Guacamelee! Developer Working on a First-Person Dungeon Crawler

For those of you that missed Guacamelee!, it was a charming 2D side-scrolling metroidvania style beat-em-up featuring Lucha Libre. So naturally the only way for DrinkBox Studios to follow up that game is with a 2D first-person gesture controlled dungeon crawler with a female amputee lead character. The gesture-based combat is really the most peculiar aspect of the announcement... with no platforms announced the controls could hypothetically work with Kinect, any touchscreen device, or even a mouse. A first-person game using 2D visuals is also something I haven't seen in a long, long time... but the game looks admittedly gorgeous. This is Severed.

From the press release-

Take on the role of a heroine in this first-person, dungeon crawleresque adventure
Mysterious highly stylized surreal world to explore
Natural-motion based mechanics to combat enemies and explore/interact with the world
Nonlinear gameplay gives players autonomy over upgrade paths
Light RPG elements, including spells and items that progressively upgrade the main character
Battle multiple enemies simultaneously, each with their own strengths and weaknesses to discover
Original soundtrack from Juno nominated band YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN and kulintang ensemble Pantayo