History VideoGame / CrashBandicoot4ItsAboutTime

* BagOfSpilling: Crash only retains the DoubleJump from ''Warped''. And if the Flashback Tapes are of any indication, Crash and Coco could DoubleJump prior to the first game, where Crash couldn't.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Inverted with Dingodile. He's a lot more scruffy-looking and quite a bit more hideous, but at the same time, is on the side of the good guys for the first time.

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* TerrifyingTyranosaur: "Dino Dash" has a level with a giant T-Rex, and he ain’t friendly, more really, he’s hungry and sees Crash and/or Coco as it’s appetizer.

* TheHerosBirthday: [[spoiler:One of Crash's Flashback Tapes was recorded on his birthday. Cortex marked the occasion with an announcement during a test and [[PottyEmergency revoking N. Brio's bathroom rights]] for the sake of a cake.]]

'''Coco:''' Three.\\

** Likewise, past games have had 5 boss battles. [[spoiler:Beating N. Tropy after he had hijacked the plot as the fourth boss in the game is a telling sign that Cortex's HeelFaceTurn isn't gonna last for much longer.]]

The game was released on October 2, 2020 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 and UsefulNotes/XboxOne (with cross-gen support for the [[UsefulNotes/XboxSeriesXAndS fourth generation Xbox consoles]]). As part of [[MilestoneCelebration the series's 25th anniversary]], the game will see release on other platforms in 2021. Versions for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation5, UsefulNotes/XboxSeriesXAndS (a true native version) and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch released on March 12, 2021. Following that, a PC version released on March 26, 2021 via Blizzard's Battle.net service, with a UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} release arriving on October 18, 2022.

** At the end, of ''the game's own premise''. As stated in InternalDeconstruction, Coco is the serious counterpart of Crash who is a total goofball even by comparison, and Coco gets more headway and knowledge about the plot simply because she's the smarter of the two who listens, reasons, and deduces while Crash has to get everything second-hand by gauging how she reacts. He's also less competent at things like simple navigation without Coco. [[spoiler:And then comes the final battle against Cortex. Crash and Coco think history is going to play out as normal and Crash is going to escape the Cortex Vortex instead of being brainwashed, but that seems increasingly unlikely... until Crash, being his own goofy self, messes with the Cortex Vortex such that it rejects past Crash and can't complete the brainwash. Crash may be a goof, but if this were toned down ''at all'', we wouldn't get the heroic and empathetic Crash but a Cortex Commando and no one to stop Cortex at all.]]

* {Antepiece}: Each of the Quantum Masks get featured prominently at the very beginning of the next level after they're found and officially join, demonstrating the new mechanic as well as pairing it with any crates it might be effective with. Lani-Loli has TNT and Nitro, Akano has the reinforced crates, and Kapuna-Wa has Nitro and the new timed activation crates.

** Quite similarly Cortex for the same reasons. Cortex in this game is an even bigger goofball than usual, with N Tropy his own counterpart that is treated as [[EvillerThanThou far more sinister, ruthless and ambitious than him]], and swiftly taking control of things in Uka Uka's absense. [[spoiler: This comes to a head when N Tropy decides he doesn't need Cortex anymore and replaces him, with an ''even more'' effective version of himself who, unlike either of them, actually defeated her Crash and Coco. However, while both N Tropys are far more lucid and menacing, they are ''even more'' narcissistic and overconfident than Cortex due to lacking his hindsight and bad luck, leading them to be defeated and usurped as BigBad rather easily, and Cortex to scheme his own time travelling power play that ironically neither Tropy ever thought of. Too bad he has to deal with his even more bumbling past self, who similarly has yet to fall from grace and lacks his hindsight. Even with only himself to contend with, Cortex just can't win.]]

* {{Reconstruction}}: At the end, of ''the game's own premise''. As stated in InternalDeconstruction, Coco is the serious counterpart of Crash who is a total goofball even by comparison, and Coco gets more headway and knowledge about the plot simply because she's the smarter of the two who listens, reasons, and deduces while Crash has to get everything second-hand by gauging how she reacts. He's also less competent at things like simple navigation without Coco. [[spoiler:And then comes the final battle against Cortex. Crash and Coco think history is going to play out as normal and Crash is going to escape the Cortex Vortex instead of being brainwashed, but that seems increasingly unlikely... until Crash, being his own goofy self, messes with the Cortex Vortex such that it rejects past Crash and can't complete the brainwash. Crash may be a goof, but if this were toned down ''at all'', we wouldn't get the heroic and empathetic Crash but a Cortex Commando and no one to stop Cortex at all.]]

* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Heroic example; neither Coco nor Tawna treats the high-stakes of their current situation (the instability of the entire multiverse) any differently than the adventures they usually have.

* NintendoHard: Crash Bandicoot 4 is without a shadow of a doubt the hardest game in the series by a country mile. Levels [[MarathonLevel go on for ages]] with enemies and obstacles everywhere that will make short work of you if you aren't on point with your timing and reflexes. Aku Aku crates are also much rarer to come by making mistakes far more costly. Reviewers and even seasoned veterans of the series have all made a point of how nightmarishly hard the game can get.
** If you decide to go for [[OneHundredPercentCompletion 106%]], then not only do you need to complete each level without dying once, but you need to break every box, some of which are hidden in downright devious spots. The stages' [[MarathonLevel sheer length]] also make dying far more punishing. And if that wasn't enough, going for the [[BraggingRightsReward Platinum Relics]] is now mandatory for completion.

* BrainBleach: Everyone reacts with disgust upon seeing [[spoiler:N. Tropy flirting with [[ScrewYourself his female counterpart]] from Tawna's universe. Except [[TheBogan Dingodile]], who instead cracks up laughing at it while giving Crash a "nudge-nudge" gesture]].

** Crash's mouth is covered in light-orange fur like the front of his body, rather than pinkish skin. His mohawk is more exaggerated, being large tufts of fur rather than a shorter split line. His ears are also slightly bigger and his teeth smaller, complete with other tweaked facial features that make him look more handsome and less goofy than in previous games.

** Dingodile now has green crocodile scales going all the way up his spine as opposed to just on his tail. He also has a black vest, blue jeans with a patch on the knee, and is overall more bottom heavy.

* DramaticIrony: The Flashback levels are chock-full of it, both in regards to the prior trilogy games ''and'' the main plot of this game.

* GracefulLandingClumsyLanding: Every rift teleport has Crash pratfalling through while [[AdaptationalBadass Coco]] lands perfectly. In the final one, Crash also lands on his feet at last, though, being [[CloudCuckooLander Crash]], still kills his mystique by pulling off a excited goofy celebration in response.

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Coco and Tawna are usually ImmuneToSlapstick that the boys suffer in-story, with Coco always an elegant and unharmed contrast to Crash's prat-falling and painful luck. Emphasis on ''only'' in-story however, in-gameplay SlapstickKnowsNoGender.

* ComedicUnderwearExposure: For once, Crash isn't the only one to suffer from this; every playable character gets this treatment due to death by electrocution. Yes, including [[SlapstickKnowsNoGender Coco and Tawna.]]

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Zigzagged. In gameplay, Tawna and Coco are just as susceptible as the male playable characters to being [[SquashedFlat flattened]], [[ReducedToDust incinerated]], or [[SwallowedWhole eaten alive]]. Subverted in cutscenes, however, where they are near always straight men to Crash's slapstick bungling.