Time Trial

Time Trial is a mode that was first introduced in Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped, and was later featured in Crash Team Racing, Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex, Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure, Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced, and Crash Nitro Kart.

In this mode, the player must race against the clock to the end of the level, and will then be rewarded with a relic depending on how fast it was managed to completed, Sapphire being the easiest, Gold being tough and Platinum being the hardest. Touching the stopwatch at the beginning of a level (which becomes available once the power crystal has been collected) starts the time trial. Once the time trial has started, a counter will appear at the bottom left and the text "Entering Time Trial" will appear for a couple of seconds in the platformer games (excluding the GBA ones, where the text does not show up). In the racing games, the player chooses whether or not to do a time trial before the race, in which the counter replaces the player's lap times and a box counter appears at the top telling how many time boxes have been broken. If all boxes are broken, the player is awarded a 10 second discount at the end of the trial.

When the time trial starts, in the platformer games, time boxes will replace some of the original crates on the level, such as Aku Aku Crates, TNT Crates and even Nitro Crates (the last two only happen in The Wrath of Cortex). In Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped the bonus platform will disappear, but all others stay, whereas in Wrath of Cortex all special platforms will vanish. All current Aku Aku masks the player has will disappear in Warped, but they are kept in Wrath of Cortex, making some relics easier.

In Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped, the box counter in the HUD and at the end of the level does not disappear, making it possible to get a gem and a relic at the same time. In Wrath of Cortex, both the box counter from the HUD and at the end of the level disappear.

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Trivia

 * Time Trials would originally be started by breaking a crate and not collecting a stopwatch.