Cronos: The New Dawn

Pretty good survival horror game with a few issues that prevent it from being great. Good stuff: - Excellent art direction, together with some beautiful visuals and graphics. - Excellent sound design and music. Everything sounds right, footsteps, ambiance, the guns sound amazing, the monsters and all their related sounds are disgusting (and that's a good thing). Voice acting is also pretty good. - Plays perfectly on KB+M and the controls are fully customizable which is a plus. - Interesting story, based on a known trope but pretty original in implementation. The story I think its what carries the game to the end, as I'll get to that on the bad stuff section. Bad stuff: - Overstays its welcome. It has VERY noticeable padding in some sections that could have been a lot shorter. The length of the game hurts it instead of elevating it, even more so when to get the true ending it is REQUIRED to play the game twice (not doing that ♥♥♥♥). The story is the only thing that kept me from dropping the game, as it kept being interesting to the end. - Bad performance. My PC is not a NASA PC but it's very very good, still it struggled to get stable 90 FPS which is my preferred framerate. Lots of sections struggle to reach 45 FPS for no real reason. - Some weird gameplay decisions, like having the Torch dispenser in safe-rooms. This makes it so you can just use this to your advantage a lot, which is boring (you can just ignore this, but It annoyed me). Subjective stuff: - I did not like the Essence system personally. The upgrades are good but marginal in what they can do. It would have been better to just be able to have them all to get all the story bits and not have them have "perks". I found this to be another annoying way to pad the game, forcing you to make more playthroughs. - Melee sucks. There's a perk that improves this through the essence system but to me it's a bit of a bummer, melee could have been good from the start (I don't like the perk system). Being a survival game they could have made melee be more integral to the game and not perk dependent. - Dismembering enemies does nothing really, they could have expanded on this mechanic a bit more. No idea why people compare this game to Dead Space at all. Enemies are just bullet sponges, it's best to always shoot them in the head, to maximize damage, which makes combat get pretty stale after a while. - I know survival games have that "play it more than one time" thing for multiple endings, but I've always disliked this. I don't re-play games often mostly because I don't have enough time to do so, and because I don't usually find games that I like so much that re-playing them does not become boring. I really think that forcing the "true" ending to be locked behind having to do a second full playthrough is a misstep. Overall, to me this is a strong 7/10. I'd wait for a discount to get it. It is NOT like Dead Space, no idea where people get that from, maybe the vibe? The combat is NOTHING like Dead Space. The RE comparison is alright though, I'd say it's comparable to the RE2 Remake. Hope they make a sequel, the universe and ideas are really cool and they can maybe flesh out the mechanics more on a second try.

I LOVE THIS GAME!!!

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What a amazing gem this game was, definatly not what I expected when I went into it. I got intrigued by the atmosphere of the apocalyptic world, merged monsters and the strange protagonist, but was hooked by the story, even though I didn't understand it all until my new game plus playthrough where it made a lot more sense. Looking forward to the dlc in the autumn!

dommage pour la fin mais c était vraiment le pied, a dévorer

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game is great so far, little hard but i think thats because most games hold your hand now so this is the step in the right direction for sure.

A most difficult journey filled with fear, terror and horrors beyond all imagination. But a journey we must take nonetheless........Such is our calling.

супер класс, после silent hill f ощущается просто божественно. что-то среднее между sh, dead space и резиком. с оптимизацией проблем не увидел. да, иногда предметы за текстуры улетают, но это так, мелочь. в основном держало 100-110 фпс на экстремальных настройках графики, с лучами и длсс + генерация кадров (кста, задержки на геймпаде не заметил).