This also allows you to get the purple gem in Bee-Having without getting through the rest of the secret path and get 2 gems at the same run from Turtle Woods, Hang Eight, Plant Food, Cold Hard Crash, and Spaced Out when you normally need separate runs for each of them. Since extra lives are handed out like confetti, simply killing yourself the moment you get a gem from an alternate path seems far more appealing than backtracking manually.
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Once you collect a crystal or gem, it will remain in Crash's inventory as long as he remains in the level, even after he dies. This is the source of many Sequence Breaking in the game. This can be done with the slide-jump (which isn't a glitch) for an even higher jump. You jump, then you immediately spin, causing Crash to jump higher than normal. The same moment in "Un-Bearable" is also avoidable, but this time, with a simple slide jump. In fact, this trick was one of the many objects of this game's Tool-Assisted Speedrun, kindly demonstrated here.
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Additionally, the camera is positioned directly behind Crash rather than above him facing downwards, as in the other levels, which makes discerning the relative positions of obstacles even harder than it ought to be. In contrast to the rest of the game's free-flowing fast-paced platforming, the jetpack uses a completely different control scheme to the rest of the game, is awkward and finicky to use, and requires the player to move extremely slowly and carefully around tightly enclosed areas. Disappointing Last Level: The final warp room introduces the jetpack mechanic, which is featured in two of the last five levels.Never mind in-game, considering how obviously shady he is while interacting with Crash. Captain Obvious Reveal: Cortex being the game's Big Bad and betraying Crash can be easily deduced by just looking at the game's subtitle.