Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure
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| Developer(s) | Vicarious Visions |
| Publisher(s) | Universal Interactive |
| Platform(s) | Game Boy Advance |
| Release date |  February 25, 2002 March 15, 2002 July 18, 2002 |
| Genre(s) | Platform |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
| Rating(s) | ESRB: Everyone (E) |
| Media | Cartridge |
Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure, released in Europe as Crash Bandicoot XS is a platform game made by Vicarious Visions for the Game Boy Advance. It is named after the main character, Crash Bandicoot. It was released in 2002. It is the seventh Crash Bandicoot game to be released, and the first handheld Crash game. In it, Cortex shrinks the world to be smaller than him, and it's up to Crash to return the world to normal size.
[edit] Gameplay
The gameplay is characterized by a limited environment, and by the breaking of crates, most of which contain some bonus. Breaking all of a level's crates earns the player that level's white gem. The player can collect additional white and colored gems by finding and touching them. Colored gems activate secret areas. If one collects all of the gems in the game, the secret ending is activated. Stepping on a question-mark platform takes Crash to a bonus level.
Crash has several moves at the beginning of the game: jumping, spin attacking, body slamming, sliding, ducking, crawling, and an extra-high jump performed by sliding or ducking and then jumping. Crash also collects a special ability after beating each boss. The special abilities earned during the game are super body slamming, double jumping, tornado spin attacking and speed shoes.
After collecting a level's crystal, time trial is activated for that level. The player receives a relic upon performing especially well on a time trial. There are three relics to collect from each level, which are colored, in order of increasing difficulty, sapphire, gold, and platinum.
There are 20 levels in the game, excluding boss and bonus levels, but many of the levels' designs are duplicated due to the game's repetitive level design, like the previous installments of the Crash Bandicoot series. There are bonus levels in every single level, and a boss level can be accessed after 5 levels are completed. There are four bosses in total, with Dingodile being the first, Doctor N. Gin as the second, then Tiny Tiger, and finally Doctor Neo Cortex. There is an extra boss called Mega-Mix, who is fought after Neo Cortex.
Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure does well copying most gameplay elements of Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped. However, relics are indisputably easier to acquire in Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure than in Warped. The game was well-received by critics, due to sticking to the Naughty Dog format, receiving a 9/10 from IGN. it also has the same gameplay of "Crash Bandicoot The Wrath of Cortex".
[edit] Synopsis
In a mysterious space station orbiting the Earth, Uka Uka is upset with Doctor Neo Cortex for failing him once again, but Cortex promises a plan that will bring the Earth's inhabitants down to size. Cortex then introduces his relatively new Planetary Minimizer, which he immediately uses to shrink the Earth down to the size of a grapefruit. The situation is brought to Aku Aku's attention when Cortex taunts the now-microscopic people of Earth. When Aku Aku informs Crash of the Earth's predicament, Coco assumes that Cortex is using the Crystals to power his shrinking machine, and requests that Crash find the same kind of Crystals in various locations around the world, which she will use to build a device that will reverse the effects of Cortex's Minimizer.
After Crash fends off Dingodile, Doctor N. Gin and Tiny Tiger, Cortex decides to deal with Crash himself by firing the Planetary Minimizer at him. Unfortunately for him, Crash tricks him into shrinking the colored Gems that stabilize the Minimizer, causing it to malfunction. The unrestrained effects of the Minimizer fuses Cortex and the previous bosses together, creating a monster known as Mega-Mix, who chases Crash down the space station's hallway in an attempt to kill him. Fortunately, Crash escapes back to the Earth just in time for Coco to use the Crystals that Crash has gathered to return the Earth back to normal. The Earth is returned to its original size, while Crash returns to Earth on his hoverbike and the space station outside Earth explodes with Cortex and the others in it.
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