Crash Bandicoot: On the Run!

Quotation forthcoming.

Crash Bandicoot: On the Run! brings back on iOS and Android the endless run genre, delivering a slow-paced, less frantic experience than the great classics.

The nostalgic trappings of the experience are a ploy, and one that works pretty darn well. The game bears the hallmarks of nostalgia, of a glimpse into a rose-tinted past, but unabashedly uses them to drag the player into a more mundane and general present.

A fun game that is burdened by time restrictions and the continuous micro-payments that it proposes and that, in the end, are a continuous brake to fully enjoy the game.

Ultimately, On The Run! it is a dignified product, aware of its limitations and aimed mainly at a very young audience. For this Crash Bandicoot mobile trip, in any case, we would have liked a little more balance and liveliness anyway.

Crash Bandicoot: On The Run is a fun, but overly simple mobile rendition of one of gaming’s greatest mascots. Overly aggressive advertising and an in-game economy that doesn’t respect players’ time sour what could have been a memorable endless runner...It’s less 'On The Run', and more endlessly waiting around.

There are countdown timers, bosses are oft-repeated re-skins with identical action, and Crash’s runs soon become repetitious, with progress gated behind either a tedious grind or microtransactions. Despite its colourful palette On the Run! is almost aggressively bland.

I have to say from the devs of Candy Crush, this is surprisingly well made, but I agree it can become bit repetitive fast, however the graphics and the overall feeling really appealed to me, give it a try, maybe it will give some enjoyment to you as well

Pretty nice runner game. It was fun but it got boring after a month, so I can't give it a positive review.

Just another runner game similar to subway surfers and countless other games.

It doesn’t seem fair reviewing what’s basically a ‘dead game’ (it got discontinued in 2022/2023~), but Crash Bandicoot: On The Run! is definitely a missed opportunity **** that deserved more console-inspired gaming instead of the mobile pay-to-win slop we got. It’s frustrating because all the good stuff was there: the characters, the graphics, the music: it had every right to be a decent Crash Bandicoot game, but the gameplay was basically EVERY endless runner game except it’s got Crash… No innovations, no twists to the formula, no longevity for something as fickle as mobile gaming: just another endless runner game that’s been done to death since Temple Run. The Crash games have fluctuated in quality since Crash 3, and it seemed to stabilise with the N. Sane Trilogy and Crash 4; but slop like this comes around and shows there are still lessons to be learned indeed. 4/10.

Me encanta Crash Bandicoot, pero juegos como este los hay por montones y son todos iguales, el susodicho no es la excepción.