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 Game Developers Conference final week, IGN discovered not less than one thriller it received’t clarify: the bottom sport’s buck-wild twist of a remaining cutscene.
For those that 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 could be taking the Lies of P universe subsequent. It’s a fairly wild twist of a scene, which has left followers speculating the way it could be carried out and whether or not we’ll get an evidence within the DLC. However, 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 suggests it’s doubtless this cutscene is as a substitute associated to that. But 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 actually let you know is after we share such information or media and belongings with you, you will know for certain that we’re able to current it to you. And that follows very our strict deal with high quality [amid] all of the strain that we talked about up to now. 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 able to share that with you.”
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The scene we’re referring to that we requested Choi about is, after all, the Dorothy scene. We wrote about this intimately right here, however the brief model is that the sport’s remaining cutscene depicts Paracelcus chatting with somebody on the telephone, finally mentioning that he’ll “discover her, for certain. Another 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”. But we nonetheless don’t understand how or why, and we now additionally understand it received’t be in Overture.
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We did handle to glean a couple 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 earth of the sport already that recommend what could be coming:
“When you play by way of the bottom sport once more, you will see many hints that we scattered all through the entire expertise,” Choi mentioned. “A variety of hints and a number of home windows into the world, and you’ll really see that and expertise that in enlargement…There are many issues that I really needed to perform after we had been engaged on the bottom sport. It did not get put into the bottom sport, and all of that, not less than key parts of which are going to be included in enlargement.”
He provides that some followers are already onto Neowiz’s methods, saying that he recurrently reads fan theories on-line and that “a few of them are fairly shut.”
We additionally discovered a couple of different tidbits: Choi informed us that the DLC ought to take roughly between 15-20 hours to finish “for knowledgeable gamers” and can turn into accessible to gamers as soon as they’ve handed a “sure” chapter of the sport, after which accessible all the best way 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 areas, new enemies and executives, new characters, and new weapons – although once more, Choi was eager on retaining the small print on these a shock for the discharge.
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