Game Review Crash Bandicoot – Mind Over Mutant
Crash Bandicoot: Mind over mutant is extremely similar to its predecessor, Crash Bandicoot: Crash of the titans. The features are the same, locales similar, mechanics of game play identical, one could even say Mind over mutant is more of a continuation or expansion than a sequel… which I guess makes sense because in general isn’t that what a sequel should usually be? I mean, aside from improved graphics, gameplay or features that is… which Mind over mutant lacks over Crash of the titans. With Mind over mutant being released October 7th, 2008 and Crash of the titans being released only a year earlier, I can’t help but feel this was more of a cash grab than anything else.
The story starts off with an amusing little cut scene continuing from the end of Crash of the titans and continues with an average day in the life of Crash. The female bandicoot wants to fix your TV and left her tools strewn all across the level, of course this is the exact same first map as Crash of the titans (which makes sense as it is still the same home you lived in, in past games. You go through the tutorial levels, learning how to play and gathering the pieces only to come back and see a commercial. In this commercial two shady looking characters are promoting virtual headgear being released around the land free of charge. Female bandicoot gets one, buff bandicoot gets one (characters from past games) and Crash gets one… but for some reason, Crash’s fries him at the touch and he cannot wear it. Characters get mesmerized and all of a sudden turn into rampaging mutants, it’s up to crash to save them and everyone else that has transformed.
