So you harden, and they hit you, they get staggered, and your next attack automatically finishes hitting them, after you go back to normal.

Or maybe you’re in the middle of a combo, and the enemy is about to strike. Waiting for an enemy to hit you, so you can finish it off quick, and move on. Eventually you’re juggling this for offense and defense. When enemies hit you, your stone status breaks, and the enemy staggers, so you can either dodge away, or get more damage in. So, you turn to stone, so long as you hold L2. Instead of a traditional block move, you “harden” instead. The blocking mechanic has been a little mixed up in this game as well. It brings a sense of danger, and urgency. So if you need health from a parry, but have no resolve, you’re out of luck. This are consumable bars of energy, that are gained from dealing damage to enemies. Now unfortunately all these things are used by having “resolve”. All of these are unlocked from beating bosses, so it gives you a nice change of pace, on how you want to play. You can heal, from successful parries, or do massive damage to your enemy, by putting an explosive on them, or do a mass amount of damage to people around you. Now this, has a party system, where if you take the time to learn it, can really help you out. In most games of the genre, you have your normal move set. Luckily, the gameplay half makes up for everything wrong with not knowing the world or story. I could’ve stood up everytime I found something. Is this partly my own fault that i couldnt read the lore? Sure. What were the lore drops about? No idea! Who’s this person? Your guess is as good as mine. My big, massive television, and I couldn’t read anything in the game, unless I stood up, and pushed my nose against it. I sit roughly 12 feet from my television. The reason for this? The font on the game is so small. Unfortunately for me, I literally had no idea what was going on.

The game has “hidden lore”, that is only found when you hit specific walls or statues, with your weapon, and then it appears.

You find this lore, on rocks, and by hitting your weapons on walls. In tune with the genre it’s in, most of the story is told through lore in the world. In the world of Mortal Shell, you play as a frail being, who is tasked with saving the land.

Mortal shell lore