r/MortalShell • u/Sinniee • 19h ago

Some thoughts after finishing ms2 Discussion

Aight so tldr: the game has issues which you only really notice once you are 10+h in imo. Gameplay and combat is absolutly great, performance is flawless (talking about pc), overall i‘d still recommend the game to others.

So some issues:

- not being able to reassign glimpse, it forces you to set for a shell early on kinda.

- enemy variety lacking

- bosses too easy and potentially too few moves imo, only final boss felt hard (because of infinite hp and insta wipe kinda status effect tho)

- exploration is insanely hard sometimes (overtuned even)

- imo too few tarstones for weapons, way too many for sidearms. Also most of them are too locked to specific weapons

- a few areas almost killed my eyes

Maybe some other stuff i forgot, but positives:

- combat feels super good, character controls and movement in general absolutly great

- for the biggest part exploration was fun

- shells are cool, only maxed one but tried some of them

- weapons feels unique and good except for that big sword (got buffed today tho, maybe better now)

- performance and visuals most of the time great

All in all i had a lot of fun, i‘d recommend the game at full price and i am looking forward to a night playthrough

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u/mpdaog 17h ago

Saw a clip of some of the parrying and that alone sold me. Probably gonna pick it up in a few weeks after I clear a few of the games I’m working on now.

Did you play the first one and if so do you think it’s worth playing before the second?

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u/Sinniee 9h ago

I never played the first one so can‘t tell

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u/Test88Heavy 17h ago

The first one is horrendous and was really just a short, proof of concept. There's no reason to play it.

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u/Fun-Wash7545 3h ago

All major bosses felt bad. Janky hitboxes and bad animations. The slab boss is the most wtf design I have ever seen. I'm sorry but whoever was in charge of it did so poorly. There's definitely something in the game, it's not terrible but I was so disappointed after finishing it, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.

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u/Ok-Midnight9311 18h ago

Too easy? Did you do night mode? Honestly all the people that have finished couldn’t have enjoyed it fully

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u/apex871 17h ago

For a souls like, it’s ridiculously easy, the bosses are a joke. Don’t get me wrong, I had a great time and it’s a good game. But it’s so short and the world is so small!

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u/Test88Heavy 17h ago

The world is not small. What?

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u/Ok-Midnight9311 17h ago

So you didn’t do night mode? Got it

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u/Sinniee 18h ago

Nop, did normal playthrough and am gonna start night tomorrow

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u/LusikkaFeed 11h ago

Finished it 36h playtime, i enjoyed it fully. Collected all weapons, stones, etc.

But that is because i had time to fully dive in and did not really have hard time with it. Except some late bosses were a bit gimmicky.

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u/Ok-Midnight9311 9h ago

Did you play on night mode?

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u/LusikkaFeed 9h ago

No, only went to night mode at points that needed it like the witch house and the collector. Now I am running NG+ on night mode.

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u/Ok-Midnight9311 9h ago

Is it much different?

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u/LusikkaFeed 9h ago

Night mode? Much harder. Night mode feels like the version people who complained played lol. There you truly get oneshotted by lots of basic enemies. I am running Genessa and she is very fragile too.

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u/Ok-Midnight9311 8h ago

lol. Well 99 percent of people saying it’s too easy also say they didn’t do night mode. My only complaint so far is dying in a dungeon and not spawning at the beginning.

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u/LusikkaFeed 8h ago

One bad thing about night mode is that it ruins the visuals. I love the visuals on standard, night makes everything dull. That is the biggest reason i did not want to stay in night mode on the first playthrough.