Severed

Now we'll be looking at Severed

Severed is a first person action adventure game, You play as a girl with a missing arm, trapped in a surreal world, looking for her missing family.

The game plays like an old school dungeon crawler, solving simple puzzles and going deeper and deeper into this desolate world, while fighting monster with a touch based combat system, highly reminiscent of fruit ninja, upgrading your character with the severed body parts of your enemies while looking for your missing family, and maybe meeting some other interesting characters.

This game is brimming with quality, the visuals are colorful, highly detailed, even disturbing at times, but always amazing to look at. The soundtrack is outstanding, with haunting pieces that flawlessly transition into a more aggressive tone when a fight starts. The story and lore are very pleasant, even when subtle, it's an important part of the game too, because it really sets the mood of the adventure, and gets you wanting to know what happens next.

The game was a blast to play, and i highly recommend it, but i do have some mixed feelings about it.
Taking a look back at Ninja Smasher, the game i talked about yesterday, the game just feels...empty.

While ninja smasher doesn't have near the same production values that severed has, it had some extras to keep you playing outside of the 4 hours the game's last, while Severed has pretty much none. The game has 2 difficulty modes, normal and easy (for the nintendo releases at least), and its achievements are just basic stuff you do while doing a 100% run, so when you complete the game in about 6 to 7 hours, there's no reason to come back again immediately, unless you do some sort of self imposed challenge.

That leaves me with a conflict, quantity or quality ? quality of course, but was it too hard for the devs to add some extra content ? speedruning options, harder difficulties, more interesting achievements, a sound test, a bestiary, or an infinite battle mode to test yourself, not to ask for even higher ground like different characters with different play styles or a post game. But of course, you paid for a game, and a game is what you get, but i can't help but feel like that with so many games filled with extras and stuff to do.

And for 15$, its harder recommend (harder, but still recommended), considering there are some good cheaper and longer games, and with a more casual appeal, in the end Severed is a fantastic game, I just wish i could play it more.