Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back/Crash Crush

A harder version of ../Crash Dash/. Again, you have to run quickly towards the screen while being chased by huge snowballs. This time there are more obstacles and gaps. Shortly after the first checkpoint, after getting rid of the snowball you will come to a fork in the road. Going right and walking in there is a short normal path where you will find some boxes, which you can reach by sliding under electric shocks. At the bottom is a platform that will take you back to the fork. From here the action resumes in the usual way. The crystal is found in one of the interludes between one snowball chase and another.

The bonus area is located just over the halfway point. To reach an extra life and a couple of boxes, you have to overcome a long gap, using the slide + jump combination, or exploit a high pile of crates, destroying it only partially. Nothing too difficult, however.

Getting the gem
There are no hidden areas. To get the gem at the end, you have to break all the boxes along the way, including the ones to the right of the fork and the ones in the bonus area. Just before the finish line there are some boxes arranged in a way that takes a few moments to destroy them all. There is also a reinforced box that you can only destroy with a belly punch, which will waste your precious time. So try to accumulate as much advantage as you can on the snowball, using the green arrows on the floor and avoiding obstacles, so that you have enough time to break all the boxes before being hit by the avalanche.