Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath Of Cortex is GOOD... or is it? [Review]
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- Опубликовано: 21 окт 2024
- Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath Of Cortex confuses me. Ever since I first played it back in my childhood, I've never been able to figure out if it's a good game or a bad one. I've been sitting on the fence about it for years and years and years, and I'm sick of it. So in this video, I'm going to what I think of the game, and determine whether or not it's good once and for all.
Enjoy! :]
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Great video! I like your retrospectives on these retro games. The weird thing was that I heard about not having to press any button to win the minecart level too, but there was one video where he did it twice, and he won on the first but then lost on the second even though there was no differences. I wonder if that level has RNG.
Huh. Might have something to do
with Crunch’s AI? I always thought he followed a set path
The part describing Crunch made me like the video 😂
I’m glad you enjoyed it :]
@@Torran2Glitchy 😁
I actually liked WoC more than Warped. One reason is the vehicles. Like you said, a lot of vehicle levels are only partial, and each vehicle is only used 1-2 times excluding the atlasphere which is used 5 times (4 levels, 1 boss). Whereas Warped will have you play the racing and jet ski levels 4 times each. I also liked Coco's levels and how she was "unskilled" compared to Crash. It made sense beings she hasn't really gone out in the field before like this.
Wrath of cortex is not a bad game not at all, in fact it's my first ps2 game I've played when I was 7 years old and I a have a lot of nostalgia and good memories with it and I remember having a lot of fun playing it with my siblings, going back and playing it as an adult though it's not as fun as remember it to be and I much prefer playing the n sane trilogy and crash 4 since I have more fun playing those, I start to realize wrath of cortex's flaws and that the vehicles overstay their welcome I'm fine with the partial vehicle levels but the full vehicle levels are mostly terrible and a bit unpolished and it's a platformer and I don't want to play a crash game to ride a car or a submarine, I know crash 3 have similar issue but at least the vehicles themselves are mostly fun and way more polished, despite that I still think it's a decent game and probably one of the best post-naughty dog console crash games.
My Top 3 Crash Bandicoot games
1. Crash Bandicoot 4 It's About Time
2. The Wrath of Cortex
3. Warped (From the N. Sane Trilogy)
WOW! A positive review on Wrath of Cortex? I'll have to agree with you on most of your points. I did hate the loading times as a kid but that's because I was playing the PS2 version. If you emulate this game, you can press the Fast Forward button to skip the loading times, it's almost like you're playing it on a PS5 lol. What I don't like about this game is how the bazooka handles, like the aim sensitivity is waaayyy too slow compared to Crash 3 and if you shoot wumpa fruit, it flys away rather than be collected like in Crash 3.
Oh and the mech suits control like putrid ass. Like it has the same problems like the bazooka, slow aiming. Not to mention that jumping is awkward. You press X while staying still and you jump straight but you can't control your jump. A melee attack or a spin attack would have been nice.
A lot of people complain about how Crunch is the only boss in the entire game. Ok I get it, you guys wanted Tiny, Dingodile, and N Tropy to join the fight. But honestly, Crunch being the only boss isn't a valid reason to deduct review points. For example in Mario vs Donkey Kong for the Gameboy Advance, Donkey Kong is the only boss in the entire game, and that game got an 8.5/10 by IGN. And I didn't mind fighting Donkey Kong, just like how I didn't mind fighting Crunch. What I think they should've done is make Tiny, Dingodile, and N Tropy absent, like I think it's ridiculous that they became obstacles in the hamster ball levels.
Other than that, Wrath of Cortex is low key just Crash 3 DLC but under a different developer and engine. At least the game gave gamers who are on Nintendo or Xbox territory a chance to try Crash Bandicoot for the first time, so there's that.
I feel like Crunch and the Elementals being the only bosses would have worked if they had the same level of personality and expressiveness as the previous bosses had in other games. Like this mega sized version of Crash donning masks modelled after R Lee Ermey and Mark Hamill? That sounds HILARIOUS. But sadly the modelling and animation for almost anyone besides Crash is kinda lifeless and janky in this game.
@@e-122psi3 Have you even played Mario vs Donkey Kong? Because Donkey Kong is the only boss for the entire game
@@BillyBob_McSanchez Yes I have. But of course that game does the rivalry well. That's my point.
@e-122psi3 Actually both Crunch and Donkey Kong have unique boss fights. Eventhough it's the same character everytime, there's always something unique about each fight that sets them apart
@@BillyBob_McSanchez True, I think it's also the execution. Donkey Kong has a funny expressive personality in that game that makes him a good recurrent enemy, and the strategies in those fights tend to be fun and engaging, while Crunch and the Elementals are just kinda blank in the fights and how fun the boss fights actually are go in and out in quality.
Regarding the loading times - indeed, only the original PS2 release suffered from tediously long loading times (sometimes even up to 40 seconds!), the XB/GCN port was greatly improved in that regard.
40 second load times is brutal lol
@@Torran2Glitchy To elaborate, the game originally had a minigame where as Crash fell to the next level, you could control him and collect wumpa fruit, but due to some concerns with Namco apparently owning the patent to loading screen minigames, the developers had to quickly deactivate it last second in a slapdash manner, making the load times extra sluggish. The Greatest Hits/Platinum rerelease as well as the Xbox/Gamecube ports gave them the opportunity to code it out more professionally, making the load times more tolerable.
Crunch was nothing but wasted potential after TWoC... he deserved better.
He did deserve better. Hopefully Toys for Bob brings him back in a spectacular way in a future game
I somewhat disagree. Not because there isn't any truth to that statement. But because despite the wasted potential, Mr T parody Crunch still has far more personality than TWoC Crunch
@@homeoftek5844 iirc, Traveller's Tales never intended Crunch to be brought back after TWoC, but Vicarious Visions & the later devs said otherwise.
16:56 probably because your playing the Xbox version I think the PS2 version you can win without moving!
I think you’re right. Probably should’ve properly researched that before bringing it up in the video ^^’
I play on ps2 and tried it myself. It’s completely luck based, depending on what route Crunch takes. I think I tried it five times, and beat him without doing anything once.
That racism comparison sure was something. Lmao
The Wrath of Cortex may have it's flaws, but it was way better than It's About Time. Why was it better than It's About Time? Well, obviously, because The Wrath of Cortex wasn't as gimmicky as It's About Time! And by "Gimmicky", It's About Time has the crappy Quantum Masks, the power-ups from Warped (Except for the double jump power-up) did not make a return in It's About Time, Dingodile, Tawna and Cortex's gameplays suck, It's About Time is a copied, pasted and edited version of Warped with time travel and multi-verses, etc.. It's About Time sucks because it's not as good as The Wrath of Cortex. The Wrath of Cortex deserves a remake. Enough said.
I’m gonna have to respectively disagree with…pretty much all of that. It’s About Time blows Wrath of Cortex out of the water
@@Torran2Glitchy Agreed. This guy is sus. 😎
I agree with you on TWoC deserving a remake. But claiming that Crash 4 sucks is ridiculous. I will say this, though. While Crash 4 is considered to be far better than TWoC, it didn't age well. We all still love TWoC despite it's flaws. Yet Crash 4 seemed to only be relevant when it was new, then we all moved on by next year lol. Like I said, Crash 4 is great. I just think it hasn't aged well because it tried too hard to be great at the same time
@@jacobcoderre7054 actually he’s well known for actively shitting on modern crash and spyro
@@NateMakesMusiceveryone shits on modern games
It's not Travelers Tales that made the LEGO games. It's TT games. Duh. 🙄
Erm... TT Games ARE Travellers Tales?
the levels I enjoyed and the elements the bosses had but it's alot like crash bandicoot 3 at the same time overhaul a a tier game so not s tier
For me that game just did not age very well in terms of gameplay I can see why most people see this as a worst version of crash 3 It's about time does feel more like the real crash 4
Totally understandable. I don’t think Wrath of Cortex is that bad but it certainly doesn’t hold a candle to Warped or Crash 4
@@Torran2Glitchy Yeah I put it in the same category with Twinsanity they Debatably bad