We at Vicarious Visions love Crash, and were super excited for everyone to play the N. Sane Trilogy. But we cant fly everyone out to Anaheim to play it in person, so heres a peek that answers some burning questions. And the biggest question everyone keeps asking us, Is this a remaster or a remake?
The answer is not simple.
Its practically impossible to make a traditional remaster of the original Naughty Dog games. Theyre roughly 20 years old, and technology has advanced significantly in that time. The original code and assets are nearly unusable. Nearly.
But we dont consider this a remake. We know how much you all love the original games, so we didnt want to fully remake them. The N. Sane Trilogy is a remaster plus.
The first step in our remaster plus was to truly understand what made the Naughty Dog games special and why fans still love them to this day. The best way to understand a game is to play it, and boy, did we play the Crash games. We played them to the point that we broke controllers from mashing the jump button too much. We studied original concept art and commercials for inspiration. And we went even further back to understand the material that originally inspired Naughty Dog, including Who Framed Roger Rabbit? and Looney Tunes.
I'm really bad at crash bandicoot. Uncharted 4 ending was a nightmare.