You're calling this Crash Bandicoot 4 which is a pretty big deal, considering it's obviously a main entry. Why do you see the game as a mainline entry and was this always going be the case?
Paul Yan: Technically, this is the eighth game in the series, but we very deliberately called this Crash 4 to position this as a true sequel to the first three games that were developed by Naughty Dog. We think it's because there was something really special about those first three games and it was certainly a high point in the series, and it was reflected both critically and commercially. Our game is called It's About Time and yes, it's sort of a play on words, in the sense that that It's been so long since we've seen a new original title.
It's been 12 years like you pointed out since Crash Warped, but it's also literally about time it chronologically. It follows the events of Crash 3. Where we picked up off from Crash 3, Neo Cortex, Dr. Entropy and Uka Uka, they've been stranded on this distant planet. They've been trying fruitlessly to escape, but they finally managed to get out and in doing so, they've ripped this giant hole in the fabric of the universe, exposing a multiverse. So it's gonna be up to both Crash and Coco to reunite and reassemble the four Quantum Masks to restore balance to this multiverse. So when we think about time in the context of all these different games, we do want to harken back to those three but other sequels, they did exist and we think about them as existing on alternate timelines that may or may not have some reflection in this adventure.
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