Thread 713776336

What's the /v/ take on this era of Crash Bandicoot games?

>>713776336 (OP)
Twinsanity?
ABDOLUTE KINO
The rest? Dogshit

>>713776336 (OP)
Just as shit as the first era, though not as overrated

>>713776490
Twinsanity is a rare good unfinished game

1. Wrath of Cortex is horribly mediocre. Ugly graphics, weird music, horrid loading times. Some levels are ok some are the same vehicle/minigame shit from Warped but worse.
2. Best PS2 Crash game for aesthetic, voice-acting and cutscenes alone but the driving is much more inferior to CTR. The tracks are also not as memorable but again its comparing them to CTR.
3. Mediocre, unfinished but has charm in the humor, voice cast and music. Problems range from being too short to levels being too easy and devoid of real collectibles.
4. You ever play Simpsons: Hit and Run? Same game but Crash and with a broken car meshing mechanic. This is the start of the whole gibbering idiot Crash and neurotic humor that would define the next 2 games.
5. Crappy beat-em-up made by the same company who did Simpsons and CTTR. Destroyed the Crash aesthetic beyond repair and nothing much can salvage.
6. MOM is slightly better for the imaginative cutscenes, bringing back N. Brio and the larger levels and being able to keep the Titans you want. But its still suffering from the same issues as COTT.

Overall? I could've done without much of these games existing. Sure theres a handful of good elements, potentially interesting ideas but it pretty much tarnished the brand beyond repair in the long run.

>>713776490
This 100%. Too bad TwinSanity was unfinished.

>>713776820
I'm glad you're not as harsh on Mutant as others. I took a chance on it when it came out and it was a decent game I think.

First three are fine. The Atlasphere levels are genuinely so good I would play a whole game of them in that style.
Last three are abominations dated to 2007 for their shitty internet humour from that time

Titans was obscenely hard for no good reason on Hard. Yeah I know Hard but shit kills you in two hits basically forcing you to farm lives. That Uka Uka boss is one of the shittiest bosses in any game.

man crash looks like shit in that box art. they should have put coco on the cover cause she is smoking in that game.

>>713777301
Oh no believe me I hate Mutants but its not too long and should've been what COTT was, which is alot more linear and boring. And again the cutscenes are funny and so is Maurice Lamarches N. Brio going back and forth with Cortex. The problem was trying to turn Crash into something it wasn't then doubling down on killing or reinventing his entire look again.

>>713777301
underrated..one of the best soundtracks too
>https://youtu.be/oMVZPPOFAHg?si=JfsZaZI66CjLOG24
>https://youtu.be/tYb0Sge6RHc?si=tdagdVNGq2_e8PRH

>>713776336 (OP)
the three on the bottom were amazing.

>>713776820
the theme park racing game had a very bad racing portion but a very fun theme park portion.
they honestly should have just made it a game about collecting all the dying cutscenes.
the two mutant games were great fun coop. also cool mutants to fight as is pretty cool. sometimes game are fine to just be cool. the gameplay doesnt always have to be ground breaking.

>>713776336 (OP)
All are better than Crash 4.

did crash skip out on the 7th gen?

>>713776820
>weird music
Nah, I'll accept everything you said except this. WoC's music is fucking great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl_LnYPOJGg

>>713776336 (OP)
great potential but the excecution came just under what they needed to pull of the greatness

>>713776336 (OP)
Twinsanity was ok

>Aggressively unfinished, but ok first swing by a new (as in they haven't worked on the series before, we saw an actual NEW development team with Enter the Dragonfly and that was a fucking trainwreck) dev team making a new Crash Bandicoot game.
>Pretty alright Kart Racer autists whine that you can't rip the game a new asshole and make it unplayable as an actual Kart Racer but the game itself is fine, good tracks, great OST (I actually had that shit on CD and would listen to it all the time) Questionable decision to make "Fake" Velo unplayable.
>Aggressively unfinished game in the near same vein as Naughty Dog themselves went with Jak and Daxter, would probably be extremely good if it was actually finished but still isn't terrible
>I didn't play this one, heard it's too different from CTR/CNK but has a neat overworld
>Titans and Mutant both pooled in:
>Too different for me to like them as "Crash Games", but they're also not straight up horrible, and they can be kind of funny.
Why exactly are we doing this again?

>>713776336 (OP)
>The Wrath of Cortex and CNK are just mediocre versions of Warped and CTR, respectively.
>Twinsanity is a great game for what it is, and is in fact arguably the best post-Naughty Dog game.
>CTTR is decent, and it introduced Pasadena, but the humor is hit or miss and a lot of the game doesn’t really involve racing at all (and even when it does, it’s completely trivialised by the clash mechanic, so you can just let the AI drive you most of the way and unclash to win right before the finish line).
>Titans sucks ass. Just a mediocre beat-em-up.
>MOM is slightly better than Titans, mostly on account of N. Brio and having the best Coco design.

>>713784667
>The Wrath of Cortex and CNK are just mediocre versions of Warped and CTR, respectively.
I genuinely don't get how people have that impression of Wrath, beyond maybe like, they looked at it and saw it had a single hub area with all the warps.
It'd be like calling Crash 3 a mediocre version of Crash 2.

>>713784746
3 added and changed a lot of stuff compared to 2, whereas Wrath just did everything 3 and 2 had done but worse. Even most of the new vehicles they added are either boring to play as or are worse versions of what Warped had.

>>713776490
i loved the mutant games and idgaf what anyone says

>>713784746
It's more that while Crash 3 built upon 2 with the time trials and upgraded abilities, Wrath didn't add as much when you take away the vehicle sections, it was pretty much swapping the body slam power for sneaking on Nitros and making Coco playable but making her platforming a watered down version of Crash

>>713776336 (OP)
why did they make crash look like... this

>>713785408
old artist asked for too much money.
low budget. cant hire great artist.
they just took the previous game and made it more fun.

>>713776336 (OP)
CNK is the only fairly good game there