Sane Trilogy, otherwise known as “the reason why Super Mario 3D All Stars looks so half-assed,” was successful enough that it not only inspired a similar remake of the Spyro trilogy and a remaster of Crash Team Racing, but it renewed enough interest in the series to bring about a new installment with Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time. But considering that the rest of their repertoire is licensed games and ports, it seemed like it would be a 50-50 shot that they’d handle this correctly, and it looks like this coin flip landed in our favor.Ĭrash Bandicoot N. I actually have played the former and I enjoyed it, and the same team also developed the aforementioned Crash: Nitro Kart, so it’s clear they had experience with the series. The developer of this compilation is Vicarious Visions, the team behind the GBA titles Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure and Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced. So the series was dormant for almost a decade until 2017, where the original PS1 trilogy was given the HD Remaster treatment and released as part of a compilation. Crash of the Titans was especially moronic in that it turned a platformer series into a beat em up so boring that it makes Sonic Unleashed’s night time stages look like they ACTUALLY came from God of War. I mean, I did enjoy Crash Nitro Kart, and I heard Crash Twinsanity was pretty fun, but the other two post PS1 Crash games I played were Tag Team Racing and Crash of the Titans, both of which sucked. It’s more so along the lines of people just stopped paying attention to the series, so we wouldn’t even know if any of the post PS1 releases were any good. Not to mention that I had never even played the original game.Ĭ ra sh Bandicoot was one of the biggest names during the PS1 era, yet when it fell off, it didn’t even fall off in the same way as Sonic the Hedgehog where every installment still got a lot of hype and sold a lot even though the games were hit and miss. Despite the fact that I haven’t talked about it much, I have played the crap out of the PS1 games (2 and 3 at least) when I was a child, but I hadn’t touched them in so long that the remakes were basically a new experience for me.
Despite not having been relevant since the PS1 era, it was able to stay barely afloat until 2010, with the last console based installment being Crash: Mind Over Mutant. I can safely say that, prior to 2017, I assumed the Crash Bandicoot series was as good as dead. If one is to play this game, then at the very least, one should obtain it in a way that does not allow Activision to profit. Update: Despite the fact that I enjoyed this game, the news publisher Activision has shielded sexual abusers and have subjected their employees to sexual abuse has ensured that I can no longer recommend this game in good conscience.