File:Crash Bandicoot 2 Cortex Strikes Back - Scene 1 Intro

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Here it is! My newest walk through is "Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back" and I really feel excited about this. I don't think I'm as good as my last series, but hopefully you're going to enjoy the videos as I've exerted a lot of time and effort in playing this hard platformer!

Following from where "Crash Bandicoot" left off, Crash defeats Doctor Neo Cortex and escapes Cortex's lair via airship with his girlfriend, Tawna, whom Crash rescued from Cortex's clutches in the previous game. Cortex is then sent hurtling towards the Earth, his maniacal bid for world domination thwarted. After his crash, Cortex awakens in a dark cavern filled with glowing crystals. Convinced that they hold tremendous power, Cortex takes one of the crystals and returns to his laboratory to examine it. He discovers that the planets will soon align, creating a catastrophic solar flux that threatens to destroy the Earth. Learning that the crystals are the only means of containing this force, Cortex enlists the aid of his old colleague Dr. N. Gin and they design a new, crystal-powered Cortex Vortex (a machine that Cortex used to control his minions in the previous game) that will capture the stellar energy. Because 25 more crystals are needed to provide the necessary power matrix, Cortex devises a plot to manipulate Crash Bandicoot into retrieving the crystals for him. A year following Cortex's assumed defeat, Crash is now living with his sister Coco on N. Sanity Island, one of the islands owned by Cortex in the previous game. In the jungles of the island, Crash sleeps as Coco attempts to finish a new program before her laptop dies. When the laptop does die, she orders Crash to get her a new laptop battery. On his way home, Crash is abducted by a bright light and finds himself in an ancient warp room, where a holographic projection of Cortex instructs him to bring him the crystals by traveling through the warp room's doors. And the new adventure begins.

The main level is continuous with the cutscenes: when Coco asked Crash to get her a spare battery for her laptop. There are 10 boxes in the level and two armadillos. It's like a tutorial level, so there's nothing you should worry about. And it's pretty short. Completing the game does not require you to finish this intro level, though. You don't get any collectible after completing this.

A new item called crystal (colored purple) is introduced in this game as well and I think everybody knows that. These crystals are essential if you want to progress in the game. You also have to get more than one gem in some levels! Let's kick start this.

Credits to DenizBasgoren for hinting me that this level exists. I don't play cutscenes when I was a kid, so I didn't know much about secret stuff, story and whatnot.

When Crash was teleported into the warp room, Cortex appeared in the hologram. He welcomed the bandicoot and went on to explain the mechanics of the game, while convincing Crash to gather all twenty five crystals from the levels.