The developers kind of went mad with power during the late game, which is frankly too hard. I've beaten Sekiro, Hollow Knight, Bloodborne, Elden Ring... none of those games are as hard as Lies of P.

The difficulty comes in that you can seriously make purchasing and upgrade mistakes that limits your endgame power substantially. I opted to go for an "all weapons" run with the boss ergo, and locked myself out of end-game amulets. Additionally, I switched which boss weapon I was using, and the game punishes you by not supplying enough upgrade material to facilitate switching weapons.

Additionally, after 40 points in your primary stat, any additional levels only give you 1 or 2 extra damage, which makes your power curve logarithmic. In other souls games this is fine because the inflection point of the curve is past the end-game material. In Lies of P, this happens about 2/3rds of the way through the game. The bosses get more health and hit harder, but you don't get substantially more powerful once you hit level 65-70.

There's just little design issues like this sprinkled throughout the game that add up to a "it could have been a masterpiece" kind of experience. Ultimately, I can't recommend to the average person who plays games.

That said, there is an Easy Mode built into the game by the devs, but you have to re-enable it via mods. I stand firmly that when I review a game I can't factor in mods that fix its shortcomings, but if you're like me and just want a game that respects your time, google it.