One of the PS1's many 3D platformers, Croc is famous for originally being intended as a Yoshi game but repurposed after a deal with Nintendo fell through. Unfortunately, while you might have nostalgia for its colourful levels and twee soundtrack, the game doesn't stand the test of time. Tank controls make the platforming feel stiff and ungainly, level design quickly falls into the trap of presenting platforms over voids rather than coherent worlds, and - incredibly - the entire collectathon aspect of platformers is rendered entirely pointless as you don't actually need to collect anything unless you want to play the laziest secret level in existence.

Reviewed on Apr 05, 2024


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