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About this mod
A much harder version of Cortex Castle, with remixed obstacles and crate placements. Be prepared for a tough challenge!
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Also available on GameBanana: https://gamebanana.com/mods/560477
A much harder version of Cortex Castle, made as a proof of concept for what a "Hard" mode could look like for Crash 4's levels.
As much as the original Cortex Castle is difficult when first run up against, this version turns everything up to 11. Obstacles and crate placements have been heavily altered and require much higher precision, utilization of advanced techniques (hyperspin, akano triple spin), and a good understanding of movement and the quantum masks. The difficulty has been tuned to be tough, but fair, just like base Crash 4.
Optimized for Crash 4 N.Hanced! While the level can be played in the vanilla version, it's highly recommended to play with N.Hanced, otherwise some elements may not work as intended, or at all. Download it here: Crash 4 N.Hanced
This level has the usual collectibles (by N.Hanced standards), including 2 gems, 90% wumpa skin unlock, time relics, flashback tape and perfection trophy (N.Sanely perfect relic). However, due to the higher difficulty, only platinum and master relics have a record time. Dynamic difficulty has been disabled; you won't get extra masks or checkpoints for dying too many times.
When installed, this mod replaces the original Cortex Castle level, you can access it from either the world map or Level Stats.
HOW TO INSTALL
Battle.net version: C:\Program Files (x86)\Crash Bandicoot 4\
Steam Deck: Home/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Crash Bandicoot 4/
Time Trial records
Platinum: 1:22.81
Master: 0:40.37
A much harder version of Cortex Castle, made as a proof of concept for what a "Hard" mode could look like for Crash 4's levels.
As much as the original Cortex Castle is difficult when first run up against, this version turns everything up to 11. Obstacles and crate placements have been heavily altered and require much higher precision, utilization of advanced techniques (hyperspin, akano triple spin), and a good understanding of movement and the quantum masks. The difficulty has been tuned to be tough, but fair, just like base Crash 4.
Optimized for Crash 4 N.Hanced! While the level can be played in the vanilla version, it's highly recommended to play with N.Hanced, otherwise some elements may not work as intended, or at all. Download it here: Crash 4 N.Hanced
This level has the usual collectibles (by N.Hanced standards), including 2 gems, 90% wumpa skin unlock, time relics, flashback tape and perfection trophy (N.Sanely perfect relic). However, due to the higher difficulty, only platinum and master relics have a record time. Dynamic difficulty has been disabled; you won't get extra masks or checkpoints for dying too many times.
When installed, this mod replaces the original Cortex Castle level, you can access it from either the world map or Level Stats.
HOW TO INSTALL
- Extract the downloaded archive to get CortexCastleExtreme.pak.
- Navigate to the game’s install location. By default, this means the following location:
Battle.net version: C:\Program Files (x86)\Crash Bandicoot 4\
Steam Deck: Home/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Crash Bandicoot 4/
- Navigate to {Game install location}\Lava\Content\Paks\ and create a folder called ~mods, and put the .pak file inside that folder. The name of the folder should be exactly ~mods (with the tilde ~), or the mod won’t be applied!
Time Trial records
Platinum: 1:22.81
Master: 0:40.37