Severed Steel - Game Review
Channel: MGN TV
Date: 2021-09-20

Taking a look at new releases on Steam I saw something that caught my eye, Severed Steel as a name certainly stands out, then upon clicking the listing the visual style and gameplay also stood out quite a bit – horrible electronic music aside. So how is this indy? Is it all style no sizzle?

Story

There isn’t too much to the story, you wake up with a missing arm and seem to seek vengeance. It is told in quite a nice comic book panel style. That is pretty much it though, simple but effective, it is all a game like this needs.

Music

I’m going to get this out of the way quickly, I abhor the music. I am not a fan of electronic music in any sense so the first thing I did was mute this. I imagine if you do like electronic music this is perfectly fine though and maybe even good.

Gameplay 

Now this is where I think the game shines, though it is by no means flawless, it goes for something and mainly hits it. As someone going back through the original Matrix trilogy I really like what you can do here. You can wall run, slow down time, kick, slide, and dive in the air. The campaign consists of very short levels that take 3-5 minutes to complete, often consisting of an objective such as destroy a generator then escape. This may sound very mundane but given the stylized nature of the gameplay, the multiple difficulties and how difficult the game is, it is much more fun than I expected, given that on paper it is so generic. This is thanks to how much of a badass you can be, even though the general gameplay has a bit of an over-reliance on slow-mo.

It feels really good do go into a wall run, slow down time pop a headshot, then double jump into a dive dodging bullets and taking as many enemies down as possible in slow mo. There is decent weapon variety even if enemy variety is a bit sparse. There is also an arcade mode with multiple mutators. It is suggested you complete the campaign before hand and while that does give you some nifty unlocks you can go straight into arcade mode.

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