Crystal



Crystals are the items that Crash collects to stop Cortex. Crystals are collected by finishing a level (except boss levels and levels numbered higher than 25). Since Crash Twinsanity, crystals have been called "Power Crystals". Crystals have appeared in almost all games. The only ones where they don't appear are Crash Bandicoot and the console version of Crash of the Titans.

In the main series, the player must usually collect 25 crystals, with exception of Crash Twinsanity - which only contains 12 crystals.

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 Wrath Of Cortex are refered to as elemental crystals so they might be a different type of crystal altogether.