Crash bandicoot 4 it about time

[Aib Ld]

The thing about the Tawna's redesign is that they completely changed her design and removed/lightened her makeup, then slapped an 'alternate reality' title on it while the other Coco stayed the same despite being from an alternate reality(?). While alternate realities exists, they should had just told us/foreshadowed then set Tawna in instead of just plopping this her out of nowwhere.
Regular Tawna by visual identity is the "hot and sexy" girlfriend to the "ugly" Crash. This is... some 'heroic pirate' Tawna? I don't know, I can't decipher anything
Regular Tawna also has a recognizable silhouette. You could recognize her in a game with several different skins for her and several other female characters. Her cartoon portions were essential to her character design- bimbo tits and the rest. This Tawna is just a blocky humanoid striped mess.

I've never understood redesigning a new character so drastically that you have to explain they're from an alternate universe. I don't see why they didn't just make a new Bandicoot character if they wanted to reboot Tawna completely- or just use more rarely-seen characters from the past games.

A friend also gave me this image, which is on the PS Blog.


Hell, even the concept art is more Tawna and Bandicoot than what we got. I would have loved Australian Tawna.


EDIT ADDITION to make better sense since I was tired on making this: The point is that they drastically changed her so bad that you can't even tell its Tawna unless you're told or read the title. While I understand a bit of her 'tough' porportions are from survival, the point still stands. If they wanted it to be her, they could had just used any of the concept art, you can instantly tell its her from some alternate universe.

 

[BlazikenLover]

She's taller which is fine, but she looks too much like a normal human for proportions.

The CTR Bandicoot girls didn't have this problem. They also have larger heads for their proportions which kept them in line with everyone else.

Oh definetively, her proportions make her look out of place next to crash and coco

 

[Marissa Moira]

Here, here's fortnite lady wearing a similar outfit that doesn't look like ass

You can clearly tell this is a female who has visible thighs and muscle tone and doesn't move like a man

Even the game thinks she's trash.

 

[Aib Ld]

They could have also changed the hair to some messy mid/long blond hair, the half-shaven (bonus: dyed) cut is used so much on women in games that it feels like a copout on designing hairstyles.

 

[Marissa Moira]

They could have also changed the hair to some messy mid/long blond hair, the half-shaven (bonus: dyed) cut is used so much on women in games that it feels like a copout on designing hairstyles.

She also looks more like a dingo or a dog.

 

[Syaoran Li]

Oh god what the fuck did they do to Tawna

She looks like a Jak and Daxter character

Call me an optimist, but maybe it's meant as a sly reference to Jak & Daxter?

Welp, they've officially hit the top of my woke meter. Any more than this bullshit and I'm out, although I pretty much already am since no PC announcement.

Eh, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt on this one since this Tawna is explicitly from another part of the multiverse and is probably meant more as a parody of the "stronk wahmmen" woke stereotype (or at least a parody of Jak & Daxter since that was meant to replace Crash) and Tawna was always more of a bit character in the original games anyway.

I don't get why people are calling the design "woke" or "tumblr". To me it looks more like 80s rock fashion and post apocalyptic characters, plus they didn't make her fat/ugly.
Edit: She does look a bit ridiculous next to crash and coco due to her size and proportions, but is not THAT bad since she was always taller than most of the characters.

I think it's because the woke crowd more or less ruined the punk look by association the same way that the soyboys ruined beards and fedoras.

Coincidentally, both punk fashion and beards were never good to begin with even before the dregs of the Millennial generation made them associated with certain mindsets and types of people.

 

[Marissa Moira]

So there's 100+ levels in the game. According to the new Gamestop email that got passed around. There's also going to be a 4 player offline multiplayer/co-op mode that has the option of also playing online and there's no Micro transactions either.

At this point I'm almost sure they've taken time trials out because imagine needing to get gold or better on 100+ levels for Crash bandicoot.


R..r..right?

 

[AutoGuyNoFile]

So they're the american rareware? A shell of their former selves without any of the staff who made the hits of their Golden age.

EXACTLY. Honestly this happpens more often than we know, but yes. Naughty Dog is the American Rare Ware. The difference is that they managed to keep making games that people liked while Rare just...was lost.

I've never understood redesigning a new character so drastically that you have to explain they're from an alternate universe. I don't see why they didn't just make a new Bandicoot character if they wanted to reboot Tawna completely- or just use more rarely-seen characters from the past games.

I agree as I certainly mistook her for Ami and laughed at how much her redesign looks like the infamously terrible Neon Circus outfit Isabella wore. That one is particularly funny because people claimed she got a mohawk to look less like Tawna and then Tawna goes and does this.

BUT they DID foreshadow the alternate universe thing. The entire plot of this game is that Crash and Coco are traveling through alternate universes as the villains try to conquer the multiverse. This is also being used as a cheap way to retcon-but-not-retcon the past games in the franchise. There is some rumor we may see more alternate Tawnas.

Hell, even the concept art is more Tawna and Bandicoot than what we got. I would have loved Australian Tawna.
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Agreed. These are much closer to what Tawna should look like.

It's like...I'm glad Tawna is back, I don't mind the new design, I wish they had made her look more Tawna like or used other members of the Nitro Squad...basically this is the same reaction I have to the rest of the game. Like I think the new art style looks nice but I also think it's a cop out because the Ratchet & Clank on PS4 looks like a freakin' Pixar movie and I'd love a Crash game that looks like THAT. If they wanted to go more cartoony then why not cel-shade and make it look like an actual cartoon? Right now it just looks like a nice colorful game, which is nice but...could have been better.

...and I just flat out hate that they call it Crash 4. Cut that shit out. Didn't work out for Sonic 4, it embarrassed Double Dragon 4, don't do it here. I haaate that little jab they take at the other games with the "How many times have you beat this guy again?" thing. Yeah pretty much all the post-Naughty Dog games aren't very good but they had better writing and more personality than the Naughty Dog stuff. (Mind Over Mutant is underrated)

Also I'm deeply concerned that this game's writing may be too serious. That bit with Tawna was waaay too awkward. I don't see ANYONE here inventing a machine to recycle butter.

 

[AutoGuyNoFile]

So there's 100+ levels in the game. According to the new Gamestop email that got passed around. There's also going to be a 4 player offline multiplayer/co-op mode that has the option of also playing online and there's no Micro transactions either.

At this point I'm almost sure they've taken time trials out because imagine needing to get gold or better on 100+ levels for Crash bandicoot.


R..r..right?

Time Trials are actually 100% confirmed and there's also N.Verted Mode which takes the existing levels, reverses them, and adds crazy filters and gimmicks.

HOWEVER! Lets take the cynical route: If you wanna be a dick you could count those N.Verted levels as their own levels. Also there's hidden Flashback Tapes which take you to challenge levels that are just boxes floating in mid-air and of course THOSE would count towards the level count. Those are interesting lore-wise though since they're supposed to be Cortex's tapes of Crash and Coco doing challenges for him before the events of Crash 1 (hey maybe we'll see OG Tawna there).

So I'm gonna say we don't know how many levels the game *REALLY* has, but completionists will have a lot to complete.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

You know.... I think I see it, too.

Tawna and Jak do slightly look alike, and Daxter and Crash have been known to provide comic relief.

For me, I just want see the gameplay before anything else.

 

[Just wandering]

you know I always find jak look like a weird bootleg of link

 

[Marissa Moira]

you know I always find jak look like a weird bootleg of link

They drew their elves entirely different than nintendo did.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

So there's 100+ levels in the game. According to the new Gamestop email that got passed around. There's also going to be a 4 player offline multiplayer/co-op mode that has the option of also playing online and there's no Micro transactions either.

At this point I'm almost sure they've taken time trials out because imagine needing to get gold or better on 100+ levels for Crash bandicoot.


R..r..right?

game seems like its gonna be HUGE! trying to 100% is gonna be a challenge.

 

[TheAmbiguousLurker]

At this point I'm almost sure they've taken time trials out because imagine needing to get gold or better on 100+ levels for Crash bandicoot.

Time Trials have been confirmed to still be in for a while. Notice the Stop Watch at the beginning of a lot of levels in the gameplay previews for the game?

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

"she is a lone wolf who feels like she doesn't need anyone's help"

- From the description of Tawna.

Christ almighty, every single time, am I right?

 

[Celebrate Nite]

what wrong with punk tawna I like her

You're a gigantic faggot

It's people like you that is the reason why shit like this keeps happening. In fact, going by your quotes below...

I don't see what it's wrong with crash bandicoot, he's adorable

This isn't the end of the world if they used a capsule collison box rather than the classic prism in the original game

Anytime someone criticizes something about the Crash reboot or this new one you're on defense control like some fucking Crash simp PR person, posting videos getting people hyped up for something that isn't unique and looks like every other cancerous reboot that fails to realize what made the original great in the first place. I ignored it for the most part but I'm putting my foot down with Tawna because this is BLATANT SJW woke shit we've seen countless of times in other games like Overwatch, Cyperpunk, Outer Worlds, Watch Dogs, etc...

But no, keep defending this shit like you're in fucking 200% cope mode claiming "no really u guise, this game is gonna be gewd!!".

 

[BOONES]

So there's 100+ levels in the game. According to the new Gamestop email that got passed around. There's also going to be a 4 player offline multiplayer/co-op mode that has the option of also playing online and there's no Micro transactions either.

At this point I'm almost sure they've taken time trials out because imagine needing to get gold or better on 100+ levels for Crash bandicoot.


R..r..right?

COOP CRASH?! SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY.

 

[TheAmbiguousLurker]

Have we gotten any details on how this supposed multiplayer works yet?

 

[Just wandering]

You're a gigantic faggot

It's people like you that is the reason why shit like this keeps happening. In fact, going by your quotes below...


Anytime someone criticizes something about the Crash reboot or this new one you're on defense control like some fucking Crash simp PR person, posting videos getting people hyped up for something that isn't unique and looks like every other cancerous reboot that fails to realize what made the original great in the first place. I ignored it for the most part but I'm putting my foot down with Tawna because this is BLATANT SJW woke shit we've seen countless of times in other games like Overwatch, Cyperpunk, Outer Worlds, Watch Dogs, etc...

But no, keep defending this shit like you're in fucking 200% cope mode claiming "no really u guise, this game is gonna be gewd!!".

Triggered much?, You can scream all you want but it won't change anything it will never change anything. Game will going that way. You can ree in your corner about really trivial stuff but at least I will enjoy the game(even if isn't a true open world adventure game like I wanted)
Pokemon and paper Mario was already enough to show that screaming at the dev do nothing... the games will still suck(and suck I mean pokemon, paper mario is okeyish)

 

[BOONES]

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Triggered much?, You can scream all you want but it won't change anything it will never change anything. Game will going that way. You can ree in your corner but at least I will enjoy the game(even if isn't a true open world adventure game like I wanted)
Pokemon and paper Mario was already enough to show that screaming at the dev do nothing... the games will still suck

Never post here again, that watermark is embarassing.