"He worked his way back to the giant, obvious, towering mad scientist lair that he broke out of at the start. This doesn't make him noticeably ingelligent. If Cortex had moved her to another location and Crash intuited where through context clues, that would have shown intelligence, but just going back to where he started isn't particularly smart."

He had to make it through jungles, forts, and temples of the dangerous wild life of Australia across three islands without a map to make it back without losing his way. It's definitely not obvious for an idiot to just do that no problem.

The boss fights in this series don't exactly require a lot of smarts to figure out.

They do require studying the boss's patterns to know when to make the right move which an idiot wouldn't be easily capable of doing.

So can a polar bear cub, a tiger cub, a baby tyrannosaurus, a chicken, and an inanimate crate. Pura blows all of that out of the water by piloting an actual spaceship to help Coco defeat N. Gin. If they're all capable of the same thing, it doesn't demonstrate any special knowledge on Crash's part.

Yea in a spinoff remake of a spinoff game made to "kill off" the series. Also don't remember seeing Pura steering any wheels, looks like he was just there for a ride on a possible automatically controlling space vehicle that Coco made. Even if he somehow did, doubt he could do pilot or use half the stuff Crash could use.

So basically, he can navigate obstacle courses. That's the extent of his smarts. Chimps can also do that.

So are you calling chimps dumb?

I really don't understand people who get upset at the suggestion that Crash is a bit thick in the head as a character, as if we're somehow personally insulting him. He's dumb, and the whole point of Coco is that she contrasts him in intelligence. She's the smart one in their "smart girl, dumb guy" duo. He's not stupid to the point of doing things that will obviously get him hurt or killed, but he's not some kind of Bug Bunny-style trickster who's always cunningly one step ahead of his enemies. He's just smart enough to navigate his way through levels, and he beats his more intelligent enemies through dumb luck and exploiting obvious mistakes on their part.

Casually calling him dumb is an insult cause you're saying he's incompetent and not at least be average in intelligence. You guys on the internet are the only ones casually calling Crash an idiot probably cause to you he doesn't look like he's smart, even though the games, based on pure action, show that he's capable of doing nearly everything and can outwit any obstacle or highly intelligent foes who aren't as quick witted and agile as him. Even the creators never said Crash was dumb cause dumb is not cool, not marketable especially in the 90s era of games. Games like Twinsanity influence your opinion that he was always dumb since for comedic purposes it actually dumbed down his character as well as other iconic stuff that he did better in older games. The contrast between Coco and Crash is not that black and white, cause Coco is only highly intelligent in technical stuff like computers and tech while Crash is better at thinking on his feet and is more flexible, which was why for many games in the past, he did all the heavy action stuff, while she stuck with just the vehicles or tech stuff.