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