Trivia / Crash Twinsanity

• Acclaimed Flop: Although it has often been hailed by fans as the best non-Naughty Dog Crash game and overall one of the best games in the series, the game sold poorly upon release and it currently remains the lowest selling of the mainline Crash games, with even the much contested Titans games selling better in comparison.
• Acting for Two:
  • Mel Winkler reprises his role as Aku Aku and has a minor role as a tribesman.
  • In addition to reprising his role as N. Tropy, Michael Ensign voices a tribesman.
  • Susan Silo voices Madame Amberley and Nina Cortex.
  • Debi Derryberry voices both Coco Bandicoot and the younger Neo Cortex.
  • Alex Fernandez voices Uka Uka and Farmer Ernest.
  • Dwight Schultz voices Papu Papu (and one of the tribesmen), Dingodile and the walrus cook who pursues Crash.
  • Quinton Flynn voices N. Gin and the Evil Twins.
• Creator Killer: Poor reviews and poor sales of the game were the final nail in the coffin for Traveller's Tales Oxford, and they would shut down as a result.
• Deleted Scene: There are many cutscenes that ended up reaching the storyboard stage, with some even being voiced, but unfortunately had to be cut like a lot of other content in the game. Some can be viewed here.
• Development Gag: Before the snowboarding level where Crash and Cortex had to save Nina from Evil Crash, Cortex mistakingly referred to her as his daughter then corrects himself to niece. This was a reference to when Nina was originally intended to be Cortex's daughter in the early stages of Crash Nitro Kart's development.
• Orphaned Reference: Given all the game's cut content, it's expected a few dead references seeped into the final game:
  • After defeating Tikimon, Victor gloats of the next scheme the twins have underway, the "Vice Versa Reverser Device". This references a cut level where you would pilot the Mecha Bandicoot to track and destroy said device.
  • The final plot twist of Cortex getting teleported into Crash's brain references an otherwise unused level premise where you would enter Cortex and Coco's minds to retrieve information from them (the former was also designed to lead into the cutscene where Cortex remembers the Evil Twins).
  • Some manuals for the game mention Coco aiding the main characters against the Evil Twins. Coco was in fact supposed to join Crash and Cortex as a playable character after catching up with them, though nearly her entire role was cut from the final game.
• The Other Darrin:
  • The first game in which Lex Lang replaced Clancy Brown as the voice of Dr. Neo Cortex. He became the regular voice of Cortex from there.
  • Alex Fernandez voiced Uka Uka, another one of Clancy Brown's roles.
  • Dwight Schultz voices Papu Papu instead of David Anthony Pizzuto, who voiced the character in Crash Team Racing.
• Referenced by...: In a secret cutscene of Sally.exe Continued Nightmare: Eye of Three, Christy is singing the melody to one of the songs from Twinsanity.
• Role Reprise: In an interesting note, this is the last game to feature any English cast members from the Naughty Dog games. Mel Winkler voiced Aku Aku for the last time in this title before being replaced by Greg Eagles in Crash of the Titans, while Michael Ensign, who had reprised his role as Dr. Nefarious Tropy in Nitro Kart, returned for Tropy's two scenes in this game. None of the original cast have returned since, including the N. Sane Trilogy.
• Troubled Production: And how! Deadlines not being met, scrapped concepts, the pressure of Vivendi Universal Games needing the game out, and too many ambitious ideas led to about a third of the game's original ideas being cut. The final product, while regarded as a good game in the years since its release, shows the lamented development cycle in many areas. However, the Traveller's Tales developers have been kind enough over the years to explain and show off various parts of the game that got cut, even supplying cut voiced dialogue and storyboards, all of which can be found online.
• What Could Have Been: Has its own page.
• Working Title: When the game had a more serious tone, it had the name Crash Evolution. There were many other early names given for this game such as Unlimited, Fully Fluxed, and A Whole New Dimension - until the publisher out of frustration gave the team 60 minutes to come up with a final name and they came up with the final name with 5 minutes to spare. Unlimited was briefly the chosen international title, with Twinsanity planned as the game's North American name before becoming the title altogether.

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