Bear Down

Rewards: Clear Gem—destroy all 42 boxes.

This is another ride on the back of the bear. There are no bonus stages, but there is a portal that takes you to a secret stage of the Air Crash level.

After jumping onto the bear, break through four boxes, then stay right to avoid a gap on the left. Jump over a gap and a wide water pit before moving left, right, and then left to get past some totems.

Jump over an orca gap and stay right until you jump over another gap. This puts you in a good spot to break the next two boxes. Jump a gap, then go right, left, right around more totems. Get past more orcas and stay right to avoid a gap (watching for a possible orca), then use the checkpoint. Jump over a totem and slide across ice to clear out boxes. Now you face two men with a block of ice. As they lower it, jump over the ice.

Jump over another totem, then stay low to get under another block of ice lifted by a couple men. As soon as you’re past it, jump over a gap. Stay right until you jump another gap, then go left to collect boxes. Avoid a TNT box about to blow. Break more boxes while avoiding seals and another TNT box. After jumping a gap, go low under an ice block and hit the checkpoint.

Keep hitting boxes, and go left around a totem. Jump over an ice block and then over orcas. Stay to the left and grab the crystal, then jump to land on a small area in the center of a gap and then onto the other side. Jump over orcas and an ice block before going right, left, right around totems for another checkpoint.

For the next two ice blocks, jump over the first and go under the second. Keep going over orcas and hitting all the boxes you come across. Stay to the right as the path narrows, and jump over a couple nitro boxes. Stay low under the ice block, and when the bear throws you to the portal door, hit the switch to destroy the nitro boxes in the level. Continue into the portal room to claim the Clear Gem, and take the portal back to the warp room.

Time Trial

Time Requirements

Sapphire: 1:03:00

Gold: 0:49:85

Platinum: 0:46:14

To get a good time, practice this level so you know what to expect. For the ice blocks, it’s important to know whether to stay low or jump, and where the side gaps are along the way. Hit the time boxes, and speed up when you jump over gaps or encounter relatively straight areas. Since you’re not worrying about the normal boxes, rush through the areas where you would normally have to zigzag to get them all. Once you reach the end, run to the portal as fast as you can.