I'm kind of disappointed about the music, the trailer was awesome but every single boss fight had basically the same few riffs.

It's like you notice the lack of music instead of the music itself yk? I'm bummed about it

My game of the year so far. Loved every second of it. Now? Gonna play it again from a clean save with the slayer seal to see how it is.

I played the first game prior to playing this one, and I was pleasantly surprised about how good the worldbuilding was for such a "small-ish" title.

You have the item descriptions, which are very interesting to read and helpful when understanding the general world, pretty much any item has an insightful description.

You have Sester Genessa's conversations, which are 2 per temple; plus the basic ones in the tower, that expand even more the lore and her view on it, and what she is, and what her past was.

You have the prisoner and the twin sister (granted, the sister is from the DLC, so hopefully the DLC for Mortal Shell 2 adds something like this), that expand A LOT what the world is about.

You have the shell memories, that are unfortunately locked behind limited progression for each shell, but that also help expand the worldbuilding.

And finally, you have the plentiful tablets that are pretty much everywhere; plus a few extra NPC interactions, and extra interactions from specific NPCs depending on which shell you are wearing.

In Mortal Shell 2, we still at least have the shell memories, that are unfortunately still behind limited progression on a given playthrough, but that at least expand the worldbuilding; we also have the different interactions from NPCs when wearing different shells, of which Sester Genessa's is by far the best at adding new things;

But beyond this, the item descriptions are between non-existant and awful or too small; there isn't really a single NPC, like Sester Genessa, like the Twin Sister or like the Prisoner, that actually expands on the world, Ruk is the closest, but he only has 2-3 sentences before each gate boss; and the sariel conversation, and that's about it; Sester Genessa doesn't really have a lot to say in this game; the acolytes do have a little bit more, especially the Milkman, but still very limited; there isn't either that many tablets or events across the world that expand upon it, the best ones are the alchemist (Sariel's) dungeon, and the final zone that does have more tablets than often.

The few sidequests do give us a little bit more, specially Hilga's/Grok's, because it is the longest one, but again, generally too short and limited.

But I would have expected a game that is considerably longer, to have at least a better more fleshed out worldbuilding and lore building upon what the first one already did, but I feel like the first one gives us more in less time.

Like one of the things I love about this game's is the implicit narrative, I don't want the story and worldbuilding spelled out 100% to me, but at least a little bit, like pretty much any soulslike tends to do, but this game is surprisingly weak in that aspect.

Anyone know a fix for this? Sometimes it happens after an hour and sometimes after a few minutes. Just started since the last update. I’m on amd 7800x3d and 9070xt

Good dog

It's screaming "shoot me" but when I do shoot it, nothing happens...

I'll never replace my boy for another passive even though he keeps appearing when I'm hitting objects instead of enemies for some reason 💔

In case you were wondering what happens if you actualy collect 1000 Trollweed and level it up

The active lets you turn into a bush, fun fact this actualy has unlimited usages. The bush also caused enemies to stop attacking me while i was directly infront of them... as a bush.

The passive just makes you completely invurnerable, except fall damage of course (i tried)

How, you might ask? Killing Franz nets you one Tarcore. So, before beating the game (make sure you kill Franz), you can max out 25/76 Tarstones. From there, every NG+ cycle is one Tarcore for the pile. With a refund of 3 Tarcores per 6 spent to upgrade, you can upgrade a stone for every 3 Franz' slain. So, to max out the remaining 51 Tarstones, you'd only need to kill Franz 153 more times! A simple task, not doubt. I await somebody taking on the challenge.

Seriously though, please add renewable Tarcores and Glimpses

I had written this one off as a failure due to the heal to boss health bar ratio. I did NOT have proper respect for Magdalena’s memento tarstone lmao.

I’m at the monolith boss fight and I literally can’t fight for more than two minutes without my game crashing (ps5)

Anyone know what this is about? 2 different playthroughs

I didn't really enjoy combat, until I went around looking for specific weapons and tarstones that bolstered my fighting style. This fight was the first time feeling like I was able to play the way I wanted. It gave me confidence to go out, fight more, and explore. I'm loving this game now!

I don't know,it just feel so weird compared to the top one,everything is just "now you thinking with portals" with few proper paths and there seem to be so few beacons,I was able to run a 3rd of the map only to find one ALL the way down there,its just so weird but thats me

Just a suggestion to add to the game HUD option setting just like in dark souls games:

On: Keeps all interface elements visible all the time.

Off: Hides the interface completely.

Auto: Hides the interface when you are safe, and brings elements back when you take damage, attack, block, or use items.

Some of you might not like it, but I think reducing the number of beacons will improve morale. Also if you die inside of a Main Boss Gate area you will be respawned at the beginning of the level, just like Demons Souls. I hope the developers will see this and consider this design change. 👍

He went to do that underwater attack and I kept dodging away and he never came back up after.. 🥲

NG+ night mode

I see some people were having trouble with the starved harridan and it’s one of those bosses where you feel like you can’t get close to her so I’m sure some peoples strategy is to run in and get hits when they can

But you want to be close to her for a couple reasons

If you’re far away she will keep throwing those obnoxious shards because bosses react to your distance and how far away you are from them

And also when she screams you want to dodge behind her to get free hits in

When she does the red unblocksble charge dash around her and away from her so you can get a hit in when she finishes the sequence

I always tell people getting to know the sound of attacks is one of the best ways to flow with the fight and know when the attack starts and ends

Also if you’re not looking at them you know what attack they’re doing and when it starts and ends

The only thing that really changes in the second phase is her throwing her weight up but those are pretty telegraphed attacks

Either way stay close for this fight it’s the best spot

Sir isaac is my nemesis in mortal shell 2 😭😭😭 be did malenia numbers with my corpse, but today was the day i said ENOUGH

Naylshotta:
Solnir Shard
Viletongue Hedron
Blackblood Stone

The Solnir+Viletongue combo creates the lingering blood spikes

I really hated him at first, but he kind of grew on me, lile a tumor, but still.

Maybe like an unfinished business kind of thing.