I loved Crash Nitro Kart and Crash Twinsanity a ton as a kid, and the N-Sane trilogy has been on my radar since launch. Not that I finally have a PS5, I feel like it was time to give this trilogy a shot.

I had a ton of fun with this first entry! Difficult at times, but very rewarding once you make it through. Any time I felt frustrated, I stopped playing for the day and tried again tomorrow, and I usually made it within a few tries at that point. Fantastic platformer with a lot of character and charm. Reminds of both Pac-Man World 1 and 2, and that’s always a great thing.

I played this game a ton as a kid, yet I never played the original on Wii U. With an intent to play said game, I wanted to revisit this prequel first. With an aged-up lens, this game definitely shows its flaws. The world is sectioned off rather than truly open, which works for a handheld device but makes for less interesting gameplay, as missions can't be designed to have you leave the city area you began in. I had plans to 100% game, but as I began trying to find each of the collectibles in the first area, I realized how much of a slog that would be for nothing more than to finally say I played this game through to the absolute end. The main missions might be worth playing if you're a diehard LEGO game fan, but otherwise, the console version will likely suffice.

I replayed half of the Great Plateau on Wii U, then reopened my 2017 era Switch save file to beat Ganon again ahead of Tears of the Kingdom.

Those 20 minutes on the Great Plateau were honestly some of the best action-based gameplay I’ve played in a long time. No joke. People dick ride this game (including me) and rightfully so, cause it’s so damn good and you know why. I’ve been resurfacing all my memories of my own playthrough of this game just by watching YouTube videos and such of this game, and I remember that playthrough so fondly. Truly a once-in-a-lifetime type of video game, except not really cause Aonuma has likely cooked yet again come Friday. So damn excited.