Lies of P’s director, Jiwon Choi, has given fans who haven’t finished the game a reassurance that they will be safe with playing Lies of P Overture, even if they haven’t finished the game yet.
Lies of P Overture shares events that occurred before the start of the main story campaign, so it isn’t like it will spoil anything in the campaign itself that players didn’t already see. But some players are worried that they’ll be spoiled when it comes to the story campaign’s ending. There’s a cliffhanger in that ending that hints at its potential future direction. Of course, if you learned about it before playing through it, you may have already felt cheated from getting to learn it on your own.
As reported by Kotaku, Choi shared this reassurance:
“What I can certainly tell you is when we share such news or media and assets with you, you’ll know for sure that we are ready to present it to you. And that follows very our strict focus on quality [amid] all the pressure that we talked about in the past. So that is the one promise that I can share with you, that when we actually share those contents with you and the news, we will be ready to share that with you.”
As you may have expected, Choi also told players to wait for when they make official announcements about this. Given how the ending of the game played out, we do think that that ending will itself be spoiled almost immediately at the moment that its first official trailer comes out.
At the same time, Choi claimed that those players who did get through to the ending will see the small clues that lead to that ending as they play through Lies of P Overture. To quote Choi again:
“When you play through the base game again, you’ll see many hints that we scattered throughout the whole experience. A lot of hints and a lot of windows into the world, and you’ll be able to actually see that and experience that in expansion…There are many things that I actually wanted to accomplish when we were working on the base game. It didn’t get put into the base game, and all of that, at least key elements of that are going to be included in expansion.”
Choi also said that good players will take about 15 to 20 hours to finish. That’s a decent amount of playtime for an expansion, and just adds to how much value there is in Lies of P overall.
