>>4580746
innovation is great but unnecessary.
Donkey Kong Country is a totally unoriginal game but it's a masterpiece beause it's perfectly made. Mega Man 2 is mechanically identical to Mega Man 1, but it's an incredible game. And Mario 64 being super innovative doesn't necessarily make it better than Mario World at all.
I'm not praising Crash though, I think it's terribly overrated. Calling it bad is a bit of a stretch though. The thing I don't like about it as that it's mostly 2D but from a 3D perspective which is kind of pointless. It's not as good at what it does as true 2D platformers are, and it's not much of a 3D platformer either so it's just a very meh game imo. And yeah the music is pretty dumb. One thing I"ll say is the level design is mostly really good, but unfortunately it mostly just makes you wish you were playing it in actual 2D.