Game's only around 11 hours long. (Spoiler warnings.)

[Kashra Fall]

https://www.reddit.com/r/MortalShell/comments/ibjzrf/i_just_completed_mortal_shell_ask_me_anything/

Reddit user was kind enough to post his findings. Four weapons, lack of bosses and two endings. Impossible to upgrade everything in one playthrough so you have to "Set in" to a specific weapon/shell for the long run. No incentive to play it again outside of the willingness to upgrade your stuff fully. This doesn't exactly bode well.

The first hour or so is spent fighting the same enemies over and over in a well oversized swamp area full of bear traps, frogs, hillbillies and executioners? Not entirely sure what the big guys are, but it is copy and paste again and again. The first "Sub-boss" named Grisha is a sized down reskin of the boss from the demo, but without the ability to run/slide at you (Which is good because he was exploitable due to this in the demo.) and so much more.

Kind of glad EGS bought this one because it seems to have saved me some money. Not entirely sure I would of been happy with this purchase, satisfying combat or not.

[hualahn]

Just bought it for PS4 and wondered already why its only 7gb download.

[Jerricky Jebates]

its 30 bucks, i pay more to get see a 2 hour movie. i'll get over it. Sometimes I don't like games that last too long anyways.

[Aletheia]

Yet some people here will say you're salty because you didn't play the game and because the devs announced the game would have a 15/20 hours campaign.

Originally posted by hualahn:

Just bought it for PS4 and wondered already why its only 7gb download.

Well you should know by now that size =/= length, but the game is still short.

[Kashra Fall]

Originally posted by Aletheia:

Yet some people here will say you're salty because you didn't play the game and because the devs announced the game would have a 15/20 hours campaign.

Originally posted by hualahn:

Just bought it for PS4 and wondered already why its only 7gb download.

Well you should know by now that size =/= length, but the game is still short.

Yeah, they did the same thing with Remnant from the Ashes. Devs claimed 20-30 hour campaign and I beat it with 100% explored (My areas) in eight and a half hours. Just lucky weapon acquisitions carried me. I played it more over time, but that game had replayability. MS doesn't, which is problematic.

Also, the "I pay more for 2 hours in a movies." is a respectable opinion, but when you watch that movie for 11-15 hours, let's see if you feel the same. Repetitious content is never a good selling point.

[Aletheia]

Originally posted by Kashra Fall:

Also, the "I pay more for 2 hours in a movies." is a respectable opinion, but when you watch that movie for 11-15 hours, let's see if you feel the same. Repetitious content is never a good selling point.

Yes, also I've read that when you beat the boss from one of the dungeon, you have to go back to the swamp by foot, with twice the enemies.

I still remember people arguing about this artificial difficulty in Dark Souls II, yet they totally praise it when it's Mortal Shell. (Still liked Dark Souls II, pvp was good.)

[Badya]

Originally posted by Aletheia:

Originally posted by Kashra Fall:

I still remember people arguing about this artificial difficulty in Dark Souls II, yet they totally praise it when it's Mortal Shell. (Still liked Dark Souls II, pvp was good.)

Hitboxes are artificial difficulty in Dark Souls II

[Aletheia]

Originally posted by Jesus:

Hitboxes are artificial difficulty in Dark Souls II :praisesun:

You somehow messed up your quote so I've fixed it.

And yes, hitboxes in Dark Souls II were pretty bad ;)

[hualahn]

Great so far. A lil hint, dont expect thing to be like in the beta ;) Really missing bonfires slike in DS when you arrive in a new part of reagon since i found out the hard way that there is no checkpoint except for the ones at that lady. So the distance you travel can be real far without cp and its real easy to die on the way.

[ULTRA]

Originally posted by TrippyTaka:

its 30 bucks, i pay more to get see a 2 hour movie.

No you don't, movie theater tickets are $0.75 right now and Amazon rental is $4.

[Kashra Fall]

So I was watching Distortion2 play it last night and part of this morning. His stream lasted Eight hours and forty five minutes. He just beat the game and this includes a lot of exploration+deaths and figuring things out. So taking that into consideration, I'd say eight hours and around ten minutes long is what to expect from a first playthrough and no, he didn't use the "Broken" shell.