// News // 4th Dec 2016 — 7 years ago // By Gary "Dombalurina" Sheppard

Crash Bandicoot Returns in N.Sane Trilogy

The reason that anybody outside of Oceania knows what a Bandicoot is, is returning. After a quiet console generation over the PS3, the PS4 is the platform of choice for the next adventures of the famous platformer. Developer Vicarious Visions were keen to point out that this isn't a remake or a remaster, but a "remaster plus". By this, they mean that they used part of the original art assets, but remade a lot of the game from the ground up with modern tech.

Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy is the official title for the release that will see high quality remakes of all three original Crash Bandicoot titles. Whilst Vicarious Visions are trying to remain true to those original games, they're also adding in a few tweaks like time trials across all games and a proper save function. We've seen a bit more at this year's PSX event, with a new trailer and a slew of screenshots and concept art being released. Check out our gallery above to see them all, or get the lowdown from the developers on the PlayStation Blog.

Gary "Dombalurina" Sheppard

Staff Writer

Gary maintains his belief that the Amstrad CPC is the greatest system ever and patiently awaits the sequel to "Rockstar ate my Hamster"

COMMENTS

TheSphericalCat - 04:49pm, 4th December 2016

It's a shame that Naughty Dog themselves aren't working on this, I'd have been interested to see what they'd do with Crash after so many years of making cinematic games. Instead we get a sequel to a game that deperately didn't need one...

domdange - 05:45pm, 4th December 2016

As amazing as it would have been, I think Naughty Dog working on Crash would have been a waste of talent.

Acelister - 06:41pm, 4th December 2016

Naughty Dog already made Crash Bandicoot - why remake it?

domdange - 06:58pm, 4th December 2016

Exactly! Plus Sony don't own the rights to Crash so wouldn't be able to hand it to a first party studio.

GarySheppard - 07:03pm, 4th December 2016 Author

Goig by the other announcements at PSX, it looks like Naughty Dog are a bit busy! But I would have liked to see them involved. Hopefully Vicarious Visions will do it justice. Going by their back catalogue, their specialty seems to be porting games, so I'd expect them to do a decent job of a remake, seems to be essentially what they already do.

TheSphericalCat - 07:09pm, 4th December 2016

Since they don't seem to be able to do much wrong in the last few years maybe going back to pretty much where it all began will humble them, keep them grounded...

domdange - 07:11pm, 4th December 2016

I think that ship sailed the minute they started excelling with narrative driven games. Vicarious Visions (as far as i remember) made a lot of the portble ones, which were always bang on. Is it weird that the remake looks like what I thought the originals did back in the day