Warped is my favorite of the trilogy and even I dread the motorcycle races. They do kind of feel like a rough draft for CTR though.

This game is so nostalgic to me, so glad it aged well.

19:23 & 28:47 I love that added "NOT THE BEES!!" voice clip!!xDXDXD!!!

Why the hell does he call Aku Aku "oogaboogidah"

I will say that while not all the other gameplay styles are perfect I think at least most of them are well done and add something to Warped. And honestly i'm probably in small minority but Warped is my favorite Crash game in the trilogy. While Cortex Strikes Back is a great game also Warped for me was a solid experience mostly from beginning to end. The music in this entry in the trilogy is my favorite too. I especially like the variety in locations for the levels as it takes advantage of the time element very well. And the boss battles are really good even if the final boss battle could of been better. I will say though about it being rushed I could see where you're coming from but most PS1 games from what I know didn't exactly have that long of a development cycle. Usually it was around 9 months at the least and 3 years at the most maybe. But I do feel like even though this technically had the shortest development time it's pretty polished even if some things are a little game breaking. Overall I will say great review. Keep up the great work Retro.:)

I'm surprised the comments aren't pouring in knowing this is one of the most beloved PS1 games out there. I personally am in the Crash 2 over 3 camp, but I do like Crash 3 a lot. I could never get the Platinum Relics (then again I didn't even think about using the Super Spin to bypass obstacles). I did use the Bazooka head start trick a lot, though. I got like four Platinums before giving up. I did get all Gold Relics, though (and according to the manual, I REALLY "hauled Bandicoot"). Maybe one of these days, I'll try getting all the Platinums again. Great review.

I think the biker levels would have worked better if they were like Road Rash, but that would be a vast visual change. I didn't mind them so much.

I've been stuck to your videos all week dude! they are great! even though they are admittedly long, you actually thoroughly cover many aspects of the games and never waste time with unnecessary, boring, or repetitive information making the 40 minutes pass by very quickly because it's so entertaining :) awesome dude, I love it!

Dude I just found your channel and wow you're freaking Amazing your quality is a lot better than a lot of these youtubers you just earned me as a sub keep at it I believe in you and you will blow up soon brotha much love and respect man ✊🏽

You didn't talk about the Fake Crash. I think this east egg particularly fun. I any case, congrats for the video and for the channel in general. Your reviews are really detailed and cool.

I love this channel why didn't I find it earlier???

I appreciate the effort u put in ur in depth reviews! Keep it up! Subscribed!

uh isn't he called aku aku

Never had any problem with warped as I as a kid. I enjoyed all stages. :)

*Video has a spoiler alert at the beginning* Oh shit, I better not watch. I don't want Crash 3's epic narrative spoiled for me ;_;

You're content's amazing. I've been looking for long reviews of many of the games you've done on this channel. Thank you so much!

A nother great video man these are great for me to watch whial im on my break at work. I hope enough people watch the video all the way or at least come back I dont want your work to go un seen

Nice review. This is definitely one of the best PS1 games I have played. I think my one gripe was the underwater stages. Ugh, thank god there were only two of them. Also the Motorbike stages I suppose. The steering was fucking awful and it was just matter of luck being able to win the races. I didn't mind the plane stages. However instead of flying around destroying a certain number of targets they should've been like the Rings of Power level right from the start. I would've found flying through an obstacle course of rings more enjoyable.

DUDE THE FROGS KISSING CRASH SCARED ME AS A KID TOO. and what you said about the vague yet distinct early childhood memories. i totally know what you meant.

one of the most difficult games ive ever played in my life. but fun as all heck!

I never really had any of the performance issues, maybe its because I played the game backwards compatible on my ps2.

That's the first time I've heard anyone complain about the tiny black lines.

Such in depth reviews like these make you deserve one million subs. Subbed.

if all the boxes were in the regullar stage, why the hell you would do the death routes/collored gem areas? The game NEEDS to "optional" stuff you need to do in order to get 100%, otherwise it get SUPER BORING really quickly. And again, it's optional, you don't have to do it to get to the end of the game... You just need to do it if you want to be a "hard core player"

Aku Aku isn't a Pokemon! He isn't saying his own name when he says OOGABIDUGAH!

Keep up the good work man, you have a great channel here.

one of my favorite games of all time

Is Dingodile Australian? OMG. In the Spanish versión he was from Mexico.

Fun fact Aku Akus real Canon name on crash 1 is “Bonus Bob” look it up

I'm guessing you don't think as much of the Elemental Shields in Sonic 3 & Knuckles either since, like the power ups in Crash 3, none of them are strictly required for the level design and are kinda just buffs and small assistance.

Are you looking forward to the N. Sane Trilogy, or do you have concerns it will take a dump on your childhood memories?

great review, but i disagree on the motorcycle stages straying too far from crash gameplay i view them as a twist to the auto running stages, like you only go forward and instead of just getting to the end you race opponents. and like the jet pack in crash 2 once you get used to the controls (which shouldn't take too long) the motercycle is fun to use. other then that i pretty much agree with most of your points, overall i think crash 3 is the best in the series it took the refined formula of crash 2 and perfected it and with a splash of variety.

You can use the body slam to break nitro and TNT nearby without dying from it.

14:15 The song playing in the background plays a TNT sound effect right as Crash jumps on a TNT. 👌🏻👌🏻

2:08 What did he just say 😂😂😂😂😂

That whole wrong opinion because it isn't mine is now my new favorite thing.

19:22 28:46 “Not the bees!”

What makes me like Cortex Strikes Back more than Warped is the over use of vehicles, most of them are really boring...

I didn’t even know what the plane spin do

Do you think you'll Do more crash in the future?

Great review!

42:30 SQG IS GAY Can't believe it took me this long to notice it lmao

30:08 I seen the livestream you did way back with this game, so I knew EXACTLY what you were going to say.... ..................Still a good review :) Anticipated for the MMX6 review!!

The only people who think Warped is better than Cortex Strikes back is people with major nostalgia bias because they played 3 first as a kid .

Very nice videos you have here, mate.

7:40 Never seen any of those glitches you mention

are you able to put ads on your videos, would that help spread your content because your channels needs more subs with all the work you've put into it (I don't know how KZfaq works)

You are not playing on original hardware right? This Game had 0 slowdowns, 0 poping

This channel looks pretty legit. I feel the need to leave a cancerous comment now.

The dwarf from game of thrones would be a great Villian for the movie

I think most of the design decisions were made to accommodate time trials.

I love this reviews man!

Good review, but...if this made the devs thing of the atrocity that is the triple spin in crash 4...well

please do Crash Team Racing

42:40 Aren't all 30 sapphire relics required to get the 100%, and all 30 gold relics to get 105%? I'm pretty sure they are. Also, I saw what you did there with the names on the time trial scores. XD

You don't have to use the glide to break anything if you don't want to.

36:26 It's possible to just sit in the corner (I think left hand nearest Tiny) and all the lions will run past you

Egyptian stage can be cheesed with glode, future stage bonus needs glide, aside of that..yeah wasted

Ya know the The backtracking reminds the same fustration as the Forced powerups in the 3D Super Mario Land/World...My gawd they suck. So also curiosity struck me..., but you plan jumping to the next main, or sides of Ps1...Because I really like to see you do Crash Bash. ow

Ahhh, Clancy Brown. The voice of Mr. Krabs from Spongebob.

I like all three equal

really great stuff. subbed. you deserve way more subs!

Normal stage play the fruit bazooka is godsend but for Tim trail...no lol

I would kill to see you do a quickie doesn't cut it on Jak 2.

You should do a review of the original CTR.

But is it really as good as Sonic 3D Blast?

4 YEARS LATE SQUAD WHERE YOU AT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

42:33 SammyClassicSonicFan in a nutshell.

Did you just say that Star Fox 64 had terrific voice acting?

19:20 - I have it on good authority that those are called toads 😋

1:58

To me Aku's chant sounds like Uka's name.

It's Aku Aku. TELL ME you didn't just call him Ooogabooga. -_-. & you're outta your mind if you think Crash Bandicoot 2 doesn't have memorable music...

I like his name for Aku Aku.

2:05 - ...Who? crashbandicoot.wikia.com/wiki/Aku_Aku

The problem for me isn't really in the individual pieces. There are many great levels here and even some fantastic ones. Sure, a couple of vehicle levels are lame, but I actually think most of them are good and some are even pretty great. I also think a few traditional levels are a bit lame, and the levels take longer to get going, but that's no big deal. My problem comes with the glue holding the game together, so to speak. It's good, but it's a lot spottier than 1 and 2. Firstly, you do need to do more backtracking and the backtracking for gems breaks the pace of the game a lot more. Secondly, the warp room is presented a lot more lamely than 2's, which has these gates themed after the levels, a stronger camera, the gems and crystals fitted into the environment, and felt like it had more progression as you went up the floors to reach the next rooms. Instead here you have these halls, and these random room themes, and so on. This shows that some presentation bits from 2 are lost here. The cutscenes are also lamer than 2's. Now, 2's were also mostly the floating head thing, but they looked way cooler and took place in a space you could walk around. They were a lot smoother and cooler. Thirdly, and most importantly to me- this also ties into presentation- the game seriously lacks thematic progression. 1 and 2 had it in spades, but the level themes are doled out so randomly in 3. Why is it that the first boss is in a Roman coliseum and the second is in the Ice Age, for example? There isn't a satisfying order to the level themes as 1 and 2 had... it added TREMENDOUSLY to their storytelling. And yes, the levels are inconsistent in quality- but, I think it's not such a big deal, it's a bigger deal when it's with the other issues the game has. Warped is definitely the most inconsistent of the three and that stinks. It has some amazing parts and it has the ingredients to make a truly great game, but it just falls short of being truly great. Don't get me wrong, I love this game and it deserves to be a classic, but it's weaker than the sum of its parts. I wish that some of the pieces that held it together were stronger. I'm not really giving proper credit to what it does right here at all, because it does so much right, but I'm too tired to write it out, and I'm not doing a full review here. There are just some of my thoughts. I replayed this game pretty recently and the more it marinates, the more I just feel this way. I think 1 and 2 are better overall packages. And yes, I think 1 is actually a great game, I think it's underrated these days. EDIT: when I say backtracking I mean having to repeat levels because you don't have a colored gem or special exit already, Crash 2 paced the secret exits and colored gems perfectly

Ik i'm late but this truly is the best Crash 3 review i've ever seen but i need to adress some stuff: First of all Crash 2 OST makes me cum. There's not a single forgettable piece of music or sound in that game. (Speaking off, that sound when you enter a level oh my god i'm gonna-) In Warped i only liked the prehistoric theme, the death route but egyptian theme and of course the main menu/timetwister theme. Crash 2's OST is way more atmospheric, way more memorable, way more varied and just...you've listened to it, what is there more to say. This is the part where i list my favourites but it's almost the entire OST and they butchered the OSTs in the remakes, only Toxic Waste benefited and only Megamix Mania in Nitro Fueled stuck with me. Second, the ice physics i'm pretty sure are supposed to be like that with the exception of the momentum carrying part so just get used to them and get good. Same can be said for the people that bitch about the bees and backtracking like come the fuck on. Can't you just be patient when running towards the camera? Are you deaf and can't pass the bee part? If you're a newcomer then i understand because you wouldn't know which is the optimal way to go to make collecting everything easier and have less backtracking. Like go left in the level The Pits and kill all the enemies in your way, then go back and just normaly continue to the right like...there's no problem here, literally a one or two time thing. (The example you showed on Night Fight the optimal way is to enter the death route area on the left, get the gem, kill yourself and then continue on the normal path on the right, after you reach the fork, backtrack a little by heading back on the left path where the death area ends, smash the only 2 boxes there that are not far away from the main path and then just continue forward and complete the level. (Sometimes like in Sewer Or Later you don't even have to complete the green gem route, just hope on it, get the gem and then kill yourself to avoid backtracking. But yeah, you need to know about this sort of stuff first which is why i said it's a one or two time thing, for you as a player to get. Also in your Crash 2 review you said there is no hint for that secret green gem pathway in the level Eel Deal. Well, the fact that room exists and is full of nitros is the hint, why would it exist in the first place and why would there be nitros there, guarding what? About the giant polar bear opening the secret pathway in un-bearable...yeah. That 3 bridge boards that don't break thing is pretty hidden and out there tbh, not that big of a hint and noticable...it's still something, unlike Warpeds which we all know that games secrets are an embarrassment. Literally no way of you getting these, only by complete accident or by looking them up) I'm sounding like a nerd having to explain this but this is part of the charm of Crash 2 for me. (Warped makes me fall asleep with its narrow level design and tedious 100% completion, i pretty much never 100% Warped anymore) Having to stay in a level longer in order to complete it, figure out the optimal paths, explore to see if you got everything and maybe find a secret too, it is a struggle the first or second time but that's it. The game is short as it is so it makes sense that all these gems and secrets wouldn't be easy to find and get making for a more satisfying 100% true ending. The camera is the only real issue with all of this, while it works perfectly in literally every other situation...i just thought about deapth perception but the games are fair enough with the shadows and you getting used to the weight of Crash and controling him whenver you want......yeah the camera works great in that 3D or 2D environment, same can be said when chased, but the backtracking can be more fine with a more zoomed out camera. There, fixed. I'd rather backtracking return with a better camera in CB:IAT rather than comepletely removing it. One last thing about Crash 2, there are enemies that encourage you to dig out in levels like Digging Tt and Bee-Having, the hammer weilding Mario looking ones. The don't do a good job...but yeah) Same can be said for when you complete a level but end up missing a lot of boxes meaning this stage should be accessed by a secret in another stage or has a secret in it of itself meaning more challengins platforming for you to complete. Completing the game 100% shouldn't be brain-dead and easy, it is optional after all and you get more sections to playthrough and things to collect in return, plus that makes levels feel connected so what's the issue? You want more shitty vechiles and relics instead? Anyway lol, my thoughts on some of your points aside this was a fantastic review to watch, so insightful but also entertaining. I'm glad you put your biases aside and admited that Crash 2 is the superior one, i mean seriously that games only flaw was the boss fights. Great video dude.

It's AKU AKU! 😡

Crash 1: 5/10 An ok game, but gets repetitive after a while. Also WAY too difficult to be super enjoyable. Crash 2: 8/10 Great levels, environments, and story. The slide mechanic is a nice touch, though backtracking brings this game down. The secrets were also too secretive to the point where the player had no clue where to find them. Crash 3: 9/10 (My first video game ever, but I’ll try to leave out any bias.) Amazing animations, great level variety, fun bosses, cool power-ups, fun time trials, and FANTASTIC music! It’s no wonder this game’s theme song is the most iconic in the series! Backtracking is no longer an issue besides Future Frenzy, but the secrets are still too hard to find (so much so that I only found out this game had secrets a couple of weeks ago, after playing this game for 15 years.) Also the fact that the N. Sane Trilogy made Coco playable in Crash 1 and 2 AND still made it fit in the Crash canon is awesome! The best game in the series in my opinion.

Ok wheres crash 4 review?

You should definately play Crash Bandicoot Twin Sanity

2:03

I actually enjoyed the flight levels, both as a kid and now... but there is no defending the motor bike levels.

the only crash game i beat lmao

Crash 3 is the best PS1 game of all time, only contest is other Crash games.

I like the traditional levels, but HATE the vehicle ones. The bazooka should have been the last power up from beating the game I think.

SQG is gay?

cool channel I subscibed :)

spanking is a form of physical abuse and is not ok

This game's PAL version is way better than the NTSC version

THE NAGHTY DOG TRILOGY IS OVERRATED

This was a GREAT game.

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