Mortal Shell II

Mortal Shell 2 delivers exactly what I was looking for. As a massive BloodBorne fan, this game really checks all the boxes for me. Eldritch horrors, badass armor, badass animations, absolutely amazing finishers and the gore the blood and the gritty atmosphere. So far about 18 hours in I've loved every animation, every weapon, every shell every area, every boss. If I were to Nitpick on a high level, I would say I'm missing a bit of diversity in some bosses and enemies attacks. I'm not a fan of grinding a boss 100x just to learn it's moveset ( F U Elden Ring), but MS2 could use a bit more of a challenge besides higher damage output. A few more mechanics would do those bosses real justice. That being said, It significantly boosts my urge to play by not having to retry a boss for the millionth time. The bosses may not be that difficult, but at least I'm enjoying defeating them, and gaining their rewards. If you want a hardcore experience and only want to be punched in the face thousand times, go play another game. I can really lean back and just play this game for 24hrs straight, and I wouldn't once feel bored. The Leveling System scared me in the beginning - "No specific stats, where is my pure strength build??!!" But later on, when you acquire more shells, more weapons, more fragments you come to realize that this game doesn't restrict you to pick one path on a playthrough. You can reset your shell abilities any time for free and the levels only boost all your main stats permanently. The variety of weapons is great, the amount could use a few more. Once you acquired all the weapon types, that'll be it. That being said, each fragment (Skills for weapons) can be applied to all or just a certain type of weapon. So there's alot of experimenting to do PLUS, you can be a kung fu sheep so there's that. I won't say much on the performance since I have a very good PC but from what I've read so far, it feels very optimized. All in all, i'll give this game a very good 8/10. The amount of weapons, mechanics in bosses are my only criticism of the game. I'm not going to mention day one bugs such as being launched into the air at mach10 speed. Because personally I found it very funny and it didn't really sabotage my run.