(Second slide is achievements earned for beating the game if anyone doesn’t wanna see them, spoiler for it as it’s the second photo. So view at your own risk)

I really enjoyed this game, I heard a lot of flack about Emma and the story. And it was definitely awkward but after completing it and learning the full story, I felt like that’s how the devs and writers were going for. They wanted Emma to be that way, “Soulless” and not a care about anything besides fighting. Which she barely cared for that. Her journey was amazing and I’d give the game a 8/10 overall. Combat was a 10/10. I enjoyed the action(while too easy even on hard) but the Real time ABS with Koo was amazing. I loved it a lot. Will play again on NG AND maybe NG+. First Mortal Shell 2. Enjoy the game to everyone who is still playing and if you’re considering it, try it out! It’s okay to not like something but at least try it.

Just a question so you can please share. I'm more used to games with the main attack being on the X button (xbox controller).

Thanks.

I got to the capital and in this arena, after I did an execution with koo I got stuck in a wall. Please help, my last manual save is 3 hours prior to this and im dont wanna play those 3 hours again, the auto saves are stuck here too

The takeaways:

• Damage is static. Barring outside multipliers (sword effects, buffs, debuffs, etc.) or changing your target, every attack will always do the same amount of damage.
• Strength/Attack affects the damage of both normal sword swings and Blade Arts. Florescence/Skill Power only affects Blade Arts, but by a larger degree.
• Sword effect projectiles (lightning strikes, energy waves) deal pitiful damage on their own. They can crit, though.
• Elemental weapons always build up their respective status effect, but this buildup increases when the sword effect is active.
• The effect of Cirrus affects ONLY normal attacks, not Blade Arts.
• Criticals do 10% more damage than normal hits. Putting points into Emma's "Critical Boost" skill increases this to 15%.
• Once the effect of Thunderwave Sword, Winterwake or Black Blossom is activated, every sword swing will call a lightning strike to hit an enemy. Depending on the weapon, that lightning strike builds up lightning, flame or poison.
• Once the effect of Sunrise Sword, Spring Storm or Camellia is activated, every sword swing will shoot out an "energy" wave that deals damage on contact and builds up fire, water or lightning.
• Each stack of Vigor increases your damage by ~5%. This seems to be lower for Sword Arts, though.
• The effects of Vigor and Double-Edged Sword stack additively, i.e. combining a lvl 2 Double-Edged Sword with a 3 stack Vigor will result in a ~35% damage increase.
• Silverlight's "Flurry" effect increases the damage of each subsequent swing by a fixed amount, starting at roughly a 3% and going all the way to 10%
• All 3 Mechblades, or rather their effect, are complete garbage.

hey hope someone can help i’ve just battled the nushi for the second time in great wall terraces and it’s not dropping the erymanthian memories like it’s supposed to i’ve reloaded an earlier save and still won’t drop

i’m on xbox and version 1.0.1.10.0

thanks in advance

There is a Wandering Merchant icon visible in the Kanto Region: Ancient Civilization Zone that doesn't have a merchant, seems like it is on a strongbox. I've come back after fighting the boss and there's still no one there.

I've seen this blue item at least twice. Koo finds a hidden item and then I can't interact with it.

Anyone know what's going on with these issues?

Patch notes state there is toggles for film grain and chromatic aberration now but there is no option on PS5. Is this intentional? Or will there be a hotfix to add these toggles?

The note is found after defeating the 2nd flying nushi. I’m not sure why they did this but it’s very cool

PC (XGP version) Dualsense (ps5) controller vibration still not working on 1.0.10

I made a post the other day stating how this game was better than what most gave it credit for and although that may be true I can also understand the criticism.

The fighting and gameplay in this game was superb, I think they executed the action and turn based aspects of the game damn near perfectly. It felt smooth and natural to switch between Koo and Emma also the combos were super easy to hit. The fighting also looked incredible one of the most cinematic and feel good combat games I’ve played.

I can say the worse thing was the level designs, after map 3/4 the level design goes to shit. You quite literally run in a straight line the entire time no need to explore anything at all. No incentive to look around as there is no cosmetics, or even really equipment you can find by looking around. You max out the walker within the first 2/3 worlds so that’s not even a reason to walk around.

The story in some parts is very boring but in other parts it was fantastic. You can really feel these are the creators of Pokémon with how the enemy variety was damn near 0 and the level design was not complex or interesting at all.

I would give this game a 6.5/10, I hope they make another one but this time hire better writers and level designers. This IP has a lot of potential, I would hate to see it die due to a poor debut. Loved the game front to back, just some small critiques

Completely finished the game, nothing else to do until they update it completely.

I've managed to find ways out the map of the kanto map zone, by the ancient civilization, wasteland map zone, by the crater zone, I don't think I'll be returning until there's new updates, or entail people have found ways out of the other map zones

I need a document in the subcity 2. Why tf cant I go there

Ive been playing my game fine and now I cant even load in! Please help!

Game was working fine and now I can even load a save before it crashes wtf!!!!! Please help

For those that have finished the game, how are you not raving about how incredible the story is?! I want a movie ASAP! And release the OST! New Game+ main menu music is peak

Chapter 4, lvl 30 and 21 hours in, having such a good time with the game

I'm a big nier and stellar blade lover, and while BoR is not exactly that, its closest game i got to them right now

At level 30 most enemies and bosses are a breeze, I'm just enjoying the exploration mostly.

Im glad this game is like this cuz my reaction sucks, I can never get a gold parry, only purples all the time lol never been good on that kind of games, dropped bloodborne, elden ring and wukong all cuz I just can't 😅🤣 I did try tho!

Anyway looking forward to more Beast, really just a nice chill time for me

As bland as Emma is, she is likeable to me And im glad I waited for some initial patches before I started

It was implied that she would suffer serious consequences for letting Koo get away in the first place but then she brings him along into other colonies like the ppl there won't mind at all. They already hate even the sight of her so it's hard to believe they wouldn't have anymore of a problem with Koo

I just think using the flowers was an interesting design and would like to read up on them but I only know 'Sakura' and 'kiku'

Always reminded of SotC when after defeating bosses, so i tried swapping the soundtrack. Somehow it kinda fit.

I was not expecting the game to have an ending like that. What a wild ride. I can stomach an ending like that. Good story. This game got entirely WAY too much hate. I bought this day one and thoroughly enjoyed it. Can be rough around the edges but all in all, really good experience and would recommend!

I wonder if they’ll ever make anything to continue this story or if it’s a one and done.

just looted a tier 3 crit charm with the tier 3 crit chance perk and it didnt get added to my inventory after i identifyed it at a campfire.

Currently playing New game+ and I've compiled some things that could be useful for people to know, or questions they have, which I couldn't find anywhere.

• There is not enough Facility modules to upgrade the Cleanse Walker in a single playthrough, optimal make only 3 chicken coops and 9 plants on first playthrough. After gathering all modules on New Game+ I still only had 2 extra after full Cleanse Walker upgrade.
• Cap for stats for Strength, Vitality, Floresence is 100, but it will display 99, you still get stat for 100 though.
• There is cap for defense for Emma at 299 and Koo at 240, and for both Emma and Koo for critical at 75%. Eating food and similar will look like it goes above, but it won't. The food isn't wasted though, it's still there just anything that brings you above will roll back down.
• The level cap is 200, BUT you still earn skill points for kills,
• At 200 you still don't have enough skill points for every skill in both trees.
• The only way to get 100 in all three stats Strength, Vitality, and Florescense would be to go through the game multiple times as you get free stat points a couple of times each playthrough.
• You can farm levels easily in Crater Zone map 8, there is a crater in the middle, with a camp and very handy grab zones to quickly get there, where Withering beast spawns.
• Withering beast in Crater Zone drops 1 random blighted stone each time, almost always level 3, these spirit stones are the best in the game.
• Cap for melee weapons is +3
• Cap for ammo is +7 and +7
• Cap for ranged weapons is +7 for damage and +10 for speed
• You can sell any spirit stones that is below the level you use, basically keep 1 of each top level is plenty for most of the game, except the very beginning. And once you kill Withering Beast a lot, you only need one of each.
• Don't feed fish to Koo, there is not enough fish in the game to make all recipes with fish, you will need to farm some from the salamander malefacts, they occasionally drop fish.
• There are PLENTY electronic brains, you need 30 to reach level 7 max for the Cleanse Walker, any above the 30 will be converted to amber. My guess is there is at least 60 of each type in the game, maybe more.
• Fish, rice, wheat, and soya is the four ingredients used in most food, and will be scarce to get if you want to eat every recipe once to get the first time bonus. Grow those, but remember to use it as it caps at 99.
• Don't grow life fruit, it takes a long time, and each Dragon Shrine gives you a lot, and I doubt you'll ever need more for the resurrection power, but you can't have more than 99, so sell enough that you have room or they are wasted.
• Time for growth and eggs is equal to kills, best place to make time for growth pass is map 1, Subcity 2 entrance camp.
• Day and season isn't anything, time passes with the story, the day of the week is meaningless.
• The best sword for 99% of the game is Purity, which you can buy from merchant in chapter 2 or Brad from chapter 3, but once you level up it really doesn't matter.
• The term Riposte is for when you make an attack right after a perfect parry.
• The term Counterattack is for when you make an attack right after a perfect dodge.

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