Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time

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Generally favorable reviews- based on 854 Ratings

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  1. B-Bog
    Aug 30, 2023
    4
    This was my second attempt to get into Crash after the N.Sane trilogy and the series just does NOT gel with me, even with the new modern mode with checkpoints, apart from which, the game feels insanely archaic. Controls and physics just feel off, the double jump is one of the clunkiest I have ever encountered in any video game, and the fact that Crash cannot hold on to ledges never managedThis was my second attempt to get into Crash after the N.Sane trilogy and the series just does NOT gel with me, even with the new modern mode with checkpoints, apart from which, the game feels insanely archaic. Controls and physics just feel off, the double jump is one of the clunkiest I have ever encountered in any video game, and the fact that Crash cannot hold on to ledges never managed to quite sink into my brain because it has been a standard not only for platformers, but video games in general for literally DECADES. The locked camera makes it very hard to correctly appraise distances and positions when you're going into or out of the screen. All of this maybe could've been fine if the level design was a little more forgiving, but every level is just one long series of frustrating traps designed to immediately kill you, many of which require trial-and-error to even get a sense of what's going on. Look towards the king of platformers, Mario, on how to do this better: In every level, a mechanic is first introduced in its most basic form and without severe repercussions, then it is GRADUALLY expanded upon and made more challenging throughout the level. Whereas Crash just says: FU, it's sink or swim right from the get-go. Not fun.

    The game certainly looks good, but could've definitely used more clarity in its visual design because sometimes you can't even accurately make out hazards until it is too late.

    Music and sound are OK I guess. Story doesn't matter at all, it is fourth-grader s**t and I soon started skipping through all of it. Once again, take a hint from Mario: It's OK not to have a super-deep story in a platformer, but if you don't, then don't interrupt the game with dumb*ss superfluous cutscenes all the time.    … Expand
  2. SuperLaLBoy
    Aug 14, 2023
    0
    an absolute garbage of a game, all I felt was like I'm being punished by playing, soulsborne not even close to this type of frustration
  3. I3L1NK
    Jun 28, 2023
    2
    This game is very repetitive compared to the previous games. If you haven't played n. sane trilogy, then go play it instead.
  4. ayrten
    May 22, 2023
    0
    Crash from this version doesn't have that fancy look like in older, even when they have less polygons.
    Game misses that looks that previous version hade, I mean level design and colors.
    And the game is crazy hard from beginning. I've loose more than 30 lives on a second level. That is sucks. Stick to remastered trilogy. Way better and gives more fun. Sorry Activision but im not sorry. Well    Crash from this version doesn't have that fancy look like in older, even when they have less polygons.
    Game misses that looks that previous version hade, I mean level design and colors.
    And the game is crazy hard from beginning. I've loose more than 30 lives on a second level. That is sucks. Stick to remastered trilogy. Way better and gives more fun. Sorry Activision but im not sorry. Well deserved 0/10.    … Expand
  5. agent13
    Apr 28, 2023
    4
    the graphics, level design and gameplay of crash 4 is quite good but the story? not so much. the big problem with this late sequel is that it's too damn difficult even with having checkpoints i died like 100 times in some levels and the last levels get rediculously hard where you have to be fast and perfect which is not always possible also the checkpoints are way too apart it ended up athe graphics, level design and gameplay of crash 4 is quite good but the story? not so much. the big problem with this late sequel is that it's too damn difficult even with having checkpoints i died like 100 times in some levels and the last levels get rediculously hard where you have to be fast and perfect which is not always possible also the checkpoints are way too apart it ended up a nightmare to just beat the game and i couldn't even finish the game so i deleted it the original trilogy and other activision crash games had balanced difficulty but crash 4 is impossible to beat for me… Expand
  6. Velii
    Jan 9, 2023
    0
    Do not buy this game, i got it for the kids and its impossible for them to play it. This game is a constant loop of deaths. Even for me its stressful and a joke of a game. This game sucked the life out of me.

    Whoever created this game hates kids. And likes to see people suffer.
  7. Jason0507
    Dec 7, 2022
    3
    The games story is somewhat interesting and the use of the different maskes provides an element of fun gamplay. However, that is basically the only good things about this game. The story is dragged out and forces you to complete levels which do not develop the story at all. The level sometimes feel like than can take up to half an hour to complete. The game becomes more of a chore thanThe games story is somewhat interesting and the use of the different maskes provides an element of fun gamplay. However, that is basically the only good things about this game. The story is dragged out and forces you to complete levels which do not develop the story at all. The level sometimes feel like than can take up to half an hour to complete. The game becomes more of a chore than fun. Also the implementation of the LGBT characters is unnecessary. Kids play this game and they don't need this forced down than neck. After the first hour you will want to uninstall this game. There are much better games to spend your time playing.… Expand
  8. Takami
    Nov 4, 2022
    2
    If just graphics in game is fine for you than this is the game. I love all platformers. I really do. Except this one. The inputs do not function 100% for long levels that want you to pinpoit jumps. And if you miss there is a long way to go again.

    The Aku-Aku is more or less just a beauty mark. If you miss a jump it is no help at all. You can find some passages that are more about luck and    If just graphics in game is fine for you than this is the game. I love all platformers. I really do. Except this one. The inputs do not function 100% for long levels that want you to pinpoit jumps. And if you miss there is a long way to go again.

    The Aku-Aku is more or less just a beauty mark. If you miss a jump it is no help at all. You can find some passages that are more about luck and trial and error than skill.

    I don't know what Toys For Bob was thinking, but most probably they wanted to torture us. The levels are too long. The og trilogy levels were up to 5 mins max to beat. In here it can be 15 to 20 min easy - for regular level not the harder ones at the end.

    Parents, if you have fond memories of the OG trilogy and want your kids to have fun with Crash... don't buy this game. For the sanity of the next generation. And your own. I like to think of mysel as fairly patient person and yet this game had me raging. In the end if you like bashing your head against a wall and hope to win go for it.    … Expand
  9. BaccoDanze
    Sep 22, 2022
    1
    desesperante, controles malisimos. Muy dificil en ciertos momentos que impiden seguir adelante con el juego.
  10. Thosevelvetygms
    Sep 12, 2022
    4
    Crash games are usually fun to play, but Crash Bandicoot 4 just isn't. This isn't Dark Souls, but apparently the devs forgot about that. What a complete, bitter disappointment for a longtime fan of the series.
  11. DaweHolzer
    Sep 6, 2022
    3
    This game is pretty annoying. I thought that i was too unskilled but i see others have frustration with the controls as well. Every chapter that i played felt like i was balancing on ice while jumping .Couldn't play much of it because i got fed up with the trolling that the devs pulled off.
  12. kaczan3
    Aug 10, 2022
    0
    They ruined a perfectly good game by adding a cringy mary-sue with feminist hair. And she's much stronger than Crash, the protagonist. So they are doing what the woke hollywood is doing -- making a show supposedly about Obi Wan, but making him a loser that is upstaged by that Inquisitor chick, or even a 10-year-old Leia.
  13. Jkn89
    Jul 20, 2022
    0
    I'm writing this review mainly as a warning to parents who might want to buy the game for their children. Don't do this if you do not want to harm the child. This game is the opposite of what it looks like on the surface - a nice cheerful fun. It's actually an evil frustration simulator.
    I've played a number of difficult games, but never anything like Crash Bandicoot 4. If I managed to    I'm writing this review mainly as a warning to parents who might want to buy the game for their children. Don't do this if you do not want to harm the child. This game is the opposite of what it looks like on the surface - a nice cheerful fun. It's actually an evil frustration simulator.
    I've played a number of difficult games, but never anything like Crash Bandicoot 4. If I managed to accidentally pass a level after many attempts, it was only through sheer luck, so I didn't even feel any satisfaction.
    The original Crash games were very difficult, but still playable for a normal person. This one is only for speedrunners and similar hardcore gamers. Unfortunately, if the developers made the game just a little bit accessible, there would be hateful comments from this type of people everywhere. So in fear of them, the developers have made them practically the only target category of their game.
    The game might have deserved an extra star for its nice graphics, but because it's so awful in gameplay, I have to give it the lowest score.    … Expand
  14. BetitoBaby
    Jul 15, 2022
    4
    Probablemente uno de los peores plataformas que he jugado, con un estilo artístico interesante pero gráficos de hace 2 generaciones, me alegra que sea un fracaso.
  15. Iansilva
    Jun 20, 2022
    3
    It was simple. Just make a game like the remake, but in an attempt to innovate they ruined it. Isn't a Crash game.
  16. ToxikVermin
    Apr 7, 2022
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This game wants me to be a true fan so much so that it wanted me to abandone my wife for the 100% challenge. This game is for babies and I much rather play Gran Turismo 7 then this.… Expand
  17. Celentanomolle
    Mar 10, 2022
    3
    This is a glitched trial and error, full of bug, awful hitboxes and terrible level design.
  18. Themightygamer
    Mar 2, 2022
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Words cannot describe my hatred for this game!!!! Back in 2020 me and my brothers got this game for Christmas but trust me I wish we NEVER bought this piece of **** game. My complains for this ****fest are endless but lets start with the basics. The 100% completion is absurdly unfair featuring extremely difficult and unfair levels(and bonus stages are just as unfair with some of the worst bonus themes in the series history) the ending is the biggest slap to the face since the 100% ending of Mario sunshine(which is a much better game by far) the 3 deaths gem is the worst in crash history, the bosses are lame, the box placement makes me want to rip my neck off. LIKE SERIOUSY!! I can't count the number of times that I missed 1 or 2 boxes in a level to save my life. I swear to Christ! The flashback tapes make me angry and the death animations look like they came out of resident evil. ESPECIALLY THAT BLOODY SCREAM FROM COCO. Even crash himself is telling me "please don't make me go back through this torture again I BEG OF YOU!" every time I want to restart a level. I personally don't blame him. considering the number of times he will most likely die in a level. anyone who likes this game is either blinded by nostalgia or just plain stupid. Play the n sane trilogy instead. It is a million times better than this sorry excuse of a game. That's not all though because there are the Inverted levels or as I like to call them the same level painted differently. And those dammed PERFECTION RELICS!!!!! **** the perfection relics and **** the person who made them. They are without a shadow of a doubt the absolute WORST collectibles in the series history (even worse than the crash 1 gems by X10000000) I swear to Christ Almighty these will ruin your soul by the time you are done with them. Even the relic system sucks! instead of collecting standard gold relics and calling it a day like in every mainline crash game ever, you have to collect the platinum relics instead!! this wouldn't be so bad if not for the fact that you are given the worst time trial relics powerups in crash history:the triple spin. Or as i like to call it... sonic heroes bonus stage simulator. Just like the sonic heroes bonus stages your thumb will be dead by the time that you are done. Please wise up. Play the N sane trilogy and never and I insist NEVER PLAY this **** of a game!!!!!… Expand
  19. HearYouMe
    Mar 1, 2022
    4
    This game is so difficult that is not fun anymore, it's frustrating and boring, level design is boring, very few levels feel smooth and fun to play, the new mechanics are bad and don't feel polished, the only masks that are fun are Lani-Loli and Kupuna-Wa, the other are confusing and frustrating to play, also their levels are badly designed.
    The levels feel like they were designed for you    This game is so difficult that is not fun anymore, it's frustrating and boring, level design is boring, very few levels feel smooth and fun to play, the new mechanics are bad and don't feel polished, the only masks that are fun are Lani-Loli and Kupuna-Wa, the other are confusing and frustrating to play, also their levels are badly designed.
    The levels feel like they were designed for you to die over and over and over again, difficult in an unfun way, hitboxes are weird, jumping physics feel like you are floating. I was so fed up of this game that there's was a point were I was just ignoring the boxes and secret levels and trying to be done with it.
    Tawna is boring and his mechanics are badly made.
    Dingodile is the only one I kinda liked. Right stick should be used to aim, badly designed nonetheless.
    Cortex is extremely boring to play and his levels too.
    Some bosses are extremely easy and some others feel like I'm playing Touhou.
    Camera work is also bad, right stick is completely useless.    … Expand
  20. RP1_
    Mar 1, 2022
    3
    This game can be summed up in one word, frustrating. The jumping mechanism at times seem broken. Box placement, timed jumps are overwhelming at times… I feel like the ‘death count’ was included to add to the absolute madness of the game. It isn’t difficult, it’s annoying. I hated it.
  21. Xrisz
    Feb 20, 2022
    0
    the difficulty destroys the gaming experience................................
  22. toplexel
    Nov 19, 2021
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. **** game the game is extremely hard in some locations that it’s really killed the fun of it , also there’s no reason to repeat the same stupid levels in n verted mode they could use the storage taken for n verted levels to make new levels and take their time rather than repeating the levels , developers of games for bob are just psychos and poor in ideas same thing repeated in spyro trilogy poor,stupid and nonsense challenges i hope all of them their life and afterlife will be difficult and complicated… Expand
  23. Lttrev
    Sep 9, 2021
    4
    Its honestly NOT what i would consider fun. They went our of their way to make this as hard as possible. Almost sadistic levels of hard. Thats not what made Crash fun to me. Fair and challenging, but not overly challenging to where it makes you want to put the controller down after 2 stages.
  24. Marsupio
    Sep 1, 2021
    4
    This isn't crash Bandicoot. Is a trial and error game with full of bad ideas and one of the hardest and confusing game ever.
  25. meroes
    Aug 30, 2021
    1
    Could have been good. If you liked the originals you wont like this. Trust me. Also these reviews are heavy gamified.
  26. Draethorian
    Jun 28, 2021
    0
    levels are too hard, getting all boxes is too annoying. slide just stops right before enemies, the fact that getting all boxes and some gems is so infuriatingly difficult i just didn't have any more patience and had to uninstall this piece of crap
  27. SirCatflap
    Apr 25, 2021
    3
    Infuriatingly difficult, sluggish to control, devoid of any substantial story, and near impossible to 100% with your sanity intact.
  28. lilweezy34
    Apr 1, 2021
    0
    I played the game on PC & truly believe this game is a treat, especially as huge crash fan.

    The controls are tight, the story is picked up right after crash warped & I couldn't be any happier
  29. Sandorz
    Mar 27, 2021
    0
    Absolutely the worst crash game ever. Insanely hard and extremely frustrating.
  30. AstroLad69
    Mar 22, 2021
    0
    Everything that was terrible about Crash 1 amplified and then some. This is not fun. The characters are insufferable. Tawna is an abomination. It's the equivalent of bashing your head against a wall. I'm glad it didn't sell well.
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 95 Critic Reviews

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  1. Riot Pixels
    Jan 26, 2021
    70
    Toys for Bob's game is a welcome addition to the original trilogy, although you will hardly remember its levels or music. Crash Bandicoot 4 is two steps below the amazing Super Mario Odyssey and Yoshi’s Crafted World.
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  2. CD-Action
    Dec 18, 2020
    95
    I honestly did not expect such a stellar game. Crash Bandicoot 4 is breathtakingly beautiful, features an amazing soundtrack full of references to the original trilogy, offers tons of content, and thrilled me to bits with its brilliant level design. What’s more, it stayed true to its gameplay roots, while introducing loads of great new mechanics. For me it’s the game of the year. I salute you, Toys For Bob! [12/2020, p.58]
  3. Gamers' Temple
    Dec 18, 2020
    90
    Crash Bandicoot 4 is a worthy addition to the Crash legacy. It captures the spirit, fun, and challenge of the original games, and adds a lot more that genuinely makes the experience even better rather than simply padding out the gameplay. The game is certainly challenging and the levels could probably use a few more checkpoints, but the number in the game is truer to the spirit of the originals than modern gaming standards. A little perseverance will get you through the game, but it’s going to take a little work if you want to be a Crash completionist. Overall it’s a great platform game that perfectly blends the old and the new into a fun new experience.
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