Lies of P

A must if you're into Souls-borne/like games! Its really good and has a lot of QOL (quality of life) that makes this game so much more enjoyable. Everything feels so refined and smooth. The story, the setting, atmosphere, graphics, HDR is top notch. Such a shame that this game has the worst stutter Ive seen in a modern game that did lower the experience a lot. The combat and the difficulty was a step down as well. Some things to note: This game ran perfect after release but now on modern hardware and with newer drivers the game even on 5090/9070xt and 9800x3d stutters whatever you do. I tried all the reddit tips without any luck even on low settings. It seems to have something to do with memory leak so the longer you play the game the worse it gets, so you have to restart the game every now and then. There is one solution that seeems to work that I didnt care to try and thats using SPECIAL K, playing the game with an older driver, that seems to solve everything from what ive read. The game is very easy if youre used to similar titles, more so until you meet the archbishop where the bosses gets a bit harder from there on, think its in chapter IV. The hardest bosses in the game took me at most 1 hour without summoning specters. The game also has lower difficulties and no achievement of beating the game on OG difficulty. It also has some really cheaty perks that shouldnt be allowed so that you can cheese through the game. So just dont use them if you want the best experience. The feeling of crushing an enemy was great but other than that it has some flaws. The parry system in combat could have been better, its not as fluid as it could have been. And the combat overall is lower quality in the mechanics side of things than similar games. Its too forgiving if you make mistakes, and its not clear that it really was your fault for missing a parry or if its just bad boss design, so if you miss your perfect parry you dont get to punished by it and you have a lot in your arsenal to make up for your mistakes so you win either way. The DLC Overture was much more balanced and more challenging. And the stuttering was less prevalent. It was a step up in quality I would say from main game in most ways.