Comment by yellowapple
8 years ago
Most of the frustration I remember had to do with the lack of depth perception, especially in Warped (which I remember best). It was certainly a fun game - I'd spend hours on end playing it - but it was also frustrating to be unable to properly judge exactly how far Crash needs to jump lest he plummet into a bottomless pit (or a stack of nitro boxes).
Probably accurate. And based on the quip from the article where the original nickname for the game was "Sonic's Ass" the rest falls into place.
Basically, I remember the main character kind of just hovering in place, and performing slow levitating jumps, while the scenery flies by.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK-h4M4Aetg
Looks like my memory is halfway correct, since I forgot about the side-scrolling levels, which I thought were from one of the follow-up sequels, and not the original game.
Ugh, the music and sound effects. Still horrible.