Was basically my Crash shoe-filler while I had my Nintendo 64.

It adds some extra mechanics to the formula, nothing crazy. Probably one of the best Disney licensed games of that era strange enough. The weird thing is that it did use it's linear 3D map design as an advantage, adding a lot of verticality to it compare to Crash Bandicoot's mostly flat designed levels.

Not the best platformer but, far from being the worse.

There are countless adaptations of this game.