r/CronosNewDawn

Is the game good on the Switch?

The game is new enough that it is impossible to find the clarification I need through Google without severe risk of spoilers, which I'm trying to avoid at all costs.

The confusing, conflicting answer I'm picking up from miscellaneous Reddit and Steam comments is, "There are no consequences, unless you care about the story." I quite obviously care about the story, as I assume most people who play the game do.

Is there story content you can miss from letting go of specific essences? Dialogue, major or minor? Which can I safely remove without having to worry about missing any little details?

While I generally want to avoid spoilers, such as the ending, I am requesting specific information about what I should keep if I don't want to gate myself out of story. I believe there are decisions to make (do not spoil the consequences), but I don't want to be gated out of a choice to get an ending.

Do I need Edward, or does he come up again? I found out that there's a side quest related to Lidia and you can acquire some of her family members. Is any of that gated or changed if I remove her? Artur seems important to the story rn because I just got him, but does he actually come up again?

Edit: Quick clarification, this is my first run and thus I do not care about achievements. I only care about story.

How did Edward know about the change, the traveller or when the pathfinder visit Veronica (or whoever it is in the strange note in his apartment) and how did he know the pathfinder visit somewhere at that exact date dated back so far as 198x ? I found no explanation about him at all.

The collective is... what ?are they a surviving human faction in the future that sent traveller back to the past for ... knowledge or win something back terminator - skynet style ? Or are thay the hive mind tyrannid style of the change that sent traveller back to the past to collect missing mind/ essence that they didnt collect ? but then we must be in the same timeline as the hivemind then why do we need to ascend the essence using traveller machines, all the while we can see throughout the game, the change technology all includes merging/ flesh based.

Anyone else have trouble getting the stomp to work on small crates on the ground? I feel like at the beginning of the game I was able to get it to work but now I can't. I've just given up on trying and it's not worth wasting a bullet on. Any advice would be appreciated.

I've been eyeing Cronos: The New Dawn for a while now, but I never had the chance to pick it up. I've been recovering from surgery lately, so I wanted to dive into a new genre, and this game really caught my attention.

I've seen a lot of reviews saying it's a really solid survival horror game, and I honestly like everything I've seen so far. I'm a huge horror fan and I've played almost every Resident Evil game, so I was wondering how Cronos compares. Also, how scary is it?

The only thing that's making me hesitate is that, because I have to pay in USD, the game costs me almost two weeks of labor ( different countries, different economies). Since it'll probably be the only game I buy this year, I'm a bit worried that the difficulty might be too punishing and I'll end up getting stuck or rage quitting, which would make the purchase pretty hard to justify.

For those who've played it, would you recommend it? How's the difficulty, replayability, and overall experience?

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I got rank B for what I thought was a really good run, what are the actual metrics for how the run gets ranked? I guess saving really brings the rank down a lot? I went through the entire game trying to collect anything I might have missed in my last run. I'm considering doing a third run to finish up all achievements (Orthodox and All weapon upgraded).

I’m really interested in picking up Cronos The New Dawn.

For those of you who’ve played it how scary would you say it is?

Is it mostly atmosphere and tension or are there lots of jump scares?

For reference, I’ve played games like Dead space Remake, Resident Evil 7 & 8 and Soma.

I haven’t yet finished this game but the number of times this game got me with jumpscares are uncountable. but even then, I would classify this game as a lot less scarier than re7, dead space and alan wake 2 so far. I am currently at the road to the hospital. what do you think?

Cronos: The New Dawn runs incredibly poorly despite not being a particularly good looking game. How am I able to play games that look two generations ahead, like Resident Evil Requiem or Silent Hill f, at high settings with 70-80 FPS, while this unoptimized mess struggles to hit 20-30 FPS on low settings and looks like the inside of a toaster?

Still has garbage GPU power draw nearly a year after release

And don't use Unreal Engine 5 as an excuse. Silent Hill f also uses UE5, and it's nowhere near this bad.

Im tired of these levels of incompetence more coming from a way better optimization (but still poor) work of silent hill 2 remake