Fun and Long-Lasting

Crash Bandicoot: Warped improved on all of the annoyances of its prequel. As far as improvements, the "bouncy" boxes now give apples (okay, so technically wumpa fruit) two at a time, it's impossible to fall off on 2-D portions of the level, there are no more annoying boxes to search for, only ones that are hard to get, and Coco exists (a female character). The way the game is played is by controlling a bandicoot through various styles of levels, jumping on / spinning / shooting / etc. badguys in your way. There are boxes that contain various bonuses in your path. This game has gems for getting all of the boxes in a level, and now colored relics for getting a specific time on a level. The most difficult relics (platinum) make this game ultimately replayable and difficult to beat entirely (for the record, I have). There are moves awarded for beating each set of 5 levels and a boss, such as bazooka and tornado death spin. The bosses are finally at a challenging level, particularly N. Cortex on the first few tries. The exotic levels this game features are interesting ones that break from the standard platform style. Examples of these are racing levels and old-fashioned airplane battle levels. Overall, I'm very impressed with this game, particularly the replayability and strongly recommend it.