Note: This post contains some light spoilers for a secret in Mortal Shell. If you’d rather find it on your own, you might want to stop reading here and check out our Mortal Shell beginner’s guide to help you survive. Mortal Shell’s world is a deep and mysterious one, populated by bandits, monsters, religious fanatics, […]
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Mortal Shell: Solomon Build Guide
You don’t need to be a scholar to fully maximize the Solomon Shell in Mortal Shell. By following a few simple tricks you can use this shell to trample the game’s bosses. Solomon, the Scholar is one of the more interesting of the four shells you can swap between in your time with Mortal Shell. […]
Mortal Shell: Eredrim Build Guide
The Eredrim shell will probably be the last shell you will pick up in Mortal Shell, but that doesn’t mean you should blow off this highly durable shell. Utilized correctly, this shell will make you an unstoppable tank. Despite being held until the late game compared to the other three shells you find in Mortal […]
Mortal Shell: All Tarnished Seal Abilities
What do the Mortal Shell Tarnished Seals actually do? Read on to find out. Mortal Shell throws a lot at you early on. You not only have to come to grips with the combat mechanics, weapons, shells, and more in a relatively short amount of time. The Tarnished Seal abilities are perhaps the easiest to overlook […]
Mortal Shell: How To Unlock Fast Travel
While Mortal Shell is undoubtedly influenced by the Dark Souls games, the map design takes a few more cues from the lesser appreciated game in the series, Dark Souls 2. Like much of that title, progression in Mortal Shell occurs in a mostly linear fashion. But unlike Dark Souls 2, you are not free to fast travel from […]
Mortal Shell PS4 review – Dark Souls for beginners
It may be yet another Dark Souls clone but this new indie release is the most accomplished, and accessible, there’s ever been. We’ve already played one Dark Souls clone this month, in the painfully derivative Hellpoint, and we’ll be honest and say we weren’t particularly looking forward to another one. Especially as, on the face […]
How Long To Beat Mortal Shell On PC, PS4, And Xbox One?
Souls-likes aren’t long just because they’re difficult–there are plenty of hidden pathways and lore to discover in their expansive worlds. Developer Cold Symmetry’s Mortal Shell, while being Souls-like in nature, isn’t nearly as long as its contemporaries. The 40+ hours it takes to beat something like Nioh 2 can easily stretch to 100+ hours as […]
Mortal Shell Looks A Whole Lot Like Sekiro In New Clip
Cold Symmetry’s Mortal Shell is an upcoming action-RPG that seems to owe a lot to From Software’s unique take on the genre–particularly Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. The latest footage released from publishers Playstack certainly has the Dark Souls aesthetic down. In this new footage we can see a parry move that is very similar to […]