A Gem Path is an alternative route in a level only accessible after obtaining the required Coloured Gem. Gem Paths are similar to Death Routes, but don’t require a one-life run to access - however unlike the Death Routes, the correctly coloured Gem is required, meaning they generally cannot be accessed on the first run. The Gem necessary to unlock a path is designated by the colour of the outline of the transport, like in Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back, Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped, and Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure, or by the colour of the Gem on the platform in Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex. In the original Crash Bandicoot game, the path was determined by the colour of the small gems that would expand into a path as soon as the player collected the correct Coloured Gem.

Contents 1 Crash Bandicoot 2 Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back 3 Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped 4 Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex 5 Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure

Crash BandicootEdit

In Crash Bandicoot, Gem Paths are used to pick up Crates in specific levels, which are a necessity to acquire the levels Clear Gem. A single Coloured Gem can unlock multiple routes. For example, after obtaining the Red Gem from Slippery Climb, the player has access to the Gem Paths found on Native Fortress and Road to Nowhere. Taking these Gem Paths allow the player to break the Crates formerly inaccessible in the level

, leading to the player obtaining the clear Gem in that level. Both of these levels are originally found before Slippery Climb and so the Clear Gem on these two levels is unavailable at first. This game also exclusively features the Clear Gem Path in the 'castoff' level, The Great Hall. If the player obtains all of the Clear Gems in the game (which also requires every Coloured Gem), the entire path is complete, allowing the player to access the 100% complete ending.

Gem Path Levels	Colored Gem
Jungle Rollers	Green
The Great Gate	Yellow
Upstream	Orange
Rolling Stones	Blue
Native Fortress	Red
Road to Nowhere	Red
Boulder Dash	Purple
Cortex Power	Blue
Lights Out	Yellow
Jaws of Darkness	Blue
Castle Machinery	Green
The Great Hall	All Clear Gems

Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes BackEdit

In Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back, unusable Gem Paths are not defined by the trails of small gems, but rather by a skeleton of a large, flat, platform gem of the appropriate colour. When the player obtains the appropriate gem, the platform solidifies, and the player is able to jump on the platform, which will carry them away to the Gem Path in another part of the level, rather than contained inside the same path like in Crash Bandicoot. But the idea of multiple Gem Paths unlocked by one Colored Gem was kept in this game. For example, the Red Gem will unlock the Gem Path in Snow Biz, and a portion of the Multicolor Gem Path in Spaced Out, which requires all of the Colored Gems to complete. This game also keeps the function of the Gem Paths of obtaining the rest of the Crates for a single level. This is the only game that does not have an individual Gem Path for the Purple Gem.

Gem Path Levels	Colored Gem
Hang Eight	Blue
Snow Biz	Red
Sewer or Later	Yellow
Ruination	Green
Spaced Out	All Colored Gems

Crash Bandicoot 3: WarpedEdit

Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped follows the exact same rules as Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back. All Colored Gems unlock a single Gem Path, and a portion of the multicolour Gem Path similar to the one found on the previous instalment's Spaced Out, now found on the Egyptian themed Bug Lite level, along with allowin

g the player to collect the rest of the Crates in a single level.

Gem Path Levels	Colored Gem
Bone Yard	Red
Tomb Time	Purple
Dino Might!	Yellow
Sphynxinator	Blue
Gone Tomorrow	Green
Bug Lite	All Colored Gems

Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of CortexEdit

In Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex, the concept of a Multicolor Gem Path from the two previous instalment's on the levels Spaced Out and Bug Lite is scrapped, and the Colored Gems will only unlock one Gem Path per Gem. The platform design changes in this game also. The platform is now similar to a Death Route platform, but has the emblem of the corresponding Colored Gem on it. Sometimes, the Gem Path blends into the level, like it does in Compactor Reactor, and is simply a fence with the emblem of a Colored Gem. Other than this the concept is the same, and Gem Paths in this game, like all of the others, allow for the player to pick up the rest of the boxes in a single level.

Gem Path Levels	Colored Gem
Compactor Reactor	Yellow
Banzai Bonsai	Red
Tsunami	Blue
Droid Void	Purple
Cortex Vortex	Green

Crash Bandicoot: The Huge AdventureEdit

Like in Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex, the colored gems only unlock one path per gem. Like Crash 2 and 3, the platform is a colored outline until you retrieve the Gem. Like the Bonus and ending platforms, when Crash steps on a colored gem platform, he will be teleported to the gem path. There is no Purple Gem in this game, but the other original colours are kept.

Gem Path Levels	Colored Gem
Temple of Boom	Red
Snow Crash	Blue
Just Hangin'	Green
Ace of Space	Yellow

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