Time Traveling isn't always so bad, and Crash Bandicoot: WARPED is here to show us why. The Bandicoot was on fire after the success of the second game, so can Naughty Dog go for the proverbial Turkey and make a third game that's good?
Ah, those platinum relics. I've aced this game SO many god-damn times, and for the first few goes, they were near impossible sometimes. But - I can say that nowadays, every time I replay this, I platinum every single stage pretty easily. I've played this waaaaaaaay too much.
Probably the same reason why my younger self could defeat the Special Stages in Sonic 2 easily compared to my older self, who cringes at the very thought of trying to go after the Emeralds again.
SomecallmeJohnny Word. I actually managed to get all A ranks in Sonic Adventure 2 on Gamecube, something I have no interest in pursuing again on the PSN release.
I remember one summer I set out to play through Crash 1-3 and fully complete each one. I made it my mission to Finish 3 with all platinum relics and gems. It was hell, but I managed it. No idea how I was able to, but it did it. Seriously, he's not kidding when he says they're hard to get.
I have beat Crash Bandicoot Warped several times getting all the platinum relics. It's extremely difficult, and honestly not that much more rewarding than just getting all gold since you get the same 105% anyway. But it's kinda cool just to say I did it.
"Elliot, Seriously?!" "I swear" "I swear i double-jumped" "Oh my god" Thank you for great review channel, and thank you, for my favorite let`s play series.
of course main reason why it's better(In my opinion at least) it's cause it's simpler and has NO PLOT HOLES. I feel like a time traveling plot CAN work it just has to be simple and straight forward.
***** Not just that. The time travel was just like "Oh hey, here are different time travel places, have fun!" The time travelling wasn't really a story device. It was just kinda there, and we didn't mind... Time travel as a plot device is fucking hard to use. Considering that Sonic GENERALLY doesn't focus on story at all... yeah, that'd be hard.
One of the BEST Crash Bandicoot games EVER!!!!!! It is my personal favorite out of the 3 games. So many things the game did right and I loved it a lot. It is one of the best ever and I still enjoy it even now. Crash feels right, he's got new moves, bosses are fun to battle, voice acting is great and yeah, there's a LOT of replayability here. And also, I can pull off a great N. Tropy voice.
Crash 3 is my favourite as well. 1 and 2 are games I need to be in a certain mood to play. Not with 3, I can play that anytime and never get sick of it.
Mario 3 Sonic 3 & Knux Zelda 3 (Link to the Past) Mega Man 3 Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon Super Metroid (Third Metroid Game) Shantae 3 (Pirates' Curse) upholds the "3's are good" tradition, but it's a exception nowadays. 3's, instead of being great, are instead pretty bad. 2's are the new "sweet spot" sequel. 1- The First Game. Series trying to find itself. 2- Takes everything that makes the first good, and takes out whatever was bad about 1. 3- Devs get too overambitious trying to top 2 and 3 goes off the rails.
This game realty is a timeless relic of it's time and it's crazy how they used everything they learned from the first two games and applied them here. Yeah, it had a lot of vehicle levels but even with that... The game still managed to be a success. It's pretty crazy what happened to the platforming style of Crash Bandicoot after the PS1 era. Anyway, awesome review!
Johnny's outros are always so considerate to the audience! One of the reasons why I take time out of my schedule to re-watch his old videos too! ^_^ You're so cool Johnny, I wanna be like you! Jolly, smart and with a great sense of humour! :3
Spyro the Dragon was by far my favourite trilogy, heck Ripto's Rage was the first game I ever owned and completed. You could say it picked up where Crash 3 left off and took PlayStation platforming to the next level with fully explorable 3D worlds with multiple pathways.
Even though I've only played and beaten the game once at a friend's house, I adored this game. This game is that good. One of my favorites for the PS1.
I remember playing this game when I was younger, and those Platinum Relics... Oh god, I spent so much time on those levels! But I got them all, and on a side note - I always loved how Spyro and Crash games always had hidden demos for the others' games. Was a nice touch, you know.
I've played Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped ever since I was kid, but I had no idea a demo of 'Spyro The Dragon' was in there until I saw this review. If only I knew that earlier...
ColourShedProductions you must not have had the manual because it tells you. why back in my day I read the manuals and these young whippersnappers have their so-called "eco friendly" cases because they don't want to read and get off my lawn sonny!
Aw, I was really hoping for a Spyro marathon. Crash and Spyro were among the titans that made the PS1 so great. I grew up on that little purple dragon, and to this day the original trilogy still holds two of my favorite games of all time. I really do recommend the PS1 Spyro games, John, more specifically the second the third games. They've got charm, fun challenges, and *phenomenal* soundtracks. You should give them a look.
Generally speaking, I agree with you completely. Spyro 2 and 3 were amazing games, and their soundtracks were great. Though to be fair, I like Spyro 1 more than Spyro 2, because out of the whole trilogy Spyro 2 has the most backtracking. An expected feature for this type of game, granted, and Spyro 1's lack of it could be jarring, but I would rather not have it than have too much. Spyro 3 strikes the best balance.
YamiShadow Kitty Good points all around. Though personally, I didn't mind Spyro 2's backtracking too much because it's got a very "Metroid" way of approaching it, in that you only do it when you've learned something new and now you'll have access to a new area or challenge whenever you go back. But I can totally see how it would get annoying for some. (I'm looking at you, Fracture Hills.)
I'm just sitting here, imagining what would happen if Johnny did a Kingdom Hearts Marathon. I think his head would freakin explode because of the complicated plot. XD
Oh god, I freaking LOVED this game when I was young. When we weren't playing Spyro, we were playing this damn game. I cannot tell you how many times we completed this game, and it might be the only game I actively tried to 100%, and may have been the only one that I did 100%. It was the first (and only) Bandicoot game I've played, but I have really fond memories of this game. When my twin sister and older brother would play this game, we would always be on standby for each of us to play our favorite levels. I always loved and played the china wall running levels, and my sister and me would swap between the water levels. My brother usually got the bosses, and more difficult levels like the underwater sections and lava levels. Ah, good times.
Hahaha! Yeah I know right especially when you had to chase them on those super speed tracks. Mind you I'm not going to lie you know the one thing I loved about Year of the Dragon? In the last world where instead of dropping eggs they had an absolute ton of Gems instead.
This is definitely one of my favourite games of all time! Love the review Johnny! ^_^ Speaking of Platinum Relics, I will agree they are very hard to accomplish, but with enough retry's you should be able to pull them off no problem! First time I did it was as a Let's Play and trust me, some level were frustrating. (I actually did it twice because i'd practice before hand and it still took a while the second time xD) except for the Tiger levels, i'd always love speedrunning them :)
The only console I had and grew up with as a child was a PS1. So watching your Crash reviews just hit me with so much nostalgic memories. Thank you. :)
To me this is one of the best games ever made. It's so creative with the level design, challenge design, even the death are unique and funny. I think the Crash series really helped me develop as a kid. I had a total blast playing this back in the day and hope that maybe, one day, someone will do a HD remake of these games with better graphics to maybe one day give it to my kids.
depends on what you consider modern crash while i don't really like wrath of cortex it's still in the same style of the ps1 games and twinsanity was a good game imo.
The Japanese versions also have secret videos that can be seen by holding down a button combination when you boot the games. Also, Aku Aku interrupts the game to tell you hints when you release him from a crate, even in the first two games (text-based dialogue in the first game, spoken dialogue in the second and third games).
Here we are. The Crash game I grew up with. Well, I didn't own it, but my brother and I played it all the time at my cousins house. They didn't have a memory card, so we played through the whole game without any saves, multiple times. Great memories, good review, I'd like to get copies of the original 3 crash games myself.
Ahh, Crash 3 it's still one of best platformers that i ever play. It's all i need, for me and in the country where i live and my old not knowledge of happens in the video game world it was one of the last Crash Banticoot platformer that it got the series, after that Crash Team racing came and it was a great time to pass with my friends trying to beat the sh*t out of each other in races, or that combat mode that it had. To me this was the last entry of the Crash Banticoot series, until a LOT of years later (about 2009!!!) where i came to the knowledge that warped wasn't the last entry of the series BUT that they got worse as the time went on... im still scare to play then because i love SO MUCH the first trilogy that, i don't want to think about what happen to the series after it. I just stayed with the original trilogy and never touched a new Crash Banticoot game that it isn't from the first trilogy or Crash Team racing
The first one I ever played was Dora the Explorer: Lost City. Still haven't beat it since by the time I knew how, my disk was too badly damaged to play.
I was never a big fan of the motorcycle stages as I couldn't control the bike properly. Still my favourite game in the PS1 era though. Crash Bandicoot and Spyro were pretty much my childhood heroes, and I still love them. Those were the days...
After your done reviewing the rest of the Crash games you should totally play Spyro next those two are like best pals they even had crossover games together
Yo. I've been watching your reviews for a while now. In all honesty I just put them on while I get ready for work because I've watched so many other of the more popular reviewers. What do you do different? You're no bullshit. There's no fifteen minute intro song, no shitty CG effects, no constant voice in the back throwing horrid jokes every chance it can. You review video games and don't expect the viewer to be entertained by material made for ten year olds. Keep up the mature, to the point work you are doing. You're cutting a damn good name for yourself.
Not a bad review. I just downloaded Crash 3 last night and had a blast with all the nostalgia flowing back. Definitely one of the best games to play as a kid who only had a PlayStation!
Hey Johnny I want to say congratulations on nearly hitting 100,00 Subs. But what I wanted to say is that I had another idea. I thought that when you have finished with the Crash Bandicoot marathon, or just when you have time. You could (of course on you decision) to do a month of Mario 2. Where you take a look at the 3D Mario games such as Super Mario 64(and briefly at it's DS remake), Super Mario Sunshine, Super Mario Galaxy, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Super Mario 3D Land and Super Mario 3D World. It's just a thought, you don't have to do it.
SomecallmeJohnny- Are you one of the guys from The Super Gaming Brothers?; If so, I had no idea that you even had your own RU-vid page until now Great review.
+mymansora14 Yeah, somecallmejohnny is his main channel. Huh, I never thought about the fact that sonme people may know him from SGB more than his main channel. Although having said that, somecallmejohnny's show was originally called the Super Gaming Bros., but then Elliot got caught up at school or university or something, and Johnny ended up being on his. Thus, henceforth his reviews were called "Johnny Vs", not "SGB". And then a second channel was made that carried over the name "Super Gaming Bros.", and now because it was a "Let's Play" channel, there was incentive for there to be the whole group present and thus the "brothers".
Crash Bandicoot Warped was AMAZING! I can’t think Naughty Dogs enough for putting this game into the best of the best third Crash Bandicoot game back in the late 1990’s
I grew up with spyro and crash, I like spyro a little more but both give me a lot of nostalgic memories. I can't wait for you to review the first 3 spyro games cuz those are the best
One of my first Crash games i've ever played.. man so many memories. Although Crash 3 maybe the easiest in the original trilogy I had alot more fun and there's alot more to do in this game that in the first two. Great review, looking forward to Team Racing.
My favorite Crash game. The first one was a bitch to fully complete and second one was yeah a very very very solid platform game but it did have times of frustration. Warped however felt like the perfect Crash game.
Agree completely about the dual shock. I remember my first experience of it being the first Gran Turismo game. Vibrating on impacts and analogue steering.. awesome memories.
Hey I just wanted to thank you for some of your more recent PS1/Castlevania previews. Because of your looking into of Rondo of Blood I have since acquired a copy of Dracula X Chronicles for my PSP and I am having a blast with it. Keep up the good work :)
This was my FIRST Crash Bandicoot game and it always holds a special place in my heart. the guy saying "CRASH BANDICOOT...WAAAARPED" always scared me as a kid lol
Yay! CTR, the game that put racing games on the MAP for me! :D Sadly, I can't really play it anymore for fear of my eyes bleeding ever since I started playing the graphically superior Mario Kart 7. Still a great racing title, though! :D
Tbh, I like Warped, but I liked Crash 2 better. It just felt like a more pure experience for me. It had all the improvements over Crash 1, with none of 3's gimmicks.
The Beaverhouse Especially the control,in this game Crash has his heaviness feeling from the first game again so now it's a bit slightly slippery jumping the other way now which is why I prefer the 2nd since it has you have control over his jumps if you need to turn around and it doesn't have the heaviness from the first nor the third. So yeah 2nd game is the best!
I'm so glad someone else feels this way. I just beat this game today (got 104 percent... did NOT get the gold relics lol) for the first time and I felt that 2 was the better experience. I was NOT fond of the whole time trial aspect and it being mandatory for getting the good ending.
Great review man! I had forgotten how amazing this game was! Btw, You really should give the Spyro games a go. While I think Crash Bandicoot is a little more fun overall. I would still recommend Spyro to anyone who grew up loving Playstation in the 90's! Especially a platformer fan.
+Minumu5e Yes, it does. Nefarious Tropy. N. Tropy for short. I think between Crash 3 and the later Crash games made by Eurocom, VV, Activison, etc they only say Nefarious Tropy a few times.
really the 2 series dont really compare. Crash had very different rules, gameplay and tone than Mario 64. imo, i liked Crash more. but thats not a stab at Mario 64 as i feel that was a very well designed game in its own right. i just prefer Crash.
3Bismyname Well as platforming goes in general, I think i just prefer Mario 64's open worlds and areas to explore rather than crash's hallways...They are very different games though, I can see why some people would prefer crash...
While I respect Mario 64 for being revolutionized into 3D gaming, the game has aged very poorly. The later levels were getting repetitive and the controls & camera are so outdated. Not to mentioned the 100 completions is an chore to do. Mario 64 is an decent game. But I'll take the Crash Trilogy games, Sypro the Dragon trilogy or any 3D platforming games over Mario 64 anyday. And I rather play any 3D Mario games over 64. Yes. Even Sunshine.
I've replayed Mario 64 not too long ago. Still a fantastic game. Yes the control and camera show their age, but the level design is still some of the best in a 3D platformer. Being able to skip 50 stars makes for a comfortable progression structure that's accessible and keeps the game timeless. Would I say I like it more than the Crash and Spyro trilogy? Depends on the specific games really. I'd take it over Crash 1, Crash 2 and Spyro 2 for multiple reasons. Crash 1 is excruciatingly unforgiving when going for 100%, Crash 2 feels stiff and has questionable level design, and Spyro 2 meanders a lot and focuses too much on side-attractions. I would tie it with Spyro 1 and Spyro 3, and below Crash 3 though.
I completely understand how you feel about the platinum relics, I had to do flaming passion so many times with frame perfect accuracy for me to get the time I needed, and even then I just barely made it.
Now that I think about it, I feel like 1998 was basically a year of time travel video games, despite the fact that I only played 1/3 of these games when it originally released in 1998, the time I was in middle school. The other 2 games I wouldn't play till 2-5 years later, during the time I was in high school. The 3 games released in 1998 that involve time travel are (in no particular order)... #1: Crash Bandicoot: Warped for the PlayStation, which involves time travel to all different time periods, like Ancient Egypt, Medieval times, Ice Age, the future & more. #2: Duke Nukem: Time to Kill, exclusively for the PlayStation, which involves time travel to the Wild West, Medieval times & Ancient Rome. #3: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for the Nintendo 64, which has Link traveling between his childhood & 7 years later as an adult, but he ages or de-ages (depending on if you're going forward or backward). Duke Nukem: Time to Kill was the only 1 of those games I played roughly around the time of its release, when I was in 7th Grade (Christmas present along with the PlayStation & a few other games). This game, we didn't own till Summer of 2000, when I was between 8th Grade & my Freshman year in high school & The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (which was actually the Nintendo GameCube re-release that also had the Master Quest version, which I still haven't finished to this day) we got in Summer 2003, between my Junior & Senior years in high school, but I did get the Nintendo 64 original years later as an adult.
YES! OMG, I agree with you for the most part, but I LOVED the Motorcycle levels. Also I almost have all Platinum Relics for this game but I do have all Platinum Relics for CTR. :D
