Ruination

Rewards: Clear Gem 1—destroy all 84 boxes. Clear Gem 2—Green Gem required to access a secret area.

There are two Clear Gems in this level. To get the second one, you need the Green Gem, obtained earlier in the Eel Deal level. This level is another one set in temple ruins, where you walk around on elevated platforms and any fall is fatal.

This level starts with a flame trap in the form of a fire-spouting gorilla head. Wait until it stops, then jump across to a small platform, then onto a large area. Hit the four boxes carefully, because there’s a nitro box hiding behind them. Jump across to a brown platform, which falls if you stay on it too long, and then to the next platform. Land on the mouse and break a box.

Continue jumping forward. Spin-attack to deal with another mouse, then jump before the lizard gets you. There’s a flame trap up ahead, so wait until it’s been flaming for a bit before you jump over to the brown platform and then across the gap by the flame trap. Continue to the checkpoint, then head right. A lizard moves along a platform; time your jump so you cross the brown platform and avoid the lizard to reach another platform.

You now face a monkey between two stacks of TNT boxes. Jump up on the first stack and then onto the monkey. Jump on the second stack to start the countdown, then continue onto the next platform before the explosion. Jump over two nitro boxes, then to a platform with an arrow box. Use it to jump up and claim a hidden Aku Aku Mask. Jump forward into an area with a switch. Hit it to make nitro boxes appear. Get over them, then move along a row of platforms, including brown ones. Get past a monkey along the way, and continue to the checkpoint. If you have a Green Gem, ride the Green Platform to a secret area.

Jump across to the next walkway and avoid two rotating flame traps. Jump onto moving platforms to get across to the circular “?” platform that takes you to the bonus stage.

Move forward across platforms, defeating a monkey jumping back and forth between two of them. Get past a pair of rotating flame traps to grab a mask, then continue past another pair of traps. Reach a corner with a checkpoint. Now start moving left. Jump over two nitro boxes, landing on a mouse in the middle. Follow the walkway to a TNT box. Jump on it, then slide into a lizard to get past it. At the corner, turn right and jump onto a series of leaning pillars. You must move up the pillars; you fall off if you just stand there. Continue onto a stable platform, then move forward to jump into the large area where you pick up the crystal.

The next challenge is four rotating platforms, each holding a mouse. Jump onto one of the platforms, landing on the mouse to clear it. Jump onto the switch in the middle to detonate all the nitro boxes in the level, then jump back onto a moving platform to reach a corner with a checkpoint. Head right, jumping across small platforms. Be ready to spin-attack the logs that come at you from a gorilla. Keep going and hit the gorilla with a flying spin attack, then jump across to the door to the portal. Grab the Clear Gem if you’ve collected all the boxes, then take the portal back to the warp room.

Time Trial

Time Requirements

Sapphire: 1:58:00

Gold: 1:19:36

Platinum: 1:04:36

There are a lot of jumps in this level, though with a few exceptions, the platforms are stationary so you can move along them quickly. You have to pause at the flame traps, especially when crossing brown platforms that fall. The tilting pillars are another area that slows you down. For the rest of the level, stay in motion most of the time. There are some time boxes, so hit them whenever you see them.