Crash Bandicoot - American vs Japanese Versions 

4:48 Somewhat true. According to Jason Rubin, Sony themselves had no issue with Tawna, but moreso Universal. Coco was a decision all on Naughty Dog’s accord with no say from anybody. They made her just cause.

Imagine that early Coco design finding its way into Nitro Fueled. That game is already loaded with Crash's well known (and obscure) parts of his past, so, I'd say the sky's the limit.

after watching a lot of anime it's hard to imagine japan having a problem with female characters deigns

They also got their own soundtrack for bosses and some levels

That early coco color pic blew my mind!!!!

I heard they moved Sunset Vista to the third island because it was too hard for how early in the game that level is. Smart move on their part, IMO.

Sweet! Now please do the differnces between the US and Japanese Spyro the Dragon?! Trust me, you're gonna have a real field day with the Japanese version.

Fun fact: Crash actually is adored by pretty much majority of my family which is so freaking cool to know that crash is loved by many

Can u do a video on Yaya Panda like the one you did for Hasty

2:35 “goofier” - Canadian guy eh.

I’m somewhat more of a Crash fan than I was as a kid thanks to you, dude. I hear the Japanese versions have exclusive cinematics, too. Is this correct?

5:14 “dorky” - Canadian guy eh.😊

There's also a few other gameplay differences in the Japanese version of Crash 1: - Papu Papu has two extra health points - The Green Gem is now in Hog Wild instead of The Lost City - The Red Gem is now in The Lost City instead of Slippery Climb, making it possible to get Road to Nowhere's Gem on the first visit - Sunset Vista and Slippery Climb have swapped locations on the map - The High Road has had the last portion of the level removed - All bosses except for Papu Papu and Ripper Roo have different music, though the Brio and Cortex Bonus Rounds are unaffected - Tawna's Bonus Rounds also have different music - Tawna Bonus Rounds were added to Castle Machinery, Cortex Power, Slippery Climb and Temple Ruins. This also means these levels have more boxes. - Tawna Bonus Rounds were removed from Road to Nowhere and Sunset Vista - The Bonus Round in The Lost City saves your level progress up to The Lost City instead of Temple Ruins - Passwords are no longer shown during the game. However, the player can still use the Password screen by pressing Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, Left, Right, O on the title screen. - Menus use both X and O to confirm instead of just X - The camera on the Map can be rotated with the L1 and R1 buttons instead of Square and O

So if he's a popular western video game character in Japan, why has it taken so long to get him in smash?

Great video as always,CGE! Still love your new intro... suggestion for a future video, this type of break down, but for Spyro... I’m a huge Spyro fan and scarf down every scrap of (FAMILY FRIENDLY) content about him...

I think seeing coco’s design is one of the things that actually made me have a reaction

In USA : Crash Bandicoot In Japan : Crash Bandicoot In Spain : Carlos el Topo que Gira

So in Japan they made Crash bandicoot and Spyro look cute,but they make really violent anime. I just think thats odd.

I'd love to see a video detailing the specific differences between the American and Japanese versions of the games themselves.

I actually love the ideas of the Japanese version,like uka telling you were secrets are and so on. I would like that to some how be a option for non Japanese players. Also,I really like Coco's original design other then the crop top.

So you plan to do a similar video of how Spyro the dragon was popular in Japan too? Cause I remember with the first original ps1 game, there was an alternate opening to the game or something like that?

In Japan, all artwork of Crunch uses his Wrath of Cortex design!

I guess I find the tawna/coco surprising because usually it’s the other way around. It seems like they make the characters less raunchy when they move the games from Japan to NA

Digging this new intro!

Been following your stuff for a long time, you come up with interesting topics to talk about. :) I'm craving dat new intro and the Japanese Crash facts and information are cute and unique. Although as a kid, I used to be creeped out by those Japanese Crash Bandicoot videos. It was probably the sped up footage, music and the costume for Crash. Nowadays I'm ok with all of it.

This is super interesting and makes me want to play the Japanese versions. 🤔 The only Japanese Crash game that I have played is Crash Bash or Crash Bandicoot Carnival as it known over there. 😌 Also, seeing all of the bad guys doing the Crash Dance along side Crash just makes me so happy! 😁 I love when we see Coco do it too in the N. Sane Trilogy! 🤩

I kind of get the sense that if Crash Bandicoot 1 came out today as part of a new franchise, rather than as part of a remake, Tawna's design & existence would cause people to cry "Furry!" Seriously, there's no way Tawna wouldn't be called "Furry porn" by today's standards, and everyone would FOR SURE call the devs at Naughty Dog a bunch of Furries. I guess the 90's were just a more innocent time. At least in that regard.

0:08 WOAH!!!

Josh Mancell also composed some exclusive music for Japan. The boss music is pretty cool.

American Sonic = Badass, Edgy, Mohawk, Cool Japanese Crash = Kawaii American Kirby = Angry 24/7

Also in the Japanese version of crash 1 the green gem was moved to hog ride and the red gem from slippery climb was moved to the lost city.

4:55 but they can tolerate highly inappropriate stuff in anime,weird logic 5:20 in all honestly,I don't like the brown eyes on coco,the green look better on her,I even seen her with purple eyes somewhere online which look nice to

No talk about the Crash Bandicoot dance that Japan gave us ?

The Japanese version also had a different soundtrack for bonus stages and bosses

Crash Bandic-ooooot Crash, Crash Bandicoo-OOOT

If Crash Bandicoot is popular in Japan, does this mean that Crash will be in Smash Ultimate in the 2nd Fighter Pass?

The Japan version was much easier that's all you need to know

Soooo I just bought a Japan region ps1 off eBay along with spyro and a sailor moon game. I’m so excited to play the “different” kind

Did you hear crash team racing only has one Grand Prix left was not expecting that tbh

Crash was basically reverse Kirby.

😆😆 Tawna and the original coco design were just to "sexy" for universal and the Japanese market

I have to reset my times I hear the Japanese crash bandicoot theme in my head to 0.. dang it..

0:38 thanks for mentioning Persona 5

5:03 Holy smokes! They ended up making Coco hotter than Tawna.

What the american division of Crash team did to the render of Coco is unforgiveable

I was just to play the game. To think people really looked this deeply into it.

Interesting video

1:12 Don't look at Crash's face

*"American Games Were Marketed Poorly In Japan."* Probably some of the games we made weren't that great, and were always overhyped! 🤷‍♀️

The North American version is beyond better than the Japanese version, in every way and form PERIOD!!.

To be honest, it's the Crash's japanese design that for some reason creeps me out.

Bro you need to widen your videos

I think its cool .. its basicly the same game with a few differences.. nice if u like to collect this stuff and play your favorate games in a new light . I love Japan and its culture rich differences. And also my pal released games too... ohhh the artwork is so good on the jpn versions i had them framed 😊

I'm surprised they had a problem with tawana. Have you seen most of there anime?.

does anyone miss the graphics of old games, I mean it adds something to it. In my opinion.

*"What Do You Guys Think Of The Deferences In Crash In The Japanese Market?"* I think the changes that they did with the Crash game was fascinating in a way, because when you think about it, there's another version of a game out there that you will love despite the challenges and overs*xed characters! 😀

I am also Canadian.

so crash was supposed to be a rage game even tho its a kinda rage game right now lol :D

*"The Original Crash Bandicoot Had Some Differences Compared To The Japanese Release."* I'm ready to learn!! 🤓

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Etika died on 2019 that sad right beasuse that was a youtuber

Here's a thought, if Crash ever made it into Smash Bros. WHICH version of Crash would they go with?

Wait crash bandicoot is an American video game franchise!!!! I thought it was Japanese

Am I having a stroke or does he say "The one country that does love crash is also japan" in the beginning

Japan wanting modesty in their video games, eventhough they are basically the most unmodest country in terms of video game designs 😂

So was anime like now back in the days? why the fuck they removed her for? anime is literally the opposite of what they claimed about Tawna. Or was it different back in the days?

Veri coool intro

god.... if only spyro were greeted more warmly. granted the blame was squarely on the shit camera because of fear of "motion sickness." and they didnt fix it in 2. so year of the dragon remains western-exclusive.

lol crash is popular with the ladies in their 20s. mmmm i wonder why? lol

Baahhhhh

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Excessive prologue part ended in BS part. Moreover BS about difficulty. Many ppl call NA versions of any game hardest and uncensored ones. Why they call it like that? As result this video have 0 worthness of watching. Wasting time. Literally no comparison happened and only once in video when it going about difference is BS about difficulty. NA versions since cartridges been in general more censored and even more easienest. Censority happened everywhere in general. But what happened in a mind of those who said american game going to PAL and NTSC-J/Asia get easiest difficulty? How you get to that idea? Japan versions of both Japan original and American localised games are most hardest ones in general. And all Crash games are not exception here. PAL versions are unique situation: changing FPS affect everything. So games sometimes get balance changes, especially for such timings related games as platformers. Sometimes got balanced.Crash series got that rebalance too. Whatever balance it get - new timings probably cannot be properly rebalanced. And Crash series still become exceptional games in PAL. It got INCREASED difficulty, with increased Hitpoints of enemies, les masks and lives tokens. There even partially shown on video that Papu Papu boss fight in Cb1 are get increased difficulty (yes in 1.0 US ver he have only 3 HP). And ofc usual glitches/tricks fixes since PAL is basically 2.0 of US release. New balance probably, but mostly for impossible to balance new timings lead to excluding of Developers Records Time Trilas from Crash3 Warped in PAL release. Although every possible but one. There is one become impossible to achieve. All else ones obviously much harder to achieve, but possible. And now come to NTSC-J releases of Crash series. They based on PAL versions balance. Increased difficulty for no timing reasons. So. How. Just how??? Someone get to decide most hardcore players - @sians - got easiest difficulty? Even trying to find CB series as exceptions to usual situation its still have 0 sense to state that american version harder one. Ofc someone @mericans are just egocentrics. But there is many ROW players who also spread that BS american versions are most "true" ones. Whatever game originally come from. 21 century become century for such ppl who thing they prefers, they vision of world are Fact-True. Most ppl today live in own self-reality. Whatever n@tion and age or whatever else.

Crash is now dead ip in Japan and Japan don't care about Crash

You know I may sound rude but Western players especially American just suck at gaming at general, there's like 1 in 20-30 people who are actually good at games.