My Honest Thoughts on Crash Twinsanity - Square Eyed Jak 

Objectively this game is a 5/10. In my heart it's an 8/10

The only Crash game I feel truly warrants a remake, cause it just has so much potential to be the game it deserved to be.

Twinsanity needed another year or two in development, it's amazing how cut content and concepts from it still surface in the 2020s. If a beta ISO gets leaked, then we'll see some really interesting stuff

I love that crash has been back but I wish we had a new game like twinsanity. The open world feel, great soundtrack and goofyness to it made it one of my favorite games ever.

I just realized even the intro reflects how you've gone from being an Angry Nerd who gets drunk and craps on things to a more mellow, chill dude, since at the end instead of chucking the modern controller in disgust you hold up the Switch and smile. Cheers! 😇

The open world-ish level design is something I have to seriously applaud Travelers Tales for. They understand what makes an idea like this work (when it works) and I'm happy they continue to thrive with this idea with the Lego games

This is the best review of the game honestly you gave this game a fair critique, It's an interesting game to talk about, I was shocked when I knew that this game was going to be ratchet and clank rip off when it started development and then the devs reworked everything from scratch with only one year left of development, I agree that the cut content wasn't necessary going to be good the game already has problems and glitches and unpolished gameplay on its own that need a lot of tweaking let alone adding another content to it, maybe they should make a new crash 5 that uses some of the great ideas that twinsanity introduced.

I remember getting this for Christmas in 2004, it was glitchy as hell but definitely one of my favorites

This video is music to my ears. 19:05 I always tell people that TwinS. getting remade wouldn't be the same game. Great work, man.

Now that I think about it, seeing all the cut content brought back into the game in some form of remake would be iffy. Because while it would be cool to finally see all the things that were cut put into the game, not all of it would be good, and would ultimately affect many aspects of the game overall. However, this is a game that I still love despite its untapped potential, and this could serve as a blueprint for what a true open world Crash Bandicoot could be like.

24:46 Glad I’m not the only one who noticed this. CTR Nitro Fueled was supposedly a “love letter” to the Crash franchise and yet Twinsanity was pretty much ignored by the developers.

7 YEARS???? I remember catching that old video of yours when it was barely a year old, time really does fly huh. It was my first time watching you as well. Needless to say, your content has only gotten better and better over the years, it's been fun to watch you grow. Big fan of this revisit on a game I'm very nostalgic for. Cheers mate!

Excellent first review of the year, looking forward to seeing what else you have planned

I just hope Microsoft revives Crash again with a Twinsanity remake, a remake with all the missing content and the rough edges sanded down would legitimately be incredible.

Despite it being unfinished and buggy it remains one of, if not the best crash games.. well at least how i remember it. This is the one crash game that warrants a remake.

Crash Twinsanity is a Masterpiece to me despite the game being heavily rushed and having lots of bugs and glitches 😊 The Game is Very Fun and The Music is Beautiful and Amazing 🎵 Crash Twinsanity is a Very Special Treasure that I will always cherish forever in my Heart ❤️ My Life will be complete if we get a Crash Twinsanity Remake with all the cut levels added in so it would be fully finished like it was suppose to be if it wasn’t heavily rushed. If it happens, Crash Twinsanity will be an even bigger Masterpiece than ever before and I can die happy 😊❤️💎

Been watching a lot of videos of yours lately so it's great to see a new one pop up!

Twinsanity was always that one entry I could never pin my exact thoughts on. It kinda reminds me of DMC 4, where the game itself is good, but was clearly unfinished in areas (Dante's levels were just Nero's in reverse, and the game was not balanced around him as he snaps the game wide open when mastered)

Love seeing my favorite RU-vidr uploading! Thanks for another great video mate.

I still remember that old review being one of my favourites nice to see you give a more seasoned eye to it

Great revisit, I feel like this game leaves a strong impression on everyone whether they like it or not. When you talk about the future of Crash gameplay regarding linear + open world I agree with that. Maybe each section of the game could have it's own open worldish hub area with the linear levels contained within it, kinda similar to Jak and Daxter The Precursor Legacy. Oddly enough I do feel like Twinsanity took a lot of inspiration from TPL in terms of combining linear and open areas.

Replayed this game fully for the first time in a VERY long time this week. It was my fave Crash game growing up and I’ve always had fond memories of it. Replaying it exposed the massive flaws it has. Riddled with bugs, very short length, plot lines going nowhere, horrid camera, underuse of Cortex and Nina, I could go on. BUT, I still loved it, warts and all. I could listen to that god like soundtrack any day of the week, I could explore N. Sanity beach and hunt for gems for hours, I could get angry and fucking scream at the tv for the bullshit Insta kill nitro box placement for ages. It’s a disaster of a game, a busted broken trainwreck that barely passes as a beta, never mind a fully finished game, but god do I love it, and I’ll stand by it ‘til I die

Great video Jack. You never cease to post high quality content!

Great video, Jak! That "ugly truth most people chose to ignore when it comes to Twinsanity" is something that has bugged me from day one: This game is a complete mess. Yes, music is a subjective topic (I love it), as it is the humour (It's a 50/50 for me), plus the locations and graphics are pretty solid. But the bugs (lots of game breaking ones, too), flawed mechanics, cut content, unskippable cutscenes, recycled content, USELESS Aku Aku, etc... is what brings it down in my book. I kinda like this game, but not a whole lot. I wouldn't give it anything higher than a 5/10. It could've been a lot better if it had more development time, but that's something we'll never know. Loved the impartial critique approach. Keep those videos coming, Jak! Have a great fucking day!

jesus i am happy to see you doing this review particulerly

Always good to see a new upload from one of my favorite youtubers of all-time! Really enjoyed the video and I can’t wait to see what’s in store for 2022. Road to 50,000 subscribers!!!

Glad to see you back, and talking about my favourite! ;)

I'm only 3 Minutes into this video and I love the references to crash games I love your videos Jak, the reviews and room tours are very inspiring!

6:44 Yes! Whiplash! I'd love it if you reviewed this game. A mess for sure, but I love it. Not sure if you'd feel the same. And nice review, mate! I never finished the game myself, but this is the first I heard of all of the cut content. I love development stories, so thanks for bringing it up :)

Happy new years man I hope ut goes good for ya jack much love thank you for the content all these years

The poor man’s jack and daxter

So glad to see you back mate!

This game needs a remake imo, I still think it's vanilla version is awesome, I love the graphics and character models are so amazing

That sleek new intro transition with the Switch Screen is so clever, I adore it!

Haha, loved the captions part from you're old video

The game that connected me to this excellent channel. It's good to be back

Incredibly fair review. I myself are on the side of loving this game in my heart but seeing the flaws. I still think seeing this game and all its concepts at its fullest potential (something in a Crash 4 vein perhaps?) would be great. But that'll be the day. Great review as always Jak 🙏

Nice Re-review, Looking forward to the next video. I wonder what crazy platformer series you will review next.

I always get excited when Jak posts a new video

Jack is a top bloke! Hope youre doing well with the seizures and shit youve been struggling with. Love your videos, always so thorough and well excecuted, you get around every little piece of detail when reviewing something and I appericiate that!

Gotta say that it was awesome to get a new review from you even if it's just a re-review which honestly was more than justified. I liked the old review at the time and it's nostalgic for sure but I was hoping you would go back and give it a proper review with the matured and more experienced style you've developed since that time. I think your assessment of the game was totally fair and I agree with most of what you said. There's no question that if they just gave the developers more time to sort things out and fine-tune the game, it would've ended up in a lot better state. But for what it is, it's just one of those games that you either love or hate but seems like most of us really love it despite it's flaws and we appreciate the risks they took with it instead of playing it safe like they did with Wrath of Cortex. The open world was handled very nicely from a presentation standpoint, the way the locations were transitioned into each other felt natural and really helped sell that grand adventure type feeling they were trying to employ here and open-world was really the next best thing for Crash because it would've gotten stale doing the same linear levels over and over all and the Crash series had enough source material to fully commit to making a fully breathable world. All in all the game is not perfect but it's arguably one of Crash's most interesting games and unlike the Mutants spinoff, fans can admit that it was intriguing even if they didn't necessarily enjoy it. Anyway I can blather on forever so I'll stop there. Awesome re-review Jak and glad to see a new one from you, here's to 2022 and looking forward to what you have in store!

It will always be a classic imo. Bugs and all, still great to see you make videos!

This game was truly one of kind. If any Crash game deserves a remaster, it is for def-o this one.

I’m very glad you’re revisiting the crash bandicoot games, your old videos were very fun & nostalgic but you didn’t give twinsanity a critical & honest review, since the original video was made at the start of your RU-vid career, you were still learning after all

I went and checked out that Reddit post detailing what Twinsanity could've been, and even just skimming it, I saw numerous concepts and ideas that I myself hadn't even CONSIDERED, and I've had some VERY ambitious ideas for a potential remake/reimagining/whatever in the past.

Hey man great to see you still making vids hope you are doing well with all the crazy stuff in Australia recently

Amazing review as always Jak, it's always a treat watching you talk about our favorite bandicoot. And to revisit Twinsanity of all things! Immediately stopped what I was doing to check it out haha. Twinsanity is easily one of my favorite titles of the franchise, perhaps even my absolute favorite. It's kind of funny to be honest; I've always been the kind of player who'd chase after every single gem, but I never really actually bothered to check the artwork that you'd unlock from collecting them. I had no idea there was so many scrapped content from this game; it really makes me curious to what they were going for in the original project. Keep up the good work Jak, looking forward to the next review! Also just so you know, I really enjoyed the Klonoa review as well. Cheers from Brazil amigo!

Legendary revisit! Great point on how a remake of this game would be a very different game than what we have here.

Yes i agree with you in that they can use Twinsanity as a proof of concept to open up a potential Crash 5 for a mix of open world and classic levels, but on the aesthetic and story ideas we already got the door open for multiple dimensions and higher realities, it would be a natural evolution from Crash 4 if you ask me. On the whole, while i love this game, and it's certainly a much more enjoyable experience than Wrath of Cortex, it is not on the level of the actually great Crash games such as 1,2,3 and CTR, i see it as slightly better than Bash, even though i love both games in spite of their flaws.

This is so well scripted and paced, especially for a review of such an old game, great video Now I need to check what the hell is that speedrun

Hope you’re doing well jak love your videos

The only thing that I didn't like was that if I accidently walked the wrong way it would make me have to repeat certain parts that were already completed.

The Square Eyed One has COMEBACK....to RU-vid and with the Bandicoot in tow. It will never NOT shit me just how far you've come since those first Crash reviews. Hope everything is good outside of here, Jakman.

I enjoyed the shit out of your last game testing episode, so I'm pumped as hell to watch this (haven't watched it through yet). Glad to have you back at it, mate! And with the Orange X-Bastard nonetheless...

Great review Jak! Picked this one up when I was buying up old PS2 games that I missed out on and I would have to agree with you on many of your points. Imagine if the devs had a few more months to polish things out. At the very least it's still remembered fondly by the Crash fan base so I guess that's something.

I just really want another Crash game with the sort-of free roaming and a fully moveable camera that Twinsanity has, I want that more than a remake of this game

Ve been waiting for you!

My first exposure to any aspect of this game was seeing a video that paired one of the songs from this game to footage of a Storm Trooper hip thrusting. That was the peak of comedy to me back in middle school. And I had no idea it came from this game until a few years ago. The music in this game is simply magical.

That transition from the Switch screen into the video was smooth.

This actually felt like going into different universes. I wished in crash 4, after beating N-tropy, the N-tropies escape to Tawna's dimension, where we see what a universe with crash losing is like. The sn@xx dimension could have easily been part of bermugula, we could have just gone from the nature part to the urban parts by going from crash landed to food run. Would have added more depth to N-tropy and Tawna, rather than just random characters to make the plot move forward

Still one of my two most favourite games of all time and always will be. The other one is Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers Of Sky, if any of you were wondering.

You need to upload more my dude. I love your vids

It was rushed and still came out good, not alot of developers can do that. It would be amazing if they finished it, but a man can dream

Honestly think it’s such a sin you’ve only got around 50k subs I’ve been watching u for about 6/7 years n ur easily the funniest and best reviewer imo keep at it man, the millions will come 😎

While I agree with pretty much everything you stated, I still personally would love a fully fleshed out Twinsanity game. I know it would pretty much be a completely different game, and that's great! They should make it lol. Instead of polishing what's already there in a remake, they could take all the cut ideas, restructure them, and make something completely new. It would not only warm the hearts of the hundreds(thousands?) of people that have wanted to see the cut content, but it could also be something completely new and different for the next generation of gamers. And now that we're in a time where everyone prefers developers take their time, whether that be months, years, or even decades, it would make sense to try it. But they should make it a new thing. Drop the Twinsanity title, change some of the aspects to not make it look like a ripoff, and fully embrace everything that didn't happen while respecting the game that tried and failed. It would be a love-letter to Twinsanity, Crash himself, and all the fans new and old. And I'm not saying they should remake the cut content exactly, but to put in under a new vision and give it a proper home.

Really enjoyed watching your modern take on this game. Honestly now I just want to see more of what they will do with the Crash franchise. This video did not help me suppress that feeling.

Great video man, still think its a 7/10 but thanks for revisiting the game

Has it been 7 years since the original review? I remember watching that when it was new. What the fuck is time even

Where have you been my man! Your my favorite RU-vidr my guy keep it up

16:11 I know probably someone else already mentioned this, but this is pretty obviously a loading segment. The game loads the iceberg lab as it works with a real time level loading system as a semi-open world game.

Games like this make me wonder. What REALLY could have happened if they had way more time then initially given? What if, in the far far distant future, when we've discovered time travel, if we go back in time to games like this, that went through dev hell, and show the developers what their creation will look like in the future if they don't get their shit together, or are granted more time. We can only imagine

I hope we will see a remake to this amazing game in the future

Hope you're doing well Jak!

Early 00s platformers had great humor (Rayman 3, Twinsanity, Ratchet and Clank). Dunno why the new platformers are so void of good writing.

The biggest thing Twinsanity gave us was Nina and....im happy fore that as honestly Nina is my favrite Crash charakter. I also wonder if she was always supposed too be mute in Twisanity ore they simply cut any and all diologue she had ore didnt have the time too record voice lines fore her

Hooray! Our favourite Australian is back in action!

Always like to to go back on your channel to watch your vids pal! Greetings from Moscow! C:

Nice review ! even with all it's querks i really enjoyed the game a lot when it released.

I swear. I wish we had a completed Twinsanity with Microsoft's assistance. Imagine. Microsoft released a completed Twinsanity, picking away the glitches, remastered, etc. I know. I know. New crash is what we need, but come on. There's more opportunities. Microsoft is HUGE. They can literally assign some new dudes in the Xbox team, etc. Hire an a capella group that has the sound of Spyralmouth, etc. This would be an ingenious move and finish the job travellers tales and vicarious visions tried to do before

I still love this game I never knew this game went through a lot cuts due to development hell. But overall I have fun playing this game and that’s really what I look at when playing games.

The open world element did it for me really. Managing to keep that ''crash vibe'' in an open world is something i still wish for to this day. I was very excited when Mind over Mutant turned out to be open world but ehh...backtracking isn't my tea. I also feel the graphics and style of the game still hold up

6:45 one game I've played that has a mechanic similar to this (though it's more similar to Whiplash than Twinsanity) is the more recent Hell Pie. You're a demon swinging around a cherub strapped to a chain.

Ooh another SEJ review. And a childhood memory at that. Lemme grab the popcorn and beer.

played this game 2 weeks ago for the first time ever. Love the humor, love the music, love Ninas first debut.... but there is also a lot of frustrating things, special mechanics like the bear traps to jump on or Ninas grabling move. Not sure if this is because of the game, or if it acts like this cause of the modern tv (like you can't play some old rhytm games on modern tv) but a lot of time I died cause these mechanics did not work properbly. I think I go classic megaman with this one and have a sorta love/hate relationship with it. Like I love the concept, the designs and ideas.... but gameplay it self...

Glad you mentioned the possibility that the game could have sucked regardless of the cut content. There’s a lot of ideas in the game I find inherently flawed and knowing that the engine was as easy to fuck with things in levels with as fucking Mario Maker tells me they were drastically changing levels every five minutes. The whole of development was just throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks and the amount of cut content accentuates that more than negates it. I love looking into what this game could have been as much as the next guy but like you said, for all we know it *could* have been awful. The final game obviously could have benefitted from a lot of it, but to be like “ZOMG WE NEED TO BRING THE GAME BACK WITH ALL ITS CUT STUFF” brings to mind a product that’s somehow MORE unfocused than it already is. Whether better or for worse things in development get scrapped for a reason, in this case it was 90% of the planned content

1:44 joke aside, the Klonoa video did well in my heart ♥️

Not gonna lie, whenever I hear the OST I just think of "It's that _CLASSIC_ Spiralmouth *_tune!!"_* from your Crash mobile games video. XP

THE GOD DAMN LEGEND RETURNS

I did thoroughly enjoy this game. Back in the day, I didn't even realise a new crash game was due for release and I randomly picked up a copy on release day for only £20 as the shop had priced it up wrong. Loved the majority of the game and the humour. Some of the new characters were lacking and there were plenty of bugs but overall it was a great experience. Shame it didn't really sell well or get decent reviews back in the old magazines. Aside from the bugs the biggest let down is the lack of a level select option, which makes it harder to pick up and play for short periods.

I look up review of this game every few months so I can see what new videos are done on it, regarding reviews, thoughts, all that. Excited to watch this, cool to see you revisiting it! To me, I'd call it one of the best post-Naughty Dog Crash games, which is putting aside childhood nostalgia as back then I also liked Wrath of Cortex, Nitro Kart and CTTR, none of which I consider that good now. I still think it's one of the best, but it's very clearly unfinished. As it is, it's very good, but it had the potential to be greater. A remake could definitely start to do that but would lose some of the charm in the humour in the progress. Would be better for a remake than literally any other Crash game though. Wonder if Spiralmouth still exists?

Oh neat new intro. Kinda wish you did the a cappella singing though for the intro. Throw it on the Square Eyed Jak Soundtrak.

I remember saying about character switching in twinsanity from one of your old streams in 2017/2018 or so and yet till this day I kinda wish it had that. like maybe for like optional gem puzzles and such... although now during years I do started to understand why the game is like this, I do kinda wish we could possibly have a re-imagine remake of this game Also fun fact: About the whole cortex hoverboard gimmick thing is actually still in the game although it's invisible and only can be accessed in front of cortex in the boss arena, after that you would started fly really fast and there's not even an animation indicated you riding. My head canon is probably during the unused level between leaving the evil academy and go back to iceberg lab, is that probably one point the engine either the steering of the hoverboard is mess up and crash and cortex have to find some parts to fix it back up

Oh boy oh boy time for new Square Eyes

If a lot of that cut content can't be put into a remake, then it absolutely should be at least reworked into some kinda followup. Kinda disappointing that it didn't even get that much for the most part.

If they were to remake Twinsanity, they would need to completely redo some things from scratch. As fun as this game can be, it can't help but remain as a game that probably feels like it was gonna be cancelled, but was pushed out so they could make some money from it at least. Maybe the reason Twinsanity doesn't get a remake now is because maybe the ideas they had for the cut content just... didn't really end up working as well as it sounded? Idk, this game did impact the series in a certain way, but it probably should just remain as a fun and interesting experiment with a troubled development cycle. I'd rather they just work on Crash 5 instead.

I generally agree that the game shouldn't get a remake, but I do see a lot of potential in the idea of revisiting the concept for a new game. If they took the common criticisms of Twinsanity into account and focused on making something inspired but new and polished, it might make for a fun experience. Especially if they roll with the "optional co-op" idea.

I honestly feel bad I never got to experience this game in it's entirety, I would play it for hours at my cousin's place every time I went over even though he had no Memory Card for his PS2. The farthest I had ever gotten was to the end of Hokem Totem, but then my cousin misplaced the game and it was never seen again. Despite that, the game would go on to hold a very special place in my heart, and so would the game's soundtrack.

1:40 LOL Got the reference you were going for. 😆

Damn 7 years

Haha I loved your Neo Cortex Reference in the beginning. "The Klonoa video didnt do as well as we had hoped" "Wrath of cortex didnt do as well as we'd hoped.." Only real OGS of twinsanity will get the reference!