Was Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex a Good Game?
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- Опубліковано 7 жов 2024
- Recently I replayed and reviewed Crash of the Titans and Crash Tag Team Racing, today it's time for Wrath of Cortex! Do I think it's a good game? Watch and find out... Loving this series so far, looking forward to doing the other Crash games. :)
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Why does everyone keep complaining about the checkpoint at the end of the Tsunami level?! It's for the gem challenge!
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What does the gem challenge have to do with the checkpoint box near the end? Genuinely asking, I'm an idiot lol
@@Punttipate62 Incase you die while trying to get the gem. This game usually places checkpoints near a gem challenge.
@@Trainfan1055JanathanOh, I thought the gem challenge platform automatically acts as a checkpoint, my bad
@@Punttipate62 only in new game
The fact that Traveller’s Tales made this game in less than a year is very impressive and honestly, it makes me love it even more. It’s one of the first games I’ve ever played.
Imagine if they had more time.
Me to
Naughty dog made all four crash games in a year haven't they..?
@@vario6492 nah they had a full year for each crash game
@@vario6492 Pretty sure Crash 1 took closer to like 2 years. Also having some familliarity with series probably helped some.
*”Wrath of Cortex didn’t do as well as we had hoped...”*
*WERRNK!*
Deandre fish?
Fish?
Neither Twinsanity did in sales
@@vinewood1554, A rather absurd but slightly underrated game... Is what I would have said if it was in full completion given there were many things they left out or polished.
I love Twinsanity but you have to admit that it could have indeed been much better.
This game has a special place in my heart, I don't care what people say :p
Maximillion Pegasus your nostalgia doesn’t make it good
@@BagzAndPresident They didn't say it made it good, they just said it was special.
I LOVE THIS GAME
I remember when it came out and it was my 6 birth day and I still replay it sometimes
This game is my favourite crash game.
Many people say that this was a bad game, but I really love this game, I have many good memories of it and for me it has a unique and special style
I have great memories with it too, but it IS a bad game lol.
The game is actually good, it's just people riding the hate bandwagon on the internet that hates the game for whatever bias reasons they have with it. Imo the game's not real great but still decent.
It Is BaD bEcAuSe It'S nOt By NaUgHtY dOg
Slater Records TV nah it’s pretty good for a crash game especially right after naughty dog almost. Not as good as the original of course but they added a lot of new that worked really well. A fun interesting story great boss battles as well.
Slater Records TV bad art design though... :(
Wrath of cortex's music is soooo good, i remember when i played it when i was kid
Real G I loved it
The first time I played the game, I thought Arctic Antic was goofy and dumb and spent the next few years thinking about how stupid it was. When I eventually played the game again after nearly a decade, I was preparing myself for that garbage but was shocked at how incredible the track was. I couldn't believe it, and I put it on my iPod immediately. I still come back to it every now and then.
The whole reason this game went from a "why not" pick up to "I will get it when I get a PS2"
It was good but I legit can't get how they couldn't even loop the ost properly... It's so damn annoying with that awkward silence every time the music restarts
Crunch is a good character conceptually because plot wise he's what Cortex was originally trying to create using Crash but failed.
wrath of cortex is a pretty fun game. I would say it was descent atleast but good god the water levels are terrible thou but the soundtrack was outstanding
The water levels looked more beautiful and were more challenging than the ones in Warped. In my opinion at least.
Can confirm; somehow feels like I’m gliding in a mixture of molasses and cooking oil
Water levels and bamboozled levels were torture as a kid
Perhaps they were, but I couldn't tell. I was just mesmerized by those reefs and weird fish. And of course the music.
@@watchinglearner When you were 8?
I liked having Coco as a playable character and the addition of some new vehicles. Aside from the horrible loading times, I liked this game a lot.
Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Crunch, Lord of all Elementals
I got that reference
@@SuperJavi2015 *insert Captain America here*
Honestly, the game should have been called "Crash Bandicoot: Crunch Time"
Wrath of Cortex is a weird name when the entire game revolves around Crunch and the Elementals. Cortex may have planned to use Crunch but he's barely in the game.
Honestly, this was my favorite Crash game.
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This is easily my favourite crash game. I have no idea why everyone's hating on it.
so that's how they ended up in the iceberg in the beginning of twinsanity...
Yes. Every installment of the _Crash Bandicoot_ franchise from _Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back_ to _Crash Bandicoot: Twinsanity_ basically begins where the previous installment left off.
@ryan jones Magic. Uka Uka magic. Also crystals. And gems. And ankhs.
dildonius Even in Mind over Mutant Nina talks about how she was kicked out of Private evil school into Public evil school
Crash 1 cortex falls off crash 2 space ship falls to earth freeing uka uka crash 3 ??? Twoc they go on ice berg
@ryan jones They don't gotta. Most people have an active enough imagination that they were able to just assume thats what happened between the true end of _Warped_ and the beginning of _The Wrath of Cortex_ and carried on just fine. Not everyone needs everything spelled out for them and physically shown in great detail for them to be able to understand/realize things like that in situations like these. Most folks are creative and imaginative enough to be capable of connecting the dots, my dude. Expand your horizons a bit. Just because something isn't EXPLICITLY SHOWN in a game/game franchise/any franchise, doesn't mean that it never happened.
My brother and I absolutely loved this game. The endless weekend days and nights we had playing it are some of my best childhood memories ❤
Just to let everybody know: The Water Elemental mask was Voiced by the Gunny Himself R.Lee Emery.
I did a double take on that lmao, kinda badass to find someone like him in one of my childhood games.
Fire mask was voiced by Mark Hamill
The wind mask was voiced by crash's current voice actor
@@MattMillwardUK It's actually electricity. Though I would also call it a weather mask.
Earth mask was voiced by Biff Tanen
This was my first Crash game, so it has a special place for me, I got it at the same time as my ps2 (my first console) for Christmas.
As my first it obviously didn't strike me as being repetitive, but when I played the first 3 later, particularly Warped, I did see the similarity straight away
I remember playing this game on my Xbox and I loved it so much I didn't even know alot of people didn't like it
Not a lot of people in the whole world hate it, just the crash community on the internet. Pretty sure you know how bandwagons and sheeps work on the internet. The game is legit good traditional Crash gameplay.
@@MSCLeap75 spitting truth, they are just like the weaboo fanbase who are obsessed with subtitles like mad dogs and will defend it till death
cmsunite The game at its core is good, but it just focused so much on trying to be different from the Naughty Dog games by cramming it tons of vehicle and Coco levels that it makes the quality of the levels incredibly inconsistent. So the quality of the game is like all across the spectrum, hence why it’s so divisive.
Xbox and GC versions had the same loading time as the PSOne... While PS2 was from 30 secs to one freaking minute!
This game deserves more like
*"It's Nothing Like The Original Trilogy."*
Sometimes change is good, but it is hard to change what was already good! 😅
yeah, once a game is made, (for example ctr which was godlike) its hard to improve on what's good. honestly, cnk got really close to being like ctr, but really messed up the controls
@Ibrahim Diab The only thing that they would “improve” would be the graphics, and even though they’re good, doesn’t mean the original doesn’t have value! 😃👍
The problem is, it makes you THINK that it’s a crash game like the original trilogy. But makes a 180 with all the vehicle levels.
@@grandmajenkins But it is technically a Crash game, but with added stuff to it. There’s nothing wrong with that! 🤷♀️
@@XxEmulatingKing Recently replayed Nitro Kart, forgot how awful the handling on those vehicles were. Makes me wonder how I was able to beat it when I was younger...
that second crunch boss battle was the absolute bane of my existence as a child
The one thing I remember is the boss fights. Each one was unique in its own way. The entire idea of Crunch using the masks was such a cool idea. The last boss was eh, but the others have stuck with me.
I'd kind of like to see this game's story refined in a new game as a soft reset for the post-PS1 crash canon.
just maybe add some things, like new cutscenes & interactions, and maybe show more of what the elementals are capable of, and I'd be happy.
Yeaaah R.Lee Ermey's dead
@@mercenarygundam1487 They could just redo the personalities and dialogue for the elementals, I always thought that the celebrity voices for the masks didn't fit as well as i thought. Just my opinion is all, no need to fight...
@@bobafett4265 Yeah I know.
Dr. Awe That would be cool. A totally new game but adapt some of the story for cannon purposes.
It could easily continue the N' Sane Trilogy
How the hell is this game not enjoyable? It's exactly in line with every other Crash game, it was just as creative and familiar as Crash 2 and 3. There is no reason to complain.
AustinPowers0069 The game at its core is good, but it just focused so much on trying to be different from the Naughty Dog games by cramming it tons of vehicle and Coco levels that it makes the quality of the levels incredibly inconsistent. So the quality of the game is like all across the spectrum, hence why it’s so divisive.
I remember playing this as a child and not being able to beat the first boss fight
Bonnie Boi I feel that! 😂. I couldn’t defeat the second Crunch boss fight when I was younger.
Same
I beat them and 100% as a kid but that’s because I was obsessed with the game. The bosses were hard. Definitely the water boss!
Jesse Collins Same that water boss took me hours 😂
I couldn't beat level 9 as a kid.
i am not really sure that every game was like this but in my experience the game wasnt on dvd. It was on cd (ps2 blue disc). This means that there was less space for the developers to work with. A couple other blue disc games that i got had similar or worse quality in graphics. This explains also the slow load times, and the much faster (and louder) disc spin of the system.
The only bad thing i can say about this game is the second boss. As a kid, it was punishingly hard for me, at some point i got so pissed i gave up and stopped playing the game. After quite some time (5 years at least) i got around to it again and actually beat the damn boss. I really enjoyed the rest of the game and it never again felt unfair or harder than it should be. Its cute, its fun and there is a lot to do.
in my opinion: crash 3 > wrath of cortex > crash 2
tbh this was one of my favorites growing up. I still get nostalgia rewatching these cutscenes and I used to love playing it. I think it got too much hate even though it wasn’t that bad
It only gets a lot of hate on the internet. It's generally received decently, the crash community overexaggerate how bad it is.
It's definitely better than Crash of the Titans and Mind over Mutant.
@@MSCLeap75 wym "only on the internet"? Where else would it be reviewed?
@@MSCLeap75 I agree with that 100% as someone who still prefers 2 and 3, Id say its not nearly as bad as people say.
@@MSCLeap75 I thought it was pretty disappointing as a kid. Some of my first games were the original trilogy and CTR so this was a clear drop in standards and ended up being the last Crash game I got.
“I lost most of my lives attempting this Boss battle” sounds eerily close to my playthrough as a kid, where I have a strange memory of that boss taking exactly 117 lives to beat
I recall the official strategy guide for the game saying that "taking up underwater basket weaving would be an easier hobby than fighting this boss"
I know this game was just okay, but my nostalgia bumps this game to pretty good.
Also those graphics are pretty good for early PS2. And the music rocks. Though the bosses always took forever to beat as a kid.
The graphics os terrible for ps2 WTF!!
JACK SPARROW no they were good for their time
@@iziadube4904 haha no,the ps1 games have better graphics than this
@@JACKSPARROW-fd6im what ps1 have u played tho? I wanna know
@@eyetipe8362 its no realistic i know,but the graphics of the 3rd game is awesome,the cortex in the 3rd game is badass look,in this shitty game cortex look like Rosie odonnel
I think it's games like this that really deserve a remake. The creators didn't get to refine everything and make it the way they truly envisioned. This and spyro enter the dragon fly both deserve remakes because the franchise doesn't deserve to be treated poorly ya know? That being said, I think this game is a 5/10. And for a series that at the time had regularly delivered 8.5/10 or higher, it got more hate than it deserved. I don't like it as much as crash tag team racing but I don't dislike it as much as crash of the titans. It's fine. Nothing more nothing less in my opinion.
Also, glad I found your channel!!
I love this series, it's like a trip down memory lane. So much stuff I missed as a kid was explained nicely here!
Bill glad you enjoy it 😁
As a child the only two crash games I had ever played were this and crash twinsanity on the Xbox. I remember putting in the cheat code wombat to unlock all levels because we were too bad to beat them and playing for hours on end with my sister. Those games and the music for them are very nostalgic to me and I love seeing someone else talk about them. I know it’s quite late but thanks for these videos :)
Bro I just saw this and we literally lived the same life. They were my only two crash games aswell
This was my first game and for that, it’s my favourite Crash now and forever.
Me too! ^_^
This is actually great crash game i like it too. I was 6 when first game came out and i can still remember that birthday when i got my ps1 and crash bandicoot. Loved it instantly.
I think CTR & Crash 2 are my favourites!
@@SoftComet its bad.
@@Mongoliantiger it's not bad
@@juhaylonen4198 Yeah it's not bad if you played it as a kid. I played it as a kid and I beat it 100%. Then I sold it and never looked back.
The sphere levels were honestly so much fun. Best alternative levels in this game. I hope they bring it back in a new game.
The game needed more of those levels
I was very much into this game as a kid. Then again, it's possible my own artistic inclinations distracted me from the mere adequacy of the level design. I found the environmental designs were gorgeous, and I'm sure most would agree the music in this game is pretty amazing.
I thought that it was really cool when I played it... i thought it was really cool
Crunch is the best part of this game hands down. He and the elemental water masks carry this game. Such a great character.
Elemental masks* although the water one is great I guess 😂
Hey look! The orange guy wants to fly!
6:22 Get that Dragon in CTR Nitro Fueled as a playable character.
He's already in the Game, in "Dragon Mines."
We'll get that before we get a legendary Geary skin
SilentKiller55 He’s already in the fame dude. He’s on dragon mines.
I don't remember thinking any Crash game is bad, I love them all ngl
11:22 you actually would need that checkpoint for that blue gem path over there.
TheSmashWaffle yeah I should have paid more attention
Hardest gem to get in the game.
@@Azrael-Legnafacts…
Wumpa Lewis: ctr has taken the crown of long loading times
GTA V: Am I a joke to you?
GTAV on PS3: *Laughs unconfortably*
I just appreciate this series, all these great games I played on the ps2, I’m so glad people still talk about these games in 2020, crash bandicoot is an amazing videogame icon and I am just amazed at how much love he still gets
11:20
the checkpoint is for the blue gem route, it had a little trick for it
This is the next remake we need
Ebanks Studios no
Nope
Yesssss it would be lit
Defo down to play a remake of this. Some fool will say it should be Twinsanity or TTR.....cheap lesser quality games
"we" lmao
Huge crash fan here, grew up on three originals, was super excited when this came out. Yeah, it is my favorite of the series, still don’t understand the hate behind it.
"A good boss battle isn't a good boss battle without a bit of frustration" I'd personally say it depends on what exactly causes that frustration of the boss fight. In this case, the boss fight is hard because of how bad jumping feels, not enough height and air time can be taken when doing jumps in this game and it can get easily annoying when in situations like this where platforming takes a huge importance in the game.
11:20 that checkpoint is necessary for the blue gem path. It’s probably the hardest platforming section of the game
7:32 "It's kind of useless, because you never really have to use it"
Yep, that's what the word useless means
I only just learnt 18 years later (I can't believe this game is that old) that you can use that power to walk on nitro crates, I always thought it was for sneaking past enemies.
@@bigfudge2031 The game literally tells you though.
@@paladinheadquarters7776 I was a kid, I didn't like reading stuff.
Big Fudge fair enough
Doh he is explaining its useless because you don’t have to use it. But guess what it still has a purpose, just not one to completing the game
This game is incredibly nostalgic for me because the McDonald's by my house had two Playstations that kids could play this on.
It really was great.
This series should be called “Wumpa Reviews” or something
The checkpoint after the tsunami is for the blue gem section there - It's pretty spicy to say the least...
I don't understand the hate. I loved this game and thought it took on a fresh take after the original trilogy. Also thought the gameplay graphics were insane good when it came out 😅
Nice, I agree! ^_^
I thought it was pretty good but not as good as 2 or 3. But it's a bit better than the first game.
Never understood the hate for it outside of loading times
The loading times arent that bad for me maybe they fixed it on the platinum discs on ps2
@@zedig6580 The long load times was only on PS2, Gamecube and Xbox versions doesn't have this.
@@GordoFreakmanFail-Life I know I use the ps2 version and my loading times are short
I wasn't just the loading times. It's also poor game design and graphics, but just about all early ps2 games suffered from that. So, I won't be too harsh on the graphics. I have nostalgia for this game like everyone who play it as a kid. And trust me, I absolutely LOVED this game. But I was a kid
This soundtrack ❤❤❤❤
Honest to God it absolutely was even as a kid whenever I was really disappointed and how the game turned out compared to the original Crash Bandicoot games I still thought the game was amazing and now that I've grown up I've just appreciate the game just that much more sure does it have a major flaws absolutely but I genuinely feel like it's a good game
Fun Fact: The water elemental has the same voice actor as the drill sargent in full metal jacket
The part with music being too loud just killed me! Well done mate, excellent videos.
This was a game from my childhood, so I love it more than I probably should.
This is the best Crash Bandicoot video game ever made and my personal favorite video game in general! I love it so much! Everything about it I’m just so in love with it!
I'm quiet glad later games redesigned the size of Crunch. I found his debut size... umm... too clunky.
I had to agree with you. 👍🏻
@@mrjoshmtz97 thnx
"Crash, Coco, Crunch sounds like a breakfast cereal."
- Caddi
Coco crash crunch* yes hello i pay too much attention to Caddicarus...
That guy is cancerous
😋😋😋😋😋😋😋 - Caddi
I’m personally a really big fan of this game, it’s probably my 2nd favorite Crash game ...
If I was to rank my Top 5 of the main series ignoring spinoffs. It would be this.
1. Crash 3
2. Crash 1
3. Crash 2
4. Crash 5 (Twinsanity)
5. Crash 4 (WoC)
I haven't played the N Sane Trilogy yet. At least not properly.
British Media Bully Honestly that’s pretty much exactly how I’d rank those games as well.
@@ultrairrelevantnobody1862 1: Crash 2
2: Crash 3
3: Crash 4 (twoc)
4: Crash 1
5: not sure
@@Aiden-Ed
My list has changed a bit recently. Crash 1 is above Crash 2 now. The latter is more frustrating than fun.
@@ultrairrelevantnobody1862 I prefer Crash 2 for the innovations made and better moveset (and a little nostalgia tbh) the only level I found outright frustrating was Beehaving for 100% completion.
this game was the first game I tried 100% holy fuck this game could be frustrating 😂 especially the water crash boss.
I’m getting n sane trilogy for the switch yay
Alden Robinson Congrats!
Let's go!
Fish?
Just bought it, it's a great port
Josh Allen shut the up
My favorite crash game, and that music is so nostalgic for me! These videos are awesome.
“Was this a good game” ... um this was one of my favourites
Your opinion dosent matter,
Saxguy does*
@@tgnoat910 If you actually think this game is good you are either 2000 year kid or fucking idiot
Saxguy
compared to other Crash games: it’s alright!
Compared to other games: it’s really great!
If you think that this game is bad, then you probably haven’t played any of the **actual** bad games; this game is a masterpiece compared to them ( both Sonic 06/Spyro Enter The Dragon are bad games, you can’t say that this game is as bad as them; at least it’s playable)!
@@tgnoat910 im not comparing this game into other ps2 games just crash bandicoots. I have way more playtime on nintendo 64 and gamecube than ps2
Damn, I had forgotten about all this. Kept remembering so much from this game through the video. I used to play the shit out of crash. Had a hard as balls Gameboy Crash game too. Man, how do you forget stuff you loved? Thanks for the nostalgia trip!
people be like: I loved this game as a kid!
that doesn't mean shit. Kids love literally anything. This game is not that good
TheTrueHero yep
I think why I liked that game was because of the big variety of environments in each levels, there's a lot of different scenery.
The vehicles suck for the most part, but at least they almost always appear in only one level unlike in crash 3, where for me it was often irritating to see another motorbike or jet-ski level when all I wanted to do is platforming.
The second boss was pretty challenging as a kid, and beating it was pretty satisfying. The last boss is also a nice boss fight for a game aimed at a young audience.
The extra levels that you unlock for getting relics is a nice addition too. They're nothing to brag about for the most part but it was still nice to unlock those.
I like the sens of weight that crash has, in a way it's kind of satisfying to play (except when his hanging from iron grids).
The OST is really funky, it has some pretty memorable tracks.
Overall it's a rather flawed game, most of the vehicles feel out of place in a platformer just like they did in crash 3 ,some of the textures and models are pretty gross to look at, when crash hangs to the grids his speed is reduced by two, and the ps2 loading times are too long.
And despite that it's still a game that I had a lot of fun with. It's flawed, but who isn't ?
This was actually my favorite Crash game 🤷🏻♂️
To each their own I guess
Crash 2 is my favorite.
I really like this game !
But I prefer the original 3
Seems like this and Twinsanity have gotten more appreciation over the years.
I only played WoC out of the two but I remember liking it a lot.
I dont care what anyone says. I really lived this game growing up. First crash game i ever had and still one of my favourites
This was the first video game I ever played. Even if it's lacking in some ways it will always hold a very special place in my heart.
Wrath of Cortex is a good game but it didn't differ very much from Warped which is why Wrath of Cortex is flawed. The reason Wrath of Cortex gets criticized so much is cause it did very little to stand apart from the title before and the loading times are kinda long but objectively as a game its good and still worth a playthrough. I myself personally loved Wrath of Cortex but I thought the level design in Warped were much more memorable. I can see some of the gripes people have with this game but not enough to warrant any hate towards it especially if they enjoyed the titles previous to it.
Seriously man the quality and quantity of your content is so gosh darn good this is one of my new favourite channels, not just because I’m a huge fan of crash, but because now I’m a huge fan of you. Please keep this going :D
I remember when i was a kid i found this game to be something not "real".
I always felt like it was a bad copy of the previous chapters and only now i just found out it was not done by naughty dog lol
It feels not only repetitive but more of a bad copy of warped.
While twinsanity and titans were just way too different from the main style of the game.
In my heart warped will be the best we ever had from the series.
Nice vid
11:15 *_WRONG_* You need it for that gem platforming section to get another gem which was difficult af for me the first time but still fun.
15:02 You can tell where the spot to dodge is going to be if you look at Crunch the moment he releases this attack and exposes himself from some particles comming out of him.
Great review btw, you gave a lot of insight, most i never knew about and i only disagreed on one part. Woc i believe is better than warped simply because it had variety in themes, excellent soundtrack, good controling vechiles, (Only the sub is the worst in the franchise, the mech i learnt how or what to shoot so i liked and i'd still would love to see how much the geniouses over at oxford studios would've perfected the sub, just like how they perfected almost all of Twinsanity, even their ideas were more Crash than the entire Naughty Dog trilogy) not being stuck in a vechile for most levels, longer sometimes more open and context behind levels. Example: H2O is Crash using the sub to reach an underwater base, then ditches it and goes on foot in search of a crystal. That's so fucking cool.
Anyway, MY POINT! This new "more open, playable Coco and Cortex, context behind levels" game reminds me of wrath of cortex with unfortunately a teeny tiny bit of Twinsanity. Unfortunately because the game like wrath of cortex will not be as perfect or at least EXPAND on what the series evolution aka crash twinsanity accomplished, instead we're going back AGAIN to the outdated ND style. Bruh. At this point this "new" game is not as necessary as a twinsanity re-imagine is but whatever. Way.....WAY too fucking early to judge, these are just first impressions.
Lol outdated Naughty Dog style? The Naughty Dog trilogy are the only crash games that still hold up today buddy hence the remakes
XpertGreek Gamer so your saying that you did an essay for your gamer mind?
@@Aym4n- Where is this going? Why did you reply?
XpertGreek Gamer relax I was just being sarcastic
@@Aym4n- Well shit. (I love sarcasm but fuck It in text, you can hardly tell unless you use key words)
Wrath of Cortex pros and cons:
Pros:
-The music
-Some levels are very fun
-Crunch is a cool character
Cons:
-Terrible graphics
-Very bad control of most vehicle levels
-Boring bosses
-Too similar to Warped but with worse level design
*hits blunt*
bro what if they named the villain Crunch because they had to do tons of overtime to deliver the game in a year
I love Crunch and I hope he appears more in future games. He's a good boi with TONS of potential!
antdude: More like wrath of the loading screens.
edge lord the loading screens was the ONLY thing i hated about this game
Antdude is blind to see that the Xbox and GameCube ports have different loading screen times...
LeaveTheMark GameCube literally has non existent Load times.
@@Rdup222 Less than 10 seconds. :) Still pretty fast
@@LeaveTheMark_YT apparently the developer wanted to add a wumpa fruit minigame
Quote from The Cutting Room Floor "The original PS2 version of the game is notorious for its long load times, averaging around 47 seconds. According to the founder of Traveler's Tales, this was actually a leftover of a small minigame earlier in development that would occur where you could move Crash through hyperspace and collect Wumpa Fruit as he warped into the level, and any Wumpa Fruit collected would be added to your totals when the level loaded. However, due to a fraudulent patent Namco had over loading screen minigames at the time it had to be removed, and due to time constraints the long load times from when the minigame still existed couldn't be removed.
The Greatest Hits re-release shrunk them down to a much more tolerable 17 seconds."
thinking back on the game now i understand why my game took so long to load. later i bought the greatest hits version and now playing both versions i notice the difference.
I don’t know what it is, but the way you review games really takes me back. Nice job!
People were just bitching it wasn’t the same as the other crash games like people will get bored of crash jumping and hitting boxes all the time this is a all around game with driving levels mech levels this game was just perfect the way it is
Just found your channel randomly on UA-cam and gotta say: just love it! I love Crash and now playing Crash 4 it's simply awesome to revive all this ancient games. Played em' all too!!
The checkpoint in Tsunami is for the bonus gem route.
I've never had any issues with WoC's loading times, even when I was little. So I never understood why people complained about them.
Don't know, always baffles me why people are so harsh on this game, almost seems like they're constantly held at gun point to keep shitting on it.
@@MSCLeap75 Made a mistake, that comment was meant to refer to its loading times. But regardless, I didn't have any real issues with the main game either. Aside from one flying level in the second warp room. Other than that though, I enjoyed it.
I remember playing this as a kid and only beating the entire game once. My PS2 didn't have a memory card, so I had to beat it without turning it off within 3 days because I had to go back to my mom's house.
Those were the days
Wrath of cortex just does so many different and interesting things introduces alot of characters and settings delivered in various game play segments that are so different from one another and the whole mood of the game is just an interesting insight to how PS2 platofmers were handled at the time
This game could’ve been one of the best crash games if it wasn’t for all the damn vehicle levels.
Honestly that's how I feel about crash 3.
Plasma Octopus Crash 3’s vehicle levels are at least spread out between the platforming levels, whereas WoC just throws vehicle levels up the wazoo.
I like this game. This is the Crash game that I grew up with and its really cool seeing someone talk about it! Thanks for the great video.
The loading screens for this game gave me headaches X(
God help you if you were stuck with the ps2 version where the loading screen will just be stuck
@@crimsondynamo615 Yeah...About that.
@@crimsondynamo615 What's weird is that they fixed that on the Greatest Hits version. So what was the excuse for the original version having slow load times?
That was THE reason I stopped playing and at 10 years old they felt never ending and sometimes they were!!
Same
My eyes hurt a lot with the loading screen
Thank you for explaining the full cutscenes instead of showing the scenes with commentary, really good 👍
Review:
Soundtrack 8/10
Graphics, designs, animations 2/10
Story 7/10
Gameplay 6/10
Loading times 0/10
That's about right. It's good.
I think that the graphics while the caracter models is awful, the levels are looking pretty good for a 2002 game. Remember that Crash bandicoot trilogy was ahead of its time, in fact, Crash 2, 3 and CTR can even be PS2 games with that graphics.
Not sure if anybody else mentioned this but there's quite a simple reason why you remember the loading screens being long. It's because there are two revisions of the game. Long story short - the devs wanted to add a minigame where crash collected wumpa fruit during the loading screens but they were too short so they artificially made them longer. The publisher didn't want to risk infringing on the Namco patent of games during loading screens so the developers had to remove it but didn't have time to fix the length of the loading screens before launch. They did however have time to fix them for the patched version of the game that shipped out later.
People Hate Wrath Of Cortex For The Exact Opposite Reason For Crash Of The Titans (Wrath Of Cortex is Too Similar To The Original Trilogy)
I just assumed people didn't like it for those awful load times (on ps2 anyway)
@@plasmaoctopus1728 that and also the physics of the game were weird af
Why Do You Type Like This
@@crystaltrees4013 some people just like the shift key I guess
No one will probably see this, but in the Coco level with the checkpoint at the end, it's there for the bonus gem level you can do right then. As a test, I did that level without hitting the checkpoint and if you die... it's all the way back to redo the tsunami. So it's definitely NOT a useless checkpoint!!
I feel like crash 4 is kinda a remake of this one because 4 has different masks too.
Dude ı loved this serie send more pls
I played most of this games years ago by the way and ı love seeing more People Who likes crash
I shall help. 😄
I'd call this game "Mom: But we have Crash 3 at home"
Is it a good game? Yeah, it is. Is it a good Crash game? Yeah, I think this is like the average. It's pretty much a Crash Bandicoot 3 part 2 for me. It sure isn't as good as the original trilogy, but it can still stand by its own. Also, based on how future games worked, this one is nice if you ever want to play the classic level-based platform formula from the original trilogy but have beaten it. I'd say this is a game for those who still want some classic Crash with not much focus on story or cutscenes and more platform action. And for someone who didn't have Playstation back in the early 2000s, this game was a godsent.
Also, that checkpoint on the Coco level is for the death path. If you don't die on the normal level run, you can try infinite times the death path, which is pretty hard on that level because you need precise jumping and Coco doesn't have Crash's powers for that.
I always thought this game wasn't as bad as people say. It felt like Crash 4 to me. It still looked and felt more similar to the original trilogy than the Crash games that came after.
"The Crash Series Retrospective". There's a name for this series.