PSX 2016 Announces Details for Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy

PSX 2016 Announces Details for Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy

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Michelle McLean by Michelle McLean on Dec 03, 2016 @ 01:33 PM (Staff Bios)
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Guess what's here? Our favorite marsupial!

Finally, after so many years of waiting, and waiting, Crash Bandicoot is back in its original form... sort of.

Just with a new look! We finally received the details on the upcoming title remastered trilogy, dubbed the N. Sane Trilogy. The folks over at Vicarious Visions are behind the remaster but they have provided some answers to some burning questions we have in our hearts.

First of all: "Is this a remaster or a remake?"

To them?
 

"The answer is not simple.

It's practically impossible to make a traditional remaster of the original Naughty Dog games. They're roughly 20 years old, and technology has advanced significantly in that time. The original code and assets are nearly unusable. Nearly.

But we don't consider this a remake. We know how much you all love the original games, so we didn't 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.

With all of that in mind, we started our work. Using the original level geometry from Naughty Dog as a guide, we rebuilt the Crash gameplay from scratch, capturing its simplicity and precision. As the levels began to take shape, we layered in our own lush and zany art, animation, and audio."


Here is what will be in the remaster plus:
  • Rebuilt levels, based on the original geometry.
  • Rebuilt characters, following the original designs.
  • Rebuilt cinematics, inspired by the originals.
  • Unified checkpointing & save game system. This includes manual and auto-saving.
  • Unified menu system.
  • Time Trials in all three games.
...And more!

Look forward to this title in 2017!

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