Un-Bearable

Rewards: Clear Gem—destroy all 58 boxes.

This level offers an alternative to running from boulders. You’re now running away from a giant bear! A portal in this level takes you to a secret level.

As the level begins, run out of the archway and stay right to avoid mines and the first side gap. Move left to avoid the next side gap. Stay left as you jump across a gap, or you run into nitro boxes.

Slide under an electric barrier, then jump over wooden fences—or spin-attack straight through them. When you come across a lizard running on the path, either avoid it or jump on it to get it out of your way. Don’t touch it. Keep going to the archway, where you get a checkpoint and some boxes.

As you begin running again, use the speed boost to get out ahead of the bear. Stay near the center of the path since the sides drop off, leaving only a narrow strip. As the trail widens, zigzag around mines or jump over them. You come across three more lizards before you reach the next checkpoint. Since you can’t dodge them all, jump on them and keep going.

When you hit the checkpoint, the bear falls down a hole behind you where a bridge was. Jump down into the hole to access a secret area. This isn’t a bonus stage, so you can lose lives down here. Jump up, break boxes, and hit a switch. Hunters down here fire bullets at you. Jump onto the head of a hunter to defeat him. From his head, jump onto two more boxes to reach a higher platform with three more boxes, including an Aku Aku box.

The hunters’ bullets travel slowly, so jump over them. Deal with a second hunter and continue right. Use Belly Flops to destroy reinforced boxes. Jump over bullets and get past traps and spiky turtles to reach the third hunter. After the checkpoint, drop down and hit a switch so boxes appear. Use them to get up to higher platforms so you can clear out boxes floating high in the air. Continue right, jumping over an armored armadillo and a nitro box, all the while jumping bullets or staying low to avoid being hit. Keep going until you eliminate the remaining hunters, then ride the circular platform back up to the level.

Continue down the path and grab the crystal. Nothing is chasing you right now. Walk onto the circular platform to enter the bonus stage.

As you advance down the trail, hit the green switch to destroy all the nitro boxes in the level. Continue through an archway and checkpoint to restart the chase. Spin-attack through fences, and avoid side gaps as you hit boxes along the way. Jump on lizards in your path so they don’t hit you. After jumping a fence and then a gap, be ready to slide underneath an electric barrier.

As you smash four boxes, prepare to slide through a fence and under a barrier. Continue through an archway, then jump onto a bear to ride it through the next stage. You no longer control the forward movement; you can only jump and steer left and right. Jump over gaps, then go left, right, left, right to get around barriers, and avoid a side gap on the left. When you reach the gap, jump across and move left to land, then quickly shift right to pass by a barrier. Go left and then right around two more. As you reach the last gap, the bear throws you off. Run into the portal room to collect the Clear Gem and end the level.

Time Trial

Time Requirements

Sapphire: 2:24:00

Gold: 1:35:53

Platinum: 1:26:10

To shave more time off your trials, spin-attack your way through the fences and pick up all the time boxes. Don’t stop in the archways, and use speed boosts when you can. Jump over the mines instead of running around them, and keep running all the way to the portal.