/vr/ - Retro Games

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How far do you guys go with the relics in general? My history with them is twisted.

They've always been a slippery slope for me. I first played Crash 3 a year and a half after it came out, and it looked like all you needed were sapphire relics to complete everything. I got a few golds, but didn't bother for more, because I just hated getting even the sapphires. Then a few years later, I see in the back of a guide that there's one last gem that only appears after getting all of the golds... so I go do that. By chance, I also have a few platinums, but don't really care, because now I know for sure they don't add anything and the rest looked impossible. A year later on a very long car ride with nothing else to do, I managed to get all the platinums in the first gba game. Now I'm thinking
>Ok, so it IS possible
and my Crash 3 save looks messy and woefully incomplete. So I go for the plats, but it's completely kicking my ass. I'm finding it even harder than CTR platinums. I play it on and off over the course of a decade, getting a few at a time. Finally get the last one (High Time). Just when I'm ready to put down the game for good, NST comes. Now they've added time trials to both 1 and 2, while also screwing the vehicle controls in 3. FUCK. But hey, I've done it before, so I know I can. Get all the platinums again after much cursing out both ND and VV. A few years go by and I want to replay the games, but the idea of time trials is putting me off.
>This sucks. All I want is to leisurely revisit NST and ps1 Crash 3 like I do for Spyro and ps1 Crash 1/2, but I can't because the time trials are too goddamn frustrating.
I decide to just replay them, but now do it to the point where I find a consistent route for every platinum that only takes me a few tries. At least then I can comfortably revisit the games. I've been doing that for the last two weeks, and last night I finished my first replay of Crash 3 NST.