Croc Legend of the Gobbos

While it's nice to be finally able to (legally) play the classic of our childhood, the remaster leaves me with mixed feelings: The fixed camera sometimes works absolutely terribly like during hanging, and sometimes it was difficult to find keys or boxes closer to ceiling. Furthermore, I feel like both Croc's tailswipe and enemies/bosses got wonky hitboxes that seem to change from time to time. Game's surprisingly short (takes five hours to beat it 100 %), but I'm hoping they'll do Croc 2 next after fixing some gameplay issues with this remaster (I'd love to be able to change keyboard controls)

More, more and more Croc! I really LOVED this game back on the PS1 and now it looks amazing, and the soundtrack is amazing, the gameplay, eveything is great! Thank you for bringing this game back. I've been waiting, and the wait it over. I was a kid back then, now i'm an adult but the feelings toward this game are still the same. Thank you Argonaut!

Croc is one of my favorite childhood games and I love this remaster. It is excatly how I rembemberd it but with modern controls and exhanced graphics.

It keeps everythinh good about the original intact (along with some of its issues) while fixing the controls and improving the graphics. It's Croc, but better. Would I recommend it over modern (even indie) 3D platformers? Probably not, but then again I don't think that's the intended market. I had fun reliving one of my favorite childhood games, and was able to get to 100% save completion in 9 hours. I only got 50% of the achievements, I assume you get the rest for reaching secret areas, but the achievements don't have descriptions and I've gained imployement since the days I was playing the original, so I'm not looking for them. You can't rebind the controls, which is a major oversight, and the remastered version is a whopping 31GB. I see no reason for this to be the case, so I assume they either forgot to compress the textures or used an obscene amount of subdivision on the remastered meshes. As far as the remastered graphics go I don't think they're that much better. Croc's model certainly looks better, but his arms are still made up of individual, segmented parts, probably to avoid having to implement new animations. I prefer the original textures, and luckily the game lets you use them in combination with the new lighing system, which looks better. They also have CRT and VGA filters you can enable, which is cute, even if they hurt my eyes.

For over two decades, I would fire up the PlayStation version of Croc every couple of years to send the lil' green guy jumping back into action. Finally as of today, I no longer need to do that to return to the world of this beloved game from my childhood, with its colourful and imaginative landscapes, cute inhabitants, and an absolute banger of a soundtrack. This remaster is truly a labour of love from folks with a personal connection to the game to take it new heights while preserving the charm and quirkiness that made it special. Beyond the fresh coat of paint and other graphical improvements, the controls have been revamped to address the most notable flaw of the original. It plays like a fresh, well-produced game and should be very approachable by newcomers. I'm impressed by the meticulous care the team has put into it so far, and the only nitpicks I have are minor presentation details (which I expect will be fixed as updates come in). Congrats to Argonaut and all the fine folks involved on bringing Croc back for the 21st century.