Barrel Roll

Barrel Roll (たるに あたるー！！ lit. Hit the Barrel!! in Japanese) is the ninth level and is the third level in the second warp room in Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced. It is also the second atlasphere level. Rather than playing as Crash, the playable character is Crunch. He must make his way past nitro crates, edges, and rolling barrels.

Types of crates

 * Basic Crate
 * Checkpoint Crate - wooden
 * Crunch Crate
 * Nitro Crate
 * Nitro Switch Crate
 * ? Crate
 * Time Crate (1/2 seconds)

Trivia

 * This level's name is a pun on "barrel roll", a maneuver that can be carried out in certain aircraft, like in the airplane levels of Crash 3. The "barrel" is a reference to the many rolling hazards in the level, while the "roll" refers to the atlasphere's movement.
 * It's probable that the developers wanted to make Crunch playable according to the storyline of this game, but realized that allowing him to be used in platforming levels will require designing a whole new set of moves for him, so they let him be usable in this level and a later Atlasphere level, Rocks Can Roll.