Recent reviews by Super baby forsen 2

It was a bit of a rollercoaster. It was a pleasant experience at the beginning when I still knew little about what awaited me, and towards the end when I had unlocked new abilities from the shrines of memories and acquired some additional trinkets and items. The mid-game was dreadful, mainly due to the slow progression in unlocking new things, but also due to a sense of imbalance, with some mobs being overly efficient and some bosses requiring simple brute force or always someone who can hit the 4th position (a rather rare ability).
I didn't appreciate the decision to release a DLC with two additional characters, especially after two years since the game's initial release. At the moment, I feel the game lacks a bit more variety in terms of enemies and locations. It also lacks the inspiration of the first installment, where certain enemies ingeniously complimented the combat system (such as the mosquitoes in DD1).
There's no comparison in terms of atmosphere; the first one is fundamentally a different game, and comparing them on this aspect would be wrong. DD2 is a much more arcade, immediate, and clear game, from the "choose between these two paths and you'll get what you expect" to the token system, which I personally liked a lot. It brings much clarity to how turns unfold and, at the same time, removes a layer of RNG that is already heavily present. Some heroes can play around the enemies' positive tokens or your negatives.
I personally think that the long time taken to finish, or fail, a single run isn't necessarily a bad point; it gives a slight sense of importance to it and the survival of your party, making you pay more attention and such. I think it's perceived badly because it goes hand in hand with the slow progression of the Altar of Hope, so finishing a 4-hour run to just unlock a few useless points in a character's progress or 5 stagecoach items is a little boring, but that's mainly a problem at the beginning, or first 15 hours.
The price is really high, honestly. It's all well and good, but a roguelike at 40€ is hard to swallow, especially because once you understand the meta, the game concludes quickly, and workshop support is still missing.

This game is unplayable. It stutters incessantly, fluctuating from 60 to 14 constantly. Even the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ menus stutter. And this is happening on a 4070 Desktop. I've attempted to tweak settings, waited through various patches, but nothing remedies this mess.
I've given this game more than the benefit of the doubt, and I can confidently say that it runs like absolute trash. I can't even assess if the core game is good or not because it's THAT unplayable.

The game is visually stunning, but I can't comprehend the necessity for constant online, especially during the campaign. The first time, I had lag on their servers, which made the game unplayable with my character constantly warping back in time and eventually getting timed out. What's the point of being online when there are hardly any other players around? The game barely have social aspects.
The second attempt went smoother with no lag, but I encountered a different issue. The gameplay felt excessively monotonous. I can understand the early game being easy (even at hard difficulty?), but it seemed like I could close my eyes and still win, which I would've want to since I was falling asleep. Even D3 wasn't so easy lmao.
Despite these 'challenges', I'm still drawn to the game because of its captivating art and lore. However, paying more than $20-$30 feels excessive for the overall experience. Just wait next year for the expansion release, maybe.

Veramente un bel gioco. Concordo con gli altri recensori che, oltre all'ovvio Vampire Survivors, lo paragonano ad Hades e Halls of Torment (bullet heaven stile Diablo). Non mi aspettavo così tante waifu, oltretutto. La pixel art è realizzata bene e gli upgrade sono divertenti da usare, ispirati da Dota e Diablo, ma nessuno veramente rotto, per ora.
Le uniche pecche che vorrei veramente tanto vedere fixate sono un semplice toggle per l'autoaim, per mirare al nemico più vicino con più HP, e che smetta di attaccare quando fuori range. Un altro problema è che con l'avanzare della partita, diventa veramente difficile distinguere gli attacchi dalle silhouette dei nemici. Magari un'opzione per cambiare individualmente il contorno di nemici e attacchi basterebbe. Spero davvero che in futuro venga aggiunto altro contenuto (mappe e nemici), ma già adesso è validissimo.

This is probably the death of the franchise, it's even worse than what SFV was to Street fighter honestly.
This may sound like a joke, but there's nothing in this game. Not even in the premium shop. The game is structured to be a f2p mobile game and even then it's so barebones you can hardly believe it.
There's nothing to gain, nothing to grind, nothing to buy, so what there is? A movie and versus.
Online is such a joke it's hard to consider it. The constant presence of a loading wheel and the lack of risk in losing rank removes any semblance of importance from the competitive aspect. The dwindling PC player base further compounds this issue, rendering the online experience practically irrelevant.
The soundtracks, stages and color tone are the things that deserve merit, but these elements alone fail to salvage a game that feels fundamentally incomplete.. MK9, X and 11 each blows completely out of the water this one at release.
If you are still contemplating playing this game, be aware that they don't even bother adding new items to their premium shop. It's the same three outfits being recycled, so one can only imagine the quality of the rest of the content: pathetic and weak.

Honestly, though, you have played the game for a long time. Don't you have anything else to do with your time?

Inizialmente, avevo aspettative di un titolo che richiamasse lo stile di gioco di Bloodborne, ma finora ho notato una somiglianza maggiore con Steelrising, un altro souls-like AA che onestamente ho trovato più pulito e originale di questo titolo. Persino la storia tra Steelrising e Lies of P segue lo stesso identico concetto di base degli automi impazziti, con quindi il set di mob a marionetta, che non mi dispiace, ma trovo che Steelrising abbia eseguito questo concetto in modo più convincente, specialmente per quanto riguarda animazioni e design.
Le ambientazioni ispirate all'architettura vittoriana, che combinano elementi francesi e ungheresi, sono carine, ma manca una vera atmosfera coinvolgente. Si percepisce che il gioco ha un certo carattere "indie koreano", ma non ci si può lamentare troppo, sono limiti comprensibilissimi.

I miei dubbi sono sul combat system, per quello che ho visto. Hai a disposizione molte cose che non funzionano veramente in modo fluido quando usate insieme, e altre meccaniche, che sarebbero fondamentali, sono bloccate da uno skill tree, come la possibilità di rialzarsi velocemente con una schivata; altrimenti si resta a terra per 5 secondi buoni, con i nemici che ne approfittano in maniera vergognosa (letteralmente nemici che fanno con la mazza bam bam bam mentre tu sei bloccato nell'animazione lentissima nel rialzarti ed a ogni bam tu ritorni a terra dovendo ripetere questa animazione, pazzesco, chi cazzo ha testato sta cosa? nessuno)...La possibilità di eseguire una parata perfetta, con un timing decente, è compromessa da hitbox e animazioni poco precise, armi che sciolgono boss ma che fanno il solletico ad alcuni mob, mentre le weapon art e il braccio prostetico con abilità intercambiabili offrono alcune opzioni interessanti, ma nulla di originale, anzi.
Una cosa in cui eccelle il gioco sono trappole e animazioni ritardate, una vera e piacevole cagatura di cazzo. Per non parlare di alcuni boss che semplicemente non finiscono mai di attaccare, sconsiglio di concentrarsi interamente in un'arma lenta, non avrete praticamente il tempo di fare un attacco tra una combo e l'altra ahahaha, dioporco. A proposito di questo alcune animazioni, come la cura, hanno dei recovery frames che vanno un po' contro-tempo col resto del gioco, un ulteriore aspetto che contribuisce a una sensazione di scorretto bilanciamento e di mancanza di fluidità nel gameplay.
Il level design ci sta, dopotutto è sempre quello se avete giocato altri souls-like, niente di nuovo ma fatto bene.

Continuo a non capire però tutto questo marketing (fatto da terzi, non dallo studio) rivolto a far sembrare questo gioco un Bloodborne indie. Niente parry a distanza, sidestep a volte inutile per il tracking e le traslazioni a chiodo dei nemici, c'è giusto il recupero degli hp attaccando, ma anche lì è tutto un po' bilanciato alla minchia. Anche niente di veramente crudo, o quel tocco di brutalità, proprio un solo boss si avvicina.
Anche a considerarlo un semplice indie souls-like è abbastanza noioso, non c'è il combat fluido come in Thymesia, o l'eleganza di Steelrising, o i combattimenti stretti e precisi di Wo-long, o l'atmosfera di Mortal shell, solo trappole e nemici o ubriachi o cocainomani. Che merda porcoddio.
Qualche uscita geniale c'è, come il design dei caricamenti, la quest del gatto e la volpe, le scelte di dialogo, i reward delle quest che si utilizzano nell'hub, e il design di un paio di boss. Peccato che le animazioni e l'art direction lasciano veramente l'amaro in bocca.

Dopo aver concluso il gioco, devo purtroppo confermare le mie precedenti impressioni riguardo al combat system. Nonostante abbia avuto l'opportunità di affrontare boss più bilanciati e mob/miniboss più puliti man mano che proseguivo, il problema rimane un'esperienza d'attrito. Ho scelto di giocare con una build full forza, il che potrebbe avermi penalizzato nel trovare il giusto ritmo nelle fight. I recovery frames sono veramente troppo penalizzanti, uccidono completamente la natura aggressiva del gioco quando messi insieme a queste chain di attacchi incessanti.

La storia presenta dei risvolti interessanti. Tuttavia, è un mappazzone di idee, alcune delle quali ben riuscite, mentre altre sembrano un po' superficiali. Dopo aver completato il gioco, ho notato che si sono impegnati molto per rendere la lore più simile a un clone di Bloodborne piuttosto che a un'interpretazione di Pinocchio. Secondo me, hanno perso l'opportunità di esplorare molte trasposizioni dalla storia di Collodi che avrebbero potuto essere interessanti, e forse anche più originali. Nonostante tutto, è stato un motivo sufficiente per continuare a giocare, insieme alle soundtrack, che devo ammettere rappresentano la parte migliore del gioco.
Per me rimane un no, almeno finchè non ci saranno dei tweak al combat, ma anche dopo ciò, non vi state perdendo nulla di speciale.

Surprisingly, it runs well on my system.
Playing at capped 60 fps and no stutters with Standard settings except textures on High, on 1440p res. Here is my Desktop:
AMD Ryzen 5 3600X
NVIDIA RTX 2070 Super 8GB
DDR4 16GBx1 1500 MHz
Crucial P5 NVMe M.2 SSD CT1000P5SSD8

Also, I tried capping fps at 120 and it runs between 100-112 fps but there were some drops to 88 fps or lower, which made me prefer the cap at 60.

Now, talking about the game itself, it really gives off the feeling of playing a Sekiro spin-off. I will not waste your time writing about countless praises about the combat system, but it really is that good and fun, definitely overshadowing everything else that the game has to offer. The game is not heavily centered around parrying like in Sekiro and gives players many tools to keep things fresh (a progression system, spell casting with rock-paper-scissor++, weapons with different movesets, passive effects).

But where’s the catch? Well, it’s KT after all, so obviously the game suffers from its undigestable loot system, uninspired work on story and character design and the annoying game balance.

I still have to finish the game, so I will just speak of what I found, so until Part 4.
Here are some key points:

I agree with many that the jump in difficulty is weird, you can basically run over a level without dying and then having a real struggle with the boss fight, but only due to the insane amount of hp they have.

There are some flipped assets from their other games, like the recent Wild Hearts, but it will not be a problem and it was actually fun to challenge those enemies in a different game with different mechanics. They also have some new moves and details.

There is AI coop (useless), online coop and invasions. Enough to say that it will be interesting.

The lore text boxes need to stop auto scrolling fast and, most importantly, the players should have an option to scroll themselves!!! (I can’t believe I need to write this, literally interns made this game)

My final complaint may be unshared by many, but I really need to. Why caster bosses? Like, after all this work on making this beautiful combat system, you make me fight cheap ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ wizards spamming spells and teleports? I can’t believe you didn’t have better ideas for these fights. I just can’t. All I want to do while playing against casters in a game like this is to put my balls in an hydraulic press and make it go until they ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ explode just to pour acid on the open wound. Please fire the interns responsible for this.

But yeah, I still recommend the game. It's really fun and challenging but doable for everyone. Even my major complaints were washed off while playing due to the fun I was having. The game keeps getting better.
I will update this review once I’ve finished the game.

10/10

The remake is perfectly on point. They didn't miss on anything and delivered a masterpiece not only up to modern standards but even set the bar higher for future horror games.

The true highlight is the audio compartment. Each new audio cue, ost and sfx brings so much life into the game and enhances the creepiness and horror of every scene. Truly a spotless job.

Together with the sound, also the ray-traced lighting makes the game so much more sinister and realistic, you can really feel the horror of a necromorph lurking in the shadows. Seeing something scuttling in the dim light is much more terrifying now.

It's also much more fun to play, both for veterans and new players. There are tweaks and upgrades to the original weapons and new enemy spawns; totally new ways to complete the game, since now every area is interconnected to another one or more; new fitting side missions exploring more lore or giving a great unique reward; new enemy placements and things to do in NG+ with a secret ending.

As you can see, the attention to detail is incredible, and I didn't even talk about silly things like the various suit details, the layered gore system or additional dialogues and logs, lights placement, new tentacle animations, voice acting...it's simply so much more than its original.

It's one of the best horror games ever made and will easily please cosmic and body horror fans alike. A must play for sure.