Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time Review - Square Eyed Jak 

This is a long video just to say “You can play as Dingodile. 10/10.”

A lesson in villainy: Don't make your gauntlets, secret mazes or passages too hard. You might never know when you'll have to go back to the past to prevent your younger self from making a terrible mistake, therefore you'd just be making things harder for yourself when you'll have to go through those areas yourself.

The moment Dingodile referred to the bastards as, well, bastards. That’s when I knew this was the perfect game.

Plot Twist: The real reason they called it "Crash 4" wasn't just for fanservice, but as their cheeky way of saying "If you haven't mastered Crash 1-3 yet, THIS GAME WILL SLAUGHTER YOU."

After crashes drug relapse in the 2000s I’m glad to see that he’s out of rehab and looking much better.

"The best first boss fight of the ENTIRE SERIES... behind Cortex and Mecha Bandicoot in Twinsanity, of course." Too right, mate. (:

It's like they saw that one review comparing the series to Dark Souls and went, "Oh, you think _that_ was difficult? It can be so much worse."

>call warp room "outdated" THEMS FIGHTIN' WORDS JAK lol

Here I am 26 years old laughing at a man saying booty calls.

I love this game, but you’re right about N. Tropy’s wasted potential as a villain. I wish Dr. Cortex had just been the main villain though the entire game and that that he and Tropy had just split up as soon as the first time rift opened. Then at the end we could have had the two N. Tropy’s meeting each other or something. I really hope that Tropy takes the centre stage as the final boss in a future game. He is much more threatening than Cortex.

As someone who never played any of the Crash games (to their entirety), I finally get it now. This game is excellence in platforming, and now I have to play the original trilogy. Even if I already have the N. Sane Trilogy, I feel like I need to play the PS1 originals for solidarity

Lani Loli being voiced by Richard Horvitz (Zim's VA) just suits him so well: zany, annoying and really funny.

I think we should've faced off against Oxide at the end of the space area, then the two Tropys at the end of the future levels, and then finally Cortex at the end of the game, but that's just me.

Am I only the one who wants a spinoff game of Dingodile and Tawna.

You summed up my feelings entirely, Crash Bandicoot has returned and hopefully somewhat permanently this time! maybe we'll get a 9 year long gap instead of 12!!

Another Miss Opportunity is not give us an Alternate Universe Crash called "General Crash" as a Hidden Boss.

Great review, completely agree with you on N Verted mode, the ones that actually change up the gameplay like the sonar light one and paint one are so much fun, but the ones that are just a visual change are really boring. Also agree with you on the Tropys being wasted, I wouldn't have minded the story playing out like it did if the boss fight was more climactic to match, but it wasn't. It felt like you were suppose to fight them with all the different characters like the final boss in Twinsanity.

The fact you can play as Dingodile (my personal favorite Crash character) in this game makes it officially the best Crash title.

Excellent review, and I'm so glad you give proper scores. No funny business handing out 10s all over the place, devaluing it.

The review that we've all been waiting for is finally out , "IT'S ABOUT TIME "😁

I’m surprised Jak hasn’t noticed the Spyro and Skylanders Easter Eggs in this game! (Specifically the Spyro Pool Floaty, and the Eruptor Parade Balloon) Or at least they weren’t directly mentioned if he did notice them.

Difficulty aside, one of the best parts of this game is unlocking those awesome skins for both Crash and Coco. By the time you reach the ice section, the gems you need for the levels skin increases past 6, meaning you must conquer the inverted levels as well. Of course, the last 6 levels may seem impossible to get even 10 of the 12 gems (with 2 levels in Cortex Castle requiring ALL 12...) But, that effort is like a wearable trophy the devs give you for conquering the level. They want to give you a fair reward for all of your hard work, and at one point I might just challenge myself to complete the set...

Just Finnished the game, and I have the same thoughts, the game sure gave us some good information of what actually happened back in crash 3, and I am well sure of spyro 4 in 2021 hopefully!

The difficulty in this game makes Dark Souls looks like a cheesecake.

This is the first Crash game to... 1) have more than 5 worlds (6 if you count Warped and Wrath of Cortex's special worlds) 2) Have Dingodile and Tawna playable 3) VHS tapes as collectables 4) Being able to Wall Run 5) To have cuss words 6) Where Aku Aku spin around you kinda like CTR's invincibility 7) Introduce a mirror mode 8) To debut the fire crate, red ring crate, and gold wumpa crate 9) Louise, Female N Tropy, and quantum masks makes their debut 10) Make wumpa fruit part of 100% completion (Unless you count unlocking portals in Crash Purple)

Only jack praises a game that much and gives it a 8

I'm so glad I avoided all leaks and spoilers, becuase THAT character that you said was our first leaked glimpse of this game... was a total surprise to me! Shame about what happened there but hey, still good.

This game turned out very well cause it was also co-developed by heavy iron studios. The same developers who made BFBB.

An 8 to Square Eyed Jak is a 10 to anyone else.

Been absolutely dying for this review Jak! You’ve always been my go to Crash guy ever since finding your Twinsanity video years ago. Top class video mate

The review of legend has finally emerged!

So great to see other aussies on youtube! Will def be going back checking out all your videos mate. Great review aswell

Theres a lot i like about this game. But as a completionist i think some levels have wayyyyyy too many boxes and secrets. In crash 1-3 the average box count was in the 20-60s In crash 4, you routinely see levels with 2-300 boxes. Makes it a bit of a chore. Not to mention the n. Sane relics, n. Verted levels, and crystal merely based on how many wumpa you collect. Just seems like they thought more was better.

Finally, the only review that matters when it comes to Crash 4!!

Thanks for the review! Going to get it very soon. I just wanna say that your reviews make me nostalgic as you review games as they were, and should be reviewed. Never change

Jack:this is the best crash bandicoot game! Also him:gives the game a lower score than the original ctr.

I've been waiting to hear your thoughts about this game! I truly admire the passion you put into making all your videos Jak. Can't wait for another review on CTR! Have an amazing week bro

I’ve been waiting for you to drop this review for about a week now haha great video as always jak!

HELL YEAHH! I've been waiting for your review man! After years of watching your channel, I'm really glad you got Crash 4 early and I hope the same thing happens for the inevitable Spyro 4 :D

The additional challenge this game brings is a welcome change of pace for the series, much like switching antagonists, more playable characters and the new quantum masks are elements that bring a fresh twist on the established Crash Bandicoot formula, and I have a feeling the next game after is going to be wild. Also, with Tawna, the booty's always calling, when nobody else does...Sorry, just putting it out there.

I love how Jak is growing into his personality, he is so much more laid-back and cheeky than before!

Once again another solid review 😊 You always make some very good points when breaking everything down bit by bit ❤

Hey, Jak. I want to thank you for the content you produce. I'm not doing okay right now, but I'm watching one of your older videos; and it's putting me in a better mood. I don't know how often you get messages like this, but I want you to know that I genuinely appreciate your efforts. Thanks again.

It's about time! You do the best most detailed Crash reviews.

It’s About Time for another Square Eyed Jak Crash review! So happy to see you discuss this one!

I just wish N. Tropy weren't a bit wasted and we could've see more interactions between characters

I haven't played the game in a few days but goddamn I went through and did the last 3 worlds and beat the game at 5am just to tune into this review. Pretty much summed up my opinion on the game. Although honestly I wasn't the biggest fan of the death route half of the side characters levels. Was real annoying and tedious to do half of the same level I already played again. The combining of different mask abilities was something I was hoping they'd do for a good chunk of levels too. That final gauntlet got me to 81 deaths but goddamn I had fun. Great review as always! ✌

Great review mate. I'm still yet to finish but this review has me excited to finish it :)

Was anyone else hoping for an Oxide boss fight after he showed up?

27:14 I actually really enjoyed that platforming through the air segment, thought it was really cool and really fun.

I’ve been waiting for your review of this 😃😃 it’s about time 😏

Yayy!! 😁 I've been really looking forward to your verdict on this game Jak. It's easily the hardest Crash Bandicoot game I've played, without a shadow of a doubt 😛 Hope you're keeping safe and thanks for more amazing content ❤ Love the amazing thumbnail for this video.

I agree with everything in this video, but as for the characters, I just wished they made more bonding cutscenes and maybe even a boss battle were you have to play with all of them. It would've made it just a bit better storywise, and it would made Tawna's arc, about her being 'soloing' everything, much better.

Great video mate been watching for awhile always enjoy your reviews

After seeing your video on this game it makes me want to go back to N. Sane Trilogy replay the trilogy then play Crash 4. Great video Jak and here’s to Crash’s bright future!

Excellent review Jack! Glad you enjoyed it as well!

I feel like they should have added a gem for beating the bosses without dying or maybe even a skin, best of both worlds

Spectacular review of a phenomenal game! I kind of have to agree with you on the N.Tropy part and a couple other nitpicks too as they could've been so much more fleshed out. But in the end however, it came out as the marvelous game all have us have been waiting for until now.

Great channel. Love your videos and reviews.

It’s a great day when you upload brother!

This is by far my 2nd favourite game of 2020

Alright, thanks for doing this review, Square Eyed Jak! Can you please do Crash Bandicoot 4 Levels Ranked, please? I’d love to hear your thoughts on them. They were loads of fun

For the N.trophy boss battle I would've made it where you play as all the characters like the female N.trophy you play as Tawna and Dingodile and for our N.trophy you play as Crash, Coco, And Cortex.

I want to see if they make a new spyro game like this, that would be awesome.

It's about time you did a review good work mate

I'm happy to see your death count was similar to the one I had in that last Crash platforming level, was beginning to think I had lost my touch. xD Glad to have finally gotten to see your perspective on the game, here's to a bright future for yourself, as well as the orange marsupial. :)

Too bad the new Tawna design has to be so revolting. Ridiculous.

I played the 2 and 3 and I just got done playing this one. Shocking how challenging it was, I originally was gonna do a completions run like I did on 2 but after a few levels I knew that wasn’t gonna happen lol

After all these years of watching Jak's Crash B videos thinking he was ruining or hating on the games, I feel like he isn't doing that I will always support you Jak, no matter how bad the games will be or how funny the reviews are! awesome job dude from down under!

Great review Jack, can’t wait to play this game when I can.

Good review, and while i have a lot of fun with Crash 4, i simply cant say that is the best Crash game, especially for some big flaws with the level design that have some cheap difficult spikes, box placements and the simplicity vs complexity that makes the trilogy better in some points.... CTR and Warped are still the peak of the series for me.

I was worried you would over criticise crash 4 like so many out there but you where fair and pointed out the genuine flaws without taking away how incredible the game ultimately is, I was really happy with N tropy being the main antagonist of crash 4 as even since crash 3, he unlike Tiny, N gin and Dingodile wasn't a henchman to Cortex but rather worked for Uka Uka in the same vein as Cortex. I still consider him the main antagonists of crash 4 and since I wasn't expecting much from the story early on, the story worked for me despite the miss opportunity to show us more but the boss was great until it ended, I thought thay where building up to the boss with some platforming (shame) considering you gave crash 2 & 3 an 8/10 from memory lol I'm glad crash 4 is also an 8, IMO it's as good as 2 & 3, your review has made my day!

Been waiting for this review. Like... it's about time!

>has a playable cortex >has a character with a grappling hook why do i feel like this is activision trying to test the waters for a twinsanity-esque game?

It's here boys!!! The one we all been waiting on!!!

Yeah, if I had an entire straight year to waste, I still doubt I'd ever be able to platinum this game, the later stages took me over 30 deaths to complete each, when I started the game I thought I'd have a chance if I just kept reloading the level, that stopped about 30% into the game, this game's difficulty is brutal, I don't even want to imagine trying to complete the time trials for them, even barring the developer times.

I've been very much anticipating this one.

After so much hype this game almost became the best in the franchkse, but then it went down the same rocky road as Sonic Unleashed and disappoint me. The purple gem was cut for no reason and with all the different dimensions, there could have been more Crash villains showing up, but no, the potential was wasted. The N Sanely Perfect Relics also provide such an unnecessary spike in difficulty. I usually like Crash, but after this one it's going to be a long time before I willingly get hyped up for a game again.

25:18 dingodile perfectly matches all of our reaction to the n tropies. and 26:48 seriously, you got to appreciate this stellar animation.

You're 1 year younger then me. It is about time! Crash 4 came out on my birthday lmao.

Y’know after seeing the results of Spyro Reignited Trilogy and Crash 4, let’s hope that Spyro gets the same treatment as Crash did. To FINALLY get the Year of The Dragon follow-up the purple dragon deserves.

Another great video my dude!

Nice, i was waiting for your review. Its a great game and probably one of the best ones in the franchise

In terms of the narrative; I do agree with what you said on N.Tropy, I really wished we saw more of him being fleshed out in the game. But I do have some more issues with this plot; Uka Uka is pretty much absent in the whole game which seems like a really big missed opportunity, it would've been cool to see him make a surprise return as a bonus villain of some kind. N.Brio is back to working for Cortex again for whatever reason despite that he helped Crash and Coco in the 2nd game, I really don't get why he's on his side again, especially since it's pretty clear that he's still not happy to be working for him. Alt Tawna was a cool concept too but pretty underdeveloped, she's just a background character in my eyes(unless we're looking at her rear!), I think this is more so a timeline issue as well since we don't get much of those stages which left me pretty underwhelmed as a result. And I really wished the game had ended with N.Tropy's defeat, instead we get the Sn@xx dimension which would've been a lot better as a bonus world of some kind for full completion, and the whole Cortex Island world whilst it is a really cool concept, I honestly don't think this was the right game to pull that off, maybe in a sequel sure but not really this game, like it just comes out of nowhere with no buildup and Cortex's interactions with his past self really made me cringe, especially since I honestly never took Cortex seriously as a villain ever since Twinsanity so having him be the final villain instead of Tropy really ruins what felt like a pretty solid story to me. Alright on its own but definitely could've been a whole lot better.

The 3 life gem is ridiculous.

Just had the longest shift waiting to watch this!

I gotta say, i completely disagree with you on the N. Verted filters. I actually find them quite cool and visually pretty to look at.

Honestly I'm still in the middle of playing the game and haven't beaten it yet and by the looks of it, it's going to be awhile what with personal life things and whatnot but anyway, I was really trying to hold off on spoiling myself with this game but as soon as you uploaded this review I was like... "Fuck it..." So I bit the bullet and watched. I'm sure that the experience of playing it will still be as rewarding even if I get spoilers. Anyway this was a great review but I wasn't expecting anything less from one of the top earlier contributors to the Crash Bandicoot series. Honestly I'm pretty mixed so far. I agree 110% that the Art Direction of this game is phenomenal. Cartoony, vivid colors, and full of expression, it's just.. I can't really think of the right word to use to describe how much i love the art style and direction in this game. The best thing about it is that it does feel like an honest to God true progression of the original art style from the original Naughty Dog Trilogy. I especially love Crash's new design. It's built upon the original model but modernized in a tasteful way that still manages to look adorable + cool and not jarring at all, just AMAZING. The only design I'm a little "eh" with was Tawna's, not really digging the hair and I would've preferred 1, they gave her a more Lara Croft -esq type of look as a neat throwback to the 90s and 2, they just made this the REAL Tawna, not an alternate dimension version. I mean hey, what's so bad about Tawna spending all her time away training and going on adventures? That would've been so cool in my opinion. Now the thing that I'm pretty mixed with is the difficulty. I'm just gonna be honest, I was never one of those Crash players who was truly invested in the time trials and speedrunning and all that jazz, I was just someone who was more of a casual Crash player who liked when the difficulty was more in the middle as well as taking in the world design, music, and what little story there was. So really, I'm very shaky with the difficulty spikes throughout this game and I know, I know. "Get Gud" and all that. I'm not gonna sit here and say that the game is shit because it can be brutal at a lot of points. However for someone who is more of a casual fan of the games and is content with a game so long as it's not piss easy, I'm not gonna pretend like I love super hard games because that isn't true at all. In short, I'm not really digging the difficulty spikes and the sad thing is I could forgive them if the later levels weren't so long but unfortunately they are and it sucks saying that because again, I love the art of this game. I can't really comment on the story since I'm not that far in yet but I will say that I do appreciate that they really went the extra mile to make the story more engaging than it ever was in the original trilogy. Anyway despite the unforgiving difficulty, I can tell this game was a labor of love to the classic fans and I knew that the hardcore fans were especially gonna love the difficulty of the game and for that, I don't fault Toys for Bob doing that. But for me, the game is artistic masterpiece, a true Picasso of modern day, next-gen Cartoon style for video games that I think present the absolute extent of where we can go with this art style in video games and I LOVE it. The gameplay functions and works near perfect, feels natural to control Crash and the other characters. All this said, I'm looking forward to Toys for Bob making another Crash game. I think that for once, Crash Bandicoot is in good, capable hands who know and understand what Crash is about which is a blessing after Crash's dark age. Amazing review Jak, never disappoint!

Another solid video ◽️👀Jak we appreciate it!

No Jak bad timing this is a distraction, I graduate school tomorrow I need to finish so much of my work and you have to upload a review i've been most excited for right now!! Goddammit you xD

Thank god finally someone actually says something logical about the story. It definitely isn't that good for the reasons Jak talks about here. And tbh to me at least it was a letdown to see how the story went, even though the final twist in the end was really clever.

I feel like this game capitalises too much on the nostalgia of the original 3 games, but it's great to see a brand new Crash console game for the first time in so many years that isn't a remake.

Ahh hell yea, a new Square Eyed Jack video

Awesome review man

The Best Review Ever ✌️ Big Up from France.

Dingodile is easily the best thing ever to be in a crash game

One of my favourite games to play right now. It’s like I’m a kid again.

That Mel Winkiler tribute is sick

I actually got the game and I'm not planning on 106 percenting this game, instead I plan on playing all of the levels including the flashback levels so I can get more out of this game

Awesome review Jak.