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10122729 No.10122729 [Reply] [Original]

What am I in for? Is it better than Wrath of Cortex?

>> No.10122767

>>10122729
>Is it better than Wrath of Cortex?
Not really. Both games were conceptualized as non-linear Crash games and neither were given the resources they needed. WoC dealt with it by scaling back to a Warped rehash, Twinsanity just did what it could and it's very short and unpolished. They're both mediocre games but Twinsanity is a bit more respected for its ambition.

>> No.10122769

>>10122729
Butchered game that despite the cut content is one of the best titles in the franchise. Definitely better than WoC

>> No.10122771

One of the best games in the series despite the problems

>> No.10122998

mediocre throughout, but has a really strong final level

>> No.10123029

>>10122729
it's ok, the story is fun, the music is hit or miss
gameplay is ok, some sections are meh:
>cutscenes repeat if you die
>cannot skip cutscenes
>full of collision bugs
>bad stealth level

>> No.10123064

Didn't they stitch the game together from several prototypes at the last moment?

>> No.10123343

>>10122729
Pretty enjoyable, but you can very easily tell that it was unfinished.

>> No.10123574
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10123574

>>10123029
>finishTiki Monster boss fight
>jump on his fallen corpse after like you used to in previous games, for old time's sake
>die the moment I collide with it
>have to watch cutscene and fight boss all over again

>> No.10123575

>>10122729
No, you already knew the answer. Also no, playing it as a kid over and over because it's the only game you had doesn't make it any better.

>> No.10123616

>>10122729
It's the only post-PSX crash game worth trying.

>> No.10124046

>>10123616
This.
And if it had enough time to be finished instead of the beta version we got it would’ve surpassed the PSX trilogy

>> No.10124436
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10124436

>>10123574
the game is full of this kind of shit. it also gets much worse, because it's very easy to wander back into a previous area and the game will make you replay the entire fucking sequence. knowing this, I was actually looking forward to my second playthrough thinking it would be much better.... but it just wasn't because the whole damn thing is so unpolished. They also gimped the moveset compared to previous games, entirely crippling the slide jump.

>TWoC vs Twins
having recently replayed both this and TWoC, I thought I was going to enjoy this game a lot more than TWoC, but nope. they are both very middling. Twinsanity could have been so much better than TWoC, but too many things go wrong. It's only the very last level of twins that completely blows anything in TWoC out of the water. I used to think twoc was worse, but replaying both of them, I liked twoc more the second time, whereas I felt about the same on twins as the first time.

>> No.10124581

>>10124436
>because it's very easy to wander back into a previous area and the game will make you replay the entire fucking sequence
I did this countless times due to the dogshit signposting in the game. In the Academy of Evil world I couldn't find the entrance to the school (it was some random door in a grassy patch at the corner of the level) and thought I'd better check out the boiler room staircase under the well again in case I missed a path - imagine my fucking rage when I get locked into playing that entire fucking Cortex-rolling section all over again and can't do shit about it

>> No.10126689

>>10122729
rip NGC port

>> No.10127185

>>10123574
>Coco gets paralysed in one of the cutscenes
>for some reason walking into her kills you

>> No.10127894

Oh dear

>> No.10127904

https://youtu.be/PzbnWihnBK4

>> No.10127989

soundtrack is neat alright
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ3jT0PJ7Hg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgz9Y-YPZXc

>> No.10128071

>>10122729
Great music and good humour. The game's a bit short, however.

>> No.10128237

>>10122729
Worse, WoC is just uninspired, boring-ish warped rehash, but at least its core gameplay is solid and fun, and there are no major bugs/glitches. Meanwhile twinsanity is full of bugs, soft-locks and its borderline prototype they shat out as they ran out of time and money to finish it, having to replay entire selections, watch cut-scenes again when you die to some bullshit gets tedious fast.

And while some people love twinsanitys soundtrack, I always hated it with passion, WoC's techno is so much better.

>> No.10128396

>>10122729
It was too uninspired for me to care enough to finish it, or even get all that far in it. Also
>pick up first shield crate in the game
>it is I, Aku Aku, here's my boring monologue and also I am going to protect you
>walk into a nitro crate
>Aku Aku does not in fact protect you
This somehow pissed me off more than anything in the game, not the dumb tendency to cutscenize every interaction but the fact they randomly changed a mechanic that was well established over at least four games. For no reason.

>> No.10128427

>>10122729
If you like Crash 1, 2, and 3... no.
If you like Crash 1, 2, 3, and hate WoC... yes, and you're also retarded

>> No.10128475

>>10128396
>For no reason.

I think the reason why is because there's a lot of puzzles involving explosive crates, and they made it so you can't just cheese them with Aku-Aku.

>> No.10129882
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10129882

>>10122729
those two games are sort of polar opposites in a sense without a straightforward comparison.
Wrath of Cortex is an uninspired, inferior version of Warped (but not overwhelmingly so).
Twinsanity was a welcome break into something new, but everything feels half-baked, like you're playing a series of disjointed demos that were hastily patched together in a single day.
the ideal game would have been a fully realized free-roaming Crash game. Basically, what Mark Cerny was working on before Universal and Sony backed out.

>> No.10130119

WoC is automatically better for having a much better soundtrack (BEST in the series for me). outside of that both are mediocre

>> No.10130120

>>10122729
It's literally the Sonic-06 of Crash Bandicoot.

>> No.10130973

>>10122729
Yes, it's one of my favorites.

>> No.10131094

>>10127904
Sounds kind of like Courage the Cowardly Dog music