3.5/5 ★ – bryansbane's review of Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex.

The original Crash Bandicoot 4, before we got a more proper one decades later. As much as I’d love to clown on this game and say “well it’s not Naughty Dog anymore so it sucks” the truth of the matter is that the studio just straight up copied the design and style of Crash Bandicoot 3 and because of it made a pretty good Crash game. Of course, it was highly unoriginal and brought nothing new to the series, let alone the industry. It was a lot of fun though, and introduced Crunch Bandicoot, who ended up being a character I really enjoyed that was not from the original developers. I wonder how I’d feel giving it another go now.