Severed[1] is a game that was built for portable gaming. It's a first-person action-adventure game where you take on various demons in a vast dungeon. You attack these demons by swiping your finger over the touchscreen, and the experience works great on a range of devices, from the PS Vita[2], to the iPhone[3], and iPad[4]. DrinkBox Studios has now released the game for the Nintendo Switch, and we started playing Severed the moment it arrived.
Severed gets its name from a key element of the plot, which you discover within the first five minutes. As you start wandering around dungeons, you come across a mirror where you can see your character. Since this is a first-person game, that is essentially the first time you see the character you play as - Sasha.
Sasha's left arm was severed and the reason behind this is revealed in a quick cutscene with hardly any dialogue. You start the game in a different realm and you can assume that you're in hell because you'll encounter monsters quite frequently. Some of these will reveal more of the plot and guide you on the quest, while others will gang up against you, forcing you to slash your way through various levels.
Your goal is to find members of your family, who are all with you in this realm for some reason. To do that, you need to traverse through several rooms in a vast dungeon. A neat little mini-map on the top-right shows you the rooms you've explored in white, and the ones you haven't in a darker shade. The map is an essential part of the game as it helped us keep track of where we were going.
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