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Ah, Crash Bandicoot, the very mention of his name can send alot of people into a nostalgia overload. The game's story is nice and simple and a pretty good origin story to the orange marsupial and his relationship to Dr. Neo Cortex, the main antagonist of the series. The presentation is great, this game holds up very well in graphics for PS1 standards, not quite Spyro 3 levels of colour and detail, but it's definitely up there. The music in each level perfectly fits the atmosphere very well, with tense, gloomy music outside the rainy castle walls, to fast paced and frantic music for the hog riding sections. Gameplay is decent, but the game can get ridiculously hard at points, especially for completionists, thank goodness it's pretty short. The controls are okay, with my only real complaints being they can be a little slippery at some points and the game uses the D-Pad only which is very frustrating in a 3D platformer. Is this game worth completing though? Well, in order to 100% the game you must finish every level without dying from beginning to end, and break every single crate which are all over the place, some of them being very hard to get to or find in the first place.The hardest part of this game I think was trying to complete the stage without dying, I had to try over 50 times on the level 'Fumbling in the Dark', it's that difficult. Completing each of these objectives will get you a gem, these gems can be used to open up more pathways in previous levels, or just add to your completion bonus. Speaking of which, if you manage to obtain all 26 gems, you unlock a path on the second last level, made of all the gems you've collected, make you way over to Tawna and unlock the secret ending, without having to even fight the final boss, though I did anyway, as my job is to complete EVERYTHING in these games. Was it all worth it? Well for the secret ending, certainly not, it's extremely underwhelming. You do however get some funny end screens showing what the bosses did after the events of the game. But the feeling of accomplishment this game gives with every gem collected is amazing, play the game for yourself and you'll see what I mean. This game gets my rating of 7/10, COMPLETE IT!