I'd make a "it's just like good old times" comment, but you know what? There's new magic at play here. Fantastic work, Ben, could definitely tell you had fun with this video.

A small detail you may have missed for number seven is that when N. Gin is stunned the percussion in the music stops, which makes sense since the mecha itself stops playing during the stun period.

From what I can tell, the reason why your goal in the Crunch fight isn't _hurting_ Crunch with the Wumpa Bazooka, but rather using it to get him to knock Cortex within your striking distance, is meant to show Crunch isn't all bad and that Cortex's control over him is weakening/unstable, foreshadowing that you don't take Crunch down but rather free him from Cortex's control, allowing him to join his fellow Bandicoots' side.

I'm gonna be honest. The entire final act of It's About Time is one of the best moments in any game I've ever played.

25:52 Every time my sister does this fight, she always makes a joke about this scene.

My favorite is Uka Uka from Titans. It goes from a simple boss fight to absolute chaos by the 3rd phase.

Ayyyyyy, thanks for recommending my channel. Very much appreciated! 😁 As basic an opinion as it is, I'd probably say N. Gin's boss in Warped is my favorite. Specifically from the PS1 version if only because your lasers have more punch to them. Crash 4's final boss and Dingodile's Warped and Twinsanity bosses are pretty close behind, as well.

Spoiler for Ben's #1 favorite boss below. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!! I was SO HAPPY you ranked Cortex's final boss fight in Crash 4 as number 1. I ALSO loved everything it did! The music, the context, the gameplay, it was such a magnificent finale!

Show of hands: how many of you said N. Tropy's pre-boss fight speech alongside him once he appeared? (Also, so glad with the new #1 pick.)

I LOVE Cortex's portrait in the final boss fight. So cool and menacing. He might be more comical than in the PS1 days, but he can still be extremely competent and evil as shit when he wants to be.

18:28 I think it's because Cortex's mind control over crunch is stopped, as he says in the ending he was mind controled by cortex

A Top List, man it's been months since your last one on Mario Kart tracks, looking forward to it

Speaking of your old deleted countdowns... I met you by your "Dumb boss ideas" video.

For a second I thought this was a Caddicarus video from the thumbnail. But I'm glad I found this channel

Ah, I remember the old N. Tranced entry. GET A LOAD OF THIS- GET A LOAD OF THIS- GET A LOAD OF THIS

21:01 "Here comes my son, dodododo, here comes my son, & I'll say, he's an egg." - Caddicarus, 2021

"REVERSE Gutair Hero" "Drum Villain" Aaaah, I see what they did there. Fun fact: The Percussion Bot's attacks are actually synced to the music. N Gin will even wait for the music for a cue to a pattern before attacking in between phases.

Something I really appreciate from the final world of Crash 4, is that its first level doesn't have any quantum masks, testing your pure platforming abilities with Crash and Coco, and then the next one fully tests you with all masks, including the final section with all the masks at once in the final bit of the level. It's a really solid finale :D

13:53 - I love the way you described the differences in the behaviour of the energy bolts. Especially the fact that the pink ones are aimed right at you. I always knew that they were the ones that you needed to be the most careful about. But you described the differences better than I understood them. I guess I should have thoroughly read the Fandom page on his boss fight.

Man, Ben, now this was a throwback. Considering your OG Crash bosses video was what introduced me to your channel (9 years ago seems like forever at this point), it gave me a nice flashback while watching this. I could also tell you got so much enjoyment from making this countdown, and it showed. As always, brilliant work, and I can't wait for your next one!

Honourable mentions: Uka Uka(Crash on the Run) Female N. Tropy(Crash on the Run) Mr. Crumb(Crash on the Run) The game is now gone forever so there's no point discussing about them anymore. Fake Crash(Crash 2: N-Tranced) Mutant Cortex(Mind Over Mutant) Cortex(Crash 1) Komodo Bros.(Crash 2) N. Gin(Crash 3) Bearminator(Crash Bash) Crunch & Cortex(Wrath of Cortex) #15 Ripto(Crash Fusion) #14 Crunch & Lo-Lo(Wrath of Cortex) #13 Ripper Roo(Crash 2) #12 Pinstripe(Crash Team Racing) #11 N. Brio(Crash 1 and 4) #10 N. Trance(Crash 2: N-Tranced) #9 Emperor Velo(Crash Nitro Kart(console)) #8 Dingodile(Crash 3) #7 Cortex(Crash 3) #6 N. Tropy(Crash 3) #5 Dingodile(Twinsanity) #4 N. Gin(Crash 2) #3 Evil Twins(Twinsanity) #2 N. Gin(Crash 4) #1 Cortex(Final)(Crash 4)

You mean to tell me you accidentally predicted the end of Crash 4? You epic madlad

I swear, your videos made me want to get the Quadtrilogy. So I have so much 'WHOA!' in my future.

I have to strongly agree with you on crash warped having the strongest boss lineup. They’re all so unique both thematically and gameplay-wise. The only other game that comes close to having as consistently good bosses is crash 4. Man it still feels crazy that we actually have a crash 4. It feels like I’ve stepped into a parallel universe where every game past warped was never made, and there was no hiatus for the bandicoot. It’s funny because the wait for it felt agonizing, especially for the switch version, but it also felt like something announced yesterday

Man calling N. Tropy N. Troopy. The man is named after entropy

I feel personally attached to the number 1 opening. Don’t worry, making fan-fiction isn’t a bad thing, considering our ideas are probably on par with the actual script writers.

Hi Ben! Nice to see you do a remake of the countdown video that introduced me to your channel years back.

I like how people like the video even though the haven't like watched it. It's like someone already predicted this is going to be awesome. I like it.

Kind of funny to remember that I found your channel by accident because I typed One Winged Angel, that song got stuck in my head for a While at the time

As a newcomer, love the effort you put in your videos! loved this one, N Trophy on Crash 3 has a special place in my heart :)

Ooh! Hello! A remake of- wait for it... The countdown that introduced your channel to me. Any by Butterfly effect, introduced me to a TONNE of new games, franchises, and people! I therefore have to say this to you, Ben. Thank you for helping me to broaden my gaming horizons! I now have friends I never thought I'd have and have played games I never would have considered or even heard of before. *Thank you so much!*

Holy crap ive been watching you for nine years what

Most boss fights in Crash games are pretty lacking, but there are some good ones. This will be fun to watch.

Great picks on the countdown and shows that Cortex & N. Gin has amazing fights in the franchise that even Eggman would be jealous of them. XD (No wonder why those two are the most iconic baddies.) Boy, you sure have fun Crash ideas. :) I'm also jealous of ya. XD (Nah, we are Crash bros.) Wonder if you'll do a Top Spyro Boss List? Maybe after a possible Spyro 4. :)

Maybe when Black Mage reaches 100k subs, he can read out one of his Crash fanfics.

Oh god. It's been 9 years? Either way, excellent revisit of the very countdown that introduced me to your channel and made you the first KZfaqr I've consistently followed. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go back to feeling really old.

As someone who watched you back when you mainly did top tens (your older videos) seeing you top tens makes me feel nostalgic. Love your current content more obviously but I'll always remember the old days Edit: if you think number 9's music is good listen to Man on the Internet's version. It's amazing

Ok. First and foremost you didn't have to call us old fans out. Whew those old countdowns were one of a kind

Honestly, my two favorite lines from 3 are not so veiled threats after beating Dingodile and N Tropy "Ya thrashed me, mate. No worries... but soon you'll be up against **much worse** " - Dingodile "My time is up. But yours, soon will be, too..." - Dr Nefarious Tropy A threat that you'll die to the other bosses

My personal favorites: 15) N Gin (Crash 2) 14) N Brio (Crash 1) 13) Cortex (Crash 1) 12) Tikimon (Twinsanity) 11) Papu Papu (Bash) 10) Fake Crash (N Tranced) 9) All Crunch battles (WOC) 8) N Tropy (Warped) 7) N Tropy (N Tranced) 6) Uka Uka (Titans) 5) Aracnina (Titans) 4) N Gin (Warped) 3) Velo (CNK) 2) Cortex (Warped) 1) Oxide (CTR)

for tropy being one of your fav crash bosses you sure do love to pronounce his name wrong

Man Robbie Daymond is in a lot of things I like like Persona 5, he was also Hunter in the Spyro remake, while Morgana's voice actress Cassandra Lee Moris was Elora, and now Crash Bandicoot

Pinstripe is very dangerous in the Crash Team Racing Nitro Fueled remaster. His bombs can home in on you backwards and feel like as if they're twice as strong as the regular ones.

The N in N. Gin is still a mystery to this day but I feel like it's Nitro so it would be a pun on both engine and nitrogen

So fun fact. The N Gin boss from 4 took me two hours. Because I forgot I could crouch. I like, did some stupid move where I jumped off the platform and back on when a high projectile came. Man. I felt so dumb watching this.

Oh God yes, the final boss in Crash 4 is amazing. I'd definitely say it's my favorite boss in the series as well. Also, I love Stephaniesparda's content.

Dingodile will always be one of my favs .

Actually you can slide/crouch jump over the crystals without using the double jump ability in Dingodiles boss fight.

‏‪11:37‬‏ in the Japanese it was cleared that those Creatures are part of his Soul But then N.sane came said " what's soul?"

I love this awesome Egg shape villain N. Trance 21:34

N Tropy should’ve been the 4th boss of Crash 3 with a bigger fight. He’s the new 2nd in command for this game and it makes sense for him to be later given he looks after the Time Machine. The sound design is incredible as well

Oh man, how good it is to finally finish this video. For context, I saw this video a bit after its upload date. I watch the video until the Number 1 entry, where I figure out it's the final boss against Cortex in Crash 4: IAT. Now, my brother and I have reached this point in the game, but we quit because the fight was getting a bit much for him. And, as much as I wanted to take over, he hasn't taken down a final boss himself in a long time, so this was a bit personal. So, as he and I didn't finish the fight against Cortex at that point, I stopped the video right then and there before I was spoiled about how the fight went down. Cut to he and I finally finishing things up as of last night, where we actually defeated him in about 20 minutes after our first attempts, and I finally finish this video now. What a wait I had to go through, but I'd say it was somewhat worth it.

Thanks for reminding me how long it’s been since your old crash top 10 , makes me feel old .😑

Thank you soo much for segmenting each section in the video!

Great countdown Ben. Have you ever thought about doing a Top Number Countdown with Josh Scorcher/Fiery Joker?

Well, thanks for making me feel old for remembering your ol list vids XD And hey, real good boss list! You've got good taste, man.

Bro i started watching your videos with the Veggie Tales video that you did then i saw you did a top 10 sonic bosses that you did with silver and i loved those ones

I actually predicted ahead of time what number 1 would be. Great list Ben!

Color me surprised to see Warped Cortex and Warped Tropy lower on the list than in the original. Then again, as you've proved many times, your opinions changing can give me more and more surprises.

Seeing that N. Tropy fight again just gave me the stupidest grin. I've been watching your videos since the early 2010's, so I've kind of come to associate that fight with you. Funny how that works. :P

It's a bit of a realization when you realize that the original one was made for Crash's *16*th anniversary. Like, wow, you've really improved over those years.

Anyone remember when 10 years ago Ben ripped off Alex's Metal Gear Solid 4 Liquid Ocelot fight segment for taking about Cortex in his final bosses list (the 2011 removed version)

Watching your videos on Crash have gotten me interested in the series myself. Though on the note of possible scenarios future games could potentially cover, with Crash 4 introducing the quantum masks, I'd like to see a game involving the heroes and the quantum masks going up against the villains and the elementals from Wrath of Cortex. Not sure how that setup would occur, but I still think it could be fun

Another great video as usual Black Mage Benjamin! Looking forward to seeing what else you have in store. If your looking to torture yourself, perhaps a review of the Titans games or a Top 15 Worst Crash Bandicoot bosses. Or if your wanting to end the celebration on a high note, a Top 20 Crash Bandicoot Levels.

No one could have expected this video to start with Ripto. In my opinion, Crash Twinsanity could have easily filled a good chunk of a top 15 (or maybe 20, whatever) single-handedly; that game was quite an improvement over most of the boss fights in the original Crash trilogy (especially the first two games). With a few exceptions like Uka Uka in a ice form predictably vulnerable to fire which is conveniently place below his feet and N. Tropy being there just for the sake of filling a gap between the next saving point and an intense chasing sequence with a walrus, Crash Twinsanity had some solid boss fights: great Neo Cortex reunion as the first boss fight, a cool giant Tikimon fight that makes the best use of the Cortex+Crash mechanics, Dingodile being a harder version of himself from Warped, an encounter with Madame Amberly to end our visit to her academy of evil and a great final boss fight with three phases and each of them having one of the 3 playable characters of the game (something that Crash 4 should have done).

Your video hit me in the nostalgia feels man.inpoved your video.

I remember the original crash bosses list. And damn I feel old.

Great list, only one issue despite it being your opinion: Pinstripe in Nitro-Fueled. I totally get it, he's more of a challenge in a game that's actually quite easy. But I couldn't enjoy his battle myself simply because of one fact: How he uses the bowling bombs. When I went against him, even if he just barely got ahead of me, he starts to *FREAKING SPAM THOSE DAMN THINGS!* It was very annoying and almost always cemented a win for him. I had to race him three times and it was annoying everytime, and didn't help that I wasn't good with the shortcut even when it would help. Note that I was playing *on EASY* difficulty. He spammed it like he was throwing candy from a spooky float during a Halloween parade, on the easiest mode of the game! It didn't help that the layout of the track hid the bowling bombs trajectory until way too late, especially when I drifted and was jumping(where you can't steer out of the way of somehow perfectly landing on it) I do think the other boss fights listed are cool(even if I've never played any of them yet, I need a memory card so i could save progress in Warped(yes, I got the game and a PS1 over the weekend tho it didn't come with a memory card lol)), but hey, opinions. I love Pinstripe as a character, with all his hilarious narm, but his boss fight in Nitro-Fueled can go suck on some Megaman X chicken... TL;DR I hate the weasle kart fight cuz he likes to spam the bomb button, but that's just me. Have an awesome day Ben, and sorry for the long comment! Love your vids!

Actually youre doing the dingodile fight the hard way by waiting for the double jump. Doing a slide spin jump covers the crystals much easier completely trivializing the fight

I agree about Pinstripe for CTR. The race was fun yet challeneging and it felt SO good when you beat him.

I love Crash Bandicoot tho! Fun fact I was born the same day it was released. I stream it alot! I'm from Trinidad and Tobago. 🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹 I subbed to u!

Good to see you back at doing what you do best: - though Quarter Guy and Fawful's Minion are close seconds at it - countdowns. During the time before this, I actually watched your older countdowns, and I have to say - you gotta remake some of your old countdowns. Or heck, maybe throw in a few new ones. I'd love to see you do some countdowns related to the Mega Man franchise, Ben! Otherwise, great video, and I can’t wait to see more in the future!

With all the crazy gadgets he has, you'd think N. Gin would be the Big Bad of another game.

Much agreed with your number one pick. Second for me would ve Twinsanity's Dingodile.

Dammit I’ve been looking for that top 10 crash bosses video for years, back when I still knew you as ‘The One Winged Angel’

5:52 Robbie Daymond? Guess cats aren't the only animal he likes to voice.

One big problem I have with the N. Tropy boss in Warped is just the fact that, instead of exposing a weakness through using a move that leaves him open or something along those lines, he simply ALLOWS you to hit him, which honestly makes him feel less compitent since the only reason appears to simply be "so you can beat him" and for no other reason. With other bosses in the franchise, it felt more natural when they use a move that backfires or just simply doesn't have defense (like Papu Papu), but N. Tropy simply allowing you to hurt him just seems... again, incompitent.

Seriously though, this is gonna be great seeing you do a remake of this list. This one here is very special to me because it jump started my interest in countdowns and watching all of you countdown makers until the day came when I started making my own countdowns. So thank you Ben/Maverick for being the one to jump start my interest in countdowns.

let's not forget what Dingo says at the begging of his boss fight

So I'm just gonna start this comment by saying... thank you. It was this video that reminded me of Black Mage Benjamin, one of my single favourite KZfaqrs who I've been a fan of since 2015. I kind of forgot about Ben in 2018, but boy am I happy that I remembered him and got back into his content. With that being said, on to talking about this countdown (over a month after first watching it)! 15. I just realised, Ripto's floating in this battle, yet in Spyro 2 he uses a metal bird-thing to fly in his final phase. I dunno, maybe he picked up a new spell in the time between these games. 14. Hooray for leaps of faith! ...that is all. 13. The secret to making your game pop out - throw in a giant thing to fight early on! 12. You ever notice how the Wumpa Fruit are affected by normal earth gravity in the original Crash 2, whereas in the N. Sane version they fly in a much more space-suited manner? Another nice attention to detail. 11. Oh, yeah, spinning the boss off the arena looks fun. (and we actually end up seeing a similar idea later on in the list) 10. I can't talk about actually playing the fight because I haven't played... most Crash games, but this fight's always been a stand-out for me. I need to play the N. Sane Trilogy... 9. Thankfully the Double Jump doesn't completely break the fight, since you still have to double-jump over the barriers again to avoid the explosion. It's pretty cool that you unlock a second way to fight a boss after beating them. 8. I gave up on Wrath of Cortex before starting the fourth warp room... what a mistake. 7. How fitting that you gave Crash and Coco their Rawk-It Head costumes for this fight. I wonder what they think of N. Gin's music? 6. It was nice to see Fake Crash helping out. Not to mention getting a boss phase with the copter pack. 5. I love the inclusion of Aku Aku and Uka Uka in this fight. (and yeah, punching Cortex into the hole was what I brought up with #11) 4. I've come to love this fight's boss theme, a shame that the original Warped drowned it out with the sound effects. 3. With a fight like this, it makes you wonder why Dingodile just vanished until the revival after this game... 2. Pretty sure it was you talking about this boss (in your Top 15 Favourite Normal Bosses list) that introduced me to Crash Bandicoot, so thanks again! 1. That's five fights with Cortex on one list! How fitting, since he's usually the fifth boss you fight.

The saddest part of the spectators at the beginning of the fight in twinsanity… oxide is there but never has any involvement in the game. I was so excited to maybe see him in another game… nope just there for a second and then gone.

What a great list, I completely agree with every entry on the list. N. Tropy took me by complete surprise though. After you mentioned Cortex, N. Gin, and Dingodile, and still had yet ANOTHER entry from Warped, I thought, who else is left? Certainly, he wouldn’t put Tiny this high. I had completely forgotten the very fight that basically showed us just how awesome N. Tropy was! I blame Crash 4, I still stand by the N. Tropy boss fight being kind of a let down in that game.

K was surprised you actually did a top 10 after sticking to reviews only you mentioned months ago, but this is really cool! Awesome time to do it possibly one more time, then again you did do one.. I think last year or earlier this year I just recalled but still. The top 10 was good, and I loved there was basically no rules in it, like one per franchise and such, but your honest opinion of all boss fights that you played accross the series, it was really cool, and yes I expected the two entries from twinsanity too be on here, though not the entrapy from warped, I never saw the one time you tackled this topic. Hit to say what I liked was how you always imagined different Scinerios a franchise you grew with growing, I do that too, even today I'm I'm totally honest and... I wouldnt mind doing fan stories if I can. And have that dream fulfilled after all these years in the most recent game...... That was awesome bro, I'm happy for you bro, what a blessing God gave you huh? Not many people have dreams like that come true, so this was pretty cool. Plus I'm never going to stop jokingly go like "*clapping* YAY STORY TIME! " lol. And nice KZfaqr you recommended, if I can I'll check him out. Awesome time bro, can't wait to see you next time bro. God Bless. P. S. Whose excited for the Olympics on right now!? Awesome were in Tokyo this year!

Hey long time viewer, first time commenter here. I just wanna say that you really know your stuff with the Crash Bandicoot series. Keep up the good work

N. Gin is my favorite villain too and I love his boss fights so much (mostly the Crash 4 one)

Cortex’s final boss in IAT is great. ~ if only it where in less superficial ball-buster game that doesn’t wanna pat itself on the back as much.

Great job with this Mavy! Can you do a list of your least favorite as well. Oh and my favorite Crash boss is Dingodile from Twinsanity.

Can you do top 15 Spyro the dragon bosses?

*Sees this video* Me:Crash 4:Cortex 2 **Hears about his idea for a story line for cortex** Me:yes, YES! **Sees number 1** Me:My life is complete!

I've only played crash 1, 2, 3, CTR and Bash. Love the first 4, but Lord know i'd really love to play It's about time. Look gorgeous

A shame most of your old vids got the axe. Also. Jekyll Riparoo: While I appreciate the time it took for you to remake a countdown that was unfortunately deleted... *Twang* Hyde Riparoo: WHY WASN'T I IN THIS 1 2?!

Even if the boos battle in one of the most easy ones, the chase of Megamix have an special spot in my heart. More after Nitro Fueled.

Actually, you probably got this comment already a lot, but the Dingodile cheese can be done with the slide jump too. It's just a bit more difficult to pull off

The N-Gin boss fight in Warped kind of reminded me of Boss fights with GUN Mechas in Sonic Adventure 2, mostly because of the shoulder missiles, overall though I do really enjoy N.Gin's boss fights.

Ashamed I had to skip all Crash 4 bosses to avoid spoilers

5:42 Oxide: mmm yes i do unfair jump at start Burnout 2 ai in custom championship: Hold my beer.

Now I have to wonder if the flipside will show its head. Personally think Megamix should've been somewhere on this list (though I suppose unlocking him isn't worth the trouble).

Nice to see you doing top 10s again 👍

Crash Bandicoot Cortex's Revenge Has Begun #8 Dreams Tournament Saga 7/28/22

Wait… Daymond? As in… Robbie “Pancakes” Daymond?