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Mortal Shell II Is a MASSIVE Upgrade Over the First Game (Impressions)
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Happy Monday people. Today we're going
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to be talking about uh well thoughts and
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impressions video for you of Mort Mortal
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Shell 2 developed by Cole Symmetry and
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published by Playstack. It came out
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August 20th uh for the Couri systems
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Xbox Series X uh PlayStation 5 and a PC
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minus the Switch 2 uh August 20th
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release. Uh okay. So another Souls like
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you know I played about 20 different
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Souls likes and souls from from
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software. So basically
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I also beaten Mortal Shell one. This is
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Mortal Soul 2 actually got a disc. Uh
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Mortal Shell uh 2 off the bat. It's a
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better game. It's going to be uh the
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loop is better. Everything's more
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fleshed out. The hub uh the mechanics
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everything feels better, looks better.
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Uh, probably minus the music and um,
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you know, honestly, I'm like having fun
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with this game, but it's not as fun as I
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thought it would be. But it is a much
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better game than Mortal Shell one, which
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I'll probably give a seven out of 10.
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Mortal Mortal Shell one is not a good
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game. Okay, you know, it's it's a
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borderline seven at best to me, but I
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would say um I'm about halfway through
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Mortal Shell 2. Uh, I beat three of the
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main bosses and I'm playing as a Proxima
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lightning bill with tar stones. Tar
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stones are like equip equipable stones
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that you can add to your shell. Shells
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are uh these shells of past soldiers in
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the world that died and you can inhabit
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your shell as a harbinger by the name of
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a lavender I believe. And you're working
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with the undermother who is like the god
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and you're trying to collect these ovu
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or oam eggs. you're trying to collect a
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number of eggs so you can uh complete
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the game and get to the final boss. So,
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I beat three of the main bosses and the
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whole loop about Mortal Shell is about
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uh these large corruption gates. There's
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three in a northern map and there's
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three in a southern map. Uh
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I wrote down the names. So, yeah, Field
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is a northern map. Ruins of Man is a
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southern map. The gameplay you see
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behind me or on screen right now is of
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the southern map, which is the more
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difficult map is later on. So, I've
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beaten the three bosses in the northern
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map. Um,
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and uh what I'm most impressed about
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is probably the the world's loop, I
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would say. Uh, you got to cleanse these
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beacons with basically like bonfires,
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except they remind me of the those uh
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little tombs or runes that you uh in the
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Breath of the Wild and uh Tears of the
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Kingdom with the puzzles where you
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unlock important very important items
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for Link. In this you unlock you know
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tar stones very important items for your
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uh harbinger and your shell and
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whatever. Uh as far as the shells are
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concerned multiple shells and they got
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story mechanics behind them as you level
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them up. Uh shells are basically like
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classes I would say like for instance
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you see on screen proxima she's
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basically uses like a a bio siphon that
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can like slatch on people and and she
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uses a lot of lightning. So, I learned
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about um a build that harnesses
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critical, you know, tar stone lightning
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attacks and upgrades her lightning and
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crits and everything. So, I'm I'm
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basically running through the game with
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her right now. As I'm leveling up her up
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and leveling up the tire stones, she's
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she's uh just running through the
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bosses. The first two bosses I beat in
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the first try. Now, this game could be
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difficult if you don't understand
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builds. In these type of Soulsike games,
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you got to understand builds. The builds
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are the key to making these games easy.
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I don't care what type of souls like or
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souls game. If you learn about the
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build, you play the right build, and you
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got a build you like playing as, the
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games aren't that difficult. So, I'm
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playing as Proxima. And like I said, I
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beat the first two main bosses on the
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first try. The third boss, I didn't know
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until I started losing that was designed
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to to use parries. Now, there's um
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different types of ways uh stones that
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you could add to the to the shells. Like
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you can add a parry stone, you can add a
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dodge stone, you can add a a a guardian
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stone, and you can add a um a stone like
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a a stone like element where you can
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just harden and you just stay in place.
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You turn into like a juggernaut, you
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just take hits, then it, you know, you
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unfreeze and you start swinging again
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and stuff. So I'm playing basically as
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that with Proxima. And uh yeah, the game
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isn't that difficult for me at least.
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You know, the second area is much more
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difficult as far as challenge go. Uh,
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some of the things I don't like about
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this game is the I think the whole world
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is like suspended in the sky. So, I'm
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falling off [ __ ] bridges. I'm falling
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off the map way too much because Proxima
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with the Ox Axatana blades, which is a
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powerful like two-handed sword that I'm
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using running with. uh her move set
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extends and she just falls off a [ __ ]
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bridge or a cliff trying to fight the
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enemies because I guess the whole
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[ __ ] world is suspended in the sky. I
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think don't quote me on that, but that's
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what it seems like at least right now.
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So, I'm falling way too much. But
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otherwise, the loop is really good, man.
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I mean, you explore you you you find out
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the beacons, the beacons, you know, you
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cleanse them and you get the eggs and,
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you know, you progress the story. Uh you
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cleanse the large uh gates which I think
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is six in total. You know, you cleanse
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those. I already cleansed half of them.
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Um and then you get to the final
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sequence at the end, I guess. But uh so
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far the game is pretty good. It looks
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good. Uh runs pretty well on the
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PlayStation 5 Pro, which is the footage
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you're seeing. That's PlayStation 5 Pro.
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Um
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so looks good. I'm playing in
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performance mode.
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Yeah, I would say that the game is just
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much better than the first uh Mortal
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Shell. So, this is a big uh glow up for
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Co Symmetry. I'll just say that the
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bosses aren't that impressive. Uh they
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have like these cut scenes and stuff and
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you know they they look different
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obviously but for the most part you're
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fighting uh armored briggins humanoids.
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You're fighting uh you're fighting some
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snake men here and there. You're
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fighting uh you know the large main
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bosses which one look like a big
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gelatinous baby and one look like um a
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witch a crone witch in a wheelchair and
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stuff. Uh uh I think they're called
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gishamas. And by the way, you can like
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sort of have a co-op part. I don't know
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if you noticed in the footage that you
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see a remnant of like a spirit of a
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beast. That's called a gish. A gish a
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gisham or a gish. Anyways, there's you
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know once you learn the secrets about
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the game, you learn the puzzles
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mechanics and you you learn about uh
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there's a secret area in the hub called
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the mirror keep which is done way better
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than anything in the Mortal Shell one
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because they really didn't have a true
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hub in the first game, right? Uh the
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Melo keep has a secret area where you
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can lock these monster spirits that can
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fight alongside you as you swing your
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weapon. And depending on whatever you
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you uh tar stones you have, you know,
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things everything gets more powerful or
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less powerful. You you know, there's
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also sidearms. I collected a crossbow. I
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collected guns. So, you know, everything
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that you do, you know, with the tar
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stones, it it makes the game much easier
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as you level them up. this at the at the
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uh the hollow keep you do level up your
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tire stones you level up your weapons
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you know there's there's economy to the
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world there's coins there's um
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XP there's this crow you talk to every
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now and then that gives you maps to the
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area and unfogs the area uh
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there's skills there's a I forgot the
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lady's name it start with a V and she's
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at the the hollow the hollow keep and
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she basically does all the upgrades for
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your shells and unlock locks like
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memories of your shells where there's
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like these sequences you relive the past
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of the warrior that you're inhabiting.
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Uh, another shell I also collected was
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Theo. That's like the first shell you uh
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uh basically find in the game and he's
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basically like a thief. So each shell
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has like a different class like idea uh
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history in the world and everything. Um,
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so they did a lot more fleshing out I
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would say overall with this game
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compared to the first game because the
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first Mortal Shell is pretty uh flat in
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all aspects of of gameplay and the world
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building and the map design and
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everything is just flat. So if nothing
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else, Mortal Shell 2 is to me a much
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better game than the first Mortal Shell.
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Now is Mortal Mortal Shell up there like
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with the From Software Souls games? I
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wouldn't say that. I wouldn't say that.
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You know, I don't know if I want be able
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to rate this game or not, but you know,
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from going through halfway of it, yes,
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there's definitely negatives of the
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game, but I I would probably be leaning
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towards a eight at this point if I did,
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just because the world and the loop are
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that good and engaging. You know, it's
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not the most fun game I'm playing, but
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it's it's done just good enough where
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it's a very solid Souls like, if that
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makes sense.
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Yeah. So, that's about it. You know, I'm
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trying to find something else to talk
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about here. But yeah, uh I don't like
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falling off the map too much because
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it's suspended in the sky like like the
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you're in tears of the kingdom in the
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sky and or some [ __ ] The music is not
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that good. You know, there's this little
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strum metal, you know, strum beat when
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you face the main boss. That's it. Most
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of it's like ambiance uh you know,
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sounds and stuff. It's not a lot of
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music to this game. But uh yeah, that's
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a good Souls like I don't I can't
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honestly say he's better than Liza P or
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Kazan or Nyio or the Surge or you know
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all these other you know Thamesia or you
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know all these other dozens of soul like
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Lords of the Fallen you know there's a
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lot of souls like I played and beaten.
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So you know it's up there. It's up
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there. It's solid you know and you know
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it's just a much better sequel. I would
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say that at least. So I don't know if
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you're one of those Souls guys you got
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to play. You love the Souls games. Maybe
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you should give it a try. And by the
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way, uh this Mortal Mortal Shield 2 is
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$49.99. There's deluxe editions and
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stuff, I believe, too, that cost more.
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But yeah, it's $49.99 uh game. And uh by
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all intents of purposes, it it you can
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spend 35 hours or 40 hours doing like
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everything, collecting everything before
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you get to the end. Okay. From what I'm
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gathering, it's it's a it's a long game
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with lots of content, lots, you know,
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depending on, you know, what build you
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learn, you could die a lot. You know,
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there's a hard mode. There's a secret
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way to get a hard mode and a secret way
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to get a easy mode. Like if you turn the
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sky tonight uh by finding items and, you
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know, doing certain quest quest
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objectives, you can turn the game into a
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much hardcore mode or you could turn the
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game into a easier mode through uh the
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mirror keep and whatnot.
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So yeah, I'm just running through the
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game as Proxima with a lightning build
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with a with dual axatana, which can
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transform Bloodborne style into an axe,
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by the way. That's why it's called ax
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katana, I guess. But uh yeah, en enemy
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variety could be a little bit better,
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too, you know. But the game I can't [ __ ]
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in this game too much because it's just
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so much better than the first one, you
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know. If you play the first one, you'll
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be like, "Yeah, this is just much
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better." Um but that's about it. Make
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on that. And then uh September comes.
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There's a lot of September games, but uh
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that's about it. That concludes uh
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impressions and thoughts for the first
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half of Mortal Shield 2. I'll see you in
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