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From: Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: FREE GAME: Mortal Shell
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 09:23:26 -0700
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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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