crash is awesome. i don't even know what a banicoot is!
besides. crash being a dog would sort of ruin the whole crash BANDICOOT thing

BANDICOOT. definently not a dog

at first i thought he was a dog but then i found out is not

Bandicoot is more original. There are tons of fictional dogs in the world already.

Sometimes in media, people use "unusual" animals to make the character more distinctive. Personally, whenever I hear anything to do with bandicoots I immediately think of Crash, because I had never even heard of the animals until I'd heard of him!

Same with the old game Lemmings. I didn't know there was such animal to begin with. Now, whenever lemmings are mentioned I think of the Lemmings games.