New details about the rumored Crash Bandicoot 5 have now surfaced online, and they are truly amazing.
To start, the details come by way of a new video from YouTube channel "DidYouKnowGaming," which detailed the concept for Crash 5, including a proposed crossover with Spyro the Dragon, as well as the shortcomings of Crash Team Rumble, among other details. It's a truly fascinating video, ripe with information and testimony from developers that make it well worth the watch.
As revealed in the video, Crash Bandicoot 5 had two separate concepts in the works prior to its cancelation. The first concept would see Crash return to the Academy of Evil, a famous location from Crash Twinsanity. Those plot elements from Twinsanity would be explored again, per the reveal, with the larger segments of the Academy of Evil serving as a hub world of sorts.
The faculty of this nefarious school would be previous Crash villains, and the game would have taken cues from Psychonauts by allowing Crash to explore the innermost turmoil of his enemies via a journey through their minds. For example, Pinstripe would return, and Crash would go through a 1930s-era gangster level while exploring his past....
