Gaming Legends: Can You Beat Crash Bandicoot 2 Without Spinning?

Gyroscopic stability is hard to achieve, and harder to maintain. Let's see if we can do a better job than in the Crash 1 run!
Playlist of this run: • Crash 2 Spinless
Media sources:
Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy
Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back
Crash: Mind Over Mutant
Crash Bash
Crash of the Titans (DS)
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[@Frostycrypton]

Dang, so close! If only the colorblind programmer at Activision worked on the final boss fight. . .

[@lozangekitten-gamer7626]

basically, this game needs 3 spins, and all of them is VS Cortex... that one just broke my heart, but I knew it was impossible to beat cortex without spinning

[@crowdmagical0274]

He's taking bandicoot technology too far!

[@MisterDirge]

God I love this game so much, it was the first game that me and my brother got on the PlayStation 1. I never got to beat it because the disc broke but years later we found it at a flea market and I got to play through it in a day when I was stuck at home recovering from a broken arm in 4th grade. I was so proud of my self for finally beating this game.

[@0m3GAARS3NAL]

The timing of you saying "hello" and coco mouthing the word "hello" was actually perfectly edited together

[@jasonsandoval84]

Can you give a timestamp?

[@0m3GAARS3NAL]

​@@jasonsandoval84 5:01 coco answers her phone and he and her both say "hello"

[@Kyle_South198]

"The colourblind programmer at vicarius visions" Bro roasts this man because he is a programmer💀

[@Iron8127]

No, Not the bees! Not the bees! -crash & coco(in this case)

[@calemr]

First of all: You are Criminally underviewed and followed. Have some engagement. Second: I love the humor, especially in the intro. A lot of people do challenge videos, and while I Am interested in the challenge itself, you manage to keep them engaging, with the comedy and enthusiastic delivery of the details. Good stuff. Me like.

[@elainejones9400]

He... Make... Good... Content...

[@JUMPYCOOL]

*intro cutscene plays* Me: doesn’t Crash spin after this cutscene? *Crash spins* Me: YUP!

[@DrRank]

If I had a nickel for every time he did that, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it's happened twice, right?

[@JUMPYCOOL]

Yeah, but I am pretty sure he doesn’t do it in Crash 3!

[@DrRank]

@@JUMPYCOOL And Future Me is thankful for that!

[@RealKangatom]

I’m convinced the reason activision gave crash 4 to toys for bob is because they were too scared the colourblind vicarious employee would continue to mess it up

[@DrRank]

I don't think they left him out completely. Crash 4 was the first game to have colourblindness settings.

[@pixel__huh]

This run is now a minamalist and only 3 spins are needed

[@JonVonBasslake]

I haven't tested it on the N.Sane version, but on ps1, you could skip that intro level (which AFAIK doesn't affect completion rating) by going into the load menu and then exiting it. Because in the PS1 version at least the save menu was kind of diegetic and part of the environment of the warp room, it put you in the warp room without anything completed. Now, you're free to argue that one should count the intro level since it's part of the game, if you want to. This is just pointing out a potential alternative.

[@DrRank]

On PS1, skipping the cutscene also skips the intro level and goes straight to the Warp Room. As mentioned in the video though, skipping the cutscene on N. Sane only gets you to the playable portion of the intro, which you can then skip via the pause menu.

[@DarkMagicianGirl0]

Nice alliteration at the beginning!

[@reda29100]

3:17 thought was about to say "retreat into its former shell-f" but okay

[@sailorswifty836]

In the original Crash 2, if you skip the cut scene it brings you to the wrap room and skips the cut scene with coco and the little level too.

[@DrRank]

Yeah, but then you can't get as many spinless Gems

[@sailorswifty836]

@@DrRank If my memory serves me right, the mini-level never gave you a gem. I think it was meant as a tutorial.

[@kstanni87]

Actually you deserve to make the spins on cortex in the finale after the entire ordeals of damage boosting in many levels

[@woahscape]

great video, but gyroscopic stability is achieved by spinning :)

[@mathewmallon7208]

Crash warped will be a minimum spins challenge as the "death tornado spin" is enforced and required for completion

[@DrRank]

Funny story...

[@mauriciominicuci6544]

N. Cortex: 3 spins

[@CasuallyClutching]

GG

[@larajanesen8795]

Dope!!

[@hioman]

Wow, these games really want to screw you over

[@OfdintsFG]

Also I was big brain. I checked when u released crash 1st vid, 4 months ago. And this was abound 1month and I think 3 weeks ago. So hopefully in 1month and 1 week we get it lol also I SWEAR I LEFT MY PHONE ON SILENT! I GOTTA TAKE THIS! SOWWY. This message is a ticking time bomb. Run for existance. The colour blind creator is a God. What phrase for the ticking time bomb will u use on crash 3? Also don't even think about crash 4

[@OfdintsFG]

Can u do more I like this content

[@deslardesslok]

5:04p.m. 7/20/2023

[@nottud]

Can the jump combo bug be abused to get to 100% or does that only work on the original?

[@DrRank]

It's only in the original. The N. Sane Trilogy dropped the Jump Combo mechanic altogether. But in the PS1 version, it's very simple to do it using the trampolines in Hang 'Em High's Backdoor.

[@masudore1988]

you can skip the first spin by playing the ps1 version gg

[@DrRank]

But then you can't do Rock It or Pack Attack, as the Electro Lab Assistants require two damage boosts each, and the Checkpoints are spaced too far apart.

[@masudore1988]

@@DrRank when I got to that part I figured that might be the case, tragic

[@masudore1988]

@@DrRank also I've played this game dozens of times and never realised that you could spin the monkey's logs until now, shook me man.

[@DrRank]

@@masudore1988 Even I learn new stuff all the time. Just a few months ago I found a 1up in the Crash Crush Bonus Round I didn't know about.