I'm super anal about how once I start a game I need to finish it. My first few sessions with it I thought Mortal Shell was gonna force me to break that rule, it was bad. Insanely bad. I play plenty of super hard games, but so many of Mortal Shell's mechanics just seemed so terrible. And they are kinda terrible. But I wound up looking up some tips, ways to get powered up early, and I found myself actually enjoying a decent portion of it by the end of my time.

That's not to say it's good, that seems too far, I wouldn't recommend it - But there is definitely good in it. Potential for sure. It looks gorgeous, environment and enemy design are great (apart from the main HUB area being way too much of a similar-looking maze), although it suffers from some of the craziest enemy pop in I've ever experienced which takes away from the visual enjoyment a fair bit.

A lot going on here. A lot more I could say. Point is, when starting I thought it was absolutely horrible. It wound up not being that bad - Fun at certain times, decent at other times... and still pretty bad sometimes.