Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy Reviews
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Despite a handful of bizarre small changes from the original games, Crash Bandicoot: N. Sane Trilogy is still quite a riot. Naughty Dog’s iconic “on-rails” 3D platformers, remade from the ground up by Vicarious Visions, is still a lot of fun, with the main character’s iconic spins making for what is still a quite fresh experience that differentiates itself from other titles in the genre. With tons of content and a massive amount of extremely hard challenges to aim for in the search of that elusive 100% completion (and beyond), this is one of those platformers that could keep you...
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Crash Bandicoot N Sane Trilogy give you a tremendous amount of bang for your buck. The three games contained within are long, detailed and beautiful, and they feel right at home on the Nintendo Switch.
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Editor’s Note: Twinfinite reviewed Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy last year, and much of our nitty-gritty analysis of the game itself is unchanged going into this review of the Nintendo Switch version. So we’ll be mostly honing in on the differences between the PS4 version that we reviewed last year, and the Switch version this year. For a more complete breakdown of Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, to supplement this review here, please read our review from last year.
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It’s my job to educate you on whether or not Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy is worth your hard-earned $40. Consider the whole package. You’re getting three games completely remade from scratch. You’re getting the (expected but no less transformative) ability to play them at 60fps. The PC version is unquestionably the definitive version. And if like me you were a kid in the ‘90s, you’re getting that intangible value of re-living games from your childhood in their idealized form. So...
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As such, Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy is a hard game to recommend. The remade presentation as a whole is terrific, and Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped is a totally enjoyable retro platformer. But, the problem remains that the first two games simply aren’t very good. They are hindered by control and level design issues which are simply unacceptable in a straightforward platformer. Even when they’re firing on all cylinders, the first two titles struggle to rise above mediocre. The strength of one game cannot bear the weight of two clunkers unfortunately, making the N. Sane Trilogy a tough sell, especially...
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Having trouble finding a last minute gift for your old-school gamer friend? Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy is the perfect stocking stuffer.
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The N. Sane Trilogy brings the golden age of 3D platforming back to the PlayStation 4. This collection maintains all that made the originals great but also making them accessible to the newest generation of gamers. This is a must have for fans of the originals and younger gamers might want to get in on the crate smashing action.
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Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy is an incredible deal for platforming fans. These three games are old-school (for better or worse), but those looking for a proper remaster of Crash's adventures have found their game.
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More than 20 years after the release of its first installment, Crash Bandicoot returns in a remastered trilogy prepared by the team at Vicarious Visions. Can this once-progressive title still hold its ground against modern titles?
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Once a mascot that could hold his own against the likes of Mario, Crash Bandicoot used to be the poster animal for the original Sony PlayStation. It’s been nearly twenty years since his first adventures collecting mangoes and facing off against evil geniuses in desperate need of hair growth serums. While his first HD adventure might have been as an exclusive Skylander character alongside fellow Sony mascot Spyro the Dragon, being able to replay those golden days has been a fantasy for many a Sony fan. With the help of Vicarious Visions, Crash Bandicoot’s first three, and debatably the most...
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Sony's promising mascot platformer debuted over two decades ago and now he's finally back to delight (and frustrate) new audiences. Containing three visually revamped games, Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy is surely a collection that gamers shouldn't overlook.
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Crash Bandicoot's original trilogy appears to have stood the test of time better than most, and it's great to see that Vicarious Visions didn't fix what already wasn't broken. As a result, longtime fans and newer gamers alike can take on a revisited set of classics on their PlayStation 4 with the same balance of frustration and fun that fuelled the excitement and occupied the box televisions of so many over the latter half of the 1990s. All at a discounted price, no less.
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Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy is billed as a blast from the past when you boot it up, and it's not playing around. Vicarious Visions has done an outstanding job sprucing up Naughty Dog’s iconic 90s adventures, but don’t let the lick of paint deceive you: these are the exact same games that you enjoyed huddled in front of a 14-inch CRT in your brother’s bedroom – down to the very last crate.
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There’s a golden glow around memories that gets brighter with age, but it also tends to distract from old frustrations. If you’re ready for a quick trip — and I mean quick — down memory lane, Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy doesn’t disappoint. Vicarious Visions’ faithfulness to the series satisfies some nostalgic cravings, but once the novelty wears off, the cracks can’t help but show.
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Time is often harsh to the games of yesteryear. The innovations made by developers in each hardware generation are significant, so much so that games from just a decade or two ago end up feeling like relics from another age. Crash Bandicoot's origins stretch back to the early days of PlayStation in 1996 – a time when developers were just getting their feet wet with three-dimensional character movement and polygonal graphics. Crash made a splash in both of these fields, and fans latched onto him as the face of PlayStation. He stood alongside Mario and Sonic as a platforming star...
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It's gorgeous, and a clear labour of love, but the controls might drive you, err, N. Sane
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I didn’t want the Crash Bandicoot: N. Sane Trilogy to break what wasn’t broken. Thankfully, Vicarious Visions clearly didn’t want to either, and the studio’s reverence for the original maddening yet rewarding challenges that still remain fun is clearly on display. On one hand, that leads to the frustrating limitations of the original Crash Bandicoot persisting 20 years later. But it also results in the incredible visual and aural overhaul and the gameplay tweaks to earlier entries, like time trials and crate counters, that Naughty Dog added later in the series. Those additions make the overall package so much more...
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Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy is a fantastic remake of some of the best platformers of all time. The new visual polish looks great on PS4. Though you might get frustrated by the dated gameplay at times, powering through will show why these games were so beloved 20 years ago.
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It’s a shame what happened to Crash. Although Naughty Dog moved on to bigger things, I wouldn’t necessarily call all of them better. The Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy serves as a time capsule of sorts before the series was ran into the ground, and my only major regret is that I wish it had CTR as the cherry on top.
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No matter what you think of the original games these are an excellent trio of remasters, that will please existing fans and help to create new ones.
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As far as remakes go, you can’t get any better than this. Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy is exactly how fans envisioned it – an unadulterated celebration of a PlayStation pioneer. With such a weight on their shoulders, Vicarious Visions have pulled it off with such diligence, infused with a streak of their own creativity. Then there’s Naughty Dog original efforts, of course. Even those only acquainted with Uncharted and The Last of Us can appreciate how the studio first made its name, and the journey from Crash Bandicoot to Warped is one of continued innovation. Some two decades later...
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