The Depressing World of Bad Crash Bandicoot Games - Caddicarus

[Music] I'm fine with the way things are yep didn't you hear the bricks and I are getting married I love you God bandicoot mump is full of surprises isn't it I mean we come together to celebrate crash it's my birthday month and now I'm getting married to a wall how much better could everything possibly get now you don't want any of that huh who are you are Jason station that is very funny why would you want to play crash bandicoot for when you've got so many of the best crash games right here well yeah I suppose I do have all of these ones I'm not talking about them say what well that was just lovely though bugger me oh look it's cash panocha that was all right wasn't it oh look it's cash Paducah - that was great wasn't it oh look it's cash manuka wrap oh look it's cashed eat rabies oh look it's cash Twitter nitty these were fantastic weren't they oh look it's Casper Nuka the wrinkled of cow Pat oh okay that wasn't a very good one was it the lure of what I just came up with dictates that if you want a few games in a franchise to be respected as truly brilliant and given the eternal status of classic you need to be able to compare it to its own failings so that you're able to see how badly its own gameplay style that the franchises famous for can be attempted sure people liked Crash Bandicoot 1 a lot when it came out I mean check out this kid's magazine I have talking about the best games ever made they seem to think the crash one was one of them so it must be true I mean look at what they say about Samus in Metroid we know that playing as a girl is a bit well girly cue Real Talk though kids halo isn't a difficult game at all you want to know what's really tough spongebob why do I have this magazine but no matter how much people love crash 1 when crash 2 came out and refined and improved basically everything it was clear where the original should have been from the very beginning and it looks kind of bad now but that's just hindsight when crash 2 came out in 97 you could only say that with the new knowledge you gain there's a hardcore Torito game and while gaming technology improved around you because at the time nobody knew any better this type of game was a new thing in 1996 so people didn't 100% know how good this new gaming formula could possibly get until they experienced it for themselves I mean Jesus people played pong in 1972 and they thought that video games had peaked I said guys we're not getting any better than this pack up and go home now sorry goes on a sequel comes out it improves itself another sequel comes out it improves itself and just when there's a few people that start complaining about that gameplay start getting a bit too repetitive and too old or stale another seat book comes out which tries to fix all of those problems which then makes those complainers realize how good they had it in the first place that's how I think gaming classics are born you don't just finish making a game and then declare it classic immediately only time will tell and nowadays we all know the original crash trilogy is classic because they remade them and they still hold up brilliantly today the same can even be said about crashes first attempt of a kart racer fantastic then and fantastic as a remake even now we also know these games are classics because its own series they came from really started pushing their luck when everyone started bitching about it now where have I heard that before more gourmet yes every franchise whether it's about a purple dragon or a blue guinea pig suffers from this problem a sinking really damn low when trying desperately to spice up what made their own games terrific in the first place even the portly Italian Pillsbury Doughboy wasn't safe from this trend and even though it makes us respect and appreciate their good games even more they still exist and when it comes to crash bless his little belly button once Naughty Dog had nothing to do with him after four games in nobody had a clue how to use in party games open-world games more racing games portable side-scrollers ideas that were picked up and dropped faster than my son all in a desperate attempt to keep crash relevant while completely ignoring what made him so popular and gave him a fan base to begin with did you ever wonder why the recently announced crash 4 is carrying on from crash 3 officially despite wrath of cortex and twinsanity being labeled as crash 4 and crash 5 in Japan all of these games are why and we're gonna play though now I have indeed taken a look at a few questionable games from crash many years ago on this channel wrath of cortex was one of them and I'm not gonna bother looking at it in this video because I already went through it top to bottom in depth not that long ago but suffice it to say aside from the great controls the enemies are pathetic and can barely touch you the bosses and crash tree do nothing but poke you Cortex's eyebrows have a mind of their own the levels are way too big Coco gets stuck floating in boxes Monkey Bar swingin is slower than corpse decomposition your eyes escape your head and float in midair and crashed looks like an inflatable sex doll which makes me want to be sick in my mouth there's also this one level here where you can beat it to get the crystal by just letting go of the controller yes I'm not joking about that this is supposed to be a minecart race where you pick different routes to take to try and get in front of crunch and you don't need to press a single button and you will win this game is a masterpiece I also did do a video on crash bash but that was back in 2012 2012 that was even before YouTube was taken over by Susan wet winky because that video is terrible I figured I'd drop myself into this video nice and gently and revisit crash bash to see if it really was the beginning of crashes downfall after Naughty Dog dropped him to start making games about angry hairy men so I guess it's time to conclude this year's bandicoot month by acknowledging all of crashes failures and getting them out the way forever so that I never have to mention them again these games I'll be talking about today have been heavily requested on my channel for years now so sorry for the wait I hope this is what you wanted oh wow check it out it's crash your bathroom I reviewed this game when I was a clean-shaven child the graphics as well are actually quite pleasant the characters look good and I don't know what I was talking about this was the first crash game to be picked up by another random developer after Naughty Dog lost the rights of the character to Universal and that does spell bad news at the offset but at least the new devs eurocom didn't try to poorly replicate the original formula they instead tried to do a Mario Party and put with a gorilla with an anus for a face doesn't mean the game is great though despite it doing its own thing because spoiler warning I don't think it's that great can we judge the game by the first world of adventure no ignore him now even though crash delay bash there is a party game if you're all by yourself you can indeed play a single-player adventure mode Oh get you and in Adventure mode I decided to pick cortex because when he's running his hands turned into a canary but you can't call this an adventure without a story I mean what do you think this game is hi kids are the intro cutscene clues a scene on what's going on in the most basic of terms aku aku and Ikaruga are having an argument which almost leads to the worst boxing match of all time because none of them have any arms forever Oh No the ancients would not allow it do you know what a qaq is right yet we've never done that before at all no we don't fight because the ancients won't let them do it nope not even once don't want to piss off those ancients over by the way do you know what's even weirder about this though the first line spoken in this cutscene is how many times must you be told you cannot defeat me so why does Kuki even try to fight aku-aku after all of that why give him the ancients excuse you both can't hurt each other aku aku said so do you have memory loss huka huka ken would get Alzheimer's anyway after this aku aku has had enough and is about to bring the Thunder this bitter internal are no longer or he's gonna sound like a fed-up mother and logically just like when you catch your own kids bickering there's only one way to settle it illegal cage fighting yes instead of settling this tiny squabble between themselves these omnipotent and all-powerful masks decide to steal their supposed friends and pit them against each other until only one is left alive and crashes a okay with it what is he doing and so by winning a random set of battle party games and fighting boss levels at the end of each warp room your chosen character must beat out the competition for the glory of their own mask that forced them into this horror and this somehow proves how great they are and who wins this pissy little argument even stranger though is that since I picked cortex I'm fighting for the evil side and yet the boss levels are all the same if you picked the hero side even cuca says in the boss cutscenes so if they're old friends why are we fighting the bosses if the bosses are evil and friends with KUKA including the final boss doesn't that mean that the evil side already wins this argument by default what's going on why we fighting them oh don't worry he's flat now this story is a total disaster no other words it's as much of a mess as tiny Tigers character model Cortex's hair though is on point look at it it's so on point that it is a point his hair is so sharp he could open an envelope with it so crash the coop bash the coot like i mentioned earlier is Mario Party for the entirety of the gameplay but without the game board or dice to roll and it's worse you just win minigames over and over again to progress and where some of these games on their own are totally possible and fun in their own right where crush bash fails is with the tedium of it all this is one of the most repetitive games I've ever played in fact is so repetitive that in the first warp room you get four-way pong Polar Bear fighting pogo stick bouncing and 3d brawling and then in the second warp room you get four-way pong Polar Bear fighting pogo stick bouncing and 3d brawling foon sure there's an additional game mechanic added in for the copies but they're still copies they feel exactly the same to play and many of these minigames are copied up to three times throughout the adventure mode in different warp rooms with nothing but a different coat of paint and that's not all get this in order to unlock the boss battles from each warp room you need a certain amount of trophies and no your wife doesn't count to get the trophy on one of these levels you need to win the mini game in question not once not twice but three times and this isn't a best out of three system or anything like that the game keeps on going until anybody in the match wins three times meaning that you could potentially replay the level nine times in a row in order to win just one trophy and that's assuming you even win on the ninth attempt Noddy da da da da so you get the four trophies from warp room one unlocked boss one and then think to yourself god damn I can't wait to see something new and then oh dear what room 2 has exactly the same minigame styles you just did aside from one extra level you haven't seen before and you still need to win them all three times each and then all of a sudden boss two won't let you in because you need trophies gems and crystals to get inside but where do you get the gems and crystals from you [ __ ] why by going back through all the levels you've already replayed a million times over and replaying them again but this time with an overly frustrating crutch like randomly growing instakill mushrooms taking over the stage or you beginning the stage with less health than everybody else yes engine this is a great idea when two giant missile equipped mech suits can't take down a tiny Bandicoot just spin around and spit balls out of your mouth out gasps oh yeah the single-player adventure mode aside from the decent bosses pretty horrendous and unfortunately unless you own a first edition black labeled European version of crash smash like I do there's no code you can put in anywhere to unlock all of the multiplayer games straight away if you want to just jump into a match with a few friends you have to go through the Adventure mode and unlock everything in that tedious goddamn way otherwise you're stuck with four mini-games total with four different skins and that is it unless you have a copy of spyro 3 yes stay with me by holding l1 and r2 on the title screen for spyro 3 and pressing square you get access to a hidden crash bash demo and then if you type in a specific code on the title screen of the demo you are then granted access to a cheap menu where you can not only manipulate and change basically everything on the screen but also have access to nearly every single level fully multiplayer compatible and all you are missing a few of the final minigames and you only have three bosses to pick from boss 3 of which apparently being Homer Simpson but yes essentially nearly the entire crash bash game is hidden on a Spyro 3 disc which I guess just goes to show you how little space crash bashes full-disk was using in the first place and therefore shows you how much effort went into it I can't believe they left this here accidentally it's so damn cool look you can even see the exact date and time that this beta build of the game was placed onto the Spyro 3 disc how adorable ok what I just said about the no effort thing that was harsh there is quite a bit of effort put into some of crash bash the soundtrack for instance is one of Crash is best on the ps1 in fact below crash two I'd say it was the second best so go and check it out and when you do have all the minigames unlocked it is a decent distraction with friends but getting to that point legitimately which the majority of players of this game had to do is hellish and my lord aside from the repetition and copy/paste of minigames the looks of this game really end up burying too many freeze frames I was able to grab from this game where absolutely horrifying and a far cry from the detail you'd expect from the crash universe even on the ps1 and come on man cortex his head here looks like a boiled egg on top of a frisbee I can see a good game here it's not in there and that's probably the saddest thing Oh No maybe if I shout at it it will be better oh now didn't work but don't fret I mean did you like Crash Team Racing yeah good well have I got the steel for you because for the low low price of three you can get Crash Team Racing but on the ps2 with better graphics and you fall through the floor all the time oh yes sign me up the Nuka boy so crash nitro kart was sort of a sequel slash spiritual successor to Crash Team Racing for the ps2 era and oh boy does it feel like a game stuck in the shadow of it's better Big Brother that the parents love more in many ways this is just a carbon copy of Crash Team Racing but just not as good it's even apparent in the adventure mode the plot of CTR is aliens and the plot of nitro car is alien so instead of oxide threatening to turn earth into a giant concrete parking lot you have this guy called Vela who just steals you to race a bunch of times to entertain other aliens on another planet that's basically it and his beard is the shape of the first letter of his name I mean what kind of [ __ ] does that nitro Kart does actually give you a good first impression instead of making you pick one character only for the entire adventure like in CTR you get to pick from either team bandicoot or team cortex allowing you to swap between three different characters with their own unique driving styles and card stats whenever you want to in between all of the races and that's not all you even get unique cutscenes for each team throughout the story mode based on who you pick but then you realize that they didn't bother to fix the facial animations for the mask you will have to race in order to win the galaxy circuit and sabre for us to conquer welcome to the future of gaming everyone this is the ps2 hey what's my name easy sloppy because that's what this game is and that's a massive shame to me because as far as pushing the crash cart racing games forward goes nitro car gave us a fair amount new and good this was the game that introduced a new boost formula where the closer you leave the drift meter to the burnout the faster booster rewarded with a brilliant risk and reward system that they later brought back for nitro fuel they gave us unique track designs with trap crates to brake that activate different obstacles on the track to sabotage other players there are some great new items like the tornado that picks up anybody it touches and goes around half the track there's anti-gravity gimmicks in the levels that Mario would later copy in Mario Kart 8 11 years later the adventure mode has this frenzied system where a meter slowly charges with your teammates throughout the race after which you're able to use as many random items as you can before the timer runs out the visuals can be absolutely breathtaking for a ps2 game and hell they even brought back the staple from CTR that made the adventure mode stand out in the first place like the three token collection races crystal grabbing a and the time trial relic races and since they already copied so much that world from CTR it would only make sense for them to copy the addictive maniacal and bouncy control style but they don't Nitro car feels like the developers witnessed the birth of a miracle child and while the mother was still splayed shoved it back in nitro car is an unbirthday bee that was already born I need therapy even though you're not playing the game right now you can probably see the downgrade just from the footage Nitra car has absolutely no sense of speed or heaviness to the cards to make it feel like you're burning rubber against the terrain it feels like you're floating along it it's very flat and unreactive which wouldn't be so bad if the jumping and drifting didn't feel limp and splatty and the turning didn't feel like you were unfolding an ironing board but it does especially with the highest speed lowest turn characters unless you're drifting it barely feels like you even turn at all and you even slowed down if you hold a turn for too long because clearly someone thought you weren't going slow enough even driving into the levels is a pain driving in two of the levels is difficult stop judging me it's very hard why are you looking at me like that engine no look we've got a boss race heading our way I wonder who will be fighting from the crash universe today Oh him this delightful little cherub is called chronic don't know who he is neither do I and instead of being introduced in a comically personalized way where he's talking directly to the camera and intimidating the player he instead gets forced into racing us by V Lo and then he says now I don't want to race them they're smelly and then V Lowe says oh come on please daddy and then Krunk says yes yeah that is the quality of the boss races we have in nitro car and as for the race itself well I've got to be honest I'm not even sure it was a race see ya later monkey beta at this point I'd rather have a race against that thing in starfox 64 called Baker the pathetic boss races aren't all either when it comes to the difficulty of nitro car in fact when you mix in the team frenzy mechanic and new boost formula that is outright broken when you get the hang of it this ends up becoming the easiest kart racer I think I've ever played and the boss racers don't even allow you to use frenzy so that's how easy they are topping all of this off is a piddling number of tracks compared to CTR as well Oh that could not feel good and I don't even want to know what noise you'd make if you did feel good and even though this is supposed to be a high-tech advanced ps2 follow-up to Crash Team Racing nitro car ends up being one of the most unpolished games I've ever played constantly clipping through the floor is one thing but it's another thing when the framerate tanks whenever there's more than three cards on the same screen the shield's don't even work half the time and in some races you're even able to crash how the hell did you do that I genuinely loved the track designs and the visuals of nitro car but even if you can get past the performance problems there's no point coming back to this whatsoever since it controls worse than Crash Team Racing and doesn't feel as good to play which in a kart racer I would argue is the main thing you need to get right that's why games like Mario Kart 64 or Double Dash hold up so well after all these years yeah they put some of the tracks from these games in the future installments but you can always feel safe going back to these ones because you know you're gonna be having a great time controlling the cards oh and by the way the loading screens are terrifying crash is dead oh wow look at that it's a bonus platform you know what that means yeah we've got an extra racing game to look at so welcome everybody to the cat Icarus bounds round yep just when you thought they couldn't mess it up anymore and that they should have let Crash Team Racing die with dignity here we have another crash kart racer tag team racing but it's okay because Jetix magazine says it's the best crash game ever and everyone knows who Jetix magazine is hey everyone it's me your favorite prime time family-friendly YouTube superstar jump so immediately I do have to give Tag Team Racing some credit the story mode here is at least something different and not another random early an invasion the plot here is that you're battling cortex and accidentally stumble into a theme park built entirely for rollercoasters and race tracks is that a Wang and you get roped into recovering the power sources for each of the theme parks lands that were mysteriously stolen from von Koch over here but we're only helping him to do that because whoever does help him wins ownership of the entire Park which cortex really wants to do and we can't let him do that Spang Charlie pack mascot uni bumper cheeks that sounds like a character from an adult movies smash Brandy's couch yeah probably that one so Tag Team Racing is yet another crash kart racer if you couldn't tell it's CTR and nitro car again but with a million extra pointless mechanics and in my opinion it's even worse the car controls are unbearably stiff the track designs are the opposite of interesting the shortcuts barely mean anything the music is boring the engaging and skill-based jumpin drift of boost system has been totally removed and replaced with an awful power slide move that doesn't even help that much and makes this noise whenever you use it but the worst thing about it to me at least is the main gimmick that separates this racer from the rest the clashing system in any race at any time the character you pick can turn into a ghost and plonk their way into another car of your choosing to merge with them and as we all know nobody can clink the Cronk as good as crash bit dinky dong by doing this you briefly turn the game into Mario Kart Double Dash but for war criminals since you can swap between driving the car or aiming a weapon that has now attached itself onto the car in order to blow up everyone else until you run out of ammo on paper this sounds like the coolest addition ever it's like Crash Team Racing meets twisted metal especially since there's plenty of characters with unique weapons there's loads of vehicle types with different defense speed and handling options and plenty of unique visual combinations for certain cards clashing together but all of this falls apart like soggy bread once you realize that you only need to clash with one car and then you've automatically won every single race engine you see engines weapon he has are these rockets and they are so overpowered I'm pretty sure they could be used in tactical warfare with these Rockets you mow everybody down with no effort one to two hits max with Splash Damage and whenever you're gunning at the CPU in the driver's seat goes around the track as perfectly as possible so just make sure you fire the Rockets detach from your hosts like a dying flea right before the end of the third lap because you get thrown forward every time you do detach and then you'll find that you win every single time when you're in this state you are in complete control you are a parasite the helpless sap you attach to can't ever force you off there's no time limit for this or penalty for overusing it you can use overpowered race items in conjunction with the rocket if you get blown up by other races you recover two seconds later still in the clash formation and the best thing if you run out of rockets you can always detach and then immediately reattach again to get all of your ammo back sure you can always switch driving positions and let the computer players shoot down the bogies but why would you do that when you can effortlessly get rid of the competition and not have to deal with the painfully unsatisfying driving mechanics you could always say that this is an optional mechanic I suppose except it isn't because if you don't clash with another car in any race then you're a very weak target to every other car firing at you and you explode so much as tumbleweed touches you not to mention again you're stuck with kart racing mechanics that feel like you'll be raining a train and other races can attach themselves to you at random with as much consent as a weinstein basically if you don't clash you lose so why wouldn't you choose to clash with the most powerful weapon racer and then once you unlock engine shortly into the game it all becomes even easier since you don't even need to look for him in the race to grab his rocket you can clash at the very start of the race to guarantee victory with any car without breaking a sweat look at these Kos look at these chaos for a three-lap race lasting around three minutes this means I was averaging seven Kos per minute and so at this point why does the track design matter why do the visuals matter why do the shortcuts matter for even a small fighting chance in tag team racing you have to use this clash mechanic which means you'll end up doing the same thing repeatedly to win every time even the other modes for each track have similar approaches to them oh and did you know this game is a platformer yeah Tag Team Racing also has a giant hub world that's as much of a single game as the racing itself despite being called tag team racing and my god look at this look at this performance the game didn't run spectacularly in the races but this here this looks worse than my granddad slippers couldn't you guys just focus on getting one gameplay style nailed instead of forcing as much in as possible did I just die from jumping into a bridge the jumping and general running around controls are so slippery and floaty it's practically impossible to control where you're aiming towards and even the spinning attack is lazy see this this isn't a death tornado spin powerup from the other games this isn't a super spin this is just what happens when you hit square over and over again the animation resets and you can keep spinning forever meaning that no enemies will give you any trouble no shits were given at all my Lumpy's and germs you also get interrupted a lot by chick and stew who you may recognize from Nitro fielder's the chickens who announced all the DLC Grand Prix's I hate them there and I hate them even more here then did that crazy or new step bling bling bling bling yeah that's what all the kids were saying back then wasn't it bling bling in my ding ding to be totally fair to tag-team though despite not being that fun to control I do admire a few things they do in this overworld system firstly they turned the death animations crashes famous for into an explorative gameplay mechanic as you can go on a scavenger hunt looking for hidden specific death cutscenes that quite often got a chuckle out of me oh look it's flat bandicoot secondly these are some pretty expansive and densely designed hub worlds especially on the vertical plane and all the pockets of coins you find are able to purchase more outfits for your characters more cars and even a few crystals that you need in order to open the gates that will take you to the next power gem you need to progress to the next world there's a reason to explore other than finding the next race and I like that you can also physically abuse the customers in the park which is very cathartic because I used to work in retail and the amount of times I wanted to take the head off of a customer and kick it like a football is uncountable this is a 7 plus game with child beating actually is this how old you need to be to play the game or how many years in prison you'll get for child abuse you know what though now that I think about it the balance is a bit too skewed in the platforming favor because winning a race only rewards you with two crystals whereas you're gonna be able to buy and find more hidden crystals in the overworld much faster in order to open up all these gates in the hub world so that and find the hidden power gems and skip a huge chunk of the game without even doing a single race welcome to crash tag team racing where we don't like racing overall though tag team racing is an absolute mess and in my opinion one of the lowest points of crashes console career it tries to appeal to everyone but ends up in pressing no.1 half of it is Crash Team Racing but with worse controls worse performance worse visuals broken mechanics and boring stale track design while the other half is twinsanity but with worse controls worse performance worse visuals worse enemies and barely any really challenging platforming crash what's wrong with you women can't fight back is it rude to say that I hate you hey candy look over here I'm Charlie window I'm not in the mood for this can you please give me the next game oh okay I just wanted to let some light into your world can you give me the next game okay fine don't be such a classhole' give me as an echo get it please Skylanders imaginator this isn't a crash game well this cartoon says otherwise our tune you don't even know the half of it may Oh No extreme Oh what is this I was on the Whomper islands and about to free my friend Tornai from the clutches of the evil dr. neocortex is this so trying to get a rise out of me because it's working you can make a strong argument in favor of that show getting a rise out of me Skylanders I'm rising like a souffle I'm sorry but what in God's unholy pants is this I don't care if this show is any good judging by this inclusion of crash I really don't care pure and simple this is not crash bandicoot this is not the point of his character he's a mute da Mars meant to tribute other mute dumbasses and old Warner Brothers cartoons to not only give him a voice but a brain is completely missing the point crash is planning he doesn't plan he eats the things he's supposed to be collecting this is gonna be controversial I know but I honestly prefer the horrible crash to promo video version of crash over this because at least crash wasn't a fully established character at that point and he was still an idiot in that they could have used anybody here if they needed a character like this it shouldn't have been crash hashtag not my belukha but don't worry these fever drink clips from the Skylanders TV show is not what I'm going to be looking at today instead I'll be taking a look at the game that the show was based on for those who don't know Skylanders is a series of simple 3d beat-em-up platforming games in the Spyro mythos kind of like Lego Star Wars in terms of style and feeling except that it requires the use of a USB portal device in order for you to place different figures onto the portal and have them pop up in the game different figures have different abilities to get by different obstacles and unlock different secrets and on its own I don't think it's too offensive it's a cute little idea but in 2016 when we were constantly teased a crash game on ps4 after eight years of silence to then have sony go on stage and just mentioned casually oh yeah we're working on some remasters and then go off and show a trailer for a game which had nothing to do with crash directly but instead had him as a cameo with one additional level to that game felt like a little bit of a joke people were not happy about this announcement back then remember this was before we had seen anything to do with the NCAA trilogy and after all of the games that had spiraled crash off downhill this was crashes official ps4 come back so to see him coming back on ps4 but in a children's toy collecting game was a bit of a bait-and-switch but hey at least the figures are pretty awesome I love these little things I also accidentally bought four before we get onto the crash content though let's take a look at the game as it is the story of Skylanders imagine aters is that Spyro is having a race and then evil comes in and stops the race and by the way the character design of Spyro makes me wet in a bad way so I guess it's now time for me to pick up my figures and place them onto the portal oh my god it's magic look look look who it is from my toy I've got to say it's very bizarre to see spyro and crash running around together in a game that isn't but I welcome it it looks weirdly natural here and since we're in a beat-em-up I really love how most of the moves crash is famous for are translated into fighting moves that can be purchased with the coins that you collect from super spinning to belly-flopping and even sliding it's all here just not giving you the same utility as in the platforming game I kind of like crash here honestly I mean he's a bit of a chunky monkey but in this world an art style he fits in quite nicely except whenever you pause the game yeah crash are you having a stroke your design however I'm sorry your design is disgusting your face looks like a pug that was stung by a wasp so I'm gonna switch over to port X and shoot some holes in it throughout the game you can activate different shrines to give the figures you have new moves to play with and to be frank I thought it would be a case of unlocking one Universal move for an entire class of figure to use but as it turns out you not only get unique moves for each character of each class but even a unique cutscene of then getting it this is a level of effort I can respect here so this is called the mysterious ancient place and you have a mysterious ancient face oh and before we carry on I just wanted to mention how cool this little feature is this here is a gem figure and not only does it light up when you place it on the portal I like the pretty light but it also allows you to create and store your very own Skylander that has a specific class based on the colored gem that you have and this is as extensive as a bloody Bethesda game look at this individual body proportions accessories weapons skin and my favorite of the voice is my hero do you like her she's an armor wearing ram horn snake woman with a fire bow and I called her fromage a name that will echo through the ages so after we passed the first story stage where then let loose in the main hub world which is when we then unlock the entire reason I picked up this stupid overpriced a Playmobil set the thumping wampa Islands it's its own exclusive level within Skylanders imagine a ters with exclusive cutscenes and its own mini story to get through featuring specialized obstacles and items nice easy puzzles to break up the gameplay and even the classic boxes to break for crash I have some moves by what you mean the one I threw Molotov there's tons of Easter eggs subtle nods and references to the older games really pretty visuals and a decent sense of humor to boot so it sounds really great so far right well I'm afraid it kind of isn't this is the slowest thing I think I've ever touched and I touched the floor yesterday look say what you want about the quality of the gameplay or the ethics behind crash being in Skylanders after an 8-year gap of nothing regardless if you love or hate skylanders how can anybody be ok with the slug-like speeds you move isn't this supposed to be a fast-paced action game for kids I run pretty quick in the home world what's going on over here and I know this is for kids but hey the original trilogy were for kids too and they were never this easy you just run around and hit stuff with like two or three buttons while doing the occasional jump repeated ad nauseam it really is baby's first beat him up and that wouldn't be so bad except you move along as fast as cheese on toast it doesn't matter what extra moves you purchase or whatever you still end up doing the simplest button mashing combos and nothing else and often that's the best way to get past any combat encounter because the singular powerful moves that take a long time to wind up don't do as much damage as a quick 1 2 3 combo with your basic punches and annoyingly the slowness coupled with the repetitive simplicity is what ends up ruining so many more encounters throughout the game at this point you don't have a guard - or roll just a run jump and attack so tanking hits in big crowds is inevitable look they all move faster than you and in situations like this there is nothing you can do other than die and swap out to another figure that you may or may not have on you the only way to get your old character back being to quit the level or restart it so I hope you have enough figures kids or else you'll need to steal mummys credit card this then becomes a huge problem when you're told that you can unlock this room but the problem is he got skin pressed earlier which means I would need to start my entire thirty minutes of playtime so far all over again in order to reach that point to open the door as crash while going through all of the sticky running enemy smacking property destroying and puzzle solving all over again you know this game reminds me of over the hedge on the Xbox and if you're reminding me of over the hedge you buggered it up if this isn't what everyone wanted me to talk about is it okay fine I guess it was only a matter of time these two final games I'll be looking at for this video have been requested by my viewers no joke for over eight years now and to celebrate me finally getting around to talking about them I invited a celebrity guest to show you what the first one is [Music] [Applause] thanks for that Billy Willie now I'm just gonna put my name in which is egg oh great here we go everyone crash of the Titans okay so this intro cutscene I actually really like this shadow puppet art style with no dialogue is a very unique way to set up the story even if it reminds me a bit too much of Jungle Book - and I don't ever want to be reminded of Jungle Book - okay so should I start addressing the obvious that being these questionable character designs I'm sorry everyone I know this version of crash has his fans but not me this is a standing up orange hyena with tattoos I mean who does that tattoos of a pricks he's dressed up like a rejected member of Green Day and his entire aura reeks of the mid-2000s there's no timelessness here I still don't know why they did this and I don't know what's up with the voices either crunches like if Tony the Tiger was played by mr. T but hey at least cortex are still pretty funny there is always that and I don't hate the new aku-aku here I can still tell that it's him but that face he pulls when he's shielding you is a little and yes I said shielding there's a guard mechanic in Crash of the Titans and even a role because this is yet another 3d beat em up similar to Skylanders except much faster and it came out nine years prior so this was actually the first attempt to put in crash into a combat focused setting and I mean it works but this is no Bayonetta there's nothing complicated going on all different strategies you need to come up with at a second notice there's no dashing or darting around it's all incredibly straightforward crash runs around like he's late for a meeting and most bafflingly he doesn't even start the game with the spin move which is like sonic starting a game without being an annoying dick you have to unlock the spin first and get this if you use it for a little bit it makes you dizzy Crash Bandicoot dizzy from spinning which is all he's done since the beginning this dude isn't crash is a poor man's imitation this is so peculiar to me I never thought I'd live to see the day where the words combo King appeared on screen in a crash game and crash wait what's this what are you doing stop it oh okay agon achievement what was it for the right stuff what right stuff what you mean this this was the right stuff I'd say this was the wrong stuff that of course I am blissfully ignoring the other major aspect of this game which is presented to you on the front of the box and I'm mostly avoiding it because of what it's called it sounds like you're pulling someone off basically there are a handful of bigger creatures that you can fight that after you start hitting them makes a star counter appear above their head keep wailing on them to fill it up wait for them to get stunned then tap a button and yes for some confusing reason in crash of the Titans jack certain beasts to do his dirty work for him which usually means just doing the same thing that you would already be doing but just doing it harder how do you crash get this ability when did he learn it why does he need to do it it's not explained stop crying I'd love to say more about this game but to tell you the truth I really really can't what you're seeing here this is the game whether by your lonesome or riding on the back of a demented pig you are pressing the same buttons fighting the same waves of enemies and getting by the most rudimentary of platforming sequences with barely anything resembling thought being needed to carry on got to be honest I don't like tag team racing but at least the world was more interesting to explore this is just unpalatable there's nothing technically wrong with it but it's easily the most boring game of the bunch with nothing standing out nothing special about it and nobody making a joke about crash possessing monsters being called jacking it doesn't matter how good your game is at that point if it's boring you've lost me I mean at least Skylanders for a slow as that game is allowed you to collect coins and spend them on upgrades that you wanted to choose here you don't get a choice you just keep collecting these blue balls and then you'll eventually unlock some kind of new move and that's it there's no strategy or thought to any of this or any concrete reasons to explore I'm being serious when I say this this is the crash version of sonic boom yes are fundamentally boring and unengaging beat'em up with no thought required basic platforming new character designs new unexplained abilities and a new universe with the character to explore that's given no build up backstory or context only differences in crash with the Titans you don't disappear and do you want to see where I couldn't take it anymore right damn here this is apparently oka oka yes this hookah hookah way to completely toss aside your old fans that you're still trying to attract back into the series after the platforming apparently got too stale I mean I think that it's a cool as hell mask design on its own but that is not oka oka I will take the Mojo and banter code female back to our base that's my nan and cortex my goodness you know I've heard people complain about Cortex's look in crash bandicoot 4 and Here I am saying huh be serious you can always end up looking like this here looks like a cross between a toddler and an old man balding Pinocchio eating it spoil Oh mind over mutant come on then let's get this over with my name is limes the first mission of this game is a tutorial gauntlet where crashes sister Coco sends us off to look for a load of Coco parts and I really don't think her brothers should be doing that after that I hate to report it's exactly the damn same game as Titans no exaggeration it's the same game except crash over did the steroids in his shins and now he has short shorts is that a lump I won't know I'm telling a lie there is something else a little bit different here there's um a kids art pack what's all of this then oh wow are these fan arts from children that they hid in the menus of this game just to be cute oh dear crashes in a mankini you know what I'm gonna call it I don't think this is kid's fan art I'm willing to bet that this was official concept art because holy crap this is the worst design of crash I think I've ever seen he looks like a gangly 30 year old man dressed up as crash bandicoot not actually him the limb proportions are all wrong he looks way too humanoid he's too tall and again people complained about crash 4 or the end same trilogy even just look at this climbing animation look at it is this Crash Bandicoot or The Exorcist to be fair - mind over mutant though even though it is the same game as Titans and the character designs have been left in the toiler I've got to say this is basically just a better version of Titan's when it comes to the gameplay from the start you've got way more fighting moves to work with including a last-minute dodging and counter-attack move to really let you get into the combat mechanics and let you think about what buttons you have to press and you get more moves for all the platforming you'll be doing the platforming itself being ten times more interesting and involved than in crash of the Titans fighting a lot like twinsanity in places actually not to mention hijacking the Titans for fighting has more uses since they don't only have their own unique special moves that could not only benefit you in combat but also aid you in exploration and getting to secret areas even better you can jump on and off any Titan you want to at any time and store them on your equipping slot and you just need to press the equip button again to get straight back on them making the flips between combat and crash exclusive climbing and platforming feel way more natural and of the moment the Titans feel like an extension to crash instead of just something that you do every so often you're not just going through the motions and hitting a single attack button over and over again this is not half bad I'd happily play this over Titans anyway but at the end of the day it is still a simplistic kids beat em up game no escaping it and it's really damn easy another person balancing on the other end would make it much easier Oh was I was I not supposed to be able to do that and to be perfectly honest for his monotonous and mindless as this game doesn't ever tably become I won't lie I thought it was a little bit worth it to watch all of the cutscenes linking each level segment together these are the best cutscenes in any crash game no kidding and for each level they're done in a different cartoon style there's flash animation hand puppets old and Thai me and the scripting voice acting and characterization is perfect I'd even argue it's better than what twinsanity had to offer in terms of humor just check out some of the gags that they somehow got away with here and tell me that you didn't crack a smile call now and you'll also receive neckbeard in a can can't talk Oh stare and dream stare and dream seemed to be available everywhere powerful sigh punch him in the throat these are all so fast-paced funny expressive and creative that I'm pretty convinced that mind over mutant was originally supposed to be an animated series or something but got rejected at the pretense of it being for a character from a video game and so they were told by executives that they would prefer a video game so then they just copied and pasted the ideas and mechanics from Crash of the Titans into here so that they could show you all the animated sequences they made I don't know I smell a conspiracy here oh hang on that's just a fish I'm in the market well I wasn't expecting this in the slightest but this mini marathon of the post Naughty Dog Crash Bandicoot games ended on a weirdly positive note mind over mutant is not that bad I mean it's not great I wouldn't go out of my way to willingly play it again but it's a lot better than the other toss we've seen today but overall when you see the Crash Bandicoot 4 announcement trailer and hear this little exchange at the end of it how many times have you beaten this clown anyway three really only three funny seemed like more I can totally understand now why they decided to split the time line after crash three and pretend like the other games didn't happen however good or bad you think these games were as the next main crash installments nobody can deny that they were all over the bloody place in terms of focus and direction which eventually led to the original trilogy getting the insane remakes in the first place people just wanted to go back to the good solid stuff that everyone knew everyone loved was really tightly designed and what made crash great and lovable to begin with none of this sad crunch uh what the hell are you looking at right there mmm yes that is a nice chest the racing games were kept on life support for far too long Titans was a dated bore mutant was a mediocre attempt to keep that new gameplay style going and Skylanders wasn't even a crash game the only one I can see some potential in is with crash bash considering how long-lasting Mario Party has been and how well-received Super Mario Party was on the switch I'd love to see them tackle this kind of game again especially with the huge roster of characters and CTR nitro field including cameos from Spyro I think we could get a really damn good-looking and incredibly fun party game with lots of characters duking it out with that though comes the conclusion of yet another Bandicoot month so thank you so much for joining me this year and my new wife of course and even though nowadays Naughty Dog is spending far too much time being Naughty Dog's I'd like to end this video with a thank you because without you Naughty Dog I wouldn't be here right now but you have a copy of smash Brandy's couch follow me on Instagram and Twitter please I'll give you a tickle special thank you to my executive producers on my patient page in the description below Matthew Hubbell TARDIS type 40 EXO Paz ramen will 1485 red eyed critic 80 Thornton Smith Mitchell Reed fart rules skull man Basel Daniel and Alex X shadow hunters EDX the game shared slow Punk Steven LeBlanc Calvin Cass Keller Dave Marshall envelope Edison Karlberg Matthew gun Thorp Danny Covarrubias Lizzy Lizzy in a tizzy Ethan Spencer and Yugi won't eat then every moment you're not running I'm only getting closer [Applause]

Channel: Caddicarus

Views: 2,179,054

Rating: 4.8841286 out of 5

Keywords: crash bandicoot, crash bandicoot review, crash bandicoot gameplay, crash nitro kart, crash tag team racing, caddicarus, completionist, jontron, PBG, AVGN, crash of the titans, crash mind over mutant, naughtydog, cortex, review, game review, gaming, game reviews, crash bandicoot 4, game grumps, ps5, playstation, nintendo switch, skylanders, bad games, worst games, activision, neo cortex, crash bandicoot skylanders, twinsanity, crash bash, n sane trilogy

Id: T34VdF4i9FI

Length: 46min 39sec (2799 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 05 2020

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Anyone so early that you saw the 240p version?