*”Wrath of Cortex didn’t do as well as we had hoped...”*

Why does everyone keep complaining about the checkpoint at the end of the Tsunami level?! It's for the gem challenge!

The fact that Traveller’s Tales made this game in less than a year is very impressive and honestly, it makes me love it even more. It’s one of the first games I’ve ever played.

This game has a special place in my heart, I don't care what people say :p

Many people say that this was a bad game, but I really love this game, I have many good memories of it and for me it has a unique and special style

Wrath of cortex's music is soooo good, i remember when i played it when i was kid

I liked having Coco as a playable character and the addition of some new vehicles. Aside from the horrible loading times, I liked this game a lot.

wrath of cortex is a pretty fun game. I would say it was descent atleast but good god the water levels are terrible thou but the soundtrack was outstanding

Just to let everybody know: The Water Elemental mask was Voiced by the Gunny Himself R.Lee Emery.

Crunch is a good character conceptually because plot wise he's what Cortex was originally trying to create using Crash but failed.

Honestly, this was my favorite Crash game.

Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Crunch, Lord of all Elementals

so that's how they ended up in the iceberg in the beginning of twinsanity...

This is easily my favourite crash game. I have no idea why everyone's hating on it.

The sphere levels were honestly so much fun. Best alternative levels in this game. I hope they bring it back in a new game.

Never understood the hate for it outside of loading times

I remember playing this game on my Xbox and I loved it so much I didn't even know alot of people didn't like it

that second crunch boss battle was the absolute bane of my existence as a child

This was my first Crash game, so it has a special place for me, I got it at the same time as my ps2 (my first console) for Christmas. As my first it obviously didn't strike me as being repetitive, but when I played the first 3 later, particularly Warped, I did see the similarity straight away

My brother and I absolutely loved this game. The endless weekend days and nights we had playing it are some of my best childhood memories ❤

I'd kind of like to see this game's story refined in a new game as a soft reset for the post-PS1 crash canon. just maybe add some things, like new cutscenes & interactions, and maybe show more of what the elementals are capable of, and I'd be happy.

I remember playing this as a child and not being able to beat the first boss fight

*"It's Nothing Like The Original Trilogy."* Sometimes change is good, but it is hard to change what was already good! 😅

The one thing I remember is the boss fights. Each one was unique in its own way. The entire idea of Crunch using the masks was such a cool idea. The last boss was eh, but the others have stuck with me.

tbh this was one of my favorites growing up. I still get nostalgia rewatching these cutscenes and I used to love playing it. I think it got too much hate even though it wasn’t that bad

I know this game was just okay, but my nostalgia bumps this game to pretty good. Also those graphics are pretty good for early PS2. And the music rocks. Though the bosses always took forever to beat as a kid.

“I lost most of my lives attempting this Boss battle” sounds eerily close to my playthrough as a kid, where I have a strange memory of that boss taking exactly 117 lives to beat

"A good boss battle isn't a good boss battle without a bit of frustration" I'd personally say it depends on what exactly causes that frustration of the boss fight. In this case, the boss fight is hard because of how bad jumping feels, not enough height and air time can be taken when doing jumps in this game and it can get easily annoying when in situations like this where platforming takes a huge importance in the game.

I love this series, it's like a trip down memory lane. So much stuff I missed as a kid was explained nicely here!

This was my first game and for that, it’s my favourite Crash now and forever.

How the hell is this game not enjoyable? It's exactly in line with every other Crash game, it was just as creative and familiar as Crash 2 and 3. There is no reason to complain.

"Wah it's so different it's bad" "Wah it's so similar it's bad" Idk why ppl weren't glad for another Crash 3 game (both are great for it's variety), and I don't have any problem with the graphic nor the loading time. I wish they'd remake this as Crash 5 because in Crash 4 you collecting 4 good masks while in this one it's 4 evil masks! (Of course I want Crash Bash remaster more, another underrated game!)

11:22 you actually would need that checkpoint for that blue gem path over there.

7:32 "It's kind of useless, because you never really have to use it" Yep, that's what the word useless means

I really love this video series you started. Keep up the good work!

Just found your channel randomly on KZfaq and gotta say: just love it! I love Crash and now playing Crash 4 it's simply awesome to revive all this ancient games. Played em' all too!!

I just appreciate this series, all these great games I played on the ps2, I’m so glad people still talk about these games in 2020, crash bandicoot is an amazing videogame icon and I am just amazed at how much love he still gets

This is the next remake we need

11:20 that checkpoint is necessary for the blue gem path. It’s probably the hardest platforming section of the game

11:20 the checkpoint is for the blue gem route, it had a little trick for it

This series should be called “Wumpa Reviews” or something

"The Crash Series Retrospective". There's a name for this series.

As a child the only two crash games I had ever played were this and crash twinsanity on the Xbox. I remember putting in the cheat code wombat to unlock all levels because we were too bad to beat them and playing for hours on end with my sister. Those games and the music for them are very nostalgic to me and I love seeing someone else talk about them. I know it’s quite late but thanks for these videos :)

Crunch is the best part of this game hands down. He and the elemental water masks carry this game. Such a great character.

6:22 Get that Dragon in CTR Nitro Fueled as a playable character.

This game is incredibly nostalgic for me because the McDonald's by my house had two Playstations that kids could play this on. It really was great.

I don’t know what it is, but the way you review games really takes me back. Nice job!

I was very much into this game as a kid. Then again, it's possible my own artistic inclinations distracted me from the mere adequacy of the level design. I found the environmental designs were gorgeous, and I'm sure most would agree the music in this game is pretty amazing.

"Crash, Coco, Crunch sounds like a breakfast cereal." - Caddi

The checkpoint after the tsunami is for the blue gem section there - It's pretty spicy to say the least...

The part with music being too loud just killed me! Well done mate, excellent videos.

I fully forgot about this game. Your video has unlocked a secret memory in my head, thank you!

I think it's games like this that really deserve a remake. The creators didn't get to refine everything and make it the way they truly envisioned. This and spyro enter the dragon fly both deserve remakes because the franchise doesn't deserve to be treated poorly ya know? That being said, I think this game is a 5/10. And for a series that at the time had regularly delivered 8.5/10 or higher, it got more hate than it deserved. I don't like it as much as crash tag team racing but I don't dislike it as much as crash of the titans. It's fine. Nothing more nothing less in my opinion. Also, glad I found your channel!!

This was a game from my childhood, so I love it more than I probably should.

My favorite crash game, and that music is so nostalgic for me! These videos are awesome.

I like this game. This is the Crash game that I grew up with and its really cool seeing someone talk about it! Thanks for the great video.

I thought that it was really cool when I played it... i thought it was really cool

i am not really sure that every game was like this but in my experience the game wasnt on dvd. It was on cd (ps2 blue disc). This means that there was less space for the developers to work with. A couple other blue disc games that i got had similar or worse quality in graphics. This explains also the slow load times, and the much faster (and louder) disc spin of the system. The only bad thing i can say about this game is the second boss. As a kid, it was punishingly hard for me, at some point i got so pissed i gave up and stopped playing the game. After quite some time (5 years at least) i got around to it again and actually beat the damn boss. I really enjoyed the rest of the game and it never again felt unfair or harder than it should be. Its cute, its fun and there is a lot to do. in my opinion: crash 3 > wrath of cortex > crash 2

Damn, I had forgotten about all this. Kept remembering so much from this game through the video. I used to play the shit out of crash. Had a hard as balls Gameboy Crash game too. Man, how do you forget stuff you loved? Thanks for the nostalgia trip!

Thank you for explaining the full cutscenes instead of showing the scenes with commentary, really good 👍

I don't understand the hate. I loved this game and thought it took on a fresh take after the original trilogy. Also thought the gameplay graphics were insane good when it came out 😅

This soundtrack ❤❤❤❤

Love your videos. keep up the Good work

I don't remember thinking any Crash game is bad, I love them all ngl

Fun Fact: The water elemental has the same voice actor as the drill sargent in full metal jacket

This was the first video game I ever played. Even if it's lacking in some ways it will always hold a very special place in my heart.

Enjoying this content. Great videos to watch whilst forcing out sludge through my sphincter

Seems like this and Twinsanity have gotten more appreciation over the years. I only played WoC out of the two but I remember liking it a lot.

This is my all time favorite crash game. Sad it never got a remake like the others did.

Seriously man the quality and quantity of your content is so gosh darn good this is one of my new favourite channels, not just because I’m a huge fan of crash, but because now I’m a huge fan of you. Please keep this going :D

I grew up loving this game on the PS2, played this all summer back in 2006 when I first discovered the game. The elemental masks were such cool bosses and just so unique in personality. I would love to see this game remade or remastered like the N.Sane trilogy.

Wumpa Lewis: ctr has taken the crown of long loading times GTA V: Am I a joke to you?

My most played Crash game, I loved it when I was younger.

I love Crunch and I hope he appears more in future games. He's a good boi with TONS of potential!

When I was a kid, I had all the crash games on PS1. I loved them. Even Crash Bash. My uncle had a PS2, so I got his handmedown games. But he had this game! And of course, it being the only Crash game I didn’t have, I wanted to play it every time I went to his house. I loved it. The artistic style. The music. The vehicles. The new characters and concepts. I haven’t replayed this one as an adult, but after watching this, I’m probably going to. The hate is unwarranted. This is a good Crash game.

Honest to God it absolutely was even as a kid whenever I was really disappointed and how the game turned out compared to the original Crash Bandicoot games I still thought the game was amazing and now that I've grown up I've just appreciate the game just that much more sure does it have a major flaws absolutely but I genuinely feel like it's a good game

I’m personally a really big fan of this game, it’s probably my 2nd favorite Crash game ...

I’m getting n sane trilogy for the switch yay

Huge crash fan here, grew up on three originals, was super excited when this came out. Yeah, it is my favorite of the series, still don’t understand the hate behind it.

I completely forgot about this game, and I played the whole thing back in the day and really liked it haha

The checkpoint in Tsunami is for the bonus gem route.

i’ve never played this game but from the looks of it, it doesn’t look horrible like other crash games. Probably bc it’s still in the same fashion of the original trilogy

I like how this and the two other reviews of this game I've seen, one from Caddicarus and the other from ValeforXD, each had the review styled with reviewing each level in the game. Not exactly the same here, but I like how you went with basically the same approach. It shows how this game is such a mixed bag that people have to go into the specifics in order to give the full picture.

This is my favorite Crash game because it's the one I played the most as a child. I'm not old enough to have grown up with the PS1 games and didn't play them until much later in life.

I remember when i was a kid i found this game to be something not "real". I always felt like it was a bad copy of the previous chapters and only now i just found out it was not done by naughty dog lol It feels not only repetitive but more of a bad copy of warped. While twinsanity and titans were just way too different from the main style of the game. In my heart warped will be the best we ever had from the series. Nice vid

“Was this a good game” ... um this was one of my favourites

I think why I liked that game was because of the big variety of environments in each levels, there's a lot of different scenery. The vehicles suck for the most part, but at least they almost always appear in only one level unlike in crash 3, where for me it was often irritating to see another motorbike or jet-ski level when all I wanted to do is platforming. The second boss was pretty challenging as a kid, and beating it was pretty satisfying. The last boss is also a nice boss fight for a game aimed at a young audience. The extra levels that you unlock for getting relics is a nice addition too. They're nothing to brag about for the most part but it was still nice to unlock those. I like the sens of weight that crash has, in a way it's kind of satisfying to play (except when his hanging from iron grids). The OST is really funky, it has some pretty memorable tracks. Overall it's a rather flawed game, most of the vehicles feel out of place in a platformer just like they did in crash 3 ,some of the textures and models are pretty gross to look at, when crash hangs to the grids his speed is reduced by two, and the ps2 loading times are too long. And despite that it's still a game that I had a lot of fun with. It's flawed, but who isn't ?

Good video, mate!

I'm quiet glad later games redesigned the size of Crunch. I found his debut size... umm... too clunky.

I remember playing this as a kid and only beating the entire game once. My PS2 didn't have a memory card, so I had to beat it without turning it off within 3 days because I had to go back to my mom's house.

Not sure if anybody else mentioned this but there's quite a simple reason why you remember the loading screens being long. It's because there are two revisions of the game. Long story short - the devs wanted to add a minigame where crash collected wumpa fruit during the loading screens but they were too short so they artificially made them longer. The publisher didn't want to risk infringing on the Namco patent of games during loading screens so the developers had to remove it but didn't have time to fix the length of the loading screens before launch. They did however have time to fix them for the patched version of the game that shipped out later.

I've never had any issues with WoC's loading times, even when I was little. So I never understood why people complained about them.

this game was the first game I tried 100% holy fuck this game could be frustrating 😂 especially the water crash boss.

This was actually my favorite Crash game 🤷🏻‍♂️ To each their own I guess

I am only just realising now that I never got past the first world back when I played this as a kid

This and twinsanity are literally my childhood, playing death by death runs with friends after school it was one of phew games at the time to stimulate my brain with co-op where not much else had the same effect

11:15 *_WRONG_* You need it for that gem platforming section to get another gem which was difficult af for me the first time but still fun. 15:02 You can tell where the spot to dodge is going to be if you look at Crunch the moment he releases this attack and exposes himself from some particles comming out of him. Great review btw, you gave a lot of insight, most i never knew about and i only disagreed on one part. Woc i believe is better than warped simply because it had variety in themes, excellent soundtrack, good controling vechiles, (Only the sub is the worst in the franchise, the mech i learnt how or what to shoot so i liked and i'd still would love to see how much the geniouses over at oxford studios would've perfected the sub, just like how they perfected almost all of Twinsanity, even their ideas were more Crash than the entire Naughty Dog trilogy) not being stuck in a vechile for most levels, longer sometimes more open and context behind levels. Example: H2O is Crash using the sub to reach an underwater base, then ditches it and goes on foot in search of a crystal. That's so fucking cool. Anyway, MY POINT! This new "more open, playable Coco and Cortex, context behind levels" game reminds me of wrath of cortex with unfortunately a teeny tiny bit of Twinsanity. Unfortunately because the game like wrath of cortex will not be as perfect or at least EXPAND on what the series evolution aka crash twinsanity accomplished, instead we're going back AGAIN to the outdated ND style. Bruh. At this point this "new" game is not as necessary as a twinsanity re-imagine is but whatever. Way.....WAY too fucking early to judge, these are just first impressions.

I feel like crash 4 is kinda a remake of this one because 4 has different masks too.

Wrath of cortex just does so many different and interesting things introduces alot of characters and settings delivered in various game play segments that are so different from one another and the whole mood of the game is just an interesting insight to how PS2 platofmers were handled at the time

I have come to re-watch your review of this game and it has made me realise it is the Early Access for Crash 4