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Mortal shell lute9/16/2023 ![]() ![]() Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: The Foundling at the end of the game, maybe.The one ranged weapon the Foundling gets, however, is anything but "annoying," as it's more like a siege weapon in portable form. (Even more so if you're Hardened, the arrows don't even break your hardening stance). Annoying Arrows: Depending on the shell you inhabit, arrows can take off a lot or a little health, but they all bounce off your armor, because all four shells happen to be heavily armored.And Your Reward Is Clothes: After the "Rotten Autumn" update, feeding Gorf certain amounts of food (X amount of rats, frogs and/or rotten food) and then playing the lute in front of him will make him puke up a new Shade on a Shell, and each Shell has two different Shades.The creature you begin the game as doesn't speak and seems to be as clueless as you are about what the world is Sester Genessa calls you a "foundling" because you're like a lost orphan. At no point do you receive any kind of exposition cluing you in to what's going on. Ambiguous Situation: Mortal Shell leaves it up to the player to piece together the plot from various flavor texts, item descriptions, and the world itself.And as a bit of Developer's Foresight, consuming one as Tiel, the shell that heals from poison damage, maxes out its familiarity instantly, to keep you from deliberately poisoning to heal yourself. The otherwise-useless "Tarcap" mushroom that poisons you instead grants temporary poison immunity once its familiarity is maxed out. Acquired Poison Immunity: Using certain items ranks up their familiarity statistic and sometimes changes their effect.Healing is rare, and instead you are expected to negate enemy damage entirely by "hardening" your body to stone or dodging through enemy attacks.Īn expansion titled The Virtuous Cycle was unveiled on Jand released on August 18th of the same year, coinciding with the game's release on Steam. ![]() You play as a being that can possess one of 4 "shells" that serve as your body, each one providing a different playstyle. The game has a dark, depressing, and hollowed-out medieval Dark Fantasy setting and character design. ![]() It was released for Playstation 4, Xbox One, and as a timed exclusive for the Epic Games Store on the PC. Mortal Shell is a 2020 Indie Soulslike RPG developed by Cold Symmetry, for whom it is their first major project. ![]()
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