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Crash 2 is the best Crash, the third became muddled with too much side stuff. The exact same thing with the Spyro series happened too.
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I guess it’s based on taste, but Crash 3 and Spyro 3 are my favorites from both series.
One of my favorite aspects of those series was that in the original trilogy of games (Crash 1,2,3 + Spyro 1,2,3) you can see how the game design evolves and is refined – the first game in each series is simplistic and fairly tough, but built on solid gameplay; the second games both make significant adjustments which vastly improve the difficulty, variety and flow while keeping the basic gameplay intact; and the third of each series builds on the second’s structure but adds a little more variety – enough to avoid being a rehash without (in my opinion) going overboard.
And then both series moved to different developers and went to shit.