Just Crow Things - Switch Review

You’re a crow leaving your nest for the first time and venturing into the big, wide world, discovering your true potential along the way in this action puzzle adventure. In Just Crow Things, you explore 10 sandbox stages, from Ancient Egypt to the Big Apple and beyond. Customise your crow with unlockable hats and skins and use a variety of tools to help you progress to the finale. 

The Good

In Just Crow Things, you’ll learn the basics of being a crow and doing things that crows really enjoy doing, such as stealing shiny trinkets, pooing on hoomans’ heads, and causing complete and utter destruction to each of the 10 sandbox worlds you get to visit. There's never a dull moment in Just Crow Things; it's a real stress reliever. Pooing on hoomans’ heads, dropping plant pots on cars, or swooping down to steal a hotdog becomes second nature, and it's something that's just fun to do from start to finish.  

Exploring each of the ten Sandbox levels is a real joy, as there is a lot of variety. There are big cities to explore and fantasy worlds, including one based on the Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, which was a really nice surprise. 

To complete a world and progress, you’ll need to earn 100 crowputations. By completing quests from your animal friends around the map, once you’ve collected a hundred crowputations, the stage will be completed, and you're allowed to leave. However, you won't unlock all the rewards available until you’ve completed every last quest and race in the world. If you complete the stage 100%, you’ll earn hats and skins that you can equip at the wardrobe in the centre of the map screen. 

Each stage has numerous quests to complete, and some of these quests can be really creative, such as one where you are tasked with taking pictures of a secret meeting and having a camera viewpoint in the bottom right-hand corner in a first-person view, allowing you to see the world in a whole new way, which was pretty cool. And there are many more like this one.

There are also time-trail races to complete in each world. These will see you flying, bumping, and pooing through a series of rings in the fastest time possible, earning bronze, silver, and gold cups. It's a small diversion from the main quests that allows you to unlock new skins.

TL;DR

• Being a crow, pooing on hoomans
• Exploring each sandbox
• Quirky Quests
• Time trial races

The Bad

When starting the game for the first time, I found the music to be really loud—so loud, in fact, that I had to go into settings and turn it down. I couldn't hear anything other than the loud orchestral soundtrack. It wasn't bad music; just the volume seemed to be really high in the game, and I much prefer to hear the screams of my victims while I was pooing on their heads (chuckles). 

I don’t have a lot bad to say about Just Crow Things. The only thing to be aware of is that the game is pretty short. I completed the main quest in under three hours, though once you’ve completed the story, you will unlock a Sandbox Plus mode that allows you to spawn items from the story into your world and mess about with them.

TL;DR

• Music is very loud
• Short

Final Score: 8/10

I really enjoyed Just Crow Things on the Nintendo Switch; it's just as much fun as Rain on Your Parade, made by the same developers. Pooing on hoomans’ heads never gets old, and there are a lot of fun quests and quirky game-related moments that had me smiling. And even when it's all done, the ability to go back and play the entire game again in a sort of simulation is pretty caw!   

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