I'd say prototype is indeed a good way to describe this game. But maybe just like Demon Souls was like a prototype for Dark Souls, this game could be the predecessor to a great sequel.

I didn't know this at the time, but you can actually avoid Tarsus' instant slash attack by strafing counter-clockwise around him when you are close. The attack will automatically miss you. The follow up needs to be dodged though. But that's not a big issue. Being able to avoid the instant slash makes the fight a lot easier and allows you to be more aggressive instead of staying at a distance, In other words, stay close to him and hit him while he's skating around and always strafe counterclockwise around him so you automatically avoid the instant slash whenever he does it.

Mate I just found your channel when I was looking at Nioh 2 no damage, your channel is awesome and such a hidden gem. I hope you get the growth you deserve, very soon

Only 3 days after the release, holy moly

I've discovered an awesome shortcut in the frozen temple. After you've defeated the enslaved grisha, save your checkpoint with sester, then run put the door to the right, and as you start to cross the bridge, run off to the left side and hardern. It took me a few goes to get the perfect spot but once you find it, you'll drop all the way to the bottom right outside the final chamber where the boss fight is, basically bypassing the entire level.

Just wanted to thank you for this video, it was very helpful. I managed to complete this run, and it took me 2 hours to beat the giant chicken-man. As I expected he was quite cheap, and this inconsistent roll made me die by his sweep attack numerous times. As a tip for some attempting this run, sometimes it's easier to just fight through the jumping nosferatu goblins because they are quite difficult to ran away from, but they go down with Martyr's Blade fairly easily. All in all, Mortal Shell is a good game, I had a tonne of fun playing it.

I really hope they put out more dlc`s out. This is one of my favourite Souls like game and i would love to have more content of it.

I DID IT!! after much frustration and what felt like hundreds of attempts I finally got the platinum. My keep calm tactic worked, I would give myself 3 attempts, then leave it alone. That way I wouldn't become too frustrated with it, and just now on my third and final alloted attempt of the day I finally nailed that sucker. The adrenaline was through the roof, I could barely stop my hands from shaking as I got his health bar closer and closer to empty. But once I had finally negotiated his third and final minion summoning I knew u had it in the bag as long as I didn't do anything stupid, so I simply let him keep shooting back to do his ranged attack, hardened mid heavy attack, then 2 more hits and dodge, a few of those and the job was done. Sooooooo satisfying.

Holy shit I was looking up a guide for this to platinum it and my favorite KZfaqr already has a video on it hell yeah

Enemy positions are reset if you talk to Sester Genessa and press ‘Yes’ to “gaze upon your nascent form”. It should show your foundling form and your stats, that’s how you know you’re safe. Great video btw 👍🏽

Hey, excellent video. This is a very well done guide, and your narration is great. I used this to get through three of the required bosses last night, and I'll use it for the rest later. I do want to give a tip I noticed for the second phase of Crucix, since it shortens the fight by a lot. I did collect the weapon ability for the ice blade, and if you hit him with a running R2 with that buff enabled, it staggers him every time (also had 5 acids on it).

Awesome video and great commentary. Thanks man, and keep up the awesome work.

there he is, the madman

Dude you are my hero! Just got the Plat with the help of your video. 👍 Ironically the first boss I fought, Tarsus gave me the most trouble.

ik you probably already know this by now but just in case you dont, gorf give each shell a different color pattern or shade, all you have to do is feed him 5 roasted rats and play the lute in front of him in order to get one, if you want to get a second on for you're shell you have to feed him 10 and do the same thing.

3yrs too late but if anyone looks it's more or less a giant circle with like an x path in the middle. Work your way from the right and you will find each shrine easy. The best part of the run is you csn rush most areas easy cuz the enemies are slow af and only really have to fight rhe boss

So what did you guys think of the game?

Just completed this run yesterday. Thank you for the guide it helped alot. But I have to say the final boss fight and the ice fight were definitely some of the more annoying things. All in all not bad for a second playthrough. Now the dlc no shell it is haha

16:25 giggity

You can skip the whole waves and swish attack by the LB RB action with the martyrs Blade. The eye frame is long enough to keep you invulnerable for the 2 waves.

yes this elevator in dim gate is exactly what you said :) and getting it makes things a lot easier ..

I love this channel

That “giggity” was perfect when you said “go limp”😂

thanks for this guide, it actually motivated me to do my Obsidian run and finally get the platinum trophy for this game. in preparation i collected all the things i needed to have a +5 weapon (acids, the rod, etc) that took me much longer than it should have. i did tarsus first because you can cheese the whole dungeon after enslaved grisha with a good jump from the top in the main ice "hall" and then harden before landing at the very bottom in front of the boss room. i needed HOURS to beat tarsus he was so annoying, so is the invisible ice AOE and also the invisible arena boundaries that kill you... however, the fire dungeon and imrod beat it in a matter of MINUTES! imrod first try, so easy. i have a feeling the seat of infinity + boss will take much longer. last boss should be okay, it's in my recent memory and so is a valid attack pattern. cheers edit 1: currently stuck on that stupid boss in seat of infinity... although i never think that he's difficult (i found tarsus a lot more annoying) i somehow always make a tiny mistake. edit 2: shortly after making edit 1, i stopped doing mistakes and beat the fucker :) edit 3: i am at the final boss. i got into 50% of his health on first try. it's only hard because of the clones... but i will prevail eventually at this point i just know it. thanks for the guide! edit 4: i can't seem to beat the unchained because the camera fucks me every time

Just finished my own obsidian run on PC. Maybe it's changed since this was originally released, but all weapons deal similar stagger damage per each hit. Because of the extra animation commitment being largely unnecessary I used the base sword for the run as you'll be able to push just a bit more damage more safely. Great video though.

*YOU ARE A 🐐 FOR THIS!!! To get the platinum do you have to fight Hadern for every weapon or can I leave them? I only plan on getting the long sword you are using.*

Oh wow I didn't know this game was made by an indie studio. I just assumed it was someone established already. That really does change my perspective on the little quality of life issues.

They added so many bear traps on Akumu, and most of them were hidden in grass or something similar. The Laura fight was packed with them, it was a nightmare...

Little tips for the final boss Since we use this big sword anyway, might as well take advantage of special abilities too. L1/R1 can be pretty useful to be invulnerable if you’re short of the hard skin, saved me a few times when you have the reflexes to think about it. And after that, using the R2 attack will make him instantly frozen every time you hit, for like 3 times. Good and safe damage. L2/R2 is actually the must have. Absolutely use this for every minions phase. Stack them, and use the special attack, the ice aoe will froze all of them, and you risk nothing at all to take them all out at once. You just have to watch the boss moves, you might need to harden, but the minions will be easily dealt with. Anyway, good guide, just got my platinum, but the final boss still took me 3 hours aha. The fucker is so tanky. The rest was fairly easy

I did this run a week or so after release to get the platinum. I thought I would hate it but it wasn’t bad and it was actually pretty fun. I used the smaller sword though, it felt like it has a little quicker recovery for dodging after an attack.

Amazing video! Though this no shell run is frustrating AF. Too many things can cheap shot you.

I’m very late on this, but you can trivialize the Imrod fight by running away, once you get far enough he will always cancel into his double whirl charge, both hits of which can be avoided with a single dodge to the back-left, then either running attack with the smaller weapons, or just swing with the larger ones, it’s very consistent and easy to get him back into the loop if you stick too close

Hey I know I’m kinda late but what if you play the game normally without any shells but also not in obsidian mode, and right before you fight the unchained you activate the obsidian mode and fight him. Do you still get the obsidian trophy?

im gonna say i feel like the parry hit boxes in mortal shell are to acurate, so you go to parry the halberd guys at the rythm your used to and still get hit because your a little to close and the blade hits you before the staff connects with the parry tool.

Awesome guide! Btw at 1:01:50 as for what went wrong, you simply hadnt switched to the bomb infusion for parry and were still with the default life leech one. As indicated by the lower left icon by your bars.

Just finished my first proper "play with shells, kill and collect everything" run, and whilst there were some very irritating bits, overall had a great time. The aesthetic in particular is awesome. Not sure I fancy a no shell run though...spam dodging 24/7 doesn't look fun. Great vid though, the gravity bit 😂😂

the ghost aoe here is fire

I found switching back to the starting sword to be very effective against crusix and end boss. Also don't worry. Crusix's second faze is easier.

1:09:40 YES!!! IT WORKS!! You are a genius!!!

I remember doing this. Most fights I finished pretty fast under 2 hours. Tarsus took me 5 continuous hours to beat

Just got platinum with your guide ! Very good video and as of now the they removed enemies when u get out of the tunnel and enemies de-agro after talking to sester but the last enemy was very tough do a lot of combination unlike your playthrough

Hey man, I'm not sure if you'll see this comment as this video is a bit old, but I love the explanations given during the guide and now I'm going to attempt playing the game for the first time (ever) with these achievements in mind! Do you have any tips or suggestions? From what I can tell, to get the no shell, achievement, it's straightforward, but people often refer to a 'no hit' achievement as well? I don't know exactly the name of it, but I'm curious if you think it's doable as a first timer

I just finished this and I just want to point out that The Unchained is actually the worst boss I have ever fought in any game. I did not realise just how horrid of a boss he was until I did life is suffering and never before have I agreed with a achievement title so much, I spent almost 6 hours trying to kill him, problem was due to a visual bug most of the waves would not actually show up but their hotboxes would, I would have to use the clones rolling through them to estimate where the waves where, and if there where none I would have to use the Martyr's blade's ice buff to get enough I frames to go through both waves when I thought they had spawned. Overall fantastic guide, helped me out tons.

This game is very enjoyable. Can't wait for dlcs on this one and mortal shell 2

Just holding circle is enough to do the running attack. No movement required.

Aagh, just got done with Tarsus using the same weapon as you. How you did it +2 I have no idea as it took me 3 hours of attempts at +5. I got the first phase down pretty consistently but it was the second phase that got me. I ended up playing super safe, charging a running r2, hardening, letting him come to me and then rolling like a madman. This meant the stagger potential of the weapon wasnt open to me, to it took a while! Not looking forward to the last boss :(

Giant Toad plays music for you. You have to exhaust his dialogue. Basically speak with him x 2 - That's it - an ambient electro track will start playing. Also, "Helmet Chicken" reminds me of a giant-sized "Shit Bird Corvian" from the first DS3 DLC - except with a helmet :)

Good. Constructive criticism for a great prototype game

Just cleared the first playthrough with everything done , just need this run for the platinum, I'll start this night, oh boy, wish me luck.... 😰

Design ‘flaws’ as you put it are just part of the game. Life is not fair 😂

Is your martyr blade +5 on final boss

can this be done on new game plus?

Got this game some time ago, not impressed from the first half/one hour. should I try this?

So the toad was a mystery for a while but he gives you skins for your shells and dark form if you feed him roasted rats and the glimpse from the final boss. Each shell as 3 skins from the rats at iirc 5, 10, and 15 rats per skin (no you can’t feed 15 and get all three at once) and a “corrupted” skin for the glimpse. To do the event to get the skin you feed him the rats or glimpse and then play a lute infront of him and if you fed him enough things a cutscene plays where he smiles then spits the shade onto you.

Damn, I completely missed Genessa at 1:07:19 😭 Also your idea about the elevator at 1:09:38 is correct

Just did this run today. Had no idea you had done a run... shame. Interesting to see the changes that the devs made since release. Still some straight up bullshit in the game but they clearly cared enought to go back and change some thing people were critical of.

58:43 well they should, especially when imcorporating a no hit run

Thank god i just killed unchained on obsidian no shell. Half hr before i only had to hit him once to beat him and he swiped me as i got too greedy i was like wtf. Even his dialogue kicked in and i thought we killed each other but no. Grrrruxhdshhxdhzdhehjxjdffs Oh well got both trophies. Just need 2 more for plat as i fooked my 1st playthrough up on missables. Good vid thx again.

59:00 It's like your character hit his head on a rock while rolling and died instantly

I really hate that you can only take one hit. One life bar would have been fair i think. Not sure if im gonna try this.

I can’t avoid the spawning of the minions, even when I stay close

Are you from Netherlands?

The only thing I didn't like about this video is that I was reminded dark souls 2 exists.

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Haden has no cool down I fought him baited harden then used my harden then he just used his harden again

I personally think that asking an already small team of devs to make the mist section completely diffrent from normal map is kinda too much. If they had more developers in their team then it would be a viable complaint but making a map this detailed probably already took them a lot of time. Also i think they wanted to make going back a challange on it's own. But i'll agree on the fact that changing all enemies to one enemy type seems a bit lazy since it's all copy paste. If they would do 2-3 enemies it would probably be a perfect number. Probably even smarter would be adding types of enemies based on the amount of bosses slain but that is just a proposition.

I did it today. Going through the crossbow ladies at the Dim Gate was the hardest part of the run. I thought the Unchained would take hours but I beat it first try. Great guide !

Tarsus is mind-blowingly annoying. Holy shit I've never been so annoyed with a boss before, his hitboxes can be such shit. Anyway, he's done, great guide so far.

and i think it's a really good game overall, such as a 7/10 BUT when you play obsidian form you notice all the small things and details that have gone wrong AOE, tracking, attacks not hitting, wierd hitboxes, bullshit stuff in general and then you get mad :)

You say exploitable, but I say it's only because you've already played games like this b4 playing this one. For new people, the bosses and enemies are VERY difficult. It's your expectations that are off. In a tutorial, no one is expected to beat the boss. Perhaps those who have played butt ton of dark souls type fighting games might but I think the enemies and bosses are pretty much about right for most people. Not everyone has an Einstein IQ like you do. :)

This is such an underrated channel, I watched the Nier playthrough and it was still funny to this day.

I had at least a dozen Tarsus runs ruined simply by getting too close to the edge of the arena. By the way, it just insta-kills you. Such horseshit.

:D I DIE THE FIRST 10 MINUTES 6 TIMES.. MAYBE I DONT TRY TO GET THE PLATIN! :-D But thanks a lot

The archers 8. The obsidian city got some nice thighs

Who decided to make this a trophy? I keep getting my ass handed to me by the enslaved grisha. One hit kill for the whole game, so can't make a single mistake on a boss fight. I'll probably abandon this platinum as it will ruin the game for me. The boss in the frozen area destroyed me several times when I had a shell and heaps of health and regen, so how ill ever kill that with the foundling ill never know.

I really hate the "running back to Falgrim" part....

10:50 ? not design flaw, that's called a BUG. Obviously, no one would DESIGN it to automatically kill you while you are waiting to regain control Dude, kind of get over yourself?