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There were times I pressed the dodge button and my dude just didn’t dodge, overdoing the Jenny Agutter fantasies perhaps. It’s enough of a twist on the usual Soulslike blow-trading to require a shift in thinking, and it’s probably just as well we have the advantage, because there’s something faintly off about the general handling. And importantly you can do it at any moment, so if you’ve mistimed your swing and the next enemy attack is gonna hit you first you can say a quick prayer to Jenny Agutter, let their attack bounce off, unfreeze when you remember Jenny Agutter’s getting on a bit now, resume your swing and biff the enemy while they’re still reeling from their failed attack on your invincible stiffy. To the usual Dark Souls style combat of long windups, stamina management and rolling like a cannabis dispensary just before the bank holiday weekend, we add the unique ability to press a button to very quickly think about Jenny Agutter, make yourself go rock hard and deflect the next attack. Because there’s the one dude with lots of stamina, the one dude with lots of health, the one dude with lots of that third kind of stuff what you do special attacks with, and the default all-rounder dude who wonders why he doesn’t get invited to parties.

Really it’s more of a class switching mechanic. There are four highly specific bodies scattered about the starting forest and that’s your lot.

Not that you can occupy ANY corpse, mind, this isn’t the Dark Souls clone in which you can get revenge on those fucking poison swamp zombies by possessing one Mario Odyssey style and running around telling all its relatives its embarrassing personal fetishes, amazing an idea as that sounds. No customisation, no levelling, every shell you can wear has fixed stats and armour that can’t be changed, and which has probably gotten very whiffy. Instead of constructing a custom character to cathartically carve a chasm through the cartilage of countless craven creeps you have to take a character off the peg, as it were. So while the plot and setting do very little to discourage comparison to Dark Souls like a Chinese bootleg toy that somehow got through the entire manufacturing process without anyone noticing that “Batman” was misspelled, Mortal Shell offers some unique twists on the gameplay formula, most uniquely, the body inhabiting thing. There was me thinking the title was about the plight of the oil industry.

You’re a white ghosty dude who looks like Pepsiman contracted the ebola virus and you’re in a forest, and before long you discover you have the ability to inhabit certain dead bodies. The game won’t even tell you what consumable items do until you consume one, and that’s the kind of learning process that got me kicked out of medical school. Mortal Shell seems to be trying as hard as it can to out-inscrutable Dark Souls.

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An intro movie that wouldn’t start making sense until around the second playthrough and the instruction “go ring the bells of awakening,” which didn’t do a whole lot of justice to the several hours of ultra violent directionless urban exploration between you and that goal. But Dark Souls at least gave you something to go on. Dying fantasy world, inscrutable plot, you know the drill, bish bash bosh. Hello, we’re like Dark Souls, is all it seems to say. I feel like Mortal Shell doesn’t do enough to set the scene. You’re a walking husk of a person in a dying dark fantasy world and everything else in the world has apparently been led to believe that if they hit you hard enough then prizes will come out. So the game is Mortal Shell, and this is normally the point where I’d summarise the plot and the setting, but I think “it is a Dark Souls clone” will do the job well enough. I’m confident if I’m ever in a sinking ship or a crashing plane I could probably be philosophical about my impending doom, now, and I’d like to move on and meditate on some other things. Lovely meditations on the inevitability of entropy and death as they are, I feel like I’ve meditated enough. I might just be over the whole Soulslike thing. I did! I also had a nice time at Disneyland when I was ten but I never wanted to fucking live there. No, the surprise is… a game that’s an awful lot like Dark Souls! Oh Jesus fucking Christ.

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Oh Yahtzee, have we got a surprise for you! A surprise, games industry? Is it… a PC release of Infamous 2? Nope! Is it… Silent Hill entering the public domain? Nope! Ooh, did the entire management team at EA contract cholera from giving each other rusty trombones? N- I don’t even know what that is.

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