Lies of P Sequel 'Enters Full Production Phase'

Neowiz and Round8's Lies of P sequel has present "entered afloat accumulation phase."

While we already knew that a sequel to the critically and commercially acclaimed 2023 soulslike was connected the way, South Korean institution Neowiz — which co-developed arsenic good arsenic published the soulslike escapade — has present confirmed, via its latest fiscal study to investors, that its prototype has been "approved," paving the mode to a "full improvement phase." Unfortunately nary merchandise model was mentioned.

Elsewhere successful the fiscal report, the institution intimated that income generated by Lies of P DLC, Overture, had present "stablized," and it was present "executing strategies for planetary IP franchising and fandom-centered operations to thrust robust gross growth." Oh, and there's a "new IP" successful the works, too.

Interestingly, asked astir however to basal retired successful a competitory marketplace and pull the champion talent, Neowiz's absorption stressed that it considered its expertise successful storytelling to beryllium a cardinal USP, adding "narrative is simply a halfway competency for Round8 and a cardinal constituent successful driving idiosyncratic immersion."

"In an situation wherever planetary improvement costs are rising, it is hard to summation marketplace designation done method oregon sheer volume-based concern alone, making communicative adjacent much critical," the institution emphasized. "We recruited directors Jin Seung-ho and Lee Sang-gyun precisely due to the fact that they person fantabulous communicative implementation skills.

It besides highlighted that expanding genres was "not intentional," adding: "When reviewing caller titles, we use 3 criteria: the originality and amusive of the concept, marketplace competitiveness, and our in-house improvement capabilities. The lineup people diversified due to the fact that our directors brought guardant persuasive and charismatic proposals that met these conditions.

"While managing aggregate projects is challenging, crippled improvement is inherently hard careless of the genre. Round8 believes that allowing directors to prosecute concepts for which they person the strongest information and capableness is simply a rational prime to summation the probability of success."

Neowiz shadow-dropped Lies of P DLC Overture during past year's Summer Game Fest, introducing caller locations, caller enemies and bosses, caller characters, weapons, and the arguable determination to adhd successful 2 easier trouble options. At that time, we besides learned that Lies of P had topped 3 cardinal copies sold.

We had a bully clip with Lies of P, awarding it 8/10, and Overture itself besides secured an 8/10. "Even if it’s intelligibly dancing connected the aforesaid aged strings, Lies of P: Overture is an fantabulous enlargement that adds a full batch much to a crippled that was already great," we wrote, though since then, the DLC has been patched to trim monster trouble successful repetition playthroughs and "adjusted stats" for immoderate of the tract monsters you brushwood successful your archetypal playthrough of Overture.

Vikki Blake is simply a newsman for IGN, arsenic good arsenic a critic, columnist, and advisor with 15+ years acquisition moving with immoderate of the world's biggest gaming sites and publications. She's besides a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her astatine BlueSky.