Stormy Ascent is a cut level from the original Crash Bandicoot. The level consists of fast retracting steps, vertically and horizontally-moving birds, vial-throwing Lab Assistants, many iron spikes, and moving platforms in complicated patterns. It's not accessible through normal means, but it can be played by using a GameShark code. Naughty Dog removed this level due to its extreme difficulty, as it's essentially a harder version of Slippery Climb (which is already considered one of the hardest levels in the game), its counterpart, and also because it had many bugs that Naughty Dog couldn't fix in time. It's also the last level of the Crash Bandicoot prototype. Collecting Cortex Tokens in this level increases the frequency that the split-second freezes occur, and collecting 3 tokens cause