I would like to see Toys for Bob bring more Post-Naughty Dog content into a Crash Bandicoot 5 game. They could find a way to reintroduce Crunch and Nina since they are popular characters; in fact, Nina was gonna appear in a future update in Crash Team Rumble, but nothing about Crunch. For the Naughty Dog content, Koala Kong should make a return; Tiny as well since he was left out in Crash 4. Fun fact: an unused dialogue in the 100% ending of Crash 4 had Tiny, Pinstripe, Papu Papu, and Koala Kong picketing outside Toys for Bob's doors, but were under arrest for accidentally chaining themselves to the wrong building. This could mean we may get a chance to see these character appear in a sequel
Even the timeline, I remember it was said that PS2 games took place in another dimension but director of Crash 4, Paul Yen, confirmed in a 2021 GDC video that Crash 4 take place before the PS2 games. Makes me wonder if Crash 5 will take place after 4 or after MoM Edit: Or I wonder if they'll remake or reimagine the PS2 games...
@@teejay5160 True, but what I meant is that they take a PS2 game and change it from the ground up to the point where it's a completely different game. It's basically a way tp reintroduce the PS2 characters like Crunch and Nina
Eeehhh I don’t know about that. The way they talked behind the scenes gave an impression of vague-resentment for works they didn’t create. Outside of blink-&-miss easter eggs, The game itself feels like it wants to forget everything after the original trilogy exists and smugly elevate itself as “the Real Deal”, but doesn’t have the wumpas to outright say it. I’ve seen many point this out actually, (particularly since it came out right after nitro-fueled, a celebratory time capsule of the brand’s history). Instead c4 weirdly tried to play it both ways. It’s most likely C4 was intended to be a hard reboot, then Paul just tacked on the timeline bit on twitter once the crowd started expressing issues & gripes with that direction. :v
@@puffythedestroyer8878 Did you not watch the video with all the other ways the post-ND games are included? For still chronologically taking place right after Warped, it's about as much post-ND representation as you could reasonably ask for. Paul Yan stated the timeline thing at GDC 2021, not Twitter. And considering how relatively obscure that facet of info is years later, I'm not sure he was trying to calm down the crowd on that one. The fact of the matter is, that was what was said at the time before the game came out, it has now been rescinded. In terms of throwing theories, it's also entirely possible they just didn't want to outright say "it's a midquel" at the time because they didn't want people going in thinking they already knew how the ending was going to play out, technically even saying "they *may* have happened in alternate universes" even at the time.
@@JoseTelesforoJuanNepomuseno in this case i was referring to touhou and also to the origin of the "don't fuck with ____ fans we haven't played the game yet" came from a persona shitpost from 2019
Kupuna Wa was like Grimly in Crash Mind Over Mutant. There is even a section in an ice level in Crash 4 that is the same as one in Mind Over Mutant with Grimly.
@@teejay5160 An area in Snow Way Out/Ship Happens where you use Kupuna-Wa to hop across small ice platforms, which resembles a bit in Crash: Mind Over Mutant on the path to Uka Uka's bone in the Frozen Coast where you use Grimly to do the same thing.
I liked how Crash on the Run reintroduced post naughty dog stuff like the titans (then again the game took place after Mind over Mutant from what I heard). In fact I wouldn’t mind if Titans returned in a Crash games with a Toys for Bob redesign
Eh, maybe someday, but I'd rather see another new game first, and I wonder if they'd be the ones to do it over at least some members from TT Oxford if possible.
@@yottadrive yeah I don't know if TFB should hypothetically handle it? Just because you could maybe try tearing TT away from LEGO games for five minutes.
The way I see the crash games are split into two branch timelines It’s About Time is set after the secret ending to Warped While every game Wrath of Cortex and onwards is after the main ending when uka uka says you forgot the gems
Why would Warped's story basically stop in the middle as both the good guys and bad guys inexplicably stop looking for the Gems until another game happens even though they were very determined to get them? Also, most recent video on my channel.
I noticed a few of these, but ya, they really did do alot of work to mix old ideas into the new game, or improve them outright. Toys for bob did a great job, and I'd love to see them work on another, or get to that damn spyro 4 game they keep teasing then not doing.
@@Teh69thSpartanBut you couldn't switch playing as her like in NST/IAT. It was Warped rules, which also had Coco briefly controllable on foot before riding Pura.
@@teejay5160 Mind Over Mutant had Coco as 'player two'. You could play as her the whole game, but you needed to tag in a second controller. It was the first instance of her being a 'skin' of Crash with all the same abilities and access throughout the game however, unless you count Bash.
4:53 Reminds me more of N-Tropy from Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced. Those lasers seems to resemble the shots that N-Tropy fires. The red projectiles are fired low (jump), and the blue projectiles are fired high (crouch). Crash 4 seems to follow a similar fashion. The red lasers are fired low, and the blue lasers are fired high.
@remixchild , but so did crash. Both crash and spyro have very similar histories. They had their awesome ps1 games. Then they were taken in by another dev, which led to a fourth game that tried to be like the ps1 games but failed. Then they got a fifth adventure that tried something new that has been more respected as the years have gone on. While all that was happening, they got pretty good gba games. then spyro orange and crash purple... happened. Then they got a reboot (soft reboot for crash) where it became a beat em up. Then they appeared as a main selling point for one skylanders game each. Then they got remakes. The only real differences are ctr, shadow legacy, and a new 4 that ignores the rest of the series. So if crash can come back, I don't see why spyro would be different
@@Dragonfire2505I just want a real Spyro 4 without the nonsense that happened post Insomniac. One set after Spyro 3, like how About Time is for Crash 3. A few callbacks to Legend and Skylanders is fine, but a true sequel.
I'd say the characters never looked this good ever before. N-sane got Crash and Cortex right but the rest looked atrocious. Especially Dingodile, Pura and Coco, these 3 literally looked more like reanimated taxidermy than real characters. Crash in the 90s was inspired by classic Looney Tunes cartoons and on the original concepts of him were drawn to resemble those. Obviously it was impossible in the time to perfectly capture that whacky, cartoony look in games, but literally every later adaptation somehow looked over this and Crash 4 in 2020 was the first one to actually go back to the original plans and 100% nail the look of all characters. I'd even say this is what Crash was meant to look like in 96 if not for technical limitations. The only thing I'd criticize is that Cortex looks way too young. But the rest are spot on.
@@alchemy5750 The characters are HEAVILY retooled in Crash 4. N Gin looks 'handsome', Brio looks like a simian, Crash looks buff with huge shoulders, Cortex looks more like his Titans self, Coco looks chibi, etc. Sure they got they the cartoony styling down better than the remakes, but the latter at least tampered less with the core sillouettes of the characters. If TFB wanted to do their own thing, fine, nearly every other developer has done such, but they shouldn't have treated it like a natural follow on of the originals, especially when other games like Crash Nitro Kart did a way better job doing that. That's my issue with Crash 4, it references the series but more in the same way as an adaptation of separate canon does, but TFB want it to be seen as a direct and loyal sequel to what ND done, over any other entry after them in fact.
I don't really see the what's wrong with the characters. Dingodile and Coco looks better than before. Crash still looks as good as before. My only problems might be N Tropy, who really went into a weird direction. And maybe N. Brio, who looks far too unstable/crazy compared to crash2. However I do agree they made some levels way too long, and it makes getting all the gems/relics really unfun on some of the end game levels. Not a big fan of several N verted gimmicks that just hurt the eyes either (at least on switch)
@@bouledeflipper I'm curious why you said N Tropy, who had arguably the least drastic redesign. He looks fairly the same besides a couple cartoony nuances being missing like his long wavy eyebrows, while everyone else has noticable proportion and silouette changes, even Crash with his huge shoulders and lankier body. Not that I'm protesting, just wanna know what was particularly weird about Tropy and not for the others? I agree on the level design however, the length of levels along with the hurting graphical tricks making it hard to trek through them makes each one feel like a slog. The far away camera and occasionally bad depth perception (which is still apparent in the normal levels, N Verted just makes it WORSE) especially makes it feel like the game is actively trying to stop you enjoying yourself rather than making a fun addictive challenge.
I think the problem is that Toys for Bob isn't tributing them enough. Like they don't explain classic Tawna's whereabouts or have the characters appear more in the flesh. Or actually explain the lore more. Just a post-Naughty Dog era character appearing in full would suffice. Compare this with the Dream Friends in Kirby Star Allies, and the differences are night and day.
Not really a very apt comparison given the difference those series have narrative and character wise. Crash 4 I think does more than enough without overexplaining and bloating the installment with needless fanservice, feels like as much of a new installment as it does a homage to the series as a whole. Even comparing this to Kirby Star Allies, I'd actually argue it's a much weaker installment in comparison and its fanservice is much more shallow and surface level
@@ink1931 I disagree. While Crash 4 does have to stand on its own merits (and it does), a little of Crunch appearing in the flesh or just dropping namez would suffice. That ways, it could give some fans closure. But Crash 4 tries to not do more than winking and nudging. And while Kirby Star Allies ain't the best game, the sheer return of Adeleine alone placates every fan's problem wirh her absence. If anything, it serves as assurance that Kirby's friends are still there, even if just to patch up a clearly weak foundation. With that, how could you say KSA's fanservice is shallow and surface-level. That and Star Allies doesn't botch fanservice unlike Sonic Forces, Blazblue Cross Tag Battle, or Star Wars Battlefront 2. They let us play as Marx and call it a day.
Classic Tawna ??? Thats something explained in later Games, She Abandoned Crash for Pinstripe. No, I am not Joking, Thats Canon, And Explained way after Crash 3.
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I love how the game acts as if coco and Tawna are buddies even though we have literally never seen them in the same room together let alone interacting with each other
I really don't get why they even included alt Tawna. She looks and feels out of place and wasn't that memorable of a character to begin with. I kinda get they wanted a girl among the new playable characters cause yk, Crash was always a "for both girls and boys" game, but you literally already had Nina Cortex with the exact same ability as alt Tawna already estabilished long ago (grappling hook), and a way cooler design and story. Nina would've been better, and you can't change my mind about this one.
@@alchemy5750 My guess is that they wanted to appeal to the classic fanbase as much as possible, even though no mention of original tawna is very weird and sad
Alt. Tawna was unnecessary in my opinion. the NST redesign of Tawna was already good enough for her to be adventuring in? They shoulda just used regular Tawna. Or if you want a girl with a different design then Ami and Isabella were right there with almost zero characterization...
@@drvincemd That's a bit disengenous; it's a mashup of clips from both his and B-Mask's reviews of the game. Did you not notice the different voice throughout half the video?
Toys 4 Bob's entry was far superior than Vicarious Visions'. At least the one that was a real Crash game rather than an Activision mandated cheap cashgrab.
@@aolson1111 YOu think about Orange. XS and espically N.Tranced where awesome. They almost feel like the 2D Parts in the Crash PS1 levels. Also Nitro Kart on GBA where also super good for a GBA funracer. Of curse it dosnt has the depth but still a fun game.
It's About Time is the best Crash game since Crash Team Racing. Aside from the remasters/remakes of the ND games, of course. Toys For Bob did really well and I genuinely hope they make Crash 5. They deserve it, and any hate they get is silly and ridiculous.
The tiptoe ability wasn’t pointless…it was a missed opportunity… The tiptoe should have been used for stealth levels where you had to sneak around invincible enemies or alternatively enemies with a very specific weak spot that meant having to find first
That actually was the plan originally but was another thing that with Wrath of Cortex didn't make the cut. There were to be more intelligent enemies, as well as obstacles such as the 'Close Circuit Cortex Crate' which would explode if Crash didn't sneak around it.
@@generalchaos6 Yeah, really, even just counting the stuff AFTER it was changed from 'Worlds' to 'Wrath of Cortex' it sounds like the game could have had some really cool ideas. There were also gonna be Elemental crates that changed the level layout and let Crash find secrets for example.
Won't lie, I'd love to see a collection of post-ND games, something along the lines of Wrath of Cortex, one or two of the GBA games, Twinsanity, and Crash Bash in one package would be a solid seller I think.
Could be a cool compromise between not having to fully recreate the games in place of a Crash 5 but at least giving some slight improvements/fixes here and there, but I do wonder if after remaking those four games if going back to rereleases might annoy some fans?
honestly i dont think they ignored post crash 3 its just that they implied it was a different time line since thats all 4 was about. i mean i dont know if its a different time line actually but i like to think it was
that transition into a plinkett review was utterly seamless XD ya man at first nsane trilogy was my preference but Crash4 won me over HARD It is underrated in the larger gaming scene imo.
Honestly I think Crash 4 is the best 3D platformer ever and I’m not ashamed to say it at all. Granted this is a more niche type linear 3D platformer but if it counts then it counts. Is absolutely underrated in the wider gaming scene though and criminal how little this sold, the artistic quality and super dense level design should have become influential on the industry
Forgot to mention that Kupuna-Wa is basically Grimly from Crash Mind Over Mutant. And also I don't like the first Cortex Boss Fight because I miss when he used his Hoverboard and Gun to shoot face to face.
@@Noiser2092 They're odd fans then. I have my small issues (like the boxes) but I love crash to def & this game is pretty awesome for the most part. Small note but Dingo's design is the best it's ever been ⚘️
I would genuinely bet a very large amount of money that the people that scream the loudest about how bad this game is are just bandwagoning off the hate and have probably never actually played the game for an extended period of time... or at all. I bought this game having no knowledge of all the "criticisms" it was getting from the rabid rose tinted fandom, and I thought it was easily the best Crash game by FAR. Many others that I know thought the exact same thing too, and it got amazing reviews/sales. You can imagine the immense whiplash I got when I randomly browsed the Crash subreddit and found that apparently I was in the minority according to them (which is obviously bullshit). The fandom is fucking trash and they're too blinded by nostalgia to see that this is the Crash sequel they've been wanting for years, going as far to say that the mediocre Wrath of Cortex was a far superior sequel (because nostalgia of course, not because the game was actually good). That's too bad for them I guess.
I am on the side of the people who dont like Crash 4... kinda. It is a double edged sword. The levels overall are great and they are fun to play. But if you want to 100% it, it get REAALY long, boring, repetetive and just not fun for most. What made the orignal Crash games good is, you finished them fast (~4-6 hours maybe) and a had a great time and gladly play it in 2 month again. I cant play a Crash game without 100%ing it but Crash 4 is such a chore, i dont ever want to do it again. Sure this is a me problem but i guess many have it. We feel bad finishing the game uncomplete but we also feel bad trying to complete it again.
@@Dragonfire2505 Yea I'm not really considering the full completion of the game as a reason why people have issues with it, as I can see the arguments to an extent, although I think calling the game bad because full 106% not being fun is not a fair overall assessment of the game but that's another thing entirely. My main gripes are people just mindlessly hating on it and saying things like how this game doesn't pay any homage to post ND when clearly it does, or how T4B didn't know enough about Crash to make a new game, when they clearly did. I think the game has its issues (the OG trilogy have their own issues despite people acting like they're perfect), I just find it pathetic that there's a very loud part of the fandom constantly ripping this game to shreds yet they seem to have barely any actual knowledge on the game itself, which might deter people from wanting to play this game thinking what they're saying is true.
All things considered I feel like IaT is an S-tier Crash game. The challenge of the N-Sane relics are somatimes absolutely bonkers (rewards hidden offscreen wtf??) but 90% of the time they're actually fair, rewarding and pure skill dependant. I love the new artstyle, and while many people don't like the redesigns, I feel like this cartoony look will also help the game age better (N-sane trilogy visuals aready feel extremely outdated for me ngl while IAT holds up just the same). Things I really liked: - Very fun story. I expected this game to be just a nostalgy rush to childhood but ended up laughing way more than I was ready for. - Great character expansions, from both gameplay and personality perspective - New powers feel fresh and make platforming interesting without altering the core mechanics - Beautyful graphics with great controls. Crash in IAT probably has the best movement so far, and the double jump gives you plenty of room to correct mistakes and cover huge distances. Things I absolutely disliked: - N-verted levels are simply bloat. Some filters burned my eyes. Some were just pain (underwater Rush Hour, that's you) - Triple spin for time trials is extremely clunky. Even after I got the hang of it I felt like speed boots were far superior - They kinda tried to cram in way too many things to appeal for all fans, and I feel like many storylines and characters got done dirty. The N. Trophies bossfight legit feels unfinished. N. Brio is literally the same as he was in 96, same motivation, abilities, skillset, everything. - They massacred my boy N. Gin so bad. He was the funnies evil sidekick in the previous games, and now all his character was just shouting edgy lines about his punkrock show.
I think they'd go for a spyro 4 first since that has a lot more relevance because of the reignited trilogy and arguably skylanders. Then I think they should remake kazooi and tooie before making a threeie
@@Nobody_Shroom people suggest that, but I'm not crazy on the idea of them squandering their potential on more remakes rather than original titles considering how busy they'd be with and how long they'd presumably take on any single game. Like I just can't abide postponing a Crash 5 or something so they could spend a few years on remaking games already playable on Xbox/Switch that fans still may not prefer anyway. It's the same reason why people don't want any more Crash remakes instead of original games, to just let things continue to grow and evolve, and yet this prospect conveniently doesn't suffer the same criticism and gets a free pass (and at least a hypothetical Twinsanity remake could have a crew of TT veterans instead of TFB or something). And that's like two Banjo projects with the struggle of juggling Crash/Spyro/possible original IP over long game development periods, they couldn't even manage to follow up Spyro's remake with a new entry, and they didn't even need a remake for Crash to make Crash 4.
This is still outrageous 😤, the sonic community just by itself goes absolutely bonkers and the crash community is probably starved for content 😂. In reality I understand the lack of returning viewers, but I'll be here waiting for more 😉. Smaller Channels where you can still interact with the community are much more fun in my opinion.
@@teejay5160 I said "post-ND" instead of just "ND". I'm aware of the Warped follow-up but the preparation for future stories is missing and there are even some pointless things. Twinsanity doesn't have Alt Tawna, so IAT should show other Alt characters. IAT Cortex in the final ending should reveal his plans to create Crunch later, as TWoC is the first 6th gen Crash Bandicoot game (not the first post-ND Crash Bandicoot game tho).
@@yottadrive I meant because it takes place after Warped that some post-ND references are gonna be more limited. And they don't have to set up the other games at the end just to have gaps bridged, this story can just exist in between and those can just exist later.
crash 4 is the best crash game, its everything you like about crash, its smooth, its challenging, and its just really well made. enough time has passed honestly they made a perfect game in my opinion. i would commit crimes for them to make a crash 5
Great vidéo ! You deserve more subscribers, I hope your channels grows. Oh and, I've played this game a lot now and I've never seen the version of Road to Nowhere at 2:24. Did I miss a cool level ?
@@teejay5160 Bonus stages do not look like that and death routes are not in the game as far as I am aware, will try finding it in game but I'm very curious because I finished the game around 7 or 8 times now and I never ever found it
@@Joseph_Drew_III Crash 4 can be seen as in-between Warped and Wrath pretty easily. We won't know unless we get a new mainline Crash game, and you know, that probably won't happen rn :v
@@Joseph_Drew_III Not quite. Basically according to a GDC 2021 presentation by Paul Yan, the other games come after Crash 4 in its chronological timeline despite earlier statements. ua-cam.com/video/sXr0Dfb1VhU/v-deo.html
Alt Tawna clinging to Crash and Coco soley because they remind her of people she knew is very creepy and sociopathic lol. Yet they want this character to be liked so badly. She truly is the captain marvel of Crasg bandicoot.
I think it's more they thought they'd appeal to fans of Tawna not by actually giving her proper spotlight....but by making a completely new character to replace her. It's not like a one off 'Evil Crash' counterpart thing like in Twinsanity, she's blatantly designed to be a main character over the original now. Basically the equivelent of 'You don't need her anymore, we made a BETTER one'. :P
@@TroboTicTac The news of them considering a Microsoft/Activision partnership, rumoured to be currently working on Spyro 4 and presumably going straight to Crash 5 afterwards???
@@teejay5160On one hand, I want to believe you that this will happen. On the other hand… you’ve seen what’s happened to Tango, i highly doubt Microsoft either doesn’t meddle with the game, or kicks out TFB or Activision after Spyro 4 or Crash 5 is made if this doesn’t happen though, I’ll take back what I said, but as of right now I don’t trust Microsoft not to pulling something scummy like that
I think the issue with the references is more that TFB's format feels more like a lite adaptation of them, a reference in their own style that is meant to be in place of them than a follow on to them. That would be fine in an actual adaptation that commonly have loads of those little nods, like Toys For Bob's own rendition of Crash, but this was plainly marketed as THE true sequel to the Crash games, the new ongoing direction for Crash that's more loyal than anything else before it. I think that's the same reason the Spyro Reignited redesigns were so contentious. They would have been okay as 'Toys For Bob's Spyro' a personalized take for a spin off like so many others done before, but they were for a REMAKE, a 'return to roots'. They were placing their own heavy overhaul as 1:1 enough to be a representation of the classics over the classics themselves, basically they wanna rewrite history in their own image (ironic given Crash 4's story). Remember that TFB originally stated Crash 4 was a different timeline from those later games which the others placed in what was likely a defunct timeline that would never be used again. They changed that to Crash 4 being a midquel, but it comes off a bit like backstepping when they realised ripping on the post-ND era wasn't cool anymore and replacing it with a 'better' canon that maybe reimagined the better bits once in a while maybe wouldn't go down as well as they thought (Nitro Fuelled just before it being a love letter to the whole franchise probably played a lot into that, fans were starting to accept the franchise warts and all rather than demanding a wiped and 'better' version). And even then if all the games afterwards are following Crash 4 it will remain a midquel format, thus the other games are still defunct. That's actually a rather unpleasant narrative consistency in TFB's games, 'we made a BETTER version'. We made a BETTER mask quad team. We made a BETTER Tawna, Coco and Tropy are a BETTER hero and villain than Crash and Cortex.' Everything not only feels more like a substitute rather than a continuation of stuff before, but it's main substance seems to be that it's SOOOO much better than that old, lame stuff we had to settle with before.
I heavily feel this for Reignited but not a lot of Crash 4, I guess I always hoped for a Spyro remake growing up and they messed up the overall tone really hard so it hurt me more, whereas with Crash if I didn’t like 4 I could have ignored it. Really tho I ended up loving 4 a ton so my view would be very biased, I don’t like Reignited that much because I think it’s so hit or miss. Like I think some designs in Reignited are completely spot on, some of those I think are wildly different from the originals but really do just work better to me, others feel like huge misfires. Never gonna be able to get over what they did to the gnorc worlds they’re so messy and wooden instead of the stark steely contrast they used to be.
Honestly, idrc about them paying respect to the post ND titles. Most of them have at least one or two good ideas to spare. But for the most part, lack consistency with the spirit and style of the original games because they were trying too hard to evolve Crash with the times. Crash 4 isn't much different in that regard. Sure, it plays like the classics, but... that's literally the only thing it gets right. And even there, it has glaring issues. Not that gameplay isn't the most important, but I was never a fan of Crash purely for the gameplay. So, I'm still waiting for a new game that can actually satisfy me completely.
Sadly is it the worst Crash to complete which kills the whole game for me. I did it once and i propably will never touch it again. I cant play a Crash game and leave it under 100% (Or whatever number is the max in that one) and trough this shore i cant get again. I want to like the game but i cant.
That was something TFB were also developing (from an early state) alongside Crash 4 and their upcoming Microsoft collab doesn't quite mean that they jumped ship.
I can't believe how much of a mess the levels are... after Skylanders they had such a long history of practice and that annoys me to crazyiness i am also disappointed Tawna doesnt get alternate costumes and Cocos personality stinks
did you actually play? Because Level Design really is impeccable. Unless you consider that a difficult level design means it's bad, if that's the case, you're stupid, that's all. And Coco literally doesn't even have a personality in the first 3 games, at most she tells Crash to take her batteries and that's it. And Coco #4 doesn't talk that much either, she's more like Crash's advisor, and talks in Crash's place, since Crash doesn't talk. And the difficulty is like that because they consulted the fans and they said that one of the things they liked most about the gameplay was the difficulty. And that's why they launched the game still afraid that players would find the game too easy. A Crash 5/Twinsanity remake should have a more user-friendly design, if TFB does it, having heard the complaints
@@pensandoemalgo.5722 I played as long as I could okay...the increase of difficulty doesn't excuse messy levels and sure there wasn't much to go on for Coco but the changes make her too childish and I played old crash games and this I gotta tell you it isn't bad but I wanted a relaxing adventure because of the cool graphics and story but it is the hardest crash game ever in Skylanders playing Crash and Neo is better than crash 4 it doesn't feel right
@@villelater2708 The Crash 4 stages themselves are not SUPER difficult, at most the final ones, but even those, when you pass them the first time, you can even do the thing of using all the masks in Cortex's castle and such. The hardest part is the 106%. One problem I could mention, the only valid one here, is the excess of hidden boxes. In old Crash games they had boxes like this, like in "Cold Hard Crash" where there is a literally invisible box, in the PS1 versions. But that's no reason to say that the design is horrible, and it gives a middle finger to all the work put into this game, belittling everything they lovingly created. They really thought it wasn't that difficult, but since the public complained so much, Crash 5 will probably be more friendly in that sense. The stages are the best made in the franchise, and the level design is actually quite ingenious and impressive. Whether you prefer something more casual or not, it doesn't take anything away from the real value of level design, separate the facts from your taste. I would also prefer something perhaps more friendly, but I would be lying to say that the franchise isn't known for being difficult, as it is, just maybe they shouldn't have considered that it's THAT difficult, just, difficult
@@pensandoemalgo.5722 when was the last time anyone played this? I give it my all and quit I hate the needless gimmick boxes and different masks they make the stages a mess the creators expect the player to be perfect or die I wouldn't complain so much if I had a level skip option or all the costumes were already unlocked or the costumes appeared in cutscenes but there isn't and I am a big fan really of Crash and Skylands and Jak and Dax ter series but come on even after making Nsanity trilogy which was a reversed engineered project of the past games means they should of known what to do... I even have problems with that game and Crash Racing...
@@villelater2708 Maybe playing it today you would see that it's not really THAT difficult, the difficulty is actually 106%. And the remakes don't have the exact same gameplay as the originals, having a heavier gravity, which even makes it almost impossible for you to get some secret lives as you can't jump on the boxes like on the PS1 due to the gravity. And also Crash's hitbox in these remakes is the same as the model, and not a rectangle like in Crash 4 and the original games, and what does that change? Change that if you are on the edge of a platform, you will probably slip, fall and die. The collision being a rectangle gives the effect of you stepping "in the air" on the edge of the platforms, which makes it easier. And Crash 4 also has that contoured shadow, to make it even simpler to do the jumps, besides this is literally the Crash that controls the most well of all, really if you die, it's purely your fault, and not because of the collision from Crash or something. And the masks just get used to. It's really okay to die a few times until you learn, and the modern mode just leaves you with infinite lives to try. And the clothes appear in cutscenes, but not all of them, just the cutscenes that use the game's own models, like when we meet N'gin. It's more the finals that needed even more expressive models, so there's a pre-animated cutscene
hell they even referanced other projects they've worked on, like skylanders, they just referenced everything ll at once, and it feels deserved
I don't want references! I want a new game goddammit!
@@tornadophantom4027 Crash 4 is new though?
@@orca717 I'm talking about Skylanders
@@tornadophantom4027 Oh. I for some reason thought that you were talking about Crash 4
@@tornadophantom4027 me too freind, me too😔
I would like to see Toys for Bob bring more Post-Naughty Dog content into a Crash Bandicoot 5 game. They could find a way to reintroduce Crunch and Nina since they are popular characters; in fact, Nina was gonna appear in a future update in Crash Team Rumble, but nothing about Crunch.
For the Naughty Dog content, Koala Kong should make a return; Tiny as well since he was left out in Crash 4. Fun fact: an unused dialogue in the 100% ending of Crash 4 had Tiny, Pinstripe, Papu Papu, and Koala Kong picketing outside Toys for Bob's doors, but were under arrest for accidentally chaining themselves to the wrong building. This could mean we may get a chance to see these character appear in a sequel
Eh, I kinda want something more original than "let's retry something like WOC's plotline" with introducing Crunch again.
was gonna appear? you mean they cancelled it or?
@@LyrisTheCat more so Rumble got shitcanned because reasons right before they were probably gonna include Nina/Tiny/Pinstripe.
She was in the first completion cutcene we saw her lose to coco
@@PhilopaterAssadBoutros that she was, albeit in questionable epilogue canonicity.
Even the timeline, I remember it was said that PS2 games took place in another dimension but director of Crash 4, Paul Yen, confirmed in a 2021 GDC video that Crash 4 take place before the PS2 games. Makes me wonder if Crash 5 will take place after 4 or after MoM
Edit: Or I wonder if they'll remake or reimagine the PS2 games...
They technically reimagined half of Nitro Kart in Nitro-Fueled I guess.
@@teejay5160 True, but what I meant is that they take a PS2 game and change it from the ground up to the point where it's a completely different game. It's basically a way tp reintroduce the PS2 characters like Crunch and Nina
Eeehhh I don’t know about that. The way they talked behind the scenes gave an impression of vague-resentment for works they didn’t create.
Outside of blink-&-miss easter eggs, The game itself feels like it wants to forget everything after the original trilogy exists and smugly elevate itself as “the Real Deal”, but doesn’t have the wumpas to outright say it.
I’ve seen many point this out actually, (particularly since it came out right after nitro-fueled, a celebratory time capsule of the brand’s history).
Instead c4 weirdly tried to play it both ways.
It’s most likely C4 was intended to be a hard reboot, then Paul just tacked on the timeline bit on twitter once the crowd started expressing issues & gripes with that direction. :v
@@puffythedestroyer8878 Did you not watch the video with all the other ways the post-ND games are included? For still chronologically taking place right after Warped, it's about as much post-ND representation as you could reasonably ask for.
Paul Yan stated the timeline thing at GDC 2021, not Twitter. And considering how relatively obscure that facet of info is years later, I'm not sure he was trying to calm down the crowd on that one. The fact of the matter is, that was what was said at the time before the game came out, it has now been rescinded. In terms of throwing theories, it's also entirely possible they just didn't want to outright say "it's a midquel" at the time because they didn't want people going in thinking they already knew how the ending was going to play out, technically even saying "they *may* have happened in alternate universes" even at the time.
Not after MoM because the titans games aren't canon
With how many IPs have been abandoned by companies and ran into the ground, people like the crash community could be more chill.
“Don’t mess with us Crash Bandicoot fans.
We haven’t played any of the games.”
Don't steal that moniker from us touhou fans!
@@drakenforge4276you stole it from us persona fans first
@@SireGoofsalotIt's normal when you love a franchise that you discovered on UA-cam ... I don't think that's the case with Crash
@@JoseTelesforoJuanNepomuseno in this case i was referring to touhou and also to the origin of the "don't fuck with ____ fans we haven't played the game yet" came from a persona shitpost from 2019
though it technically originated from a Skyrim shitpost saying "dont fuck with Skyrim fans or we'll suck your dick" but who's counting
Kupuna Wa was like Grimly in Crash Mind Over Mutant.
There is even a section in an ice level in Crash 4 that is the same as one in Mind Over Mutant with Grimly.
Which ones?
@@teejay5160 An area in Snow Way Out/Ship Happens where you use Kupuna-Wa to hop across small ice platforms, which resembles a bit in Crash: Mind Over Mutant on the path to Uka Uka's bone in the Frozen Coast where you use Grimly to do the same thing.
@@SooperDeformedBomberman Huh, so it does. Why, I never!
I liked how Crash on the Run reintroduced post naughty dog stuff like the titans (then again the game took place after Mind over Mutant from what I heard). In fact I wouldn’t mind if Titans returned in a Crash games with a Toys for Bob redesign
This was the longest 7 minutes of my life, not a bad thing.
You know what I would have loved TFB make after Crash 4?
Twinsanity remake :)
Eh, maybe someday, but I'd rather see another new game first, and I wonder if they'd be the ones to do it over at least some members from TT Oxford if possible.
Twinsanity isn't worth remaking.
I'm with you brudder. Idgaf, love that game
A Twinsanity remake from TFB would stink.
@@yottadrive yeah I don't know if TFB should hypothetically handle it? Just because you could maybe try tearing TT away from LEGO games for five minutes.
Great use of both channels. Love to see B-Mask getting some recognition.
The way I see the crash games are split into two branch timelines
It’s About Time is set after the secret ending to Warped
While every game Wrath of Cortex and onwards is after the main ending when uka uka says you forgot the gems
Why would Warped's story basically stop in the middle as both the good guys and bad guys inexplicably stop looking for the Gems until another game happens even though they were very determined to get them? Also, most recent video on my channel.
This would mean that Wrath Crash has had og Cortex trapped in his brain for 20 years
@@falconeshield Huh? I'm not sure Crash 4 is 20 years later on Crash's end.
I noticed a few of these, but ya, they really did do alot of work to mix old ideas into the new game, or improve them outright. Toys for bob did a great job, and I'd love to see them work on another, or get to that damn spyro 4 game they keep teasing then not doing.
yeah, the TFB hate is just stupid
Fr. They have passion in what they work on. Crash 4 is a great example, but I could go on forever about their passion with skylanders.
TFB hate??? Who??
@@falconeshield A lot of people who hated crash 4 because of a skill issue
@@falconeshield a decent amout of people loves to say "Crash 4 ruined the series", or "TFB doesn't respect the series", stuff like this...
I’ve actually talked with someone on Discord who not only hated Crash 4: It’s About Time, but also Spyro Reignited Trilogy and Toys 4 Bob in general.
Actually the option to play as coco in a non spinoff was first in mind over mutant
Is that the part where it/IAT's Crash/Coco switching is mentioned? Because that I'm not sure was the case with MOM's Coco playability
Coco was playable on-foot in WOC through. In a few levels only, but still.
@@Teh69thSpartanBut you couldn't switch playing as her like in NST/IAT. It was Warped rules, which also had Coco briefly controllable on foot before riding Pura.
@@teejay5160gotcha
@@teejay5160 Mind Over Mutant had Coco as 'player two'. You could play as her the whole game, but you needed to tag in a second controller. It was the first instance of her being a 'skin' of Crash with all the same abilities and access throughout the game however, unless you count Bash.
It took me way too long to realize that the purple surfboard in the starting area of Rude Awakening has an Titans-esque tribal tattoo on it
Felt like i was in a big tent
4:53 Reminds me more of N-Tropy from Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced. Those lasers seems to resemble the shots that N-Tropy fires. The red projectiles are fired low (jump), and the blue projectiles are fired high (crouch). Crash 4 seems to follow a similar fashion. The red lasers are fired low, and the blue lasers are fired high.
This is my favorite crash game
Tiny is a Tasmanian Tiger if I remember the book correctly he got changed to a regular Tiger though
Crash 4 was what we needed but not what we needed. Actually maybe we needed to be pushed this far. Idk anymore crash has crashed my server
I wish Spyro had a next game like this one.
Let’s not and say we did.
The purple dragon already went through hell
@remixchild , but so did crash. Both crash and spyro have very similar histories. They had their awesome ps1 games. Then they were taken in by another dev, which led to a fourth game that tried to be like the ps1 games but failed. Then they got a fifth adventure that tried something new that has been more respected as the years have gone on. While all that was happening, they got pretty good gba games. then spyro orange and crash purple... happened. Then they got a reboot (soft reboot for crash) where it became a beat em up. Then they appeared as a main selling point for one skylanders game each. Then they got remakes.
The only real differences are ctr, shadow legacy, and a new 4 that ignores the rest of the series.
So if crash can come back, I don't see why spyro would be different
Spyro Adventure/Attack Of The Rhynocs was a pretty good GBA game, whereas I felt the Season games were just prototypes building up to that game really
I hope not. I want a nice chill game, not one that wants me to do the same level 8 times.
@@Dragonfire2505I just want a real Spyro 4 without the nonsense that happened post Insomniac. One set after Spyro 3, like how About Time is for Crash 3. A few callbacks to Legend and Skylanders is fine, but a true sequel.
The expectation of completing 10+ minute levels PERFECTLY for time trials and the character redesigns really brings this game down
I'd say the characters never looked this good ever before. N-sane got Crash and Cortex right but the rest looked atrocious. Especially Dingodile, Pura and Coco, these 3 literally looked more like reanimated taxidermy than real characters.
Crash in the 90s was inspired by classic Looney Tunes cartoons and on the original concepts of him were drawn to resemble those. Obviously it was impossible in the time to perfectly capture that whacky, cartoony look in games, but literally every later adaptation somehow looked over this and Crash 4 in 2020 was the first one to actually go back to the original plans and 100% nail the look of all characters. I'd even say this is what Crash was meant to look like in 96 if not for technical limitations. The only thing I'd criticize is that Cortex looks way too young. But the rest are spot on.
@@alchemy5750 The characters are HEAVILY retooled in Crash 4. N Gin looks 'handsome', Brio looks like a simian, Crash looks buff with huge shoulders, Cortex looks more like his Titans self, Coco looks chibi, etc. Sure they got they the cartoony styling down better than the remakes, but the latter at least tampered less with the core sillouettes of the characters. If TFB wanted to do their own thing, fine, nearly every other developer has done such, but they shouldn't have treated it like a natural follow on of the originals, especially when other games like Crash Nitro Kart did a way better job doing that.
That's my issue with Crash 4, it references the series but more in the same way as an adaptation of separate canon does, but TFB want it to be seen as a direct and loyal sequel to what ND done, over any other entry after them in fact.
I don't really see the what's wrong with the characters. Dingodile and Coco looks better than before. Crash still looks as good as before. My only problems might be N Tropy, who really went into a weird direction. And maybe N. Brio, who looks far too unstable/crazy compared to crash2.
However I do agree they made some levels way too long, and it makes getting all the gems/relics really unfun on some of the end game levels. Not a big fan of several N verted gimmicks that just hurt the eyes either (at least on switch)
That's just a symptom of TfB not really understand the core principles of game design, unfortunately.
@@bouledeflipper I'm curious why you said N Tropy, who had arguably the least drastic redesign. He looks fairly the same besides a couple cartoony nuances being missing like his long wavy eyebrows, while everyone else has noticable proportion and silouette changes, even Crash with his huge shoulders and lankier body. Not that I'm protesting, just wanna know what was particularly weird about Tropy and not for the others?
I agree on the level design however, the length of levels along with the hurting graphical tricks making it hard to trek through them makes each one feel like a slog. The far away camera and occasionally bad depth perception (which is still apparent in the normal levels, N Verted just makes it WORSE) especially makes it feel like the game is actively trying to stop you enjoying yourself rather than making a fun addictive challenge.
TFB even went as far as to reference the oh-so-famous WOAH! meme, these mofos shouldn't be talking shit about them ignoring the post-Naughty Dog games
I think the problem is that Toys for Bob isn't tributing them enough.
Like they don't explain classic Tawna's whereabouts or have the characters appear more in the flesh. Or actually explain the lore more. Just a post-Naughty Dog era character appearing in full would suffice.
Compare this with the Dream Friends in Kirby Star Allies, and the differences are night and day.
Not really a very apt comparison given the difference those series have narrative and character wise. Crash 4 I think does more than enough without overexplaining and bloating the installment with needless fanservice, feels like as much of a new installment as it does a homage to the series as a whole. Even comparing this to Kirby Star Allies, I'd actually argue it's a much weaker installment in comparison and its fanservice is much more shallow and surface level
@@ink1931 I disagree.
While Crash 4 does have to stand on its own merits (and it does), a little of Crunch appearing in the flesh or just dropping namez would suffice. That ways, it could give some fans closure. But Crash 4 tries to not do more than winking and nudging.
And while Kirby Star Allies ain't the best game, the sheer return of Adeleine alone placates every fan's problem wirh her absence. If anything, it serves as assurance that Kirby's friends are still there, even if just to patch up a clearly weak foundation. With that, how could you say KSA's fanservice is shallow and surface-level.
That and Star Allies doesn't botch fanservice unlike Sonic Forces, Blazblue Cross Tag Battle, or Star Wars Battlefront 2. They let us play as Marx and call it a day.
Classic Tawna ???
Thats something explained in later Games, She Abandoned Crash for Pinstripe.
No, I am not Joking, Thats Canon, And Explained way after Crash 3.
Since Crash 4 Happend before the other games, Crash don't know that 😂
@@darkstar_xd true. But the writing is akin to that those elements still exist.
It's me or Crash 4's difficulty feels like a odd breath of fresh air nowadays?
Play the nhanced mod of this game, you will appreciate TfB way more
Fair and balanced Late levels and tapes don't forget the tapes
how do you only have 5 subscribers this is a banger
Because this was all stripped from other content creators?
If you look in the description the guy credited the source materials. He took two parts of two different longer videos. An uploaded just the part focusing on the topic of the title. It shouldn't be done... but honestly... those two channels are big enough. it's harmless. And as paradox now a 7 subscriber channel gave you the chance to discover two famous channels :D
If you liked these clips... you may really enjoy the source videos... even if one of them is enormous ahaah
Go check the description
@@Zach-804 Must've missed the new segment at 2:45
we need crunch and nina back tho, they were main characters
-also alt tawna sucks-
I love how the game acts as if coco and Tawna are buddies even though we have literally never seen them in the same room together let alone interacting with each other
@@billyboleson2830Even the game itself admits this with the Crash 2 flashback tapes
I really don't get why they even included alt Tawna. She looks and feels out of place and wasn't that memorable of a character to begin with. I kinda get they wanted a girl among the new playable characters cause yk, Crash was always a "for both girls and boys" game, but you literally already had Nina Cortex with the exact same ability as alt Tawna already estabilished long ago (grappling hook), and a way cooler design and story. Nina would've been better, and you can't change my mind about this one.
@@alchemy5750 My guess is that they wanted to appeal to the classic fanbase as much as possible, even though no mention of original tawna is very weird and sad
Alt. Tawna was unnecessary in my opinion. the NST redesign of Tawna was already good enough for her to be adventuring in? They shoulda just used regular Tawna. Or if you want a girl with a different design then Ami and Isabella were right there with almost zero characterization...
I loved the first three games so much. I have to play the fourth now. Great video. And only 20 subscribers?? You definitely earned one more.
This is a re-upload of a Caddicarus video
@@drvincemd That's a bit disengenous; it's a mashup of clips from both his and B-Mask's reviews of the game. Did you not notice the different voice throughout half the video?
@@teejay5160 I actually didnt, I was only half paying attention
Having grown up on the original trilogy as well, I can say Crash4 is absolutely spectacular. the sequel you've been waiting for! ^^
great video dude
I don’t hate Toys for Bob. I just thought we were going to get more from Vicarious Visions.
Toys 4 Bob's entry was far superior than Vicarious Visions'. At least the one that was a real Crash game rather than an Activision mandated cheap cashgrab.
@@elin111 The crash GBA games would like a word with you
@@supersonicxth The ones that were pure ass?
@@aolson1111n tranced and the huge adventure are pretty widely agreed upon to be fairly solid crash games
@@aolson1111 YOu think about Orange. XS and espically N.Tranced where awesome. They almost feel like the 2D Parts in the Crash PS1 levels. Also Nitro Kart on GBA where also super good for a GBA funracer. Of curse it dosnt has the depth but still a fun game.
@Guyus the Raptor should watch this
2:47 this would all be nice if didn’t feel like a sonic adventure game
It's About Time is the best Crash game since Crash Team Racing. Aside from the remasters/remakes of the ND games, of course. Toys For Bob did really well and I genuinely hope they make Crash 5. They deserve it, and any hate they get is silly and ridiculous.
The tiptoe ability wasn’t pointless…it was a missed opportunity…
The tiptoe should have been used for stealth levels where you had to sneak around invincible enemies or alternatively enemies with a very specific weak spot that meant having to find first
That actually was the plan originally but was another thing that with Wrath of Cortex didn't make the cut. There were to be more intelligent enemies, as well as obstacles such as the 'Close Circuit Cortex Crate' which would explode if Crash didn't sneak around it.
@@e-122psi3 thats so awesome! …really is just more to the “universal seriously fucked Travellers Tales over” pile isn’t it?
@@generalchaos6 Yeah, really, even just counting the stuff AFTER it was changed from 'Worlds' to 'Wrath of Cortex' it sounds like the game could have had some really cool ideas. There were also gonna be Elemental crates that changed the level layout and let Crash find secrets for example.
0:24 Reminds me of Grimly from Crash Mind Over Mutant
Won't lie, I'd love to see a collection of post-ND games, something along the lines of Wrath of Cortex, one or two of the GBA games, Twinsanity, and Crash Bash in one package would be a solid seller I think.
Could be a cool compromise between not having to fully recreate the games in place of a Crash 5 but at least giving some slight improvements/fixes here and there, but I do wonder if after remaking those four games if going back to rereleases might annoy some fans?
honestly i dont think they ignored post crash 3 its just that they implied it was a different time line since thats all 4 was about. i mean i dont know if its a different time line actually but i like to think it was
ua-cam.com/video/sXr0Dfb1VhU/v-deo.htmlsi=PjQpy5QHMIRwBs2e
I'm pretty sure people are usually referring to story-wise, not mechanics.
@@squiddu how would it reference the stories of games that come after? ua-cam.com/video/sXr0Dfb1VhU/v-deo.htmlsi=4tXuQDdAJ58xEdCr
that transition into a plinkett review was utterly seamless XD
ya man at first nsane trilogy was my preference but Crash4 won me over HARD
It is underrated in the larger gaming scene imo.
Is B-Mask Plinkett here? 🤣
Honestly I think Crash 4 is the best 3D platformer ever and I’m not ashamed to say it at all. Granted this is a more niche type linear 3D platformer but if it counts then it counts. Is absolutely underrated in the wider gaming scene though and criminal how little this sold, the artistic quality and super dense level design should have become influential on the industry
@@idontcheckmynotifications apparently it's sold 5 million by now according to a TFB employee resume.
Sigh... If only Naughty Dog would give Jak & Daxter the same treatment Crash got... I still refuse to accept TLF as Jak's swan song
That looks super. Im not exactly into the character of the characters, but oh snap. There's so much right on the snap.
I loved the nods to the old games. I think those who said that they ignore them haven't actually... played the games.
A lot of these dont seem like direct references and moreso just "these remind me of..."
@@alt0799 which ones?
……..you’re telling me I could spin those lions in the tiny tiger fight?
I just go to THE CORNER and spin on Tiny, gaining the boos from the crowd
Forgot to mention that Kupuna-Wa is basically Grimly from Crash Mind Over Mutant.
And also I don't like the first Cortex Boss Fight because I miss when he used his Hoverboard and Gun to shoot face to face.
@@Trinteium how's Grimly like Kupuna-Wa?
@@teejay5160 Both slow time, watch a Crash Mind Over Mutant gameplay with Grimly
@@Trinteium I guess?
dude you speak really good, u need to keep the good work!
Thanks, I also see you appreciate my ability to completely change voices intermittently for no good reason.
tbh, I thought it was on purpose xD.
People still rag on this game? LOL it’s been four years, they gotta move on man
Nobody hates Crash Bandicoot more than Crash Bandicoot fans
@@Noiser2092 Huh, I thought that was just Sonic fans. They hate the game and characters just as much as they love it (I'm one of those people).
@@Noiser2092 They're odd fans then. I have my small issues (like the boxes) but I love crash to def & this game is pretty awesome for the most part. Small note but Dingo's design is the best it's ever been ⚘️
@@gunkhead Legit Dingodile’s design this game is peak. Crash 4 is one of the best post ND games in the franchise and it’s actually not even close
Yeah, cuz it's not that good lol
this comment section is such a clusterfuck lmao
Am I the only one who thinks this sounds like Caddicarus or B-Mask. I say "or" because there's many bits in this that genuinely confuse me.
Nah, I don't hear it.
I know caddie would approve for the point ur making
I would genuinely bet a very large amount of money that the people that scream the loudest about how bad this game is are just bandwagoning off the hate and have probably never actually played the game for an extended period of time... or at all. I bought this game having no knowledge of all the "criticisms" it was getting from the rabid rose tinted fandom, and I thought it was easily the best Crash game by FAR. Many others that I know thought the exact same thing too, and it got amazing reviews/sales. You can imagine the immense whiplash I got when I randomly browsed the Crash subreddit and found that apparently I was in the minority according to them (which is obviously bullshit). The fandom is fucking trash and they're too blinded by nostalgia to see that this is the Crash sequel they've been wanting for years, going as far to say that the mediocre Wrath of Cortex was a far superior sequel (because nostalgia of course, not because the game was actually good). That's too bad for them I guess.
I am on the side of the people who dont like Crash 4... kinda. It is a double edged sword.
The levels overall are great and they are fun to play. But if you want to 100% it, it get REAALY long, boring, repetetive and just not fun for most.
What made the orignal Crash games good is, you finished them fast (~4-6 hours maybe) and a had a great time and gladly play it in 2 month again.
I cant play a Crash game without 100%ing it but Crash 4 is such a chore, i dont ever want to do it again. Sure this is a me problem but i guess many have it. We feel bad finishing the game uncomplete but we also feel bad trying to complete it again.
@@Dragonfire2505 Yea I'm not really considering the full completion of the game as a reason why people have issues with it, as I can see the arguments to an extent, although I think calling the game bad because full 106% not being fun is not a fair overall assessment of the game but that's another thing entirely. My main gripes are people just mindlessly hating on it and saying things like how this game doesn't pay any homage to post ND when clearly it does, or how T4B didn't know enough about Crash to make a new game, when they clearly did. I think the game has its issues (the OG trilogy have their own issues despite people acting like they're perfect), I just find it pathetic that there's a very loud part of the fandom constantly ripping this game to shreds yet they seem to have barely any actual knowledge on the game itself, which might deter people from wanting to play this game thinking what they're saying is true.
All things considered I feel like IaT is an S-tier Crash game. The challenge of the N-Sane relics are somatimes absolutely bonkers (rewards hidden offscreen wtf??) but 90% of the time they're actually fair, rewarding and pure skill dependant. I love the new artstyle, and while many people don't like the redesigns, I feel like this cartoony look will also help the game age better (N-sane trilogy visuals aready feel extremely outdated for me ngl while IAT holds up just the same).
Things I really liked:
- Very fun story. I expected this game to be just a nostalgy rush to childhood but ended up laughing way more than I was ready for.
- Great character expansions, from both gameplay and personality perspective
- New powers feel fresh and make platforming interesting without altering the core mechanics
- Beautyful graphics with great controls. Crash in IAT probably has the best movement so far, and the double jump gives you plenty of room to correct mistakes and cover huge distances.
Things I absolutely disliked:
- N-verted levels are simply bloat. Some filters burned my eyes. Some were just pain (underwater Rush Hour, that's you)
- Triple spin for time trials is extremely clunky. Even after I got the hang of it I felt like speed boots were far superior
- They kinda tried to cram in way too many things to appeal for all fans, and I feel like many storylines and characters got done dirty. The N. Trophies bossfight legit feels unfinished. N. Brio is literally the same as he was in 96, same motivation, abilities, skillset, everything.
- They massacred my boy N. Gin so bad. He was the funnies evil sidekick in the previous games, and now all his character was just shouting edgy lines about his punkrock show.
Shame we won’t get Crash 4 since Activision cancelled it as 4 didn’t reach the necessary copies sold to warrant a sequel😑
@@bryceknowles1380 maybe not that specific version of Crash 5.
Exactly, crash 4 makes all the games cannon in other universes which makes sense since they are traveling through space and time.
They never go to a Woc/Twinsanity/Titans universe, tho. The references to those are also part of the main timeline.
Here's hoping Toys for Bob makes a Banjo Kazooie game
Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhh
I think they'd go for a spyro 4 first since that has a lot more relevance because of the reignited trilogy and arguably skylanders.
Then I think they should remake kazooi and tooie before making a threeie
@@Nobody_Shroom people suggest that, but I'm not crazy on the idea of them squandering their potential on more remakes rather than original titles considering how busy they'd be with and how long they'd presumably take on any single game. Like I just can't abide postponing a Crash 5 or something so they could spend a few years on remaking games already playable on Xbox/Switch that fans still may not prefer anyway. It's the same reason why people don't want any more Crash remakes instead of original games, to just let things continue to grow and evolve, and yet this prospect conveniently doesn't suffer the same criticism and gets a free pass (and at least a hypothetical Twinsanity remake could have a crew of TT veterans instead of TFB or something).
And that's like two Banjo projects with the struggle of juggling Crash/Spyro/possible original IP over long game development periods, they couldn't even manage to follow up Spyro's remake with a new entry, and they didn't even need a remake for Crash to make Crash 4.
How do you only have 100 subscribers?
I mean, I only post Crash/Sonic nerdery for one thing.
i should get this game
1:11 whats that down there?
CTR/CNK karts.
@@teejay5160 ok
Its allways a big bs ignoring the post nd games. Since that they are part of the franchise s history and we shouldnt forget/ erase the history
I kinda hope they bring crunch back in a different way
Same. He's one of the best things from post ND
Sub #118, to be honest I don't think I've ever seen this much of a disparity between subs and views
@@dioqboom363 TBF, I only upload Sonic/Crash stuff haha.
This is still outrageous 😤, the sonic community just by itself goes absolutely bonkers and the crash community is probably starved for content 😂. In reality I understand the lack of returning viewers, but I'll be here waiting for more 😉. Smaller Channels where you can still interact with the community are much more fun in my opinion.
7 minutes of it!
Is this Caddy?
I love caddy
Hmmm. I think I'll stick around. Subscriber 85.
Level design and easter eggs aren't enough. IAT story still ignores post-ND Crash Bandicoot games.
What more should they have done?
@@teejay5160 The story should fit.
@@yottadrive what does that mean? It's still a Warped follow up, what else has to be done?
@@teejay5160 I said "post-ND" instead of just "ND". I'm aware of the Warped follow-up but the preparation for future stories is missing and there are even some pointless things. Twinsanity doesn't have Alt Tawna, so IAT should show other Alt characters. IAT Cortex in the final ending should reveal his plans to create Crunch later, as TWoC is the first 6th gen Crash Bandicoot game (not the first post-ND Crash Bandicoot game tho).
@@yottadrive I meant because it takes place after Warped that some post-ND references are gonna be more limited. And they don't have to set up the other games at the end just to have gaps bridged, this story can just exist in between and those can just exist later.
Did these people even play Crash 4
we need a Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled 60 FPS PC PORT, and we need NOW!!!!!!! let the fans open they on servers and the online will run forever.
crash 4 is the best crash game, its everything you like about crash, its smooth, its challenging, and its just really well made. enough time has passed honestly they made a perfect game in my opinion. i would commit crimes for them to make a crash 5
I know what TFB should make next…A twinsanity remake!
Crash 5 or bust.
Why did you just take other peoples videos match them together and then not say who they were
@@CoolSwagXD542 did you not read the description?
Great vidéo ! You deserve more subscribers, I hope your channels grows. Oh and, I've played this game a lot now and I've never seen the version of Road to Nowhere at 2:24. Did I miss a cool level ?
I think it's part of one of the snow world levels, like a death route or bonus stage or something?
@@teejay5160 Bonus stages do not look like that and death routes are not in the game as far as I am aware, will try finding it in game but I'm very curious because I finished the game around 7 or 8 times now and I never ever found it
@@mdnplytv762Ooh, I might've mixed them up with coloured Gem routes.
Yeah little nods are cute, but this game is set as if only three game happened, which is by definition ignoring them
@@steelbear2063 like how Rouge One ignores the sequel trilogy?
References and easter eggs are nice, but what happened to the _lore?_
How so?
The events of Twinsanity, Nitro Fueled, etc. Have they been retconned out?
@@Joseph_Drew_III Crash 4 can be seen as in-between Warped and Wrath pretty easily. We won't know unless we get a new mainline Crash game, and you know, that probably won't happen rn :v
@@Joseph_Drew_III Not quite. Basically according to a GDC 2021 presentation by Paul Yan, the other games come after Crash 4 in its chronological timeline despite earlier statements.
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@@JCOdrjonesWhy's that?
I forget, what was ND again?
Naughty Dog.
Alt Tawna clinging to Crash and Coco soley because they remind her of people she knew is very creepy and sociopathic lol.
Yet they want this character to be liked so badly. She truly is the captain marvel of Crasg bandicoot.
I think it's more they thought they'd appeal to fans of Tawna not by actually giving her proper spotlight....but by making a completely new character to replace her. It's not like a one off 'Evil Crash' counterpart thing like in Twinsanity, she's blatantly designed to be a main character over the original now. Basically the equivelent of 'You don't need her anymore, we made a BETTER one'. :P
@@e-122psi3 I wonder if it's more using her without rewriting her original character, as suggested by B-Mask?
@@teejay5160 In that case, I feel like they may as well have just made a new character.
She's rather mid at most, and rather boring at worst i think
Aww you cut Bmask's red letter media reference.
Ooh, which one was that?
Makes me sad TFB wont make another Crash game...
Not with that attitude!
@@teejay5160 Have you not heard the news..? lmao
@@TroboTicTac The news of them considering a Microsoft/Activision partnership, rumoured to be currently working on Spyro 4 and presumably going straight to Crash 5 afterwards???
@@teejay5160On one hand, I want to believe you that this will happen. On the other hand… you’ve seen what’s happened to Tango, i highly doubt Microsoft either doesn’t meddle with the game, or kicks out TFB or Activision after Spyro 4 or Crash 5 is made
if this doesn’t happen though, I’ll take back what I said, but as of right now I don’t trust Microsoft not to pulling something scummy like that
@@leoultimaupgraded9914You mean Banjo?
Wish they did fr
I think the issue with the references is more that TFB's format feels more like a lite adaptation of them, a reference in their own style that is meant to be in place of them than a follow on to them. That would be fine in an actual adaptation that commonly have loads of those little nods, like Toys For Bob's own rendition of Crash, but this was plainly marketed as THE true sequel to the Crash games, the new ongoing direction for Crash that's more loyal than anything else before it.
I think that's the same reason the Spyro Reignited redesigns were so contentious. They would have been okay as 'Toys For Bob's Spyro' a personalized take for a spin off like so many others done before, but they were for a REMAKE, a 'return to roots'. They were placing their own heavy overhaul as 1:1 enough to be a representation of the classics over the classics themselves, basically they wanna rewrite history in their own image (ironic given Crash 4's story).
Remember that TFB originally stated Crash 4 was a different timeline from those later games which the others placed in what was likely a defunct timeline that would never be used again. They changed that to Crash 4 being a midquel, but it comes off a bit like backstepping when they realised ripping on the post-ND era wasn't cool anymore and replacing it with a 'better' canon that maybe reimagined the better bits once in a while maybe wouldn't go down as well as they thought (Nitro Fuelled just before it being a love letter to the whole franchise probably played a lot into that, fans were starting to accept the franchise warts and all rather than demanding a wiped and 'better' version). And even then if all the games afterwards are following Crash 4 it will remain a midquel format, thus the other games are still defunct.
That's actually a rather unpleasant narrative consistency in TFB's games, 'we made a BETTER version'. We made a BETTER mask quad team. We made a BETTER Tawna, Coco and Tropy are a BETTER hero and villain than Crash and Cortex.' Everything not only feels more like a substitute rather than a continuation of stuff before, but it's main substance seems to be that it's SOOOO much better than that old, lame stuff we had to settle with before.
I heavily feel this for Reignited but not a lot of Crash 4, I guess I always hoped for a Spyro remake growing up and they messed up the overall tone really hard so it hurt me more, whereas with Crash if I didn’t like 4 I could have ignored it. Really tho I ended up loving 4 a ton so my view would be very biased, I don’t like Reignited that much because I think it’s so hit or miss. Like I think some designs in Reignited are completely spot on, some of those I think are wildly different from the originals but really do just work better to me, others feel like huge misfires. Never gonna be able to get over what they did to the gnorc worlds they’re so messy and wooden instead of the stark steely contrast they used to be.
Honestly, idrc about them paying respect to the post ND titles. Most of them have at least one or two good ideas to spare. But for the most part, lack consistency with the spirit and style of the original games because they were trying too hard to evolve Crash with the times.
Crash 4 isn't much different in that regard. Sure, it plays like the classics, but... that's literally the only thing it gets right. And even there, it has glaring issues.
Not that gameplay isn't the most important, but I was never a fan of Crash purely for the gameplay. So, I'm still waiting for a new game that can actually satisfy me completely.
Love how you said a whole lot of nothing
3 paragraphs to say, "I don't like crash 4 as much as the ps1 games" is impressive
The gross char redesigns in 4 absolutely bring down the experience
I feel the same about NST's designs.
Sadly is it the worst Crash to complete which kills the whole game for me. I did it once and i propably will never touch it again. I cant play a Crash game and leave it under 100% (Or whatever number is the max in that one) and trough this shore i cant get again.
I want to like the game but i cant.
@@Dragonfire2505 worse than Crash Bash?
Why are you stealing Caddicarus video
@@NickVS I'm not.
Yall too angry man
@@TrainEnjoyer-m7u ?
let them do a new jak already
Just get over it
@@TrainEnjoyer-m7u ?
This is stolen content.
@@Fathomorg it's not.
Crash 4 was a pile of shit
@@Saaahdood Nah.
Thenivision shit on the revival with that garbage Moba whatever-that-shit-was and Toys 4 Bob jumped ship entirely.
That was something TFB were also developing (from an early state) alongside Crash 4 and their upcoming Microsoft collab doesn't quite mean that they jumped ship.
i dont want toys for bob cause Kotick kill them all. plus they are Californians
... What?
No he didn’t and it doesn’t matter
I just wish 100%ing the game was like.. actually fun and not a tedious nightmare.. plus I think the graphics are a downgrade from the N.Sane trilogy
Tfb sucks
No
they dont, they just need to continue with making games ppl want cuz they can cook, just not live service trash like rumble
you suck
I can't trust much else that isn't Toys 4 Bob for current Crash games, but hey.
Womp womp
I can't believe how much of a mess the levels are... after Skylanders they had such a long history of practice and that annoys me to crazyiness i am also disappointed Tawna doesnt get alternate costumes and Cocos personality stinks
did you actually play? Because Level Design really is impeccable. Unless you consider that a difficult level design means it's bad, if that's the case, you're stupid, that's all. And Coco literally doesn't even have a personality in the first 3 games, at most she tells Crash to take her batteries and that's it. And Coco #4 doesn't talk that much either, she's more like Crash's advisor, and talks in Crash's place, since Crash doesn't talk. And the difficulty is like that because they consulted the fans and they said that one of the things they liked most about the gameplay was the difficulty. And that's why they launched the game still afraid that players would find the game too easy. A Crash 5/Twinsanity remake should have a more user-friendly design, if TFB does it, having heard the complaints
@@pensandoemalgo.5722 I played as long as I could okay...the increase of difficulty doesn't excuse messy levels and sure there wasn't much to go on for Coco but the changes make her too childish and I played old crash games and this I gotta tell you it isn't bad but I wanted a relaxing adventure because of the cool graphics and story but it is the hardest crash game ever in Skylanders playing Crash and Neo is better than crash 4 it doesn't feel right
@@villelater2708 The Crash 4 stages themselves are not SUPER difficult, at most the final ones, but even those, when you pass them the first time, you can even do the thing of using all the masks in Cortex's castle and such. The hardest part is the 106%. One problem I could mention, the only valid one here, is the excess of hidden boxes. In old Crash games they had boxes like this, like in "Cold Hard Crash" where there is a literally invisible box, in the PS1 versions. But that's no reason to say that the design is horrible, and it gives a middle finger to all the work put into this game, belittling everything they lovingly created. They really thought it wasn't that difficult, but since the public complained so much, Crash 5 will probably be more friendly in that sense. The stages are the best made in the franchise, and the level design is actually quite ingenious and impressive. Whether you prefer something more casual or not, it doesn't take anything away from the real value of level design, separate the facts from your taste. I would also prefer something perhaps more friendly, but I would be lying to say that the franchise isn't known for being difficult, as it is, just maybe they shouldn't have considered that it's THAT difficult, just, difficult
@@pensandoemalgo.5722 when was the last time anyone played this? I give it my all and quit I hate the needless gimmick boxes and different masks they make the stages a mess the creators expect the player to be perfect or die I wouldn't complain so much if I had a level skip option or all the costumes were already unlocked or the costumes appeared in cutscenes but there isn't and I am a big fan really of Crash and Skylands and Jak and Dax ter series but come on even after making Nsanity trilogy which was a reversed engineered project of the past games means they should of known what to do... I even have problems with that game and Crash Racing...
@@villelater2708 Maybe playing it today you would see that it's not really THAT difficult, the difficulty is actually 106%. And the remakes don't have the exact same gameplay as the originals, having a heavier gravity, which even makes it almost impossible for you to get some secret lives as you can't jump on the boxes like on the PS1 due to the gravity. And also Crash's hitbox in these remakes is the same as the model, and not a rectangle like in Crash 4 and the original games, and what does that change? Change that if you are on the edge of a platform, you will probably slip, fall and die. The collision being a rectangle gives the effect of you stepping "in the air" on the edge of the platforms, which makes it easier. And Crash 4 also has that contoured shadow, to make it even simpler to do the jumps, besides this is literally the Crash that controls the most well of all, really if you die, it's purely your fault, and not because of the collision from Crash or something. And the masks just get used to. It's really okay to die a few times until you learn, and the modern mode just leaves you with infinite lives to try. And the clothes appear in cutscenes, but not all of them, just the cutscenes that use the game's own models, like when we meet N'gin. It's more the finals that needed even more expressive models, so there's a pre-animated cutscene
Crash bandicoot 4 it's about time is worst crash bandicoot game in the world
Yes yes, bait.
Ok suuure grandpa, go back to sleep
Hey, um, have you heard of crash purple per chance?