Lies of P - even after the Overture patch - has issues

As I mentioned earlier this week, I enjoy souls-likes. I'm not good at them, but they are still fun when they aren't too hard..

After I wrote that piece, I first hopped into Sekiro, which is a souls-like that's more of a souls-hate-yourself. It's got so much good stuff, though, so I tried it again.. And kept dying. So, I moved on to Black Myth: Wukong.

That's another one that is super fun, and has some great mechanics, but can also be really unforgiving.. And right now with the heat and my heart not wanting to beat at a rational pace (when your docs pull you off the only meds that worked for your pain because they are concerned about your heart, that's a warning sign), I needed something a little less stress-inducing.

That's when I remembered: Lies of P had been updated.

I previously wrote about how I was playing Lies of P thanks to an easy-mode mod. Now, with the Overture patch (a free update that was released alongside the Overture DLC), we have actual difficulty settings, rather than having to enable a developer menu in order to make the game more accessible to folks like myself.

I like Lies of P. The storyline is a beautifully dark take on a classic, and the gameplay is pretty good.

What became apparently, however, is what Lies of P lacked (unlike both Sekiro and Black Myth: Wukong): A goddamned pause mechanic (queue the shocked face as exhibited by the boss in the hero of this post).

I tried to find a mod that added it, but unlike Wuchang: Fallen Feathers, there is no mod for a pause button.

For a singleplayer game.

Reddit and other online communities are full of the same refrain: "It's a soulslike! Dark Souls doesn't have pause!"

Sekiro - another From Software title - fucking has a pause button. Black Myth: Wukong has a fucking pause button.

LOTS of soulslikes have a pause button, goddammit.

Let's put this in a tone that the average Reddit and Steam Community asshole can understand: Insults.

I'm so sorry you're unable to find love or joy outside of life in your games, and you must be so sad that nobody wants to talk to you randomly throughout your day, but some of us have things a little different.. And we'd like to still be able to play without losing our progress just to answer a question, grab a drink, hug our kids, or any number of reasons a pause button is fucking useful.

Plus, my body is a fucking shattered fun-house mirror directed by the late great David Lynch, and sometimes a pause button will help me relax my fingers enough to finish a boss fight.

Sigh.

/EndRant