Castle Machinery

''Watch out! Dr. N. Brio isn't far and an evil crate bridge tries to stop your quest for the gem! Be fast and escape the Castle Machinery!'' - Level description

Castle Machinery is the twenty-seventh level (including boss fights) and is the tenth level of the third island in Crash Bandicoot. It is right before the boss fight against Doctor Nitrus Brio. If the player has obtained the green gem, a secret platform appears right next to where the level begins, taking Crash up to a secret area that has 27 extra lives, preparing him for the forthcoming challenges. There is then another platform there that takes Crash to the end of the level. Oddly, this is the only level in the game with a secret gem route with crates only in the main route. In fact, taking the full gem route will cause the player to miss all the crates in this level. It is the last Factory type of level in the game.

Types of crates

 * Aku Aku Crate
 * Basic Crate
 * Bounce Crate
 * Checkpoint Crate
 * Crash Crate
 * ? Crate (the only ones are Crash crates previously broken)

Stage parameters

 * Aku Aku Crates: 2


 * TNT Crates: None.


 * Other Crates: 22
 * Tawna Bonus Round Crates: None. (NTSC-US) 9 (NTSC-J)
 * Brio Bonus Round Crates: None.
 * Cortex Bonus Round Crates: None.

Password
This corresponds to a save file at this level (88%, 2 keys, 20 gems).

Trivia

 * The floating robots reappear in Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped.
 * This is the only level in the game to have the most lives that are not in any crates.
 * Castle Machinery doesn't exist in the prototype. A level that comes after The Lab and freezes the game when the player tries to access it is speculated by some to be an unfinished version of Castle Machinery.