This game is an absolute mess, but someone ended up beloved? How does that work.
Like Traveller's Tales previous Crash game, many complications lead to some very good concepts being reduced to a lot of cut content and kind of barebones content in the final game with some plot holes.
This game wouldn't be worth remastering, since it'd be a brand new game at that point.
Also the soundtrack. I really like the idea and it's a shame that the group isn't active anymore, but it does the job here.