Whatever happened to the Crash Bandicoot we knew and loved on Playstation? Second Thoughts Review: 8.5/10

User Rating: 7 | Crash Twinsanity PS2
Crash hasn't been at his best lately. Why back in the late 1990's, Crash was toe-to-toe with Mario because their platforming was almost equal in every way, but now Crash is starting to get short and annoying. Crash Twinsanity can be funny but the glitches and cheap one-hit deaths get on your nerves. I don't remember Crash dying instantly from Nitro or TNT when you have Aku Aku in Naughty Dog's Crash games. Also the Crash games..... are getting to short! What happened to the five warp rooms, collect five crystals, defeat a boss gameplay? Plus the fact that Crash & Cortex as a fourth character is stupid, they should've made Coco the fourth playable character. The gems were the interesting thing about the game. Each gem contains artwork, original storyboards, and movies if you collect all of them you get a surprise ending. Overall, Twinsanity can prove to be a good laugh to some people but they should give Crash back to Naughty Dog or some other big name company before Crash dies a horrible, miserable game life.

Second Thoguhts Review: 8.5/10

When you see most Crash games of today, they aren't as good as the earlier installments. After coming back to play through this game again, I realized something...this is as close to classic Crash as it's going to get. It's not a simple remake of Crash 2 and 3, or CTR. It implements everything you've come to love about Crash Bandicoot and more, as it adds a free-roaming element and extra characters. The gems contain bonus content, as mentioned in my review above, and the game is simply hilarious. Now Naughty Dog fanboys may be in an uproar over some of the things in this game like, where's the warp rooms? etc. The game still has you collecting crystals and gems, so be grateful for that, seeing as they're not even in COtT. The real selling point of the game is its sound. Honestly, the voice-acting is superb. Cortex's lines are usually comic gold, and the timing is near perfect. The only problem I had were with the glitches. The music, performed by a capella group Spiralmouth is amazing. You may not believe me when I say this, but all the drums, air guitars, instruments...they're all voices. That's how good Spiralmouth is. It's 100% a capella, no lie. After playing Crash of the Titans, it made me realize Crash Twinsanity was perhaps the best attempt at rejuvinating the Crash series. Naughty Dog fanboys, you might as well pick this up. Because now that Radical has a permanent grip on the Crash license, I have a feeling, that Crash games will never get as close to awesome as this one and the previous installments like WoC and CTR.