Time Twister Machine

The Time Twister Machine, or simply the Time Twister, is the level selection mechanic in Crash Bandicoot: Warped and the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy remake of Warped.

Description
The Time Twister is a hub which can open large, orb shaped passageways thoughout time and space. It is a time machine that was built by Dr. N. Tropy and was used to gather crystals from the past to be used to power up the newly rebuilt Cortex Vortex.

There are five warp areas in the main level of the Time Twister, each of which has up to 6 warp portals to different historial areas. Below the main level is a factory where Dr. Cortex manufactures robotic clones of his lab assistants and sends them into various portals through time to search for more crystals. The lower level also contains five additional warp portals which can be activated by collecting the relics and provide alternative entrances to previous levels, alongside new levels.

After defeating Dr. N. Tropy, Dr. Cortex and Uka Uka, Crash and Coco are chastised for putting them all in danger, as without N. Tropy looking after the machine, nobody could predict what the outcome would be. When Crash and Coco have collected all the crystals and gems the Time Twister begins to malfunction and become unstable, which causes a massive time portal to expand, swallowing Uka-Uka, Cortex, and N. Tropy and traps them in the prehistoric past, with the latter two as infants.

Later in Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex, Coco would create a VR Hub System with which she most likely took inspriration from the Time Twister.

Appearances

 * Crash Bandicoot: Warped
 * Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy

Trivia

 * The level names of "Bone Yard" and "Dino Might!" were originally the other way round in earlier builds of the game.
 * Keeping with the theme of having the files for Cortex's lab assistants being named "Ass", the machine that creates the lab assistants in the sixth chamber is named "AssPress".