Mortal Shell 2 has just received its very first major update, with the third-person soulslike having launched a little over a week ago. While the usual performance tweaks and balancing patches that ...

The biggest improvement becomes apparent in combat. Mortal Shell 2 is faster, more fluid, and more responsive than its predecessor. Hits deliver impactful visual and audio feedback, enemies react ...

Christian Bognar is a Contributor at DualShockers with over three years of experience covering the gaming industry. Since 2022, he has written guides and reviews for publications including ...

Mortal Shell II handles difficulty in a unique way. Instead of changing the difficulty via a menu setting, you need to find the right item and then use it to change the game’s difficulty. If you want ...

Though 2026 has been loaded with new video games, it's been a relatively quiet year for the Soulslike genre so far. Nioh 3 has been the undisputed king of 2026 since it launched in early February, but ...

The first Mortal Shell is remembered as a small-scale project with promising foundations. Its execution didn’t always realise that promise, so developer Cold Symmetry has gone back to the drawing ...

Christian Bognar is a Contributor at DualShockers with over three years of experience covering the gaming industry. Since 2022, he has written guides and reviews for publications including ...

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As a fan of Mortal Shell’s scaled-down approach to the soulslike back in 2020, I was very skeptical of Mortal Shell 2’s enthusiasm for making everything about it way larger, because bigger is not ...