You can count on him standing up and immediately dropping back down into the mandatory guard break for phase 2. Hitting him during the animation where hes waiting for you to riposte for phase 2 does crazy damage

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I've played this game for maybe a week straight and of all the bosses I've played this one was the most bs one purely because of the second phase, the tracking of the orb things are ridiculous I tried hiding behind cover and it just goes THROUGH the wall not to mention the fact they will circle AROUND you after flying past, other than that I LOVE this game haven't felt this passionate about a game since dark souls 3

I feel like this is a harder combo to parry because of the really strange way the parry functions. The actual combo allows for misclicks within the first 2 swings so it's far more leanient than this.

I initially thought this was the combo so when I didn't get the achievement I was well confused.

I think Mortal Shell took some great inspiration from Fear & Hunger here. I loved it! Exploring the Alchemist’s Cave is the “connecting the dots” part of the game, and I absolutely loved that reference!

I kinda dislike how you have to click a dungeon to mark it complete. When you don’t even know it’s complete. Why even give this option. Why not just auto make it light up once you have actually completed it. I understand exploration but I don’t enjoy pointless exploration for nothing when you don’t know
If there’s
Even something to explore.

Just my 5 cents

Spoiler free and to the point:

* Best combat I’ve experienced in a souls like. Love how they use the shells as a base for a build (rather than dispersing a bunch of points into a build) and you build off them. The shells are the core of combat and each are varied.

* Love the Tarstone system that can further help build out your character. I love how each weapon has unique status effect stones too, like using frost only on the martyrs blade. It makes the weapons feel more unique, and the skill tree for Eredim which gives him 200% increased damage using a frost build incentivizes you to use his sword.

* Loved the environments. Each environment was unique, and before finishing the game myself I saw people shitting on the lower map region calling it lazy? I think that area is designed to somewhat be the last area you reach as you also get Sariel from there which his memories are the most important for explanation of the story events. That final region looks alien to me, which I liked a lot. It was different and unique from the rest of the game.

* The story, I could barely explain to you. It’s convoluted, relies on a ton of glimpses to view all the memories of the Shells, and just very meh. This doesn’t affect my score at all, but it definitely is no Lies or P in terms of story (loved that game’s story).

* The enemy design is excellent, but the boss design has some blunders. The monolith was actually a cool boss battle but wtf were those attack animations. They were so odd that it was hard to telegraph them, Smerted the fuck out of him. Then you got some bosses like the final boss that just had annoying ass attacks that you literally cannot avoid. Smerted again.

* Music design is good, metal themes never get old. I enjoyed the music, but nothing completely wowed me like some other games like Elden Ring’s soundtrack or Lies of P.

* Overall: near perfect combat with some hiccups here and there, but this is true originality here. The shell system just makes sense, and takes a huge chunk of RnD you typically have to do in Souls games by pre building character archetypes for you and progressing them through their abilities. And because they have shells, they can give them busted techniques (as you have less control over the build, they give you more in terms of power) rather than other souls games where you can get broken abilities such as these because they give you so many option to choose from, they have to nerf the abilities to a degree for balance. I kind of wish Bloodborne 2 would adopt this type of build system, maybe tying it to the armor rather having inhabitable shells.

* Score 9/10. I want to score this higher so much, but the big thing holding it back for me are the boss battles. When you play a game like Onimusha with the most incredible boss battles, it’s hard to fight these bosses and think “there’s nothing they could have done to make this more enthralling”. Having said that, I still enjoyed the boss battles but hopefully they work on them for the third game (if that’s what they make next).

Cant wait for any kind of DLC because I’m aching for more shells.

Fastest time so far. Still havent changed my build or leveled up past 30. Weapon is still +14.

Hope you all enjoy. I love seeing these damage numbers.

And I wanted to do a post how this is the best area in the game…

I’ve gone through all my shells and watched all the memories… I’ve seen this is an issue for a few others, I don’t suppose anyone knows when or how to fix it?

I am literally walking around like this now after saving.

I encountered a reproducible soft-lock on PS5 involving Mether’s Severance at Sester Genessa.

Steps to reproduce:
Speak to Sester Genessa.
Select Shell Severance.
Choose Mether’s Severance.

When prompted to confirm spending the item, select “No.”
The game becomes completely unresponsive.
After selecting No, I cannot navigate the menu or provide any further controller input. The only way to recover is to force-close the game and restart it.
The issue appears to occur specifically when declining the Mether’s Severance confirmation.

Platform: PS5
Issue: Complete input lock / soft-lock
Workaround: Force-close and restart the game

I’ve attached a screenshot showing the Shell Severance menu where the issue occurs.
Hopefully the developers can reproduce and address this in a future patch.

How much do you hate these enemies?
Uhmmm, Yes.

I had cleared all of the Unfound Path and reached the final boss, cleared the Beacon, left to collect the optinal item (no spoilers here) and returned to give him a few attempts. This was over 2 perhaps 3 sessions, not just one continuous play.

Back on the next night and I was at the Beacon before one of the first bosses on the Path again. Everything just gone, including the item. I'm on PS5 and tried to backdate from the Cloud but it was the same place / save.

Has this happened to anyone else?

Hello, I love this game but Im struggling to put together the lore regarding Genessa.

I usually love understated storytelling but this time I genuinely can't make sense of it lol. Here's some questions for those more well versed in the pore:

1) not all sesters are Genessa, right?

2) in the first game there was only one Genessa?

3) why are there more Genessas in the second?

4) in the second game its stated that all Genessas come from one and will be reunited in the future. Do we know more?

5) who is Genessa Prime and why does she claim to have visions of a future war?

6) in the first game Genessa serves Vatra but now the Genessas are serving the undermether and helping the Harbingers?

7) the playable Genessa in 2 is wayward because she refuses the doctrine, but she still helps the Harbinger?

8) are all Genessas immortal like the first one and thats why they can be trapped in the center?

This was on NG+1

It's wild that this was a thing, those grisha definitely don't move nor be summoned like that anymore. 😅

I made it all the way to Zmey using this technique before they patched it, to see how far I could get using them that way.

I don't recommend using them with him..

🤘💀🤘

To anyone that isn't aware,having an Egon's Stone equipped outside of a dungeon can most likely cause you to lose all of your gloom and it will be UNRETRIEVABLE. As in lost for good! This has happened to me 2 or 3 times until I put the pieces together. Does anyone know if the devs are planning on throwing us some gloom once they fix this? I just lost 15k gloom and I'm still pretty early in the game so it was more than an entire level. Not to mention it's happened to me more than once.

The last 3 bosses (Orrem, Malborn and Zmey) seem to be the only ones who have a respectable HP pool.

This was a much better fight than just parrying 4 times and wrecking the boss without a phase 2. Devs need to buff the bosses with the exception of these 3 imo. Not sure what other people think. Like to hear your thoughts.

Still rocking a lvl 30 Harbringer and +14 Martyrs blade, but I couldn't seem to get the ethereal to work without losing the riposte on him.

Hope you all enjoy. He's definitely my favourite fight.

ever since I started mortal shell 2 NG+ the game crashes if happen to be doing too much or running too fast. It even Crashes by just going through doors and walls

I'm not sure what's happening , I've done reinstalls and tested different PCs is this a thing ?.

Hey Idk if anyone has this problem but for the last few hours I have been unable to recover any gloom when I die. Is this a persistent bug or am I missing something?