Headscratchers / Crash Bash

• In this game the fight between Aku-Aku and Uka-Uka is to be settled by contests because they're not allowed to fight. Even though they already did in Crash 3... Even worse though, the game gives you two hero characters, and six villain characters. This wouldn't be so bad, as the series' characters are a bit lopsided on the villains side when this was made (only five characters in CTR had Aku-Aku as an invincible cast, of a cast of fourteen), but what makes it annoying is that of the villainous characters, one was on the side of good in Crash 2 (N. Brio), and one had never been seen before (Rillaroo). And yet confirmed villains Tiny and Dingodile are moved from the side of evil to good.
  • To be fair, Brio wasn't really on the side of good in Crash 2, he was on the side of Not Cortex.
  • In a more development excuse than story wise one, it was likely easier to use N Brio and Kong due to their proportional similarities to Cortex and Tiny, which allowed for easy model and animation programming. Rilla Roo was arguably created to resemble Dingodile for similar methods.
  • Again, depending on who you ask, Retcon or Fanon Discontinuity.
  • Could be that they were forbidden from fighting BECAUSE of their fight in Crash 3.
  • While Brio did fight against Cortex in Crash 2, it's implied that he did so first because he didn't want to live in a world where Cortex ruled it all and second because he was pissed off at Cortex for stealing the credit for the mutagenic techniques and technology that Brio created, including the Evolv-O-Ray. Also, while he was fighting Cortex and guiding Crash to the truth concerning the gems, he made a note of telling Crash that as long as he was collecting crystals, Brio would do everything in his power to kill him, which included creating mutants and sending them out to kill Crash, including all of the anthro bosses Crash fights. He's still a villain in his own right, he's just the lesser of two evils who isn't above saving the world if he's saving it from someone he hates.
  • Still he and Koala Kong, who had previously defected and even temporarily retired, were still more likely to be pragmatic choices than Tiny (who defected from Brio to be Cortex's loyalest henchman) and Dingodile (who is treacherous, but not in a promising sort of way).