Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time Trophy Roadmap
- Estimated trophy difficulty: 9/10
- Approximate amount of time to platinum: 50 hours+, it’s entirely skill-dependent (depending on how many replays you need for the Relics)
- Offline Trophies: 52 (1
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- Number of missable trophies: 0 (nothing missable)
- Glitched trophies: 0
- Hardest Trophies: OVER-Overachiever
- Most Time-Consuming Trophies: OVER-Overachiever
- Does difficulty affect trophies?: No, can do everything in Modern Difficulty. It doesn’t matter whether you pick Retro or Modern Playstyle.
- Do Cheats Disable Trophies?: There are no Cheats
- Minimum Playthroughs: 4 plus many retries for Relics (Finishing the Level, Repeating it in N.Verted Mode, Getting N.Sanely Perfect Relic, Getting Platinum Time Trial Relic)
- Free-Roam / Level Select after Story?: Yes, there is Level Select after the Story. You can replay everything and go back everywhere.
- Release Date: October 02, 2020
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)Introduction
Welcome to the Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time Trophy Guide! Crash Bandicoot 4 features 43 levels (5 of which are boss levels and 38 are Normal Levels). The 38 Normal Levels each have a Platinum Time Trial Relic (=Speedrun) and N.Sanely Perfect Relic (=Get All Clear Gems, except Hidden Gem without dying). There are also 21 Flashback Levels, which you unlock by collecting the Flashback Tapes in Normal Levels without dying. Additionally, the 43 main levels must all be replayed in N.Verted Mode (this mirrors everything horizontally left/right and changes the graphics colors). Some levels must be replayed in different timelines with other characters. There’s a lot to do and you’ll have to absolutely perfect every level, earn every Relic and get 106% game completion for doing everything possible in the game. It’s a highly skill dependent platinum.
Step 1: Finish Story, Get Colored Gems & Miscellaneous Trophies
For the first step don’t worry about the Relics yet. Just get to know all of the levels and become familiar with the controls and enemies. Play through the story to unlock Triple Spin at the end. This move makes you go faster which helps you beat the Speedrun times for the Platinum Time Trial Relics. Along the way, pick up the 4 Colored Gems (Red, Green, Yellow, Blue) and the level specific miscellaneous trophies. You need the Colored Gems to open up some unique level paths. Everything can be replayed after the story, nothing is missable. Below is a list of all Miscellaneous Trophies and Gems in Chronological Order which you can follow as you go through the game.
- Channel Surfer – Map: N.Sanity Island / Level: Rude Awakening
- Red Gem – Map: N.Sanity Island / Level: N.Sanity Peak
- Megaphoning It In – Map: The Hazardous Wastes / Level: A Real Grind
- Junkyard Jams – Map: The Hazardous Wastes / Level: Hit The Road
- Green Gem – Map: The Hazardous Wastes / Level: Hit The Road
- Give ‘Em a Broadside! – Map: Salty Wharf / Level: Thar He Blows!
- Silence the Scientist – Map: Tranquility Falls / Level: Give it a Spin
- Hammer it Home – Map: Tranquility Falls / Level: Draggin’ On
- Blue Gem – Map: Tranquility Falls / Level: Draggin’ On
- Tree Droppings – Map: Tranquility Falls / Level: Off-Balance
- Here Kitty Kitty – Map: Mosquito Marsh / Level: Off Beat
- Bad Signs – Map: Mosquito Marsh / Level: Home Cookin’
- Yellow Gem – Map: Mosquito Marsh / Level: Run It Bayou
- WOAH YEAH! – Map: Bermugula’s Orbit / Level: A Hole in Space
Step 2: Play through all N.Verted Levels & Timelines
Beating a level unlocks it for replay in N.Verted Mode (becomes available after Level “Trouble Brewing” in the 4th Map Area). N.Verted Mode mirrors everything horizontally (left/right) and changes the graphics to a render-mode with different colors. After the story replay all levels in this mode. When you select a level it will let you pick between “Normal” & “N.Verted” mode. Along the way you can already grab the Hidden N.Verted Gems if you like. Beating all levels in N.Verted unlocks 
Backwards & Forwards. Also finish the different Timelines. Those are the optional levels that have 2 character icons in the level stats (there are 9 of those total). Those unlock the trophy The Whole Picture.
» Crash Bandicoot 4 – All Hidden Gem Locations
Step 3: Platinum Flashback Relics
Grab all 21 Flashback Tapes. Each of them unlocks a Flashback Level. You have to reach the Flashback Tapes in the Normal Levels WITHOUT DYING. However, you are allowed to die after picking up the Tape. Just reaching it without dying is required. Be sure to finish the level afterward. If you died before the tape it will become transparent and cannot be picked up.
You can keep track of your progress in the Pause Menu > Level Stats. It shows which levels have Flashback Tapes.
After you got all Tapes, play through all 21 Flashback Levels. For their Platinum Flashback Relics you must simply destroy all Crates in one run (there are checkpoints in between to make this easier).
» Crash Bandicoot 4 – All Flashback Tape Locations
» Crash Bandicoot 4 – Platinum Flashback Relics Guide
Step 4: N.Sanely Perfect Relics
38 of 43 Levels in the game have an N.Sanely Perfect Relic (all except the 5 boss levels). They are for getting all Clear Gems (except Hidden Gem) in a Level without dying a single time.
The 5 Clear Gems needed per level are:
- Find 40% of all Fruits
- Find 60% of all Fruits
- Find 80% of all Fruits
- Destroy ALL Crates
- Die less than 3 times
You must get them all in one go, but without dying a single time to get the N.Sanely perfect Relic. Finding the Hidden Gem isn’t required in this run, you are allowed to get this in a separate run. These are also needed for 106% completion. The good news is that you don’t need to collect every single piece of fruit, only 80%. Since you need to destroy ALL crates you should get 80% of fruit automatically. This allows you to skip some of the flying fruits. You are also allowed to die inside the Bonus Levels, but only the ones with a “?” platform (they are the platforms that fly you to a side path). The Bonus Level deaths don’t count towards the overall Deaths in a level which makes it a bit easier.
» Crash Bandicoot 4 – N.Sanely Perfect Relics Guide
Step 5: Platinum Time Trial Relics
38 of 43 Levels in the game have a Platinum Time Trial Relic (all except the 5 boss levels).
When replaying a level, you’ll see a golden stopwatch at the start of it. Collect this to trigger the Time Trial. It will spawn some crates with numbers on them, destroying them will freeze the timer. You will also need the Triple Spin to go faster, unlocked by finishing the story. Platinum is the most difficult time requirement to beat in time trials. You have to run through every level perfectly without dying. If you die you lose too much time and it becomes basically impossible to finish with a platinum time. This and the N.Sanely Perfect Relics are the most difficult tasks in the game.
» Crash Bandicoot 4 – Platinum Time Trial Relics Guide
(Optional) Step 6: Remaining N.Verted Gems
If you didn’t already go for all N.Verted Gems in Step 3, go get your missing ones now for trophy gnilB fo gniK.
» Crash Bandicoot 4 – All Hidden Gem Locations
Step 7: 106% Completion Ending
After having gotten all Gems and Relics (Flashback Platinum Relics, N.Sanely Perfect Relics, Platinum Time Trial Relics) you will unlock the 106% ending and that should be the last thing you need for platinum. Congrats!
Useful Tips, Tricks and Guides:
- Crash Bandicoot 4 – N.Sanely Perfect Relics Guide (All Crates & Gems)
- Crash Bandicoot 4 – Platinum Time Trial Relics Guide
- Crash Bandicoot 4 – Platinum Flashback Relics Guide
- Crash Bandicoot 4 – All Hidden Gem Locations
- Crash Bandicoot 4 – All Flashback Tape Locations
- Crash Bandicoot 4 – Full Levels List
- Crash Bandicoot 4 – How to Unlock Red Gem
- Crash Bandicoot 4 – How to Unlock Green Gem
- Crash Bandicoot 4 – How to Unlock & Use Triple Spin
Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time Trophy Guide
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Master Marsupial Get EVERY trophy |
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| Earn all other trophies in Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time to unlock platinum (DLC not required)! | ||
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Beat ‘Em Any Which Way Beat any boss in N. Verted mode |
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| N. Verted mode is unlocked after finishing Map: Tranquility Falls / Level: Trouble Brewing. This lets you replay all levels in “Inverted Mode”. Simply replay any boss level for this, for example Map: The Hazardous Wastes / Level: Stage Dive. It’s basically the same as the normal boss fight, just the graphics look a little different and some things are flipped from left to right. | ||
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Backwards & Forwards Complete ALL levels in N. Verted mode |
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| Crash Bandicoot 4 has a total of 43 levels (5 of them are boss levels). You unlock N.Verted Mode after finishing Map: Tranquility Falls / Level: Trouble Brewing. This allows you to replay any level in N.Verted (Inverted) mode.
It will mirror everything horizontally (left/right) and changes the render-mode to different colors. But the levels are basically the same, just mirrored. When you select a level on replay, choose “N.Verted”. Replay all 43 levels in this mode for this trophy. |
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IT’S MESSING WITH MY HEAD, MAN!!! Beat a level in N. Verted mode |
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| See trophy “Backwards & Forwards”. | ||
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Taking the Side Road Complete a Bonus Path |
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| Bonus Paths are marked by Question-Mark “?” platforms. Stepping on those “?” platforms will fly you to a Bonus Stage with extra crates. These Bonus Path platforms are in plain sight throughout the levels that have them. | ||
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The Whole Picture Complete all Timelines |
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| Timelines are optional Main Levels. There are 9 Timeline Levels in total. They unlock automatically over the course of the story. In the level stats these have 2 character icons on them. They are replays of the other main levels, but you’ll play them from the perspective of a different character.
The Timeline Levels to complete for this trophy are:
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Putting Things In Perspective Complete any Timeline |
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Fleet of Feet Play a game of Checkpoint Race |
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| From the Title Screen select “Bandicoot Battle” > “2 Players” > “Checkpoint Race”. Win one of these matches. The 1st level “Rude Awakening” is the fastest. This can be done offline and with 1 single controller. In this mode you are supposed to pass the controller from one player to the next. The goal is to run through all checkpoints the fastest. You can easily do this solo by yourself. You can intentionally die to skip to the next checkpoint right away, this way it goes faster. It doesn’t matter if Player 1 or Player 2 wins or what your score is, you get the trophy by simply playing one of these games from start to end. | ||
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Settle the Score Play a game of Crate Combo |
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| From the Title Screen select “Bandicoot Battle” > “2 Players” > “Crate Combo”. Win one of these matches. The 1st level “Rude Awakening” is the fastest. This can be done offline and with 1 single controller. In this mode you are supposed to pass the controller from one player to the next. The goal is to destroy as many crates as possible. You can easily do this solo by yourself. You can intentionally die to skip to the next checkpoint right away, this way it goes faster. It doesn’t matter if Player 1 or Player 2 wins or what your score is, you get the trophy by simply playing one of these games from start to end. | ||
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What Has Been, Will Be Again Defeat Dr. Neo Cortex… again. |
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| Automatic story-related trophy, cannot be missed. Unlocks in Level “The Past Unmasked”. This is the endboss of the story. | ||
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The Fourth Time Defeat Dr. Neo Cortex |
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| Automatic story-related trophy, cannot be missed. Unlocks in Level “4th Time’s A Charm”. | ||
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Master Mixologist Defeat N. Brio |
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| Automatic story-related trophy, cannot be missed. Unlocks in Level “Trouble Brewing”. | ||
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Beaten With His Own Drum Defeat N. Gin and his Weapon of Mass Percussion |
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| Automatic story-related trophy, cannot be missed. Unlocks in Level “Stage Dive”. | ||
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Twinsanity Defeat the Doctors N. Tropy |
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| Automatic story-related trophy, cannot be missed. Unlocks in Level “A Hole in Space”. | ||
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Overachiever Watch the 100% bonus ending |
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| See trophy “OVER-Overachiever” for unlocking 106% game completion. You’ll get 100% automatically along the way.
The most straightforward way to get 100% game completion is to get all 228 Gems & 228 N.Verted Gems (but Relics also earn you completion % so you can mix them for the 100%). You can check your Game Progress at any time by pressing Options-Button Each level, except boss levels, has 6 Gems (38 levels total). The way you get them is always the same. 3 are for finding 80% of the fruit, 1 for breaking all boxes, 1 for dying less than 3 times, 1 for finding the hidden gem. |
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OVER-Overachiever Watch the 106% bonus ending |
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In order to get 106% game completion you need the following:
You can check your Game Progress at any time by pressing Options-Button |
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Sapphire-er Acquirer Find the hidden Blue Gem |
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| » Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time – How to Get Blue Gem | ||
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Like a Rhinestone Bandicoot Earn half of the Clear Gems |
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King of Bling Earn ALL of the Clear Gems |
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| There are 228 Normal Clear Gems in the game across 38 levels. Each level has 6 Clear Gems (except boss levels).
The 6 Clear Gems per level are awarded for:
You can do this across multiple runs. They don’t have to be obtained in a single run. |
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gnilB fo gniK Earn ALL N. Verted Gems |
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| N. Verted mode is unlocked after finishing Map: Tranquility Falls / Level: Trouble Brewing.This allows you to replay any level in N.Verted (Inverted) mode. It will mirror everything horizontally (left/right) and changes the render-mode to different colors. But the levels are basically the same, just mirrored.
The 6 Clear Gems per level are awarded for:
You can do this across multiple runs. They don’t have to be obtained in a single run. |
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Emerald Gemerald Find the hidden Green Gem |
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| » Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time – How to Get Green Gem | ||
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Ruby Red Find the hidden Red Gem |
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| » Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time – How to Get Red Gem | ||
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Topaz Pizazz Find the hidden Yellow Gem |
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| » Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time – How to Get Yellow Gem | ||
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Altitude Sickness Crouch or slide into a double jump |
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Hold  and press  to perform a high double jump. |
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Silent Protagonist Meet ‘Akano |
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| Automatic story-related trophy, cannot be missed. Unlocks after Level “Jetboard Jetty”. | ||
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Ups & Downs Meet Ika-Ika |
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| Automatic story-related trophy, cannot be missed. Unlocks after Level “Dino Dash”. | ||
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Reality-Shattering Proportions Meet Lani-Loli |
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| Automatic story-related trophy, cannot be missed. Unlocks after Level “N.Sanity Peak”. | ||
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I Can See Through Time Meet Kupuna-Wa |
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| Automatic story-related trophy, cannot be missed. Unlocks after Level “Run It Bayou”. | ||
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No It’s MY Turn Complete a level with Pass N. Play enabled |
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Press Options-Button  > Pass N. Play > Players = 2 Players / Pass Condition = Checkpoint. Now finish any level. You can enable these settings before or after starting a level, the trophy will unlock either way. Of course you can also use different Pass Conditions or 3-4 players if you like. This does NOT require multiple controllers. It can be done offline with 1 controller – this mode wants you to pass the controller from one person to the next but you can do it solo by yourself. The only important thing is that you switch the Player number from “Single Player” to “2 Players” (or more). |
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Ladies First Complete a level as Coco |
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After playing the first two levels you unlock the World Map (Hub Area). In the Hub Area press  to switch between Coco and Crash. Play any level as Coco to the end to unlock this trophy. |
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Sudden But Inevitable Betrayed! By your worst enemy. |
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| Automatic story-related trophy, cannot be missed. Unlocks in Map: The Sn@xx Dimension / Level: The Great Escape. | ||
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Model Test Subject Earn any Flashback Relic |
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| » Crash Bandicoot 4 – All Flashback Tape Locations » Crash Bandicoot 4 – Platinum Flashback Relics Guide |
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Closing the Experiment Log Earn ALL of the platinum Flashback Relics |
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| » Crash Bandicoot 4 – All Flashback Tape Locations » Crash Bandicoot 4 – Platinum Flashback Relics Guide |
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Perfectionist Earn ALL N.Sanely Perfect Relics |
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| » Crash Bandicoot 4 – N.Sanely Perfect Relics Guide | ||
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So-Called Perfectionist Earn any N.Sanely Perfect Relic |
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| » Crash Bandicoot 4 – N.Sanely Perfect Relics Guide | ||
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Faster Than a Tortoise Earn any Time Trial Relic |
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| » Crash Bandicoot 4 – Platinum Time Trial Relics Guide | ||
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Faster Than Sound Earn ALL of the platinum Time Trial Relics |
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| » Crash Bandicoot 4 – Platinum Time Trial Relics Guide | ||
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All Gussied Up Try on a Skin |
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You unlock costumes for finding all 6 Gems in a level. A few costumes are also unlocked automatically throughout the game. In the World Map / Hub area, simply press  to open the skins menu. Equip any one of the skins and the trophy will unlock. Do note that Crash has different skins than Coco. |
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Whoa! Pull off a Triple Spin |
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First you must finish the story to unlock Triple Spin (it’s unlocked after the endboss in Level “The Past Unmasked”). Now replay any level, walk forward The important part is that you wait 0.5 – 1 second between each press of |
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Showoff Defeat an enemy with Triple Spin |
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First you must finish the story to unlock Triple Spin (it’s unlocked after the endboss in Level “The Past Unmasked”). Now replay any level, walk forward The important part is that you wait 0.5 – 1 second between each press of |
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N. Vincible Beat a story level without dying |
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| Self-explanatory. Play one single level from start to finish without dying. This is easiest in the 1st level “Rude Awakening”. | ||
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A/V Club Founder Acquire a Flashback Tape |
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Tree Droppings Find the source of the Bumpa Berries |
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Map: Tranquility Falls / Level: Off-Balance At the very start of this level there’s a tree straight in front of where you spawn. Attack the tree branches to make berries fall onto your head. The berries will stun you, which unlocks the trophy. |
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Here Kitty Kitty Scare the cat hiding from a party |
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Map: Mosquito Marsh / Level: Off Beat To the immediate right of the 2nd Checkpoint Crate there’s a dumpster. Attack the dumpster a few times and this trophy will unlock. |
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Give ‘Em a Broadside! Aim and fire! |
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Map: Salty Wharf / Level: Thar He Blows! In this level you play as Dingodile. When Dingodile says “You Smell Good Enough to Eat” there will be two broadside cannons on the right side of the path. Spin-Attack them to earn this trophy. |
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Bad Signs Do some target practice |
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Map: Mosquito Marsh / Level: Home Cookin’ In this level you play as Dingodile. There will be 5 purple bat signs throughout the level. You must shoot them all to unlock this trophy. Hold |
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Junkyard Jams Make music in an unlikely place |
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Map: The Hazardous Wastes / Level: Hit The Road There are 6 barrels in this level that make a melody when you attack them. 3 are at the very start of the level. The other 3 are to the left of the bonus path entrance (the “?” platform). Attack all of these and the trophy will pop. |
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WOAH YEAH! Grabbed a bushel of Bumpa |
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Map: Bermugula’s Orbit / Level: A Hole in Space At the start of this level is a mandatory rail grind section. During this rail grind you can collect a total of 18 grapes. Collect all 18 and the Bushel of Bumpa will spawn at the end of the rail, touching it unlocks the trophy. |
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Silence the Scientist Shut N. Brio up |
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Map: Tranquility Falls / Level: Give it a Spin Shortly after the start of “Give it a Spin”, after you jump over the first TNT crates, you will hear N. Brio talking to you. There’s a green test tube with green smoke coming out of it. Destroy it to shut up N. Brio and earn this trophy.
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Megaphoning It In Shut N. Gin up |
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Map: The Hazardous Wastes / Level: A Real Grind Shortly after the start of “A Real Grind” there’s a megaphone speaker on the right side. You can hear N. Gin’s voice coming from it. Spin
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Hammer it Home Make some noise! |
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Map: Tranquility Falls / Level: Draggin’ On Throughout this level are 4 golden bells. You must hit each of them for this trophy. 3 are hanging from the gates you walk through. The last 1 is hanging on a wall after you encounter 3 “cat” enemies with green glowing faces. None of them are hidden, they are all in plain sight on the main path. |
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Channel Surfer Spend some time surfin’ the waves |
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to grab some explosive barrels or TNT with your cannon, then release the button to shoot them at the purple bat signs.
Special Thanks / Credits
Guide co-writers:
SnowNinjaRaccoon, FranciRoosters, CaptainSellers, andi15101990
The guides for all Relics will be added/linked shortly. There will be a video for each Relic in every level. Otherwise it’s all done.
Edit: all done now.
Oh god I didn’t even finished Crash team racing with platinum cause of oxide time trials and now I see they put the extremely platinum relics😲 Vicarious Visions why???
There is no need to beat the dev time for the 106% trophy. Plat time is enough. You can verify the info on Rexaaayyy stream on twitch. He got the 106% trophy.
Relieved to hear that! Thanks for the info =)
For 106% you have to beat all bosses in N.verted mode too
Oh Christ and there was me thinking it would be similar to Crash 3!
Awesome! A challenging platinum that will keep me busy until the PS5 comes out.
I got 5 gems in the first level (missed the hidden one), didn’t die but I got the N.Sanely perfect relic… maybe the relic doesn’t require all gems in the level?
You’re right… apparently the hidden gem is not needed to get the N.Sanely Perfect Relic. Only the other 5 Gems must be obtained in one go 🙂
Thanks for reporting! I updated this.
How much harder are the Platinum relics than the Gold relics in past Crash games?
A lot harder. It’s the difference between “decent” and “perfect”.
E.g. if a Plat relic in a level is 8/10 difficulty, the gold would be closer to 5/10 difficulty.
I didn’t read the trophies so I don’t spoil the bosses but I only have one question. What is the requirement for the relics is it platinum or gold/platinum like the NST or sapphire is enough?
Platinum Relics are required from all Time Trials.
and to get platinum relics do we need to finish the game to get the shoes like Crash 2&3 or there is no shoes in this game?
The difficulty. Is it 8-9/10 for Crash veterans or for someone like me who has never played crash but really wants to play this one?
That guess is meant for the average player, regardless of previous experience with Crash Bandicoot games.
Based on the Cortex Castle level it seems harder than Crash 2 and Crash 3 and more complex than Crash 1.
There are some levels that are quite easy to get all Relics on, and some that are quite infuriating. Based on the last levels (Cortex Castle being one of the hardest), around 8/10 is my best guess so far. At this point, nobody is even close to platinum, nobody has gotten the Relics on the harder late-game levels yet. It will depend on some of the harder levels’ time trials and what difficulty ratings the platinum achievers will give it to form an average. Compared to previous Crash Bandicoot games this one is more complex due to having more gameplay mechanics & abilities that must be combined all at once, some upside-down sections, more button-pressing.
However, the controls are smoother (and no pill-shape edges that make you slide off, something players of the Crash 1-3 Remasters will be familiar with).
Thank you for the amazing work!
But, all the platinum time trials will be really tough and I think that’s whay beyond my skills…..
Comparing this to the Oxide time trials in CTR would you say difficulty is more or about the same as in it doesnt have to be a perfect run?
Oxide times are a jokes in compare to these
Hi, I just wanted to point out that someone on PSN has achieved the 106% ending without achieving even the Platinum time trial relics. Correct me if I’m wrong, but the purple developer times are higher than the Platinum ones right? I noticed this when I looked at the game on PSNP, and saw that the trophy for 106% is 0.1%. What’s weird is that he doesn’t have the one for 100%.
It is possible that it is hacked, but I don’t see why anyone would hack one trophy and not the platinum if they’re going to.
It’s hacked. You’d get the 100% before the 106%.
Edit: as someone reported below, there’s apparently a “glitch” that lets you cheat it with a keyboard lol. So just an exploit.
Not a hack. Just found out about this today.
If you plug a keyboard into the PS4 and hit “F” repeatedly, more and more of the map unlocks, until eventually the 100% and then 106% endings unlock.
The trick doesn’t give relics – but it will make the 100% and 106% trophies pop.
The trophy is about watching the ending so he could’ve watch the 106% ending before the 100% one.
Doubt i will be trying to get this platinum trophy i had hard enough time getting all gold relics in the remaster trilogy
I got the platinum trophy in the previews 3 games but this is insanely hard, achivements are ridicolus.
I doubt the dev times are required for the 106% I imagine they’re more just an extra challenge for the insane completionists. I hope so anyway, The platinum trophy seems doable even at 9/10 difficulty, but if dev times are required I’ll throw in the towel
Purple developer times? Are you telling me there are time relics beyond platinum?! Please tell me that’s a typo.
Yes there’s a tier above platinum relics. The purple on the 1st level requires you to be 15 seconds faster than the platinum relic.
15 seconds faster than whatever time you got or the set platinum time? As much as I am dreading it, the completionist in me won’t let me not got these.😑
Hey pyx,
Do you need to get N.sanely perfect relics and platinum time trail relics for the N.vetted levels also?
Still pending confirmation as nobody has gotten either trophy yet.
However, the trophy icon shows the number 38 on N.Sanely Relics and the in-game tracker shows 0/38. Therefore, it would seem only the 38 normal relics are needed, not N.verted.
Yeah, I noticed that too. Hopefully, that is the case
Im 99% you dont need since if you do the Insane Relic on Nverted in a level were you didnt had one, it will unlock the icon of completion in the normal level.
Also, you can’t do time trials in N.verted levels, there isn’t the watch thing. But you can get N.sanely perfect relics, however they don’t not appear next to your “level stats” like the N.sanely perfect relics you get from normal levels. So I assuming you don’t need them.
Nah not true, you can get the N.Sanely Relics in Inverted Mode, too and it will count as if you got it in the normal level, so you can choose where to do it.
I definitely got the relic 2 times where I only cleared the leven in N.Verted mode.
Weirdest thing about the 100% and 106% I’ve seen today is that some people have actually gotten the respective endings. Their is videos all over Youtube of the endings, yet nobody has the trophies for them.
There’s a glitch where you can plug in a USB keyboard and keep pressing F and it unlocks every level, including the endings and the trophies. Bit pointless though as you still need to collect the actual relics for those trophies.
OMG . Why Platinum Time Trial Relics is needed !!!!!!!!!!!! this is insane
It’s a 10/10 even with the Platinum relics to be honest. I did the last 3 and got the plats and even stormy ascent, road to nowhere etc was no where near as hard as Cortex Castle. I can’t imagine finishing it in 1 life going slowly at the moment let alone beating a relic time on that level. Prob will settle for around 70% on it which I pretty much have.
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I got 13 platinum time trial relics until now I will keep going until Get the Faster Than Sound trophy
At no point in my life i will do that plat. No way. Its insane.
Did the first three games… Oxide times in CTR..everything on plat… But this is crazy. Cortex castle is one of the hardest Level and thinking of doing it without dying and in a perfect run, will get me nightmares.
My first run on Cortex castle I had 76 deaths. My second run I had 32. I cut it in half just by doing it twice. Keep at it and no death run will be tied to your muscle memory. I think Oxide in CTR was harder on certain levels.
You don’t need all 228 normal gems and 228 inverted gems for the 100%.
Even if you don’t have all gems, but you have some platinum relics, it will continue to count towards the 100%. So you can still get 100% before you collect all gems.
Do we need all the Inverted gems for the Platinum trophy, or just the hidden ones?
Inverted Gems are needed too.
For 106% you have to defeat all bosses in N.verted too
50 hours+? Should be 100+ imo. No way did anyone get this platinum in 50 hours. Did you actually get the platinum Powerpyx?
2 of our co-writers of this guide got it in 50ish hours yeah. Doable, but keep in mind that’s the expected minimum. With a game this skill-dependent there’s always a big variance between players.