Oh my gosh, that is insane

Oh sweet Chaos, I am so sorry

It’s a lot faster on PS5 which just takes a few seconds at best

No, he’s right about the D-Pad. Even though the game is designed with both in mind, a D-Pad is handier for precision with landing (like the track of the mine carts he tried to jump back on and oversteered because joysticks tend to make you overcorrect because they are ‘floatier’) and aligning yourself to jump on boxes. A D-Pad feels a bit heavier compared to a joystick, so if you ever panic, there’s a change you can still save yourself because you won’t overshoot a safe platform. Not to mention the joystick can mess up your path position like Caddy mentioned, making it easier to miss boxes compared to going in a straight line with the D-Pad and being guaranteed to break all of them as long as you time your jumps and spins right. I myself have used a joystick for games for years, but Crash 1 changed that. That game went from fricking hard to easy/normal difficulty just by using the D-Pad alone. Crash 4 is the same way, making you feel like you’re steering a train (D-Pad) instead of controlling a car with a very light steering wheel on ice (joystick). Yes, the D-Pad feels unnatural to use at first, but once you’re used to it, it makes the games a lot easier. I might sometimes use the joystick on safe areas where precision isn’t needed, but as soon as I need to be jumping and stuff, I switch back to the D-Pad because I’m not gonna make it harder for myself to complete.

@@Sweetie.21 skill issue. The n sane trilogy version of crash 1 is infinitely easier for me BECAUSE you can use the joystick, and i can barely play the original with its dpad only setup. You can indeed say I have a dpad skill issue, but the stick is just as easy if you're good with it.

@@Sweetie.21 also that was really bad playing on caddy's part in that toxic tunnels section, I never ever play that badly, he quite frankly stinks at using them if he has that bad overcorrection.

@@noname-jt6kl I guess joysticks can be handy if you need to correct a huge distance at once, as the D-Pad lets you make tiny adjustments. In my experience one press is moving one box forward, so things like box bridges I do right without thinking because it’s literally one press at a time. And with a joystick if you don’t go straight over it, you’ll most likely have to correct yourself halfway through and it’s easier to accidentally jump over a box that way too.

@@Sweetie.21 I never overshoot nor need to correct with a stick that's a skill issue