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Level 8: Bear It
Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back

Level 8: Bear It

Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back Level 8: Bear It walkthrough. Ride the polar bear cub, break 48 boxes, and collect the gem.

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Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back Level 8: Bear It walkthrough. Ride the polar bear cub, break 48 boxes, and collect the gem.

Walkthrough
  1. 1
    Immediately after starting, jump onto the polar bear cub.
  2. 2
    While riding the bear, avoid obstacles and enemies, but break boxes. Press X to jump and O for a speed boost.
  3. 3
    Jump over the water pit and break the three boxes at the top of the hill.
  4. 4
    Go around the pits and the three obstacles ahead.
  5. 5
    Break the ? Box.
  6. 6
    Jump over the next two obstacles.
  7. 7
    Jump over the pit and break the next box.
  8. 8
    Slide across the ice and jump over the next two pits.
  9. 9
    Slide into all the boxes on the next patch of ice.
  10. 10
    Jump over or go around the two sea lions and pass through the checkpoint (an auto-save point you restart from on death).
  11. 11
    Slide across the ice and break the Crash Box.
  12. 12
    Jump over the pit at the end of the ice, go around obstacles, avoid the sea lion, and stay left of the pit.
  13. 13
    Proceed up the hill to collect the CRYSTAL.
  14. 14
    Avoid the next set of obstacles and jump over the pit with the jumping orca, timing your jump with its last exit point.
  15. 15
    Break all the boxes; the TNT will explode before you reach it.
  16. 16
    Jump over the next pit with an orca, pass the TNT, and reach the next checkpoint.
  17. 17
    Avoid obstacles at the top of the hill and go between the two TNT boxes as they explode.
  18. 18
    Slide across the ice between the Nitro boxes and jump the next pit.
  19. 19
    Break all the boxes and jump over the next two pits with orcas.
  20. 20
    At the next pit, stay right before jumping, then go left mid-jump to avoid obstacles.
  21. 21
    Jump over another pit and reach the next checkpoint.
  22. 22
    Jump over and go around the Nitro boxes.
  23. 23
    Break the boxes past the Nitro, then jump over obstacles and the pit with an orca.
  24. 24
    Stay left of the path to avoid TNT and jump another pit with an orca.
  25. 25
    Break the box and avoid the next set of obstacles, being careful of the pit in the middle.
  26. 26
    Break the three difficult-to-hit boxes.
  27. 27
    Jump over the two pits and reach a cliff.
  28. 28
    The bear will stop and throw you off.
  29. 29
    Hit the Green ! Box to finish the level.
Tips
  • There is no way to stop or turn around on the bear, so if you miss a box, you must either die or restart the level.
  • Sliding into all the boxes on the ice patches may take a few tries.
  • The orca in the pit will jump on one side and then the other; time your jump to where it last emerged.
  • The three boxes near the end are even harder to hit than the ones on the ice.

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