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 Croc 2 is the lazily named 1999 sequel to Croc: Legend of the Gobbos. After a two year gap from the release of the first game, Argonaut Software threw away most of the original mechanics in an attempt to revamp the boredom. For example, Croc can roll now! Wow! Croc 2's revamp isn't too much of a good thing, though, as the game is now crippled with difficulty wildly varying from easy to ridiculous and incredibly shoddy dialogue purposefully made in broken English. The plot is mostly the same: Croc returns to rescue some more Gobbos from the reanimated corpse of the previous antagonist, Baron Dante. Unlike the first game, Croc now has to complete a different task in each level in order to complete it. The tasks range from winning a race to collecting a stolen sandwich. Each normal level (i.e., a level without a boss) also has five colored gems to collect. Once Croc collects all of the colored gems, he can warp to a bonus area and platform his way to collect a trophy. Puzzle pieces also return, but I have yet to find one. Just like last time, I'll be 100% completing this very, very dumb game. I'm playing this completely blind, and I'm still pretty bad at games, so most deaths will be edited out and I'll try to make the videos as linear as possible. I'm Common Coder, and I'll be playing both the PlayStation and GameBoy Color versions of Croc 2. Previous let's play pal cranberm will join me for the first four PS1 videos, and Jazzahn will join me for the rest.  PlayStation Videos Let's Play Croc 2 (1) (with cranberm) Let's Play Croc 2 (2) (with cranberm) Let's Play Croc 2 (3) (with cranberm) Let's Play Croc 2 (4) (with cranberm) Let's Play Croc 2 (5) Let's Play Croc 2 (6) Let's Play Croc 2 (7) Let's Play Croc 2 (8) GameBoy Color Videos Let's Play Croc 2 GBC (1) I Give Up Let's Never Play Croc 2 Again (with Kennedy!) Common Coder fucked around with this message at 19:40 on Aug 16, 2014 |
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Mar 3, 2014 22:33
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Holy poo poo I forgot about the blatant product placement!
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Mar 3, 2014 23:06
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I never played Croc 2, but it does look somewhat better than the first one. Seems to have gone from being a poor man's Crash Bandicoot to being a poor man's Banjo-Kazooie.
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Mar 4, 2014 02:03
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New video! Let's Play Croc 2 (2) cranberm and I practice our opposites.
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Mar 13, 2014 20:55
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Man this game looks like a poor mans banjo-kazooie if it were on the ps1 instead of the 64.
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Mar 13, 2014 21:39
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You guys make what I would call good-bad LPs. The worst episodes are the best by far. e: I actually mean that as a compliment, somehow.
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Mar 13, 2014 22:03
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When I was 10 years old I was watching another kid play this game in computer camp and he constantly messed up the jump and I was like no no no move while you jump move and he hosed up again and I got angry and screamed "poo poo" in the middle of a crowded room with other 10-11 year olds and everyone got mad at me and I wanted to crawl into a hole and die. I don't have fond memories of this game. It sucked, too.
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Mar 15, 2014 15:59
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I replayed this recently and it was really bad, despite what I remember as a kid. I hope you like minecarts and slippery controls.
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Mar 15, 2014 16:11
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New video! Let's Play Croc 2 (3) I can-I can-I can't talk today.
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Mar 18, 2014 20:28
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What's a Gobbo's favorite breakfast cereal? Count Crocula! What does a Gobbo hear when they take the phone off the hook?? The Croc-o-dialtone!! What's a Gobbo's croc croc Croc??? Croc Cocaine!!! Gobbo cROC CRoc CrOC???? CROOOOOCCCCCC!!!! Thank you for reading my Let's Play Croc 2 fanfiction. I call it: Common Coder Descending a Staircase (into Madness) Also the baby-talk dialogue is still stupid and the game itself doesn't look very good. I can't wait to see the ridiculously difficult sections. Those should be plenty more interesting. LoseHound fucked around with this message at 02:08 on Mar 22, 2014 |
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Mar 19, 2014 04:53
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...And now for the sequel. Excellent. Much better than the first. And now, to live up to the nature of the LP, jokes! What do the Gobbo's say when they want someone to be quiet? Turn that croc-ophony down! What do the Gobbo's like to eat for dinner? Croc-oroni and cheese!
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Mar 21, 2014 19:14
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New video! Let's Play Croc 2 (4) More rockin' Croc talk. We really have to stop these bad puns. We finish the first world in this video, which means next week I'll release the first episode of Let's Play Croc 2 GBC with Jazzahn, which will cover all of its first world in less than twenty minutes. Common Coder fucked around with this message at 01:08 on Mar 25, 2014 |
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Mar 25, 2014 01:01
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Look the only thing I can promise is that Croc 2 on GBC is terrible.
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Mar 27, 2014 04:20
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New GBC video! Like I said in the OP, all of the GBC videos will be with Jazzahn/jazzhands. Let's Play Croc 2 GBC (1) Back in my day, let's players still talked about the game and their commentary actually made sense.
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Mar 28, 2014 01:26
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Let's playing Croc, a long term mistake.
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Mar 28, 2014 02:36
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Yeah, I know that jump style. Usually that kind of 3D is isometric so you get a little indicator of how high up you are.
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Apr 5, 2014 23:52
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Oh man, didn't even notice this thread. I played the heck out of Croc when I was a kid but I only rented Croc 2 once for like a few days. I remember it being really good but I didn't get very far and I never touched it again so who knows!
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Apr 8, 2014 13:30
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Just recorded a hot new track on the Croc 2 Album, coming soon. Unrelated Croc 2 is pretty bad y'all
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May 4, 2014 00:56
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 New video! Let's Play Croc 2 (5) Sorry it's been so long. Format is changing a little bit: Jazzahn will now be the cohost for all videos from now on, unless I have a random one-off guest.
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May 4, 2014 19:26
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Common Coder posted:
Good to see this coming back, even if we're missing Cranberm. Also, I loved that Martha's Vineyard line.
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May 7, 2014 01:27
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Please have a mic/headset if you're wanting to record with me, though! e: If you can't contact me through either of those, you can even email me at commoncoder at gmail dot com. You can also add me on Skype; my username is commoncoder. I know it's very short notice; sorry! Jazz became available again! Sorry for the confusion. Common Coder fucked around with this message at 00:31 on May 12, 2014 |
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May 11, 2014 23:30
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New video! Let's Play Croc 2 (6)
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May 14, 2014 01:17
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Wow. Managed to not notice this up to now, and I realize I barely remember this game. I got it about the same time as Gex 3, I think, and sort of played them both at the same time. Never ended up finishing either and always felt bad about that. Watching these videos... I think I never finished it because it's A Bad Game, and I just didn't realize it at the time! Jury's still out on Gex 3, though... At least it controls better than the original. I'll give it that.
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May 16, 2014 17:33
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When I played this for the first time, I thought it was great because the controls were better than the first one. That quickly went away since it's incredibly frustrating trying to 100% the game. It's far too easy to get a game over and unless you grind gems, you need to complete each level twice so you come back with the right items to get the other colored gems. When it comes to how easy it is to game over, the developers had it right the first time. In the first game, health was tied to the gems you collected, but now we're stuck with a system where you really can't recover health except maybe once or twice per level. I mean, I'm really not a good Video Game Player, but when it takes me over an hour to beat most levels that edit down to 10 minutes, your game is lovely. In general, I keep thinking about how much more fun Croc 1 was. That being said, they're both bad games.
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May 17, 2014 20:39
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Common Coder posted:In general, I keep thinking about how much more fun Croc 1 was. Truly more damning words have yet to be written.
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May 17, 2014 20:52
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Huh. I was kind of expecting a "boss fight" there, not a "boss gets punked offscreen by NPCs who haven't mastered the first-person pronoun".
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May 23, 2014 20:07
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New video! Let's Play Croc 2 (7)
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Jun 1, 2014 00:25
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Oh my god that music is the worst thing!
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Jun 1, 2014 13:26
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That music is some real silent movie stuff right there. I can just imagine a Snidely Whiplash-type character tying a crate full of gobbos to the train tracks somewhere up ahead.
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Jun 1, 2014 16:54
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RIP Betty the fish, you were the most pathetically sad boss I've ever seen.
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Jun 1, 2014 18:35
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Croc is just kind of bein' a dick to everything that's not a gobbo. What was that fish even supposed to be doing?
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Jun 6, 2014 19:26
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Glazius posted:Croc is just kind of bein' a dick to everything that's not a gobbo. What was that fish even supposed to be doing? He wasn't even close to causing any harm to anybody; he was off in an isolated area that you could only get to by hot air balloon. At this point, the Gobbos are just making Croc do their dirty work.
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Jun 6, 2014 23:07
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New Video! Let's Play Croc 2 (8) I, uh, feel pretty bad about this one. I think I was being pretty mean, but Jazz liked the recording so here you go I guess.
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Jun 19, 2014 23:53
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Nah you're right, everyone sucks.
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Jun 20, 2014 05:20
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I played a lot of this game because it was one of the few I owned as a tiny baby computer player, and I found large chunks of it insanely hard. I did manage to get 100% exactly once, a feat which I doubt I could replicate. I also recall just spending the first world doing the boat race level a bunch of times so I could grind out as many purchases as possible. I guess it's time to find out if I was just bad at the game or whether this was actually the game being poo poo. e: oh yeah if you didn't know you get 100 gems every time you finish the boat level, you could cut down on your replays of levels considerably if you just took advantage of that to stock up on poo poo from Swap Meet Pete's. Rody One Half fucked around with this message at 16:11 on Jun 20, 2014 |
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Jun 20, 2014 05:45
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Why do they bother having caveman Gobbos when all Gobbos talk like freakin' cavemen anyway?! 
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Jun 20, 2014 16:44
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I think your next guest commentator should be Swap Meet Pete. Just that one sound file he plays over and over again while he talks. Like a one-button Pete soundboard you and Jazzhands can pretend to have conversations with. I do like you ripping on this game though. It's nowhere near as good as the first Croc, and the first Croc wasn't really... good. World 3 is marginally more interesting though. And world 4 is mercifully short.
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Jun 20, 2014 17:12
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Rodyle posted:e: oh yeah if you didn't know you get 100 gems every time you finish the boat level, you could cut down on your replays of levels considerably if you just took advantage of that to stock up on poo poo from Swap Meet Pete's. Around the 4th video I realized getting all 100 gems refills your hearts so I started grinding the world 1 boss, which I think might take slightly less time than it does to finish the boat race. I'm also maxed out at 9 hearts now, but it doesn't help much since I was pretty close to dying while fighting the giant Crash Bandicoot in the latest video.
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Jun 20, 2014 19:14
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That was certainly a hang-gliding section. That was certainly a hitbox for collecting poo poo that you only filled half of.
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Jun 30, 2014 19:20
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I give up! Croc 2 is a bad game. Croc 2 is a really bad game. I decided a while ago that I'm just not going to finish it, but I felt bad letting the thread get swept away to the archives without some kind of ending. So I made one! Let's Never Play Croc 2 Again (with Kennedy!) https://twitter.com/unrealmode/status/500689395029393408 I can't do it anymore.
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