10 Tiny Video Game Decisions With HUGE Consequences

Joining forces with Dr. Neo Cortex in Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back wasn't a minor decision. The interesting thing, though, is the fact that N. Brio also returns from the original title.

In this game, he's working against his former associate. Like Coco, he contacts Crash in the game's hub world, beseeching him to collect the Gems rather than the Crystals (the latter being Cortex's prize of choice). With the power of the Gems, Brio states, it's possible to focus a laser on Cortex's space station and destroy it.

If players do manage to gather them all, the secret ending shows that the space station is indeed destroyed. However, this ending (Cortex plummets to the ground and inadvertently shatters the seal to Uka-Uka's underground prison) is revealed to be the canon beginning of the next game, Crash Bandicoot: Warped.

It's a small decision that seems to just involve tackling optional objectives, but it was actually the key to the continuation of the series, in a way.