>>12361345
Literally just the loadtimes which I blame on poor nextgen optimization, game was basically Crash 3-More.

>>12361349
This stemmed from a development decision by Traveller's Tales, they originally built a mini-game into the loading screens where players could control Crash falling through hyperspace, collecting Wumpa fruit that would add to your total upon level load. They removed it because of patent reasons, Namco held a patent already.
With tight time constraints ahead of release, the team couldn't properly optimize the code, which caused the insane long loading times.

Re-releases have better loading times btw.

>>12361345
Nothing. It's better than 3.

>>12361360
I feel like that's a half-truth. How hard could it be to remove an artificial load time? Also, there wasn't a debugging or in game feature to skip the minigame if you didn't want to do it?

>>12361360
hate Namco for that

>>12361360
Patents? In retro gaming? Fuck greedy japs

>>12361345
Honestly better than the released 4. Suffers a bit from rushed development and being somewhat derivative, but all in all it's just more Crash 3, which is cool by me. Great music. https://youtu.be/MNjraDr6kbQ

>>12361345
Why was the artstyle so soulless? How could they fuck it up so badly? Crash 1-3 on PS1 look fucking better

>>12361345
The answer changes depending on whether you've played it.

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>>12362761
Zero of Crash Bandicoot…

The game has terrible pacing and level design. So much empty space everywhere. That and all the new ideas like the ball or the jeep are terrible. Riding something like a polar bear is fun and cool, and those segments were fast and intense, meanwhile driving a jeep of all things feels like the devs had no creativity whatsoever in their mind, and the jeep segments feel sluggish as hell.

DESU most 6th gen platformers and action platformers feel totally soulless like that.

>>12361345
Nothing, the game is perfectly fine and I enjoyed beating it

>>12361345
I enjoyed the ball-rolling missions, as easy as they were.