Lies of P (Souls-like)

Best Buy didn't have this, despite it being release date and having a preorder. They didn't even seem to know what it was. Same thing happened with Armored Core 6. Pretty incompetent store. Ended up changing it to home delivery, which says Friday (if I'm lucky).

Seananigans I've got Sekiro planned before the end of the year, once I knock out the other things I was working on (and this, I guess). Gonna focus entirely on that one thing cause that's the only way I'll do well with it. So yeah my Christmas is probably gonna be a week or two of Sekiro death.

Rajaah said:

Best Buy didn't have this, despite it being release date and having a preorder. They didn't even seem to know what it was. Same thing happened with Armored Core 6. Pretty incompetent store. Ended up changing it to home delivery, which says Friday (if I'm lucky).

Seananigans I've got Sekiro planned before the end of the year, once I knock out the other things I was working on (and this, I guess). Gonna focus entirely on that one thing cause that's the only way I'll do well with it. So yeah my Christmas is probably gonna be a week or two of Sekiro death.

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Godspeed sir! It’s a pretty sweet game but it’ll take a bit to rewire your brain for it.

This is really really good. Lot of Bioshock vibe in this.

I like how it gives you a choice of 3 weapons at the outside (...like Bloodborne) and I chose the fast one since people kept mentioning dodging in and out being the play.

The main issue so far was figuring out whether to play on quality or performance (on PS5). Quality has great light effects/reflections and better detail, but it drops to like freaking 20 FPS. Performance is actually TOO fast, like I wouldn't be surprised if it was 120 FPS. But wait! If you choose quality and then enable "high frame mode" (which is disabled by default) it gives you this really nice middle-ground where you have the visuals of quality mode but not the terrible FPS. Gonna guess quality+high frame = about 50+ FPS.

I could be wrong, though, I really can't tell for sure what numbers this is putting out. Regardless, quality+high frame seems to be the best option and I'm surprised it isn't the default quality mode since it doesn't seem to lose any visual quality. Some people will probably choose quality mode and not notice the separate "high frame" thing and end up suffering with terrible FPS for nothing.

The game itself is fantastic and the quality/production values ooze from it.

nu_11 said:

Sekiro has made me a parry god

Miss me with that dodging and shit

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I've found myself parrying (or trying to) way more than I've been dodging. I think they heavily de-emphasized dodging in this by making it kinda suck, low iframes.

Coming off of Wo Long where parrying is the way to go, I'm pretty into parries now where I wasn't before. Wo Long (and maybe this) is good preparation for Sekiro.

This is weird: My option to level up at lamps seems to have disappeared, there's just a storage option now. Hopefully not a glitch. Happened after the first big boss.

Kaige said:

You max out at like level 20 until you get to the hotel and talk to the blue lady.

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Whoa, so they control how much you can level to keep people from overleveling?

Sounds like it's more like they just added a tedious aspect to it that doesn't actually stop overleveling.

Haven't seen any blue lady but I think the hotel might be the next area.

A couple bosses in, still rocking with the starter dexterity epee type sword. Only a few deaths. Haven't had to stop and grind levels to get over any particular humps, it's been straightforward. Beat the first major boss in one try and I can't remember that ever happening in a Soulsborne game before (prolly Phalanx in DeSR). Wish dodging was better but it's alright. Environments in the first few areas are tremendous, real Bioshock feeling and the pouring rain and everything adds so much mood. Give this game high marks for sure and I'm jaded.