Crash Bandicoot™ N. Sane Trilogy

Crash Bandicoot isn't as cool as you remember it. The N. Sane Trilogy puts a nice coat of paint on some old classics, but none of these games hold up by modern standards. Unfortunately, it's also impossible to judge them by retro standards, because the remakes have updated foundational mechanics like hitboxes and jumping for the worse. The games look nice but feel bad. Even disregarding these updates, the challenge of Crash Bandicoot has always been in trying to navigate awkward level design with terrible controls. Ice physics, underwater levels, jetpacking... every new gimmick seems designed to feel slippery and waste your lives. That was fine in the PS1 days, but not anymore. At least the soundtrack is excellent. In fact, that's probably a better experience than these remakes because it keeps the nostalgia without exposing you to how poorly they've aged. Unless you are a diehard Crash fanatic, I wouldn't recommend the N. Sane Trilogy.