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Gems are collectible stones that appear throughout the Crash Bandicoot series. Gems are typically different than the power crystals, as in they are more powerful than the crystals if all of the gems are collected as stated by N. Brio in Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back. Whether that information is accurate is questionable as it seems that Uka Uka wants the crystals more than the gems since Crash collects these throughout the series. They are usually collected through different means and special tasks like breaking all the crates in a certain level. The gems also appear in different colors, which are more special and rare than the regular gems. In Crash Twinsanity, there are six gems hidden in each level for Crash to collect which count towards 100% completion.

Overview

The gems appear in every main Crash Bandicoot console game to date. They are typically collected in every level that contains a crystal. The gems are different from crystals though. Crash is forced to collect the crystals in every level in order to advance in the game and plot, but gems are more optional for him to collect. However, they are still required to collect if the player wants to reach 100% completion.

According to N. Brio, the gems, much like the crystals, can harness planetary energy and can be used to power machines.

Clear Gems

The most common way to collect gems is by breaking all the crates in a specific level. This requires Crash to go out and search every route and complete every bonus round to ensure that he earns the gem at the end of every level (except in Crash Bandicoot where crates in bonus rounds don't count towards the crates in the level). There are also different methods to collect the normal gems like completing a death route, specific task, or secret level.

Grey Gems

Only appearing in Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath Of Cortex, these function like clear gems but can only be obtained by completing Gem Routes, discovery and objectives. These share the same model as the Red Gem.

Colored Gems

Colored gems are similar to the regular gems, but function differently and are more rare. There is only one of each color gem in every Crash Bandicoot game and the colors include blue, red, green, purple, yellow, and orange (albeit appearing twice). The colored gems usually require a different and more difficult task to obtain them. Most often this is beating a death route, but it also can be scouting a secret area of the level or completing a special task for a certain level. Once a colored gem is obtained, it is counted towards the regular gem total.

The difference between the colored and clear gems is that the colored gems provide a special lift in certain levels once they are obtained. These special gem lifts allow Crash to access different areas in a level in order to break more crates he couldn't break earlier or take him to a completely different route to collect more clear gems. These gem lifts will only work once the color gem has been collected though. Otherwise, only an outline of the lift will appear if the gem has not been collected yet. In Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex, in any level that has a colored gem, the secret path to it will become outlined if the player has died anywhere but the special areas.

What follows is a list of each kind of gem and where they can be found in the various games.

Crash Bandicoot

Gem Color	Level	Method of Collection	Unlocks
Clear (20)	Every level except for The Great Hall, the bosses, and the ones listed below.	Breaking all boxes without losing a life.	The Great Hall gem path leading to second ending
Green	The Lost City (Hog Wild in NTSC-J)	Breaking all boxes without losing a life.	Gem paths in Jungle Rollers and Castle Machinery
Orange	Generator Room	Breaking all boxes without losing a life.	Gem path in Upstream
Blue	Toxic Waste	Breaking all boxes without losing a life.	Gem paths in Rolling Stones, Cortex Power, and Jaws of Darkness
Red	Slippery Climb (The Lost City in NTSC-J)	Breaking all boxes without losing a life.	Gem paths in Native Fortress and Road to Nowhere
Purple	Lights Out	Breaking all boxes without losing a life.	Gem path in Boulder Dash
Yellow	The Lab	Breaking all boxes without losing a life.	Gem paths in The Great Gate and Lights Out

Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back

Obtaining all gems is one of the requirements for 100% completion and the second ending.

Gem Color	Level	Method of Collection	Unlocks
Clear (37)	All levels	Varies, but most are obtained by breaking all the boxes in a given level, and many others are found by taking alternative paths
Blue	Turtle Woods	Going through the level without destroying any boxes.	Hang Eight gem path and Spaced Out multicolor gem path
Red	Snow Go	Completing the secret route using the secret portal from Air Crash. Also obtainable directly from Snow Go's main path using a glitched jump.	Snow Biz gem path and Spaced Out multicolor gem path
Green	The Eel Deal	Completing a secret route behind a fake wall.	Ruination gem path and Spaced Out multicolor gem path
Yellow	Plant Food	Reaching the end of the level before timer runs out.	Sewer or Later gem path and Spaced Out multicolor gem path
Purple	Bee-Having	Entering a secret route from fake nitro stairs.	Spaced Out multicolor gem path

Crash Bandicoot: Warped

Obtaining gems is one of the requirements for maximum 105% completion and the second ending.

Gem Color	Level	Method of Collection	Unlocks
Clear (40)	All levels	Varies, but most are obtained by breaking all the boxes in a given level, and many others are found in gem paths accessed via colored gems
Red	Deep Trouble	Secret area unlocked with ! crate at the end	Bone Yard gem path and Bug Lite multicolor gem path
Purple	High Time	Death route.	Tomb Time gem path and Bug Lite multicolor gem path
Blue	Tomb Wader	Death route	Sphynxinator gem path and Bug Lite multicolor gem path
Green	Flaming Passion	Death route	Gone Tomorrow gem path and Bug Lite multicolor gem path
Yellow	Hang'em High	Secret entrance (level 27) in Warp Room 6 (requires 10 relics)	Dino Might! gem path (with access to level 32 - Eggipus Rex) and Bug Lite multicolor gem path

Crash Team Racing

In this game, there are five colored gems: blue, red, green, yellow, and purple. Each of these gems is acquired by winning the corresponding gem cup. The gem cups are unlocked by obtained all CTR tokens of the same color. Obtaining all give colored gems unlocks Turbo Track.

Crash Bash

Each minigame (except boss fights) contains a green gem. These are the only gems in the game. They are obtained by either winning a round in a short amount of time, or with the odds against the player. Gems are required to unlock boss fights and move on in the game. 25 gems are required to unlock Keg Kaboom.

Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath Of Cortex

Obtaining gems is one of the requirements for maximum 106% completion and the second ending.

Gem Color	Level	Method of Collection	Unlocks
Clear (41)	All levels	Varies, but most are obtained by breaking all the boxes in a given level, and many others are found in gem paths accessed via colored gems
Blue	Arctic Antics	Death route	Gem path in Tsunami
Green	Wizards and Lizards	Death route	Gem path in Cortex Vortex
Purple	The Gauntlet	Death route.	Gem path in Droid Void
Red	Crash and Burn	Death route	Gem path in Banzai Bonsai in which the Super Belly Flop power-up is found
Yellow	Gold Rush	Death route	Gem path in Compactor Reactor

Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure

Obtaining gems is required to access the Mega-Mix hidden boss fight in which the final clear gem can be obtained and the second ending.

Gem Color	Level	Method of Collection	Unlocks
Clear (25)	All levels	Breaking all boxes in a given level, or found in gem paths accessed via colored gems
Blue	Ruined	Hidden in level	Gem path in Snow Crash
Green	Sunken City	Hidden in level	Gem path in Just Hangin'
Red	Star to Finish	Hidden in level	Gem path in Temple of Boom
Yellow	Final Countdown	Hidden in level	Gem path in Ace of Space

Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced

In this game, all clear gems are obtained by breaking all boxes in a given level. There are three secret levels unlocked by obtaining all gem shards of a given color (and level theme) which are hidden in most platforming levels. These secret levels each contain a colored gem. To enter N. Tropy's boss fight, Crash has to obtain the three colored gems. Each of these colored gems is required in order to play the time trial in the respective level.

Gem Color	Level	Method of Collection	Unlocks
Clear (24)	All levels	Breaking all boxes in the level
Red	Wild Nile Ride	Near the end of the level	Time trial in Wild Nile Ride, and N. Tropy boss fight
Green	101 Arabian Kites	Near the end of the level	Time trial in 101 Arabian Kites, and N. Tropy boss fight
Blue	Fire Walker	Near the end of the level	Time trial in Fire Walker, and N. Tropy boss fight

Crash Nitro Kart

In this game, there are four colored gems: blue, red, green, and purple. Each of these gems is acquired by winning the corresponding gem cup. The gem cups are unlocked by obtained all CNK tokens of the same color. Obtaining all four colored gems unlocks Hyper Spaceway in adventure mode.

Crash Twinsanity

In this game, there are only colored gems, and clear is considered a color. A lot of them are hidden, and there are six of them in each hub/level. Unlike other games in the series all of the gems share the same sprite and shape.

Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy

The clear and colored gems reappear in the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy remaster of the first three games where they reprise the same roles they had in the original versions of those games. However, unlike the original version of the first game, the player can obtain a clear gem in the remastered version even after losing one or more lives, making the clear gems easier to obtain. Though colored gems in the remaster of the first game still require the player to break all the boxes in their respective levels without losing a life.

Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled

The red, green, blue, yellow, and purple gems reappear in Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled where they reprise the same role that they had in the original version of Crash Team Racing. The orange and clear gems also appear in Dragon Mines & Twilight Tour as props, but serve no other purpose.

Appearances

Crash Bandicoot
Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back
Crash Bandicoot: Warped
Crash Team Racing
Crash Bash
Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex
Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure
Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced
Crash Nitro Kart
Crash Bandicoot Purple: Ripto's Rampage
Crash Twinsanity
Crash Tag Team Racing
Crash of the Titans
Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy
Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled

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Trivia

Spyro also has a usage for gems, like Crash has a usage for gems as well as Wumpa Fruit.
In Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex, all gems can be obtained by shooting them with the Fruit Bazooka. The most notable example is the Red Gem from Crash and Burn.
In the Crash 2 remastered 100% cutscene, it's possible to see the orange gem. It is placed above the rest of the colored gems and shares the same color as the orange gem from the Crash 1 remaster. However it uses the model of a clear gem (orange gem model has similar aspects to the red gem, but with more facets), therefore making it likely to be a lighting error.
All mainstream Crash games that stick to the formula (Crash Bandicoot, Crash Bandicoot 2 Cortex Strikes Back, Crash Bandicoot: Warped & Crash Bandicoot and the Wrath of Cortex.) always have two colour gems in consecutive levels (CB1 - Generator Room (Orange) & Toxic Waste (Blue), Slippery Climb (Red) & Lights Out (Purple) CB2 - Turtle Woods (Blue) & Snow Go (Red) CB3 - Deep Trouble (Red) & High Time (Purple) CB tWoC - Crash and Burn (Red) & Gold Rush (Yellow). Additionally, the Red Gem has always been in a level next to another colour gem.
The Orange gem was cut from Crash 2 for unknown reasons. Considering the bad lighting for the removed second gem slot in Bear Down, it could plausibly be the potential candidate.

Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy

DLC Content

Crash Bandicoot: Stormy Ascent
Crash Bandicoot: Warped: Future Tense

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