This PlayStation 4 game boots with all three games selectable from the get-go (if you buy the 23GB digital version, it will download Crash 1 first). Hard drives were lost codebases and assets didn't transfer. Series creators Naughty Dog did serious, pioneering work to get the original Crash games to look the way they did on PlayStation 1 consoles, and those code tricks don't translate to modern CPU/GPU combos, either. Sane Trilogy is not a 'remake,' since the three games' levels and general designs have been left mostly intact, but it's not a 'remaster,' since most of the content had to be rebuilt and re-rendered from scratch. Looney Tunes charisma is intactĪs I learned in a June interview with Vicarious Visions' producers, this Crash Bandicoot anthology is a tricky one to describe. Developer Vicarious Visions chose authenticity over improvement, and, in the sphere of gaming history and archival, that choice matters. Sane Trilogy a tough game to unequivocally recommend, it also feels like the only way this collection could have come out. It also lands with the same baggage that made Crash such a divisive platformer series in the '90s. Sane Trilogy lands this week with a lot of apparent love and care. No pre-order restrictions no microtransactions not even corner-cutting on the game's production.

A few uneven and unoptimized classic-game remasters have been pumped out in recent years, and I'm happy to report that the Crash series' handlers at Activision have not dropped the ball in any Activision-y way, beyond a current lock on PlayStation 4 systems.

Sane Trilogy gets about as much right as a game trilogy of this scope possibly could. Game details Developer: Vicarious VisionsĬrash Bandicoot N.

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