With the Steam Winter Sale in full swing I gleefully used my free gift card to pick up something I’ve had my eye on ever since they announced a PC release. I’ve been playing the Crash Bandicoot Trilogy, and so far I have to say it’s a really solid port, and I’m not even playing it on Windows. I’ve been trying my best to Crash Crash under Linux, but I manage to keep a rock solid 60 FPS for most of the game, and even then I only see dipping in few areas, at as little as 43 FPS. I played a bit of it on my laptop too, and that stayed at a steady 30 FPS on battery. I spent a good chunk of my day in bed continuing to find some break point where the game might self destruct, but it keeps trotting along just fine. Given this title came out on PC back in March and it runs this well is extremely impressive.
I forgot that you could play as Coco in some of the levels (more so than the originals), which I thought was cool. It was actually around this time years and years ago that I got a Playstation 1 as a gift with some games, and Crash Bandicoot 2 was one of them. I never did get to play games 1 and 3 unless I was over at a relatives house. So it’s nice to finally get a hold of the trilogy. I do plan on playing this along side roms of the original games just to see how different each one is. I’ve had them in my collection for awhile now, but with my vast and infinite library it can be difficult to keep up with.
I’m thinking tomorrow I’ll do something Christmasy. I can think of a few games depending on who happens to be around at the time.