Lies of P

Ah, yeah. I had to Google it and just made the assumption from the first wiki page I found, which was for the Destruction Grindstone (https://liesofp.wiki.fextralife.com/Destruction+Grindstone). Doesn't seem to be any wiki pages specifically about destruction damage and everything just seems to be speculation.

The common belief seems to be either it is the amount of stagger damage or it is the damage done to a weapon in order to break it. Pretty certain your weapon's durability drops with decay damage and you do damage enemy weapons with perfect parties, so I would be fairly certain that destruction damage is the amount of damage you do to weapons.

As for unlocking upgrades on the p-organ (always makes me giggle), I didn't do all of them in a phase. I found that there was normally only 1 or 2 that I would be that interested in in each phase, so just wanted to get to the next. Don't recall there being anything about unlocking all of them in a phase, but could be wrong.

This has gone from good to great. Not just because I've got an umbrella but a bit because of that. I've loved everything from the cathedral onwards- great location, level deign, new enemies and boss. Just got to the Black Rabbit boss. Such a cool intro and fight (haven't beaten them yet)

My only complaint is that common enemies pose next to no threat whatsoever. They all stagger so don't require anything beyond repeatedly attacking

I'm always polite. I beat the boss- such a good fight and it was never annoying despite having multiple enemies. The clown was pretty cool as well. The White Lady took forever. Broke her weapon so she could hardly do any damage but just couldn't find openings to stagger her. She actually beat me twice through sheer attrition. Puppet String sorted her out though and now I'm wearing her face

I was polite... until the end when I beat the shit out of both of them. Good fights, would recommend.

And, yeah, also found The White Lady a tricky one, but not too bad when you figure her out. The clown though... That took me quite a few attempts, even though I rushed to the bonfire and fought him in the courtyard rather than the street.

You've reached the final boss? Good luck, he took me far more tries that I'm willing to admit...

Ooh you are right, my bad...

Got him finally. That was great. I think calling it a poor man's Bloodborne does the game a disservice. It's a poor man's Sekiro

Just kidding. I actually prefer the setting of this to Sekiro anyway. I may even upgrade it from great to I love it. I've got so many cool weapons now- the clock sword, spear of honour, puppet ripper, umbrella, rapier. Just need more upgrade materials for them all. Hopefully I'm not spreading them too thin. I like that there's so much variety among the tech weapons, from a rapier to greatsword (spear of honour). Means I can change things up without having to respec. Also got the fancy puppet prince costume and a hair cut

Just got to the Grand Exhibition. Glad to be past Romeo, just so I can see more of the game. Still think Geppetto is a creepy weirdo- stop saying 'Always be a good boy for me.' And you're not my real dad!

Ah, my nemesis Laxasia (at least, my nemesis until I reached the final boss). She took me a very long time to beat.

If you aren't already using it, acid is very much your friend with that one. Think I used the acid grindstone, but there are also weapons that apply acid. It was also around about that fight that I started to listen to people in this thread and gave throwables a chance (not that I really believed them until I got to the final boss).

Not gonna lie, I thought the spoiler was gonna say something like "Mine, that is"

Haven't beaten him yet. Came close

Was reading a couple of pages back and surprised to read some thought the bosses were poor. I can only really think of one bad one- Puppet of the Future, because he was nothing. I've enjoyed all of them and felt the difficulty was quite consistent. Romeo was a bit of a spike but he feels like the half way point so it's a good place for it

Bosses definitely the star of the show for me. The riffraff are mostly pushovers but it's fun beating on them with the cool weapons. Just enough exploration and side stuff to give it some depth but without the obtuseness of From. It even tells you when and where to progress NPC quests. I feel like I've probably done everything apart from the couple of things in a previous post

It probably helps that this is in contrast to having spent something like 200 hours in Elden Ring (and got stuck on a boss) so the more straightforward nature of it is a positive for me

Agree the last area does go on a bit. I love scaling a good tower though and I liked the music

The story has also gone places I wasn't expecting. It's nice to play something with middling expectations and then grow to love it. It really crept up on me and it's definitely given me my Sekiro/parry fix

Probably going back to ER/Malenia after this where all my parry practice will be meaningless and I'll have forgotten how to dodge

My dislike of the bosses from Romeo onwards was really down to me playing the game wrong. As you say (and as I only really realised against the final boss), it is far closer to Sekiro than your standard Soulsborne game. Trying to play it like I played Dark Souls just led to a lot of pain and all bosses in the second half felt like a slog (only exception being the one at the end of the Grand Exhibition section, who I think I beat on my second go).

I expect if I was playing it like Sekiro from the start I would have been much more positive about it.

I'm holding off on replaying for whenever the DLC gets released.

Aunty Treats if I'm remembering the right painting, you