Naughty Dog Co-founder Says A Simple Change Makes Crashed Bandicot Worse
Blog Andrew Joseph 17 Jul , 2025 0
The current gaming industry is full of remakes and remakes. Some of them are loyal to their original material, while others are more willing to change things around them when needed. The original creators of the remake did not often talk about modern reimagining, but were recently co-creators of Crash Bandicoot LinkedIn To put forward his ideas for the 2017 Sane trilogy, and the value of the “most important 30 milliseconds” transformation, make the world a different story.
Discovered GamesRadarNaughty Dog co-founder Andrew Gavin posted a wide range of thoughts about the modern remains of Crash Bandicoot 1-3, While he says the games “nailed the visuals” and said they “looked great (and) faithful to the original,” in his mind, things went south when it came to jumping–or, as he put it, the team “completely botched how jumping works.”
Gavin explains that the original game reads how long the player will last the jump button and measures the jump of Crash accordingly – the longer the player lasts, the higher the crash will jump. According to Gavin, the mechanic was lost in the N. Sane trilogy and replaced with the system when each jump was always the maximum height possible.
“The remake developers either didn't notice the system or thought it wasn't important,” Gavin's post said. “They resumed a simple fixed jump and (and then) realized that the crash couldn't make half of the jump in the game. Their solution was to make all jumps at the maximum height.”
According to Gavin, the solution fundamentally changes the way you jump in remakes, hurting the damage to the game. “Now, every jump in the remake is huge and floating. The precise little hops between platforms are awkward,” Gavin wrote. “Although running 1000 times on the hardware, the basic jump mechanic for the game is worse than the original mechanic in 1996.”
If you want to try the changed jump yourself, you can now use the Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch and the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane trilogy for PC.