At the risk of using the game journalist's fallback comparison, I just want to say that Crash Bandicoot is really, really hard. This is a do-or-die 3D platformer if I've ever played one. Each individual jump expects commitment. It wants you to be ready to go to college, get married, and raise a family every time you hit that X button. Crash Bandicoot can sense hesitation, and will not hesitate to off himself if he thinks you're not giving it your all. Couple this with fairly repetitive level designs and concepts, and I think this game is just tailor-made to hate you.

I'd accept Crash Bandicoot as a hard game if not for the stupid save system. First you find three severed heads hidden in boxes throughout a stage, then you skim past a bonus stage (that you can fail), and THEN the game blesses you with the opportunity to save your game. Worse yet, the game doesn't remember how many lives you had when you reset it. Slapping a fistful of lives at the beginning of each level doesn't really excuse this fact. Crash is a game where you can lose lives just as fast as you can earn them. Actually, you're probably gonna lose 'em faster if you're like me, someone unfamiliar with Crash's game.

Honestly, I only played this game as a rite of passage for the PS1 kick that I'm currently on. Gotta respect your elders, and boy oh boy, that bandicoot sure has aged. Crushed my ballsicoots.

Sabes tu la puta cantidad de gente que hay que le flipa este juego? Porque a mi tambien

Literalmente eres el corredor que tiene que evitar crashearse contra objetos mientras coje insanas cantidades de manzanas

Una segunda entrega estaria fachera

J'aurais pensé avoir plus de mal à finir ce jeu et devoir prendre plus de temps à le faire. Un peu dommage mais pour l'époque ça se tient plutôt bien. C'est bien sûr très archaïque et l'émulation aide à mieux apprécier notamment avec les save states (je pense cela dit que je n'aurais pas eu de Game over malgré tout, le jeu est très généreux en vies et je m'en servais surtout pour gagner du temps), mais les mécaniques simplissimes aident à prendre du plaisir à ce jeu de plateforme pratiquement 2D mais un peu 3D quand même très joli et bien animé pour la PS1, avec une bonne musique, un Level Design réussi et presque pas sadique (n'est-ce pas Crash 4) et des Boss dans l'ensemble fun (va te faire foutre Potoroo de con).
Je vais d'abord faire les autres jeux mais je pense continuer celui-ci pour attraper quelques gemmes, je n'ai pas trop compris le système dans ce jeu avec des petites gemmes qui apparaissent dans le vide et qui mènent à...euh rien ?
Je me renseignerai là-dessus, ça m'intéresse.

Vu sa durée de vie en ligne droite et son importance historique c'est assez intéressant d'au moins jouer une fois à ce jeu, comprendre d'où vient cette série et je recommande de le faire, que ce soit sur l'original ou le remake de N Sane Trilogy. Bon jeu.

So at the risk of me not coming off as pretentious, I think this game is actually pretty decent, not amazing, but decent. Crashes stiff control makes for some tense platforming but my biggest issue is that this games 100% completion is so fucking backwards. You basically have to go through every level and break every box without dying a single time and that's the kind of stress I don't need in my life, I think the N sane trilogy version of this game is way more manageable given that they made it more fair to accomplish. While I didn't entirely hate my time playing this game, it was definitely something I know I probably won't go back to. An interesting first entry in the series, but that's how it goes with these multi-media franchises.