Crash Team Racing's Platinum Trophy is DEMANDING!

In this video, I got the Platinum Trophy for Crash Team Racing Nitro Fueled! This Platinum was a blast, but also very difficult. Enjoy!
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[@ph1ger]

Sorry for the delay! There was a lot going on in the past few weeks, so the video took slightly longer than expected. Sekiro has won the poll I made within my Community Tab, but due to the delay the next video will be the Resident Evil 4 Remake. After that though, I'll be playing Sekiro! ✌️ I will do my best to not make you wait an entire month again in between future videos. 😅 Thanks a lot for watching and for your support, I very much appreciate it. Have a great day! 😊💚 - ph1ger

[@Banbonio]

Letting you know U-turning is sometimes that’s helps lot on level with many sharp turns

[@SamuelVaradi-rj2mj]

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[@ckqk]

This video took everything I loved about the last one and made it even better! The pacing is great, the editing is amazing, and I enjoy the little mini explanation of the game you’re playing! The last video was great, but I have to subscribe after this one

[@ph1ger]

This really means a lot! I'm still experimenting with a lot of things within my videos being unsure whether the things I add are good or bad, so comments like this make this entire thing worth it. Thank you so much! 💚

[@TriplexG24]

Congrats bro! Going for this plat myself currently. You’ve earned a sub

[@ph1ger]

Thanks a lot! Uploads have been slow recently, but I‘m currently working on a lot of stuff I‘ll hopefully be able to reveal sooner than later. Good luck on your Plat whenever you get to it :)

[@ZXEL86]

Another absolute banger bro. Loved your raging haha

[@ph1ger]

Yeah, I wanted to include some gameplay in this video 'cause I knew I would rage a bit xD Thank you 💚

[@LeechyPlatinum]

Awesome video bro! I absolutely love this game one of my favourites it’s on my backlog I’m not sure if I will ever beat those damn time trials 😩

[@ph1ger]

Thanks a lot! 💚 You should go back to it at some point, I think you can do it, it's an amazing game. 😁

[@goopteruk279]

Congratulations 🥳- that looked an absolute nightmare. I’m not a fan of driving games so I wouldn’t even have attempted it. You have some serious skills. I do love Sekiro so looking forward to see how you get on with that.

[@ph1ger]

Thank you!! I don't love them THAT much either, but I have a sweet spot for kart racers and especially Crash, so I had to 😁😅 Can't wait to get onto Sekiro after Resi 4!!

[@GuyFarruski]

What a legend!! Congrats on the platinum!!

[@timmmybee]

Great video, those oxide time trials are no joke lol

[@ph1ger]

Thank you!! Yeah, some of them were quite tough 😄

[@thermalthrustingjesus2648]

I can tell you right now this video is going to blow up.

[@ph1ger]

It's already been doing pretty well! We'll see what happens haha 😁 Thank you for watching!

[@mintmuffled]

Very well done man. Good clean editing.

[@ph1ger]

Thanks a lot! Checked out some of your videos too, great stuff! 🙂

[@mintmuffled]

@@ph1ger Eyyy thank you

[@RossPullen]

I will go to my grave defending CTR against Mario Kart. It's a better game in almost all aspects. The blue flame mechanic in CTR is so satisfying when you get it right, there's tracks where you can keep blue flame the entire way through and just smoke everyone. The drifting and kart movement in general just feels way better, and the tracks and shortcuts are infinitely more interesting and well laid-out. On that note, to nail the Sewer Speedway shortcut every time, drive into the actual water in the sewer basin and then ramp up the very first left hand corner. That should land you and boost you towards the ramp for the shortcut entry point, and your speed will get you there. (At 8:14 you're hopping onto the raised left side instead of using its ramp, although as you can see it works that way too. Maybe it's just a timing thing)

[@ph1ger]

I agree that driving feels a lot better in CTR than in Mario Kart! What I don't like is the seemingly low focus on items. It feels 10x more satifying hitting someone with a green sheel in Mario Kart then it does hitting someone with an item in CTR. Also, it's sad that Activision messed up the online component... Other than that, and purely from how the game feels to control, I agree with everything you said.

[@MistralValon]

MK is a lot more precise and as a multiplayer experience much more balanced. By precise I mean micro movements can gain/loss a lot of time where CTR is just lol uturn to fix any mistake and lose next to nothing. On top of that, if you get hit in CTR in the back, you lose the race immediately because you have to wait for a boost pad to get back to speed and it might not even be a blue fire pad. Sure MK looks a lot slower but its a much more fun experience overall. As a time trial game, CTR is where it shows it's strengths but it's flaws show everywhere else, and even then MK is still an insane time trial game. As someone who has played both casually and speedran both, I did get sucked into CTR but over time realised how truly flawed it was in comparison. Still a great game but doesn't come close

[@Senomorphh]

I got this Platinum too it was Hard but it was The Fun Hard feeling 😂 nice Video

[@ph1ger]

I agree. It's tough but not unfair, very rewarding when you're done 😁

[@viciousvize6363]

Sick video bro I need to get this plat 🔥

[@ph1ger]

Thank you 😄 You really should! It's a lot of fun 😀

[@ImBored0fLife]

These videos are amazing, you are heavily underrated in my opinion. This deserves a sub

[@ph1ger]

Thank you so much! :) Reading comments like this always makes me very happy :D

[@Tuzibo]

Awesome Video, Go on! 👍

[@ph1ger]

Thank you!!

[@filiplatus8687]

Honestly i thought u have atleast 200k subs. When i saw its 200 i was schocked!u deserve more

[@ph1ger]

Considering I only have 2 videos uploaded so far, almost being at 200 is a great achivement! Thanks a lot though, that's a huge compliment! 😆

[@spedgiethegreat91]

Grats man this game was beyond me

[@ph1ger]

Yeah it certainly wasn't easy 😅

[@unclegrandpagaming165]

I can’t wait to see how you manage to get all platinum trophies in crash 4: it’s about time 😮😮😮

[@ph1ger]

I can't wait to see that too 😆 I'll try getting it done before Crash Team Rumble's release in June, but I have some games planned before that. One being, way, WAY worse than Crash 4 😅

[@tylerdenheyer316]

How do you have only 464 subscribers? Your content is so interesting and professional. Keep it up man.

[@ph1ger]

Thanks a lot! I really appreciate comments like these, even though I'm very happy with the growth of the channel considering my inconsistency atm. A lot more to come 😄

[@floppagaming7456]

W bro i got all the crash games platinumed

[@ph1ger]

Nice! I'll do Crash 4 sometime this year and can't wait for Crash Team Rumble. I hope that game is gonna be good 😅

[@FreeAimDog]

as someone who platinum it afew years ago i can say that adventure mode on hard difficulty was a walk in the park compared to the crystal challenges and the gem things, everything other than the races felt like a struggle and tons of retries but adventure mode on hard required very little retries and i beat it in 2 days taking my time on hard. oxides time trials were hard but thanks to doing cups on hard difficulty alot i was able to beat oxides time trials after 7 to 10 resets on some tracks.

[@ph1ger]

Interesting to see how opinions on that game seem to differ. The only slightly annoying Crystal Challenge for me was the Parking Lot, other than that they were all pretty simple. 🤔 The Hard mode was mostly annoying due to the items, I got sniped so often and am really bad at dodging potions and crates on the ground 😅 Thank you for watching! 😊

[@FreeAimDog]

@@ph1ger yeah i did enough hard cups to know what your talking about, when you get sniped the CPU is scripted to go after you only. although once in a rare while they go after each other. i seen a dingodile CPU shoot a missile at coco and it followed her a really long way and ended up hitting where if it was my missile it would have never turned around that wall like that. it might just be me but i feel the 1 missile you get is more accurate than the 3 missiles you get. it will never be as good as they CPUs because they get an entirely different missile thats scripted like the red shell from mario kart. cpu cannot take shortcuts so even on hard that can be the easiest advantage to get on them, weirdly enough CPU can detect your potions that you drop but they cannot detect other CPU potions. CPU WILL drop TNT crates on you if you are directly behind them which is why i stay to the sides when racing them. i feel like turn engine and balanced engine are completely useless in the game, i just got done beating a cup on hard with turn difficulty and i barely stood a chance, if i can barely beat hard CPU with turn that means i would not stand a chance racing average players even if i had sacrete fire. i feel like acceleration is the best for recovery after getting hit with items and drift is good for keeping top speed. speed is for the pros who can basically tap square and the arrow pads to do sharp turns but i would not feel comfortable with that play style s id stick t acceleration personally for speed recovery after getting hit.

[@jordanhutsal8161]

I died at “I went into a sad and lonely boosting session” 😂.

[@ph1ger]

😆

[@malmansoori2384]

On the shortcut you struggle the most, you have to stay forward when jumping if you tried to go left or right he won’t jump enough so you have to straighten your kart and leave it and just jump to 100% make sure you make it, thank me later 😂

[@unknown........]

the games 8/10 bro that just insane that you did it, don't know how you didn't keep swearing all through out the hard mode run

[@ph1ger]

Hahaha, there's a lot that didn't make the cut. 😂

[@MeIsbUblA]

The video made me........ more human.

[@ph1ger]

Is that... a good thing 🤣?

[@syygnis]

Not as demanding as Crash 4.. I'm glad I got CTR done ~ 28 hours for me

[@RMDetho]

I suck at dodging traps, so I invested in speed. No need to worry about TNTs and bombs if you're ahead of the boss. *the high iq head tap meme* You've got most of the handling in the game, but looking at it it feels very mechanical and shortsighted (not in a bad way, more in a sense that pro racing drives are adjusting now for the turn later, while your gameplay more feels like correcting now for directly what's in front), And extended to track, it feelsl ike you're lacking the perception of map's flow. Once you get a feel for that and start looking a bit ahead, maps will be a lot easer. Also you explained the fires wrong. There's the small boost fire, ** Medium boost fire if at least one of your boosts were Perfect and you get this after 3 full boosts, Sacred fire is normal booster (which is just maintained by the boost reserves) and USF is blue fire booster (same boost reserve logic applies). at 7:41 when you're doing the u-turn on Hot air skyway, you're doing, what I call, a sling shot. This is holding down break and turning, which won't change your direction, but will turn the kart. When you're doing that, just add down to the mix, and you'll do a U-turn that will be extremely fast, and will change your direction. This can be applied in a lot of places, especially cortex castle, dragon mines and other tracks with sharper turns. Edit (wrote this before the end of the vide). The sewer speedway trick is messed up, for sure, but it seems more reliable and reproducible when you boost JUST before the jump (so jumping of the higher platform into the upwards wall, like you did in your last example.) Edit 2. Tiny temple has the shortcut pillars after the electric bits which make that whole section almost a straight line. if you're coming to them with USF, you can jump on the first one and start drifting right, and drift boost will get you over the pits, and then you jump off the last one

[@AnonAsd]

Just got this last week aswell. It took me 40h for plat so about a week of grinding from my first time playing it. Dragon mines was the worst for me

[@ph1ger]

Congrats!! Yeah, Dragon Mines still pisses me off xD Hate that track so much. The little spiral you have to go up is just bad level design.

[@justinflores5113]

I just got done with the Oxide time trials after coming back! It feels good! Now I need to beat the Hard Adventure and I am pretty much done! This was a fun video by the way!

[@ph1ger]

Nice! Getting this game done feels very rewarding! Thanks a lot 😊

[@natethegreat3320]

Tip for komodo joe boss fight. He will catch up to you no matter how fast you are so just try to pick up rocket or an blue orb and use it at the final lap.

[@ph1ger]

Interesting, didn't know that! That might explain why he gave me so much trouble. 😆

[@deadmanwalking3470]

YES YES YES !!!

[@ph1ger]

!!!! 😆

[@mtrj99]

My toxic trait is that I think I could actually go back and do this

[@ph1ger]

I'm sure you can! 😄

[@Sajumi_]

8:14 not luck based

[@ph1ger]

Felt like it sometimes, but the physics are just a little wonky 😅 Of course, if you're coming at it from a bad angle already you're not gonna make it. 😆

[@Sajumi_]

@@ph1ger yea it can be tricky but when you get the timing down its consistent

[@Probcd.]

I’m 51 percent in adventure, so I’ve got quite a bit to go.

[@ph1ger]

Nice! Are you going for the Platinum or just playing casually :)?

[@ethanc.8683]

I don't know you know but you can change the characters stats Turning Acceleration (Popular) Balanced Speed (Popular) Drift (Kinda Popular) I mostly recommend Drift you still get good speed and get good turning making it easier to hold ultra sacred fire when making drift turns the Time Trials are easier using it except the Developer Times you need to use Speed for those

[@ph1ger]

Yeah, I knew that. I just kinda felt the most comfortable with Penta and his Standard kart. Might've made some tracks a little harder for myself but it worked in the end 😄

[@SamuelJohnsonYT]

You actually can beat the Developer Times with Drift

[@rmcminiking]

The trick with the sewer speedway shortcut is to hit it at a 90 degree angle

[@ph1ger]

Yeah, in the end I was able to get it somewhat regularly. Still, sometimes the physics in this game are so wonky. 😅

[@rmcminiking]

No doubt 😂 Beenox kinda left the game half-patched didn't they :')

[@goombafang3210]

Be glad its not day 1 sewer cut. Sewer cut is baby easy now if you’re boosting for long enough. Day 1 sewer cut made most people despise the track, and i dont blame them

[@DBZWarrior1]

On my Scale of Difficulty I'd Say it's a 1-2/10, It really Wasn't hard at all For me. But nice video!

[@ph1ger]

I'd consider 1-2/10 games something where you don't have to do a lot, like My Name is Mayo, Life is Strange etc. If you found it very easy a 3-4/10 probably fits it a little better because it's def. harder than the ones I mentioned, right 😆? Thank you! 😄

[@DBZWarrior1]

@@ph1ger should've mentioned the Telltale Games, All you have to do For those is beat all the episodes and that's It LOL Also, Harder? Not really, More Time Consuming? Yea. 👀

[@mladakmica]

Now you need to beat velo time trials and then developer time trials Trust me that is real challenge like 12/10 difficulty this so far was child’s play compared to dev times

[@ph1ger]

I know 😅 Trust me, if they would've added DLC trophies for it, I'd have been all in. But for some colorful wheels on a Dead Multiplayer? Nah, I'd rather play 5 other games during that time 😂😂

[@JasonNZ42]

@@ph1ger I only have six dev times to go...still not worth. dev times are just that difficult

[@ph1ger]

@@JasonNZ42 Good luck!! Already pretty insane you managed to do so many! 😀👍

[@JasonNZ42]

@@ph1ger thanks man, maybe someday I will get those fabulous rainbow wheels

[@jamalsogbesan658]

You are lucky that the platinum didn't include All of the Velo or Dev times

[@ph1ger]

True, that would‘ve been a pain 😆

[@domi6120]

No it is a 6/10

[@ph1ger]

I was just going by what PSNP was saying. Difficulty ratings on their own are the most subjective thing ever, since there is no objective way to measure difficulty. But thank you for watching, I appreciate it 😄

[@domi6120]

@@ph1ger Ah thx and und please😊

[@VaynesBond]

Do we tell him about dev times

[@ph1ger]

haha, I do know about them. ☝️ I would've done them if there was a trophy tied to them, but since there isn't I didn't see any reason to try. They would've absolutely broken me, some of those times are ridiculous. 😂

[@Mandolin_AU]

Title seems misleading to me, I got the platinum in 3 days... but tbf I had played the original for over 10 years and had shitloads of legacy skill

[@ph1ger]

It also took me only 5 days, but I would still say it's far from easy 😄 Gotta spice up the titles at least a little bit haha 😆

[@MeIsbUblA]

I have beat emperor velo in every race

[@ph1ger]

Good job!! These are some tough times! Ever gonna try the Dev Times?

[@MeIsbUblA]

1 sec away in hot air skyway

[@MrZarewna]

It was easy for me. But maybe it was because I played ps1 CTR almost daily doing speedruns for years and so when the game got released, I played it non stop until I got the platinum trophy and was one of the first to do so. I may be a bit overly obsessive and passionate about this game.

[@ph1ger]

Haven't played the original yet, so I don't know how much different it is control-wise to the remake, but yeah, I guess that would help you out a lot 😂

[@MrZarewna]

@@ph1ger It is similar, but the weight of the kart feels different. Remake is more bouncy which is a good thing in a game like this. Easier to do sharp turns and what not.

[@capercrusader7129]

Ooh boy if he does CB4: It's About Time 🥲💀

[@ph1ger]

It's definitely coming! Will try to get it done and uploaded before Crash Team Rumble releases in June 😁!

[@Im_killing_my_IQ]

The only Hard part is the Oxide times for me at least

[@ph1ger]

The Oxide times were 100% the hardest thing about the Platinum. And except for maybe the 2 bosses I mentioned from hard mode, everything was more than doable, if not even easy. You're right about that. 👆