Ratcicle King

Beat the game Yeah gonna be real, this is my favorite game in the series, without a shadow of a doubt. The gameplay took everything from 1-3 and modernized it wonderfully, while remaining faithful to what the originals brought to the table. Crash is an absolute joy to control in this game, and so are both Tawna and Dingodile. I didn't enjoy most of Cortex's gameplay style, but that's because of me not being a big fun of puzzle platformers. The masks and new moves really do a fantastic job in modernizing the gameplay without straying too far from it, and the story was a blast from beginning to end, my only real complaint there being that I wanted MORE of it. They managed to make references and callbacks without feeling like cheap fanservice, but actual worldbuilding and recontextualizing a lot of things from the games before. As for the difficulty, I honestly enjoyed it overall, I died a lot, yes, I missed crates in several levels, yeah, but honestly, this game wants you to master the stages, you can't go in expecting to perfect every level on the first try because you wouldn't be able to do that even in the originals if you went in blind. We just saw that with N.Sane a few years ago, a lot of first time players pulling their hairs out because the levels either tricked them or required hindsight to be perfected. The game assumes you've mastered 1-3, the difficulty I felt was in no way unfair, there's no backtracking against the camera, there's no pill hitboxes making you slip off platforms, and there's no poorly implemented vehicle levels, you just gotta be prepared to start from the bottom and work your way into mastering the levels like your first time with the old games.

If they do tie trophies to anything of the sort, modern mode has a death count as oposed to a life count, so they will probs use that for trophy tallying

Notice how the song slowly fades into the N.Sanity Beach melody, that combined with the first shot we see of it being almost identical to the first shot of the N.Sanity beach level, makes me wonder if this IS actually that place but taken over by pirates.

Actually, they never said no MTX, they said no paid DLC, but it was misreported everywhere. On the subject of MTX they always said they were ''evaluating it'' and announced at launch they'd include it later down the road.

https://twitter.com/ToysForBob/status/1278034702121660420?s=20

People are theorizing Cortex's new design looks odd because he's younger, makes sense, his lines at the start of the trailer imply he and Tropy were stuck in the past as babies until they got old enough to act again.

Going by the pattern on the previous years, it's about 5-6 months of marketing campaign before the game releases (December 2016 to June 2017 for N.Sane, April 2018 to September 2018 for Reignited before it got delayed, and December 2018 to June 2019 for CTR). So October or November seems like the right guess. There's also the possibility it was supposed to be announced earlier but had to be delayed thanks to the pandemic.

Considering the plot is about travelling through different times and dimensions, wouldn't be surprised if they reintroduced certain post ND characters as being from the future/an alternate timeline. Even if it's a reboot tho', as everyone else said, don't doubt they'll reintroduce concepts from post ND, if not now, later down the road.

I think it's less Crash being yearly and more them cycling between the franchises, Crash a year, Spyro the next one, then a Kart racer/spin off the following year, then the cycle repeats. It's probably why CTR wasn't given to Vicarious Vision, but to Beenox instead, so VV can be the ''main game'' team while Beenox is the ''spin off'' team. Wouldn't surprise me if in two years we see Beenox with either say a Crash Bash remake, a new kart racer or just a flat out crossover spin off between the two franchises.

Considering through datamining it was found out one upcoming Grand Prix will be Halloween themed (Which I think was confirmed to be the N.Brio one), this could be very well the stealth ''Twinsanity Pack'', since most of the characters and original places you could make a track out of in Twinsanity fit the Halloween aesthetic perfectly. Beenox also said they'd make full use of the Crash universe for this, not just the racing games, to make it a racing game encapsulating the entire franchise so don't be surprised if we even get titans stuff.