If for some reason you missed this achievement, just start a new game and go for it, again. You can load an existing save as soon as you hit the warp room.

This achievement can be achieved by performing this action three times across any level where you have not already collected the crystal. Pausing to exit the level is the quickest way to trigger these cutscenes, but exiting the level the normal way works, too. If for any reason you miss this achievement and collect all twenty-five crystals, you can do this from a new game quite easily.

For the second run, you are going to want to be mindful of a few things:

• You will come across a section of floor that looks like a face in the ground, with an Aku Aku box directly ahead. Body slam on it to reach a hidden area that contains additional boxes and the Nitro detonator.
  • In this hidden area, there will be a section where you have to navigate a mine field of Nitro boxes. Instead of jumping down after breaking the breakable arrow box, you can slide spin jump over to the platform in the sky.
  • Further along, you will come across some ostriches. After a short moment, they will crouch and stick their heads in the ground. This will normally make reaching the platforms in the sky impossible; but the slide spin jump will give you the height you need to reach these platforms even if you are slow.
• After the first pit where you will need to fight some moles (or not - see the time trial section for more on that), there will be a spiked turtle with a ? box high in the air. You need to high bounce off the turtle (by holding X as you land) to reach it. If you make a mistake and spin away the turtle, you can stand on the rock to the left and slide spin jump up to reach the box.

• Jump along the sides of the level to get through the deep mud, as the mud will slow you down.
• Make sure you do not enter the hidden area or bonus level. This goes without saying, but unless otherwise stated, avoid all coloured gem paths in future levels, too. Secret exits will also negate the achievements unless you still exit via an exit warp room.
• There are multiple ways to quickly overcome the pits without having to fight all of the moles.
  • A well placed slide spin jump can clear the pits; and can sometimes even be used to get out of them as soon as you fall in.
  • The easiest way to bypass a pit is to use the slide spin jump to jump into the cavities to the sides, as this lets you clear the pit in two jumps.
  • If you still get stuck, you can high bounce off the moles to get out of the pits early, instead of having to defeat them all and wait for the mushrooms to grow.

1. Jump onto the steel arrow crate to the right. Spin as you land, and if you time it right, your spin will nullify the bouncing. This will allow you to slide off the crate.
2. Perform a slide spin jump to the right, towards the red gem. This can be tricky, as you will probably fall short and hit the dropped ceiling on most attempts. At this stage, you should be coming up directly under the gem, but falling just a little bit short.
3. For that last bit of extra height, you want to perform a body slam. This little bit of extra height is what you need to collect the gem.
4. If you are playing the NTSC-U version, you may still be falling short. The height needed in this version is a little less forgiving. If you pay close attention, you will notice that the gem sort of hovers up and down. You need to catch it at the bottom of this movement loop. I have been told the aim is to start sliding just as it reaches the peak, but the loop is so small that I have performed this multiple times without deliberately trying to time it. If you are really still having a bad time, consider playing on the PAL version, where this last point is not applicable.

If you collected this gem the intended way, you have locked yourself out of the last missable achievement. Luckily, this is once again reachable from the start of a new game. Just head straight to the warp room, enter Snow Go and perform the above as required.

Once you fall down into the second section where you move forward, away from the camera, there are two hidden boxes:

• Immediately after you fall down, head towards the camera for the nitro detonator.
• When you reach the steel arrow crate with the bounce box above it, break the bounce box and high bounce higher for a hidden ! box. This will trigger the two outline boxes you past, shortly before.

• Make sure you grab the Aku Aku mask at the start of the level for safety.
• Make sure you are taking advantage of slide mechanics on ice. Sliding on ice naturally increases your speed. That mask you collected will let you slide straight through the nitro boxes at the end of the first section - how handy!
• You already want to go fast under the stone stompers; but if you are not going to make the log stompers that stomp on a timer, than wait. Even with an Aku Aku mask, you will be locked into an animation that takes more time than it does to wait for them to rise back up.

When on a jet board, make sure you grab all boxes in the water. Once you jump off at the dock, you can not go back, so any missed boxes will be lost. You can drift into boxes close to mines by moving towards them from a distance, and releasing any directional input. Turn around as soon as they break and you will be safe. You should have the blue gem from 'Turtle Woods' to gain access to the blue gem path; this is required for all of the boxes. This section is a little trickier, but with patience it is a piece of cake. Just make sure that you back track to collect all of the outline boxes in the water, once you trigger the ! box. You will need to boost off the ramps to hit them all. The end of the blue gem path also contains the nitro detonator.

• You can slide spin jump across every section that would require using the platforms that fall into the water. This is helpful, but not required.
• Make sure to grab both Aku Aku masks along the way, as this will all but guarantee easy jet board sections.
• You can boost along the sides of the whirlpools - just don't boost straight over them.
• Assuming you have the two Aku Aku masks, you can pass both jet board sections with ease by mostly boosting while hugging the right. This will avoid most mines and get you over the whirlpools. There are only two spots where mines can hit you, which the Aku Aku masks will tank.

• There is nothing new to add for this level; the time savers are pretty much all on overcoming the pits.
  • A well placed slide spin jump can clear the pits; and can sometimes even be used to get out of them as soon as you fall in.
  • The easiest way to bypass a pit is to use the slide spin jump to jump into the cavities to the sides, as this lets you clear the pit in two jumps.
  • If you still get stuck, you can high bounce off the moles to get out of the pits early, instead of having to defeat them all and wait for the mushrooms to grow.

• Whenever you reach a safe spot, the boulder crashing into the arch behind you throws Crash forward to the ground, which will cost you a few seconds. You can prevent this with good timing by jumping forward and bouncing off a box as this happens. The checkpoint boxes are always good for this.
• Be sure to take advantage of the boost pads, and try not to hit any mines.

As mentioned, just move to these spots before he lays the explosives, and you will be fine. Just make sure to spin attack whenever he is stunned:

1. To start, stay on the bottom left corner tile.
2. Once the first wave of TNTs explode, move to the bottom right corner tile.
3. Once you have performed your first attack on Ripper Roo, move to the very bottom middle tiles.
4. Once the second wave of TNTs explode, move back to the bottom right corner tile.
5. Once you have performed your second attack on Ripper Roo, move to the left side tile where his ear sticks out the most. This would be the far left column, three rows up from the bottom.
6. Once the third wave of TNTs explode, move to the very bottom row, and stand between the third and fourth tile, right on top of the "/t" in the "a = v/t" equation.

The biggest challenge will be the red gem path. As long as you make your way slowly through and do not rush the obstacles, it shouldn’t offer a great challenge. Just be sure to utilise your slide jumps, as these are needed to clear the distances required in the later half.

In the bonus round, make sure you back track to get the couple of boxes just before the ! box. Further along, you can hop backwards along the ice to clear the TNT blast. Once you exit the bonus, the rest of the level is fairly straight forward.

Once inside the death route, keep moving along the platforms as they float down until you reach the end. The next set of platforms will rise and fall on opposite ends of a hippo; you do not have much time on the hippo, so you want to time your jump off the first platform just as it sinks.

Ahead is a river filled with nitros; take your time, and boost up the left of the whirlpool to avoid the rest. Directly after, slow down and position yourself in the middle, and boost up into the dock as the moving mines float to the sides.

Ice adds complication; since Polar slides more uncontrollably. When you see ice approaching, try to position yourself in the centre of the general group of boxes, where applicable. That way, you have to move less to hit them.

The only real challenge comes when you hit a mine field of nitros. Keep to the left, and jump over to the right to avoid them.

Once the first boulder drops into the pit, you will have the option of going back up a secondary path. This path contains a few boxes; but adds a tricky jump that requires you to slide under an electric barrier and immediately jump across a pit. As long as you time it right, it shouldn’t be a problem. The platform on the other side will take you back to the fork.

The third boulder will take you through some nitro boxes. Just stay in the middle; the boulder will detonate them as it goes by, so in case you were invoking your inner speedrunner, do not go too far ahead as they will despawn.

For the fourth boulder, you do want to try and get ahead as much as possible - use the boosts to help with this. Just towards the end, there are a few boxes on either side, including a metal box that needs a body slam. These can be especially tricky if the boulder is close on your tail.

When you get to the first split, take the right path. You will come to a room filled with nitros. Make sure to grab the single box in the middle; but cautiously make your way forward, and you will be able to jump straight through the wall at the end and into a secret area.

Make your way to the end of this area for the green gem; make sure to take out every enemy, as you will need to come back the same way. Make your way back slowly, but move fast over the floating platforms, as they will sink if you stand on them for too long.

Continuing forward, take the left path at the next fork, and make sure you grab all of the boxes and the crystal at the end before returning back to the fork.

The Komodo Brothers are pretty straight forward; Moe will sit in the centre of the arena, and will periodically spin Joe around the room. Avoid Joe until he stops spinning, and slide attack him to send him back at Moe.

In between each attack, Joe will throw swords around the room. Just keep ahead of him, and avoiding them will be a piece of cake. He will also throw targeted swords while Moe spins around the room during the last phase, but as long as you keep moving, these are easily avoided.

The additional achievement for this fight requires completion without jumping or spinning. You should not need to do either.

For most part, this level is pretty straight forward. Just make sure to save the masks, as there are some tricky spots where you have to jet close to man-eating plants, and they can really come in handy.

When you hit the last jet-ski board, there will be a path along the right. Be sure to go down it to collect some additional boxes and take out some man-eating plants.

Just make sure to collect the masks, and keep boosting on the jet-ski board. During the first jet-ski board, this will allow you to boost straight down the right side without any issues.

When you reach the last jet-ski board, you want to aim to have one mask, as it can be tricky getting past the two man-eating plants without one and you do not want to have to waste time going ahead to take them out. Just make sure to keep boosting to the right to avoid the last man-eating plant before the exit.

The second clear gem is found along the yellow gem path, early in this level. The yellow gem path is fairly tricky, but the clear gem is also found fairly early along the path, dont grab the checkpoint before the gem path, and kill yourself just after collecting the yellow gem. You will load back in at the start of the level, and it will not count as a death for the achievement.

When you hit the fast fans, play it safe. Wait for the scrubbers, and spin them into the fans three times to completely neutralise them.

When you hit the fork, take the right path just far enough to hit the two ! boxes. Backtrack and head down the left path to collect the additional boxes, before returning and continuing right until the end of the level.

The icey spots only ever have two boxes, so try to enter in line with the first, and slide into the second.

When you get thrown across to the warp room, you will notice a platform in the water surrounded by smaller icey platforms. After collecting the box gem, return back here and platform across to the large platform for a secret warp room exit.

The rest of the level should be pretty easy. It should go without saying, but avoid the death route. Shortly after, you will see a jet-ski board section with some platforms. Slide jump across the platforms to hit some extra boxes before you return to the jet-ski board, or you will miss them.

This should also be your last gem for the ice warp room.

The second gem comes from a death route; when you reach it, however, you want to ignore it as shortly ahead is the power crystal. Grab the crystal before you return to the death route.

The death route adds some log jumping sections, as you navigate a series of platforms with logs thrown along by gorillas. Just keep track of the timing, and jump across as a log goes by.

When you come to the platforms that sort of rotate around on columns, be very careful. You will slowly slip off them, so while standing on them, slowly and constantly edge yourself towards the centre.

The death route will exit towards the end of the level; at this point, the remaining part is not that difficult.

When the first polar bear falls down the pit, you will notice it leaves behind three planks. This is a hint that you can drop down into this pit for a secret area. This area contains a lot of boxes, so make sure you do not miss it.

In the secret area, you will find a ! box that enables a bounce box. Above will be a mask box, and to the right a platform with some Wumpa fruit leading out. On this platform, there are a couple of Crash boxes hidden just out of view in the sky.

For the last section, you get to ride Polar; but there are only a few boxes. Most of the way is littered with electric fences on either side, but you can charge through the sides, so sticking to the middle is a good strategy.

Once you collect the gem, return back and slide jump over the pit that Polar throws you over. Further along, you will find Polar; reach him for a secret level.

When collecting the boxes over the long lakes, be sure to charge.

When you come to the totem shortly before the ice with the pool directly to the left, you want to jump across and to the left, and come into the ice from this direction to hit all of the boxes.

When you drop down into the third section, you can head back towards the camera and drop down into another entrance; but this leads towards a secret to the second secret level. You will want to continue towards the end and collect the gem before doubling back; it is much easier to do this on a second run.

At the end of the bonus level, there are a stack of bounce boxes; these are a lot easier to break if you high bounce off the first one and individually break the top row, rather than trying to go through the centre.

When you reach the big masks that move forward and back, take your time and run around them as they move backwards, as they are completely invulnerable.

In the bonus level, there is a hidden box higher up above the metal arrow crate. High bounce up to reach it.

When you come to the fork in the road, the left side contains a death route with the second gem. It also contains some boxes, so you won’t be able to use the death exploit.

This level is the first of two to include bee hives; once you pass them, bees will chase you. Only one comes out of each, in this level, so you can easily spin them away. When you get to the end of the death route, you will need to backtrack up the right path for the boxes. There are boxes pretty much all the way. Go slow, as there will be bees you will need to spin.

Once you collect the gem, you want to back track again for a hidden exit. Shortly before the exit, there is a seed-spitting man-eating plant on a grassy platform in the middle of a pit. Jump on top and body slam it to head through the secret exit.

To start with, you will see a big mass of boxes ahead. Pick through them slowly, as there is a TNT box in the middle. The rest of the level is fairly straight forward.

This should also be your last gem for the sewer warp room.

For your first run, aim to get through to the end of the death route without breaking a checkpoint. The end is particularly tricky; but you can collect 3 Aku Aku masks along the way and have invulnerability at the end. The last mask is hidden - it is inside a regular box above an arrow box.

Collect the clear gem, and jump down the next bottomless pit to restart the level. Remember, we keep the gem.

For the next run, take it slow, and break every box. Inside the bonus round there is a ? box hidden higher up above the two bounce boxes. Make sure to have 31 boxes before leaving; the TNT boxes do not always break the other boxes when they explode off screen.

The second run through the death route in particular needs the Aku Aku invulnerability for ease; Near the end, you will find a ! box. Once you hit it, you have to return all the way back to the start, breaking every box as you go. This will be ten times easier if you have just wiped out most of the obstacles at the end.

As you continue through the normal level, you may come to a set of four boxes, any of which may be outlined. Each trigger is ! box that is hidden in the areas blocked by ice shortly before.

When you come to the alcoves, the second has two Nitro boxes with a box behind them. Jump in as far to the left as you can and push all the way to the back, than jump on the box and push all the way to the right before exiting back to the foreground.

If you have made it this far, you are mostly out of the woods. The rest of the level is pretty straight forward, all the way to the exit.

The gem path is particularly nasty; and is going to test your timing. Lots of log-throwing monkeys, with paths littered with falling platforms. Don’t be too afraid to hang around on the platforms a moment to wait for the right time to jump - they don’t crumble straight away.

Once you get the clear gem, jump to your death to restart the level with the clear gem in your inventory. Time to get the boxes.

The first set of four boxes you come to will have a Nitro right behind them; so take caution.

When you come to the ! box surrounded by box outlines, ignore it. These are all Nitro boxes, and they do not need to be active to detonate. If you do hit it by accident, just jump across to the right and hug the wall towards the end.

In the bonus, there will be a stack of metal boxes with TNT boxes at the base. Jump on the TNT to start the counter, and wait on top of the stack; you won’t be able to get back up. Jump as they blow to avoid the blast, and body slam to break the boxes.

Further along the bonus, there will be a long bridge of boxes that you need to jump across. In the middle, there are a set of bounce boxes. You might find it easier to high bounce towards them, and spin to break the top two. This will give you more time to react when the bottom ones break.

The Nitro Detonator will be in the middle of some platforms with possums on them. If you want to avoid the tricky jump, try to spin one of the possums into it, instead.

For the third level in a row, we are also performing a death exploit; so make your first run through avoiding the checkboxes. When you reach the staircase if Nitro, climb to the top for a secret area. The purple gem is right at the start, so grab it, and throw yourself off the next ledge.

The rest of the level can be a bit tricky; but just take your time and you'll have it. There are no tricky boxes, and the bonus is straight forward.

For phase one, N. Gin opens his laser hands a few times before firing, so take pot shots where you can. When he starts firing a laser, jump or dodge under it, and take some shots at the other hand.

For phase two, N. Gin will move left and right, opening and closing his rocket pods. Once again, pot shots where you can. Each volley leaves the alternate side of the platform open, so just keep moving left and right to avoid them. After one pod is destroyed, he fires a single rocket at a time, which you can jump over with ease..

For the last phase, N. Gin pops up on whichever platform you’re standing on and charges a massive laser. You have time for exactly two shots before he fires. Shoot twice, then immediately jump to a different platform.

Make sure to leave the drone right after the death route, so you can use it to bounce back up. Alternatively, use a slide-spin-jump to get back up on your return.

The bonus round also requires backtracking. When you pass the column of Nitro boxes, don’t break the bounce box immediately after them. You will need it to get back after hitting the ! box.

Once you reach the alcove with the Nitros and the extra life, head back to the death route.
Be careful with the shrink rays - they’re much harder when approached in reverse. The death route itself is rough, so bringing as many Aku Aku masks as possible really helps.

On the plus side, all boxes are out in the open. As long as you take it slow and careful, this level is pretty easy.