Crash 2 and 3 are my favourites. Polar and Pura stages ftw. I only played Crash 1 after these two, so I was a bit disappointed by it. The jump mechanic is a bit less fluid, just noticable enough to trip me up. And some stages were just downright hard.

But CTR really shone for me in my childhood. I loved that game so much and did everything in it several times over (except try out different characters, because Coco).