Do you ever hear a pitch for a recreation that instantly perks your ears? A mix of phrases or concepts that makes you suppose “nicely I’ve to expertise this as quickly as potential”? That occurred to me with Crow Nation, the most recent title from SFB Video games, a developer you may most likely greatest know because the crew behind the puzzle recreation Snipperclips. The place Snipperclips is sort of cute wanting, Crow Nation nonetheless is, considerably, however is as an alternative a survival horror recreation set in an deserted crow-themed theme park that is impressed by Ultimate Fantasy 7 and Resident Evil. Yeah, now that is what I name a very good pitch. And one of the best half is, you may even attempt it out for your self due to a Steam Subsequent Fest demo. However first, let me promote you on it much more.
Crow Nation places you within the sneakers of Particular Agent Mara Forest, a mysterious character who’s design fairly rapidly suits into the historical past of all time feminine horror recreation protagonists. Booting up the demo brings you to the beginning of the sport, and tells you extremely little – actually simply Mara’s identify. All the pieces else is as much as you to determine, and boy do I really like a thriller, particularly one set in a fictional theme park that shut down because of the unusual disappearance of its proprietor.
Proper off the bat, aesthetically, you may see the place the Ultimate Fantasy 7 inspirations are available in. Whereas possibly ever-so-slightly extra outlined than the polygonal Cloud, Mara has an identical, toy-like design to her, which I personally suppose lots of the OG FF7 character fashions have. Not like Ultimate Fantasy 7, and the PS1 period Resident Evils, all the backgrounds are rendered in actual time, as you’ll be able to manoeuvre the digicam, nevertheless it all retains that pre-rendered really feel these basic video games excelled at.