Mortal Shell II Achievements

Platinum is a PlayStation wrapper

If you are on Steam or Xbox, “platinum” still means the same completion: every listed Mortal Shell II achievement except the cup you cannot earn. The collect gates, the three missables, and the fourth-Seal ban do not change by store. Do not start a second save because a PC list “looks shorter.”

Named rows this page will print; the rest stay TBA

Insider-style and PowerPyx-style lists already name the collect cups, the individual weapon / sidearm pops, three missables, Ascension, and Seeking the Past. Hidden bosses also sit on those lists as trophy fights. Remaining titles — including exact Shell-collect and Bond-max cup names — stay TBA. A guessed 53-name spreadsheet is a second bug.

40–60 hours is an estimate

Third-party roadmaps clock a platinum-style run around 40–60 hours. That is a community range, not Cold Symmetry’s timer. First-run combat plus a cleanup pass for Stoned, Sat Nav, Heavy Metal, and 40 Shell Memories is what fills the high end. A story-only walk without collects is a different clock and does not belong on this page.

Once the count is clear, the next job is which collects actually sit on the list — not every pretty item in the world.

Lord of War is melee; Guns Lots of Guns is sidearms

Lord of War is the melee set. Guns Lots of Guns is the ranged set. Do not mix them. Individual pops this site already names: Deep Cuts (Axe and Dagger / Axatana), Big Boi (Great Martyr’s Blade), Just the Tip (Black Needle), Like Clockwork (Clockwork Scythe), Stop – Hammer Time (Obsidian Hammer), Cut You Down to Size (Veteran’s Battle Axe), and Spiked (Caged Hystrix — type TBA, do not force it onto either list). Sidearm pops: Old School (Forgotten Crossbow), Chop Chop (Salvaged Trebuchaxe), Old Painless (Triarch Repeater), Beautiful Baby (Cursed Child), Speared (Ballistazooka). Iconoclast and Nail Shot are starters — no hunt. Remaining melee / gun titles, including Hallowed Sword and the eighth sidearm, stay TBA.

40 memories is 8 × 5, not a ninth host

Each keepable Shell has five memories. Eight hosts is 40. Harros is prologue only — he is not a ninth memory stack. Glimpses at the Shell Keeper buy those lines. Max Bond on one Shell is a separate cup from watching every memory. Seeking the Past is a named trophy on third-party lists with unlock-bug reports; whether it is the memories cup stays TBA until the in-game list is recaptured. Do not invent a mapping to look tidy.

Stoned, Sat Nav, Heavy Metal, Beacons, Ova

Stoned is every Tarstone. Wear cap is still ten — collecting them all is not a reason to equip a stone that fights the kit. Sat Nav is every Map Fragment; fragment count stays TBA. Heavy Metal is every Lute Track on Troubadour’s Lute. Cleanse All Beacons and Collect all Ova are the same habit: purify, pick the Ova up, take it to Marrow Keep. A 60-name Beacon table is still TBA on the beacons page — do not skip a corrupted stone because the atlas is unfinished.

Collects you can bank as you walk. Missables you cannot. The next section is the three names that can die on a save.

Warn now, write the how later

A missable flag means the window can close. It does not mean this page knows the window. Mid Summer? looks seasonal by name; that is not a confirmed Festival pin. Peter’s Perfect Parry sounds like a named parry check; that is not a confirmed combat drill. No, You Still Can’t Win is a named encounter, not a boss walkthrough. Rooms, NPCs, and fail conditions stay TBA.

Hidden trophy bosses are not the same as missable

Nine hidden trophy bosses already sit on third-party lists: Magdalena, the Lady of the Woods, The Lost Child, The Nameless Captive, Sir Isaac, the Scholar-Prince, Hexapod, The Monolith, Droeg, the Conquerer, Malborn Offspring, and Orrem, the Reclaimed. Magdalena is the one this wiki can landmark (Etching Needle chest immediately before the arena). The other rooms stay TBA. Hidden is not the same as missable — do not collapse those two lists.

If the three missable names are on your watch list, the next hard rule is what you must never equip — or the whole run is dead before a collect matters.

Easy mode is not a difficulty slider you can undo

The fourth Seal sits near the opening trial, next to the three you are supposed to learn. It is not a “story difficulty” you flip in a menu after the credits. Equip it and Mortal Shell II achievements stop tracking. Leave it. Combat is the timing sheet for the three legal Seals. Beginner guide is the first-hour walk that already says the same ban.

Difficulty extras that are not this Seal

Optional combat extras exist — executions can refill health on an easier setting; “turn off the sun” is the harder lean. Those are not the fourth Seal. This page only hard-bans the easy-mode Seal that kills the trophy list. Camera (Immersive vs Action) does not unlock or block cups.

With the Seal ban locked, the leftover question is order: what you collect on the first walk versus what you mop after the story.

Story first, with pockets open

The walkthrough is the spine. Tips stops Resolve waste from padding the 40–60h estimate. You do not need a second file for “collects only” if you pick up stones, fragments, weapons, and Ova on the same road. You do need a second file if you already wore the fourth Seal.

Bugs: Stoned and Seeking the Past

Third-party roadmaps report Stoned and Seeking the Past failing to unlock for some saves. Version and patch status stay TBA. If a collect counter looks full and the cup is dark, write down the build, then ask on the official Discord — do not delete a 50-hour file because a forum thread said “bugged.” This page will not claim a workaround it has not verified.

When the pass order is enough, leftover questions sit in the FAQ — including whether you need the first game, and why Steam shows 52.