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Crow Country Announcement Calls Back to Resident Evil, Final Fantasy VII - Hardcore Gamer
24.10.2023 - 10:43 / hardcoregamer.com / Hardcore
Another classicly-styled horror game indie game joins the genre’s ranks today with the announcement of SFB Games’ “Crow Country.” Like other relatively recent horror titles such as Signalis and Tormented Souls, Crow Country appears to be taking heavy influence from the original Resident Evil in terms of how it plays. Its visuals appear to be inspired by an entirely different source though: Final Fantasy VII, right down to the blocky character models. All that said though, it appears that the game won’t be a one-to-one recreation in either case. No, there’s more going on here.
In terms of mechanics, there are two things immediately differentiating Crow Country from the games that appear to have inspeired it. The first is that it’s not employing fixed camera angles like both Resident Evil and Final Fantasy VII did. Instead, it’s looking like player will be experiencing the game from slightly above and behind Mara Forest, the character they’lll be following through the abandoned Crow Country theme park.
The first difference flows into the second, that being the environments being fully modeled rather than pre-rendered backgrounds. One has to give SFB Games credit here, as it’s managed to make the rooms and areas shown so far look almost exactly like something from the pre-rendering days. It’s only when the camera moves that the illusion breaks.
As for what players will actually be doing in Crow Country, SFB Games descibes it as a survival horror adventure wherein Mara Forest does her best to uncover the mysteries of the park and discover the circumstances behind the disappearance of its founder: Edward Crow. As seen in the trailer, players will collect items, solve puzzles and combat/evade the monstrosities haunting it.
Certainly this still leaves a lot of questions unanswered, but fortunately there’s no need to settle for just the trailer and a short breakdown. Those interested can go try a demo for Crow Country on either PC or PS5 right now if they want. There’s probably not a ton to it seeing as the game was only just announced, but it’s still a great chance to get a feel for what the full release will actually be like. As for when that full version of the game will come out, the current estimate is for sometime in 2024.
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