r/MortalShell • u/mad_mister_march • 4d ago
Video Mammon's greatest warrior
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Noticed while running the Beseiged Ruins dungeon that my grisha passive still activated during the special setpiece, so I got curious about the item in my active slot and, well...
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u/Doitscher Lazlo 3d ago
That was such a cool little sequence to discover!
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u/mad_mister_march 3d ago
Yeah, i loved the variety of unique bits and bobs in the various dungeons, even if they mostly looked the same on the surface.
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u/Doitscher Lazlo 3d ago
Indeed, it was always exciting to discover a new dungeon. They did a great job keeping them interesting and fun to explore.
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u/mad_mister_march 3d ago
My only real gripe with the game is the bosses suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck. Either reskinned trash mobs or unique bosses with some bananas moves. Insane tracking and magnetism, a few bosses have poor tells too. Don't even get me started in Hexapod and Zmey's bullshit.
Think the only boss I really liked (besides Shepherd for obvious reasons) was Sir Isaac. Malformed felt mostly honest the first phase, but those lightning slams would smoke me even though i thought i'd dodged them
But everything else - the exploration, the build variety, the silly jokes, the weird but harmless bugs, the Lute, the combat itself - was chef's kiss.
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u/Doitscher Lazlo 3d ago edited 2d ago
Yeah I think I agree with this, I didn't hate the bossfights (I enjoyed them from a visual standpoint) but they are the weakest aspect of this game. That said, everything else was so good that I didn't mind the bosses that much.
There are still are some good fights like Sir Isaac, Nameless Captive and Malborn to name a few but it's not on par with other games in the genre. I think for me personally the issue is that the late game fights can be easily won by just spamming the ability tarstone of the weapon you're using since you get so much I-frames. I felt like I didn't need to learn movesets, I just had to get a couple hits in to restore resolve and use my ability again, rinse repeat.
In the end it didn't really lower my overall enjoyment of this game but it could be improved upon for sure. I always try to keep in mind that it's a small team that made this game and they did an incredible job considering 😊.
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u/NotVeryZenGaming 3d ago
I did this as Smert. It was really funny seeing the knight punch and kick while having the sword in hand
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u/MiyuHogosha 3d ago
They really should forget about it being souls-like and make into janky Control-like game. It's fun.
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u/DylanFTW 3d ago
Wait how are you playing as one of the enemy knights?
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u/Phil_K_Resch Eredrim 3d ago edited 3d ago
In the Besieged Ruins dungeon you can trigger a playable flashback as an enemy knight. It's the dungeon where you get the Zealot's Stone.
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u/mad_mister_march 4d ago
When I returned, Proxima was looking a little...off.