Traveller's Tales getting screwed over by publishers was a pretty common occurrence during the early to mid 2000s, which is pretty sad because they're obviously a talented studio
If you want to know HOW talented, find a channel named GameHut. One of the original developers from Travelers Tales reveals a lot of their tricks and techniques behind how they seemed to pull off seemingly IMPOSSIBLE feats in gaming.
It’s like what OneyNG said, whenever you’d see the traveler’s tales logo, your in for a bad time. Which is a shame because you can tell they really try to make something special in the time they are given...even if they always fail.
@@popplio7891 That's not true! Travelers Tales have some amazing titles under their belt, and even from prototype phases, they've been good ideas and concepts! What's ruined them are the publishers. In fact, that's what ruined Rascal if you can believe it. (Look up original prototype footage for the game. The difference is night and day!)
A lot of people in the comments have told me that from their experiences, this only seems to happen in the GameCube version. Can't verify that myself, since I've only ever played the GameCube version, but yeah.
@@BenjaMage I remember Sonic Adventure DX on GCN had this same problem in the very first level of the game. Having watched Game Grumps' playthrough of the game reminded me of this glitch where you just...outta nowhere, start getting sucked in to a wall on the first major loop before the orca chase segment. It's one of those "Game Over Required to Continue" types of glitches since if you experience it once on your playhthrough of the level, you WILL get it every...single...TIME! Sonic Heroes also had a weird one like that where, on the launch ramp on the second level of the game (as Team Sonic, hadn't tried with anyone else) you would just...fall through the ramp...giving you a Game Over before you even move the control stick or touch a single button. First time it happened I was genuinely speechless. I just had the blankest expression on my face like, as Krusty the Clown would put it, "What da HELL was THAT!?" XD
I'm pretty touched about your speech with Traveller's Tales development cycle. As a gaming student who's still not really good at programming, I can't imagine the horror of going through a cycle like that. So kudos to ya buddy! ^^
Traveler's Tales was such a great studio, man. They made actually good movie tie-ins for PS1, Toy Story 2 and Bug's Life. And they clearly had some good ideas for the next evolution of Crash Bandicoot, but they didn't have that critical time to refine and make it great. Tragic.
As someone who actually likes this game, it's nice to see a review that goes over the positive aspects of it as well as the flaws. Instead of just saying, "This game isn't as polished as the original trilogy, therefore it's bad."
I was having a bad day but watching this video of one of the first games I ever played really lightened up my mood. I have been a fan of your channel for a long time now and seeing your statistics is really sad I absolutely love your videos your personality, delivery its all great your videos are great and every chance I get talk to my friends about you because you have such an entertaining personality and in my opinion you are very underated.
Personally, what I would have done at least is have the Crash villains as the bosses, but each of them is assisted by a different elemental mask. For example, Dingodile is known for his flamethrower. I could see a boss fight where his weapon is enhanced by the fire mask. In fact, I could see where each elemental mask could fit with which boss. Tiny would use the Earth mask, similar to Crunch. N. Tropy would use the Water mask (Which might be a bit of a stretch but it could still work somehow) Dingodile would use the Fire mask since he literally has a flamethrower as mentioned earlier. And N. Gin would use the Air mask since a lot of his boss fights involve flying robots/vechicles. Meanwhile, the final boss would be Cortex himself who would utilize all 4 similar to It's About Time.
Every time Ben uploads my soul gains parts it lost back, and I especially needed that right now, because my life has kinda sucked lately. Thanks, Mavvy.
I LOVED this game as a kid and I really need to revisit it. The music absolutely blew me away and I've always loved it. I can see how it's aged badly, but as a kid, me and my older brother just saw it as challenging. We used to refer to it as one of the hardest Crash games, and beating anything in this game felt so rewarding. It's nice to see someone not just giving it a ton of hate about the graphics and the glitches. You look at the good and the bad, which I've genuinely not seen anybody do for this game, and you made some great points which I haven't heard anywhere else.
Some of my favorite music pieces: *Arctic Antics - Nice for the first level of the game *Seashell Shenanigans - Calming ambience of the ocean depths *Bonsai Banzai - Chinese instrumentation sounds so good *Crashes to Ashes - Has a rocking sound *Droid Void - Admittedly kinda unsettling under proper circumstances *Crate Balls of Fire - Sounds really cool like something from a 2000s sci-fi cartoon *Solar Bowler - Also played in the end credits
Good review! I especially respect the fact that you acknowledge Wrath of Cortex's rough development cycle. I know Enter the Dragonfly also went through a similar Christmas-rushed process, but not a lot of people consider that and instead bash the game for what it is, so I appreciate it that you took a different direction compared to the other reviews I've seen of this game and adjusted your opinion based on that factor.
What I mean is that there are games, stories and shows that are incomplete and no one is able to finish them. I hate that. That's why I prefer poorly developed games such as: Ruff Trigger and Sonic 2006.
fun little fact: When growing up, for some reason my brain kept combining wrath of cortex and crash 3 warped together because I didn't know which was which and when the Nsanity trilogy came out I played crash 3 and was confused as to why there was no castle level...then I realized that the castle level was from wrath of cortex and NOT crash 3....this game kinda fucked with my head more then I want to admit...
Second game I played in the Crash series (first being Crash of the Titans) this was a fascinating game for 8 year old me to play. I tolerated the visuals because I thought the graphics were old in a fascinating way, it was a nice introduction for the traditional style of the series (especially the need for 100% completion with the gems which I didn't thought of at first). I really like the Atlas sphere levels probably due to my old fascination with ball obstacle course games. I tolerated some of the level design's problems most likely for being the first traditional Crash game especially the vehicle sections. While I haven't played this for a long time having kept my PS2 (which was the version of the game I used) for so long, I really had fond memories with this game as one of the first games I played on my first home console.
Amazing review! This game has a special place in my childhood as the second reason I'd play my family's Xbox. A few years ago, I actually 100%'ed it. While I'm not sure if it's nostalgia or my optimism regarding games, I loved my time with it. One thing I'm surprised that you didn't bring up was that the dragon from Wizards and Lizards is in Dragon Mines in CTR: NF!
I actually completely forgot about the dragon being in Nitro Fueled until I was partway through editing. If I end up doing a Nitro Fueled review, I'll definitely bring it up there.
The thing about the vehicle levels in Wrath of Cortex is that, like 3, they all play well into the core gameplay and don't feel out of place as a result. The problem really is the level design. 3's vehicle levels were very well designed especially considering their intended physics system (the motorbike levels have a learning curve that is pretty rewarding to get down just right especially when going for the time relics). Wrath of Cortex isn't anywhere near as well designed as that game. As a result, the way they control affects their playability more than they should, and the bad level design highlights that to an obnoxious degree. It's ridiculous. Wrath of Cortex tried too hard to follow up on Crash 3, which I can't blame them for since 3 is the peak of the main series, but if they only had a year to make this game, it would have been better to only have a couple of vehicle stages as opposed to having a huge variety of unpolished ones that take up 2/3 of the entire game. I love variety when it's done well, but this isn't one of those examples of it being well executed. It's downright poor. That all being said, I still kind of like this game. There are a few vehicle stages I enjoy, and the platforming is solid as usual, albeit not as strong as the original trilogy. It's just an okay game in retrospect.
Hello, I am a Latin American user and my video is very interesting, I liked it a lot and I like your way of expressing your arguments, twoc is one of my favorite games of the ps2 and the crash franchise in general, and it is good to see that there are people who are positive about the game, despite having many mistakes and being basically a warped rehash, it is still a good game that fulfills the purpose of entertaining :). It is a pity that such travelers tales did not continue making crash games, mainly due to the fact of developing bad twinsanity (and no, it was not for a matter of time, but because tt oxford, the decision of such travelers did not know how to develop twinsanity well) They had enormous potential, although it is good to see that content creators such as Jon Burton (the founder of such travelers) are content related to betas, create dx editions of their games (such as sonic 3d blast) and how several of them were created the effects of his games through his code :).
@TD Sonic Agreed. While I don't think highly of Wrath of Cortex looking back, it was at least a playable game that was functional and worked properly. Enter The Dragonfly was such a glitchy and headache inducing experience, with a framerate that even rivals a lot of N64 games. Oh. Here's the cherry on top, he likes Enter the Dragonfly, but hates fantastic games like Simpsons Hit & Run, Ape Escape 3, and Mega Man 9. I pretty much stopped caring about him in more recent years. More like Trash Shame Reviews.
@@ultrairrelevantnobody1862 Can't be worse than AntDude's review... He seemed pretty uninterested and apathetic towards anything that wasn't the original trilogy. He got better, though. He became more positive and enthusiastic while still being fairly objective. But still, his 2017-ish years....Yeesh.
I remember buying this game for the Gamecube when I was around 12 years old. I bought it from a local toy store in the mall for $10 around release date. It was mislabeled, so I got it for about $40 off. I loved it back then, can't really give a valid opinion of it now. I remember it was humorous that all the villains were just sitting around talking. XD
2:20 actually the xbox and greatest hit version on ps2 have decent load times 3:15 my headcannon is he was planning on using Crunch against Crash AND Uka Uka
I'm so fucking sick if remakes, please.. Just give us new Crash and Spyro games.. N. Sane Trilogy was good, Spyro Reignited Trilogy was an absolute travacy as far as I (a fucking humongous classic Spyro fan, favourite games of all time) am concerned.. I still love it because it is Spyro, but I absolutely fucking hate it at the same time because it is faaaarrrrrr!!!! from an accurate remake, so many things needlessly changed for the worse, losing much of their charm and feeling way more generic and boring in comparison, plus it was rushed to fuck, full of glitches, very unpolished, especially the third game, and it's actually got LESS content than the original PS1 games!!! This is because 1: Toys For Bob don't care about being faithful and would rather put their own boring ass fucking spins on everything, very unlike Vicarious Visions who obviously care a lot more about the original Crash games than TFB do about Spyro, they may say they care and made it very accurate but they lied, blatantly lied, they're almost like entirely different levels and characters sometimes. And 2: Activision being a shitty ass company and rushing TFB to hell to get it out, to the point that they were forced to outsource to 4 other game studio's in order to get it to a passable state in order to release it on time.. Absolutely despicable of Activision... If TFB had more time then at least it would have been more polished and less glitchy, I would still hate many things about it because TFB has sticks up their asses and think whatever they do is better than the original vision for the games, but still... But then even with the good Crash remakes... I mean... It's not like I'm ever gonna play them over the originals anyway 🤷🏻♂️ why would I? The originals are already there to play and I like them more, I do and will play N. Sane sometimes but 90% of the time I just play the originals when I want to play some Crash, aside from Crash 3 where I play the N. Sane version.... But that's because I don't like Warped, it's mostly boring as fuck and or annoying as fuck, I can't stand any of the vehicle levels that Plague over half the game, plus the soundtrack is the worst and most boring of all Crash gamesI feel, as far as I'm concerned Wrath of Cortex is much much more fun than Warped is to me, plus Wrath of Cortex is also much less boring and the soundtrack is the best soundtrack of the whole franchise... And a couple of the levels in WOC are pretty bad yes.. But they're only ever here for 1 short time and that's it, plus the majority of WOC's vehicle levels I think are far more entertaining than any of Warped' vehicles levels, Warped just repeats the exact same 3 vehicle levels multiple times all through the game.... And I fucking hate all 3 of them..not fun at all.. Plus the actual platforming Crash levels in Warped I don't like as much as any levels from 1,2 and 4. But anyway, back to N. Sane, although I still choose to play the originals over N. Sane almost every time, N. Sane is still fantastic and very accurate (especially compared to Reignited....😒) it even added new content! Like the time trials in Crash 1 and 2!!! Which is amazing! Crash 1 is my favourite Crash game and being able to play it through in a brand new way is just sooo much fun!.... But still, No more remakes please!!! They hold very little value to me and only serve as a way to introduce these games to a new generation. New Crash game, hell yes!! , new Spyro game.... I don't trust TFB to get it right with how much they anally raped the original trilogy in Reignited... But I'm a little optimistic.. A lot worried and salty as Fuck... But a little optimistic. I would like to see a remake of Enter the Dragonfly but I'd much rather the fans do that than shitty ass TFB.
16:09 This rising synth is **all over** WoC's soundtrack, and I love it. Want to know why? It reminds me of the equally fucking incredible TimeSplitters games, with Norgate's penchant--especially early on--for using modulated descending synths.
Love your videos! Have been a fan for years and years and am nostalgic about your countdown days (for some reason i got reminded of super adventure island 2 and you ripping its final boss to shreds. Gonna rewatch it now) keep it up dude
"Despite being the only version of the game to not have the infamously long loading times." No, that's wrong! The PS2 Greatest Hits version has severely reduced load times compared to the original printing. I'm not going to say that it's equal to or better than the Gamecube version, I don't know personally, but it is better.
I actually bought wrath of cortex a bit ago because I missed playing it. Am I the only one who misses the good old days back when everything was right?
Honestly I find it an okay game in the franchise. I mean as a game coming after a trilogy of fun games, I can certainly think of MUCH worse. *cough*spyro*cough*
I actually love this game, but some of your criticism is correct. As for a free platformer, I don't want it. I want a new release that's just like the 3 main games and The Wrath of Cortex. A set of levels with crystals, gems and relics to collect and villains to defeat.
2:25 - The Xbox Original version had pretty quick loading times. I believe It was just the earlier versions of the PS2 version that had those. :) The Xbox Original version also had fur on Crash and Coco which was pretty neat. I would go as far as to say It was probably the best looking version of the Game. Of course, Visuals can't hide a very mediocre experience. Coco's Levels were certainly annoying to play through as You pretty much went over. Also doesn't make sense how She dies In water when Crash 3 shows that She can swim. And while Wrath of Cortex certainly had a lot of flaws like the over abudance of Vehicle Levels, I really loved the Soundtrack. That Sinking Feeling being one of My favourites. I really loved the Composers' work In the Finding Nemo Game.
Wrath of Cortex and Crash 3 were my gateway into the Crash game (while vaguely remembering CTR) thanks to my uncle and gave me his copy of WoC on ps2. I loved every single minute playing this game even though i still run into a few problems here and there, i still love it and i wish this gets remastered like thr original Trilogy
"I'm not sure if 'Traveler's Tales' is watching this." Actually, a former Traveler's Tales member has a UA-cam channel called "GameHut". They go in depth of the game engine used for Crash WoC, Sonic 3d Blast, actual demos of alpha builds, etc. TL;DR: Former game Dev of WoC has UA-cam channel, shows everything about it. (EDIT: Typo; Hut, not hub.)
The soundtrack is the first thing that comes to mind whenever this game comes up. I stll find myself randomly humming H2 OH NO's music all these years later.
That’s how all the raving maps are, if you pass the crates you have to restart that’s part of the challenge... That would be stupid if you could just turn around there would be absolutely zero challenge...
Given that Warped, Twinsanity & this game were the only three crash games I owned early on in my gaming childhood I have very fond memories of this game. Especially the atlas sphere lvls & the soundtrack
And with the potential of having a new Crash game announced sometime this month... According to rumors, we're going to see Vicarious Visions take on the classic formula. (Outside the GBA games.) If Future Tense was any indication, then the level design alone is going to make it feel NOTHING like a NaughtyDog crash game but keep that formula in tact.
You have no idea how long it took 10 year old me to figure out you had to hold the shoot button to shoot in That Sinking Feeling. I can't tell if that is due to bad design in not explaining it with brief instructions or that I used to be really dumb, probably the former.
onw the best parts is the music agreed. Compactor Reactor has been in my MP3 since the very beginning the atlasphere point to one thing I've said from the beginning: some level had a lot more going on than others mostly, an indicator of which order they developed on, which in turn makes me believe that they started without a final release date defined and they had to fix the unfinished level quicky. a big example, are some reactor compactor zones, where you can flat out walk around enemies that in theory are keeping the area on lockdown
To be fair, the fact that wrath of cortex was a 12 month release astounds me. they managed to do THIS... in 12 months? that's downright amazing when you think about it. especially since most of these levels are actually pretty decent. imagine what they could have done with a couple more months...
Wrath of Cortex was the only Crash game I ever played as a kid and so it holds a very special place in my heart despite all its flaws. I would love for the team behind the N Sane trilogy to take a crack at remaking it and fixing its major issues. Unfortunately I doubt that this game will ever be re-released in any form for multiple reasons.
one of these games that I remember looking much better when I was a kid lol. But seriously, I loved that game and being able to use that mecha suit from the cover art was a highlight for me, although it's only used pretty late.
I actually liked this game. Especially how it was revealed that Coco successfully self-taught herself martial arts. Seriously if she's playable in the rumored Crash Bandicoot: Worlds bring back her martial arts moves instead of making her a female Crash clone.
I wish that Traveller's Tales get at least another six months for developing this game. That could be a definitive Crash Bandicoot next gen(at the time) experience! But we live in reality, and the game turned into the rough gem! By rough gem I mean - a good game that not hold up in nowadays, only for nostalgic purposes!
I've played the game since I was a kid and I have some notes of my own. *The Mech's jump is only stiff if you remain stationary and then input movement, not so much if you jump while running. *To me, I thought the levels represented the Elements; Earth, Water, Fire, and Air. Seemed a little odd that the fire element room has an ice level and a water level though. And I'm not sure what element the 5th room represents because I don't recall "Space" being an element. *I found that you get a bit of extra hang time while holding down the jump button while bouncing off of a crate or enemy. USE THIS TO YOUR ADVANTAGE! You're gonna need it for Coco's levels. *Even I had trouble using the firefly's missiles as a kid since I had no idea how to use them. But you need to hold down the shoot button and then let go when the reticle rapidly blinks to fire.
The owner of Traveller's Tales has his own youtube channel, it the channel named "GameHut" and he talks about some of the prototypes, behind the scenes and how the programmed some of the effects in games they have made including Wrath of Cortex.
Reggie Watts I have a new copy (ps2) w no scratches I just bought and all load times are 11 seconds. It’s probably the fact it’s on the dreaded blue disc because my old scratched copy had those dreadful load times.
I remember this being a great game. I liked it specifically because it did not mess (much) with the Crash 3 formula. Although the tip toe "power" was stupid and the he moves way slower when hanging in this game. I can overlook these since the levels are generally a lot longer
I mean, if you _wanna be technical,_ Tiny Arena, Slide Coliseum and Turbo Track share a song. That said, yeah I probably should've specified I meant it had never been done in the main series before this.
Maybe Cortex wanted to keep Crunch a secret so, once Crash was finished, he’d turn him on Uka Uka. He definitely showed a lot of growing hate for the mask since Crash 3 (even in IAT to a degree)
Ironically all the lines of Nitro crates can be bypassed by slide double jump super spinning over them, which is also much faster than tiptoeing rendering it a truly useless powerup.
As much as I enjoyed the game about as a kid, I would rather have a new original title than a remaster of this game. But please use characters like Crunch Bandicoot and Nina Cortex
I didn't even knew that this game existed until Johnny made a review about. I loved Twinsanity tho, special my because I only played it when I used to visit my niece and, being kind of short.
After also getting insight how games are made I feel as through Wrath of Cortex gets more hate then needed, not that It's good, but It's good for what it is. Loved your review of the game, I felt the same in your explanation! Subscribing for more reviews and content!
Traveller's Tales getting screwed over by publishers was a pretty common occurrence during the early to mid 2000s, which is pretty sad because they're obviously a talented studio
If you want to know HOW talented, find a channel named GameHut.
One of the original developers from Travelers Tales reveals a lot of their tricks and techniques behind how they seemed to pull off seemingly IMPOSSIBLE feats in gaming.
It’s like what OneyNG said, whenever you’d see the traveler’s tales logo, your in for a bad time. Which is a shame because you can tell they really try to make something special in the time they are given...even if they always fail.
@@popplio7891 That's not true!
Travelers Tales have some amazing titles under their belt, and even from prototype phases, they've been good ideas and concepts!
What's ruined them are the publishers. In fact, that's what ruined Rascal if you can believe it.
(Look up original prototype footage for the game. The difference is night and day!)
yeah and they havent made a non lego game since 2008 because of how often they got screwed over. They seem to enjoy making endless lego games at least
@@popplio7891 They've actually made some legit decent games, but they're still a mid tier developer.
Compared to what Poor Spyro had to go through with Enter the Dragonfly, I'd say Crash got the better treatment.
I randomly died in that space coco level too. It never happened to me before till I played the game this year (on original hardware). Very odd
A lot of people in the comments have told me that from their experiences, this only seems to happen in the GameCube version. Can't verify that myself, since I've only ever played the GameCube version, but yeah.
@@BenjaMage I remember Sonic Adventure DX on GCN had this same problem in the very first level of the game. Having watched Game Grumps' playthrough of the game reminded me of this glitch where you just...outta nowhere, start getting sucked in to a wall on the first major loop before the orca chase segment. It's one of those "Game Over Required to Continue" types of glitches since if you experience it once on your playhthrough of the level, you WILL get it every...single...TIME! Sonic Heroes also had a weird one like that where, on the launch ramp on the second level of the game (as Team Sonic, hadn't tried with anyone else) you would just...fall through the ramp...giving you a Game Over before you even move the control stick or touch a single button. First time it happened I was genuinely speechless. I just had the blankest expression on my face like, as Krusty the Clown would put it, "What da HELL was THAT!?" XD
So in other words it must be some kind of like void death.
(Like a death plain in the middle of the stage?)
@Weneenja so there is no hidden timer for this level?
*2000 games exist*
Publishers: I diagnose you with rushed development.
I don't know Why they rush soo much
I'm pretty touched about your speech with Traveller's Tales development cycle. As a gaming student who's still not really good at programming, I can't imagine the horror of going through a cycle like that. So kudos to ya buddy! ^^
Traveler's Tales was such a great studio, man. They made actually good movie tie-ins for PS1, Toy Story 2 and Bug's Life. And they clearly had some good ideas for the next evolution of Crash Bandicoot, but they didn't have that critical time to refine and make it great. Tragic.
They also made the LEGO games
Toy Story on Mega Drive was sick.
Plus they made the Lego games, which were my CHILDHOOD.
This was the only crash game I've played when i was younger. So it has a place in my heart. But I respect your opinion and criticism.
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My only Crash game too!
As someone who actually likes this game, it's nice to see a review that goes over the positive aspects of it as well as the flaws. Instead of just saying, "This game isn't as polished as the original trilogy, therefore it's bad."
So wait a second, Ben: you're telling me Biff, Sergeant Hartman, The Joker, and Wakko voiced the Elementals?
My life is complete.
"Yearly releases hurt Crash in the long run."
That's what they're saying with Pokemon right now!!!
Ultimate Plot Twist: They've been working on the Sinnoh remakes since Sun and Moon and will release them soon.
Its also harmed Sonic
@@goldenhydreigon4727 Hyper plot twist: These were one of the worst Pokémon games ever.
@@Azurryu imo they were the worst
I was having a bad day but watching this video of one of the first games I ever played really lightened up my mood. I have been a fan of your channel for a long time now and seeing your statistics is really sad I absolutely love your videos your personality, delivery its all great your videos are great and every chance I get talk to my friends about you because you have such an entertaining personality and in my opinion you are very underated.
Personally, what I would have done at least is have the Crash villains as the bosses, but each of them is assisted by a different elemental mask.
For example, Dingodile is known for his flamethrower. I could see a boss fight where his weapon is enhanced by the fire mask.
In fact, I could see where each elemental mask could fit with which boss.
Tiny would use the Earth mask, similar to Crunch.
N. Tropy would use the Water mask (Which might be a bit of a stretch but it could still work somehow)
Dingodile would use the Fire mask since he literally has a flamethrower as mentioned earlier.
And N. Gin would use the Air mask since a lot of his boss fights involve flying robots/vechicles.
Meanwhile, the final boss would be Cortex himself who would utilize all 4 similar to It's About Time.
“What schemes have you been up to this time”
“No schemes”
“Oh”
*End credit*
Every time Ben uploads my soul gains parts it lost back, and I especially needed that right now, because my life has kinda sucked lately. Thanks, Mavvy.
Well, glad I could help make your day then. Hopefully things get better for you sooner than later. ^^
@@BenjaMage I don't deserve you
Sorry to hear that buddy. I hope things get better for you.
I hope things get better
Things are thankfully getting better now!
I LOVED this game as a kid and I really need to revisit it. The music absolutely blew me away and I've always loved it. I can see how it's aged badly, but as a kid, me and my older brother just saw it as challenging. We used to refer to it as one of the hardest Crash games, and beating anything in this game felt so rewarding.
It's nice to see someone not just giving it a ton of hate about the graphics and the glitches. You look at the good and the bad, which I've genuinely not seen anybody do for this game, and you made some great points which I haven't heard anywhere else.
Some of my favorite music pieces:
*Arctic Antics - Nice for the first level of the game
*Seashell Shenanigans - Calming ambience of the ocean depths
*Bonsai Banzai - Chinese instrumentation sounds so good
*Crashes to Ashes - Has a rocking sound
*Droid Void - Admittedly kinda unsettling under proper circumstances
*Crate Balls of Fire - Sounds really cool like something from a 2000s sci-fi cartoon
*Solar Bowler - Also played in the end credits
Holy shit HE'S BACK! See you in another 2-4 months!
Good review! I especially respect the fact that you acknowledge Wrath of Cortex's rough development cycle. I know Enter the Dragonfly also went through a similar Christmas-rushed process, but not a lot of people consider that and instead bash the game for what it is, so I appreciate it that you took a different direction compared to the other reviews I've seen of this game and adjusted your opinion based on that factor.
In all honesty, I prefer games that are poorly developed then the games that doesn't work at all and that's no sarcasm.
What do you mean? It just works.
At least with a game that doesn't work, you won't spend as much time with it.
@@MasuxAnderson No it doesn't, Todd Howard!
I assume you were referencing Bethesda?
@@greatsageclok-roo9013 Yes
What I mean is that there are games, stories and shows that are incomplete and no one is able to finish them. I hate that. That's why I prefer poorly developed games such as: Ruff Trigger and Sonic 2006.
fun little fact: When growing up, for some reason my brain kept combining wrath of cortex and crash 3 warped together because I didn't know which was which and when the Nsanity trilogy came out I played crash 3 and was confused as to why there was no castle level...then I realized that the castle level was from wrath of cortex and NOT crash 3....this game kinda fucked with my head more then I want to admit...
Second game I played in the Crash series (first being Crash of the Titans) this was a fascinating game for 8 year old me to play. I tolerated the visuals because I thought the graphics were old in a fascinating way, it was a nice introduction for the traditional style of the series (especially the need for 100% completion with the gems which I didn't thought of at first). I really like the Atlas sphere levels probably due to my old fascination with ball obstacle course games. I tolerated some of the level design's problems most likely for being the first traditional Crash game especially the vehicle sections.
While I haven't played this for a long time having kept my PS2 (which was the version of the game I used) for so long, I really had fond memories with this game as one of the first games I played on my first home console.
We oughta collab again.
How do I pin comments on someone else's video
Strink Family
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Amazing review! This game has a special place in my childhood as the second reason I'd play my family's Xbox. A few years ago, I actually 100%'ed it. While I'm not sure if it's nostalgia or my optimism regarding games, I loved my time with it. One thing I'm surprised that you didn't bring up was that the dragon from Wizards and Lizards is in Dragon Mines in CTR: NF!
I actually completely forgot about the dragon being in Nitro Fueled until I was partway through editing. If I end up doing a Nitro Fueled review, I'll definitely bring it up there.
0:57, I genuinely like Pokemon Sword and Shield and its haters are way too toxic, but it's a good example of this.
It came out in 2001, with the cult classic, Conker’s Bad Fur Day.
The Aquabot Conker is one of the bets games I’ve ever played! I wish they’d re remake the game.
@@jessejive117 They did. It's called Conker: Live and Reloaded and it's on the original Xbox.
The thing about the vehicle levels in Wrath of Cortex is that, like 3, they all play well into the core gameplay and don't feel out of place as a result. The problem really is the level design. 3's vehicle levels were very well designed especially considering their intended physics system (the motorbike levels have a learning curve that is pretty rewarding to get down just right especially when going for the time relics). Wrath of Cortex isn't anywhere near as well designed as that game. As a result, the way they control affects their playability more than they should, and the bad level design highlights that to an obnoxious degree. It's ridiculous.
Wrath of Cortex tried too hard to follow up on Crash 3, which I can't blame them for since 3 is the peak of the main series, but if they only had a year to make this game, it would have been better to only have a couple of vehicle stages as opposed to having a huge variety of unpolished ones that take up 2/3 of the entire game. I love variety when it's done well, but this isn't one of those examples of it being well executed. It's downright poor.
That all being said, I still kind of like this game. There are a few vehicle stages I enjoy, and the platforming is solid as usual, albeit not as strong as the original trilogy. It's just an okay game in retrospect.
Hello, I am a Latin American user and my video is very interesting, I liked it a lot and I like your way of expressing your arguments, twoc is one of my favorite games of the ps2 and the crash franchise in general, and it is good to see that there are people who are positive about the game, despite having many mistakes and being basically a warped rehash, it is still a good game that fulfills the purpose of entertaining :).
It is a pity that such travelers tales did not continue making crash games, mainly due to the fact of developing bad twinsanity (and no, it was not for a matter of time, but because tt oxford, the decision of such travelers did not know how to develop twinsanity well) They had enormous potential, although it is good to see that content creators such as Jon Burton (the founder of such travelers) are content related to betas, create dx editions of their games (such as sonic 3d blast) and how several of them were created the effects of his games through his code :).
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I never, ever, expected to ever witness a buzz lightyear of star command reference, ever. You are my hero!
Crashes to ashes(boss 3) is the best crash soundtrack out of all of the crash games Ngl
Finally a good review that doesn't just bash the game to high hell just cause.
At least it's not TGX Shame Reviews. That was pretty bad looking back.
@TD Sonic
Agreed. While I don't think highly of Wrath of Cortex looking back, it was at least a playable game that was functional and worked properly. Enter The Dragonfly was such a glitchy and headache inducing experience, with a framerate that even rivals a lot of N64 games.
Oh. Here's the cherry on top, he likes Enter the Dragonfly, but hates fantastic games like Simpsons Hit & Run, Ape Escape 3, and Mega Man 9. I pretty much stopped caring about him in more recent years. More like Trash Shame Reviews.
Well Caddicarus didn’t completely bash the game
He called it average and gave it the “Slavage”
@@ultrairrelevantnobody1862 Can't be worse than AntDude's review... He seemed pretty uninterested and apathetic towards anything that wasn't the original trilogy. He got better, though. He became more positive and enthusiastic while still being fairly objective. But still, his 2017-ish years....Yeesh.
@@Anko3342 he did admit to being too harsh on Legend of Spyro though and the console Titans games so, there’s that
I remember buying this game for the Gamecube when I was around 12 years old. I bought it from a local toy store in the mall for $10 around release date. It was mislabeled, so I got it for about $40 off. I loved it back then, can't really give a valid opinion of it now. I remember it was humorous that all the villains were just sitting around talking. XD
2:20 actually the xbox and greatest hit version on ps2 have decent load times
3:15 my headcannon is he was planning on using Crunch against Crash AND Uka Uka
Togekiss is such an awesome Pokemon.
I like cows, two.
I honestly find this review of the game better than Caddicarus' TBH.
You probably like this guy's review better than caddicarus's because he doesn't bash this game that much
I never thought Mavvy could go on rampage but he did.
Maverick's wtf image always cracks me up
The level design in crash bandicoot 1 is the best as far as insane trilogy goes.
I'd say the most infamous example of lack of time is not Wrath of Cortex, but Twinsanity.
3:50 - 4:04
I immediately gave you a like for this insanely hilarious part 😂
This is actually the very first Crash Bandicoot game I ever owned. It's very nostalgic to me!
I had the playstation version where it get stuck in warp loading
HOLY SHIT IT HAPPENS TO ME TOO ON THE BOSS 4
This game needs a remake repair the error.
And have the guys from Crash 3 helping out Crunch.
Twinsanity needs something like that more.
I'm so fucking sick if remakes, please.. Just give us new Crash and Spyro games..
N. Sane Trilogy was good, Spyro Reignited Trilogy was an absolute travacy as far as I (a fucking humongous classic Spyro fan, favourite games of all time) am concerned.. I still love it because it is Spyro, but I absolutely fucking hate it at the same time because it is faaaarrrrrr!!!! from an accurate remake, so many things needlessly changed for the worse, losing much of their charm and feeling way more generic and boring in comparison, plus it was rushed to fuck, full of glitches, very unpolished, especially the third game, and it's actually got LESS content than the original PS1 games!!!
This is because 1: Toys For Bob don't care about being faithful and would rather put their own boring ass fucking spins on everything, very unlike Vicarious Visions who obviously care a lot more about the original Crash games than TFB do about Spyro, they may say they care and made it very accurate but they lied, blatantly lied, they're almost like entirely different levels and characters sometimes.
And 2: Activision being a shitty ass company and rushing TFB to hell to get it out, to the point that they were forced to outsource to 4 other game studio's in order to get it to a passable state in order to release it on time.. Absolutely despicable of Activision... If TFB had more time then at least it would have been more polished and less glitchy, I would still hate many things about it because TFB has sticks up their asses and think whatever they do is better than the original vision for the games, but still...
But then even with the good Crash remakes... I mean... It's not like I'm ever gonna play them over the originals anyway 🤷🏻♂️ why would I? The originals are already there to play and I like them more, I do and will play N. Sane sometimes but 90% of the time I just play the originals when I want to play some Crash, aside from Crash 3 where I play the N. Sane version.... But that's because I don't like Warped, it's mostly boring as fuck and or annoying as fuck, I can't stand any of the vehicle levels that Plague over half the game, plus the soundtrack is the worst and most boring of all Crash gamesI feel, as far as I'm concerned Wrath of Cortex is much much more fun than Warped is to me, plus Wrath of Cortex is also much less boring and the soundtrack is the best soundtrack of the whole franchise... And a couple of the levels in WOC are pretty bad yes.. But they're only ever here for 1 short time and that's it, plus the majority of WOC's vehicle levels I think are far more entertaining than any of Warped' vehicles levels, Warped just repeats the exact same 3 vehicle levels multiple times all through the game.... And I fucking hate all 3 of them..not fun at all.. Plus the actual platforming Crash levels in Warped I don't like as much as any levels from 1,2 and 4.
But anyway, back to N. Sane, although I still choose to play the originals over N. Sane almost every time, N. Sane is still fantastic and very accurate (especially compared to Reignited....😒) it even added new content! Like the time trials in Crash 1 and 2!!! Which is amazing! Crash 1 is my favourite Crash game and being able to play it through in a brand new way is just sooo much fun!.... But still, No more remakes please!!! They hold very little value to me and only serve as a way to introduce these games to a new generation.
New Crash game, hell yes!! , new Spyro game.... I don't trust TFB to get it right with how much they anally raped the original trilogy in Reignited... But I'm a little optimistic.. A lot worried and salty as Fuck... But a little optimistic.
I would like to see a remake of Enter the Dragonfly but I'd much rather the fans do that than shitty ass TFB.
This and Twinsanity.
This was actually my first Crash Bandicoot game.
16:09 This rising synth is **all over** WoC's soundtrack, and I love it. Want to know why? It reminds me of the equally fucking incredible TimeSplitters games, with Norgate's penchant--especially early on--for using modulated descending synths.
Love your videos!
Have been a fan for years and years and am nostalgic about your countdown days (for some reason i got reminded of super adventure island 2 and you ripping its final boss to shreds. Gonna rewatch it now) keep it up dude
The music is undeniably amazing tho
11:51 turns out the reason is that theirs this random death barrier somewhere which is called by the speedrunner community as the black hole
"Despite being the only version of the game to not have the infamously long loading times."
No, that's wrong! The PS2 Greatest Hits version has severely reduced load times compared to the original printing. I'm not going to say that it's equal to or better than the Gamecube version, I don't know personally, but it is better.
I actually bought wrath of cortex a bit ago because I missed playing it. Am I the only one who misses the good old days back when everything was right?
20:06 I think it would be jak and daxter but crash bandcoot
15:37 Why did you make me feel old Maverick?
I'm only 20, I shouldn't feel old!
I'm only 18 and now I'm feeling old too! Fuck I remember renting Bionicle: The Mask of Light at a Movie Gallery store!
My dear@@TheBonkleFox, you just made me feel red by accident.
11:41 Just to point this out, I played this game on the PS2 and the crashing death in that level only happened when I fly into the space stations.
Honestly I find it an okay game in the franchise. I mean as a game coming after a trilogy of fun games, I can certainly think of MUCH worse.
*cough*spyro*cough*
Well yeah, Spyro got the _much_ shorter end of the stick when it comes to games after their initial trilogies.
I’m glad Profasia Gaming did a long play of this Crash Bandicoot game. You should try and complete with that guy. He’s awesome!
And according to Caddicarus, Crunch is voiced by the same actor that voiced Gantu in Lilo and Stitch.
I actually love this game, but some of your criticism is correct. As for a free platformer, I don't want it. I want a new release that's just like the 3 main games and The Wrath of Cortex. A set of levels with crystals, gems and relics to collect and villains to defeat.
2:25 - The Xbox Original version had pretty quick loading times. I believe It was just the earlier versions of the PS2 version that had those. :)
The Xbox Original version also had fur on Crash and Coco which was pretty neat. I would go as far as to say It was probably the best looking version of the Game. Of course, Visuals can't hide a very mediocre experience.
Coco's Levels were certainly annoying to play through as You pretty much went over. Also doesn't make sense how She dies In water when Crash 3 shows that She can swim.
And while Wrath of Cortex certainly had a lot of flaws like the over abudance of Vehicle Levels, I really loved the Soundtrack. That Sinking Feeling being one of My favourites. I really loved the Composers' work In the Finding Nemo Game.
I own this game and it’s a decent game. But it causes my ps2 to make a weird whirring sound that doesn’t happen with any of my other games.
Wrath of Cortex and Crash 3 were my gateway into the Crash game (while vaguely remembering CTR) thanks to my uncle and gave me his copy of WoC on ps2. I loved every single minute playing this game even though i still run into a few problems here and there, i still love it and i wish this gets remastered like thr original Trilogy
"I'm not sure if 'Traveler's Tales' is watching this."
Actually, a former Traveler's Tales member has a UA-cam channel called "GameHut".
They go in depth of the game engine used for Crash WoC, Sonic 3d Blast, actual demos of alpha builds, etc.
TL;DR: Former game Dev of WoC has UA-cam channel, shows everything about it. (EDIT: Typo; Hut, not hub.)
is Jon Burton, the founder of travelers tales :).
Great to see a new video from you!
The Greatest Hits edition on PS2 has fixed loading times.
Kyle Langdon I have that version and honestly it still feels like the loading times are still too long.
Ken & Violet's Let's Play I never really noticed, except maybe on a few rare occasions.
The soundtrack is the first thing that comes to mind whenever this game comes up. I stll find myself randomly humming H2 OH NO's music all these years later.
That’s how all the raving maps are, if you pass the crates you have to restart that’s part of the challenge... That would be stupid if you could just turn around there would be absolutely zero challenge...
“You don’t scare me!”
Cortex: AAAHHHH!!!
Water Mask: AAAAHHHHH!!!!
Given that Warped, Twinsanity & this game were the only three crash games I owned early on in my gaming childhood I have very fond memories of this game. Especially the atlas sphere lvls & the soundtrack
The most underrated Crash game.
And with the potential of having a new Crash game announced sometime this month...
According to rumors, we're going to see Vicarious Visions take on the classic formula. (Outside the GBA games.)
If Future Tense was any indication, then the level design alone is going to make it feel NOTHING like a NaughtyDog crash game but keep that formula in tact.
We need a new crash bandicoot game not another remake
@@SamuelJohnsonYT When did I ever imply in this comment of wanting another remaster?
@@greatsageclok-roo9013 I don't care
@@SamuelJohnsonYT But he literally just said a new game, he did not even mention the term "remake" in the comment
@@SlackerArtist I don't care
You have no idea how long it took 10 year old me to figure out you had to hold the shoot button to shoot in That Sinking Feeling. I can't tell if that is due to bad design in not explaining it with brief instructions or that I used to be really dumb, probably the former.
It's definitely the former.
Actually the games called cash banooca the wrinkle of cowpat
onw the best parts is the music
agreed. Compactor Reactor has been in my MP3 since the very beginning
the atlasphere point to one thing I've said from the beginning: some level had a lot more going on than others
mostly, an indicator of which order they developed on, which in turn makes me believe that they started without a final release date defined and they had to fix the unfinished level quicky.
a big example, are some reactor compactor zones, where you can flat out walk around enemies that in theory are keeping the area on lockdown
To be fair, the fact that wrath of cortex was a 12 month release astounds me. they managed to do THIS... in 12 months? that's downright amazing when you think about it. especially since most of these levels are actually pretty decent. imagine what they could have done with a couple more months...
Wrath of Cortex was the only Crash game I ever played as a kid and so it holds a very special place in my heart despite all its flaws. I would love for the team behind the N Sane trilogy to take a crack at remaking it and fixing its major issues. Unfortunately I doubt that this game will ever be re-released in any form for multiple reasons.
one of these games that I remember looking much better when I was a kid lol. But seriously, I loved that game and being able to use that mecha suit from the cover art was a highlight for me, although it's only used pretty late.
I actually liked this game. Especially how it was revealed that Coco successfully self-taught herself martial arts. Seriously if she's playable in the rumored Crash Bandicoot: Worlds bring back her martial arts moves instead of making her a female Crash clone.
I wish that Traveller's Tales get at least another six months for developing this game. That could be a definitive Crash Bandicoot next gen(at the time) experience! But we live in reality, and the game turned into the rough gem! By rough gem I mean - a good game that not hold up in nowadays, only for nostalgic purposes!
It is odd but feels so good that this was my first Crash Bandicoot game.
I've played the game since I was a kid and I have some notes of my own.
*The Mech's jump is only stiff if you remain stationary and then input movement, not so much if you jump while running.
*To me, I thought the levels represented the Elements; Earth, Water, Fire, and Air. Seemed a little odd that the fire element room has an ice level and a water level though. And I'm not sure what element the 5th room represents because I don't recall "Space" being an element.
*I found that you get a bit of extra hang time while holding down the jump button while bouncing off of a crate or enemy. USE THIS TO YOUR ADVANTAGE! You're gonna need it for Coco's levels.
*Even I had trouble using the firefly's missiles as a kid since I had no idea how to use them. But you need to hold down the shoot button and then let go when the reticle rapidly blinks to fire.
The owner of Traveller's Tales has his own youtube channel, it the channel named "GameHut" and he talks about some of the prototypes, behind the scenes and how the programmed some of the effects in games they have made including Wrath of Cortex.
Reggie Watts
I have a new copy (ps2) w no scratches I just bought and all load times are 11 seconds.
It’s probably the fact it’s on the dreaded blue disc because my old scratched copy had those dreadful load times.
I remember this being a great game. I liked it specifically because it did not mess (much) with the Crash 3 formula.
Although the tip toe "power" was stupid and the he moves way slower when hanging in this game. I can overlook these since the levels are generally a lot longer
Also Fun Fact the actor who voiced Crunch in this game is the same actor who vice Gantu in Disney's Lilo & Stitch.
Also the same VA as Drek & Tartarus.
Maverick: Wrath Of Cortex has a different song for every level.
Me: *cries in CTR*
I mean, if you _wanna be technical,_ Tiny Arena, Slide Coliseum and Turbo Track share a song.
That said, yeah I probably should've specified I meant it had never been done in the main series before this.
3:48 Okay That's Appreciated & I Really What To Find Out What It Would Be Like If Their Were No Schemes
Maybe Cortex wanted to keep Crunch a secret so, once Crash was finished, he’d turn him on Uka Uka. He definitely showed a lot of growing hate for the mask since Crash 3 (even in IAT to a degree)
While this game did have problems, it's nice to see you stick up for Traveller's Tales. And how Traveller's Tales got screwed over. Twice.
JESUS CHRIST HE UPLOADED GUYS!!!!
That beginning tho.
In that Coco spaceship level, that random instant kill only happens on the gamecube version. I've never encountered it in the PS2 one.
The Lego Men got screwed several times in the early 2000's? That is so sad.
Ironically all the lines of Nitro crates can be bypassed by slide double jump super spinning over them, which is also much faster than tiptoeing rendering it a truly useless powerup.
So you can only play is Coco in the house in mind over mutant
Personally, I would rather have this game get remade, but better, than have the games after get remade.
I personally would like to see the series go towards new games now that the original trilogy and CTR have gotten the remake treatment.
Late, but this video came out on my 19th birthday! That was such cool timing!
when the player beats her, Coco is unlocked for player two in Crash mind over mutant
@@CerealKiller really? huh, maybe it's just the 360 version then?
One the first games I got for my Ps2.
Never forget trauma you caused daddy caddy
As much as I enjoyed the game about as a kid, I would rather have a new original title than a remaster of this game.
But please use characters like Crunch Bandicoot and Nina Cortex
I didn't even knew that this game existed until Johnny made a review about.
I loved Twinsanity tho, special my because I only played it when I used to visit my niece and, being kind of short.
After also getting insight how games are made I feel as through Wrath of Cortex gets more hate then needed, not that It's good, but It's good for what it is. Loved your review of the game, I felt the same in your explanation! Subscribing for more reviews and content!
Huh, I guess I should be thankful that my start with crash is the N. Sane trilogy
At least Twinsanity is better...