Why is this so disliked? It's just like the PS1 trilogy, except more vehicle-focused, not as difficult, and with a different style of graphics/music

Maybe the fanbase was getting too old for it. It went from for kids with risqué jokes to literally baby shit

Like did you ever know the sound in the original crash, the naughty dog logo, is literally the sound of a dog fucking and cumming? Like from that… to using mechs because blood is a big no

It was PS2 exclusive for a short while

It looks magnitudes worse than the originals, the vehicles control worse, the levels aren't as memorable visually or thematically and worse the horrid loading times.

Xbox version is the best one. It doesn't have the loading times from PS2 version, and it isn't a visually downgraded port full of framerate drops like the GameCube version

What a quality soundtrack
https://youtu.be/XuNpXZxCzvc?si=s8n7-uTqzY7U4jwm
https://youtu.be/zjYiRdINScI?si=P5corX3AkhNCurBB
https://youtu.be/oS3P7w-aaB4?si=Q1ZcHn0f6CKeNrcS

The Coco levels are actual asscancer.
>dude, who doesn't want to play as a character that's SLOWER and LESS CAPABLE and than the protag!

There's a LITERAL three minute load time.
It was unplayable, and I mean that literally.

Traveller's Tales already had experience with 3D platformers before making Wrath of Cortex

>>713946265 (OP)
As a Nintendo kid, This was the only Crash game I played growing up and going back to the original trilogy after this was lame. The game is good.

Mario party but shit

>>713946265 (OP)
I didn't mind it, I thought it was fun

>>713946265 (OP)
There's way too many gimmick levels in this one plus, idk what it is but something feels off about the gameplay like as if Crash is more slippery than it was on the PS1/N-Sane Trilogy. I think the next game Crash Twinsanity was a much better game than this.

>>713948101
still the greatest of all time

I like the voice acting
https://youtu.be/QCZNTNurMQc?si=hjQ_CtPYaV0RwBz9

>>713946265 (OP)
i've always liked it and i dont care what anyone else's say... also twinsanity

>>713946265 (OP)
For it me it was how there were like 3 death animations like what the fuck?
Afterwards the game was just not worth the massive amounts of non platforming sections

>>713948285
>going back to the original trilogy after this was lame
This is retarded, irrational thinking.

>>713947482
Yeah, but Crash looks like he's covered in cheeto dust.

>>713946265 (OP)
The only thing I remember about is the load screen because that's what you look at for more than half of the time playing it

>>713946265 (OP)
unfinished game rushed for christmas

https://youtu.be/SrTjLNX6LoU?si=eMFFqOMjHkcSF6-D

>>713946521
thats what they mean by naughty dog?

Because it is a much worse version of the PS1 trilogy in every way, the collectibles are now just annoying chores instead of fun, the game is easy outside of what feels like cheap deaths because of hitboxes and shitty physics/controls, the level design is bad, everything about the game is trash, a typical badly designed Traveller's tales platformer (though Mickey Mania and Toy Story 2 was fun) but with their bad game design shoehorned into a beloved series.

The next game clearly had more development time

It's fucking SLOW.
Never mind the loading times, the gameplay is so slow compared to the previous titles and it's clear they had to rush the game to release. It felt amateur after seeing all the great work ND put into their games with the animation, optimization and presentation.

>>713946521
This never happened, the only one with dog sounds is just a generic dog barking twice.

>>713949603
twoc was sort of finished. twinsanity cut two entire dimensions. not to mention the cover art looks like they had pasted ripped art straight out of a comic book panel

>>713949603
They had more dev time yet less of a game. They were hugely incompetent. Thats pretty much something that defines the entirety of PS2 era Crash.

>>713946265 (OP)
It's like Crash 3 but uglier and worse in every way

The next Traveller's Tales game after Wrath of Cortex. It's much, much worse. I couldn't even finish it.

>>713950263
This game has one of the most revolting art styles ever, it looks like what I would imagine you might hallucinate on some kind of deliriant drug that makes you see ugly, nightmarish shit, like datura or something.

>>713949093
I miss reading game mags and being excited about cool upcoming games.

>>713950380
Indeed. Really ugly game
https://youtu.be/l0E8aEqrCWA?si=D4lWUl7gVofa04g8

I kinda like this boss fight
https://youtu.be/joK2wEwBTZA?si=uXx_V3E5jzUGAsSQ

>>713948680
>same va as crunch
https://youtu.be/2pwS7oTU-sE

Is that the one with the 10 minute load screens? I rented it from blockbuster but the load times were so tedious I never followed up with it

>>713951035
KMR is in everything.

>>713946265 (OP)
It's just a worse Warped.
The only salvageable things about it are the ball madness levels and the music.

>>713946265 (OP)
I don't understand either? It seems fun.

>>713946265 (OP)
I don't get it either.
I think people are overly critical on it because their expectations where wanting something to top Warped, rather than just be a slightly worse clone of it. Which really isn't that much of a bad thing since Warped is a really great Crash game and for the most part the vehicle levels are as good as Warped. The only big three exceptions I would say are the push cart, jeep sections, and swimming/sub levels but the latter is more of an issue with asshole level design rather than the controls themselves. Sea Shell Shenanigans and the first half of H2 OH NO are just very poorly designed levels.

As for the long loading times, that really isn't an issue if you are playing the updated Greatest Hits version or any non PS2 version since those loading times are basically a non-issue and is what you should do if you want to play WoC in the modern day.

>>713955754
>I think people are overly critical on it because their expectations where wanting something to top Warped
Its not even a clone of Warped. It feels like a shallow parody of it. Its not fun to play, its not fast, the music isn't memorable. People just wanted a good game and they were denied that.

>>713949603
Its actually close to about the same dev time, if anything the version of WoC that got released was probably slightly shorter in development time. The main difference as two why WoC is a finished game and Twinsanity isn't mainly comes down to Twinsanity having a very inexperienced dev team and basically no focus with what they wanted to do.

>>713946265 (OP)
I liked it when it came out & a hell of a lot more than the games that came after it.

>>713949093
Miss this design so bad. Now he looks like a fur fag designed him. Same with new DK

>>713955860
Did you even play the fucking game dude?
It is basically a carbon copy of Warped with what the game does. You have a mixture of platforming levels and a few vehicle levels collecting crystals for level completion, gems for secret routes and all boxes, and ankhs for time trials, in a level selection of 5 levels per area with a boss fight before the next area that rewards you with a power up. That is literally the gameplay formula for both WoC and Warped. It is not a parody if it follows the same formula unless you don't know what that word means.

Also the music for WoC is fucking amazing. Each level has it's own song. It was the only thing in WoC that went above and beyond for this game and it really leaves a mark.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Tzj75Gq4I8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1Jqv5IjcfE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSdRC0uTG7s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDvkjoV3yPg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WuAvX5y0EQ
This music is absolutely awesome, honestly has some of the best music in the series, only problem is when you have a good song on a bad level that makes you associate that song with that shitty level.

>>713955860
I don't get how someone could be confused as to why people hate this game after having played Warped, do they even pay attention to the games they are playing? Do they just want to fuck the furry creature on their screens so they don't care about how shitty the game design is?

>>713956302
These are super generic soundtracks to a platform game made for little kids, anyone who has ever heard good music would see this for the shit that it is, minus any nostalgia.

>>713956302
>we have generic 3D character platforming game at home ahh music

>>713946265 (OP)
slower movement than crash 2 and 3 and really, really long loading screens
>crash 1 is walking
>crash 2 is running
>crash 3 is flying
>wrath of cortex is back to walking

>>713956302
Anon, I can tell you started with WoC and none of the Naughty Dog games. WoC WISHES it was a carbon copy of Warped. It is literally a parody, borderline bootleg of Warped and plays like one too.

>>713956302
We've both established WOC does the exact same thing as Warped. What makes it parody is that it does it significantly worse in a way that isn't even fun, complimentary or interesting. You got 4 fucking plane levels, 3 ball rolling levels, a level where you ride a shitty jeep in a race instead of a motorcycle, underwater levels but now theres a sluggish submarine. All the faults Warped had were copied and then tripled down on by TT. The internet existed back then, so they had no logical reason to do this knowing the complaints people had. Thats not even getting into how Crash actually controls and how they massacred the aesthetic and charm of the older games. The way Crash or even Crunch looks is some sort of Donkey Kong Country nightmare fuel.

>>713946265 (OP)
It was the 2000s. Its not the game thats the problem, people were done with scrimblo shit the market had been saturated, it became kind of a meme and the kids that grew up on it were now teens and young adults who instead wanted something mature and socially acceptable like cod, gta, madden etc.

>>713957563
It's more that the game was just shit, people loved Jak and Daxter, Ratchet and Clank, Sly Cooper etc.

>>713957663
No one ever knew what all that crap was back in the day.

>>713957951
>no one knew what big videogame franchises from the 2000s were back in the 2000s

>>713957563
Your dollar store oldfag mask fell off and disintegrated the moment you said scrimblo

>>713958554
>big
Kek

>>713950263
You missed the hilariously fuckawful torture porn cliffhanger ending. They were unironically banking on this shit becoming some sort of multimedia empire.

>>713946265 (OP)
I really need to finish this someday but I know Water Crunch is going to fuck me over with the bs hitboxes

>>713957951
Youre retarded, those games were big. I remember them -- not because i grew up with them or was interested in them but because they were big enough that they were omni present. For fuck sake they had greatest hits reprints because they sold so well you jack ass

They were anomalous though, platformers largely went under the radar. Billy hatcher, metal arms, sphinx, blinx, klonoa 2, none of these took off unfortunately. I have no idea how jak and daxter and rachet and clank managed to resonate with people (because feel theyre the least interesting of the games i listed even though theyre still good)

>>713960446
>I have no idea how jak and daxter and rachet and clank managed to resonate with people
Both were made by companies already known for making good platformers

>>713960446
>Billy hatcher, metal arms, sphinx, blinx, klonoa 2,
These games were either always going to be niche due to their design, or were made by B tier studios, TWoC wouldn't have been big with the previous audience either because it's a shit game that was always going to get mediocre reviews reflecting this.