5/5 ★ – Batman_Beware's review of Crash Bandicoot.

One of the best platformers of all time in my eyes. This is the reason I fell in love with Crash and prefer him over Mario and Sonic. The gameplay is a mix of 2D and 3D platforming which was never really done before at the time. Around the year 1996 Mario and Sonic were transitioning into 3D only platformers, but Crash was a 2D platformer in a 3D world. The levels were linear but had a lot of hidden areas in them. The tribal setting with Aku Aku and some of the enemy types as well as the level design was always a really nice touch and something games hadn't really tried to implement before. The characters were super unique and the fact that the main villain of the game and the entire Series Dr. Neo Cortex had a huge head and his name refers to a part of the brain is pretty clever. Also the fact that Dr. Nitrus Brio is short for N. Brio and a play off the word Embryo is something games didn't really do back then. Overall I absolutely love this game and a true PlayStation Classic.