Me too brother… me too..

The original CTR for the ps1 is still my favorite to this day

Then Crash 3 came out and shoehorned in too many vehicles and gives you under utilized power ups due to half the game being non platforming

Even now in my 30's, I still love this game

A very nicely done video, you made me get out my old ps1 and replay it. I left a follow Greetings from Germany, mate

The clue for the Turtle Woods gem comes from the box icon at the end of the level iirc. You get the box gem, then if you replay the level and get an incomplete number of boxes, the box icon will show x/0. Might just be an addition for the N Sane Trilogy I'm Mandela Effecting in tho.

For what I think about what your favorite Crash game said about you: Crash Bandicoot 1996: You loves challenges. Crash Bandicoot 2 Cortex Strikes Back: You are a nerd/geek who used to buy video games magazines or using Internet so much in the 90s. Crash Warped: You are 90s Movies fan. Crash CTR: You love Multiplayer Games more than platforms. Crash Bash: For sure you bought PS1 lately around early 2000s when PS2 released. Crash Warth of Cortex: You are fan of catchy electronic music. Crash Bandicoot The Huge Adventure: Your Parents didn't buy you PS1, so you didn't play any of Crash Trilogy Games from PS1. Crash Bandicoot 2 N-Tranced: N.Tropy and N.Trance are your favorite villains from Crash enemies, even you prefer N.Tropy over Neo Cortex. Crash CNK: You like the 80s, Space and Aliens theme and movies, or you like Nitrus Oxide and happy that that he is a playable character in this game. Crash Bandicoot Purple: You liked because it is your childhood game. Crash Twinsanity: You are huge in love of Comedies and Cartoons, especially 90s cartoons. Crash Tag Team Racing: You are just a gamer who just like to walk in open world and mess around without care about the storylines and missions. Crash Boom Bang!: you are so Boring! Crash In Titans: You are 2000s Cartoons fan, probably Ben10 is your favorite cartoon. Crash Mind Over Mutants: you are a flash animation fan. Crash N.Sane Trilogy: You are Coco fan, maybe crush...I guess or you late Gen Z or Alpha Gen. Crash Nitro Flueled: you love Multiplayer games that include customized characters. Crash 4 It's About Time: you love arts and colors, and interest on game level arts, designs and colors. Crash Team Rumble: you didn't play any party game before.

The secrets were something I completely adored about this game. They really made me way more curious than game designers probably ever intended for. I remember playing Demon’s Souls years later and always wondered about how to get to that world behind the broken 6th arch stone. I sort of figured that because it exists, then surely there’s some crazy way to get there. Much of my thinking felt like it came straight out of Crash 2.

Wow, this was fantastic man. Grade A work

I always thought he would be a ground one cos of Bee-having in Crash 2

Crash 3 Warped my favorite

where is the wrath of cortex ???

17:58 the Blue gem will always be my proudest gaming moment ever. I was a literal kid, like 10 years old, and we were messing around in Turtle Woods. I straight up made up something like "to get the blue gem you have to leave all crates behind", bragging about it like I knew, like the game couldn't keep a secret from me. I was completely inventing. I had no internet to have previous access to that piece of information with, I had no other friends who already got the gem. I completely made it up in front of my friends, then I got to the end of the level with 0 boxes, and I was shocked to find the blue gem. But I just had to keep my poker face bc I pretended the whole time I knew that was the method. Internally, I was screaming. I metaphorically shat myself that moment and I had to pretend like I was in total control of the situation. It felt AWESOME edit for 18:30 lmao I swear also yeah the nitro staircase made me feel like 200 IQ bc "wait a sec, they don't bounce"

The blue gem is actually pretty easy to figure out... Cause the 1st time you will miss it, for sure... Then you will replay the level trying to find something, and when you reach the end of the stage you will see a big box with a counter saying "50/0" for example... Meaning you broke 50 boxes, and you should break zero to get the gem... This was actually the 1st I figured out by myself as a kid... The 2nd was the green gem, completely by accident

This was one of my most played discs back in the day. A classic! Thanks for the video, I can tell how much you love the game.

A great game indeed.

Not me watching this to justify if I should purchase this game as a 36 year old lady returning to gaming because it was a fave from my childhood…and I lowkey can’t believe it’s still a thing.

Your'e

This was a really good video which outlines everything great about crash 2 without shying away from its weak points. Personally I've always had this nagging feeling that while an amazing upgrade to the game engine, formula, mechanics and crash himself, the levels and themes are a bit of a let down. Not to disregard some of the amazing ones particularly in the first couple of warp rooms, but I definitely tend to get to about room 3-4 and feel like it's just a slog of being stuck with a bunch of samey uninspiring level themes. The ruins are fun but the theme is a downgrade from the beautiful lost city levels from crash 1. The bee levels share most of the art from the boulder ones which is just snow lite, but at least the chase and bear levels are great. It suffers the same problem as crash 3 where they have 10 types of level art but stretched across 25+ levels, but at least 3 had different times of day and lighting to freshen it up. I wish crash 2 had ruins at afternoon, sunset and night rather than all just being in the dark, for example. And honestly the less said about some of the bosses, the better. Again, something 3 really did better so looking forward to your video on that! subbed :)

I love this tipes of vídeos were people give they expirence and Memories with the game and not Just say Uuuu game good or game bad also I love that you talk about thoes details in the enviroment we normaly dont think about things like this, amazing vídeo Man

Out of all the things I expected someone to love this game for, the story wasn't the one I expected to be your favorite 😅

Keep up the amazing content, your hard work hasn’t gone to waste, subscribed!

I like titans, I rather play a beat em up than a platformer. I like combat😂😂😂

That Titans and CTRNF is facts 😂 tho i aint like Tiny fr

Babe wake up. Some random KZbinr I've never heard of has dropped a banger video essay!

This game was the first game I ever played and is also my favorite game of all time. I’ve since played tons of other games in varying genres but this game just feels like home to me. If I have a stressful day at work I will often sit down and 100% this game in about 3 hours.

My least favorite thing about this game is it's lack of a level editor.

Thanks to your videos I went back and started playing again. I’m playing the OG disc and it’s extremely difficult. However, in that difficulty I find my family and I are having lots of fun when we die so many times with crash and then finally pull it off and we celebrate. I think with an action replay option, this game would be a lot easier to complete 100% imo.

WHERE are crash 1 through wrath of cortex like WHERE are they

Great video! Crash 2 has consistently been my favorite game in the franchise - and my favorite 3d platformer of all time - for years! And I don't see it losing that spot anytime soon. Cool to see someone talk at length about its greatness!

Crash 1 has always been my favourite. Slippery Climb is one of my favourite levels in any platformer, and the gem collecting difficulty is just right as an optional challenge.

Great video! How did you get this game to render in 16:9 without looking bad? Every time I try to make it like that on an emulator, it had some visual glitches.

Awesome video, my friend! I really love your voice, it's very calming and informative. If you keep putting these great retrospectives out, one of them feels like it's guaranteed to hit the algorithm and give you the views you deserve - great work! :) Ps. would love a CTR retrospective sometime in the future!

twinsanity is my favorite

the best out of the trilogy and not too hard like 1.

Crash 2 is my favorite, 3 is innovative but innovations are undercooked, so 3 could be better with all realised potential and still be a little easy for my taste Also powerups in normal run are criminally underused by level design itself

As mentioned this game has the perfect sensation of feeling like a journey, but there's also something else that OG Crash 1 did well but N.Sane dropped the ball on. There's a big feeling of satisfaction in this game when you realise just how athletic its platforming can be. Take Lights Out or Road to Nowhere for example, you can just blitz the level and do full jumps without needing to stop.

Cortex's boss battle is an interesting one. I actually really enjoy it despite how easy it is. The atmosphere is second to none, the jet pack gets to go at top speed, and if you do lose it feels super eerie - the old Crash games just had such high stakes!

I like the jetpack levels too

Sony apparently had to negotiate with Universal for Naughty Dog to make CTR cus Naughty Dog was done with Universal after all of Universal's abuse against them during Crash 3 development after Naughty Dog voiced their distaste in Universal taking such a huge cut of the profits for doing absolutely nothing. On Crash 1 and 2 Mark Cerny was working with them and pretty much represented the entirety of Universal's contribution to the actual game development.

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“Crash 2 is considered one of the best of the whole franchise” Well when you have a franchise with like 2 good games, 4 of which are in the ps1 and 2 are remakes of those games, Not hard for that to happen lmao

Great video on Crash 2!! I grew up with this game and know it inside and out. I clicked thinking it would just be a simple comfort watch, but you actually made me think about the game in ways I haven't before. The thought Naughty Dog put into justifying the collection of crystals and gems from a story perspective is a testament to how forward thinking and talented they were. They were challenging genre conventions and pushing things forward as early as the PS1 era.

the space levels were so bad but still way better than crash 3

Mastered on ps1 102%❤❤❤

Currently rockin my crash bandicoot christmas jumper

Back in the day my family only had Crash 1 and Crash 3 warped so I missed out on 2. Playing it for the first time years later I loved it and would’ve loved it as a kid as much as I did warped lol. Had Crash Bash too and didn’t like it lol

Great video. I hope you can make one on Warped and CTR.