Ever because the upcoming DLC for Lies of P, Overture, was introduced, followers have been speculating about what mysteries it’d include. And on the Recreation Builders Convention final week, IGN discovered at the very least one thriller it gained’t clarify: the bottom sport’s buck-wild twist of a remaining cutscene.
For individuals who haven’t but completed Lies of P, right here’s the spoiler-free model: there’s a cutscene that performs on the finish of the sport that appears to recommend the place Neowiz is likely to be taking the Lies of P universe subsequent. It’s a reasonably wild twist of a scene, which has left followers speculating the way it is likely to be applied and whether or not we’ll get a proof within the DLC. Nevertheless, Lies of P director Jiwon Choi confirmed that this cutscene isn’t DLC-related. All he’d say past that was, “Please keep tuned for added bulletins sooner or later.”
Neowiz has already introduced a full-blown sequel to Lies of P, which implies it’s seemingly this cutscene is as an alternative associated to that. However we don’t actually know any particulars about Lies of P 2 both, simply that it’s being labored on. And Choi wouldn’t share any sequel hints in our chat with him, both.
“What I can definitely inform you is after we share such information or media and property with you, you may know for certain that we’re prepared to current it to you. And that follows very our strict deal with high quality [amid] all of the stress that we talked about previously. So that’s the one promise that I can share with you, that after we really share these contents with you and the information, we will likely be prepared to share that with you.”
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The scene we’re referring to that we requested Choi about is, of course, the Dorothy scene. We wrote about this intimately right here, however the quick model is that the sport’s remaining cutscene depicts Paracelcus talking to somebody on the telephone, ultimately mentioning that he’ll “discover her, for certain. One other key of ours: Dorothy.” We’re then proven the unmistakable striped sock legs and ruby slippers of Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz, suggesting that no matter comes subsequent for Lies of P, it should tie into different public area “fairy tales”. However we nonetheless don’t know the way or why, and we now additionally comprehend it gained’t be in Overture.
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We did handle to glean a number of hints about what will be within the DLC. Choi recommends that whereas they need for Overture, Lies of P followers ought to replay the bottom sport, as there are clues on the planet of the sport already that recommend what is likely to be coming:
“Whenever you play by means of the bottom sport once more, you may see many hints that we scattered all through the entire expertise,” Choi stated. “Loads of hints and lots of home windows into the world, and you will be ready to really see that and expertise that in growth…There are lots of issues that I really needed to accomplish after we have been engaged on the bottom sport. It did not get put into the bottom sport, and all of that, at the very least key parts of which are going to be included in growth.”
He provides that some followers are already onto Neowiz’s tips, saying that he commonly reads fan theories on-line and that “some of them are fairly shut.”
We additionally discovered a number of different tidbits: Choi advised us that the DLC ought to take roughly between 15-20 hours to full “for knowledgeable gamers” and can turn out to be accessible to gamers as soon as they’ve handed a “sure” chapter of the sport, after which accessible all the way in which to the top. And we know from the sport’s announcement that the DLC is technically a “prequel”, with the primary character getting transported again in time to Krat simply earlier than its fall. The DLC will characteristic new places, new enemies and executives, new characters, and new weapons – although once more, Choi was eager on holding the main points on these a shock for the discharge.
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