Crash Bandicoot 2 - 100% Run, Part 21: Cold Hard Crash

This is the most frustrating level in the entire game. It's by far the longest level (only video in the first two games to exceed six minutes) and there are so many things that can and will go wrong most of the time. I needed more than 50 attempts in total.

The skull platform is what makes this level so long. First of all, the path has boxes. Second, it doesn't have a "return platform" in the end, but a gap that leads to a place much later in the main route. You can't backtrack to the boxes you missed from here. Finally, the gem is located after the point of no return.

So, in order to get everything, you first have to go back and forth for all the boxes and then use the nearest checkpoint to quicksave. Thankfully, there's one right next to the platform. It's impossible to backtrack the part of the main route that leads to where you return from the skull route, so you have to go get the gem first.

Once you have the gem, you can kill yourself and finish the main route. The reason why I kill myself after taking the checkpoint is because the skull platform doesn't work again immediately.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• crash
• bandicoot
• cortex
• strikes
• back
• 100%
• gem
• crystal
• all
• boxes
• crates
• cold
• hard

[VGmastaRicky]

1:12 Made me slam my fists on the table. I kept finishing the level at 154/155 boxes because of that one keeply obscured box.

[YouHateGasgara]

3:28 Metal Crate Middle Finger.

[lucazmaxfull2]

@lucazmaxfull2 Sorry my bad, I mean "you can get it"

[lucazmaxfull2]

You ncan get that gem without fell off at 2:25

[lucazmaxfull2]

With more experience even you can get the gem of the skull route and the boxes without dying (just slide alot with invincibility mask)

[EvilRyuga]

Finally now I can get that last gem and beat the game 100%. Thanx

[Crazii3Compl3xLuV3]

Just watched to find that secret box and went: OHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! lol thanx

[GemsofEarth]

KrazypumperxD yeah i was pissed as shit when that happened. I think crates alongside nitros will count against you.

[krazypumperxD]

yesterday I was playing this level and I forgot one box ¬¬ i really wanted to cry

[nlafavore]

@VGmastaRicky Yep, all these years I've been wondering where that 155th box is. Now I know.

[ILeanIRock]

@ILeanIRock well I just tried and couldn't..

[ILeanIRock]

3:01 fuck I did not know you could go back.