Crash Bandicoot: On the Run!

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5.3

Mixed or average reviews- based on 35 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 35
  2. Mixed: 12 out of 35
  3. Negative: 13 out of 35
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  1. Rixam
    Mar 30, 2021
    5
    Review is based on about 5 days of gaming around launch.

    The game nails pretty well the audiovisual experience of a Crash Bandicoot game. To delight the fans of the original there are also some retro skins available for the characters. The gameplay is very responsive and easy to grasp. Boss battles are nice though could use some more variation and phases instead of just high HP and    Review is based on about 5 days of gaming around launch.

    The game nails pretty well the audiovisual experience of a Crash Bandicoot game. To delight the fans of the original there are also some retro skins available for the characters. The gameplay is very responsive and easy to grasp. Boss battles are nice though could use some more variation and phases instead of just high HP and rotation of attacks.

    The crippling problems come in the meta game and gameplay loop. In order to get to the more interesting battles you need to create different weapon items. In order to make those items you have to run in a very repetitive and easy tracks over and over again to get the materials. Sometimes you also need to use those materials to craft other materials (eggs) so you can make the weapon. Then you have to wait an increasing amount of time for those items to craft. These kinds of meta elements are common in mobile games and that is acceptable to certain extent but here the mixing ratio is not working.

    There are some exiting challenges where you have to run pretty much the developer intended way to win (Gem challenge and Time Trials). The difficulty in them can be very high which works for the original Bandicoot fans who are used to failing constantly in levels like Road to Nowhere or Castle Machinery. It can also get very difficult to survive longest in Survival Run in Team competition.

    So the game has kind of two sides. A very casual and easy farming (and to be honest the bosses as well) and very intense and hardcore Challenges and PvP. They are trying to make a casual endless runner with a fairly hardcore game series Crash Bandicoot and while they try to please both audiences they end up not really reaching either of them.

    Monetization is done through "Skins" that have different boosts for farming items. Shop refreshes daily to bring in a new set of skins to buy and Special Offers pop up from time to time. When opening the game the player is every time annoyed with about a $5 Skin offer they need to close or buy. Every now and then there can also be a pop up advertising for other King games which conveniently reminds the player that they could be doing something completely different.

    f the meta and gameloop issues get fixed the game could potentially be a decent one. Maybe have the survival and randomness element in the item farming and maybe even consider dropping the timers altogether from the material crafting and people might enjoy the game more.

    So overall I'd say the game is a very rough diamond. Recommended for the most hardcore Crash Bandicoot fans who are willing to overlook the issues.    … Expand
  2. SuperkenGaming
    Apr 8, 2021
    5
    Crash Bandicoot on The Run
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    Are you itching for a waste of space on your phone that does nothing but despertaly try to get you to buy things? Youre in luck, crash bandicoot on the run is here.. if you’ve played one level you’ve played them all, here you swipe left, right, up and down, to dodge obstacles, tap the screen to break boxes, and that’s it.. that’s the game… take on mini    Crash Bandicoot on The Run
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    Are you itching for a waste of space on your phone that does nothing but despertaly try to get you to buy things?
    Youre in luck, crash bandicoot on the run is here..
    if you’ve played one level you’ve played them all, here you swipe left, right, up and down, to dodge obstacles, tap the screen to break boxes, and that’s it.. that’s the game… take on mini bosses to unlock the areas mainboxx.. oh but this is a free to play game, where is the waste of time that tries to suck the money out of my pockets you ask?
    well since there is no real challenge or effort into level design, the money sucking comes in the form of the time you need to waste to unlock the next level to play, you have to craft items, but to craft items you need items that are found only in item collecting levels.. these items don’t exist in actual levels.. why would they.. go to these obring looped levels and collect as mch stuff as you can until youre bored of.. by the way there isn’t an infinite supply of items, you eventually have to wait for a timer to be able to collect these free items after you’ve collected them all//tthen take these items and craft other items that you guessed, have a timer themselves… and you need multiple of these items to unlock these mini levels to take on the mini boss and work your way up to the main boss, all while each item needed to craft takes progressively longer to craft, leading you to mostly be wasting your time in these borring collection levels… yeah.
    Crash Bandiccot on the run is a time waster and its levels are nowhere near good enough for you to even care to want to spend money to see them and play them, youre just going through the motions wasting your time..
    stay away
    I give Crash Bandicoot on the Run
    a 5/10    … Expand
  3. sebastianali
    Mar 29, 2021
    6
    While this is easily the best runner game, is not a surprised that the genre is too exploited to the max, so any new refinement that Crash On The Run brings to the genre is almost forgottable. While i enjoy this more than Crash 4 personally, i cant say that is the best Crash on mobiles. The java Crash games were better IMO.
  4. Xrayplayer
    Apr 3, 2021
    5
    The graphics and soundtrack are great and the gameplay is kinda fun in the first few hours but it gets too repetitive especially in the boss levels and the game forces you to run around the same areas to collect stuff over and over, and you need to wait a few minutes or hours just to progress or you will pay a few dollars, I know it's a free mobile game and a lot of similar games have theThe graphics and soundtrack are great and the gameplay is kinda fun in the first few hours but it gets too repetitive especially in the boss levels and the game forces you to run around the same areas to collect stuff over and over, and you need to wait a few minutes or hours just to progress or you will pay a few dollars, I know it's a free mobile game and a lot of similar games have the same issues but it's not an excuse at least a lot of free games played a lot better than this, and I hate the fact that every time I play this game I encouraged to pay money for crystals every single time I thought that crash on the run was good and it had potential to be a great crash bandicoot mobile game but it just bugged down by some weird design choices and the microtransactions are everywhere with repetitive gameplay, even the challenges and the survival run which are good can't save this game from being mediocre.… Expand
  5. Rawfoot
    Mar 29, 2021
    5
    It's a grind fest. It gets too repetitive going through the same paths over and over again just collect what you need to progress. They got lazy with bosses too. Frozen versions of bosses are just a cheap, unnecessary addition in my opinion. It all just got too repetitive.

    The classic crash bandicoot mechanics are all there but it just seems like a cash grab if you wanna advance quickly,    It's a grind fest. It gets too repetitive going through the same paths over and over again just collect what you need to progress. They got lazy with bosses too. Frozen versions of bosses are just a cheap, unnecessary addition in my opinion. It all just got too repetitive.

    The classic crash bandicoot mechanics are all there but it just seems like a cash grab if you wanna advance quickly, you gotta pay or wait longer than you should even if it's an understandable mobile gimmick. The multiplayer is kinda fun but it's just boys at this point and they seem to go on forever. Maybe I'll update my review with further updates but for now I can't give it more than a 5 and that's being generous.    … Expand
  6. wentos
    Mar 30, 2021
    6
    It gets repetitive very quickly and I greatly dislike the crafting system. It can be pretty fun at times though. It's basically your standard endless runner with some beautiful looking graphics. The models all look nice as do the level environments. It's very pretty to look at. It's a lot of fun at first but after awhile it just feels very unfair and a bit too grindy. This is coming fromIt gets repetitive very quickly and I greatly dislike the crafting system. It can be pretty fun at times though. It's basically your standard endless runner with some beautiful looking graphics. The models all look nice as do the level environments. It's very pretty to look at. It's a lot of fun at first but after awhile it just feels very unfair and a bit too grindy. This is coming from someone who was happy to grind Meowth coins all day in Pokemon Shuffle (another free to play mobile game) by the way.

    There's always a chance that they will refine things in the future. It's still brand new and they're probably trying to figure out what works and what doesn't, what's fair but doesn't make things way too easy, etc. I think it'll get better in the future. For me personally, I can safely say the game isn't really that good. There's better endless runners out there and phone games in general.    … Expand
  7. Adasc2906
    Jan 4, 2022
    6
    Just another runner game similar to subway surfers and countless other games.
  8. hoviadko123
    Nov 1, 2022
    6
    Pretty nice runner game. It was fun but it got boring after a month, so I can't give it a positive review.

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#23 Best iOS Game of 2021
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59

Mixed or average reviews - based on 9 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 9
  3. Negative: 1 out of 9
  1. Gfinity
    Apr 23, 2021
    50
    Crash Bandicoot: On The Run is a fun, but overly simple mobile rendition of one of gaming’s greatest mascots. Overly aggressive advertising and an in-game economy that doesn’t respect players’ time sour what could have been a memorable endless runner...It’s less 'On The Run', and more endlessly waiting around.
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  2. Metro GameCentral
    Apr 19, 2021
    30
    There are countdown timers, bosses are oft-repeated re-skins with identical action, and Crash’s runs soon become repetitious, with progress gated behind either a tedious grind or microtransactions. Despite its colourful palette On the Run! is almost aggressively bland.
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  3. Eurogamer Italy
    Apr 12, 2021
    80
    Quotation forthcoming.
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