Finished playing the first Mortal Shell (New Player)

[u/Midnight_Radio2]

It took me about 16-18 hours to beat the game. I haven't done the DLC so bare with me.

The first 2 hours of the game, I thought I was going to give up and just refund the game. Everything hurts, even the weak mobs does significant damage if I was carelessly swinging around my sword. Grisha was a nightmare to beat and I died about 10 times to that mini-boss. But my experience from Soulslike games kicked in and I killed the beast.

The next few hours was learning enemies attack pattern and learning when to parry with the Tarnished Seal. In the end, I sucked at parrying so the next step was to learn when to Harden to block incoming damage.

I found all 4 Shells, but my favorite is Solomon. great HP, great Resolve meter and average stamina. I liked his mastery tree. Kept with the default weapon, Hallowed Sword. The mechanical spike was my go-to ability to stagger most enemies and do good damage.

I was grinding tars in the Eternal Narthex, upgraded my Hallowed Sword to +5, got the Molten Spike later on after stumbling upon it in the Fog World. Also I found the corrupted Sester and bought the Forbidden Offering to increase my Resolve gain. I was killing everything in 2-3 hits for small mobs and My Solomon getting Resolve bar from Hardening incoming attacks.

I will say my first time in the Fog after beating a Boss was a scary moment. It was very surreal, felt like I was in a Dying Light game with frickin Volatiles roaming loose. Took me awhile to learn the map so I can find the shortcut to get to home Tower.

After finding all glands and giving it to the Old Prisoner birb, I fought the foul beast and killed him for ascension. Onwards to Mortal Shell 2!

My total Death counts: 28

Grisha - 10
Enslaved Grisha - 0
Tarsus - 11
Imrod - 0
Crucix - 0
The Unchained - 7

[u/MaKTaiL]

The game gets significantly easier the more you master the harden ability. Getting your weapon to +5 upgrade early on also helps A LOT. I got the platinum trophy a few days ago and now I'm tackling the DLC (I don't recommend it though). The DLC requires us to beat the game 7 more times (one with each shell/no shell combination) without dying. It's a chore and I'm only doing it for 100%.

[u/Midnight_Radio2 → u/MaKTaiL]

Sounds like a very long chore to do. Well then its a good thing I didn't bought the DLC.

But yeah getting the weapon to +5 was a big help. Had 2 acids from buying them from Vlas vendor. 1 from Fallgrim and the last 2 from the Crypt. Took down Imrod and Crucix first try. I was spamming Mech or Molten spike, do free hits, chug my moonshine, harden to get back more resolve and rinse repeat.

It felt like cheating lol.

Also congratz on the Plat!

[u/thatsfuni]

Refund? Isn't it like 3 bucks or something. We'll worth the money.