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* [[Only the Creator Does It Right]]: The Naughty Dog games are considered the best entries in the series, while the post-Naughty Dog games tend to be loved or hated to various degrees. The two exceptions would be ''Crash Bash'' and ''Crash Twinsanity'', though even those have reasons for being so beloved: ''Crash Bash'' was the first game not made by Naughty Dog, and is designed to be played by up to four people; ''Crash Twinsanity'' was made by a developer who imitated Naughty Dog's games in spirit if not in formula.
* [[Rescued from the Scrappy Heap]]: Though Coco wasn't void of fans early on, she tended to get slammed by critics and fans of the games for her playable appearances, due to her weaker gameplay mechanics and the fact she was probably the least cartoony and expressive of the entire cast, making her considerably less fun to play as than Crash. Starting with ''Crash: Mind Over Mutant'', Coco was made a full alternate skin selectable from Crash and more effort was put into her animations and personality. It says something that not only did Vicarious Visions push hard to make Coco fully playable for ''N. Sane Trilogy'', but the fan base went ecstatic over the announcement.
* [[The Scrappy]]: Tiny in the Radical games is probably the best example the series has. Instead of being a hilarious [[Dumb Muscle]] with a loyalty to Cortex with a memorable tasmanian tiger design, Tiny was subjected to the heaviest redesign of any character, being a bengal tiger instead and losing practically all of his old character traits in favor of being a Mike Tyson patische. He was widely derided for not only not even being the same character but being very unmemorable in general relative to his old self. Not even the biggest Radical fans will ever defend him, and many tend to use him as one of the first examples of that era's characterization problems.
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*** [[Non Sequitur Scene|... who was never mentioned again, at that.]]
**** Perhaps more a [[Base Breaker]], as some consider him a [[One-Scene Wonder]].
* [[Scrappy Mechanic]]: While Coco herself is a fairly popular character with fans, her playable appearances (which mostly play as a weaker variant of Crash) tend to be rather underwelming. Fixed somewhat in ''Mind Over Mutant'' even if you have to activate (and/or deactivate) the game's co-op mode to play as her, and playing the story makes a lot less sense.
** A fair few of ''Wrath Of Cortex's'' vehicles gain similar critism, particularly the mech. Clunky, hard to manuever and easy to get hit as, it likely would have been easier and more fun to play the majority of the game as Crash himself.
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