Recreation of the Week: Crow Nation and dealing with individuals’s reminiscences with care

It is a harmful factor, toying with individuals’s gaming reminiscences, as a result of they’ve usually welded to our sense of self and who we’re. They don’t seem to be neutral any extra, in the event that they ever have been. These reminiscences are a robust factor to enchantment to, and a wise manner for a recreation to get consideration, nevertheless it’s additionally harmful floor to tread. As a result of what if in aping the previous, you undermine it? What if within the harsh mild of actuality, you expose outdated video Games for what they have been – restricted compared to what we have now now?

I have been eager about this due to two video Games: Skald, the Commodore 64-styled role-playing recreation, and Crow Nation, the PlayStation 1-styled survival horror. Skald got here out this week and we have now a evaluate within the works, and Crow Nation got here earlier within the month and our evaluate aired this week. That is partially the explanation I am making Crow Nation our recreation of this week.

It is a beautiful factor. It is obtained that muddy color palette PS1 video Games used to have, and that sense of claustrophobia brought on by a low display screen decision. The digital camera angle is fastened, the characters are chunky, and you’ll virtually rely the variety of polygons on them. It actually does seem like a PS1 recreation, and other people have been giddy about it on social media for weeks. However is that every one video Games like this are – superficial nostalgia performs?