Crash Bandicoot is back after a long spell in the wild – but is it a welcome return?

Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy
Platform: PS4

It’s been a long time between drinks for everybody’s favourite marsupial, but with a new console generation comes a new lease on life, and make no doubt about it, Crash is back.

Yes, this is still just a collection of old PlayStation favourites, but what you might not know is that developer Vicarious Visions has impressively rebuilt the whole package from the ground up with its own code.

What that allows for is an experience that expertly shifts things around so that everything feels just how you remember and plays even better.

It’s also hard, often crushingly so, but checkpoints are now thankfully more forgiving – cementing the nostalgic heaven.

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