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Crash Bandicoot's true legacy? All the average games we love
A look back at Crash Bandicoot, its legacy, and what it means for a video game to be good, to celebrate the PlayStation's 30th anniversary.
A simplified version: on the one hand, an emphasis on mechanical playfulness and invention, at the expense of graphical prowess; on the other, a drive for technical and visual awe, with more familiar, tried-and-tested gameplay to go alongside it. I love the way its many tombs' pitch black backgrounds ignite the same eerie call to the void in me as the oldest Mario platformers before it, and how at the same time those games feel a million worlds apart. The kids of Roblox and Sisyphus and the rest are becoming detached from graphics, bombast and "telling stories", rejecting those games and and returning, in their own strange, modern ways, to pure play itself, however that's defined.
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