I’ve never gelled with the survival-horror genre. Games like Resident Evil have always seemed too clunky to me. The tanky and janky mechanics always put me off.
But Crow Country has made me realise that I’ve been overlooking something. They are just not-very-scary puzzle games. Or at least, the original, PS1 era games are. The kind of “let me get a pen and paper” puzzle game that I didn’t know I was missing!
Crow Country is oozes 90s nostalgia in a compelling way. I bloody loved it.
This is not a hard game at all. The whole game takes only a few hours to complete. Less so if you’re speed running it. I’ve blitzed through it twice to grab the PlayStation Platinum trophy now. The first run with an A+ ranking – owing to using more than 50 healing items (oops!) – and an S+ ranking on the second run through where I speed-ran everything with no healing items whatsoever! (Yes, I’m chuffed with that one.)
It’s not hard, but it is a lot of fun. I’d recommend if you’re looking for a spooky game as we approach Halloween.