10 Video Games With The Tightest Timed Sections

Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy's platinum relics will separate the Crash casuals from the never-say-die hardcores, serving as the highest reward for those playing levels in the trilogy's Time Trial mode.

There are countless deeply, infuriatingly challenging levels throughout, the difficulty of which is only exacerbated when a brutal time constraint is introduced.

And that's felt no worse than in the first game's level "Stormy Ascent," which was actually cut from the original release of Crash Bandicoot for being too difficult but was made available as DLC for the N. Sane Trilogy.

Stormy Ascent is the tougher cousin of "Slippery Climb," jam-packed with treacherous spikes, recessing steps, pesky lab assistants, and vultures, all of which are seemingly determined to stop you beating the level within the seven-minute Platinum time limit.

Seven minutes might sound generous enough for a time attack until you consider that non-competitive players can spend literally hours getting through this thing, and trying to race through it will practically guarantee you'll make a ton of timing mistakes in your eagerness to prevail.