Crystal

Crystals are the recurring items that Crash collects in order to stop Cortex. Ever since their debut in Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back, they have been constanly appearing in the series as items. For powerng devices and machinery or for other purposes intended.



In other games, the number of Crystals required varies:


 * Crash Bash: 28 crystals.
 * Crash Tag Team Racing: 21 Crystals are the minimum needed to complete the game, or 142 are need to get 100%.
 * In Crash Team Racing and Crash Nitro Kart. crystals are not required to complete the game. However, a purple CTR or CNK token is given in a challenge, for this the player must collect 20 Crystals.

Trivia

 * The Crystals in the are refered to as elemental crystals so they might be a different type of crystal altogether.