

In my short time playing, there were also warning signs that Lies of P will fall into some of the same shortcomings of other soulslikes.

Even Pinnochio himself looks like he was created by a Midjourney AI trained exclusively on moody photos of Timothee Chalamet. It's hard not to see Sekiro's arm prosthetics being an influence here, or the delicate serif font FromSoftware's been using in its games for years.

It's just that everything about Lies of P feels like it's skirting the razor's edge of copyright infringement, or at least extending its nose well past the point of homage into outright aesthetic theft. Maybe really funny, when Lies of P seems to be treating its story with the same detached earnestness as any of FromSoftware's doomed post-apocalypses. I was told, too, that dialogue choices-lies-you make throughout the story will affect how it plays out, which is as standard as videogame design choices come, but actually pretty funny in a game about Pinnochio.
