Crash 4 is an incredibly creative platformer. Seriously, there are so many ideas and concepts that they try (and succeed!) in fitting in this game. It's probably the best new entry in a series where a new dev took over.
That being said, the levels are all too long and it makes me sad. One of my favourite parts of older Crash titles was speedrunning for relics and doing collectathon runs of levels. While I understand the collectible stuff in Crash 4 is meant for the diehards, it just sucks that the level design is so hostile towards that type of playstyle. Some of these levels are nearly 10 minutes long on my first run and they want me to speedrun that? It's asking way too much.
Great platformer. Bad collectathon. This could have been a 10/10.
That being said, the levels are all too long and it makes me sad. One of my favourite parts of older Crash titles was speedrunning for relics and doing collectathon runs of levels. While I understand the collectible stuff in Crash 4 is meant for the diehards, it just sucks that the level design is so hostile towards that type of playstyle. Some of these levels are nearly 10 minutes long on my first run and they want me to speedrun that? It's asking way too much.
Great platformer. Bad collectathon. This could have been a 10/10.