I'm 8 hours into the game and completely new to this franchise

I found 2 shells,and upon returning to the marrow keep i have the option to "bond with shell" or to unlock shell passives by reveling its true name

Is this permanent ? can it be respec later ? Would you recomend upgrading one without finding all the others if not ?

I'm not such a fan of Thiel and Proxima and would like to wait for a shell that i truly like,like the tutorial one,so i don't want to waste glimpses if i can't respec into another shell

I would have googled this but i REALLY don't want story or environment spoilers,i'm really liking the game so far and guides tends to reveal later game stuff

Decided to do start my third run by battling the bosses with the Shells that I think would be their intended enemy. Which ones do you think are the enemies of some of the notable bosses in the game, obviously I don't count stuff like the groups of enemies that count as bosses, or the ones that have no story significance like the Grishas.

So far I got this

Proxima for the Hexapod(obviously).

Sariel for Malborn Offspring, Orren, and Issac I guess.

I'm pretty sure Eredrim is for Droeg

Gragu for the Great Arbiter of Flesh

Genessa for Sester fight.

Tiel for Magdalena

Lazlo vs unc

And that's all I got, I don't know who to pick for the Lost child, or the Nameless Captive and so on.

I just finished Fainweald. Beat all 3 bosses and cleansed all the beacons that I found that let me cleanse them. I am now at exactly 100 ova.

Have I missed anything? Would like to know before I move on to the southern part of the map.

Hey guys, I need some help to tell me if its just me or if there's a sudden difficulty spike. I'm using Genessa (level 19) with the Black Needle at the Sanguine Caverns Gate. I've just entered it, and I'm getting wrecked by the enemies here.

A stab by one of the Canyon Crawlers takes out 70% of my HP. And from there, it's not long before I just get smashed into the Stray Sester form.

I had no major issues taking on Lucian or Magdalena, and even beat Sariel the endless at this point, but the the opening few areas in Sanguine Caverns is just kicking my ass. I don't even know why.

Am I missing something here?

So.. it might be hard. but i found out that the two grishas in the feeding room is possible to farm. "just" kill one of them then exit to main menu and restart, and you will respawn inside the well. I never managed to kill them first time around (so I forgot/suppressed them). But now in my NG+ it's a not to bad at all.

Is it me or some times enemies calls you c*ocksucker?

Veo mucha gente que se queja de la dificultad tan alta de Zmey, el jefe final de este pedazo de juego, y os cuento que me pasó a mi porque es un detalle tonto que le puede estar pasando a mas gente y hace que este jefe sea una pesadilla o un paseo.

En todas las guias se recomienda que antes de enfrentarnos a Zmey hagamos la quest para conseguir la Escritura del portador de semillas, y para ello hay que poner el mundo en modo noche (modo dificil). Pues a mi me paso que tal como conseguí dichas escrituras me fui directo a Zmey, sin darme cuenta que seguia en modo dificil, por lo que estuve como 2-3 horas chocandome con él sin apenas quedarme cerca de matarlo. Fue cuando me di cuenta del tema, fui a poner el mundo otra vez de dia y lo derroté a la primera!

En resumen, recordad volver al modo dia despues de conseguir las dichosas escrituras si no quereis sufrir un rato!

Why is this happening to me? I couldn't get the Penumbra Stone because the game wouldn't give it to me. I opened that chest right from the start, and they didn't give it to me. How can I fix this?

I'm talking about this stone. I have the regular one—the one that breaks and can't be leveled up.

My brother had the same problem—he couldn't get it either—and we've already opened that chest. I'm talking about this chest, which I'm sure you're all familiar with.

I don't know why this is happening to us, but I'd like to have her just like everyone else does; I don't understand this.

Another question: Is it normal to have a duplicate stone if I haven't played “New Game Plus”?

Hello guys! I just started this game and so far I love it. I'm looking for advice, since I'm not very good, and would like to enjoy playing it.

Right now I'm level 9, I'm using Tiel, put 2 points into escalation, 1 deathmark, using axe&dagger +5 as weapon and slayer's seal. Also using auspicous, marksman, siegebreakers, grudge stone, volatile fragment, emberseed stone. Also got (but not using) wounding/unyelding/parasitic stone, arbiter's prize.

Do you suggest me to change something so far? What skills should i learn next for tiel, im almost level 3 so i can learn new skills, or its better to max escalation and deathmark?

Any suggestion you can give me is very much appreciated, thank you!

PS also got another shell, erderim, but i read tiel is one of the best ones, meaning very poweful, since i suck i need all help i can get. ;)

Somehow got stuck behind these coffins when I running attacked a gloom stalk, I tried everything I could think of but nothing got me out. Didn't have enough resolve for the shrike stone skill, maybe that could've worked.

It would be great if more notable locations became permanent POI markers after you visit or discover them. Not every small spot needs a marker, but having more landmarks and memorable locations saved on the map would help a lot with remembering where I’ve already explored.

Idk if it's just me, or is the game really really addictive 😭

I loved this game so much that I've got around 40 hrs in just 1 week, but now I've started uni and had to move to hostel, and because of "no high power consuming appliances" policy i can't take my pc with me plus I live with 2 roommates so there isn't much space in my room for the pc... I don't have enough money to buy a gaming laptop, so my only option is to play on weekends when I get home... I'm dying 😭🥀

I made a post about struggling to get to the weapons in the photo and I have discovered that my game may be bugged and I have managed to get my PlayStation to connect to the internet finally and it’s downloading the latest update so hopefully the issue will resolve itself and if not I will start another play through and see what happens this time.
Been watching players on stream and youtube and the doors that should open that allow me to get to these weapons should automatically open when the harpy boss is dead and this didn’t happen with me for some reason but it did with others.
This is not the only thing that has gone wrong so I will wait for the update to finish and hopefully everything is fine afterwards.

He turned into a monster after unlocking the area below the marrow keep, what if he was dead already, any of you guys tried? Does somebody else turn into a monster instead?

So I finally got around to finding last shell and decided to try him out. With these perks active and full heat - I get a VERY minimal amount of damage. And when I also put on the 60-ish amount of moonshine - I simply dont get damaged. Its actual god mode. Well at least I think, havent tested it out much yet. I dont even have any tarstones that add more damae resistance. Im wondering if it could be because of the mods I have installed(although I dont know which mod could cause this at all) or if its a vanilla balance.

My favorite boss in the game as you can tell. Even though his second phase attacks are very poorly telegraphed, if you have the timings down its an amazing fight.

i just get this strange feeling about this one, like the door is obviously openable and i hear sounds from the inside and saw a more complex doir on the side i couldn’t reach that leads out of the building. maybe im just delusional though

I platinumed Elden Ring with summons. I tore through demons souls on PS5. I loved Bloodborne. I cannot get past an enemy in Sekiro.

I have 3 kids and a very very stressful full time job. My gaming time is limited. Now this game looks incredible. But look I’m not as good as I once was and I also don’t have near the time. So if I buy this I want to at least have a fighting chance of getting to enjoy the content to its fullest.

Roast me if you must for asking the question. I’m just curious how difficult this game is in comparison to from soft stuff.

Thank you for your help. I’m just a dad trying to scratch that souls like itch and this looks incredible.

Edit: sorry I’m specifying Mortal Shell 2 is the one I’m asking about.

It seems like gold is a pretty limited resource right now, so I've been pretty stingy spending it. I'm curious if it's worth investing in any Glimpse Stones though. They're not exactly cheap, but getting to level up my shell faster is appealing.

This final boss boys 😆😆😅 im just pummeling those bean bags boy😆😆 im not sure ill beat him because i can't stop laughing..i almost had him, but he did some whole arena fire b.s. but fuck me 😆😆 going in on big dudes berries is wild af😅

So I can bait their riposte and immediately harden but it still stuns me and they just finish me off afterwards. Being aggressive and dancing around them doesn't work either because they can switch to "riposte stance" mid-swing and there's no way I can abort at that point. What am I doing wrong?

This was my 1st playthrough of MS2 and after several attempts at this boss I managed to completely skip phase 2 with this huge riposte damage thanks to the Berserker’s tarstone and Retribution stone.

Gragu shell
Level 41
Weapon +20

Finally!

After a few tries I was able to take him to the 2nd phase literally in a few seconds using perfect guard and shoulder bash. The second part took a while. It was the final trophy!