Crash Bandicoot PS4: these people can't believe how hard it is

As Crash Bandicoot returns on PS4, people can't believe how difficult the N. Sane Trilogy is.

[FallenAngel1984]

Of course it's hard

[affrogamer]

I honestly don't remember it being this hard as a teenager but I'm struggling to get thru some of the initals stages in Crash 1 lol

[FITgamer]

Mean while I have friends who already got Platinum trophies for all 3 games.

[KillZallthebeast]

Crash 1 was the most difficult by far.

[roadkillers]

I remember Crash 1 being very difficult while crash 2 had a gradual build up before the difficulty set in.

My assumption is the 30 year old age range and younger that played it were young and enjoyed the easy jungle levels.

[Vegamyster]

It has different physics compared to the original which makes you fall slightly quicker & slide off objects. https://twitter.com/DingDon...

[TWB]

Some have discovered that the physics have been altered and it can make some jumps considerably harder if not impossible. Crashes hitbox is also oddly shaped so precise edge landings may slip you off the platform.

https://youtu.be/TzdeLqZ1yt...

Its very much possible to 100% all of the games, but some speedrun tactics and extra life places are no longer possible.

[nix]

my right thumb is numb right now from desperately pressing the buttons hard. lol. it's difficult, all right.

and how do i keep missing those boxes? where are they hiding? once i missed out 42 boxes. :o

[rainslacker]

I remember when crash first came out I ended up stopping my playthrough of it early because it was frustratingly hard. It wasn't until much later when I went back to it in a retro phase that I actually got through it, and it was still frustratingly hard at times.

[Sam Fisher]

Um hella yea, its the first temple runner 🏃

[XanderZane]

It's always been hard. I still haven't beaten any of the games. Reminds me of the Disney and Star Wars games. Games like Mickey and the Castle of Illusion and Super Star Wars series.
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

[no_more_heroes]

Well, getting the the gem in Slippery Climb sure is gonna be fun... -_-

[Jinryo]

Got it yesterday. It took me a couple of tries, but it was fun. Also got all the colored gems. Now white gems and relics.

[-Foxtrot]

Wait until you do the time trial...

[Bnet343]

Currently stuck on Slippery Climb.... My god you have to have elite timing on some of the jumps.

[Klonoa-dreamtraveler]

Actually the original is harder as you had to get all the boxes in "one" life you screw up you have to start over they made things in the trilogy more merciful and forgiving than the original.

Though to me the game isn't hard or easy to me it's just right but some peoples tolerance on whats hard is different for everyone though the people comparing it to dark souls or whatever are being over dramatic or are just really bad at the game.

[luckytrouble]

You're thinking of the no death routes that were introduced in Crash 2. Nothing has actually changed in regards to acquiring gems or otherwise.

[TWB]

No, the dude's legit right ALL gems in the original required a perfect run from you. As mentioned in this FAQ for example: https://www.gamefaqs.com/ps...

"There are 26 gems to be found in the Game. You will recieve a Gem when you
complete a level with one life and crash all boxes"

I dont remember if it was intentional, or if it was possibly some sort of a flaw on devs end (like losing all your acquired extra lives after loading a save).

For some reason I also remember the issue being that once you died and spawned back at checkpoint, ALL of the boxes behind you also spawned.

[TheOttomatic91]

Actually Klonoa is correct back in the day to get all gems you had to get all the boxes WITHOUT dying once.

I somehow managed to do it when I was younger and my reflexes were far better.

[Klonoa-dreamtraveler]

I was out for the 4th of July yesterday to even reply but yikes people were a bit trigger happy before doing the research that i was correct lol.

[PhoenixUp]

Crash Bandicoot didn't popularize Dynamic Difficulty Adjustement for nothing

[roadkillers]

This had it? Theres a couple that had it, but I u ssd ually notice it.

[TWB]

Surprisingly I didnt remember that Crash had it (aside from Aku Aku spawning if you died too often, or how additional checkpoints appeared), but remember reading that Spyro had a system called "Active Challenge Tuning" or something.

[Relientk77]

I've been playing it this past weekend and damn... Crash 1 is just hard and unfair in so many ways...

[Gardenia]

In the remake there is less of a safe area under your feet. For instance if standing on a rope in the original you only had to touch in with the edge of Crash and he still would stand on the rope while in the remake you will fall off. Also in the original there sort of a left, left-forward, forward, right-forward jump system while in the remake it is full 360 so you have to be more precise in jumping. And jumping in the original gave you more airtime

http://www.eurogamer.net/ar...

https://www.reddit.com/r/cr...

[Tross]

I never did play Crash 1 back in the day and only got a little bit into it on the PS3 download a few years ago, so playing it in this collection was a source of frustration, but I got through it. Thankfully you only have to complete the stages with special gems without dying, and you're allowed to die in the bonus stages just nowhere else, but those six stages man...I never want to see them again. I think I recall the original game actually requiring the player to beat all stages without dying if they want gems, so...remakes FTW!

The bridge levels and a few of the other platforming heavy stages reek of ND clearly being one of the first to design a 3D platformer as they play a lot like a 2D sidescroller except with the added (and emphasized) dimension of judging depth, which is way more difficult and frustrating than judging the left or right distance of a platform. This remake doesn't really change the original stages much if any, which is great, but Crash 2 and 3 feel more fair in their difficulty by comparison. At least in those games there are control options such as the duck/slide jump that make the player feel more in control of their jumps and the platform placement feels a lot more fair, but hey, retro gaming is all about diving into gaming history and we get to see some of the roots of the 3D platforming genre in action.

[Dark_Knightmare2]

It's def hard just got the platinum for one and it was a bitch. Now I'm on to 2 hopefully it's not as hard

[Tross]

You got the platinum?! I gave up on the relics because getting through only six stages without dying is hard enough, let alone getting through all stages without dying and also having to do it quickly on top of it. I'm not enough of a masochist to go through all the frustration it would take to do it, but anyone who does and succeeds has my respect, for sheer patience and determination. Oh, and 2 is still hard but...it's hard to explain but it's a more fair hard. Like, it doesn't feel hard due to bad level design, but just because it's challenging in the right way.

[Dark_Knightmare2]

Oh I would never have done it if you had to get the platinums but luckily they make you just get gold. That's good to hear about 2 I'm super excited to start it because almost everybody I talk to say that it or number 3 is the best

[Pancit_Canton]

Welcome back to 16/32 bit era of difficulty.

All i can say is; GIT GUD :-)

[Onenyte]

Now now let's not bring on a mass existential meltdown lol

Can't believe people are talking about the difficulty of crash games.

The game has a damn save system.

[BLKxSEPTEMBER]

Only Millennials would be shocked by it's difficulty. Us old folk been there done that.

[WeAreLegion]

Millennials? We millennials were kids when this came out. We were the target market. We grew up with all of the hard games. You're thinking of the younger generation.

[Bathyj]

I was 22 when Crash came out.

[WeAreLegion]

The hit boxes are off. That's why it's so freaking hard. Play the originals and the new ones side by side. They screwed up the hit boxes.

People on the Crash subreddit have been doing comparisons. The new games need patched.

[Rodney25]

It's actually harder, because the mechanics are off a bit. Play the originals, you'll see. I hope they fix it.

[LgbtWarrior]

It's very hard. That's how games were back then. Try Maximo 1 also, ouch! Games have gotten so easy throughout the years we forgot how hard they were when we were kids.

[MegamanXXX]

The first game was the hardest imo

[TheOttomatic91]

Yea the fact people are comparing Crash to Dark souls had me shaking my head.

[Tross]

Seriously? What noobs. That said, it's hard to believe that as a kid I got all the gems in Crash 2 and 3 without the extra hints or the Internet to help me. I think I was at least twice the gamer I am now. At least I succeeded in getting 100% in the first two games and am now partway into Warped, even if I did have to look up a faq or two.

[Onenyte]

People finding this game hard 😂😂😂
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Seriously are people finding this game hard lol

[MilkMan]

It's a challenging game but I love it. I wish the jumping wasn't so stringent, but it was always that way. Just gotta work on that timing. I think Nintendo's brand of platforming is 100% more forgiving and they've been in constant rotation for years while there have been gaps in other developers camps so the general gaming community may be used to something a little easier.
Don't hide from this excellent, well-made game.