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Level 9: Crash Crush
Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back

Level 9: Crash Crush

Complete the Crash Crush level in Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back. Includes walkthrough, bonus stage, and optional path details.

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Complete the Crash Crush level in Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back. Includes walkthrough, bonus stage, and optional path details.

Walkthrough
  1. 1
    Start by breaking the initial box and two boxes in the enclosed area.
  2. 2
    Exit the area to trigger the first boulder chase.
  3. 3
    Navigate past pits, mines, and areas with pits on the sides, breaking four boxes in the middle and avoiding mines near the end.
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    Jump over a pit, then another pit next to a mine.
  5. 5
    Cross a wooden bridge that the boulder will break and fall into the pit below.
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    Open the checkpoint (an auto-save point you restart from on death).
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    When you reach an electric fence, slide under it.
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    Avoid a mine and break the boxes ahead.
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    Further along, use a speed boost pad to access an optional path.
  10. 10
    Enter the enclosed area and break all boxes within.
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    The next checkpoint is located just outside this area.
  12. 12
    Open the checkpoint and let the boulder chase you again.
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    Slide under the electric fence and jump over the pit.
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    On the other side, avoid a mine, then another pit.
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    Hit the speed boost pad past the pit and cross the wooden bridge; the boulder will not fall.
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    After the bridge, avoid several mines and jump across another pit.
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    Stay away from Nitro boxes and jump across the next pit.
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    Slide under the next electric fence and enter the next enclosed area.
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    Break the box and checkpoint outside the enclosed area.
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    Continue forward, hit the speed boost pad, and walk along the narrow path between pits, avoiding the mine in the middle.
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    Use the speed boost at the end of the narrow path, watching out for the mine.
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    Continue past Nitro boxes on either side.
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    Hit another speed boost pad and slide under an electric fence.
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    Jump over the next two pits and reach another speed boost pad.
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    Avoid the pit on the left and take the speed boost across a long wooden bridge, causing the boulder to fall into the pit below.
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    Past the bridge, step on the ? on the ground to enter the BONUS STAGE.
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    Proceed to collect the CRYSTAL.
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    Enter the enclosed space and break all boxes within and outside, including the next checkpoint.
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    Go along to trigger the next boulder chase.
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    Take the first speed boost and jump over the pit.
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    Use the speed boost on the other side to go through the next box and a mine.
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    Take another speed boost pad.
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    Avoid the mines that follow.
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    Use the speed boost pad on the path where there is a pit on the left, jumping over the pit when it crosses the whole path.
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    Break the two boxes and slide under an electric fence.
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    Take the series of speed boost pads.
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    Navigate the area with pits on the sides of the path.
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    Break the box and reinforced box past the pits.
  39. 39
    Break the two final boxes on either side of the path to finish the level.

BONUS STAGE:

  • Break the first bounce box.
  • Jump to the next platform on the right.
  • Jump on the metal arrow box to reach the wall, then slide jump to the platform on the right.
  • Fall down to collect Wumpa Fruit, then crawl back left.
  • Collect the life.
  • Jump to the next platform on the right.
  • Break the two boxes.
  • Jump on top of the big stack of boxes and break them all.
  • Go left and break the two boxes and the ! Box, which makes metal boxes appear.
  • Cross the metal boxes to a platform with three more boxes.
  • Break these boxes and use the platform to return to the main level.

OPTIONAL PATH:

  • Follow the path past Wumpa Fruit until you reach a box.
  • Slide under the first electric fence behind it.
  • Slide under the next electric fence, jumping at the end to clear a gap.
  • Break the two boxes.
  • Ride the platform, which returns you to the start of this path.
Tips
  • Break all boxes to achieve 100% completion.
  • Utilize speed boosts effectively to outrun the boulder and clear gaps.
  • Be mindful of mines and Nitro boxes, especially during boulder chases.
  • The optional path offers additional boxes but is not required to finish the level.

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