Sewer or Later


 * You may be looking for the level named after this level from Crash Bandicoot: On the Run!.

Sewer or Later is the twelfth level and is the second level of the third warp room in Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back and the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy remake of the second game. In this level, taking place later than The Eel Deal, Crash explores Cortex Island's sewer again. This stage introduces triple-bladed fans that spin too fast for Crash to slip through unharmed. The player must take out the blades first by spinning the scrubbers into them.

If the player has obtained the yellow gem from the previous level, Plant Food, they can access the level's secret yellow gem path, which is a sinister series of challenging jumps simplified only by the fact that the only necessary item on the said route, a clear gem, is located early on so there is no reason to traverse the whole path and the players can just kill themselves after getting it. A split path later on in the main portion of the level awkwardly requires the player to take the right path just long enough to reach the ! crate, then backtrack to the left path to break the crates it created (and collect the crystal), then backtrack again to take the right path again to finish off the level.

Yellow Gem Path
When the player arrive at the yellow gem platform, the yellow gem path starts by jumping onto 7 iron arrow crates, gets the hidden clear gem, defeat the scrubbers and lab assistants in the way to jump onto the 5 platforms and then exit to a wall of crates.

Translation of Aku Aku Hints in the Japanese Version

 * Have you already got the blue diamond? Return to the Teke-teke Climbing the River and see.
 * Spin the bubble robots to open up the pathway.

Trivia

 * Its English name is a portmanteau of the word "sewer" and the phrase "sooner or later", while its Japanese name most likely refers to the welder lab assistant that is introduced in this level.
 * This level introduces the flamethrower lab assistant, which is from here on seen in the sewer levels.
 * This is the only level out of the sewer-themed levels in the game where there are no wire meshes. In Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure, Just in Slime shares this trait.
 * This was the first level made during the development of this game.
 * In the original PlayStation version, part of the gem path is visible on the main route, under the floor grating right before the Bonus platform. The last two scrubbers on that path can also be seen.
 * In the N. Sane Trilogy, this is the first level where it's possible to acquire invincibility during Time Trial.

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