Crash Bandicoot (Third Island) [Part FINAL]
Channel: HammerSmashedGame
Date: 2020-08-11

Rip to Cortex. We need to talk about Cortex's design. His head is yellow, and has a massive N grafted directly onto it. All of the other human-ish characters are a more human flesh tone and don't have letters on their heads. Also his "gloves" are the same colour as his head. Are suggesting he has Cortex flesh-gloves on? Because he clearly has a black shirt on his arms underneath the "gloves". 

Things they changed from the original:

- There aren't passwords and certain levels you can save at only throughout the game.

- They introduce and involve Tawna and Cortex a lot more in the game.

- The Game Over screen is the Crash 3 game over screen, the classic game over had crash being chased by cortex around the screen. (Uka Uka wasn't canon until 3, because he hadn't been invented yet)

- Most important: he goo has a face now.
 - Time trials were introduced in 3 originally.

- Coco wasn't playable until 3 and not canon until 2. 

- Tawna just stood there in the bonus rounds originally, which was weird. Now she gets nabbed off of the mushroom tree every time you get near her by Cortex.
- The bosses talk less to you in this game than in the original. Pinstripe used to warn you about the bosses up ahead being 'far worse' than him. 



I literally remember taking so long to beat Crash 1 in the olden days that if it weren't for the manual, I would literally not remember who Cortex or Tawna was. This was before they had all major characters interact with you somehow every few levels to remind you of their existence.