Dead Space 2: Severed

I was really excited for this DLC because I loved Dead Space 2 so much...Way too much, actually. As you would see if you read all the posts in this folder. I waited for what felt like forever for it to be released, and then on the release date, I checked the PS Store obsessively to see if it had updated yet.

So I'm really sad to say that I'm less than impressed with it.

Severed involves characters from Dead Space: Extraction, and that may be part of the problem. I don't give a damn about them. At all. Live or die? What do I care? It also seems to take place after the events of Dead Space 2, since you find a tripod that Isaac has already killed and a battery inserted in the mine area.

I didn't pay much attention to the story while playing, but...Why was Lexine on the Sprawl? And the person who I'm assuming was her husband? I didn't finish playing Extraction because I got incredibly annoyed during a boss fight and never turned it back on. Were these people ALWAYS there? Because I see no reason as to why they'd have gone there after Isaac left...

And actually. (Spoilers.) Didn't Isaac kind of...Blow the Sprawl up when he destroyed the Marker? What the hell is the timeline between Dead Space 2 and Severed in that case? It's definitely after Isaac went through the mine area, but beyond that, I don't know. I'm very confused by the whole thing.

Some people will probably enjoy it, I just thought it was very dull. Not nearly as interesting as the main game was. Plus they added enemies (apparently from the first game, I don't even remember them) that are super fast and twitchy, which isn't an added challenge so much as it's an added annoyance.

You'll get about an hour out of Severed if it's a first playthrough. It has no replayability. No Power Node Doors. No suit upgrades. You start off with a Seeker Rifle and Pulse Rifle...I wasn't thrilled about that, I ended up respecing the Pulse Rifle and bought a Contact Beam. Then I said screw it and decided to use my Hand Cannon for the whole thing, because as I see it, I earned that damn thing and I'm allowed to use it if I want to.

The trophies are really easy to get. The only one that may be a little difficult is the one that requires you to knock a necromorph into a spinning blade. I had to restart several times to get that to work correctly.

I'm glad it's over. Now I can go back to multiplayer.