Traveller's Tales getting screwed over by publishers was a pretty common occurrence during the early to mid 2000s, which is pretty sad because they're obviously a talented studio

2000 games exist
Publishers: I diagnose you with rushed development.

Compared to what Poor Spyro had to go through with Enter the Dragonfly, I'd say Crash got the better treatment.

"Yearly releases hurt Crash in the long run."
That's what they're saying with Pokemon right now!!!

I randomly died in that space coco level too. It never happened to me before till I played the game this year (on original hardware).  Very odd

Traveler's Tales was such a great studio, man. They made actually good movie tie-ins for PS1, Toy Story 2 and Bug's Life. And they clearly had some good ideas for the next evolution of Crash Bandicoot, but they didn't have that critical time to refine and make it great. Tragic.

I'm pretty touched about your speech with Traveller's Tales development cycle. As a gaming student who's still not really good at programming, I can't imagine the horror of going through a cycle like that. So kudos to ya buddy! ^^

“What schemes have you been up to this time”
“No schemes”
“Oh”
End credit

This was the only crash game I've played when i was younger. So it has a place in my heart. But I respect your opinion and criticism.

14:13 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂Running away from a tsunami on a scooter 😂😂😂😂😂I freakin died here!

0:57, I genuinely like Pokemon Sword and Shield and its haters are way too toxic, but it's a good example of this.

Personally, what I would have done at least is have the Crash villains as the bosses, but each of them is assisted by a different elemental mask.
For example, Dingodile is known for his flamethrower. I could see a boss fight where his weapon is enhanced by the fire mask.

In fact, I could see where each elemental mask could fit with which boss.

Tiny would use the Earth mask, similar to Crunch.
N. Tropy would use the Water mask (Which might be a bit of a stretch but it could still work somehow)
Dingodile would use the Fire mask since he literally has a flamethrower as mentioned earlier.
And N. Gin would use the Air mask since a lot of his boss fights involve flying robots/vechicles.

Meanwhile, the final boss would be Cortex himself who would utilize all 4 similar to It's About Time.

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I was having a bad day but watching this video of one of the first games I ever played really lightened up my mood. I have been a fan of your channel for a long time now and seeing your statistics is really sad I absolutely love your videos your personality, delivery its all great your videos are great and every chance I get talk to my friends about you because you have such an entertaining personality and in my opinion you are very underated.

fun little fact: When growing up, for some reason my brain kept combining wrath of cortex and crash 3 warped together because I didn't know which was which and when the Nsanity trilogy came out I played crash 3 and was confused as to why there was no castle level...then I realized that the castle level was from wrath of cortex and NOT crash 3....this game kinda fucked with my head more then I want to admit...

Every time Ben uploads my soul gains parts it lost back, and I especially needed that right now, because my life has kinda sucked lately. Thanks, Mavvy.

I'd say the most infamous example of lack of time is not Wrath of Cortex, but Twinsanity.

Some of my favorite music pieces:
*Arctic Antics - Nice for the first level of the game
*Seashell Shenanigans - Calming ambience of the ocean depths
*Bonsai Banzai - Chinese instrumentation sounds so good
*Crashes to Ashes - Has a rocking sound
*Droid Void - Admittedly kinda unsettling under proper circumstances
*Crate Balls of Fire - Sounds really cool like something from a 2000s sci-fi cartoon
*Solar Bowler - Also played in the end credits

The level design in crash bandicoot 1 is the best as far as insane trilogy goes.

Crashes to ashes(boss 3) is the best crash soundtrack out of all of the crash games Ngl