JKDarkside

Enjoying Crow Country so far! I should add that I could count the survival horror games I have played on one hand, which is about five if I remember correctly (SH2, RE4, The Count Lucanor, Yuppie Psycho, and Back in 1995, could bump it to six if we count DOOM 3 which has a similar rhythm). So, I'm appreciating this one for being a bit easier.

There's still the odd spooky here and there, and some excellent atmospheric moments scattered around (especially the save room after the crypt and what it does with the music), but there's a pretty clear focus to make this a more approachable title.

If you want to get a feel for the genre, this is an excellent starting point, the normal difficulty feeling pretty fair and having a story mode if it's too much and you just want to experience the story. Unsure how tough the hard difficulty is but it should be more in line with the genre standards.

This was made by the Super Flash Bros, or SFB Games, who normally do more family friendly fare and it shows here. The theme park set up lets them have more whimsical areas they're more comfortable using in their games (see Tangle Tower in particular), but still gives them leeway to use that more cutesy tone to catch you off guard when the threats seep in. Really impressed with the design of the enemies, some feeling like usual body horror stuff - and then you encounter what seems to be a giant living puppet on stilt legs and man I don't even. That's not even getting into the goo that seems to be glass because they shatter on death?

The story also feels really inventive in what the threat actually is, because there's just so much weirdness tossed at you that the usual genre cliches don't seem to apply, outside maybe one thing I've found, but then that gets complicated by weird other elements. Interested to see where this goes.

It's full of trash.