After spending years playing Soulslikes, I’ve learned that the games I remember most aren’t necessarily the ones with the hardest bosses or the most complicated builds. They’re the ones that leave me thinking about their worlds long after I’ve turned the game off. The original Mortal Shell was one of those games for me. It…
Mortal Shell 2 is shaping up to be the kind of dark fantasy action game that can swallow dozens of hours before you even realize how much time has disappeared. One more dungeon turns into three. One boss attempt becomes twenty. You discover another Shell, change your entire build, and suddenly you’re sitting there at…
Mortal Shell 2 is the kind of game that makes you appreciate the Steam Deck and question its hardware at the same time. I have played plenty of demanding action RPGs on Valve’s handheld, and there is always a point where you have to decide what matters more: maximum visual quality or consistent gameplay. For…
Mortal Shell 2 is exactly the kind of game I like to lose an unreasonable number of hours in. The combat is brutal, the world feels hostile in all the right ways, and every new area has that classic soulslike feeling of “I probably shouldn’t be here yet, but let’s see what happens.” When a…
There are few things more annoying in an action RPG than finally beating a difficult boss, grabbing a new warrior body, and then being rewarded with… a completely black screen. That is exactly the kind of problem some Mortal Shell 2 players have been running into during cinematic transitions. The frustrating part is that the…
