No one is safe from the Honest Game Trailers treatment. No game is too critically acclaimed, and no mascot is too sacred. Yesterday Honest Trailers decided to dig into Crash Bandicoot, and while some people were amused, to others it just looked like the entire trailer was massive dig on Crash Bandicoot. Check out the trailer for yourself, and see what you think:
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At the time of writing, the Crash Bandicoot Honest Game Trailer has over 5,000 dislikes. That’s not Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare levels of failure, but it’s on its way. And speaking of warfare, as you can imagine the comments section is full of long-time Crash Bandicoot fans as well as more open-minded cynics duking it out over the trailer and whether or not its criticisms are based in reality.
Pretty soon into the trailer the narrator makes a quip about Crash Bandicoot releasing after Super Mario 64, and makes it sound as though Sony failed in every way to live up to the all-time classic that Nintendo had just unleashed into the world. That attracted some seriously acidic feedback from the community, who accused the channel as being run by Nintendo fanboys. This was stated in terms that we won’t reproduce here. Needless to say, the comments are full of some pretty strong and hateful words.
Then of course, there were the digs on the Crash Bandicoot N Sane Trilogy. “Today, little Johnny learns that classic doesn’t always mean good,” the narrator quips, implying that the remastered trilogy is going to be weighed down by dated gameplay that was never good to begin with, despite an enormous fan-base that believes otherwise.
We don’t know. We don’t care either way. The Honest Game Trailers are always intentionally hard on their featured games, and we’re still going to pick up N Sane Trilogy as soon as it drops. Like most of the people in that comments section, we have long histories with Crash, and we always had a lot of fun playing these games.
