Since you can interchange the shells at any time, it adds a lot of on-the-fly versatility and hassle-free experimentation to the game.Īccompanying the shells are a bunch of smaller mechanical systems. While this system lacks the build flexibility of Souls games, there is less chance of messing builds up. Thus, you get this really small but refined class and weapon roster with their own upgradable skills and attributes. But instead of letting you choose which character to play as from the menu, Mortal Shell requires you to find these shells lying around in the levels- the same goes for the weapons as well. The usual archetypes- Warrior, Knight, Assassin are all present with the exception of Mage. Instead of a traditional class system, the game opts to let you play as a handful of pre-made character classes that can be interchanged at any point in the game. The biggest change introduced in Mortal Shell is the shell system itself. Credit where credit is due- Mortal Shell is surprisingly polished and refined for a game made by just 15 people. While the core gameplay loop of kill-gather experience-die-recollect experience-repeat is untouched, it feels more similar to Remnant: From The Ashes than Dark Souls in both scope and design. But, the more you play, it’s evident that Mortal Shell does enough to distinguish itself from its peers. Heavily InspiredĪt first glance, Mortal Shell looks and feels like a 1:1 recreation of Dark Souls in UE4.
While you don’t form any true attachment to these characters, I like the fact that they are not just blank slate suits of armors. As you reveal the names of these long-dead heroes and unlock more abilities, you learn more and more about their past – what kind of people they were and how exactly they died. While I didn’t take much time to sit through and read all the item descriptions, I did like what they did with the origin stories of your ‘shell’s, aka the 4 playable characters.
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The game basically retells every Souls series storyline – albeit in its own dark fashion. You awaken in a strange land as an ’empty vessel’ and do the bidding of the Dark Father, an ominous monstrosity, by tracking down sacred glands to…save humanity, I guess? Does it sound too familiar? That’s because it is. Similar to the Souls games, Mortal Shell opts for an abstract storytelling method, where you’re only told the bare minimum upfront while the rest of the story is told through the environment and item descriptions. Mortal Shell wears its inspirations on its bare chest and isn’t afraid to reveal it every chance it gets. As usual, I’m here to tell you the good and bad aspects of the game so that you can decide for yourself whether to play it or not. Mortal Shell, developed and published by Cold Symmetry, is the latest game in-line to take a stab at the Soulslike ‘genre’. Regardless, this is not an ideal world and as long as the game in question is fun and does enough to make it stand out, I’m happy. Thus, it’s ironic to see ‘Soulslike’ being pushed as a genre of its own while the whole point of Demon’s/Dark Souls was to be a unique one-off experience (Thanks Bandai Namco). By creating Demon’s Souls, Hidetaka Miyazaki went against the conventional tropes of modern game design by making something original and pathbreaking.
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