{"id":1813,"date":"2025-09-08T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/?p=1813"},"modified":"2025-09-09T12:44:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T12:44:23","slug":"review-cronos-the-new-dawn-switch-2-strong-story-elevates-otherwise-safe-survival-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/08\/review-cronos-the-new-dawn-switch-2-strong-story-elevates-otherwise-safe-survival-horror\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Cronos: The New Dawn (Switch 2) &#8211; Strong Story Elevates Otherwise Safe Survival Horror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Horror homage.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the run-up to the launch of Bloober Team\u2019s new IP, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/cronos-the-new-dawn\">Cronos: The New Dawn<\/a>, chances are you saw one or two (or ten) comparisons to EA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps3\/dead_space\">Dead Space<\/a> series. And yes, while there are definitely some similarities between the two, I\u2019d feel more comfortable describing Cronos as an amalgamation of nearly every major survival horror game ever released.<\/p>\n<p>This is both good and bad. In one sense, Cronos is the quintessential survival horror, taking all the best elements from <strong>Resident Evil<\/strong>, <strong>Silent Hill<\/strong>, <strong>Alone in the Dark<\/strong>, and the aforementioned Dead Space, making for an experience that genre fans will relish. On the other hand, it never really attempts anything new to call its own, and although its setting and story certainly elevate it, there\u2019s little here that hasn\u2019t already been done elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/nintendo-switch-2\/cronos-the-new-dawn\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Horror homage. In the run-up to the launch of Bloober Team\u2019s new IP, Cronos: The New Dawn, chances are you saw one or two (or ten) comparisons to EA\u2019s Dead Space series. And yes, while there are definitely some similarities between the two, I\u2019d feel more comfortable describing Cronos as an amalgamation of nearly every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1814,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions\/1814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}