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Torn Away | 83%
Publisher: OverGamez
Developer: perelesoq
Torn Away is a beautiful-looking short game about Asya, a girl caught in the middle of a war in Stalingrad, dedicated to all children affected by war. As soon as you start playing, you will notice that the protagonist has a fertile imagination, as she talks with her toys in her room about helping her mom as a birthday gift before the war happens, but this is also noticed throughout the game since you’ll be talking with your mitten friend for the majority of the game. The gameplay is mostly a mixture of the sidescroller and puzzle genres. Still, it has plenty of minigames where you interact with objects, fix your mitten friend, colour a drawing among other things. You’ll be running away from animals, Nazis, and bullets, quite a bit through this short adventure. You can find journals left by other people affected by the war. The soundtrack didn’t feel like a big part of the experience, at least in terms of music, most of the time the ambient sounds were the highlights of it, which did help with the atmosphere. Torn Away can be completed in just about three hours, but it’s worth playing for its graphics and story.
Hi there, I’m Gabriel Colombo (Hence my reviewer name), I live in Brazil and I’ve been gaming since I was around 5 years old. Xbox became my main platform on the Xbox 360 era, before that I had played a bit on PC, Polystation (basically a skinned SNES), PlayStation 1 and 2. I really enjoy to experience immersive worlds, but I also enjoy playing silly games to have a laugh or just have fun.