10 Most Infuriatingly Difficult Levels In Crash Bandicoot: The N. Sane Trilogy 

Audi exactly

Audi more Vietnam flashbacks and Shell Shock

Let me re-correct myself... Stormy Ascent Flashbacks

It's easy

​@@peepee3742 you're easy

And puts sane people in asylums.

SauloPMB trueee that

High Road makes sane people N. Sane

SauloPMB real men don't play video games!!

Let's talk Wrestling Real men know the definition of the word opinion.

DarthFenrir 777 hate that level, took me 15-20minutes to finish it, bc I kept falling or getting burnt.

Wow I can't believe if I didn't see it

It says in a the hint. Grass is greener on the other side of the fence or something like that

I spent 3 days everyday 1 hour on that freaking level

You aint old enough to know this secret :P

Moms spaghetti

You did not have to go through that

You've clearly never gone for the relics in slippery climb, high road, or stormy ascent... Hell, slippery climb is ridiculous itself. . Note: I've tried. So many times. None of them are acquired yet.

Slippery climb ain't that difficult. Try Stormy Ascent..

Well, at least you can farm lives using the bats for stormy ascent!

Darkstar Darin thats still pretty good ^^

miscellaneous ladybug Thanks

Darkstar Darin took me A WHOLE DAY TO GET A GOLD RELIC!!! A GOLD!!!

I'm dreading going for the gold relic....I'm doing that one last haha.

I got the Gold Relic on The High Road after a whole day of trying.... and forgot that I disabled auto-save :).

I'd buy it.

With a broken bridge, I'd buy it.

so you are a crash dumb, the high road is not hard try to do the colored gem in slippery climb and then talk

+ElComandanteRiky Me personally, I got the colored gem for Slippery Climb in my fifth attempt. Not too bad. I still have yet to get a platinum or gold relic for The High Road, and it's the last thing stoppin' me from gettin' the Platinum Trophy for Crash 1.

in the remaster i beat in those levels in my first attempt and the gems too, in the original took me about 2 weeks so compare, the relics can beat if you are a crash master i had experence so it would be easy for me

OMG yes. I forgot about that one 😭 ‘twas the reason for many rage quits

Cold hard crash

God Cold Hard Crash took so much more effort on the trilogy version, without the invincibility mask you’re done because of those nitro boxes.

To get the clear gem in Cold Hard Crash, you must: - Complete half the level and get all available boxes without dying to get to the death route - Complete the death route on slippery ice avoiding large crushing pillars, murderous penguins and porcupines, and nitro boxes - Backtrack through the death route avoiding the same things still on slippery ice - Complete the rest of the slippery ass level getting all boxes It’s just... it’s not fair...

kirby 31200 you forget the seals

I can’t get through the 3 flames at the end

ahja UK eu ew aw j1s there’s a missing spike on the fence on the 2nd flame where you can stand and wait for the flames to go away

Hog wild was easy af

same here; well, I only had about 70 lives before the level (and about 40 when I finished it).

Even then, I think they fucked up the ropes because i keep falling off them.

But is the time trial gold though?

I Finished On My First Try AFTER I RESTART MY PS FOR 20-50 TIMES.

Same. Farmed 100 lives & ended with 78.

I don't think Sunset Vista deserves a spot. I mean it has a key but not a colored gem so you can fuck up on it, The Lost City however...

While I agree that Hog Wild is abnormally high on this list, I don't think Sunset Vista deserves a spot here (as Scribble said above). Not even Lost City- the hardest parts are the bonus rounds, and you can die as many times as you need in the bonus rounds and still get the coloured gem.

Hmm right, I always forget that you're allowed to fuck up on non-colored gems in the remake. In that case, the Lost City is indeed harder. Also Generator Room. Always hated that level.

Yep, the list really doesn't make that much sense tbh :D

Yeah, Hog Wild is literally just one BS jump, rest just takes a little practice. HOT COCO RELIC THOUGH

Third try, with all crates hit, but it still can be irritating

I did it on 16

AJ Ward yeah it’s pretty much trail and error

first try cause I played the original

I prefer hog-wild to native fortress because at least with hog wild you can memorize the timing. With native fortress you have to have precision timing and if you don't: lights out.

I think Platinuming The Lab was the biggest challenge in that game IMO

Luka Lukšić agreed I have a platinum on stormy ascent but just couldn't get it on the lab

I Chards I did but barely. However, the second and third game put it to whole new level of challenge to get Platinum relics

Luka Lukšić yeah but the levels themselves are far easier

I Chards I disagree, I think the levels are the most difficult in the second game

Perfectly sums up how I feel about it lol

Erik Jamin In the n sane trilogy it isnt like that, only for colored gems you cant die

Sebastian Ulloa Pérez yeah you can't die in the first crash game while destroying all the boxes if you wanna get the gem. I hate the first crash so much is not even fun to play. The second and the third one are the best!

lol I never care about gems 😂

High road is harder imo

Sunset Vista: Hold my Moving Bricks Suckers

crash 1 was made 100x easier in the nsane trilogy. having a proper save system, being allowed to die in most of the levels and still getting the gem, being able to do bonus rounds multiple times to name a few

ImNotManny ??? The original crash is so clunky and the controls are pretty bad

DinoPony being able to replay the bonus rounds again if you finished them and didn't get all the boxes

Yeah, I was pretty confused when I saw that you could repeat them as many times as you wanted. How was that with the cortex and brio levels? Was that also a one time thing? I don't remember anymore.

Jesus, die once? I know that I still somehow got all the gems back then. But I don't really know how now if you could just die once in the bonus levels :D damn

ParadockMW about 4 hours and no relic for me (blue one, Still missing gold one) :'(

ParadockMW thats why im just playing for fun, not completionist :)

Atleast you dont lose lives

ParadockMW I survived. I have got gold or platinum time relics on all levels (...including the high road...). However I'm not sure if I'm actually alive or just hallucinating at this point.

ParadockMW ye I got the trilogy platinum

That last hog was easy on ps1. But yeah about 4 tries and you'll get it. Wasnt a hard level at all.

i got it 3 trys just cheek my channel if you don't believe

when the big is in the middle jump!

i jumped to the left on the final hog worked like a charm

Yeah, same everything else was easy but thats pig...

I actually didn't have too much trouble with Toxic Waste this time around, because they added scuff marks on the floor where the barrels bounce, so you can easily figure out how to avoid them. Those bee levels in Crash 2, on the other hand...

Toxic Waste wasn't hard for me at all, and I didn't even notice those marks on the floor where the barrels bounce. I just guessed where they were going to land. I only died twice on that level, but that was only because of a few silly mistakes I made near the very beginning.

Bee having was easy all you do is run to bee nest and spin them to death then run it gives you plenty of time

The bees are so much harder to deal with in the PS4 version. Piece of cake in the original!

Too right Bee Having had me fucking pished off! And one time the game actually glitches and he wouldn’t jump back up from being underground, at a point further on that I’d ever got before.... you can imagine how I felt!

I have 86% of the game completed :) its fun

YORCHspartan117 Not really.

I agree. Nowadays games are so easy that even a snake can beat them. Like Mad Max, where you have the shotgun, when you aim it goes slow motion and lock on the giant red barrel to kill your enemy

André Luiz Agra that game was so easy it's not even funny

FlyHigh That's what it was all about

Good game. Is a bit of a marketing gimmick though as you can actually buy the original ports for ps3... But still thoroughly enjoyed it. 😁

what about dark souls - literally tosses me right in there to learn techniques

Cole Redman wait till you play Stormy Ascent.

JacobP-123 I thought Stormy Ascent was easy compared to High Road

The High Road takes the cake for causing so many game overs

and the road to nowhere was pretty fucking hard

Cole Redman LOL i did it in 3 tries

I still haven’t beat it 4 years later 😩

I just beat it actually omfg 😩❤️

Using the ropes on the side is a huge help if you can stick the landing and balance.

And the other one is called Stormy Ascent because it will make you storm with rage

I’ve been on this level for a week

Ascent*

For me Fumbling in The Dark is harder

Earl Diestro You spelled "Stormy Ascent" wrong!

@@michaelalameda2002 i lost 30 lives on that level but i completed it ^^

Jorge You're*

High road? More like Hell Road.

Just 50? I don't believe you! =P

Natalie lol well I'm a veteran at these three games, at least the original versions. I've never played the original stormy ascent. Even I find stormy ascent to be a challenge. But right now I'm getting better at the level as I'm constantly going for the platinum relic.

Late response but you didn't have to get a colored gem on Stormy Ascent.

Stormy Ascent is definitely the hardest level, it cost me 50 lives and 2 days to finish!!!

Why do you think it was cut from the original version

It wasn't accessible in the original version normally, it was only included in some versions and only accessible through cheat codes (also the level was unfinished and buggy).

but with time trials its the same thing, and being rushed to get a relic makes it even harder

Logic Lunacy Hog Wild isnt even that hard. Once you get the timing of the enemies down, it's simple as shit

Logic Lunacy since when are cold hard crash and diggin it hard?? crash 2 is the easiest of the trilogy and I got the platinum

Cold Hard Crash is only annoying if you're trying for all crates.

magiclapras I suppose going for all the crates can be difficult but the level I had most trouble with for the crates was the extra bear level

I'm saying. Hog Wild ranked higher than Slippery Climb. Hell, I'm still puzzled why Native Fortress made it on the list, too. My guess is that they probably didn't bother with the death route in Cold Hard Crash. And Yes, the bees in Diggin it and Bee-having travel much faster than they did in the original.

Mate, I just beat the level recently and it took me 8 hours straight. Played it from 8pm to 4am. Its 5am now. I really need sleep. Defo the hardest level I've played yet.

Same it was my favourite

SCP Jack That is true

It's way easier now. The controls of the first were most of the challenge.

game is actually harder, crash 1 and 2 use 3s physics. The jumps were not designed with these physics in mind.

No, it's not a testament to anything. Modern gaming might be less difficult than back then, but at least it's usually fair; when you die, it's generally because you fucked up. Crash 1 is infuriatingly hard and unfair, so much so that I do not understand how it got two sequels despite my love for the franchise. How any child, which this game was marketed for, could beat even half the levels in the first game without breaking their controllers first or sending them through a window is beyond me.

Not agree. I've played and finished the 3 first Crash Game on PS1 before starting the trilogy (two weeks ago so...) and there's clearly a difference that make the remake way harder. The hitboxes are totally fucked up. Jumping on the edge of a platform will eject you (really frustrating on high road for example...), spinning on ennemis don't always work, getting us kill for nothing, hitboxes ennemies are weird (turtle and electrics things in the end of Crash 2) Jumps are heavier... Not really a problem in fact, but combine with the first problem it's really annoying. Vehicules are not fun to play... Mostly the moto which is almost unplayable when doing the relics. (A trick became impossible on Orange Asphalt on the remake... Or maybe it became a frame / pixel perfect... I've not seen anyone succeed it), Coco's jet ski is weird... but doable (even so, few tricks became almost impossible 'cuz of the controls), The plane is probably the best vehicule, I didn't find anything wrong with it. I also noticed few bugs on the moto levels. - Launching pads are weird... The heigh taken isn't always the same, even with the same speed. - Speed pads can be buggy when we fall on it. At the end of Orange Asphalt, the second pad bugs for me. Crash doesn't take it, there's the sound, but I lose a lot of speed... Tomb Wader : By restarting a lot, the doors can bug and stay wide open the whole run. In general : By restarting a lot, the obstacles patterns can change and loose synchronization. Loading time are crazy for that kind of game.... And I could continue... Overall the remake is excellent, but there are a lot of failed details that need a patch to improve the experience

Big Nigga still pretty good i had 99+ lives and at least 3 game over screens till i completed this hellhole

Don't ever mention that damn level

It doesn't really count because it's a DLC

Scott Holt I had 99 lives and finished with 55 and no game overs 🤗🤗

I finally got the gold relic on it lol

Can you skip future tense?

downzi104 is it not road to nowhere and yes I cried many many times

I was actually new to the game and it only took me about 30 minutes, I did lose a lot of lives tho

I did. until my 93% complete file got overwritten with a 16% one because of the fucking broken autosave. made it back to 90% by the same night and 93% the next morning.

downzi104 me

WivoRN Productions Fuck the High Road

Ashley Shahan .... that's nothing on what I went through with the high road

darksymphony777 I keep telling my husband that I’m SO looking forward to that one and the Slippery Ascend levels. And because I want to finish the game in its entirety with sapphire relics on all of the levels, I’ll be torturing myself over and over again to beat the levels.

Ashley Shahan I sense the sarcasm in there and I agree even before getting to high road for the first time I heard of it's infamy. Thought it an overreaction on their part. Followed by two straight days of that level kicking my ass and losing close to 80 LIVES

Ughhh I hate that level. I’ve been trying to get the gold relic and I’m so fucking over it xD

Ashley Shahan 3 beated it. Next level is easy but the third from native is so god damn hard

TheSchnitzelCrew yep, i think in its place should be... (wait what level? Oh right) Cold hard crash

I thought Area 51 wasn't that hard except for the fact if you want to get a gold relic in that level. But The Bridge level's "SUCKS!"

Why is it in number 2? Should've been Sunset vista at 10 then native a 9 :D

John Young agreed, sunset vista used to be the level that would take me days of coming back to to complete on the original. I passed it in 2 lives with a diamond this time to my surprise.

John Young True

John Young fuck sunset vista. It was only fun at the end. Hog wild was actually nice except for the third moose part

CrashFan95 Oh....that fucking vista...

Technically, Stormy Ascent is not yet in the N.Sane Trilogy.

CrashFan95 sunset vista is just long and with timing easy, stormy anscent is the older brother of slippery climb

Taser9001 true

Indeed. Vista is just long as all hell but not really too difficult and since Stormy Ascent hasn't been added yet, it can't be included in here yet. What had me off-guard was that I didn't see Road Crash on here; fuck that level. The most devastating difficulty spike in the game. For now, however, the uncrowned king of difficult levels in the trilogy is The High Road.

No it's not on the list because its a DLC not everyone can play that level so stormy ascent dose not make the list. if it's a playable level with out DLC or Internet it counts so they have it right high road is the hardest level everyone can play it if they got the game.

Z3ZP me too. got second on the leaderboard. still there last I checked.

Z3ZP that level was hell in the original... so glad it's easier now

Eustace Bagge Yeap, but the originals were a bulk harder alltogether. Like for the Crash 1, where you could not retry bonus levels if you died in them. And Crash 2's dark levels were a lot easier in N.sane trilogy too.

Eustace Bagge I got platinum relic in the original area 51? too.

me too! I thought i would be so angry with it, but two gems + platinum in 2-3 tries

THAT LEVEL WAS SO FREAKING EASY COMPARED TO NATIVE FORTRESS WHAT DO YOU MEAN BRUTHURRRRRRRR

Volteire so no platinum relic?

Im new to the crash games. I Beat it in 30 minutes, I would get angry when I see a checkpoint and die 2 inches away from it, I lost about 27 lives

Hector Guevara no, this has to go to slippery climp/F**KN STORMY ASCENT

Slippery climb is easy for me

Hector Guevara I actually also did good but I got pissed how long the level is I only lost 26 lives cause of the first Jumps of the level then I did really good

I did Road to nowhere without the ropes but I did with ropes in High road

NerdKiller 0.STORMY FUCKING ASCENT

FUCK THAT LEVEL

NerdKiller #1 stormy accent.

Mega Brodie Player Stormy ascent wasn't released on PS4 when I posted the comment

Still not as bad as Cold Hard Crash

Jacob Johnson AAASSS!! FUUUCCKK!!

I don't have Stormy Ascent in my version - is there a way to unlock it? I did see it was available as a purchasable add-on at one point

i bought the game early so it was included but you can buy it from store for $2.99

Eric Wadowsky Download free on the playstation store

it's not free anymore, that was just for the first 1 or 2 months

zeregaa its free now

I'd say piston it away

followthereaper665 I totally agree with you, you just have to be with aku aku mask to complete Cold Hard Crash death route and there was a checkpoint, but the freaking route in Piston it Away is at the middle of the stage, where you have to go through the entire level and go back to get both gems within the route

AND in the original you HAD to leave that one tentacle bot alive!

been there done that got all 42 gems in cb2 and all 44 in cb3

Road to ruin was fucking nuts

I spent about 2 hours trying to finish Spaced Out, that 5 coloured gem path drove me up the fucking wall!

You are a god than. After seeing the shear brutality of Native Fortress, the idea of platiuming the first game totally disappeared.

Happy Kuriboh Someone I know completed the first game 100%, when he finally got the relics and stuff in Slippery Climb, he was on the break of insanity. ;-;

I platinumed both The High Road and Slippery Climb today. Now working on Fumbling in the Dark. I don't want to give up but it's 3:00 AM and I've drunk a bottle of wine. Today has been a hard day.

4:20 AM. Platinumed The High Road, Slipper Climb, and Fumbling in the Dark in one day. 1.5 bottles wine drunk. And I'm going to drink more to forget this torment.

NUMBER C101: SILENT HONOR DARK KNIGHT well you’re a goddamn lying f**k

ClassicGamerX11 I was wondering why that one wasn’t in there. I spent literally hours trying to get the box gem. I finally got it by sacrificing my masks to those goddamn nitro boxes. Those. Goddamn. Nitro boxes. OMGAAAA!!!!!

that gem nearly gave me a game over and i had 30 lives going into the level

Fireboy I agree, Bee-Havin' is way harder than two or three of the levels on this list.

the list was about difficult levels, not easy ones

TSMT me to but to be honest I never knew you can use the rope in that level I thought you would fall off

Super sayian Jay Had the same thought as you really, i'm so glad that I used the rope in that level, or i would've been more angry than what i was

Chuca FTW *OH WEE*

Yup! Good Luck (You're gonna need it.)

franko brahamabeats I somehow beat that level after a literal 5 hours of having my fucking ass handed to me.

Was not out when this video was made

First time I did it, I started the level with 99 lives. At the end of it, only 39 lives remained. That level was pure nightmare. At least I got the gem, so I never had to did it again ...

franko brahamabeats That level made me almost cry for its difficulty! They were right at removing it. I won't NEVER do that level... Never again. I'm lucky I got the gem the very first time I tried, even if it costed me 30 lives.