Ok jokes about how Pinocchio is a sissy little twink fag-girl aside, the fact he IS, well, THAT, actually helps Lies of P feel like a proper soulslike

I’m sorry but soulslikes don’t work when the player character is a huge, gruff, buff Ubermensch whose body language drips ‘power fantasy’.

A proper soulslike player character must:

-be barely over 5 feet tall on their tip toes
-hold themself with the air of someone who has never actually swung a sword before
-look like a fucking putz wielding anything larger than a frying pan

Even when a souls game has you dripped out in cool Hunter outfits or your complexion resembles beef jerky on a good day or even if you ARE doing legit cool flippy dippy bullshit, you should still kinda look like a bit of a tool that had no right to be taking down the shit you do. And Pinocchio carries that torch wonderfully