#Crash bandicoot 2 gems upgrade#

Picking up Aku Aku for a second time lets Crash take two hits before instant death, and then picking him up a third time gives Crash invincibility for a couple of seconds, until reverting back to the normal two-hit powerup.

#Crash bandicoot 2 gems upgrade#

Picking up Aku Aku various times can upgrade the amount of hits Crash can take. Like in the previous game, Crash mainly goes through levels while smashing boxes, avoiding nearly insta-death Nitro Boxes, collecting Wumpa Fruits, and picking up Aku Aku so that he can survive after getting hit more than once. Sane Trilogy - 100% Walkthrough, Part 3: Snow Go (Clear Gem) And, with Crash being Crash, he blindly obeys Cortex's instructions and goes off to collect crystals.Ĭrash Bandicoot 2 - N. A hologram of Cortex tells Crash that he has to collect all 25 crystals in order to 'save the world from destruction'. And while doing so, Crash is abducted by Cortex and is brought to a mysterious warp room. The battery for Coco's laptop dies, so she wakes up Crash to go fetch her another battery. Sanity Island with his little sister Coco Bandicoot. Meanwhile on land, Crash is living peacefully on N. And since they have no allies on land, Cortex decides to resort to having an enemy help them gain crystals instead. Gin informs Cortex that they still require 25 crystals to fully power up the Cortex Vortex. A year later, Cortex finishes up the touches on his new space station, the Cortex Vortex, with his colleague Dr. Cortex falls into a cavern, finding some pink crystals, finding them ideal for a new power source for his evil plans. Neo Cortex crash back down into the Wumpa Islands after being defeated by Crash in the first game. The story of Crash Bandicoot 2 starts off exactly where the first Crash Bandicoot ended, where we get to witness Dr. Neo Cortex was especially well recieved for giving the game more of a cartoon-y feel.Ĭrash Bandicoot N.sane Trilogy - Cortex Strikes Back Intro Cutscene! The voice acting was also very well recieved. A lot of praise was also given to the cutscenes and graphics of the game, which had such an amazingly cartoon-y look that gave the game a lot of charm. Staff of Game Spot were giving praise to the Warp Room concept introduced, as well as the improved saving mechanics (which let players save at any time, as opposed to the last game, where you had to either collect a Gem or beat a boss before you could save). Playstation Magazine (or just OPM) gave it 4 out of 5 stars, and Playstation Magazine (or PSM) gave it five out of five stars.

Game Spot gave it an 8.6 out of 10, IGN gave it an 8.5 out of 10, the Official U.S. Gaming magazines gave Crash Bandicoot 2 tons of praise. But besides Tawna, the development of Crash Bandicoot 2 was pretty streamline and ended up releasing on November 5th, 1997 in North America, and then coming to the European market at some point in the month after.

Naughty Dog ended up complying and dropped Tawna completely, and replaced her with a new character, Crash Bandicoot's sister, Coco Bandicoot.

Sony wanted Naughty Dog to not include Tawna because they were uncomfortable with having such an 'extremely sexy' character in their family friendly platformer game. That character would be Crash Bandicoot's girlfriend, Tawna, that was featured as the damsel in distress from the last game. But this time, Naughty Dog had a couple of obstacles in the way of their development, one of them being one of the characters that was going to be used in the game. Sane Trilogy! And what better way to start off the trilogy (except for starting it off with the first game, but I'll get into that later), than to start with an amazing game like Crash Bandicoot 2! Let's get into it!ĭevelopment for Crash Bandicoot 2 began in October of 1996, literally almost immediately after the release of the first Crash Bandicoot game, by Naughty Dog's development team. Hey everybody, it's your boy Crazy Diamond here once again! I'm once again covering one of the many video games that I got for Christmas, and today I'll be covering a part of an amazing revamped retro game compilation, the Crash Bandicoot N.