Current Events > Man people who platinum Crash 4 are sadists.

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Just the base vanilla game is hard and some of the levels, especially the later levels are brutal to 100%

And you have to 100% the levels TWICE due to that idiotic colour filter mode .

AND you also have to beat the levels without dying + getting all the boxes.... AND you have to get platnium Relics....

Which means even if you're a super God that can 100% the difficult levels 1st time without dying + get the plat relic 1st time without dying...... You still have to play each level a bare minimum of 3 times

And an average player would have to do it over and over and over and over and over because the difficulty is brutal.

https://howlongtobeat.com/game/80317

83 hours.

83!

That's more than 3 full entire days of nothing but playing a Crash platformer, the same long levels of the same Crash platformer over and over and over...

Good lord. And they call the Trilogy Remake N.Sane.

I think they went too far with it TBH. Content is good but just making players play the same artifically difficult levels 9 times over and over isn't content, it's padding and bad padding.

Good thing Assassin's Creed made me stop caring about 100%ing games a decade ago.

Platinums in general are for masochists

Unsuprised_Pika posted...

Platinums in general are for masochists

I always appreciated what they did in Nier Automata, just letting you straight up buy the trophies with the in-game currency. Wish more developers were willing to do that.

rip man people

Wow 83 hours of toughness. I thought crash 4 was supposed to be like an easy 10 hour game I never played it tho

Yeah the biggest problem with Crash 4 is that it was made by people who understood why Crash was so popular, but then got really carried away trying to emulate it.

Don't forget like damn near every level has a handful of hidden secret boxes/gems, the latter vary between the regular/colour filter modes and both are often so frustratingly hidden that it has to be damn near impossible to actually find them all without consulting a guide or something. Its a nightmare to 100% or to speed run, which is a shame since that's really the main drive of this kind of game.

Adding in a non-shitpost in addition to my shitpost from earlier, Caddicarus made a very good video (as he tends to do) about this very thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yapbT_FgFQ

People complain games are 2 ez 2day lol
But when a really old school game brings that kind of nonsense back, others (or same) people complain lol games 2 hard.

It's not kazio Mario levels of difficulty, just seems like standard crash 1 difficulty

ANort175 posted...

I always appreciated what they did in Nier Automata, just letting you straight up buy the trophies with the in-game currency. Wish more developers were willing to do that.

I'm cool with that

I also like Dragon's Dogma clone shop that can duplicate any item in the game for huge amounts of in game money

So many games have broken economies and any outside the box thinking for the player to spend their money on is appreciated by me

Hell FFIX is probably my favorite game ever and that game may as well not have money because you always end up as a multi-millionaire with nothing to spend it on

Sega9599 posted... People complain games are 2 ez 2day lol
But when a really old school game brings that kind of nonsense back, others (or same) people complain lol games 2 hard.

It's not kazio Mario levels of difficulty, just seems like standard crash 1 difficulty

It's way way way harder than Crash 1. The levels are massively longer, almost every single one has bullshit hidden boxes or auto scrolling sections or strange platforming challenges.

And Crash 1 didn't make you replay the same levels over and over.

It's also silly to say "People don't like it when games are too easy but also don't want to do the same overly long bullshit thing over and over and over again. You can't be pleased!"

Both of those things suck.

TLOU2 also has a bunch of shitty colour filters but they don't make you replay the entire game 4 times using them to unlock endings, costumes and trophies.

I got all platinum relics in N. Sane Trilogy and CTR but I did not have the patience for 106% in Crash 4. Aint nobody got time for that.

UnfairRepresent posted...

It's also silly to say "People don't like it when games are too easy but also don't want to do the same overly long bulls*** thing over and over and over again. You can't be pleased!"

Both of those things suck.

That's how things were in the NES days, yet people want that difficulty back

Unsuprised_Pika posted...

Platinums in general are for masochists

These days I'd say they're mostly time consuming. They're generally a lot tamer now compared to when they were new.

Sega9599 posted...

People complain games are 2 ez 2day lol
But when a really old school game brings that kind of nonsense back, others (or same) people complain lol games 2 hard.

It's not kazio Mario levels of difficulty, just seems like standard crash 1 difficulty

Crash 4 is weird because the originals were never that hard. Just because a game is old doesn't mean it was hard. I don't think this is even the first franchise throwback to fall for this. I think Mega Man did this too?

Sega9599 posted...

That's how things were in the NES days, yet people want that difficulty back

They really weren't