Mortal Shell II
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Critic Reviews for Mortal Shell II
Mortal Shell II is a strong sequel with smoother combat, excellent exploration, more customization, and improved bosses. Limited enemy variety holds it back, but it's an incredible Soulslike for fans of the genre.
Mortal Shell 2’s expansion into a large scale action-RPG is mostly successful, and all of its new ideas are great ones.
Mortal Shell 2 grows in stature and self-assurance from the first game, establishing itself as an excellent Soulslike with a rhythm of its own.
Being smacked around by a boss in one of these games until I finally get the upper hand is basically my happy place.
Mortal Shell 2 constantly surprised me, whether it was the mechanics behind a newly discovered Shell, the layered improvements to combat, a bulbous monstrosity of a boss fight that was more mouth than anything else, or the ways you can tinker with a build and make it wholly your own.
Mortal Shell II is a 'fun-forward' souls-like, one that values flexibility and variety over sheer difficulty. It grabs you and plies you with a plethora of options for tackling its monsters, dungeons, and bosses, handing you shiny toys and trusts you to work out what to do with them.
Mortal Shell II tries some new things while looking and running beautiful.
If Cold Symmetry can fix the bugs that plague some of the bosses, Mortal Shell II will go down as one of the best Soulslikes on the market right now.
