The enemies you face in the game don’t hit as hard as most soulslikes I’ve played, so it felt pretty fair, at least to me. I rushed into a situation and got blindsided or I wasn’t patient enough with my abilities or too quick to use my healing items. Because of the difficult nature of the title, you don’t want the player cursing the systems but rather they should blame their own shortcomings and that was exactly what happened every time I perished in the game. The most important thing, next to an interesting world to explore, is that the combat in these games needs to feel juuuuust right. You can also pull off the usual backstab attacks, which are ever so satisfying, and Lies of P will give you plenty of moments to take advantage of this. sKpuvUTd0M- BloodyGoodReviews™ | Pirate PR □☠️ August 24, 2022Ī little later on, I was told about the magic move you can use to finish off bigger enemies (and then promptly forgot to use it afterward) and the fact I could hold B down to run (which is vital if you want to move to the world quicker because the default walking speed is rather slow) Responsive combat, a setting that begs to be discovered and that little bit of Pinocchio sauce as a finishing touch kept me strung up as a happy puppet. PREVIEW | Lies of P ( by managed to blow me away in the 20-minute gameplay session I had at their booth. If you want to catch some Gameplay footage before digging into this preview, here you go: We’ve had about 30 minutes of hands-on experience with the game at Gamescom 2022 and we could have played much, much longer, because the nice developers were too kind to shoo us away, even with a line waiting to get their own shot at the demo, but that wouldn’t have been nice, so we handed over the controller to someone else just after a 2nd failed attempt at beating a miniboss. It’s got an interesting setting, plenty of lore to discover, tight gameplay, and a unique twist to keep you guessing about what happens next. And along comes Lies of P, a Pinocchio-inspired version in a similar setting by South-Korean studio Neowiz Games.Įver since seeing the first trailer for the game, it’s been on my radar as an extremely polished soulslikes that seems to do all the things right that make the genre so appealing. He was born in New Zealand and resides in Melbourne with his wife.LifeisXbox’s Lies of P preview | For years upon years, Bloodborne fans have been asking for a sequel or even a remaster. ![]() In The Clearing, Pomare’s second novel, was also a critically acclaimed bestseller. His first novel, Call Me Evie, was critically acclaimed and won the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best First Novel. He has hosted the On Writing podcast since 2015 featuring bestselling authors from around the globe. Pomare is an award winning writer who has had work published in journals including Meanjin, Kill Your Darlings, Takahe and Mascara Literary Review. Thanks is extended to Hachette Australia for providing me with a copy of Tell Me Lies for review. It was a long game too, that this particular person had been playing, which just made it all the more frightening how well thought out everything had been, the patience of it all.Īnother captivating and gripping release from the brilliant J.P. The way in which someone who is a true psychopath can insinuate themselves into the lives of others, particularly if they have the financial means to aid in their deception. I found aspects of this story truly frightening. All the clues pointing one way towards a foregone conclusion until the moment when they don’t. ![]() I don’t mind a twisty psychological thriller and this one was certainly well thought out. Perfectly timed for reading between Christmas and New Year. This novel was originally published as an Audible Original and I can imagine how tense it would be to listen to for those, like me, who prefer to read their books than listen to them, it’s about to be released from Hachette in paperback and ebook. This is not a long novel, coming in at a concise 230 pages, but it’s utterly gripping from start to finish, my speed in reading it owing more to that than its actual page count. It’s not often I read a book from start to finish in a day, much less an afternoon, but Tell Me Lies was not leaving my white knuckled grasp until the end. Margot’s clients all lie to her, but one lie cost her family and freedom. That’s when she slams into his back and he falls in front of the train. He is looking down at his phone, with his duffel bag in hand as the train approaches. On a warm spring morning Margot approaches one of her clients on a busy train platform. Psychologist Margot Scott has a picture-perfect life: a nice house in the suburbs, a husband, two children and a successful career.
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