Posted on: March 15, 2022

Pomme_de_Pain

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Good souls like

The souls recipe is here but with the size of a small studio. Meaning that enemies aren't that varied, as for the weapons. The 5 areas aren't that big. But it is decent enough to enjoy playing and dying. This game is interesting not only because of his inherent dark-souls heritage, but because of the shell mechanics. Those are bodies to found and possess, each one having her own skills to unlock, with a different playstyle. In addition to that when your shell die, you're expulsed of her, but don't die. and you can reposess her, giving you a second life. The healing system really peculiar. You have only two ways to regain health : by eating consumables, but it's slow and when you're in a fight it is very dangerous to do so, or to do a perfect counter. Doing a perfect parry will regenerate your hp. So a big side of the game is to learn when to parry and learn the pattern of each enemies. The other particularity is your "harden" skill. You turn your body into stone and the next attack, any attack, will do no damage. By combining this ability with the combo of your weapons you can deal a lot damage. Therefore in fight you will often either do a lot of damage of die missing your parry. The story is criptic as expected and the artistic direction nailed it. Some blackspot : some boss fight (including the final one) take place in a fog, so it's very difficult to see anything and dodge hits. If you liked souls, you may like this game, but don't expect the same depth in the exploration and customization.

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Posted on: March 14, 2025

DnDMonty

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Where to go!?!

So this is the start and here you "learn" the game. Just NOT where to go or how to procede. At best this is a "Souls like" rip off

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Posted on: August 26, 2022

VickyHitchgull

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Great on its own. Best as it can get.

The base game is something that I appreciated playing. Playing through the game once and beating it once was something that I appreciate as I go through my backlog. Mechanics are good and responsive are you get to fight mobs of enemies and unique bosses for a short and sweet game. As long as you don't encounter the jank of your parry or you basic attackes not working to the point where you might have to boot the game to the main menu as intended as these souls like tend to be. Story, whether you wish to decipher it entirely or not, is for what it is or not is good for what it is and gives justification what new game plus mode for those interested in doing multiple runs. Overall an enjoyable experience that make me sad that we may never get a sequel for the game anytime soon and flesh up the world more by the same developers that fathomed the idea of this Souls-like, dark fantasy setting. Would get the game if you don't have anything to better to do. Even better if you see a sale for it in the store.

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Posted on: September 1, 2022

Headeater2

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I cant...

This game depends way too much on random enemies. You can either kill them all without accomplishing anything, or run past them. No thought or finesse was put into the gameplay at all. The boss fights seem fun at first, but become monotonous far too quickly. Two stars are given for the style and soundtracks. They are really good. Still, I wouldn't recommend the game to anyone. Not even people who like Souls-like games.

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Posted on: September 5, 2021

lo_pub

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A bit short and a bit too easy, but good

I enjoyed all of the content. The game looks great, combat was fun and satisfying. I especially liked the design of the Eternal Narthax chapter, which to me felt like a mix between a monument and a nightmare landscape -- at any rate, a place not meant for humans. The game is quite short (about 1/5th of the DS3 base game would be my guess). It is light on story (which, in most such games, is mainly there to take you from one cool place to another), but Mortal Shell's story feels even more shallow to me than that of other similar games. There are mentions of religions that focus on pain, but at the end of the game, I knew no more about the nature of the gme world and the Foundling than I did at the beginning. My main criticism is that the boss fights are too easy. One of the main bosses, the Twice-born, I was able to beat on the first encounter -- this should not happen in a soulslike! Imrod took 4-5 tries, the final boss about an hour. The "hardest" battle was against the First Martyr, where I kept dying because I didn't realize that the fog at the edge of the arena was chilling me (I thought it was a special attack that I didn't know how to prevent). After I read up on the fog, I beat the boss on my next attempt. And no, I'm not that "gud". Soulslikes are, to a large extent, about practicing your way to victory. So it makes no sense to have bosses that require little to none of it. Even compared with games like Hellpoint and The Surge (i.e. Dark Souls 3), the game is a bit short and a bit on the easy side, but what it offers is really fun. One final negative point is that the developers don't seem to pay any attention to GOG. On both Steam and GOG, the game was more expensive as a pre-order than at launch, essentially screwing over precisely those who want to support the developers most, but an official apology for the mistake was only posted on Steam. Still, I'd rather give the developers money here than elsewhere...

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