Severed Review

By Gil Almogi

Top-notch organ and level grinding.

The last Playstation Vita game I reviewed was back in February 2014, two months before I got to see just a trailer for Drinkbox Studio’s Severed. Then, I originally expected to see Severed first during the Spring of last year and then last summer. So to see it come out now brings doomsaying regarding its…

  • Beautiful, distinct graphics
  • Excellent soundtrack with varied influences
  • Engaging combat with a puzzle-like quality to its strategy
  • Sudden difficulty spike in second act
  • Lack of touchscreen use for greater interactivity with environment
  • Badass female protagonist of color
  • No opportunities to flesh out story about world or Sasha's past
  • Nodal quality to map encourages "just one more" approach to play
  • That same quality also makes backtracking a bit tiresome

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Gil Almogi
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