Games like this and most platformers from the 90s downward, are why people 30+ years of age get annoyed when younger players ask for games to be made easier. Whether it’s complaining about special move inputs for fighting games being too hard, the souls games needing an easy / casual mode or platformers having generous failure states and win conditions.
The 90s bred the right kind of video game enjoyers as far as I’m concerned, even if most of the games that kids cut their teeth on were objectively ass, being needlessly difficult for all the wrong reasons. They taught resilience, patience and that shit isn’t fair. I will die on this hill. 🙂
Love the NSane Trilogy.. but these levels… they’re too long. Wayyy too long. Plus you almost need to memorize the on rails parts to get all the boxes. Too frustrating for a completionist like me.
I feel like it says something that while I was going for the High Road time trial in Crash 1, when I got frustrated I’d switch to Dark Souls to cool off.
People who think that games aimed at children are easy, need to remember that the NES was supposed to be aimed at children, and it had 3 Ninja Gaiden games.
Getting the platinum trophy for Crash 1 remake took me a month and it was both very hard but felt rewarding. I have not had the urge to play another Crash game since. I feel sick starting 2 or 3. Great game but god do you need to get sweaty to 100% it.
It’s also just a really great game. Crash 4 and DKC Trop Freeze are the best modern platformers to date. They’re difficult without feeling unfair and the design is flawless. If you haven’t played these games go now!!! Do it now
my first CB game I fully played through (played 1+2 when I was younger, but not seriously) was wrath of cortex, and I beat it in a few sittings (aside from the dragon chase, which I had to convince my friends older brother to beat for me at the time, lol) so I had such a skewed idea of the difficulty of these games lmao. playing the earlier games later in life was a supreme ass kicking.
Looking back, Crash 4 is not the amazing game it was lauded as when it launched. Crash 2 and 3 are better games.
I’m a completionist and i actively despise this game now. They went way too far with their ridicolous demands.
No dig at you OP, but it’s ridiculous to call everything harder, “dark souls”.
Edit:- *diamond is darksouls of carbon*
Crash has always been the dark souls of Platformers.
Stormy ascent lost level in crash 1 was honestly the hardest level I’ve ever beaten in a platformer.
Rayman Legends had some truly devilish levels too, especially if you try and get all the blue thingies.
Crash Bandicoot was here first, though. It’s kind of ridiculous to call everything that’s even remotely difficult for a souls-like…
Over 50 deaths on this part when I played it for the first time.
Now get the platinum 💀
I loved this game, but yeah it’s difficult enough to where trying to 100% just isn’t worth the time imo.
We old school games had some hard games before dark souls
there’s that word again “dark souls”
DaRk SoUlS, it’s got a bit of a challenge so it’s DaRk SoUlS. Very annoying to read.
Games like this and most platformers from the 90s downward, are why people 30+ years of age get annoyed when younger players ask for games to be made easier. Whether it’s complaining about special move inputs for fighting games being too hard, the souls games needing an easy / casual mode or platformers having generous failure states and win conditions.
The 90s bred the right kind of video game enjoyers as far as I’m concerned, even if most of the games that kids cut their teeth on were objectively ass, being needlessly difficult for all the wrong reasons. They taught resilience, patience and that shit isn’t fair. I will die on this hill. 🙂
Love the NSane Trilogy.. but these levels… they’re too long. Wayyy too long. Plus you almost need to memorize the on rails parts to get all the boxes. Too frustrating for a completionist like me.
You can just say it’s a hard game instead of calling it “the dark souls of children’s games”
I swear the only people who actually use this comparison are people who haven’t actually played Dark Souls.
Where would the industry be if Michael zucchini didn’t invent difficulty in shart souls
I feel like it says something that while I was going for the High Road time trial in Crash 1, when I got frustrated I’d switch to Dark Souls to cool off.
https://imgur.com/a/Zybtdnl
No, Cuphead is the sugar-coated Dark Souls.
Kids who grew up playing platformers are built differently. Can’t get a kid these days to play anything that isn’t Roadblox.
Yeah I loved playing it again after so many years but holy fuck it was hard. I didn’t even finish the like 15% of the game or so cuz I had my fill xD
Yea this game is dumb hard. I beat the original 3 and gave up on this one
Those suspension bridge levels in the first one have cost me a controller or two.
People who think that games aimed at children are easy, need to remember that the NES was supposed to be aimed at children, and it had 3 Ninja Gaiden games.
“Darksouls is hard” is the Darksouls of jokes.
Getting the platinum trophy for Crash 1 remake took me a month and it was both very hard but felt rewarding. I have not had the urge to play another Crash game since. I feel sick starting 2 or 3. Great game but god do you need to get sweaty to 100% it.
I didn’t know there was a Crash Bandicoot 4!
Pretty much all these old school platformers are insanely difficult when you go back to them.
Definitely not easy! My wife loves this game tho
It’s also just a really great game. Crash 4 and DKC Trop Freeze are the best modern platformers to date. They’re difficult without feeling unfair and the design is flawless. If you haven’t played these games go now!!! Do it now
I knew something was sus about Crash 4 the moment I saw the extra life system had been replaced with a death counter.
my first CB game I fully played through (played 1+2 when I was younger, but not seriously) was wrath of cortex, and I beat it in a few sittings (aside from the dragon chase, which I had to convince my friends older brother to beat for me at the time, lol) so I had such a skewed idea of the difficulty of these games lmao. playing the earlier games later in life was a supreme ass kicking.
It isn’t fun as the trilogy.