Crash Bandicoot was one of the two big mascots for the Sony PlayStation. With the first three games setting the standard for the series, Crash and his friends were slowly passed on꧟ to other developers before it began to go downhill and fade out of existence.

Thankfully, veteran company Vicarious Visions decided to helm the red marsupial once more and create the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy which remastered the first three games in t🐭he series in masterful "Fur-K". Many people have looked to this remake as a standard that other companies can follow when remaking their own properties (no more texture upgrades).

Because of the release of this compilation, we thought it fun to go back through the series and see how the games stack up against each other. As is standard with these kinds of lists, we've included the N. Sane Trilogy to see how it fares against the rest of the franchise. To keep the article succinct, 🎃we chose not to include the mobile titles.

Take a look at where we rank the Crash Bandicoot series. Where does your all-time favorite land?

16 Crash Boom Bang!

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I think we can all agree that this was the worst Crash game ever created. It seems that there was a desire to recreate the success of Crash Bash (more on that later) and put it on the DS. This led to a game that wanted to emulate the board game style of Mario Party but without any of the fun or polish. We've got Game of t🍃he Year material right here already!

Crash Boom Bang is a cluttered explosion of poor ideas, glitches, and half-baked mini-games. It's as deliberate of a rip-off as one can get, and there's no reason to ever pick this game up. If you're that desperate for a party game with Crash and his friends, just stick with Crash Bash. You'll thank me later.

15 Crash Bandicoot Purple: Ripto's Rampage

Since Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon hit the PS1, fans had been clamoring for a crossover between the two. Needless to say, Crash Purple: Ripto's Rampage isn't exactly what we were askin💟g for. Many p🎉eople like to pretend that it never happened in the first place.

Crash Purple takes a sill🐬y plot where Cortex and Ripto team up to take dow♉n Spyro and Crash. In order to get the two heroes fighting, Ripto sends a bunch of Riptocs with poorly-made Spyro masks to attack Crash. Clever.

As if▨ that weren't bad enough, the gameplay is clunky and full of mini-games that don't offer anything to the characters. When you fight Spyro, you have to throw stuff at each other and get the other to 🅺fall into a moat.

14 Crash: Mind Over Mutant

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After the days of Crash Twinsanity and Crash Boom Bang, Activision wanted to try a different direction for the series. This resulted in a reimagining known as Crash of the Titans. While this game was decent for what it was, its sequel, Mind over Mutant, wasn't nearly as fun or inventive.

Crash: Mind over Mutant tries to follow an open-world formula, ꦐbut all it really does instead is trick you into thinking that's the case. Crash simply goes down different linear paths that are all "connected" somehow. Furthermore, the combat is not as varied or interesting as it was in its predecessor. Then there's the whole idea that all of the cutscenes are presented in different animation styles. Why was this put in the game exactly? It doesn't add anything and only confuses players more in the end.

13 Crash Tag Team Racing

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Mario Kart Double Dash was a game that subverted the kart racing genre pretty well, and Activision wanted a piece of the action. They created Crash Tag Team Racing, which is a pretty blatant rip-off.

However, the game is low on this list for more reasons than just its mimicry. Crash Tag Team Racing suffers from a poor case of identity crisis. In the hubworld, you control Crash traditionally and do that slow platforming that we all know from the 3D space. However, once you get to a portal you get to do some actual racing, which makes the whole package feel weird and unfocused. It's trying to do too many things, and because of this, both sides end up getting neglected. It's hard to recommend Crash Tag Team Racing when there are bett🐟er racing games with Crash in it.

12 Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath Of Cortex

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Here is where things to start head upward. Don't get me wrong, though. Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex isn't a great game. For some reason, a lot of the characters were given different looks, and something about them just isn't right (especially Cortex). At the very least, the Elementals are 🍌all given a pretty good voice cast even if they're shoehoไrned in.

Then we move on to the actual game itself. Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex has some good ideas with how it presents the actual platforming levels, but those are few and far between. Most of the time, you'll be controlling different vehicles and pretty much ♏doing anything other than Crash platforming. Don't worry, though! You can also play as Coco, who plays exactly like Crash but with less effective moves and wonky controls. 10/10 right there.

11 Crash Bash

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Yes, I put Crash Bash this low on the list. W🦂hile I understand that a lot of people have fond memories of this game (I do too), after revisiting it, it's clear that it doesn't hold up and is nowhere near as good as many of us remember it as chil𓆉dren.

While I do appreciate the approach it takes to the party format, just having mini-games to play rather than a board, many of these games aren't fun to play (Pogo Panic being the terrible highlight). There are a lot of great games, but many of them you'll never play because of how excruciatingly painful it is to unlock them all. The big thing with Crash Bash is that it's only fun for a litt⛎le while, and there's nothing to keep people coming back for more than a day.

10 Crash Of The Titans

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Now we're starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. While Crash of the Titans has a lot of issues in terms of how it redesigns all of the characters (remind me again why Crash has tattoos), it does do a lot of things well with🌜 how it plays.

For example, Crash of the Titans is an action game rather than a standard platformer. You can take on lots of enemies and even different beasts known as Titans. With the help of Aku Aku (now voiced by the same guy who did Grim from The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, for some reason), you can take control of these Titans and fight with them. This mechanic actually allows for some varied sessions and is pretty fun. However, the premise of Crash of the Titans was never fully fleshed out and ther🔯e are still many things that could've been fixed.

9 Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced

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When it was announced that Crash would be making the jump to the Game 🍬Boy Advance, many people were left scratching their heads. How would they be able to r𓆏ecreate the Crash formula on such a small (and weak) system?

Enter Vicarious Visions (bless their hearts). They decided that it could be done and created not one but two solid platformers for handheld devices. The second one was Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced. Not only are we given some unique gameplay, but we are also introduced to a new villain, as Uka Uka is sick and tired of Cortex failing all the time. This leads to solid level design, more fleshed out versions of the ball levels from Wrath of Cortex, and solid visuals for the console. It only gets a few knocks down beca📖use of them trying toꦛ give lore to Fake Crash and the small screen didn't always work for the platforming.

8 Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure

Despite both games for the GBA being fairly well received, it's the first entry, Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure, that deserves a slightly higher spot on this liꦕst. For all of the naysayers who thought that Crash wouldn't be ✨able to work on a handheld, they were quickly proven wrong.

Not only does Huge Adventure look and play fine, but it also retains a lot of the classic feel and sound design from the original trilogy. The game is also every bit as challenging as the games that came before it, and it handles this difficulty well. Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure is the best Crash game on a handheld device, and if you have the chance to play it, what are you wai꧟ting for?

7 Crash Twinsanity

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I have a lot to say about Crash Twinsanity. It has a lot of great ideas that work together to create a very fun game. All of the great characters from the series are there for the party as well, which leads to some great boss fights. As if that weren't great enough, there are ne🌳w villains brought into the series, as well as some great dialogue.

In this title, Crash and Cortex have to work together rather than fight each other. The game moves in an open-world style that actually functions much better than Mind over Mutant. It's entertaining, pretty to look at, and fun for what it is. The only problem I have with Crash Twinsanity is that the game feels unpolished at times. You will find a lot ꦿof glitches and be able to trigger cutscenes multiple times, and that takes you out of the ex♑perience. Still a fun game though.