In fact, compared to somewhat deep plots of Crisis, Crash is little more than a fluffy action romp, with lots of running, shouting and nasties to blow apart. There are some other minor points that don't gel with the events of BG Crisis (the state of Priss' singing career, for instance), and the overall tone of the Crash episodes is more light and action-oriented than it was in Crisis. Besides, I don't suppose many people would have telephone conversations with something that looks like the child of C-3PO and Sonic the Hedgehog, but let that pass. It's as if Sylvie, Largo and all the others never existed (except that Largo -does- have a role in the Crash tapes). In the second Crash episode, everyone even gets dead excited about a Boomer that's so advanced it "would sound like a human if you talked to it on the phone!". While it was commonplace in BG Crisis to have fully intelligent and even sentient Boomers (cyborgs, to put it simply) that looked and behaved exactly like humans, the Boomers are little more than blocky-looking stupid labor robots in the Crash storyline. GENOM has apparently vanished overnight, and Boomer technology has taken a big step backwards. The "alternate universe" label is actually quite fitting, as Crash completely alters some major plot elements of Crisis, without any logical explanation to speak of. Is it really that much of an unrecogniseably mauled travesty, though? Nope, it's actually quite good fun, but anyone expecting a coherent, proper sequel that ties up all the loose ends left by BG Crisis will be disappointed. BG Crisis fans generally have little sympathy for the Crash videos, calling it toned-down and even "alternate universe". As a sequel to the very popular Bubblegum Crisis OAV series, Bubblegum Crash had lots to live up to, and didn't quite succeed.
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