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.
That's a great way to think of it. Even then, the ONLY part of this game I didn't like was the Seat of Infinity. There's always one area or boss in every Souls game so it fits the bill.
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
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 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.
I doubt it, but then again, I wasn't expecting any DLC to begin with. So who knows what the future brings. I'm more interested in a Mortal Shell 2 with a larger team and higher budget though. That would have some really serious potential
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).
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
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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 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 😂😂
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 :)
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 !
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.
*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.*
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
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.
I liked it a lot. It's a little rough around the edges, but I loved that they actually added some cool new ideas to the Souls formula. I also like that it's so bite-sized. Dark Souls is amazing, but it is hard to make time for games like that these days.
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
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
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.
I heard that there have been several changes since release, however I haven't played the game after making this video so I never experienced those changes myself
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 :(
Yeah you can't play TOO carefully in the second phase. If it takes too long you inevitably get caught in his wonky stab hitbox or the instant slash gets you. Don't worry though. That was the hardest part of the run already
@@PressContinue hardest part eh? I did NOT like the Unchained. It goes on far too long and also feels really janky. Again I found a combination of getting in the right damage (whenever he slid to me I did 3 R2 attacks and then two R2s on the stagger, mostly played it safe for other attacks, and switched to the hammer and chisel for adds as you recommended!). Thanks to you and a couple other vids I've done my first real challenge run! I've completed most of the Soulslikes and never summon for example but this is the first real restriction I've played under and it feels great! Thanks a lot man :) love the channel
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
No there are two achievements that are extremely similar, namely no shell and obsidian dark form. Doing the latter will automatically get you the former, which is precisely what this guide will get you. I have no clue why those are even separate achievements to begin with since in any practical sense, they boil down to the exact same thing.
I doubt that there will be a DLC. But a sequel or spiritual successor is something I would very much like to see as well. These designers have some massive potential. They simply need more people, time and resources. So hopefully that will happen.
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?
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.
Well it's so short that I finished it in a single day. So given that it's not that long, if you don't enjoy the first hour I suspect you're not going to enjoy the rest either
@@PressContinue I really think that they can enjoy the rest of it tbh, at first i wasnt impressed and it was quite boring to die and die to simple enemies, but today i finished it with no guides and by myself learning from failure and i can say its one of my favorite games now
Even tho, i recommend completing the game normally, NG+, a second NG+ and do an Obsidian run so when you are done you have enough tar and glimpse items saved up in the inventory to get your progress with shells back
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.
Also forgot to add earlier in my countery a lot of people say that when someone complains or gets angry at something/one it's because they care about it/them so i guess it can describe perfectly why are u complaining a lot about this game in here.
Yeah, I totally understand why they couldn't go all silent hill with the mist mechanic. It's the same reason why the absodian area feels so empty. It's an indie game with a small team. And as I said I am already extremely impressed that an indie team could make a game like this. So I'm certainly not blaming the developers for where the game falls a bit short. In fact they deserve praise for how far they were able to take a game like this. Despite all of that, they actually managed to make a DLC which will be released on the 18th. And yes as you said, I mostly complain about games I enjoy. Because if I don't care about the game, it's not even worth complaining about in the first place. I would just forget about it.
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. :)
Well they showed up during my fight as well. But only near the end. In my experience staying close makes it unlikely that he will spawn them before that. But as I said, he is likely designed to do that move regardless once his health gets below a certain threshold. So eventually you will have to deal with them, but only once, not counting the healing whirpool of course.
@@PressContinue the spawns seem to be scripted to me, happens the exact same moment every fight no matter if I’m close or far (I’ve been trying for a couple of hours) and I get 3 not counting the whirlpool anyway turned off my system for now, hopefully I’ll have better luck later
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.
Beat him, and now I have formed the opinion that The Unchained is one of the worst bosses I have EVER fought, and I've played through pretty much every souls-like out there. Literally without the fucking adds I would have already beaten it. What a shit boss design, the devs needed to fucking think this through a little more.
Yeah, In general I think that adding a whole bunch of little minions to a bossfight is bad boss design. Rom in Bloodborne kinda works, but in 99% of cases it simply ruins the fight.
@@PressContinue At best it's an unnecessary annoyance that doesn't really add anything to the fight (like the 3 wolves in the Gravetender fight in DS3), and at worst it just makes for annoying artificial difficulty like in The Unchained. It does work for Rom, but even then I think giving Rom a more diverse and aggressive attack pattern would've been more enjoyable than running around killing the little spiders for a couple minutes at the start of each phase.
Yeah I know. However I think I only got killed that way once, because it's at the very edge of the arena. In fact, this me just be my imagination but I think that on release day that deadly area around the arena was wider and then after the first or second patch it got smaller. Because this run was on third day after release. Are you still on an earlier version of the game by any chance?
@@PressContinue No, it's whatever the current version on PS4 is. It's just a little too easy to back into it without realizing you're doing it. The first two or three times I had no idea what happened, I thought I was dying to a glitch.
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 :)
Let's hope they can expand their team, get a higher budget and then produce a high quality sequel. Because if they can do this with 15 people, they should be able to make something real good with more resources
@@PressContinue level designer would be nice too. The dungeons are varying too harshly in depth and interest, and the fallgrim area is extremely confusing and visually very unappealing.
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?
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.
Sitrep - after killing the enslaved grisha I decided to head back and take out imlerith and I smashed him first attempt, easy. Did some grind for tar and managed to get the big boy sword to level 5. Then headed for eternal narthex.the dim gate stairs are proving harder than the unchained boss fight in a shell. Those assholes with crossbows are a nightmare. I HATE them and I fear ill need to take a break or my controller is going to end up embedded in the wall.
Done for the day. Approx 100 failed attempts at the dim gate. Only managed to clear the stairs twice and both times got killed by the last archer before the checkpoint. Maybe I'll try again tomorrow, maybe not but it was becoming a chore and that's not what gaming is about. A challenge sure but this isn't a challenge it's a crapshoot.
Day 2 of this run and wouldn't you know it, after a break and coming back to it I cleared the dim gate stairs in 3 attempts. Boss took me a while but after the dim gate escapades from last night, I was feeling so calm and relaxed u just went with it and took my medicine until I finally beat him, took maybe 20 attempts, that little asshole with the arrows was the worst bit, once he was dead the second stage was a cakewalk.
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.
@@PressContinue I know, I was just sharing information because I only learned about the shades like 2 weeks ago so it’s not unrealistic that others don’t know the frog’s purpose. Amazing video btw, you make an obsidian black run look easy.
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.
That's a great way to think of it. Even then, the ONLY part of this game I didn't like was the Seat of Infinity. There's always one area or boss in every Souls game so it fits the bill.
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.
Damn dude you are good at this game
@@Oznola19 Not exceptionally. But I appreciate the sentiment
Cool, I'll walk counter-clockwise around him then. Right on!
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
Thanks bro :) I hope so too
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 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.
Only 3 days after the release, holy moly
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 doubt it, but then again, I wasn't expecting any DLC to begin with. So who knows what the future brings. I'm more interested in a Mortal Shell 2 with a larger team and higher budget though. That would have some really serious potential
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).
Good tip
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.
I made this 3 days after release. Those different shades and such weren't in the game yet back then.
there he is, the madman
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
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.
The game seems to have been gone through quite a few changes since release, so that sounds pretty plausible
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...
It was more than nightmare... it's was akumu...
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.
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.
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.
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.
Awesome! congrats with the platinum. And yes Tarsus gave me more trouble than the other bossfights as well.
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.
Awesome video and great commentary. Thanks man, and keep up the awesome work.
Thanks :)
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
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
59:00 It's like your character hit his head on a rock while rolling and died instantly
LOL, or the planet this game takes place on is the size of Jupiter
yes this elevator in dim gate is exactly what you said :) and getting it makes things a lot easier ..
That “giggity” was perfect when you said “go limp”😂
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 😂😂
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 :)
Well... it's better than nothing I guess. And yes I can see that resemblance
@@PressContinue Indeed . . . Electro-Toad and Helmet Chicken need to be a band
@@PressContinue I'm sure you already figured this out but he changes the character shade as well
Well shades didn't exist back then.
@@PressContinue indeed
Gave video👍 kort geleden pas mortal shell begonnen te spelen en had er niet veel van verwacht maar voor een kleine studio echt best wel goed
Ben ik het zeker mee eens :)
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 !
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.
16:25 giggity
*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.*
No you don't. The only trophy that's related to hadern is that you have the defeat the tutorial version. You don't have to fight the other versions.
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
58:43 well they should, especially when imcorporating a no hit run
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.
Agreed. The infinite stun locks are actually ridiculous
So what did you guys think of the game?
I think short but sweet kind of covers it.
I liked it a lot. It's a little rough around the edges, but I loved that they actually added some cool new ideas to the Souls formula. I also like that it's so bite-sized. Dark Souls is amazing, but it is hard to make time for games like that these days.
Lots of issues but I had great fun on NG. Gonna do NG+ with a different shell and weapon, then do this run with your help :)
Awesome Seneca :) good luck
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
I remember doing this. Most fights I finished pretty fast under 2 hours. Tarsus took me 5 continuous hours to beat
I love this channel
the ghost aoe here is fire
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
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!!!
Can't have a souls-like without shortcuts :)
very talented gamer
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.
I heard that there have been several changes since release, however I haven't played the game after making this video so I never experienced those changes myself
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 :(
Yeah you can't play TOO carefully in the second phase. If it takes too long you inevitably get caught in his wonky stab hitbox or the instant slash gets you. Don't worry though. That was the hardest part of the run already
@@PressContinue hardest part eh? I did NOT like the Unchained. It goes on far too long and also feels really janky. Again I found a combination of getting in the right damage (whenever he slid to me I did 3 R2 attacks and then two R2s on the stagger, mostly played it safe for other attacks, and switched to the hammer and chisel for adds as you recommended!). Thanks to you and a couple other vids I've done my first real challenge run! I've completed most of the Soulslikes and never summon for example but this is the first real restriction I've played under and it feels great! Thanks a lot man :) love the channel
Congratulations :) glad I could help
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
No there are two achievements that are extremely similar, namely no shell and obsidian dark form. Doing the latter will automatically get you the former, which is precisely what this guide will get you. I have no clue why those are even separate achievements to begin with since in any practical sense, they boil down to the exact same thing.
Good. Constructive criticism for a great prototype game
This game is very enjoyable. Can't wait for dlcs on this one and mortal shell 2
I doubt that there will be a DLC. But a sequel or spiritual successor is something I would very much like to see as well. These designers have some massive potential. They simply need more people, time and resources. So hopefully that will happen.
@@PressContinue DLC!
Yeah I've heard. Unexpected but certainly welcome
Amazing video! Though this no shell run is frustrating AF. Too many things can cheap shot you.
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.... 😰
Good luck! don't get hit!
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?
I can't confirm that you will, but I suspect that you would.
Damn, I completely missed Genessa at 1:07:19 😭
Also your idea about the elevator at 1:09:38 is correct
On my first playthrough I missed her to. She kind of blends in with the background. And good to know about the elevator.
@@PressContinue Exactly, she blends in too much. I really disliked this area.
This is such an underrated channel, I watched the Nier playthrough and it was still funny to this day.
Thank you so much. And great username by the way XD
Just holding circle is enough to do the running attack. No movement required.
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.
Congratulations!
You had already collected 2 acids by the time you got a blade you must of forgot
Design ‘flaws’ as you put it are just part of the game. Life is not fair 😂
Got this game some time ago, not impressed from the first half/one hour. should I try this?
Well it's so short that I finished it in a single day. So given that it's not that long, if you don't enjoy the first hour I suspect you're not going to enjoy the rest either
@@PressContinue I really think that they can enjoy the rest of it tbh, at first i wasnt impressed and it was quite boring to die and die to simple enemies, but today i finished it with no guides and by myself learning from failure and i can say its one of my favorite games now
Even tho, i recommend completing the game normally, NG+, a second NG+ and do an Obsidian run so when you are done you have enough tar and glimpse items saved up in the inventory to get your progress with shells back
can this be done on new game plus?
Sure, but why would you?
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.
Also forgot to add earlier in my countery a lot of people say that when someone complains or gets angry at something/one it's because they care about it/them so i guess it can describe perfectly why are u complaining a lot about this game in here.
Yeah, I totally understand why they couldn't go all silent hill with the mist mechanic. It's the same reason why the absodian area feels so empty. It's an indie game with a small team. And as I said I am already extremely impressed that an indie team could make a game like this. So I'm certainly not blaming the developers for where the game falls a bit short. In fact they deserve praise for how far they were able to take a game like this.
Despite all of that, they actually managed to make a DLC which will be released on the 18th.
And yes as you said, I mostly complain about games I enjoy. Because if I don't care about the game, it's not even worth complaining about in the first place. I would just forget about it.
Is your martyr blade +5 on final boss
Yes
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. :)
Are you from Netherlands?
Absolutely
@@PressContinue i can hear it, greetings from germany. :D And thx for the guide
I can’t avoid the spawning of the minions, even when I stay close
Well they showed up during my fight as well. But only near the end. In my experience staying close makes it unlikely that he will spawn them before that. But as I said, he is likely designed to do that move regardless once his health gets below a certain threshold. So eventually you will have to deal with them, but only once, not counting the healing whirpool of course.
@@PressContinue the spawns seem to be scripted to me, happens the exact same moment every fight no matter if I’m close or far (I’ve been trying for a couple of hours) and I get 3 not counting the whirlpool
anyway turned off my system for now, hopefully I’ll have better luck later
The only thing I didn't like about this video is that I was reminded dark souls 2 exists.
Haden has no cool down I fought him baited harden then used my harden then he just used his harden again
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.
Beat him, and now I have formed the opinion that The Unchained is one of the worst bosses I have EVER fought, and I've played through pretty much every souls-like out there. Literally without the fucking adds I would have already beaten it. What a shit boss design, the devs needed to fucking think this through a little more.
Yeah, In general I think that adding a whole bunch of little minions to a bossfight is bad boss design. Rom in Bloodborne kinda works, but in 99% of cases it simply ruins the fight.
@@PressContinue At best it's an unnecessary annoyance that doesn't really add anything to the fight (like the 3 wolves in the Gravetender fight in DS3), and at worst it just makes for annoying artificial difficulty like in The Unchained. It does work for Rom, but even then I think giving Rom a more diverse and aggressive attack pattern would've been more enjoyable than running around killing the little spiders for a couple minutes at the start of each phase.
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.
It's tough but not as bad as you might expect
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.
Yeah I know. However I think I only got killed that way once, because it's at the very edge of the arena. In fact, this me just be my imagination but I think that on release day that deadly area around the arena was wider and then after the first or second patch it got smaller. Because this run was on third day after release. Are you still on an earlier version of the game by any chance?
@@PressContinue No, it's whatever the current version on PS4 is. It's just a little too easy to back into it without realizing you're doing it. The first two or three times I had no idea what happened, I thought I was dying to a glitch.
The archers 8. The obsidian city got some nice thighs
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 :)
Let's hope they can expand their team, get a higher budget and then produce a high quality sequel. Because if they can do this with 15 people, they should be able to make something real good with more resources
@@PressContinue level designer would be nice too. The dungeons are varying too harshly in depth and interest, and the fallgrim area is extremely confusing and visually very unappealing.
I think you were too harsh on your opinion about the game of course it could be better but it doesn't feel that short from the "line"
Its late but yes ghosts in fire temple use fire aoe lol
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:D I DIE THE FIRST 10 MINUTES 6 TIMES.. MAYBE I DONT TRY TO GET THE PLATIN! :-D But thanks a lot
Ha ha, yeah one hit kill mode means dying a lot. But it's a good challenge if you ask me.
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?
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.
Ahhhhhhh perseverance pays off finally killed that grisha. Man that was intense. I CAN DO THIS!!!
Sitrep - after killing the enslaved grisha I decided to head back and take out imlerith and I smashed him first attempt, easy. Did some grind for tar and managed to get the big boy sword to level 5. Then headed for eternal narthex.the dim gate stairs are proving harder than the unchained boss fight in a shell. Those assholes with crossbows are a nightmare. I HATE them and I fear ill need to take a break or my controller is going to end up embedded in the wall.
Done for the day. Approx 100 failed attempts at the dim gate. Only managed to clear the stairs twice and both times got killed by the last archer before the checkpoint. Maybe I'll try again tomorrow, maybe not but it was becoming a chore and that's not what gaming is about. A challenge sure but this isn't a challenge it's a crapshoot.
Day 2 of this run and wouldn't you know it, after a break and coming back to it I cleared the dim gate stairs in 3 attempts. Boss took me a while but after the dim gate escapades from last night, I was feeling so calm and relaxed u just went with it and took my medicine until I finally beat him, took maybe 20 attempts, that little asshole with the arrows was the worst bit, once he was dead the second stage was a cakewalk.
Bro just spoiled the ending in the first 10 mins😢
So? Who would watch this who hasn't completed the game at least once?
@@PressContinue I just started and wanted to know whats up with the dark form. Not criticizing but im just saying what happened
I really hate the "running back to Falgrim" part....
Yeah I'm not a big fan of those sections either
@@PressContinue following your guide is helping tho. Good job!
@@berserkermalkav good to hear :)
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.
Well yeah but that's recent. This run was done 3 days after release and back then those features weren't there yet.
@@PressContinue I know, I was just sharing information because I only learned about the shades like 2 weeks ago so it’s not unrealistic that others don’t know the frog’s purpose.
Amazing video btw, you make an obsidian black run look easy.