The problem with playing a lot of games from the early Playstation days is that your expectations and memories are going to be completely different from what you're actually playing. Time hasn't been kind to a lot of these early games. Controls are less refined, graphics are less impressive, because of this, good games can look and feel incredibly dated. Luckily one game that manages to break that trend is Naughty Dog's: Crash Bandicoot!
The story of Crash Bandicoot is simple: Crash is a mutated bandicoot who's out to save his gal from the evil mad scientist, Doctor Neo Cortex, who apparently plans to take over the world by turning other animals into mutant assassins out to stop Crash at all costs. Apparently there is a lot more to the story, but I never witnessed any of this throughout the course of playing Crash. I just ran around jumping on and over things without a care in the world. In fact, had it not been for a Wikipedia article I read when researching the game, I'd never had known a plot existed. This can be forgiven though, this was an early title, and honestly isn't really expected to bring much in terms of a story anyway. Crash is hip and cool and he jumps on things, that's all that really matters. And he wears jorts, jorts were really cool in 1996.
There's not a lot to say about game play, it's a traditional platformer, you run around and jump on enemies and then jump over gaps. Rinse and repeat. But it's fun, the controls are responsive and there's some nice level design thrown in that still holds up.
So the big question is, after nearly 20 years of waiting, should you play Crash Bandicoot? YES! It's a fun plat-former that at times can be pretty challenging. It's full of animal hijinks and death traps and everyone loves animal hijinks.
As the years went on, Crash had over 15 different games, they even redesigned Crash into more of a punk rocker with spiky hair for the last game released in 2008. The most curious design choice was that they kept the much outdated jorts.
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