É Crash 2, parece que não tem jeito, mesmo com o passar do tempo eu continuo achando um jogo bem fraquinho. A movimentação do Crash é mais ágil e ele ganha novos movimentos melhorando o gameplay e é só isso que ele tem de melhor que o primeiro. O jogo tem um level design chato e sem graça com muita repetição, e mesmo com os belos gráficos do remake o visual das fases, que era o problema que sempre esteve engravado na minha mente persistem, são chatos, sem vida e repetitivos, sem aquela ambientação incrível e variada do primeiro. Ainda é divertido de se jogar pois é Crash, mas de resto continuo achando o mais fraco da trilogia original. Não é de maneira alguma um jogo ruim, visto que é um jogo muito querido e é apenas uma opinião impopular minha.

Refine everything about the first game that made it fun, add some additional moves and challenges, and you've got a sequel that easily trumps its predecessor. Its difficulty feels a tad reduced, however it definitely amps up towards the end of the game (aside from the final boss, which is so pathetically easy I beat it first try completely by accident). I think it balances the difficulty the best out of all of the Crash games (I've played). It starts off easy, but has a very satisfying gradual incline.

Crash 2 is the one of the original trilogy I was most familiar with going into my first time completion of all of the N-Sane Trilogy remakes, and I rather get the feeling the overfamiliarity of failed playthrough attempts and watching a lot of casual and top level gameplay of this one dulled the edges that the game offers a little too much for me. I can recognise that it's presented way better, is much more player friendly and overall improves the experience in every conceivable way, yet my own pre-exposure to it really lead to it lacking that punch and feeling of trailblazing Crash 1 had about it in my eyes.

It's really a game I'd want to come back to once I've spent enough time away from it and the dust has settled. But weirdly, finishing it for the first time didn't confirm the opinion I thought it would that it's my favourite like I'd been convinced of for so many years, it actually ended up currently slipping down to 3rd place.

''Neo Cortex the crystal fan vs. N.Brio the based gem enjoyer'' the game.

I'm happy to report that yeah, I liked this one more than the first game... but I still didn't love it as much as I hoped, which it really pains me 'cause in most areas this one hell of an upgrade from the last entry!

A story that picks up from where the last game left on and has much more presence with mini-cutscenes through the game, ditching the world map and introducing the warp rooms, an incredibly cool way of presenting levels with more variety and letting you play them in the order you prefer, much more build-up before the boss fights and a BANGER of a soundtrack are the most noticeable improvements, and all of them plus what was already good from Crash 1... but I just can't say with a good conscience that I see it as a monumental achievement and a sequel that solves all of the problems the original had, in great part because of its own nature of being... well, more Crash Bandicoot.

The levels do appear to be more interesting, with far more varied themes and the objective being not only reaching the end, but also grabbing the crystal, tho this one doesn't appear that much of added challenge or a deal-breaker, they just are on a part that tends to be half-way through the level and are anything but hidden, but hey, collecting the gems you get by breaking all the boxes and the colored secret ones was much more fun than it ever was in the first game, so that's that. And while yeah, there are much more interesting and varied level themes, they aren't particularly interesting, mainly because they tend to repeat a similar structure: all ice levels have a 2D section, all temple levels have the same obstacles, all the bee levels are my worst nightmare, and so on and so forth. I can't say that I really liked the levels when the ones that pop up in my head when I think of the game are the ones I got incredibly frustrated instead of the ones where I had a ton of fun, and that's just 'cause there aren't that many exceptional levels here (Except the Jet Board and Jet Pack levels, those are incredibly fun a total blast to beat and complete).

And while I do like the presentation and design on the bosses, once again they all are by far the easiest part of the game, and they are mostly really uninteresting, the final boss specially us surprisingly easy and simple. At the same time, the only boss that isn't painfully easy it's painfully tedious and long, so I guess it could have been worse.

The hitboxes are once again a mixed bag, tho in this case it wasn't a matter of missing jumps and the collision being clunky (tho that could be because I got used to it, as it did happen a few times), but rather the enemies and obstacles hitboxes where the problem this time around, the most noticeable being the 5 or 6 times I died to fire after it clearly disappeared.

It really makes me sad to not be able to love this as many other people do, because I do see what could make this game so special and as a sequel it does improve a lot on the original, but I just can't go past many of its problems and I can't classify it as something more than just a fun but flawed 3D platformer.

I'll say that I'm honestly quite excited to play Warped, 'cause if they keep improving I could find it to be the definitive Crash Bandicoot game, and finally say that I really love the crazy marsupial.

Also, one last thing: Fuck. Jumping. Nitro. Boxes.

That's all I'm gonna say about that.

Just like the PS1 originals, the remake of Crash 2 marks a significant improvement over the first game. It's far more forgiving, the level design is tighter and fairer to the player, the new moves in Crash's arsenal grant more diverse traversal (especially helpful during time trials) and the boss battles... well, they aren't godawful this time around.

It's N'Sane how much more enjoyable Crash 2 is compared to the original. It's amazing what a bit of difficulty balance can do for a game. I might even go for the platinum!

Eu só dividi cada logada pra poder expressar o quanto eu acho Crash 2 superior ao 1. Muita gente gosta de desvalorizar esse jogo, e pra isso eu digo que você é burro.

Jogos de plataforma 3D sempre serão muito mais focados em movimentação, e Crash 2 entende isso. Existem muito mais fases aqui envolvendo a movimentação, seja com o próprio moveset dele, que apesar de não ser tão complexo quanto realmente tem o potencial de ser, só de me apresentar tal mecânica e demandar do uso dela ao longo das fases, demonstra que esse é um jogo superior sim ao primeiro.

Esse é um jogo que continua superior ao antecessor, gostaria que o jogo investisse MAIS em movimento, e tivesse uma coragem maior pra experimentar com a própria fórmula de plataforma que o jogo inventou, mas infelizmente isso não acontece.

Mas apesar de tudo eu entendo o porque teria gente que não gosta desse jogo, querendo ou não ele não traz coisas novas o suficiente na mesa pra REALMENTE parecer uma evolução do primeiro jogo (apesar de ser). Hoje em dia isso daqui poderia facilmente ser uma DLC do primeiro jogo que funcionaria perfeitamente.