Controls when jumping on trampolines and leaping to and from moving platforms can be overly touchy. While the moveset is satisfying and the level design encourages full use of your repertoire, the game can feel unrefined at times. It all comes together for an experience that's deeper than even some of XBLA’s paid platformers. Jumping can be boosted a bit by sliding first, and even that can boost the range of your wall-jumping abilities. You can run, but only for so long in one stretch before you have to let off the button or suffer the consequences. You have a traditional jump, run, and wall-jump, and you can grab onto ledges, but each move has some subtlety to it. You’ll earn stars by placing the best times on the course, but you’ll also have to unlock new paths and track down 16 stars cleverly hidden throughout the course.įinding all the hidden stars and posting top times reveals a surprising amount of depth. Currently, that makes for only twenty courses, and while that may seem sparse, they’re closer in style to Yoshi’s Island than, say, Mario 3. They all have a surprising amount of style, especially the Egypt environment that features a rock concert with Anubis shredding a mean guitar solo in the background.Įach world features five courses, with two more that are coming soon, according to the game. Courses are split into four worlds - Amazon Jungle, Antarctic, Egypt, and Pirate Island. Crash Course, on the other hand, was a surprisingly fun platformer, and now it’s back for round two.ĭoritos Crash Course 2 refines the platforming gameplay of the original while ditching the gameshow aesthetic for wackier themed platformer environments. That latter game was the low point, trying to pull off a multiplayer experience that didn’t work thanks to an unsurprising lack of community. What started with the brief but endearing Dash of Destruction continued in 2010 with two free Doritos games, Crash Course and Harm’s Way.

It’s a strange world we live in where there’s not one, nor two, but three enjoyable Doritos adver-games on Xbox Live Arcade.

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