Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time

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8.0

Generally favorable reviews- based on 854 Ratings

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  1. Helixfofo
    Oct 2, 2020
    2
    If you see critic reviews only 2 critics were objetives.
    the game could be cool, it has average level designs and good references for past games.
    unfourtunaly the oldest fans weren't take seriously, some level puzzles feels like a hard mod. The game has so many glitches too, please don't let the nostalgia blind your judge, games industries need to know what is good and what isn't I    If you see critic reviews only 2 critics were objetives.
    the game could be cool, it has average level designs and good references for past games.
    unfourtunaly the oldest fans weren't take seriously, some level puzzles feels like a hard mod.
    The game has so many glitches too, please don't let the nostalgia blind your judge, games industries need to know what is good and what isn't
    I still can't understan why they change the n.sane trilogy designs and why they put a tumblr Tawna    … Expand
  2. CrashTrueFan
    Oct 2, 2020
    0
    the game is only a mirrage, they say is the best crash but it was a bad experience for me.
    feels glitchy like twinsanity
  3. FollowYrDream33
    Oct 2, 2020
    0
    it would be great if they'd put nsane desgins.
    the cortex design looks bad, and coco had a weird body
  4. GamingCriticbz
    Oct 2, 2020
    0
    This game looks bad for a Toys For Bob Standars, plese Activision don't let they touch another sequel for an old game.
    The controls are bad
    levels are not hard they're more troll
    the story feels weak and the characters personality turn into a political movement.
  5. Masterchief78
    Oct 2, 2020
    0
    The game doesn't feel like a true sequel I'm very disappointed.
    Story, control, character design everything looks not so good.
    They waste a lot of money paying "influencers" and in publicity to hide a not so good gane
  6. Yeliazar
    Jan 23, 2021
    1
    This is thE most frustrating game I ever played. The levels are too long and too damn hard! Eventually I stopped caring about boxes and secret levels and just tried to finish this torture.
    And don't "git gud" me! I managed to acquire platinum trophy in hard games like hollow knight, nex machina etc. But this game is just pure frustration.
    The best way to describe it would be - a pack of    This is thE most frustrating game I ever played. The levels are too long and too damn hard! Eventually I stopped caring about boxes and secret levels and just tried to finish this torture.
    And don't "git gud" me! I managed to acquire platinum trophy in hard games like hollow knight, nex machina etc. But this game is just pure frustration.

    The best way to describe it would be - a pack of levels from Mario Maker with finish ratio 0.1%.    … Expand
  7. 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
  8. Cloddo
    Nov 22, 2020
    4
    Good conept, I've loved every Crash Bandicoot game so far. This game is good, don't take me wrong. But it's boring. At least for me. Levels are just too much long and frustrating (challenge is always good in every game, but I have to feel it's actually MY fault for the mistake when I lose. And in this game there are too many occasions where it's not like that). I am struggling just toGood conept, I've loved every Crash Bandicoot game so far. This game is good, don't take me wrong. But it's boring. At least for me. Levels are just too much long and frustrating (challenge is always good in every game, but I have to feel it's actually MY fault for the mistake when I lose. And in this game there are too many occasions where it's not like that). I am struggling just to finish it, not to tell to try to make it 100%... And when a game is boring, sorry, but can't take an high note.… Expand
  9. Baraqyal
    Nov 16, 2020
    4
    There’s a good platformer in here somewhere. But between the buggy levels, annoying gimmicks, excessive nostalgia, bizarre difficulty curve, forgettable story, and infuriating grind if you want to collect everything, I cannot in good conscience recommend this.
  10. Sheajw
    Jan 15, 2021
    0
    Worst crash game I’ve ever played.
    The stages are way to long and boring just buy the Nsane trilogy it is much better and much cheaper.
  11. SirCatflap
    Apr 25, 2021
    3
    Infuriatingly difficult, sluggish to control, devoid of any substantial story, and near impossible to 100% with your sanity intact.
  12. Falkenauge
    Nov 23, 2020
    4
    Unfortunately much too heavy and only causes frustration.
    If you think the Souls games are difficult, please play this game. Ideally to 100%.
    Only give a 4 because the levels are way too difficult. The challenge is good and okay, but not during the normal run and certainly not that difficult! I went through the Crash Trilo on platinum and didn't have nearly as many problems with it as    Unfortunately much too heavy and only causes frustration.
    If you think the Souls games are difficult, please play this game. Ideally to 100%.
    Only give a 4 because the levels are way too difficult.
    The challenge is good and okay, but not during the normal run and certainly not that difficult!
    I went through the Crash Trilo on platinum and didn't have nearly as many problems with it as with the game, even though I only played through ...
    If ever a 5 part should come then for god's sake it shouldn't be like the 4 part.
    Character or graphic design is also unfortunately not nice. Why didn't you take over the graphics engine from the Trilo 1: 1? Especially the jumping behavior and the physics are much more pleasant than in the 4 part.
    The graphics are also worse than in the Trilo but you have 60 fps which is great.
    That's what I missed with the Trilo.
    Therefore, a request from a crash fan makes the next game less difficult! The graphic design is also better like the Trilo. Better to bring in the adult humor. See Little Tiger, what relates to his penis and much, much more!
    The original Crash was also designed for older people and didn't have a toddler look. The funny and extreme dying animations are missing and have also made crash!
    Just like his super hot girlfriend!

    The look of the game was clearly designed for younger children. Then why do you make it so bloody hard? Do you want the children to be frustrated or even so angry that they break the controller?
    As an adult I can hardly stand it. how are children supposed to survive this without freaking out? Or are today's children all such pro gamers and manage a game like this 100% without any major help or problems? Would be new to me.
    Somehow a contradiction and I wonder if the developers even knew for whom they were really making the game.
    Should it pick up the old fans? then i ask you why did you change the look and the type of crash so that it has little to do with the old games?
    Should it appeal to new customers and children? then i ask the developers why is it so damn difficult and scare off new customers?    … Expand
  13. Vanta77
    Mar 16, 2021
    0
    So disappointed with this game, ive been a nonstop Crash fan since the first release, played 1-3 probably few thousand times and every Crash game to date.

    This game is so ridiculous in a way that it caters ONLY to the hardcore gamers. Crash 1 was legit hard but average players can still beat it and have fun. The difficulty of this game consists mostly of 2 things: The length of the maps    So disappointed with this game, ive been a nonstop Crash fan since the first release, played 1-3 probably few thousand times and every Crash game to date.

    This game is so ridiculous in a way that it caters ONLY to the hardcore gamers. Crash 1 was legit hard but average players can still beat it and have fun. The difficulty of this game consists mostly of 2 things: The length of the maps and the camera angle behind Crash which is so zoomed out that its hard to control where he will land, thats why they added the location marker under Crash which i thought was a decent fix but poor design nonetheless.

    Best Crash games have Crash zoomed in more (just like some of the maps in this game like Nitro Processed which is actually one of the few maps that i liked).
    The length of the maps are so ridiculous because its EVERY map and they are so tedious that each hindrance is just repeated again and again. It feels so lazy, uninspired and uncreative, because most maps actually have 1-2 good ideas that the whole map consists of.
    ND did this sometimes like in Crash 1 but it was mostly the 2 stages of going over the bridge which were relatively short because they were so brutal.
    Here its every map and they are so ridiculously tedious.

    The audio for this game is very boring, best songs are poor remixes of the masterpieces from ND.
    The only reason i give it a 2 is because of good graphics and cutscenes. I thought they were the best part about this game and i liked how Dingodile was expanded and become a retired good guy. Kinda like Crash Bash.

    Anyway i regret purchasing this game on sale because i've already uninstalled after beating the game because i just dont wanna go through those maps again. I liked that they added content and more characters but alot of it is just lazy (like reverted diamonds and different colors for bosses) or super hard like finding all the stupidly well hidden boxes while not dying - Just isnt fun at all.

    I had a miserable time beating this game because i dreaded every single level where Crash never got to breath or slide or anything. Every map is clustered with endless hindrances every step and thats just not Crash and never has been. The masks were remaked from Wrath but i consider that game vastly superior. Its the true 4.
    I've never been this critical of a Crash game and i played Titans which were terrible but i new that at time and i wasnt hyped for those releases.    … Expand
  14. CBfan20
    Nov 4, 2020
    3
    ok so i am a crash bandicoot fan this game was one of my favorites as a kid, i played almost all past crash bandicoot games including the remastered version of the 3 parts , i was exited for the new crash 4 game, i played the first level and it was alright but then when i reached about half of the game it got really hard for me everything is good in this game for me except the difficulty,ok so i am a crash bandicoot fan this game was one of my favorites as a kid, i played almost all past crash bandicoot games including the remastered version of the 3 parts , i was exited for the new crash 4 game, i played the first level and it was alright but then when i reached about half of the game it got really hard for me everything is good in this game for me except the difficulty, when i reached the ice level (i don't remember the name of the level) it was too much difficult to even be fun, that's when i decided to close the game and delete it immediately, that's not what i used to in any crash bandicoot game the difficulty is just too much it's not even funny, i used to have so much fun playing crash bandicoot but in this game it's more frustration than fun i know some people are gonna call me noob but i don't care this isn't fun for me i wish the next crash bandicoot game would be less difficult than this, unfortunately i don't like this, i wish there was a refund policy so i can get my money back!… Expand
  15. Distrial
    Dec 4, 2020
    4
    Visually it's a great game, the music is a bit forgettable but still good, and the moment to moment gameplay is there and competent, so overall it's pretty solid, although the story is pretty meh until near the end. However there's a lot to this game that make me wonder "did they even play the originals?" Now, I've completed Crash 1-3 including all gems and plat relics, I don't considerVisually it's a great game, the music is a bit forgettable but still good, and the moment to moment gameplay is there and competent, so overall it's pretty solid, although the story is pretty meh until near the end. However there's a lot to this game that make me wonder "did they even play the originals?" Now, I've completed Crash 1-3 including all gems and plat relics, I don't consider myself a top Crash player so I feel like I'm pretty good, right? Well apparently not considering how annoying trying to collect everything in this game; so many boxes in every level that are hidden so well you need a guide to find them, enemies with bad hitboxes, long levels that take an eternity to finish which makes collecting to gems you can only get without dying more than 3 times harder to get, repeated levels and overall less creative level designs, the list goes on. What I'm getting at is that all these things add up and make it so you're replaying levels over and over again trying to 100% them until deaths start feeling more and more cheap, gems stop feeling like rewards and more like blood drying in your hair after hours of banging your head against a wall, and lastly, the game starts to feel boring. I hate that I even feel like this because even in crash 1 when I was going for platinum relics and having a hard time I still felt challenged and engaged; with this game I feel like it expects nearly impossible things of me at times and so I have to spend a bunch of time practicing a certain section or running through the level 5 times looking for 1 off screen crate. I wanted to love this game, but my favorite part of Crash games is the completion stuff and this game honestly stinks at it.… Expand
  16. Kenziebrynn
    Jan 27, 2021
    1
    They really outdid themselves on this game. I super enjoyed playing the original games back in the day and I even have the N’Sane Trilogy as well which I enjoy. But this game I do not enjoy at all. Biggest waste of $80 that I can’t return. Wish I bought the disc game so I could at least trade it in and get something back. It’s too frustrating, the originals remastered or not areThey really outdid themselves on this game. I super enjoyed playing the original games back in the day and I even have the N’Sane Trilogy as well which I enjoy. But this game I do not enjoy at all. Biggest waste of $80 that I can’t return. Wish I bought the disc game so I could at least trade it in and get something back. It’s too frustrating, the originals remastered or not are frustrating as well, as they should be, but still playable but this game is just too much.… Expand
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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
  20. 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.
  21. 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
  22. BaccoDanze
    Sep 22, 2022
    1
    desesperante, controles malisimos. Muy dificil en ciertos momentos que impiden seguir adelante con el juego.
  23. 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
  24. 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.
  25. MattMusky
    Dec 26, 2020
    4
    If you forget the N. Sane trilogy (a perfect remaster) exists, this game still somehow feels like a downgrade from the PS1 games. Everything just looks off (character designs, crates, animations), Crash acts differently, the writing isn't good (not that the writing for any crash game ever was but it's the worse of the 4), and most importantly, Crash moves differently. This game just feelsIf you forget the N. Sane trilogy (a perfect remaster) exists, this game still somehow feels like a downgrade from the PS1 games. Everything just looks off (character designs, crates, animations), Crash acts differently, the writing isn't good (not that the writing for any crash game ever was but it's the worse of the 4), and most importantly, Crash moves differently. This game just feels like a cheap knockoff and I can't understand why. Did they not have access to anything at all from the N. Sane trilogy? I'm not saying they couldn't make improvements or change what they wanted from it, it's just bizarre that nothing at all is the same as it was in the remaster.… Expand
  26. ignore78
    Nov 15, 2020
    3
    its crash bandicoot. Take out the fun challenging gameplay and you get crash bandicoot 4. this game is just frustrating and no fun. the original game was hard, bun not frustrating hard. just hard. this game making me want to delete the game every time i die thinking . this is **** and the new mechanics is not fun.
  27. stesproject
    Nov 27, 2020
    4
    I didn't like the game. It's insanely difficult. It's so difficult that you can't enjoy it.
  28. 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.
  29. whyiexist
    Oct 24, 2020
    3
    Why does this even exist, its horrible. The remakes were good, but this is way up its own ass and it seems like it was made to appeal to ass holes. Its 2020 and there's no camera control, I don't care about collecting all the boxes, the art style is not for me but the overall charm of the crash games has been decimated. Its not cool or funny if you are TRYING to be cool and funny. Why areWhy does this even exist, its horrible. The remakes were good, but this is way up its own ass and it seems like it was made to appeal to ass holes. Its 2020 and there's no camera control, I don't care about collecting all the boxes, the art style is not for me but the overall charm of the crash games has been decimated. Its not cool or funny if you are TRYING to be cool and funny. Why are you trying to force a niche culture and sense of modernism. Who asked for Tawna to have crap blue hair and have the I'm independent and strong woman spiel, its old and its not even original nor is it charming. It makes you cringe and roll your eyes. The game is cheap. Toys for bob shouldn't touch another crash game because they changed it in ways it shouldn't have and kept it to the originals in ways it shouldn't have.… Expand
  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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85

Generally favorable reviews - based on 95 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 89 out of 95
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 95
  3. Negative: 0 out of 95
  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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