History VideoGame / MortalShell

* Attack!Attack!Attack!:

* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler: The Foundling at the end of the game]], [[AmbiquousSituation maybe]].

* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler: The Foundling at the end of the game]], maybe.

* AwesomeButImpractical: The players sole projectile weapon melts just about all non-boss monsters in one or two hits. Naturally you might assume you'll be able to go cray with it and turn the game into a cake walk, however ammo is quickly shown to be scarce and only available in certain areas. It also does a relatively small amount of damage to bosses as well as being slow to both use and reload.

* AwesomeButImpractical: The players sole projectile weapon melts just about all non-boss monsters in one or two hits. Naturally you might assume you'll be able to go cray with it and turn the game into a cake walk, however ammo quickly shown to be scarce and only available in certain areas. It also does a relatively small amount of damage to bosses as well as being slow to both use and reload.

* NewGamePlus:

* WasOnceAMan: The fact that Solomon and the Old Prisoner were brothers would imply the Old Prisoner was once human, instead of the massive bird-like creature he is now.

* BFS: the Hallowed Sword is a long blade, easily requiring both hands to swing effectively. The Martyr's Blade you can unlock at the beginning of the second dungeon is even bigger. The hilt of the sword is as long as your character's torso and the blade stands taller than you do. Needless to say, it hits like a truck

* AmbiguousSituation: ''Mortal Shell'' leaves it up to the player to piece together the plot from various flavor texts, item descriptions, and the world itself. At no point do you receive any kind of exposition cluing you in to what's going on.
* CrapsackWorld: ''Mortal Shell'' seems to take place in a world that feels very much dead.

* PossessingADeadBody: Your shells used to be living people. Lucky for you they're not living anymore, so you can hop in.

* RecurringBoss: You fight the knight-like enemy Hadren every time you acquire a new weapon, with him using said new weapon against you and you having to defeat him to acquire it. You also fight werewolf-like Grishkas multiple times as boss fights. The game's only unique bosses are the 3 main objective bosses and the final boss.

* FighterMageThief: The four shells you can possess have different playstyles that align roughly with the typical Fighter, Mage, Thief dynamic.

The game has a dark, depressing, and hollowed-out medieval DarkFantasy setting and character design. You play as a being that can possess one of 4 "shells" that serve as your body, each one providing a different playstyle.

* RecurringBoss: You fight the knight-like enemy Hadern every time you acquire a new weapon, with him using said new weapon against you and you having to defeat him to acquire it. You also fight werewolf-like Grishkas multiple times as boss fights. The game's only unique bosses are the 3 main objective bosses and the final boss.

* FighterMageThief: The four shells you can possess have different playstyles that align roughly with the typical Fighter Mage Thief dynamic.

''Mortal Shell'' is a 2020 Indie SoulslikeRPG developed by Cold Symmetry, for whom it is their first major project. It was released for UsefulNotes/Playstation4 and UsefulNotes/XboxOne, as well as being an [[Creator/EpicGames EpicGamesStore]] exclusive on the PC.

''Mortal Shell'' is a 2020 Indie ''[[VideoGame/DarkSouls Souls-like]]'' ActionRPG developed by Cold Symmetry, for whom it is their first major project. It was released for UsefulNotes/Playstation4 and UsefulNotes/XboxOne, as well as being an [[Creator/EpicGames EpicGamesStore]] exclusive on the PC.

The game wears its ''Dark Souls'' influence on its sleeve, with a dark, depressing, and hollowed-out medieval DarkFantasy setting and character design. The game's main distinction is that instead of playing a single humanoid character, you play as a being that can possess one of 4 "shells" that serve as your body, each one providing a different playstyle.

* AmbiguousSituation: ''Mortal Shell'' has even less exposition that ''Dark Souls'', leaving it up to the player to piece together the plot from various flavor texts, item descriptions, and the world itself. At no point do you receive any kind of exposition cluing you in to what's going on.
* CrapsackWorld: Much like ''Dark Souls'', ''Mortal Shell'' seems to take place in a world that has already past its expiration date. In fact the world of ''Mortal Shell'' is even more decrepit that any of the realms that the ''Dark Souls'' games take place in, coming across as very much being a dead world.
* FighterMageThief: The 4 shells you can possess have different playstyles that align roughly with the typical Fighter Mage Thief dynamic.

The game wears its ''Dark Souls'' influence on its sleeve, with a dark, depressing, and hollowed-out medieval setting and character design. The game's main distinction is that instead of playing a single humanoid character, 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 wears its ''Dark Souls'' influence on its sleeve, with a dark, depressing, and hollowed-out setting and character design. The game's main distinction is that instead of playing a single humanoid character, you play as a being that can possess one of 4 "shells" that serve as your body, each one providing a different playstyle.

''Mortal Shell'' is a 2020 Indie ''[[VideoGame/DarkSouls Souls-like]]'' ActionRPG developed by Cold Symmetry, for whom it is their first major project. It was released for Playstation4 and XboxOne, as well as being an [[Creator/EpicGames EpicGamesStore]] exclusive on the PC.