![]() ![]() The way he bounds around each area with gleeful curiosity is great and as morbid as it is, some of his death animations are just hilarious – whether it be slowly flapping his way up to heaven playing a didgeridoo or his boxers landing on Polar’s face after he hits a nitro crate. With its rich, varied environments alongside amusing character animation, Cortex Strikes Back still manages to look great to this day – and certainly manages to be a visual feast compared to other PS1-era platformers.Īs with the previous game, Crash himself is the star of the show. Variety is much better this time around, and Crash Bandicoot 2 is all the better for it. Thanks to the game featuring hubs through which Crash can travel to new levels (thanks to Cortex’s scientific mind) there’s more scope for the developers to come up with new ideas – you’ll run through underground sewers ride down rapids and even hitch a lift on a cute polar bear in the snowy ice caps. World-building is much as it is in the first Crash Bandicoot – a coherent set of levels set in the fictional Wumpa Islands that mixes traditional areas with more experimental zones. There’s no major surprises in the storytelling, but again that’s no bad thing. It also provides the setting for a few returning characters (such as Ripper Roo and N-Gin) which is always a nice touch, while keeping everything faithful to the original design. That’s all there is to the plot, but it’s all there needs to be – the game focuses instead on the platforming experience, but at least it’s framed much better this time. Of course, a former villain isn’t to be trusted – something Coco tries to relay to Crash, but his gleeful nativity leads him to help out in the quest to save his homeland. ![]() The setup is simple – Crash and his sister Coco are relaxing on a Wumpa Island beach when Crash gets whisked away by Cortex (the antagonist from the previous game) and is informed that he needs to help Cortex collect crystals in order to stop a new evil from engulfing the island. Whether it succeeds is another issue, but things are much improved in the story department. Unlike the wishy-washy figure-it-out-for-yourself storytelling found in the first game, Cortex Strikes Back at least attempts to tell a cohesive narrative this time around. ![]()
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