That's another Soulslike RPG for my list: Mortal Shell 2 is coming to consoles and PC next year, and I'm a big fan of the gigantic gross stuff in its trailer

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(Image credit: Cold Symmetry / Playstack)

The first game announced at tonight's 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Summer Game Fest live show was a pretty solid surprise: Mortal Shell 2, a direct follow-up to the 2020 Soulslike action RPG from de⛦veloper Cold Symmetry.

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Mortal Shell 2 is coming to PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC (Sꦏteam) in 2026.

At first blush, it looks like an embellished, even grosser iteration on the first game – hopefully with tigh🤪t combat and level design this time.

Mortal Shell was a fun, fairly short little action rom🌸p that was absolutely crying out for a sequel that could refine its legitimately interesting ideas, so Mortal Shell 2 is exciting stuff indeed.

"Mortal Shell II is a standalone sequel action-RPG with adren🔯aline-charged, high-ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚstakes combat," Cold Symmetry says of the reveal trailer. "Possess warrior Shells, dethrone false gods, redeem a ravaged world."

says it "significantly expands on the original with unrestricted, adrenaline-charged combat, deeper weapon design with extensiveဣ upgrade options, and an emphasis on free exploration."

The central hook of Mortal Shell was adorning your character in the forms and fighting styles of other warriors via Shells. Mortal Shell 2 is obviously building on that idea, but there seems to be a markedly greater focus on the world around you, with the devs teasing "more than 60 dungeons" to explore. That alone, quite franღkly, already sounds bigger than the entirety of the fi𓃲rst game.

Very importantly, Mortal Shell also looks brutal as all hell. Our Harbinger is killing dudes with other dudes, bludgeoning folks to death with their own tongues, shotgunning entire rows of miscreants, and just overall taki𓆏ng a sword to the squishy bits of countless horrors. Mortal Shell 2 has a bit of a Texas vibe so far: everything is big. Mouths, teeth, tongues, snails, axes. Waiter, another grisly Soulslike RPG, please, I haven't h🎃ad enough.

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Austin Wood
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Austin has been a game journalist for 12 years, having freelanced for the likes of PC Gamer, Eurogamer, IGN, Sports Illustrated, and more while finishing his journalism degree. He's been with GamesRadar+ sinc🌺e 2019. They've yet to realize his position is a cover for his career-spanning Destiny column, and he's kept the ruse going with a lot of news and the occ𝐆asional feature, all while playing as many roguelikes as possible.

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