Mortal Shell 2 Trophy Guide & Roadmap

This trophy is awarded at the very start of the game, once you obtain your first Shell, Weapon, and Sidearm during the tutorial section.

This trophy is awarded at the very start of the game, by interacting with the character Marigold who offers you a flower crown while you are walking to claim the first Shell. You are able to ignore this character here and not accept the crown, which causes this trophy to be missed for the current playthrough. If you do this you can start a new save in a different slot and accept the crown to earn the trophy.

This trophy is awarded after the tutorial section once you reach Marrow Keep for the first time.

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This trophy is awarded for playing all available Lute Tracks in the game. The Lute sidearm allows you to play songs similar to the first game, but also be used as a sidearm weapon. To play songs after obtaining the Lute, equip it and then hold to aim like you would with the other Sidearms. Press  to start playing constantly, then use  to cycle through the song that you are playing. Once you have cycled through all 5 songs you will earn the trophy.

This trophy is awarded for defeating the Monolith, who is a main boss located after the Obsidian Vault in The Unfound Path area.

This trophy is awarded for defeating the Malborn Offspring, who is a main boss located after the Faithful’s Shelter Beacon in The Unfound Path area.

This trophy is awarded for defeating Orrem, the Reclaimed, who is a main boss located after the Bridge of Procession Beacon in The Unfound Path area.

This trophy is awarded for defeating Zmey, the Unbidden, who is the final boss of the game located at the center of The Unbound Path area after you have defeated the three other bosses in that area.

This trophy is awarded for perfectly parrying every attack done by the main boss “The Nameless Captive” while using the Untarnished Seal. This boss is the main boss located in The Prisoner’s Domain overworld area.

This is a boss that is designed around parrying, so its attacks are very heavily telegraphed and consistent. Note that it does still do unblockable attacks that you can dodge like normal, but then you need to parry every other normal attack that it does that isn’t unblockable. Because you can fight the main overworld bosses in any order you are able to leave this until the end of the game when you are upgraded as much as you can be, which can make the fight go faster.

The boss starts out primarily doing 4 swing combos or a downward head slam which aren’t too hard to parry against, along with the unblockable attacks. The main tougher part starts once you get the boss to half health and it will automatically stun, allowing you a riposte attack. After this, it will immediately do a very quick spinning move where it attempts to hit you 7 times in a row. You want to stand directly in front of it and parry all attacks in a row, which should stun it again and allow another riposte attack. After this it will return to doing the previous attacks, though sometimes it will do a slightly slower version of the same 7 spins in a row which you can parry the same way.

If at any point you miss a parry during the fight, you can quit to the main menu and then continue the game and you will be back at the Beacon before the boss. You should practice getting to the fast spin attack at least a handful of times first though, then attempt to do the full fight once you have practiced parrying that attack.

There are technically two max levels for a weapon. Initially, you can only upgrade a weapon to +16, which will unlock this trophy. In the final Beacon of the game you can obtain an item which allows the Tarforge to increase weapon level to +17 and above, but this isn’t required for this trophy.

Upgrade costs for all weapons and sidearms seem to be the same, regardless of which you are doing this with, so you can work on upgrading your favorite main weapon to +16.

Total item cost to reach +16:

• 57,000 Coin
• 32 Ventrium
• 31 Laterite
• 31 Dorsalite

This trophy is awarded for reducing the final tutorial boss “Tar Golem” to 0 health. This boss works like typical soulslike tutorial boss where you are intended to lose against it, and reducing it to 0 health will cause this to happen immediately regardless of your own current health. You only fight the Tar Golem once during a playthrough during the tutorial section, you don’t fight it again during New Game+, so you need to earn this trophy at the start of your playthrough. You can make a backup save beforehand (PS+ Cloud) to reload if needed, and if you feel you start doing poorly during the fight you can pause and quit to main menu, which will put you right before the Bone Gate when you reload the game.

The Tar Golem is a relatively slow enemy, and you can reduce its health to zero by mostly taking it slow and chipping away at it. It will end the fight eventually if you take too long though, so you need to still actively keep attacking. The main thing to watch for are the big unblockable attacks, like when it jumps into the air and tries to smash the ground where you are standing. Always pay attention if it’s doing this attack, if you get hit by it directly it can instantly end the fight. The normal attacks you should aim to parry whenever possible, because you can get a large amount of damage into the boss if you stagger it and then perform a Riposte attack.

If you are struggling you can slightly reduce the damage you take by defeating the miniboss Tainted Vestige which is in the area just before the Disciple’s Grotto Beacon. Defeating it drops a Burnt Effigy which when equipped in your passive item slot reduces the Fire damage you receive, which is what the Tar Golem primarily does.

Increasing the Bond Level of a shell to max requires 27 Glimpses, which means to increase all 8 Shells to maximum you need a total of 216 Glimpses. In one playthrough you can obtain enough to level 3 Shells to maximum if you don’t use any to mark the locations of Shells, which you should avoid as you don’t need to do this to unlock them in the first place. Because of this you will need to play through to at least NG++ (third playthrough) to be able to obtain enough for all 8 Shells. During your second and third playthrough be sure to cleanse all Beacons again and pick up the handful of Glimpses that are sitting near Beacons, as this is how you obtain the vast majority of them.

Now go to the Outskirts of Nochte Beacon, and in the cave that the river runs through you can find a cup in front of a large fish sitting in the water. Interact with it and use the Mether’s Flesh item.

You will be transported into a Dungeon called Mango Sanctuary, where you can interact with the giant mango in the area to obtain a consumable Mango, unlocking the trophy.

This trophy is awarded when you trigger the ending of the game and move into NG+ after defeating the final boss. You do this by interacting with the Ova Siphon in Marrow Keep and choosing the “Send Ova” option. You can continue playing in your current playthrough until deciding to do this.

Speak with them a couple of times, and they will prompt you to sit on the ground nearby with the other NPCs. After sitting down once, speak with them again and continue responding Yes to their questions, and they will ask you to bring them something. There are items you can pick up around the area, but you don’t want to give them any of them. Sit down once more, then after sitting speak with them again and continue answering Yes to trigger the joke ending scene. You can skip the credits if you want, then reload your save to be back at the nearby Beacon.