Multicolor gem path

A multicolor gem path is a special type of gem path that is featured in Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back, Crash Bandicoot: Warped, the N. Sane Trilogy and Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time. The functions of the multicolor gem paths in Cortex Strikes Back and Warped are identical: They consist of a gem path broken into segments, and all five colored gems are required to complete the path. The first segment of the multicolor gem path can be accessed as soon as the player obtains the blue gem in both games. At the end of a multicolor gem path is a clear gem. There are also clear gem paths located in the game's code, however, it is not known how they are activated if modified into levels. In Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time, however, there are only four colored gems, and all are necessary to enter the path. This is also the only game in which the multicolor gem path is required for the box gem.

Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back


The multicolor gem path in Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back is located in the Spaced Out level.

Blue Gem Segment
As Crash enters the multicolor gem path, floating extra lives can be seen, indicating how difficult the path is. They are obtained throughout the whole gem path. It consists of mostly hydraulic presses and two floating sparky tentaclebot units also in the level.

Green Gem Segment
The green gem platform transports Crash frontwards to the next segment. This area focuses on the shrink ray obstacle, along with a couple of enemies: the four-legged robot, more sparky tentaclebot units and a single hydraulic press.

Yellow Gem Segment
The yellow gem platform takes Crash straight up to a shorter segment. This section utilizes the player's ability to time jumps from under hydraulic presses to heated transports. There are only two transports, making the segment seemingly easier than the rest.

Red Gem Segment
Crash will ride the red gem platform at this point, which will take him in the backwards direction. This segment features the combination of both shield lab assistants and shrink rays. If the player isn't careful, the lab assistants will push the player onto the target for the shrink ray, causing Crash to immediately begin shrinking out of existence.

Purple Gem Segment
The purple gem segment is the arguably easiest of all, because it lacks any obstacles, and only transports Crash to the exit of the level, where the player can pick up one of the hardest clear gems in the game.

Crash Bandicoot: Warped


The multicolor gem path in this game is in the Egyptian level Bug Lite.

Blue Gem Segment
This segment features spotlights. It also has other enemies and obstacles, including mummy lab assistants and slamming doors, integrated into the complexity of dodging the darts.

Green Gem Segment
This segment, which is tinted with a green hue, contains only spiked arrow floors and nitro crates. It is a segment that revolves around the player's ability to time and plan movements carefully.

Purple Gem Segment
Out of order from the Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back lineup, the Purple Gem segment is full of moving platforms, along with other obstacles that make the moving platforms harder to land on, including spiked arrow floors, mummy lab assistants, and collapsable floors.

Yellow Gem Segment
This segment focuses on the spiked mummy lab assistant enemy. The only other obstacle in this section are holes in the floor.

Red Gem Segment
This segment is a dark, outdoors Egyptian segment, with red dirt instead of the standard dark blue. Here, the player picks up a clear gem, although there is a bottomless pit with a collapsible floor between the gem and the Warp Orb.

Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time
The multicolor gem path in this game is in the Mechanical level Toxic Tunnels.

Normal Segment
This segment features lighting bolts and metal carts, with rats as enemies. The player has to pass through these and to arrive at the green gem platform.

Green Gem Segment
This segment is very short, and includes lighting bolts, metal vines and enemies such as: electric cockroaches and rats. It precedes the red gem platform.

Red Gem Segment
This segment focuses on platforms that go from side to side, wall-running and a minecart section to go arrive in the yellow gem platform.

Yellow Gem Segment
Just like in the gem's own level, this segment focuses on platforms that expel fire and the castle's machinery. Then, the player arrives in the blue gem platform.

Blue Gem Segment
This segment is a minecart section where the player has to run or stay on the minecart to after the minecart falls acid jump and get the hidden gem.

Trivia

 * The multicolor gem paths are the only times in which the purple gem platform appears in Cortex Strikes Back and Warped.