User blog comment:Drayco90/Crash Bandicoot vs. Mario: Console Wars Preview Battle/@comment-5232784-20130205042119

Lets take a look at some peachy edges...

1. Projectile

Sure, getting hurt by peaches shot from a bazooka like device would hurt, perhaps even be fatal of it hit your head or throat or chest with sufficient force. But fire is more deadly, and though it won't kill you as fast as a powerful fruit based super bludgeon to the head, it will still mess u up. Plus, there is no mention of how powerful the fruit bazooka is. Without that knowledge, I go with the fire flower

EDGE: Mario

2. Melee

Crash can summon a very powerful tornado attack, one I have used a lot whenever I had the chance to play a Crash bandicoot game. However, the hammer Mario wields has more power and more range. I give this to Mario.

EDGE: Mario

3. Slam attack

Both of these attacks are "death from above" strikes. However, Mario can jump higher and is better at inflicting crushing air to surface blows than Crash

EDGE: Mario

4. Kick attack

Crash launches his slide attacks I believe with an instant strike, while Mario has to do a break dance that takes a second or so for him to strike with his feet. Crash gets the edge due to inflicting a faster strike

EDGE: Crash

5. Single User Powerup

Mario's super shroom makes him big and bad, but Crash is both invincible and deadly to the touch, and if he gets two of those Aku-Aku masks at once, he is both divine and deadly. I give Crash the edge here

EDGE: Crash

6. Explosives

The Bob-ombs are big and look like they can pack a major punch, but the TNT boxes are smaller and lighter: Crash, being stronger and faster, and with a lighter load, can deliver the deadly goods faster with a TNT box than Mario can with his Bob-omb, even if it is more powerful.

EDGE: Crash

7. throwing item

Sure, Koopa shells look like they can hit you hard, but they are nowhere near as lethal as grenades, like Crash's bowling bombs (for all intents and purposes, a grenade unto itself). One hits you hard, the other blows you to bits.

EDGE: Crash

8. Mobility power up.

Mario has wings, Crash has a jetpack, one that when he wears it, he can fire projectiles at other airborne targets. Speed and power go to the Jetpack.

EDGE: Crash

9. Extra power up

I cannot vote on this part, due to my ignorance of Crash's Crash Dash power up. Therefore I give this a draw

EDGE: Dead Even

10. X Factors

Crash takes strength, speed, and creativity, while Mario takes intelligence, jumping power, and experience.

Intelligence and experience will be crucial, yet Crash is not necessarily the loser when facing tough opponents: indeed, his arch Nemesis, Neo-Cortex, is an apex-minded supervillian, far more brainy than King Koopa. Indeed, Crash is smarter than he looks or acts at times: after all, human players play him and use their human intelligence to get him to win games, implying that some parts of his mind is sentient.

EDGE: Crash

Winner: CRASH

Crash has the strength, speed, and weaponry advantage over Mario. Sure, Mario has fought with the likes of Donkey Kong and Gombas, but will not deliver when confronted by the Bandicoot Brawler,

CRASH BANDICOOT WINS