Lies of P Requires Multiple Playthroughs to Be Understood

wccftech.com:

We're now less than a month away from the release of Lies of P, the Soulslike game developed by NEOWIZ. In what is likely to be one of the last interviews before launch, DualShockers spoke with Game Director Choi Ji-won at Gamescom 2023. The developer revealed that multiple playthroughs will be required to fully understand the story. There will also be three different endings, likely based on Pinocchio's ability to lie in certain instances.

One thing we planned in advance is that you wouldn’t want to just play it once. If you have only played it once, then it’s not complete. We really highly recommend you play it several times. 

Basically, there are three endings. But we really, really, really recommend playing the ending until the very, very, very end.

Lies of P was first unveiled with a gameplay teaser released in November 2021. Last June, Francesco got his hands on a preview build and came away positively impressed:

What Lies of P definitely seems to get right even in this early build on PC is performance, which seems to have become a rarity lately with so many broken PC ports. The game not only pre-compiles shaders for a better experience, but it also runs great with no stuttering whatsoever, even with a lot going on, features a lot of graphics options, support for both AMD FSR 2 and NVIDIA DLSS (though not Frame Generation), framerates up to 240 FPS and more. With DLSS at the quality preset and high settings, the game runs at an average of 100 FPS on my system (i7-10700 CPU, RTX 3070 GPU, and 16 GB RAM), so there's no doubt that the developer did some great optimization work, something that much bigger teams seem unable to do for some reason.

Despite being far from the most original Soulslike I have played, I have