This game sets out to do something incredibly risky: to live up to the quality of the original trilogy. Now, I've never played the original PS 1 classics, but I do have the amazing N.Sane Trilogy, and so I have something to compare it to. So does it stack up to the originals?
Well, I mean, you did see the title, didn't you?
Ok, seriously though, this genuinely is worthy of having crash's name on it. Hell, in some aspects, it even surpasses the original trilogy.
One of those improvements is the general plot. OK, it's generally not hard to beat an Excuse Plot, but still, this might have the best plot of any crash game out there. All the characters get changes in their personalities that actually work this time around: Cortex goes from a lovable dope to a man utterly broken by his repeated defeats, N.Brio becomes incredibly affable, N.Trophy becomes much more evil, ECT. There are some characters that go unchanged (Crash is still, well, Crash, N.Gin is still the loyal assistant, Aku Aku doesn't play much of a role), but their characters generally worked without being complex, so whatever.
I will say that there are some missed opportunities with the plot, such as there being a whopping two dimensional counterparts and a lack of callbacks to the later Crash games, but admittedly, dimension traveling plots have a huge potential for missed opportunity, and the game does still do a good amount of ideas with it, so I'll let it slide.
Now, the gameplay. First, I might wanna get this out of the way: this game's control's a lot more slippery than the original trilogy. For anyone who played the other games, getting used to these controls might take a while. When you do, however, you'll find a faithful take on the original's gameplay, basically taking the hallway styled levels and making them a bit more open, which does a surprising amount of good to the gameplay. The new Quantum Masks are fun as well, never clashing with the game too hard and adding a lot to it as well. Seriously, the Time Stop alone would make for a fun game.
Then we get to the elephant in the room: This. Game. Is. Hard. Harder than the originals, even. The game's gonna kick your ass at at least one point. Thankfully, the games hardest content is completely optional, and it only awards you with some (Well made, to be fair) costumes.
So yeah, that's Crash 4. Not much else to say, really, it's a great time overall.
A Whumping great time
Yeah, bet you've never heard that header before.
This game sets out to do something incredibly risky: to live up to the quality of the original trilogy. Now, I've never played the original PS 1 classics, but I do have the amazing N.Sane Trilogy, and so I have something to compare it to. So does it stack up to the originals?
Well, I mean, you did see the title, didn't you?
Ok, seriously though, this genuinely is worthy of having crash's name on it. Hell, in some aspects, it even surpasses the original trilogy.
One of those improvements is the general plot. OK, it's generally not hard to beat an Excuse Plot, but still, this might have the best plot of any crash game out there. All the characters get changes in their personalities that actually work this time around: Cortex goes from a lovable dope to a man utterly broken by his repeated defeats, N.Brio becomes incredibly affable, N.Trophy becomes much more evil, ECT. There are some characters that go unchanged (Crash is still, well, Crash, N.Gin is still the loyal assistant, Aku Aku doesn't play much of a role), but their characters generally worked without being complex, so whatever.
I will say that there are some missed opportunities with the plot, such as there being a whopping two dimensional counterparts and a lack of callbacks to the later Crash games, but admittedly, dimension traveling plots have a huge potential for missed opportunity, and the game does still do a good amount of ideas with it, so I'll let it slide.
Now, the gameplay. First, I might wanna get this out of the way: this game's control's a lot more slippery than the original trilogy. For anyone who played the other games, getting used to these controls might take a while. When you do, however, you'll find a faithful take on the original's gameplay, basically taking the hallway styled levels and making them a bit more open, which does a surprising amount of good to the gameplay. The new Quantum Masks are fun as well, never clashing with the game too hard and adding a lot to it as well. Seriously, the Time Stop alone would make for a fun game.
Then we get to the elephant in the room: This. Game. Is. Hard. Harder than the originals, even. The game's gonna kick your ass at at least one point. Thankfully, the games hardest content is completely optional, and it only awards you with some (Well made, to be fair) costumes.
So yeah, that's Crash 4. Not much else to say, really, it's a great time overall.