Prior to playing Lies of P, my top two were Sekiro and Bloodborne, in that order. Bloodborne was the first soulslike I’ve played ever, apart from a little DS1 back when I was like 12 on the janky PC port, and I bounced off it hard. Took me several attempts and multiple years to get in there and start enjoying my time. Pretty much same goes for Sekiro where I prefer the gameplay a lot more to Bloodborne’s, might be a top 5 game of all time for me.

It’s saying a lot that LoP is right behind Sekiro, before Bloodborne, in my top 3. It just combines the best of both worlds of both Sekiro and Bloodborne. The atmosphere is amazing, the combat feels snappy, responsive, and weighty, the story is very touching and personal. The soundtrack - holy, the soundtrack. Combining modern music on the records you collect with classic Souls (boss) music a la Dark Souls and Bloodborne is genius.

I’d never have expected for LoP to surpass Bloodborne for me considering I’ve listened to the Paleblood Hunt front to back like 3-4 times, have watched every imaginable video essay about Bloodborne, have merch, have played through the entire game like 5+ times. LoP really just feels like Bloodborne 2 in the spiritual sense - LoP very much is different to Bloodborne in many ways.

I know it’s a way past dead horse by now and many in the community feel like we don’t need a successor to Bloodborne. But I’m just so in love with the franchise, it’d be fucking stellar if we had any more to play. LoP will be happy in its second place until then