Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back (Part 1) - PlayStation 1 Gameplay - (2K 60fps)
0Taking place right after the events of the previous game, Cortex falls from his hoverboard and lands within a mine, where he discovers a large crystal and has a flash of inspiration. One year later, he is seen in a space station being told by his new assistant, Doctor N. Gin that to harness the Master Crystal's power he will require an additional 25 "Slave Crystals". These are scattered across the Earth. Since Cortex does not have any "friends" left on the surface, he decides he needs to "find an enemy".
Crash and his sister Coco Bandicoot are relaxing on N. Sanity Beach, when the battery runs out on Coco's laptop. She asks Crash to go find her a new one, in which he does. While he's on the way, he gets abducted by Cortex and is sent into a Warp Room where he is persuaded that Cortex has decided to turn over a new leaf and is trying to save the planet against an incoming threat. He convinces Crash to collect the crystals, so that he can use their powers of the aligned planets to prevent the Earth from facing certain doom. Crash then sets off on this new quest for Cortex, unknowingly helping him achieve his goals for world domination.
Throughout his quest, Crash is contacted by his sister Coco, who is continuously searching into Cortex's scheme and trying to figure out what Cortex is really using the crystals for. He is also contacted by Doctor Nitrus Brio, Cortex's disgruntled former assistant. He tells Crash that if he truly wants to save the world, he must collect the gems instead of the crystals. Brio plans to use the gems to destroy Cortex once and for all. He is also Crash's primary opposing force, claiming to use all of his strength to prevent him from gathering the crystals. Brio recruits Ripper Roo, who has become extremely intelligent but is still insane, to destroy Crash, but he is defeated. Brio also creates and sends out new villains, like the sword-swinging Komodo Brothers and the musclebound Tiny Tiger, but they all fail to stop Crash. Cortex later demands Crash to hand his current amount of crystals over to N. Gin, but to his dismay, he finds out that the marsupial has defeated N. Gin.
At the end, when all of the crystals are collected, Coco reveals that Cortex actually intends to harness the force of the crystals to turn every single creature on Earth into Cortex's mindless slaves with his new and improved Cortex Vortex. Crash finally defeats Cortex once again, banishing him deep into space, but leaves his space station operational. After Crash has gathered all 42 gems, N. Brio uses the gems to power up a laser beam that destroys the station, leaving it in space until it crashes into a mysterious temple on Earth.