Crash Bandicoot: Wrath of Cortex - Rumble in the Roks strategy

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Published on July 17, 2012 3:29:25 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ra_wuJH0o4

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Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex (2001)

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Rule #831 of speedrunning: if it looks like it's random, it probably isn't!

Every single one of these rocks spawns in the same spot every time, so you can hit them in the same way every time and it'll always work. Here's the breakdown:

Phase 1: hold up-right, tilt right slightly, you're aiming for the last vertical line on the right, which should hit the first rock, then rotate around anti-clockwise, maintaining a line around the top horizontal line
Phase 2: hold straight up as you get back control, then aim at about that last vertical line again. You want to be knocked to the right by this rock, to have it knock you into the path of the one coming on the right hand side. Now stay between the top two horizontal lines and you should slam into that one, now turn around and hit the one coming from the left at about the same height. For optimal results, you must get the last hit in this phase while directly above Crunch.
Phase 3: Ideally what happens here is as you gain control back, Crunch knocks you back up the hill and you can sit in between the two rocks moving towards each other here. Then just move to whichever side you have momentum in, aiming at about the second horizontal line, and then go back for the last one. For some reason I didn't get enough height to get to the middle in time in this run, but the rest of the strategy is otherwise the same.

You also have to be careful of things like knocking the rocks in such a way that they don't hit Crunch (or other rocks!). So it's still quite a difficult fight to do optimally, but having a strategy at least makes the first two phases significantly easier.

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