Lies of P, Roboquest - First Thoughts

Trying more games on Xbox PC Gamepass
*** Roboquest
This has a very high rating on Steam, and it sounds a bit like Immortal Redneck which I loved, though with a bit more cartoonish graphics.  A "Roguelite" FPS.   It's fairly good, but the cartoon graphics with too bright colors throw me off, I'm also a bit bored shooting mostly round robots.  There's some bosses & sub mini bosses though with a little different design.
It's also a bit too fast paced and you get better ratings and rewards for each section based on the time you took (I think) which I don't like.
There's plenty of weapon variety at least, but I've already found my favorites as far as I can tell.  The upgrades don't come too slow at least compared to some of the "roguelites"
It's about 10-20 minutes per run, which is enough time to get one in on a shorter break.  It's not bad and I'd probably buy it at the $7 range, and might be worth keeping around for a quick FPS when I don't have time to get into anything else.
**** Lies of P
All the souls groups have been saying it's the best non-Fromsoft Soulslike game, I figured I'd give it a try since I have the rest of the month of Gamepass to go, as there's not an awful lot on there I really want to play.
Yes I've been saying I think I'm done with Souls games, I didn't really get into the ER DLC and Bloodborne was more miss than hit, and Demon Souls was just o.k. to begin with. I also said I wasn't going to play it because there's no magic build/class.
I was very surprised to find I really like this one so far.  The levels are much more like Dark Souls 3, which I'd heard, but didn't really give much thought to.  They aren't quite as linear as there's tons of shortcuts all over, but I doubt I've missed much so far.  Getting to the bosses hasn't been too hard, though I did have one point in the area after the 2nd boss I kept dying and it probably took me 7 or so attempts to get to the next save/starting point.
2nd boss in one attempt, 1st took me about 7, I looked up a how to do it as I wasn't getting much past half of his health at that point, which basically came down to use your items & weapon powers.
Given all that it feels way easier than any of the Fromsoft games so far.
The things I don't like much is the dodging seems very short, Guarding gets you a lot of damage, and Parrying seems very difficult to time. There's a sort of skill tree which has stuff on it that makes you better at any of that, so it may get better later.
The story's kind of interesting, a re imagined sort of story of Pinnochio with nasty automatons everywhere.   I don't really like the idea of playing a puppet, but it gave me a realistic looking dog mask to start, so I just put that on, I've also got a donkey mask now too.
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