N.Verted Mode. Necessary?

[HOGIE13EIRE]

Would Crash 4 have been a better game without N.Verted Mode?

[LilIelaps]

I think the mode by itself is fine, and the visual filters can be cool (for the most part, a select few are legitimately awful). The problem is it needed to be a little extra bonus, not a mandatory part of completion that pads out this already padded game even more. Making you get the same collectables all over again in all the same levels but mirrored is not engaging or fun, it's annoying and really feels like a desperate attempt to artificially extend play time so that the player feels like there's more content than there actually is.

 

Instead of a fun novelty like it should've been, N.Verted mode feels like a chore instead and in this context even the really nice visual filters they use become annoying, while the awful filters just feel miserable to play with. The concept is neat but in the end I came out really not appreciating this mode, I was just glad it was over. Sometimes less is more.

Edited March 17, 2023 by LilIelaps

[AttilaThe13th]

I enjoyed the N. Verted Mode a lot. But just like @LilIelaps said, it shouldn't have been mandatory or at least make it more reasonable, like complete the levels but not with all gems. Thank goodness that they didn't add a trophy to get the perfect relics and time trials for N. Verted as well, because I would've lost my mind otherwise. While it's true that I got some perfect relics easier on N/ Verted, I'm glad they shared the relic between the two modes and not make it mandatory for both.

In short, I have a love/hate relationship with this mode. As a gameplay perspective I enjoyed it a lot, but as a completionist's point of view I hated parts of it.