Welcome to your SwitchArcade Roundup for October 29th, 2018. Can you feel it" Can you feel that chill in the air" Halloween is almost here! …Oh wait, that’s not the chill of Halloween–that’s the fan in my room blowing on my back. Still, Halloween is but two days away, and it’s your severed swordsman Phil here to help kick off your extra spooky week of Switch news, impressions, releases, and sales on the eShop. Let’s start off by taking a look at the Game of the Day.
Game of the Day
Severed ($7.49 from $14.99 until November 1st)

Halloween is Wednesday, so I’m thinking we’re going to spook up some scares for the Game of the Day from now until then. We start the week with a game that boasts a dark, grim, macabre feel to it. It’s Severed from DrinkBox, the same studio who brought us Guacamelee! and its upcoming sequel. To say that the tone of Severed is quite different from Juan’s luchador-inspired adventure would be an understatement! Severed has you playing as a heroine seeking revenge, Sasha. You move through dungeons, forests, caves, and other areas in a first-person view. The game has an interconnected world where gaining new abilities and keys unlocks shortcuts to previously visited areas. Sort of Dark Souls-ish in world design, but to a much simpler and smaller degree. Severed‘s essentially a dungeon-crawler, but it spices things up with its touch-only based gameplay. 

In a typical first-pers...