Bee-Having

Bee-Having is the twentieth level that appears in Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back. The level takes place in a snowy-type ruins with trees and ancient statues on the outside of the level. The level features a wide variety of enemies including plants that spit out bombs, lumberjacks carrying giant hammers, giant statues that move in different directions, and electrical fences. The main enemy that appears in this level are the bees. When Crash passes one of the beehives, a few bees will emerge from the hive and chase after Crash. Certain areas of the stage will have a different type of soil that Crash can hide under. To enter the soil, Crash must perform a spinning attack. While in the soil, the bees will not be able to harm him, and Crash can attack other enemies at the same time. The bees will also stop pursuing Crash if he jumps over a pit. While in the previous Diggin 'It level Crash is likely to avoid a bee attack by making a spinning attack to it, in Bee-Having it's almost impossible to avoid the harm since the bees chase in group instead of being a single one.

Crash can also access a secret warp to the purple gem by jumping on the stairs of false Nitro Crates towards the middle of the level. This route resembles the Secret death route from the Turtle Woods or Unbearable levels but in top-notched difficulty. A curious fact of this hard path is that the Gem is almost at the beginning of the route, that implies that even if you die just after gathering the gem, you come back to the normal level route with the gem in your hands and you don't need to enter again to complete the Hard Route, which is undoubtedly difficult and has no crates or secrets ahead.

Level Info

 * Colored gem: purple
 * Clear gems: 1
 * No. of Crates: 92 (32 in Bonus)
 * Death/Secret/gem route: secret

Trivia

 * Bee-Having is a pun of the words behaving and beehive.
 * It could also be a reference to Austin Powers, whose film series debuted six months before Crash 2.