The difficulty spikes in this are pretty wild. The game is, for the most part, accessible and a lot of fun, though a bit stiff due to being designed for digital directional input. The inability to save whenever you'd like is archaic and artificially inflates the difficulty level by making you repeat multiple levels if you get a game over right before a level that lets you save.

While Crash is still zany 90s fun, I can't recommend the first game over its sequels to anyone unless you're determined to play every Crash game.