Streamer plays Crash Bandicoot with a dance pad, somehow succeeds

It looks like N’Sanity but a streamer named KittyRawr is attempting to play Crash Bandicoot with a dance pad controller and is succeeding. She managed to complete the first three levels of the game before bowing out due to exhaustion.

“Y’all, I expected this game to be hard, but dude,” KittyRawr said before getting disrupted. Towards the end of the session, Kitty said she “was a sweaty mess,” likely due to how much she had to use her feet for button inputs. “I’ll be honest I was only able to get through the past three levels; it’s rough.”

Crash Bandicoot is funnily known as the Dark Souls of platformers as you need precise timing and awareness of what’s happening around the bandicoot. The first game, in particular, is challenging. In our review for the N’Sane Trilogy, we say that this series has a “different razor-focused feel that a lot of bloated modern game design has forsaken.” It also states, “The first iteration is definitely more rough, especially early on, but it does hit its stride, and by the time the second game rolls around, they’ve gotten it together completely.”

The speedrun and cosplay streamer KittyRawr says they’re continuing their playthrough in the future for “Round 2” on August 17. Hopefully, they can complete the game with the dance pad alone. She’s finished the first three Resident Evil games, Super Mario World, Super Mario 64, and the first three Metal Gear Solid games with this method of input in the past,. so completing Crash Bandicoot is with it is certainly possible.

If you don’t know what a dance pad is, it’s a controller you place on the floor with the D-Pad assigned to arrows and the buttons in the corners of the square mat.

It was used for games like Dance Dance Revolution, music-rhythm games that focused on you shifting your feet. It was massive in the late 90s and the 00s, and it even had an installment featuring Mario on the GameCube.

The last game to feature Crash in a 3D platformer is the well-regarded fourth entry fittingly called It’s About Time.