Crash Team Racing: Adventure Part 66: Oxide Grand Finale (100% Ending & Scrapbook)
18As soon as you get the last Relic in Adventure Mode for a grand total of 18, Oxide invites you for one final race against him in his Oxide Station. This time, it's for keeps!
This isn't any different from the last time you raced Oxide. He still cheats at the start, and still throws out all of the possible weapons that one can throw or drop behind themselves.
Just remember to stay in front of him, not just to win the race, but to just dodge anything he has in stored for you.
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Oxide is so angry that he lost twice! He decided to give up on taking over the world, so now, Nitros Oxide shall return to his home planet of Gasmoxia and live with his failure at being the fastest of the galaxy.
For now, the world was saved yet again, regardless of the hero or villain you used this whole time to pull that off!
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The credits sequence has all nearly all of the cast dancing again, but this time, there's confetti falling from above, and now we get to read up on nearly all of the characters and what they've done with their lives after the world returned to peace.
First it goes through the starting roster, Crash, Cortex, Tiny, Coco, N. Gin., Dingodile, Polar, and Pura.
Then it goes through the boss characters, Pinstripe, Papu Papu, Ripper Roo, Komodo Joe, and then N. Tropy. N. Tropy can't be unlocked through Adventure Mode, he must be unlocked after beating all of his ghosts in Time Trial Mode, then beating himself in a 1v1 race.
It also shows what happens to Oxide after his final defeat. Looks like he did not take well to it at all, but going through therapy helped him regroup and start racing again.
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Last but not least, there's also focus on the Trophy Girls, those tall, hot bandicoot ladies that, like Oxide, himself, are brand new to CTR and reward different characters different prizes. Each of them are based on different female managers that worked for Sony at the time of this game's original release. Let me detail them:
- Ami, the green haired bandicoot girl, is based on Ami Matsumura-Blair. Her she rewards prizes to most of the entire roster, which includes Tiny, Dingodile, Ripper Roo, Papu Papu, Komodo Joe, Pinstripe, Fake Crash, N. Tropy, and even the secret Penta Penguin! She seems VERY eager to do some racing of her own (and miraculously, she may get her wish very soon...)
- Isabella the blonde in blue that looks significantly like Tawna, is based on SCE Europe product manager, Isabelle Tomatis. Here, Isabelle reward prizes to her fellow bandicoot brethern, Crash and Coco. You've seen her quite a lot in my playthrough, here.
- Liz, the dark-haired bandicoot in green and purple, is based on Elizabeth "Liz" Ashford, a PR manager for SCE Europe. She gives prizes to the two pet characters of the game, Polar and Pura.
- Megumi, the labcoat-clad bandicoot with the cotton candy blue hair, is based on Megumi Hosoya, SCE Japan's product and marketing manager, and the creator behind the "Crash Dance", herself! Her bandicoot self gives out prizes to the two main scientist of the game, Dr. Neo Cortex, and Dr. N. Gin.
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The very final part of this 100% Ending shows off a Scrapbook, detailing Naughty Dog's four years of creating the Crash Bandicoot series up to the end of Crash Team Racing. It first covered the original Crash Bandicoot, then Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back, then Crash Bandicoot: Warped, and then Crash Team Racing itself.
It goes further on to cover other aspects of Crash and Naughty Dog's growth, such as its surprising popularity in Japan, as well as all of the direct staff responsible for bringing this franchise to life, finishing off the scrapbook with a "bow" of sorts to show that Naughty Dog has now ended their tenure with the bandicoot. They will move on to new franchises while Universal would then bring Crash to other developers...
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Thanks for watching! I've completed this playthrough at 101%!
Now stay turned for the stuff I have in stored for Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled!
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1/1/2020 EDIT: And lo and behold, I've finished my run through Nitro-Fueled, too. Check the link below to see how Adventure Mode finishes off there!:
https://youtu.be/2zYpSrmx9Ss