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Mortal Shell

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We only review finished games, so in Viewpoint we go hands-on with near-final code of a game that just missed our review deadline. Oscar Taylor-Kent discovers how this indie soulsborne could teach the masters at FromSoftware a lesson in the dark art of gothic swordplay

Comparisons to Dark Souls might be ubiquitous nowadays, but sometimes they have to be made. Mortal Shell draws  on the entire FromSoftware portfolio – Demon’s Souls, Dark Souls,

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