CRASH BANDICOOT: THE THREAD

Hopefully they'll make her less useless than she was in Wrath of Cortex.

Do you suppose she'll play any differently from Crash?

Her moves will have different names at least. According to the trophy list, she has a move called 'the Savage Hurricane Spin' and the 'Double Leg Drop'.

edited 12th Jun '17 11:59:40 AM by Dezmo

The leg drop sounds a bit like a stomp/body slam counterpart (though double leg drop sounds like a glorified way of saying 'land on your ass' ). Hell, if she ended up just playing like a GOOD version of her Wrath of Cortex gameplay, it would only further the Mythology Gags I suppose.

edited 12th Jun '17 12:32:18 PM by Psi001

We can play as Coco!

Yeah so anyway, this happened:

According to statements, she'll be playable in all the on-foot levels of all three games (vehicle levels are still character exclusive). She seems to have Crash's full move set for each respective game now (though I haven't seen her do body slam or turbo run yet).

There's a shit load of uploaded footage of her on Youtube, plus the opening sequences to 2 and Warped.

edited 13th Jun '17 5:53:14 PM by Psi001

Not to mention boss battles as when she tried to go and fight Dingodile, she is replaced with her brother who fought the guy in the original game. Though maybe that only applies to Crash Warped, haven't really seen any footage of her fighting any of the bosses in 1 and 2.

Conversely, I wonder if they'll let us play as Crash in Coco's levels.

Watching the intros on Youtube, and they are so good. They're so much more expressive and animated now, like a true cartoon.

Well, seeing how all of Coco's levels were vehicle/mount ones, that'd be a "no."

No, what? She's playable in all the levels in this one. Minus the boss battles it seems.

I like that they put more of an effort into having Coco be as silly and funny as Crash this time. That lack of that always undercut how otherwise cool she was in the old days.

I just love how she's carrying her laptop around all the time.

edited 13th Jun '17 11:02:51 PM by Geist-Fox

Well, for Coco's levels, I'd imagine if Crash were playable there, he'd have his own rides, like that boar, or his bike.

In the remastered version of the Crash 2 intro it looks like Coco's battery isn't fried at all, and that she's just sending Crash off so she doesn't have to listen to his snoring. Did anyone else get that impression?

Coco is playable in all levels that Crash is on foot. Vehicle sections and Boss battles are still locked with the original character (Meaning, no Coco riding Polar or Crash using the jet ski).

I saw that in a E3 interview. Also apparently she has unique death animations too.

Wrong. There's clearly a video on her screen and then it snaps to black. Also it's a video of Nathan and Elena playing Crash in Uncharted 4, which is the most amazing easter egg ever.

edited 14th Jun '17 11:19:43 AM by thebandragoness

NEW N. TROPY IS SCARY!!!

I love how much more expressive all the characters are.

Here's all the remastered intros compared to the original's. I adore the animation in the remastered intros. Makes me wish there was a Crash Bandicoot cartoon.

Skylanders Academy teased one pretty hard.

edited 14th Jun '17 7:20:54 PM by thebandragoness

I love Uka Uka's new design. He's actually surprisingly scary. And darn if I don't adore Cortex's facial expressions. The characters really haven't ever looked better.

And, ah... great to hear Warped's Warp Room theme (and some of the bonus themes, in gameplay vids online) remastered/remixed. That's the big musical track I was waiting for.

Holding out on hope that a year or two down the line they give this same treatment to Wrath of Cortex.

edited 14th Jun '17 11:51:02 PM by KnownUnknown

I'd actually love to see them tackle Wrath of Cortex.

And after that, we can finally get a finished Twinsanity.

You are forgetting Crash Team Racing... oh, and Crash Bash, but disregard that one.