“Crash, Crash, Crash. Why must you always muck in my mud?”
-Doctor Neo Cortex,Crash Bandicoot: Warped

 “The following is a guest post by The Final Fourteenth Mage.”

This may not come as a surprise to anyone who knows me but I am a huge sucker for hype and am often more excited for video game trailers for unreleased games than I am when I actually hold said game in my hand. So when Shawn Layden walked onto the stage at the PlayStation Experience in 2015 wearing a Crash Bandicoot t-shirt I was stoked. The internet blew up in an intoxicating mix of excitement and despair. What started as incredible hype slowly depleted as nothing was announced throughout the show. The shirt had to mean something though, right?

Unexpectedly our next taste of Crash Bandicoot came in the form of a mini game included in Uncharted 4:…