Spyro vs. Crash Bandicoot: Which Remake Is Better?
Additions and Changes
Both the Spyro and Crash trilogies come with a host of changes and enhancements, on top of the visual upgrade, that make both games feel a bit more modern.
Both games sport remastered soundtracks and re-recorded dialogue for all three games, using the most recent voice actors for characters.
Spyro gives you the option of changing between the retro and Reignited soundtrack whenever you want, and adds in some slight control changes to make everything smoother, like having Sparx’s Gem Finder ability usable from the very start.
There’s also a super handy feature that lets you jump to any level you’ve already played at any time by opening up the guidebook, making it much easier to revisit areas once you have new abilities or characters.
These are all just small changes, as the overall level design and feel of the Spyro Reignited Trilogy stays totally dedicated to the original games.
Crash’s changes, on the other hand, feel much more substantial. The N’Sane Trilogy adds some much-needed features across all three tiles like unified checkpoints, manual and auto-saving, and a pause menu.
It also introduces Time Trials to the first two games, which were originally introduced with Crash Bandicoot: Warped. You can even play the majority of levels in the trilogy as Crash’s sister, Coco.
The changes brought with the N’Sane Trilogy do a great job of making the games more accessible and modern.
While Spyro’s changes are nice and its visual upgrade is fantastic, it just doesn’t benefit as much from drastic changes, as there wasn’t much that really needed to be changed.
Winner: Crash Bandicoot N’Sane Trilogy
