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Level 5: Crash Dash
Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back

Level 5: Crash Dash

Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back Crash Dash level walkthrough. Avoid boulders, collect 1 Silver Gem, and break 44 boxes.

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Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back Crash Dash level walkthrough. Avoid boulders, collect 1 Silver Gem, and break 44 boxes.

Walkthrough
  1. 1
    Start the level by moving towards the screen.
  2. 2
    Enter the first enclosed area to break boxes.
  3. 3
    Proceed forward, and a boulder will begin chasing you. If hit, you die.
  4. 4
    Navigate a pit on the right, a jumpable pit, and a pit on the left with mines that slow you down.
  5. 5
    Enter another enclosed area with boxes and a checkpoint (an auto-save point you restart from on death). Break the boxes.
  6. 6
    Continue forward; the next boulder will chase you. Avoid mines and a jumpable pit.
  7. 7
    Jump over a pit on the left, then a pit on the right that spans the entire path.
  8. 8
    Past the wide pit, avoid mines and then electric fences (first on the left, then right, then another).
  9. 9
    Enter an enclosed area with boxes and a checkpoint. Break them.
  10. 10
    The boulder will chase you again. Avoid mines and two jumpable pits.
  11. 11
    Dodge three electric fences (right, left, right).
  12. 12
    Cross a wooden bridge; it will break as the boulder passes.
  13. 13
    Jump over a pit, then avoid four Nitro boxes on the left (the boulder will destroy them).
  14. 14
    Jump over a pit, then a pit on the left.
  15. 15
    Cross another wooden bridge; the boulder will fall into the pit below it.
  16. 16
    Break the box and collect the CRYSTAL.
  17. 17
    Enter the BONUS STAGE by riding the platform.
  18. 18
    Step on the arrow pads on the ground to accelerate forward.
  19. 19
    After the second arrow pad, enter an enclosed space with a checkpoint and exterior boxes. Break them.
  20. 20
    Jump over a pit, then a small platform with a mine, then another pit.
  21. 21
    Avoid more mines and a pit.
  22. 22
    Right after the pit, break the box on the right.
  23. 23
    Jump over another pit.
  24. 24
    Hit the arrow pads for a speed boost.
  25. 25
    Avoid a pit on the right and a mine on the path.
  26. 26
    Jump over a pit, then an electric fence on the left.
  27. 27
    Jump over two pits, then cross a small wooden bridge.
  28. 28
    Dodge more electric fences. To break the boxes behind them, move towards them and spin. The fences are on the left, right, and left.
  29. 29
    Reach the end of the level.

Bonus Stage:

  1. Jump onto the metal boxes and break the first box.
  2. Spin and break the box between the metal arrow box and the metal box. The metal box will start bouncing.
  3. Jump to the other side of the arrow box without being crushed by the metal box.
  4. Jump onto the next metal arrow box and then to the platform on the right.
  5. Jump to the next platform.
  6. Jump down and follow the Wumpa Fruit.
  7. Optionally, try to get the Crash Box by jumping and spinning; missing will hit a TNT box. Alternatively, jump on the top TNT box.
  8. Jump on the platforms to the right to reach rows of boxes. Break all the ? Boxes and Bounce Boxes by jumping.
  9. Bounce from the last box to the platform on the right.
  10. Break the last two boxes.
  11. Ride the platform up to return to the level.

Boss: Ripper Roo

  1. Ripper Roo will start by placing TNT boxes. Find a safe corner and wait for them to explode.
  2. He will then place Nitro boxes. Find a safe corner.
  3. Ripper Roo will jump on a Nitro to detonate them all, knocking himself out.
  4. Run up to him and spin attack him.
  5. Repeat this process three times to defeat him. The safe zones will shrink after each hit.

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