Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time Cheats and Tips

Coco is an additional playable character in Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time. She is the younger sister of Crash Bandicoot and just like her older brother she was genetically engineered through the use of Doctor Neo Cortex's and Doctor Nitrus Brio's Evolvo-Ray. Both Coco and her brother Crash have identical movesets, these include spinning and sliding, along with new moves introduced to Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time such as wall running.

To play as Crash's sister, Coco, you simply have to complete the first two stages of the game in order to unlock her. Once Coco becomes an available option you will be able to switch to her on the Dimensional Map for any stage. Although Coco and her brother play identically, each character has their own unique skins which you can unlock.

As with previous installments of the Crash Bandicoot series relics appear in the game. There is one aspect of relic hunting which you may find distracting or just annoying in Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time and that is the trial ghost that appears when you replay levels to get relics. Although it's purpose is to help give you a guide as to what you should be doing to get the fastest possible times you may feel you will be able to perform better without it being there.

If this is the case you can easily turn this feature off. In order to disable it you just need to go to the 'Options' menu and then to 'Gameplay'. Underneath where you can switch from Retro to Modern you will be able to turn the relic time trial ghost on and off. If you do decide to check it off you will never see the relic time trial ghost again unless you repeat this procedure and manually turn it back on again.

In Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time Crash and Coco have 29 skins each, including their default looks. Most of these skins can be unlocked by collecting the gems that are scattered throughout the game which are either out in the open or hidden. Nearly all the levels contain 6 clear gems and once you manage to collect all 6 you will unlock a skin.

Out of the 6 clear gems that can be found on a level 3 of them can be obtained by finding 80% of the Wumba Fruits in each level. 1 is for destroying all the crates and another 1 is granted if you complete the level without dying more than 3 times. There is also a hidden clear gem on each level. Then there are 4 coloured gems, which are secret gems you will need to search high and low for. Finding every gem helps you to reach 100% completion.

Listed below are the different skins you can unlock for Crash and Coco in Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time and in what level.



CRASH SKINS

Default
Unlocked by default.

Mother Clucker
Earn clear gems in Rude Awakening.

Rawkit Hed
Earn 6 clear gems in A Real Grind.

Bright Now
Earn 6 clear gems in Hit the Road.

Booty Seeker
Earn 6 clear gems in Booty Calls.

Ze Artiste
Earn 6 clear gems in Hook, Line, and Sinker.

Pursona
Earn 6 clear gems in Give It a Spin.

Papercut
Earn 6 clear gems in Potion Commotion.

Party Gras
Earn 6 clear gems in Off Beat.

Cat's Meow
Earn 6 clear gems in Run It Bayou.

Warped Biker
Defeat N. Brio in Trouble Brewing (N. Verted).

Fake Crash
Earn 7 clear gems in Building Bridges (regular and N. Verted).

Shreddin' the Gnar
Earn 7 clear gems in Snow Way Out

Fuzzy Crusader
Earn 7 clear gems in Ship Happens (regular and N. Verted).

Living Fossil
Earn 8 clear gems in Blast to the Past (regular and N. Verted).

Floater
Earn 8 clear gems in Dino Dash (regular and N. Verted).

Geometry Warrior

In Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time you will be able to save a considerable amount of time by Fast Traveling across the Dimensional Map. In order to be able to Fast Travel you must first pause the game from the Dimensional Map. If you then head over to the Level Stats icon you which will bring up a dimension-by-dimension breakdown of your performance along with how many of the gems you were able to find.

From here you simply need to search for the stage you need to return to and press X (PlayStation 4) or A (Xbox One) on your controller to 'Play Level'. This will bring up the option to choose between the normal version or N' Verted form of the stage which you can then jump straight into.

It is recommended that you use Fast Travel whenever possible as it is a great way to save time as you are able to avoid walking all around the Dimensional Map to get where you need to go. It will also enable you see what levels you still have incomplete tasks in.

In Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time the first major boss you will encounter is Doctor N.Gin, an insane cyborg and assistant to Doctor Neo Cortex. The battle itself will take place on a conveyor where Doctor N. Gin will bombard you with minions and lasers. The actual fight can be broken down into four different phases, here is what you must do in each of them to defeat him.

Phase 1
At the start of the battle you need to spin into his minions directly as doing so will send them into Doctor N. Gins speakers. After 3 minions hit it you will be able to jump onto the speaker to attack.

Phase 2
You will now have two more objects to avoid that come in the form of water beams. Make sure to jump over the water beams and slide under the red beams. While avoiding the two types of beams you need to keep repeating the same process as Phase 1.

Phase 3
Now another coveyor belt will appear. Just as before you need to make sure you avoid lasers and hit the minions head-on. The best way to do this is by staying in the middle.

Phase 4
In the last pahse of the battle Crash will be on a floating platform with Minions leaping up. If you hit 3 of them Doctor N.Gin will be defeated.

In Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time there are hidden coloured gems you can find which once found will unlock hidden areas which would not have been possible to access without the gem. The yellow gem can be found on the Mosquito Marsh Map on the 'Run It Bayou' level.

You willl see the yellow gem at the beginning of the 'Run It Bayou' level but if you are on the water vehicle it appears impossible to reach. To get to the yellow gem you must not go on the water vehicle at the start of the level. Instead what you must do is jump onto the path you see on the right side of the canal and follow it with a well-placed slide and high jump. In order to pull this off you will need some precise timing to bounce off the boxes. Follow the path until you reach the moving platform which you can use to hop off to another platform which has four crates on it. If you now double-jump off those four crates you will be able to catch the yellow gem which is high up in the air out of screen and you will not be able to see until you jump into it.

As you progress through Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time it is inevitable that you will come across the TNT boxes that are scattered everywhere around the game. In order to destroy these TNT boxes you must approach them like any other box in the game other than the Nitro ones and simply jump on it. When either Crash or Coco does this they will bounce like a normal box and immediately start a timer that counts down from three. This timer indicates you have precisely three seconds to get out of the range of the blast before the TNT box explodes. There will be instances during the game where you will have to use these TNT boxes to destroy other boxes, all you need to do is be careful and get your timing right so you don't get caught up in the blast.

Later in the game you will be chased by some flying robots carrying TNT boxes intent on using them to blow you up. All you can do is do your best to get as far away from the TNT boxes as possible as they count down and hope you have managed to get far enough away from the blast.

Crash Bandicoot games are not known for their story, whatever plot there is is pretty straight forward and doesn't need a genius to follow it. In which case there is a good probability you will want to skip the cutscenes and the dialogue associated with them and instead carry on with the platforming as quickly as possible.

If you are one of these gamers you will be pleased to know that you can skip cutscenes in Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time by pressing any button while a cutscene is going on. If you look at the bottom right of the screen you will be able to see a prompt that will inform you that you can press and hold Triangle (PlayStation 4) or Y (Xbox One) on your controller to immediately skip the cutscene.

You will probably want to watch all the cutscenes the first time you play through Crash Bandicoot 4: It's Almost Time but in subsequent replays they will become tedious and annoying so knowing how to skip them is extremely useful.

In Crash Bandicoot 4: It's Almost Time there is a feature called N. Verted mode. This is essentially a mirror mode, the game takes the levels you have previously played and flips them horizontally.

Wumpa Fruit is replaced with Bumpa Berries and the levels have a completely new art style. While crates and enemies are in the same places in N. Verted levels the hidden gems are not and you will need to search through each level again in order to find them.

To unlock N. Verted levels you must first complete the level 'Trouble Brewing' in the main story.

When you reach the 'The Past Unmasked' level in Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time you will encounter the final boss of the game. This will be Dr Neo Cortex, the mad scientist who seeks to achieve world domination as an act of vengeance for the ridicule he has suffered in the past. In this boss fight Dr. Cortex will take away all four masks from you and use them himself. The actual fight can be broken down into four different phases, here is what you must do in each of them to defeat him.

Phase 1
At the start of the battle you need to bounce on each of the Shoot-O-Matics 3 times to destroy them. You must do this while also dodging their big yellow ring attacks and the falling platforms. When Dr. Cortex assistant is deployed spin him to take off the first health bar.

Phase 2
Dr. Cortex will now use Lani-Loli. You need to jump over the phasing platforms, destroy the Shoot-O-Matics, and spin the assistant again. At this point Dr. Cortex will begin to use his AnnihiLaser and you need to avoid it's beams by ducking in order to stay alive. Dr. Cortex will then use Ika-Ika and you will need to dodge the lasers while upside-down. Jump on the Shoot-O-Matics like before and spin the assistant again.

Phase 3
Dr. Cortex will now use Kapuna-Wa and the platforms will begin to disappear again like before. Begin by sprinting to the right making sure you stay on the platforms that are not phasing away. At this point Dr. Cortex will begin to intermittingly slow down time which will not be much of a problem if you focus on bouncing on the left-most Shoot-O-Matic when it appears and then jumping into the bottom-left corner. Stay there until the cycle comes around and then run to the top-right turret and jump onto it. You now need to jump over to the assistant and spin him you will put an end to Dr. Cortex time-trickery.

Phase 4
Dr. Cortex will now use the final mask, 'Akano. Begin by dodging the lasers and quickly jumping on all four Shoot-O-Matics. This is important because the less turrets there are, the less ground-based waves of energy you will have to contend with. When you have destroyed the final Shoot-O-Matic you will need to defeat four assistants. Keep avoiding the lasers until you have beaten the final assistant, upon doing so you will have completed Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time.