Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back - A Formula Improved
22With the upcoming release of Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time. It's about time we take a look at the next installment in the Crash Bandicoot series. Here are my thoughts on Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back. I'm playing it on the Nintendo Switch Nsane Trilogy. Hope you enjoy!
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A little story synopsis:
Crash Bandicoot sends Doctor Neo Cortex falling from his airship into a cavern filled with glowing crystals. Convinced that they hold tremendous power, he takes one and gets back onto his laboratory.[10][11] One year later, Cortex and his new assistant Doctor N. Gin rebuild an upgraded, crystal-powered Cortex Vortex in outer space; N. Gin says that they need 25 more crystals to reach the Vortex's maximum capacity and they do not have any of their operatives left on Earth. Cortex then devises a plot to manipulate Crash into retrieving the crystals for him.[10][12]
Meanwhile, Crash's younger sister, Coco, has him retrieve a new battery for her laptop, but Crash is captured.[13][14] Finding himself in an ancient Warp Room that has access to various places all over the world, Crash meets Cortex through his holographic projection.[15] Cortex tells Crash that he discovered that the upcoming alignment of the planets will create a solar flux capable of catastrophic proportions, and urges Crash to retrieve pink power crystals through each of the Room's doors to help Cortex harness the crystal's energy to dissipate the massive power unleashed.[13][16] Unbeknownst to Cortex, his former assistant Dr. Nitrus Brio also appears in hologram form and tells Crash that, scattered across the world, there are several colored gems that serve as an alternative form of energy that Brio is planning to use it against Cortex.[17][18] On his way, while collecting crystals, Crash battles several of Cortex's former allies, first by the demented Ripper Roo,[19] the scimitar-wielding Komodo Brothers[20] and the ravenous Tiny Tiger.[21]
Meanwhile, Coco uses her technology expertise to hack into Cortex's hologram communication to advise Crash to be careful into trusting Cortex. [22][23][24] Cortex eventually tells Crash to return the crystals he collected to his current assistant, N. Gin, but when Crash destroys N. Gin's mechasuit and defeats him, Cortex gets furious. After gathering all 25 crystals, Coco manages to hold a steady connection to reveal Cortex's ultimate plan: with the energy harnessed from the planetary alignment, Cortex will power the gigantic Cortex Vortex built onto his space station and brainwash everyone on Earth into serving his army.[25] Crash reaches Cortex into outer space and incapacitates him once again before the crystals can be used, leaving him drifting through outer space, but leaves the Cortex Vortex intact.[26] However, with Dr. Brio's aid, Crash uses all the gems he gathered throughout the Warp Room and learns that Brio built a laser beam machine powered by the gem's energy.[27] With Crash's help, the laser beam breaks the Cortex Vortex apart, with one of the pieces falling back into Earth.[28]
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