Crash Bandicoot 5 was reportedly within the works, however one former Toys For Bob dev says it has been canned: “It is gonna break hearts”

Sorry, Crash Bandicoot followers, it looks as if a fifth recreation was within the works, however was cancelled someplace alongside the road.

It has been a little bit of a bizarre time for everybody’s favorite bandicoot in recent times. He had one thing of a revival again in 2017, when the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy introduced the traditional PS1 character again to the forefront, discovering success with a brand new, younger viewers too. This later led to a remake of Crash Staff Racing in 2019, and naturally a 12 months later there was Toys for Bob’s sequel to the unique trilogy, Crash Bandicoot 4: It is About Time. Since then, although, issues have been a bit quieter. Final 12 months did see the arrival of Crash Staff Rumble, a reside service recreation that was in the end not very profitable, its final content material replace arriving in March this 12 months. However there’s all the time been the query of whether or not there will be a Crash 5 or not. And the reply, because it seemingly seems, is that there was one in growth – however not any extra.

That is in line with Nicholas Kole, a personality artist that labored on video games just like the Spyro Reignited Trilogy, and notably, Crash Bandicoot 4: It is About Time. Sadly, the sport Kole was engaged on up till lately, codenamed Mission Dragon, was cancelled, and naturally this led some followers to marvel if this was in any respect associated to that purple dragon Spyro. Kole clarified that no, Mission Dragon wasn’t a brand new Spyro (later sharing artwork which revealed it to be a Minecraft-inspired fantasy recreation that truthfully seems to be fairly beautiful). Nevertheless, Kole did word within the tweet debunking it being a Spyro recreation that “some day of us will hear in regards to the Crash 5 that by no means was and it’s gonna break hearts.”

There’s by no means been any official announcement concerning Crash 5, and Kole is not at Toys for Bob, so take it with a pinch of salt simply to be on the protected facet. The Crash 4 developer did go solo earlier this 12 months, now taking the world of recreation making on as an unbiased studio – although it has signed a cope with Microsoft for its subsequent recreation (which many followers are hoping is a brand new Spyro title, unsurprisingly). For now, we’ll simply have to attend and see if anybody is ready to share extra about this Schrodinger’s Crash 5 someplace down the road.