Crash Bandicoot: on the run, out today for iOS and Android, is a game in which Crash Bandicoot runs through narrow aisles breaking boxes and collecting Wumpa Fruit, just like any other Crash Bandicoot games. With regard to spin-offs for mobile devices, it is very complicated.
Looking at the landscape images that developer King.com’s candy Crush fame provided for the launch of the game, although my phone just plays it in portrait mode, someone can easily confuse On the run for a Crash console joint. The game looks great. Crash makes its characteristic spinning motion to crush enemies and break things. The difference is that this game is a three-lane automatic runner, so you don’t have to tell Crash or his sister Coco to go ahead. They just do that.
Crash Bandicoot: on the run it is not, however, an endless corridor. Crash and Coco race through finite levels to defeat a boss in the end, usually avoiding the obstacles they throw as they get close enough to drench them with various artisanal mixtures. Eliminating four sub-bosses allows the bandicoot brothers to face a slightly more difficult boss, after which a new set of villains is unlocked.
Free-to-play capture in Crash Bandicoot: on the run is that fighting bosses requires the aforementioned mixtures to be created. Crafting takes materials, which are harvested through special collection levels. Once the materials are gathered, you can create the potions and everything you need to fight the bosses, but there is a timer (boo) that can be accelerated with the in-game currency. You can gather everything you want, but in order to progress in the game, you will need to create random things. The in-game currency can also be used to buy skins, buy potion reagents or buy extra tickets to participate in the game’s asynchronous multiplayer, which pits you against a pair of AI-controlled opponents to see who survives the longest.
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There’s a lot of free-to-play mobile fluff going on, but Crash Bandicoot: on the run balances all that nonsense with a sense of fun and nonsense that is Crash’s signature. When I’m deeper in the game, I can imagine these timers getting really annoying, but for now it’s good to have that crazy bandicoot in my pocket.