Nine out of Ten. Yup, I've just broken the cardinal rule of review writing and given you my score right up front. I know it may seem a little crazy, but let me give you a few, what I think are, reasonable reasons for why I have let the ‘bandicoot' out of the bag right at the start.

Looks great; Plays just like your remember it; Crash 2 & 3 are platforming masterpieces; Animations are fantastic; Portable paradise

Difficulty Spikes; Crash 1 may have you throwing your controller across the room; Old-School platforming

Sometimes the impossible is made possible and one example of this is Crash Bandicoot on other platforms besides PlayStation. I never thought I would see the day that I would be running around ruins, jungles and futuristic cities as my childhood mascot on a Nintendo platform and that is just what has...

Love this game. Completed to 105% and still playing.

Heaps of fun and a great deal to get three crash bandicoot games for such a good price.

Reviewing remasters is always difficult because you're essentially critiquing two entirely unconnected things: the quality of the remaster itself and whether the original game still stands up to scrutiny.

High quality remaster that improves everything from the graphics to the controls; Good value for money and Crash still has a lot of charm

The original games were always very simplistic, and they seem even more limited today; Racing sections are particularly poor; Switch version doesn't look as good as PS4

Oh the 90s. As Mario and Sonic shot to fame as the mascots for their consoles, they left a plethora of inferior 2d platformers and in their wake. Zool, Busby, Cool Spot and a number of others all tried and failed to capture the top notch gameplay of Nintendo and Sega's flagship games, not to mention...

The N-Sane trilogy is a complete remake of the classic Playstation platforming trifecta, and a good one at that. Attention has been paid to details that are essential to the familiarity of the title, but there's been plenty of refinement here too.

Baz joins Crash on his most compact adventure yet.

Better loading times; Handheld mode eases the difficulty tension; HD Rumble

Platforming remains poorly designed

The list of ports for the Nintendo Switch recently increased by not one title, but three in the form of the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy. While the arguments around ports on the Switch do have some salient points, given the age of the titles here, and the fact that they were never available on...

Nintendo diehards probably never had a chance to play the original Crash games, most of them I knew looked down their noses on the bandicoot from their lofty, free-roaming 3D platformer thrones. They were right in a way, Crash Bandicoot was no Mario, but his games were something else entirely.