

Breaking crates while being chased by boulders/giant bears being too hard for you? No worries, just let the boulder/giant bear crush the crates for you the game will count them.If you die in a Death Route, the platform will stay, allowing you to repeat the route if you want.Also the game tells you how many crates are there in each level pressing triangle now shows you how many boxes you've broken, but you could only see the totals in the end of the levels. Check points now remember the crates you've broken, unlike the first game.In the first game, there was only one gem per level for destroying all crates, and all paths would have crates on them. Side-paths now commonly have a second gem in them and no crates.
CRASH BANDICOOT 2 PART 1 UPGRADE


CRASH BANDICOOT 2 PART 1 SERIES
From this game onwards, the series introduces the Slide Attack move for Crash.

They can have rather difficult alternate routes, but the level design is fair otherwise. Hangin' Out prominently features red-hot pipes and lava as hazards set below overhangs. Absurdly Spacious Sewer: The Eel Deal, Sewer or Later and Hangin' Out levels are tunnels large enough to contain Crash, electric eels, robotic cleaners, mechanical mice, rolling barrels, tons and tons of TNT, Nitro crates, and Lab Assistants working with welding torches.Completing them all unlocks the true ending, which leads on to the next game. 100% Completion: What counts for the completion are the crystals, gems, the final boss, and finding secret levels (and, in the Japanese version, getting the 10 lives from Polar).Brio has sent out an army of cyborgs, robots, and evolved animal henchmen across the islands.Ĭortex Strikes Back provides examples of: Brio would rather have Crash collect 42 Gems instead of the Crystals, in the hopes of destroying Cortex and his space station, the fate of the Earth be damned. Cortex's former henchman, Doctor Nitrus Brio, has also returned, with a grudge against his former boss. He needs Crash to collect 25 Slave Crystals scattered through the islands and aboard his space headquarters so he can contain the energy of the planetary alignment and save Earth. His solution to the crisis lies in crystals: In the aftermath of the original game, he discovered the Master Crystal, but that alone will not be enough. All the planets in the solar system will align soon, and, according to Cortex, create enough energy to tear the world apart. Neo Cortex, the Big Bad of the previous game, turns to Crash for help in an effort to prevent the planet Earth from facing certain doom. Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back is the second installment in the Crash Bandicoot series, and the second PS1 Crash game overall.
