Crash Bandicoot

Crash Bandicoot is the primary protaganist in the Crash Bandicoot series. He is a genetically-advanced Eastern Barred Bandicoot who lives the life on N. Sanity Island. Throughout the series Crash will usually have to defeat his arch-enemy Cortex in order for his life to return to normal. Crash is often accompined by his ally Aku Aku.

Background

Crash Bandicoot first started his adventures after the evil Dr.Neo Cortex kidnapped his love and tossed Crash out of his Castle. Thus forcing Crash to set off on an adventure to find his girlfriend, and put an end to Cortex all at once. After a few run-ins with Cortex's minions, Crash found his beloved defeated Cortex and save the world. But little did he know that Cortex would return...

After the events of the first game, Cortex was seen crashlanding into a cave of magical artifacts called "Crystals" he would use their energy to power a machine known as the "Cortex Vortex" and enslave humanity. But according to his new henchmen N.Gin, he had only found the "Master Crystal" and also needed 25 "Slave Crystals" for the laser to be in it's full effect. Cortex had only one resource to call upon, his old nemisis Crash Bandicoot. Who was resting peacefully with his new ally and sister Coco Bandicoot, when her battery died she then told Crash to go bring her a new one. Crash ventures foruth to find her battery when a light swallows him up and transport him to a room with "5 warp like tunnels", then a voice starts to speak. Cortex then persuades Crash to bring him the crystals, Crash unaware of the situation go and search for the crystals battling new foes along the way. But before Crash can hand Cortex the remaining crystals, Coco hacks the system and tells Crash the truth. Cortex's plot is exposed he then tries to flee in space, but Crash stops him by spinninng crater-like boulders at him. Ending with Cortex failing once again and Crash saving the world with the help of Cortex's old college Dr.Nitrous Brio to finish off the Cortex Vortex with the remaining gems Crash had collected.

In the closing of the trilogy Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped, an evil spirit named "Uka-Uka" was awakened from his underground prison due to one of the destroyed peices of the Cortex Vortex crashing into it. He then hired a time-twisting genuis named "N.trophy" to travel back in time to find the crystals before Crash was even born. When Aku-Aku found out about this, he sent Crash & Coco to retreive the crystals before Cortex and his minions does. When Crash and Coco collected all the remaining crystals, it was time to do battle against Cortex and his "newfound master" Uka-Uka. When Crash defeated the duo, Cortex was looking towards retirement while Uka-Uka still had his vengance in mind. Aku-Aku then suggested that Crash and Coco went back to collect the remaninig Gems and Relics before Uka-Uka could retrive them. Once their task was completed it was time to do battle one last time, Crash and Aku-Aku teamed up and deafeated Cortex and Uka-Uka while the time-twister imploded. Aku-Aku used his magic to warp Crash and Coco to safety right before the implosion caught them. And those who was caught in the implosion (Cortex, N.Trophy, Uka-Uka) was trapped forever in time as babies. Except Uka-Uka who was reduced to a child's play thing by the two infant doctors.

Similarites in Gaming

Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon have shown a strong resemblence in each other series such as:

• Both have companions who followed the hero around throughout the whole game.
• Both have companions (Aku-Aku for Crash) and (Sparx for Spyro) who served as protection instead of a traditional health meter.
• Both Crash and Spyro have a trilogy which are platformer and that ends on the Playstation.
• Both of the heroes are at least teenagers.
• Both have collectibles that are scattered around their world.
• Both have spin-offs exclusively for another console.
• Crash and Spyro both have villans who also have alot in common.

The Clash of Heroes

In the crossover game Crash Purple: Ripto's Rampage Crash and Spyro's world is being terrozied by Riptocs who have disguised themselves as the opposing protagonist. When Crash and Spyro finally confront each other, They fight due to the misunderstanding on (Spyro's behalf). After an explantion from Aku-Aku (Crash's Ally) Spyro decides that Cortex and Ripto must be stopped in order to save their world's from the evil duo, and put an end to their malice once and for all. They travel towards the "Artic Cliffs" Spyro then suggested that they split up to cover more ground, where at the end Cortex's henchmen "Tiny Tiger" was waiting for Crash. Crash defeated Tiny while Spyro fended off Crush and Gulp. Ripto and Cortex was bickering with the failure of their minions, when Cortex sent his neice Nina to kidnap the Professer and Coco. Crash and Spyro traveled to "Fire Mountains", when Blink showed up and told them what Cortex and Ripto has done. Spyro then told Crash to follow him and they eventually end up at "Dragon Castles" where Nina is waiting for them. Spyro tells Crash to distract Nina while he rescues the Proffeser and Coco, she then gets lured into a trap and ends up being captured by Spyro. Coco and Proffeser seems to have lost hope since their research was destroyed by Nina. Until Coco devises a plan to put "Tracers" on Cortex and Ripto, when Crash and Spyro confronts them. The battle starts between the villians and the heroes and the plan comes to effect. Cortex and Ripto got away (which was sussposed to happen), but Crash forgot to add his tracer onto Ripto as he escaped. Their plan seems to have been a "dud" but Spyro locked his tracer onto Cortex, which leads them to "Tech Park" for their final battle. Crash and Spyro challenges the evil duo one last time which takes place in space, Crash and Spyro defeated them as they end the game with a image of Crash freindly headlocking Spyro.