connected the basal game. It didn't get enactment into the basal game, and each of that, astatine slightest cardinal elements of that are going to beryllium included successful expansion.”

Concept creation for Lies of P: Overture

He adds that immoderate fans are already onto Neowiz’s tricks, saying that helium regularly reads instrumentality theories online and that “some of them are rather close.”

We besides learned a fewer different tidbits: Choi told america that the DLC should instrumentality astir betwixt 15-20 hours to implicit “for experienced players” and volition go disposable to players erstwhile they’ve passed a “certain” section of the game, and past accessible each the mode to the end. And we cognize from the game’s announcement that the DLC is technically a “prequel”, with the main quality getting transported backmost successful clip to Krat conscionable earlier its fall. The DLC volition diagnostic caller locations, caller enemies and bosses, caller characters, and caller weapons – though again, Choi was keen connected keeping the details connected these a astonishment for the release.

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