Find the Key! Save the Gobbo!

Find the Key! Save the Gobbo! is the first level in Croc 2 and the first level in the Sailor Village

Walkthrough
Head up across the bridge, then take a sharp left towards the crate on the other side before the Dantini detects you. You might to want to try taking him on as the first enemy you encounter, and he's certainly easy to defeat (a tail swipe will do the trick, same as for most Dantini varieties), but since it's the start of the game and you don't have many life hearts, it's wise to simply avoid unnecessary dangers. Smash open the crate and collect your first crystals. Run up the path along the row of crystals to the second crate. Continue until you reach the giant red Bee (Dantibee? Beetini?). Let it approach you, then tail swipe it from the ground. Continue across the bridge.

Walk straight into the solid wooden crate to push it forward to the other end of its track. Jump on top of it, then jump to the trees on the right to find the RED CRYSTAL. Go back down and head up the left side of the mound in the middle of the clearing. Enter the cave on this side.

Jump to the first island, then on top of the crate and stomp it. For the Tarzan Dantinis ahead, you want to jump as the closest one swings over the platform, then immediately jump again to the next platform, as the Dantinis swing over them again. Jump to solid ground and collect the GREEN CRYSTAL, and also the HEART if you need it. Jump back across in the same manner and return to the great outdoors.

Head to the far corner of the mound to smash open another crate, then strike the checkpoint gong on your way by. After the path turns a corner, watch out for the spike pit, which you can easily jump over. There is another pit around the next bend. Following that, you find your first swing rope. Stand in line with it near the edge of the pit and wait for it to swing towards you, then jump forward into it. Swing across and jump off at the far side. Run up to the Dantini and kill him, then stomp on the crate he was running around near.

Head out on the wooden walkway over the spike pit. Watch for the Tarzan Dantinis at the corners. You can kill them by jumping and tail swiping them when you're close enough, but they're also quite easy to simply run past. Watch for their small shadows to see exactly which planks they swing over. After the wooden walkway, smash open another crate with the VIOLET CRYSTAL on top of it, then kill the Dantini Bee guarding the path ahead. Go left around the acid pit he was flying around. After the next bend, stick to the right to avoid a second acid pit. Ahead, there are two short bridges, each with its own Dantini Bee. You can easily run straight past these. Stop in between the two bridges on the wooden octagon with the image of gears on it. This is a Clockwork Gobbo point. Assuming that you brought one with you, find it in your inventory and use it.

CC The Clockwork Gobbo will advance on its own until its spring runs out, CC or until it 'dies' by hitting a hazardous object or falling into a pit. CC You can only steer it left and right. I recommend using the D-pad CC carefully to steer it, it seems to give you tighter control than the CC analog stick. Follow the bridge path collecting the Studs, and CC hopefully you'll have enough juice to pick up the HEART at the end if    CC  you need it. Actually, you ought to have plenty of juice in this CC stage, but this will not always be the case later on.

After running across the second Bee-guarded bridge, jump on top of the hippo's head in the water to be rocketed up to higher ground. Run forward up the wooden ramp and circle the tree, stomping the crate on the far side before entering the cave.

Inside, walk forward towards the edge of the cliff and watch the ground for the balloon's tiny shadow. Hop directly upwards at this point to sail down on a preset path. At the bottom, collect the GOLD KEY and smash the crate for more crystals. Turn around and jump across the platforms in the lava that you saw underneath you during your balloon ride. Keep jumping without any significant pause, and tail swipe the Fire Dantini in the center on your way down. Jump directly forward to the crystal crate, grab the BLUE CRYSTAL from on top of it and stomp the crate. Note that the Fire Dantinis can only fire in a straight line parallel to the ground, meaning that they can't shoot up at you while you're on top of the crate. Time your smash so that you can jump back across the platforms while the Fire Dantinis are recharging.

In the back of the cave, on the side where you found the key, you'll notice the blue Gummi Saver ring in the ground. Provided that you purchased one earlier, stand in the ring and use a Blue Gummi from your inventory, then bounce up to the ledge above. Collect the YELLOW CRYSTAL and the HEART. By finding the fifth coloured crystal, you have activated the Gold Gobbo teleportation globe, which appears on your current ledge. Touch it to be whisked away temporarily.

GG Jump up the series of platforms, timing your jumps to just miss the GG Tarzan Dantinis. Alternately, you can try to land right on them and GG take them out with aerial tail swipes. Regardless, at the top, jump GG to the swing rope and leap off the far side to collect the GOLDEN GG GOBBO STATUE, which automatically teleports you back to your previous GG location.

Jump to the ground and out the side tunnel. Outside, walk forward past the HEART, drop down and either kill or avoid the Dantini as you go straight ahead to rescue the Gobbo in the cage. Turn around and cross the bridge back to the entry/exit doorway.

Crystal Locations

 * Red: On tree reached by pushing movable crate and jumping on top of it.

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 * Green: Inside cave on left side of mound in a clearing near the start.
 * Violet: On top of a crate after the wooden walkway over the spike pit.


 * Blue: In the cave where you find the key, back across the lava.


 * Yellow: On a ledge reachable only with a Blue Gummi.