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Level 19: Ruination
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Level 19: Ruination

Detailed walkthrough for Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy's Level 19: Ruination. Find gems, break boxes, and navigate treacherous platforms.

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Detailed walkthrough for Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy's Level 19: Ruination. Find gems, break boxes, and navigate treacherous platforms.

Walkthrough
  1. 1
    Start the level by jumping onto a platform after a fire-blowing statue stops. Enter the enclosed area, break the four boxes, and be wary of the Nitro box behind them.
  2. 2
    Jump to the next platform, which crumbles. Quickly move to the subsequent platforms, kill the mouse, and break the box on the left.
  3. 3
    Jump to the next platforms, kill the next mouse, and slide into the enemy with the ringed neck.
  4. 4
    Continue over the platforms, navigating a crumbling platform before a flame-spitting statue.
  5. 5
    Walk along the platforms to the checkpoint.
  6. 6
    Jump up to the next crumbling platform, kill the enemy with the ringed neck, and jump to the platforms on the right.
  7. 7
    Wait for the jumping monkey to come to you, jump on it to kill it, then jump onto the TNT stacks to blow them up.
  8. 8
    Jump down to the platforms, carefully jump over the first Nitro box, run across the falling platforms, and jump over the second Nitro box.
  9. 9
    Jump to the platforms on the right, hit the metal arrow box, and get the hidden Aku Aku. Break the box next to the metal arrow box.
  10. 10
    Jump over the gap onto a crumbling platform, then into an enclosed area.
  11. 11
    Hit the ! Box to activate all Nitro boxes. Take caution navigating through them to collect the silver gem.
  12. 12
    Jump to the next platforms. Avoid standing on the solid grey platforms as they fall. Kill the monkey and jump to the next platform.
  13. 13
    Break open the checkpoint. If you have the green gem, stand on the green platform for the GREEN GEM PATH. Otherwise, jump to the next platforms.
  14. 14
    Pass the two flame-spitting statues by running when they stop.
  15. 15
    Jump onto one of the four circular moving platforms to cross the gap.
  16. 16
    Jump to the next platform, then onto the crumbling platform, and then to the platforms with boxes. Break the two boxes and kill the monkey.
  17. 17
    Jump onto the crumbling platform, then to the next platforms. Wait for the two flame-spitting statues to stop, then run past them.
  18. 18
    Break the box with an Aku Aku inside.
  19. 19
    When the next two flame-spitting statues stop, jump across the two crumbling platforms and land on the falling platforms. Run across them, jump over the gap, and break open the checkpoint.
  20. 20
    To the left, jump over the first Nitro box and land on the mouse to kill it. Jump over the next Nitro box and continue left.
  21. 21
    Approach the TNT. Jump on it as the enemy with the ringed neck walks away so the explosion kills it.
  22. 22
    Go forward to where the enemy was and jump on the TNT at the end of the platforms. Jump over the gap to the next platforms.
  23. 23
    Break the two boxes. Stand at the edge to the right and jump onto the tilted platform moving in a circle. Slide off carefully.
  24. 24
    From the first tilted platform, jump to another tilted platform moving back and forth. Then, jump to the next circular moving platform when it gets close. When it moves right, jump down.
  25. 25
    Break the two boxes and jump into the enclosed area to get the CRYSTAL.
  26. 26
    Outside, jump onto one of the four circular moving platforms around the Green ! Box. Spin into the mouse so it hits the Green ! Box.
  27. 27
    Wait for your platform to move to the other side, then jump onto the next platform. Break open this checkpoint.
  28. 28
    Go down the platforms to the right, collecting the Aku Aku at the top.
  29. 29
    Jump over the platforms to the right, avoiding logs thrown at you, until you reach the enemy throwing them. Kill it to finish the level.

BONUS STAGE:

  1. Go right to a large wall of boxes. Break the only non-reinforced box.
  2. Crouch and jump onto the three reinforced boxes. Bodyslam them all.
  3. Hit the ! Box and jump onto the activated metal boxes. Jump up to break the box above them.
  4. Jump onto the next set of metal boxes. Jump up and spin into the box atop the three reinforced boxes.
  5. Crouch and jump onto the reinforced boxes and bodyslam them.
  6. Jump over the gap onto more metal boxes. Jump onto the TNT and then...

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