I know there is a lot to talk about when it comes to Twinsanity but it's crazy you didn't mention the punch attack, which was actually available in the demo version. From what I read, it was scrapped because the punch was so strong it could break the game, in the literal sense (crashing/freezing). Also, there is a prototype from Neo Kesha that was made public, a bit before your video. You can see crash grabbing ropes like Indiana Jones, being able to "use" a very buggy ant vehicle, and few other things. This was still during the time the game was called Evolution and it does look and feel a lot more similar to something like early Jak & Daxter. I'll leave it here. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lM3XkruqLi4.html Edit: There is now an attempt to make an unofficial PC port that supports modding, so people can then recreate Gone a Bit Coco and maybe a few other things. Project is on github as OpenSanity. Edit 2: There is also a publicly available prototype of the full game (already called Twinsanity) but there are some differences like different gem placements and incomplete cutscenes, dating back to July 19, 2004 - a month earlier than the final build.
That’s interesting that one of those early movesets you had mentioned was similar to Indiana Jones, as both Crash Twinsanity and LEGO Indiana Jones were made by the same developer!
You really notice how Twinsanity could legitimely have been one of the best platformers of all time when the unifinished, buggy and rushed version of the game is still so enjoyable and fun and mostly well-designed. I have a soft spot for the game even though it's so unpolished and only a fraction of what it could be.
@@StuD44 Same can not be said about Sonic ‘06, due to Sonic having an identity crisis after 2001; and still is, given the mis-management still going on, even in story.
Some of the level designs esp in the Academy of Evil bump it down a bit imo. If a platformer has some problematic level design that's sort of a big issue.
@@robbiewalker2831sonic 06 is a solid game way under the glitches and bad loading times as well.bit could have been the Adventure 3 so many were asking for. Down to the gameplay structure and plot tone.
@@robbiewalker2831never forget on how Ubisoft massacred rayman 4 by turning it into a minigame collection... (still a good game though but I still want a new rayman game that have the similar vibes as Rayman 4)
So nobody realizes that today is the 18th anniversary of this game?🤨 Oh well, guess not. Other than that, nice video dude! Great job, and Happy 18th anniversary to Crash Twinsanity!!!🥳🥳
@@TheMrBonesShow I’m sure Mind Over Mutant improved on the mechanics of it’s predecessor, but yeah, I can understand how it has it’s fair share of problems.
Nice Video but WOC wasn’t a flop. It was the best selling Crash game at the time and was one of the first PS2 games to hit greatest hits and had players choice on GameCube. It got bad reviews but companies don’t care about that especially when the product is making money. Every Crash game sold well except Twinsanity,Boom Bang and Crash 4. Just thought I clear this up.
well if it wasn't a flop then why didn't universal extend the deadline? especially after seeing how buggy the game was at release and problems with accidentally replaying levels, why not extend the deadline for just like 5 weeks to get most of these problems out of the way.
Really good stuff, man! Cut content is a regular and fairly depressing part of game design, but anyone who's picked Twinsanity up can instantly tell it got it particularly rough. It's hard to see so much talent, passion and work go to waste, but it's ultimately better it remains documented and sees the light of day even in some small form than not at all. Very well organized and put together video! Keep it up!
Its cool seeing more insight on Twinsanity's development. I never really looked into it but was always curious what this game could have been if it was given proper dev time and coordination. Really great video overall!
I feel like if there was ever a game that deserved a remake from the ground up, it would be this one. I'd love to see all the cut content be used as well as the developers actually having the time to do so without needing to crunch and cut stuff, kinda like how Oddworld Soulstorm is a remake of Abe's Exodus I agree that the game has a lot of potential and in my opinion deserves a remake like Soulstorm
I ADORED this game even as a barely literate little boy. I'd honestly believe I spent way more time in the opening area than playing the actual game. (Though to be fair, English wasn't my first language, so I barely understood what the game was asking from me!)
This video was really insightful! I had previous knowledge that they had to scrap a lot of stuff , but I never realized just how much content they had to cut out ( specifically the large quantity of enemies, cut scenes, and unused hidden areas ). It’s a shame that “Gone a Bit Coco” and “Rehab Lab” never got finished because I’m sure there would’ve been a ton of fun and hilarious moments that could’ve happened had it been finished. I truly believe had this game gotten more development time, this could’ve been one of the best Crash Bandicoot games of all time and could have even allowed Crash Twinsanity 2 and Cortex Chaos to come to fruition.
Amen to that! A true shame Gone a bit Coco was scrapped, but its rumored a Dev still has their Maya files intact. If we can nab those, then modders can rebuild the level from the ground up. But who knows...
@@TheMrBonesShowi would like to see coco have more attention in twinsanity. The final game coco was absent like she shows up like 3 times I would like to see her playable and even tagged with crash just like cortex
From what I understand, they had plenty of time. They just wasted their time and never finalized their ideas. Most likely more development time would have lead to more scrapped concepts and ideas, not a more complete game.
21:03 I had this at full volume, because you're audio was a tad bit quiet. I shit you not, I was walking down my stairs and almost fell off. "Loud equals funny" they say. Thanks for almost ending my life ^^
my favorite crash ever, but the ending of it was so dissapointed, it really feels rushed. And crash of titan and mind over mutant are unique crative and beautifuk games as well, people jusr reaquet badly to change sometimes, but they were indeed super fun games to play
Absolute shame the GameCube port had to be cancelled cause I think even if the player base for the GameCube was small it would have sold decently well.
Great video, dude! Man, I remember wanting Twinsanity so badly when it came out. Since Wrath of Cortex was my jump into the series and Nitro Kart was the inevitable kart racer, then Twinsanity has long been my favorite of the series. While none of the future games matched its uniqueness, there was a lot of stuff I never realized was gone. There hasn't been a year where I didn't revisit the game (or Toy Story 2) just to find new ways to beat old levels. I hope one day we get all the prototypes to fully realize this game... or some crazy fools do a fan-remake Twinsanity since Activision won't do it. Speaking of those chuds, you think you could do something on the Interstate '76 (and Vigilante 8) franchise?
I was gifted this game as a kid at Xmas '04, my first PS2 game actually. I always appreciated the humour but never finished it due to the buggy platforming and un-skippable cutscenes.
This video deserves a ton more views great stuff,I want to see twinsanity come back and get a remake it’s my favorite crash game and has my favorite art style of any crash game,also fun fact I’m pretty sure medium ant was supposed to be the main villain but of course they ran out of time and cut him
I wanted like it more but I fucking loathed the soundtrack, i'm sorry but Acapella music sounds horrendously out of place in a platforming game like Crash.
@@jadedheartsz wow, I disagree so much with that. The soundtrack is probably what got me in love with that game. Since I was an og fan from the playstation days.
This is definitely wishful thinking, but I hope in the years to come they do eventually remake this game to it's full potential. Watching so many of the "what could've been" for the Crash Twinsanity game is actually so depressing. Even as unpolished and unfinished as the released game is, I still find joy in playing it. I just know that a remake would do it proper justice.
You know, With all the levels based in the minds of characters (The level concept at 10:26 and Gone a bit Coco) There's enough here to have game that basically Psychonauts. Imagine how cool it would be, Jumping into the minds of the characters we've come to love. And seeing what makes them tick. It'd mark long-awaited apperance of Gone a bit Coco and it'd make for some great set-pieces, Story and Gags.
I used to love this game, but after hearing that Universal not letting them delay and rushing this game only makes me like it (A nd not as much as I wanted to, but obviously not the devs' fault) and obviously because the devs didn't get the game how they wanted it to be because of greedy higher ups and all the wasted potential. This game could've been perfect and maybe take Cortex Strikes Back's throne if this game got the polish and time it deserve to be finished and to redeem the Crash series from Wrath of Cortex and Nitro Kart's both having too many downgrades or just too similar to Naughty Dog's efforts on the PS1. Don't get me wrong the game still managed to be good, it's just Universal sabotaging the vision as well as other crimes they committed with both Crash and Spyro really do made me realize that there still is bad companies even before Activison, Blizzard, 2K, Square Enix, Sega, Capcom, Bamco and especially EA's downfall and many others to greed with shit like DLC even before on launch, microtransactions, release now fix/add it later (*looks at Nintendo's Mario Sports Switch games*) and making more dumb decisions like anti-consumer shit.
It sucks this game is so maligned, I've recently replayed this and the first 3 games and enjoyed Twinsanity much more than the first 3. I still want to play 4 but haven't yet
I played the game for the first time in the spring of 2006. I still vividly remember coming home from elementary school and my mother said that the "CD man" told her that there was a new Crash Bandicoot game (I spent my childhood in a small village in Hungary, where only pirated CDs arrived, and the "CD man" who sold them worked full-time at a place called Videoteka, where you could rent DVD discs and VHS tapes of various films in the days before the Internet). What I immediately liked about the game is that it goes back to the roots of the first episode and opens with the island of Wumpa. Unfortunately, I didn't speak English at all at the time, so I couldn't get past the mine (after Cortex grabbed the crystal, I didn't know what to do with the ants' drilling machine, I just mindlessly spun out mutant ants with laser swords that came out of nowhere). After 1 year, my cousin also got Twinsanity and since his father was also a big gamer (and spoke English), they showed me how to close all the portals on the machine. Since my CD was completely scratched by then (and the PS2's "red screen of death" still gives me nightmares), I didn't dare to put my own disc into the PS2 anymore, but borrowed my cousin's instead. He gave it here for 1 week and I defeated the evil twins on the seventh day. Since I didn't have much time, I looked at the concept art in the menu and caught my eye on a drawing where Crash climbs onto Cortex's back and flies together on the hoverboard while the enemy is chasing them. At first I thought it was some kind of bonus level that could be unlocked by getting all the gems in the game. Anyway, I took the CD back to my cousin and it remained a secret for me for a while. Until Christmas 2007, when it was my (and at the same time my whole family's) gift that we were finally connected to the Internet. One of the first RU-vid videos I ever watched was when I typed "Crash Twinsanity all gems 100 percent extra" into the search bar. I was disappointed to find that it was just a very lame Sigmund Freud-ish therapy gag between Crash and Cortex (plus, 240p was the best quality at the time the video was uploaded). This was my nostalgic story with the game :) Anyway, kudos to all the developers for working on it and finally creating it :)
Twinsanity is a game that on paper should have been great, but deadlines resulted in it being rushed and becoming a schizophrenic mess. Didn’t help that they didn’t make a GameCube/PC port thus losing out on this market.
We’ve got to have this be the best Crash game so far. What to do? Oh I know, let’s put pressure on a company who’s had no experience with our franchise to rush a game out for the holiday season. Surely it’ll end up a completely polished game with no bugs or glitches whatsoever. Seriously, the whole “need it out by the holiday season” bs is why we get diamonds in the rough like this game, but this can also make things turn into dumpster fires. And companies STILL do this today. Why does the idea of being patient and waiting for a miracle of a game so dumb to video game companies? You’d think releasing a game with no faults and plenty of time to iron out any bugs would lead to more profit than a bug fest of a game would.
actully its cool to see the journy of people efforts of making game like this , honstly when i played it back then it was new crash game concept for me like i used to play in levels and warp room(like og bandicoot 123..) but this one it opened its world to it like its ... it got somthing speical but i guess they got tight timing ,otherwise they would be having a big games like their own twinsanity trolgy or somthing like that... but i guess that's diffrent universe and timeline lol
A remake of twinsanity with all its cut content and polished bugs is gonna be the mario odyssey of crash's franchise. Being one of the people who enjoyed this game, I looked past all the issues and bugs as a kid and was shocked to see it was this bad knowing what I know now. Even with all that, I can firmly say that it was still a good game, a very memorable one in fact, but it could've been way more if it was finished. Game has an untapped potential that definitely can reach the best of the franchise
Heh I see where you got that photo of the Oxford Studio team. I remember speaking with the team at the time about some of the stuff that went down behind the scenes. Some were too afraid of the NDAs that we're still active at the time.
What i find so weird is that gone a bit coco apparently made it pretty far in development but we have (or technically very little) no footage of the level nor do we have earlier build of twinsanity with the level in it. anndd im just thinking of what was the actual level like..
There is one level no one talks about you can find screens in it in the gem sections its called Dragon Alley or Valley was it ??? Idk Dragon Something I think there is 2 or 1 screen for it in the game
The beta version of BRD OST was at one time Gone A Bit Coco too, just in a different point of time. Don't remember which one was first, but yeah, both levels had this OST.
I really haye how publishers ruining great ideas to release a game out during Christmas. It makes me suspicious of every game being released around Christmas if it is going to be a forcibly rushed job.
From what I get from a quote with from one of the developers is they were given plenty of time and suffered from internal conflicts and a lack of cohesive ideas. They kept putting new ideas without refining the old up to almost the deadline they were given and told was a concrete deadline. Demonizing the publishers for this is dumb. Take this example say a teacher assigns an end of semester paper, giving a strict deadline. The student keeps scrapping and adding things to their paper without ever settling on a cohesive paper and turns in a rushed paper. It is silly for people to then criticize the teacher for having a strict deadline instead of the student who would or couldn't settle on and build off of his ideas.
People have been complaining about the jumpscare recently. I thought it was funny at first...and I also didn't think very many people would see this. Sorry if I scared anyone lol- XD
Hey uhhh i have this lost media request from an other spongebob commercial that i've seen on youtube from years ago (probably 2010 or 2011), it was an commercial from an off brand play doh with spongebob on it, it showed clips from episodes, a clay spongebob in stop motion (probably animated in cgi) with an ocean background. I tried searching it up but i realize that it's gone and no screenshots of it can't be seen on google
That track for the cortex fight sounds like it was inspired by some of the first Devil May Cry tracks. Minus the heavy speedy drum like beat in the front, it sounds uncanny.
chief I'm loving the video and your coverage of twinsanity is really well thought out also please do not include a single ear rape gag in a 40 minute video that is mostly quiet with no warning whatsoever.
Ahh, this was so enjoyable to watch, and I learned a whole bunch of new stuff! Especially enjoyed the concept art and the prototype music I hadn't heard yet, and the interesting conversations with technical details. Very chill editing style too, and it's great how you're linking back credits all over the place. Thanks so much for this great work!
@@Motivation_Editz07Only because they change gameplay and made new designs? it doesn't make game bad to be honest. Crash of the Titans is pretty good and fun to play especially with someone else.
@@Motivation_Editz07Titans was completed, Twinsanity wasn't. Spent most of the time looking for pointless gems. Twinsanity fans spend most of the time daydreaming about the cut stuff instead of enjoying the game because it's not that good.
