Cronos: The New Dawn

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Great

7/10 While I recommend this game, especially for Dead Space fans, but just take note, in my opinion this game is quite like The Callisto Protocol, good but NOT good enough. -Storyline this one is more mysterys, but I feel TCP storyline is overall better written. , also known actor voice acting is helpful. -It very much feel like Dead Space, especially its atmosphere. Creepy from time to time. The mystery in its storyline also help alot. In that area, Cronos can give DS a run for its money. - BUT combat. oh, the combat. Now, TCP's combat is very bad and too repetitive. Compere to TCP, Cronos is way better, but unfortunately not good enough. Dead Space combat is perfect balanced compere to Cronos. -There is two Main issues in Cronos combat. 1.Gimmick system, like Charging gun do more dmg, flamethrower so that enemy on fire take more dmg. -Both are ok, but really not that special. As I said, gimmick, so the combat will be "unique", specially to DS. 2. Main issue come is how by "not giving resource so game will feel difficult"!!! While game like Dead Space and Resident evil type of game always had this type resource management with inventory management as key part of the game. The problems in this game, is that this system here implemented very poorly, Unlike DS and RE, where enemy always drop something, no matter how little, it feel you "got something", and you dont need go reload the game because several bad shots. BUT in Cronos, for some odd reason, dev think, its more "fun" to not have that feature. So enemy enemy that take 2-3 HS to take down to rarely drop anything, if they drop items, it usually a little bit of "money". Now you do give "money/energy" and "build material" to build or buy supply, BUT you upgrade depend on your "money", build materials while not that rare, dont produce that much ammo. This is specially annoying, because Cronos have save point and autosave points(rare), and you can walk in to area which is like DS, go "lockdown mode" so you have to kill all enemy to leave. But if you dont know that are is coming, you have limited inventory space, you might not have enough ammo to fight it, which happen to me quite few time. Here also you will notice that "on fire cause enemy to take more dmg", which is actually not bad idea, but to make those flamethrower, you need resources(same ones that make ammo) or find drop point, which are ofc rare and far from any combat area, and you can carry one 1(but can build 2). All these plus very limit inventory space, the whole thing feel very artificially "hard mode", I will ok, had they made at least the enemy drop little bit of "money" every time, it dont feel like waste of bullet(as unlike some of other game), you cant really run pass alot of enemies in this game. Also I especially find that "resources box" in the game, can also drop nothing. Which is just like middle finger from the dev. I cant believe I would said, At least the Calliston Protocal had working melee, its lack of resources actually does work, because you can bash you way though the game. Here, you cant.