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You could do that for so many things. Banjo Kazooie(98) character design looks like a rip off of Crash(96). Games are influenced by other games. CTR was pretty much a straight rip off of Mario Kart but in my and many others opnion it was still a better game than Mario Kart 64. You just seem to dislike the genre Crash Bandicoot is set in. Its not an open world 3D platformer. It is a however too many a very fun platformer that was unlike any of the game really at the time. The game mechanics weren't super revolutionary but the fun and atmosphere of the game was very new and exciting. While dated, Crash 2,3 are still very fun games. |
crash bandicoot = 2d platformer with quasi-overhead, horizontally scrolling perspective. pseudo 3d. the gameplay is literally a carbon copy of donkey kong country (1994), except with dkc's flaws (responsiveness, dk's momentum) magnified in some unfortunate ways. if anything, banjo kazooie is a rip-off of rare's OWN game's character design (dkc), which crash is ripping off spectacularly.
and hey, i'm not knocking crash bash and crash team racing. they're fairly good clones. but they're only good clones because the original is in both cases so much better. crash team racing also rips off rare's kart racer, diddy kong racing (1997), which is also a better game than ctr.
and SPEAKING of banjo kazooie, naughty dog's next bang-up job, jak and daxter, was an obvious clone of rare's game. this is not influence. this is just straight up taking stuff wholesale from previous games.
