Current Events > Is Crash Bandicoot 1 absurdly hard, or am I just trash

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Just bought the N Sane trilogy since it was on sale. I never played 1 as a kid, but rented and beat 2, and owned and played the shit out of 3. 1 is just destroying me harder than any Souls game could even dream of doing.

Feels like the physics, controls, and camera angles all suck and the platforming demands an absurd level of precision that if I'm even 1 pixel off I fall off and die. Just beat The Lost City and idk if I even wanna keep going. Shit's just getting more frustrating than fun, tempted to skip to Crash 2 tbh >_____>

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I remember a few crazy difficulty spikes. Some of them pretty early in the game.
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I believe they based the physics of the 3rd game and so a lot of the jumps dont give you the same leeway the original game did.

its all doable but can be annoying

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Yes it's hard, and for the N.Sane Trilogy they changed the jumping physics for the first game to be in line with 2 and 3, so that made it more difficult.

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And some of these stages want you to clear them with all boxes and not dying.... lmao yeah that's never gonna happen

I barely managed to read that since the loading screens are so fast. Suffering from success

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Yes its hard

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Honestly I enjoyed 1 more than the sequels because it was more difficult...but yeah it could be frustrating as fuck at points.

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Always thought 2 was much more difficult imo

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It is tough but not to the level of something like Super Meat Boy.

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It's always been a hard game. Some levels are just bullshitty, even in the N sane trilogy.

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And now this next Egyptian level is making me do more pseudo 3D platforming on rotating pillars

I don't like it

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Yes even as a kid I knew that game was bullshit. 2 and 3 were fun

The remaster is harder than the original. Crash's frame is smaller and differently shaped in 3, and they used that frame for 1 and 2. Essentially, you have smaller feet.

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Yes it's very hard. The bridge levels are actual bullshit.

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Lol you probably just suck. But yeah it is a hard game and totally agree on the precision 1 pixel thing. The insane trilogy is easier than the original since you can grind 99 lives in short spurts so I say stick with it. If I can beat it so can you!

you couldn't get any gems at all in the original crash 1 without a perfect run, since it didn't save your boxes with checkpoints like 2 and 3, so consider yourself blessed

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The devs of the remake were dumb and used a capsule collider for the character. That's why you slide off ledges all the time. The originals used a cylindrical collider.

Its hard but doable
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Rexdragon125 posted...

The devs of the remake were dumb and used a capsule collider for the character. That's why you slide off ledges all the time. The originals used a cylindrical collider.

i noticed that, you slide off bouncy boxes, too. really stupid

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To be honest, if you quit on 1, don't skip 2 or 3 just yet. 1 is definitely the harder of the 3. Primarily because of levels like the bridge levels. 2 and 3 are a lot more balanced, but I loved all 3.

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it is really hard, and in the new one they changed the way platforms work so it's even worse, godspeed
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viewmaster_pi posted...

i noticed that, you slide off bouncy boxes, too. really stupid

Yeah I noticed it really bad since I had played Uncharted 4 literally right before it and it used the emulated PS1 version and I was like "no this remake is all wrong"

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Nice to know I'm not crazy about sliding off platforms I swear I landed on. I'll keep going for now, but purely out of my Saiyan pride.

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Both.

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viewmaster_pi posted...

you couldn't get any gems at all in the original crash 1 without a perfect run, since it didn't save your boxes with checkpoints like 2 and 3, so consider yourself blessed

Technically, you could backtrack to the start of the level to grab the missing boxes. I recall doing this at least once.

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I don't think there's a harder 3D platformer

One of my favorite games tbh

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Just played it through the first time last year via NST, and yeah, it's hard as shit, especially if you're going for 100%. Just wait until The High Road lol

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thought the pacing on that game was a bit inconsistent.

like at one moment, you could get an easy level and before you know it, you enter a level so hard it makes you pull your hair!

in most games, the difficulty progresses as you go on starting from easier ones moving to harder ones. guess Naughty Dog decided to be... naughy and say "fuck the rules!" lol