

This level has a death route, which is a special area you can only reach if you manage to get to the skull platform without dying. To get the clear gem, you need to break all the boxes, which is only possible if you already have the red gem, which can be collected on the Snow Go level. Just keep trying and you should be able to get the boxes behind the electric fences without getting crushed. After that, there’s still no trick to it. Just destroy all the boxes to get the clear gem. After that, you can move on to the end of the level and get the clear gem. Once the forks meet again, follow the right fork backwards until you break the four boxes inside the stone structure. Follow the left path all the way through. On the fork, first go up to the checkpoint, then return to the fork and go left. On the area where there’s two hippo’s you need to jump over, use slide-jump to reach one of them. You need to reach the end of the level before the time runs out. Once you reach the first checkpoint, a timer will start. For the other clear gem (the first one on the indicator between levels), this level has a time attack mode. Other than that, don’t forget to go back for the outlined boxes once you hit the “!” switch on one of the water areas. To get the clear gem here, you need the blue gem from Turtle Woods. You can reach it from the Snow Go bonus entrance, which you unlock from the Air Crash level. To get the red gem, you have to wait until later in the game. To activate those, find a switch high above one of the two steel bouncy boxes very short distance later in the level. Soon after, you’ll see a couple of outlined boxes.

Once you drop down, walk a few feet back to find it. The switch that destroys them is right after the side-scrolling area. The first is problem are the nitro boxes. To get the clear gem, destroy all the boxes. To go past that one, jump on the “10 fruits” box and bounce over it. The only issue here is the checkpoint where your way is blocked by a stack of 8 boxes. For the blue gem, you need to finish the level without destroying a single box. In the second half of the level, there’s a box you can only reach by bouncing from a turtle. In the extra underground area, slide-jump from the big birds before they drop down. Crash Bandicoot 2 Gem Guide World / Warp Zone 1 Gem Guide Turtle Woodsįor the clear gem, you need to destroy all boxes. There are no pictures, but I think the descriptions should be detailed enough. This is a guide on how to get all the gems, crystals and secret levels in Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back.
