But otherwise, any blade can be paired with any handle, even if it shouldn't be. Unfortunately boss weapons can't be disassembled-a shame, because some offer the game's most interesting movesets. If an enemy seems like it's resistant to my sword's slash attacks, I can swap in a pickaxe head to try blunt damage. Finding a weapon means I can immediately disassemble it and mix-and-match its blade and handle however I want. The handle, determining attack animations and how its damage scales with statsĮach part also contributes one of your weapon's two Fable Arts-resource-consuming special attacks like Elden Ring's skills.The blade, determining base damage, defense, and damage type.Weapons in Lies of P are built from two pieces: Weapon assembly is the one piece of combat in Lies of P that feels truly distinct from anything FromSoftware's done. I mostly stuck with the grappling hook-like Puppet String, which pulls enemies to me and after an upgrade lets me zip to them like Spider-Man. It'd probably take other Pinocchios heavy investment in a specific stat for Legion Arms to really shine. Without speccing Pinocchio to emphasize them, the couple uses I had available at each respawn weren't impressive enough that I'd bother burning consumable refill items, like a cool toy that's too much of a hassle to regularly play with. In other words, the Legion Arms are a hell of a lot like the prosthetic gadgets in Sekiro, except here they're flashier than they are effective. It's like having a Swiss Army Knife for an arm, if a Swiss army knife had a flamethrower, an acid launcher, and a Mega Man-style arm cannon that shoots a delayed charge that embeds into enemies. It's a metal limb that I can swap out at bonfires-sorry, 'Stargazers'-to equip different combat gadgets. Weapon assembly is the one piece of combat in Lies of P that feels truly distinct from anything FromSoftware's doneĮven one of Pinocchio's defining abilities, his Legion Arm, feels like a FromSoft appropriation. At one point, while descending into some spooky woods after a boss fight in a church against a giant mutated priest, I couldn't shake the awareness of how closely it matched the sequence of beats I'd played in Bloodborne. I won't lie: the borrowing from its Souls forebears is stark. The similarities continue, straight through the interface design and Krat's distinctly Yharnam vibe.

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