User reviews

Okay, i've been playing Crash since the first game was released on the PS1. I love them all. While this one is a very good game and the graphics are beautiful, it becomes unnecessarily very hard.

The art is a sure standout with atmospheric landscapes that make areas so destinct you can almost smell them.

Even the music plays in to the rythm of the levels at times and makes it near impossible not to jam along with it.

The game introduces multiple new story elements and gameplay mechanics which the game explores fully and in unique and creative ways.

The story is fun and over the top granting some characters more personality than you could ever ask for, while others might've benefit from being taken more seriously.

Replayability is at an all time high as there's always something new for you to earn when going back into levels, though this can easily overwhealm someone striving to complete the game 106%.

There's something here for you in both spectrums like casual laid back play, and the fast pace time-trial runthrough of the levels.

Are you into speedruns? GREAT go for it!

Do you not have time for that and just want to get through the story? GREAT no problem, both will serve good competition.

While extremely hard in areas which can be either good or bad depending on the player there are items so easy to miss that you might not have a chance to get them without outside help.

Even though the title and story overwrites the majority of later Crash titles it does it in a celebratory manner instead of erasing it from existence.

Long story short, the game is fun, unique, beautiful and hard!

I was so worried this wouldn't work, but they retooled to formula to create a more stream lined, difficult yet user friendly crash experience which may be the best game yet in his series....

Setting it as a continuation to the original 3 games, toys for bob did a really great job at capturing the feel and lighthearted tone of the originals while adding some new mechanics that brings a lot of new challenges to the game such as the edition of masks which they have different powers and most of them are really fun to use and it takes some time to master their abilities.

Really nice game to play in these times at home though I gotta say it's absolutely the hardest game in the entire series by far but it's definitely better than wrath of cortex which was considered as crash 4 up to this point, now hopefully we can get a new spyro game as well in the near future.

Crash Bandicoot It's about time is a wonderful game , It's a modern and different Crash game . Crash Bandicoot is one of my favorite video games .

As a fan of the franchise since I was a little kid, this game did not disappoint one bit. They managed to keeo the core of Crash Bandicoot, yet added som touches and abilites to make it really fun and modern.

The levels are well designed with great music and cool features with a lot of different obstacles and hazards.

I think anyone who played the games since the 90s is going to find this game very entertaining, and the platforming allows new players to have fun with Crash straight away.

For anyone who is on the journey to platinum trophy, like me, we are up for the biggest challenge yet. Good luck! (We're gonna need it)

This game is a blast start to finish, so many levels to play, things to collect and bosses to master! Not to mention this is the first platformer in the Crash franchise that has this many playable characters, they all handle like a dream! I couldn't have asked for a better game!

So some of you might remember how much I loved the N. Sane Trilogy, even though I'd never played a Crash game in my life before that point. And so I was looking forward to this game, and really, really enjoyed it...for a while.

See, while the game is really well animated, has a lot of great level design, and Cortex is still a great laugh, there is a roughly equal amount of level design that really made me angry, I didn't find most of the humour all that funny, especially not when compared to the N. Sane Trilogy, and by god...the completion requirements.

And before anyone gets snotty about me thinking that it's necessary to 100% the game when it technically isn't, well you're completely correct. However, the game taken at its normal pace and only playing it through to the end without collecting everything will only take you around four to five hours, but the ludicrous amount of stuff needed to 100% the game, unlike the original trilogy, is just thoroughly not worth it.

Over 400 gems, including hidden ones, flashback tapes that can be serious pains to finish, and all in some of the hardest levels ever made in the entire series up until now, and when you add all that up, what it results in is the fact that unlike the N. Sane Trilogy, I would only ever recommend playing this through to finish it, not complete it.

If you do that, it's just as fun, if not more so than the N. Sane Trilogy, but through all the repetition if you're aiming to complete it, the humour that occasionally falls flat, and the frustration overtaking the fun far too often, I can't say I'm anywhere near as likely to return to this one as I am the N. Sane Trilogy any time soon.

Oh well, it was fun for a few hours...

I don't play video games much at all! Love love LOVE this game! It's so fun and you can definitely tell they took their time with creating it. I have the PS4 and Switch version. I work from Home so I already beat the game on switch. Lol.

I had this for Christmas- I loved the crash series, so was excited to try Crash 4 its about time.

The graphics are amazing and the little jump Landing locator is a nifty feature and proved very useful.

The levels had some retro feel to them while being fresh for this generation of gamers.

But the difficulty OH MY GOD. It is so frustrating but so addictive, you can't just give up you have to finish it.

The power suits are a good feature too, and the more lower suits you unlock the more difficult the game becomes. Trying to switch quickly between suits to get past space. The final level..... took me A-LOT of tries I just kept getting frazzled in the castle! But when I completed it I felt like I'd really accomplished something! Its a fantastic game, don't aim for 100% you'll never do it or die trying.

By far the worst game designed. Whilst the graphics on each level are absolutely amazing and creative, the level design is abysmal.

A small percentage of levels you complete are fine and capable of doing in a few deaths. However, a large number of levels are ridiculously difficult. The game is designed around doing the levels at a fairly quick pace but a lot of the times you have to die in order to understand what you need to do next. And when you have to die to see what comes next and you're really far from your last checkpoint, it's very demotivating.

A lot of levels have too much going on. Unless you have the reaction time of a superhero, you are not going to beat a level without dying. Checkpoints sometimes are so far away and you have to continuously cry and hope you reach it before the controller is launched across the room.

Unless you crave frustration, anger, boiling blood and shouting, this is not the game for you.

I've always been a big fan of Crash Bandicoot and the cast of characters. Granted Ive only played the original trilogy and outside of that a little of Crash Bash, CTR and Mind Over Mutant. They were great but cant beat the original trilogy for obvious reasons. They were fun and challenging with some really cool level designs. Also when it came to the difficulty for the original trilogy, they were tough but fair

Crash Bandicoot It's about time is sadly the worst Crash Bandicoot game ever made and worst one in the franchise, Im sorry. A lot of the level designs are beautiful and can tend to be quite fun at times. However when it comes to the difficulty it is off the charts. When I started playing this for the first time two weeks ago I was only 4 levels in and was already struggling. Like seriously? That's never happened to me when I played Crash 1, 2 or 3

But wait. It gets. As I progress through every level in every time rift world, the difficulty gets harder and harder until it goes from challenging to tedious. I hate everything that is tedious. When the difficulty of the game or anything else is tedious, it's not fun nor worth the effort in finishing. I was determined to beat the game and then throw it in the trash because it wasnt fun to play Crash 4 everytime I put the disc in, it was work and a real chore

Video games arent meant to be chore or work, they are meant to be fun. Yes games should definitely be challenging at times because otherwise every game would be boring and not worth playing. However when it came to Crash Bandicoot 1 the very original game as hard and difficult it was, it was still fair. But not Crash 4 It's about time. It's not fair at all or challenging, just tedious

I got to the second to the last level and after two weeks of raging and slowly no longer having fun and losing interest, I gave up and threw it in the trash. I already knew how the story ended anyway when I watched the gameplay from a Youtuber back in late 2020. The second to the last level was the last straw when it required you to balance and time every mask you use in it while avoiding lasers and trying to platform. To many lasers, TNT, Nitros and trying to change from mask to mask hoping you'll make it through trial and error was not worth it. This level Im talking about is Cortex Castle, look it up and see for yourself

Hell, I stopped caring about trying to get most of the boxes and look for gems by the time I got to the 5th time rift world and just wanted to beat the level through trial and error no matter how many times I died and I did. But Cortex Castle was the last straw for me. Never again

It's a shame because I liked the story for Crash 4 and where some of the levels you can play as Cortex, Dingodile or Tawna. Those were great. But the insane tedious difficulty that kept getting more and more ridiculous from the second world and up just killed and ruined it for me. Hey fair play and much respect to those that not only beat but also got every box and gems. Kudos.

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 breathe 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 knew that at time and i wasnt hyped for those releases.