Barring a few control inconsistencies with other games that may or may not have been intentional (such as only being able to spin through 1 column of boxes at a time, not being able to slide jump off ledges, some collision oddities as the result of everything being pre-rendered at a weird angle), this game is pretty good. I think by putting Crash solely in 2D, you miss a lot of what makes his games special as a 3D platformer, but it's not that big of a deal either. It's the first true handheld Crash game, and it's good enough for what it is.

The pre-rendered graphics look REALLY nice (all the bosses pre-Cortex and the big yeti that runs at you in the ice levels especially stood out), the music is all lovingly recreated from older games (though the bosses curiously had their themes all swapped with each other... there's a patch you can grab from ROMhacking.net to fix this), and aside from getting plat relics, the game itself usually isn't too hard.