Re: FREE GAME: Mortal Shell

On 3/13/2025 8:00 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

 I literally went, "Oh, it's Thursday!" as if it were a sudden
revelation just moments before writing this. I _know_ it's Thursday. I
_know_ that on Thursday we get free games from Epic. I _know_ that I
write up a little screed about that free game on Thursday. And yet, I
failed to put these three facts together until just a few seconds ago,
and when they suddenly merged into an amalgamated thought, it was like
some sort of epiphany. That's probably the most excitement I'll get
from this week's freebie.
   * Mortal Shell
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/mortal-shell
    The developers call it a 'deep action RPG' but it's a
    souls-like, and from everything I've read, a fairly mediocre
    one. Not outright awful, but lacking in any originality or
    real skill in design. It's a carbon-copy of the Dark Souls
    games in tone and mechanics, but lacking that spark that
    makes those games so addictive. If you've played the Dark
    Souls games to death (ha-ha!) and are desperate for something...
    well, not new but not just the same Dark Souls games again,
    then maybe "Mortal Shell" has something to offer, but
    otherwise just stick with the originals... or any of its
    better-known competitors.

Yes it's a Souls Like.  I was enjoying it quite a bit but kept having issues with it when I played it on Luna.  I thought it was because it was streaming on Luna, but I've since read it's just very buggy.  I still plan to install it and give it another go at some point.
It's one of only 2 soulslikes of the umpteen non-Fromsoft ones I've tried I actually initially liked.
I'm glad to get it free.

 (also, there's some free-to-play crap, but I don't report on those)

No need to do that.
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