User:Thaswordster/Diggin' It

Diggin' It is the seventeenth level and the second level in the fourth warp room in the Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back mod. Crash finds himself in a mountainous environment riddled with explosives, as a failed attempt to terminate all of the bee-hives in there and make it a safe place. Bees are far more abundant than normal, but will go down to a simple spin or slide attack. Crash should be much more careful of the unbeatable sentient statues, mallet-wielding lumberjack lab assistants, and red spitter plants, which spit grenade-like seeds and will only fall to a belly flop or a spin from underground. Crash can dig into the patches of magenta soil throughout the latter half of the level.

Most of the puzzles include lanes and walls of Nitro crates, spitting plants blocking the path, and locked crates near more spitting plants and Nitro crates. Mines are also used in the first third of the level, but their purpose is only to trick Crash into hitting Nitro crates.

Death Route characteristics
(NOTE: The death route is not fully completed, this may change.)

The death route is way more dangerous than the normal path, as it includes constant swarms of bees at a fast speed, and many spitting plants that aren't afraid of Crash, and will keep shooting grenades no matter how far away he is from them. The gem is located at the end, guarded by spitting plants. The player can not enter the death route from the end, unlike in the original version.

Types of crates

 * Aku Aku Crate
 * Iron Arrow Crate
 * Basic Crate
 * Bounce Crate
 * Checkpoint Crate
 * Crash Crate
 * Iron Crate
 * Locked Crate
 * Nitro Crate
 * Nitro Switch Crate
 * ? Crate
 * TNT Crate

Trivia

 * A different music for the normal sections of the level and death route is used.