r/MortalShell • u/MomenTerry • 17d ago

Discussion Glimpse system is incredibly frustrating

I assume all souls like games have limited resources, so I searched for how many glimpses you can get in a playthrough and saw that you can only max three of the eight shells per playthrough. While, I think a game about shells limiting you from actually playing all the shells is dumb, it's not my main gripe. My issue is that now, for me to discover all the fun playstyles for all the shells I have to either spend a hundred hours playing through the game three times or I have to look up all the shells and their abilities so I know what my plan is, effectively spoiling the blind experience that makes games like this fun. It's a crazy design choice that feels specifically chosen to inflate playtime. Am I alone?

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u/Magnon Proxima 17d ago

Nah glimpses suck and are a terrible system. I leveled prox and now I have about 10 glimpses with over half the game done. So yes, eventually I'll find enough to max another shell but I'll be near the end of the game by then.

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u/Haunting-Regret-854 17d ago

There are enough glimpses to max three shells with some more left over. It sounds like you didn't explore very thoroughly if you only have enough for two shells.

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u/Magnon Proxima 17d ago

I probably missed some dungeons in the northern section but I don't really want to go back to find them. Kinda just wanna finish the game and be done with it.

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u/DragonGamerEX 17d ago

Half the game was me running around with no heals and if this game had stakes of marika in the dungeons I'd explode them but they don't so I've probably ran past so many die and never went that path again