In a year full of Soulslike games,Lords of the Fallenwas released not even a full month afterLies of P. With both games both being Soulslike titles and their close release proximity, players are surely comparing the two in every way. Unfortunately, the question of whether or notLords of the Fallenis harder thanLies of Pis a bit of a tricky one.
Lies of Phas 25 bosses, whileLords of the Fallenhas 30 in total. With so many bosses between the two, there are surely to be some varying degrees of difficulty across all encounters.
DoesLords of the Fallenhave harder bosses thanLies of P?
In short, both titles have easy, challenging, and absolutely insanely difficult bosses.Unfortunately, both games suffer from boss encounters that I call “unfair”. What I mean by unfair is that the difficulty doesn’t come from them having challenging mechanics. In comparison, most boss fights in theSoulsseries can be studied, learned, and then defeated. But in both, there are boss fights that just spam hard to evade attacks or will start holding the timing of attack animations to further disrupt you.
In an effort to answer this question more specifically, let’s compare encounters from both titles that are not unfair. For the most part,LotFhas harder bosses thanLoPif you are to compare each fight in totality. However, I think a couple of the end bosses inLoPare actually harder than the end bosses inLotF.
Another important part of this equation is the NPC which can assist you in fights. If you plan to make use of them in either game, thenLords of the Fallenis probably harder overall. InLoP, the specters actually take a good bit of the aggro from bosses when you first start the fight. In some cases, I was able to do 50% or more of the damage to a boss before the NPC would die. But inLotF, the helpers often seemed useless. They’d either die right away or even stand in your way preventing damage. Most of the time, their damage output was incredibly negligible.
Altogether, I’d sayLords of the Fallenis harder thanLies of P. Of course, this may differ depending on your play style and level of expertise with the Soulslike genre.
