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The Spyro The Dragon games series appreciation thread
This thread is for anybody who liked playing any of the Spyro The Dragon games on either the Playstation/Playstation 2 or Gameboy Advance.
How many of you here ever played any of the Spyro games like Spyro The Dragon, Spyro 2: Gateway To Glimmer or Spyro Year Of The Dragon etc? :cool:
I did, and they were all damn awesome! :cool: I didn't have a favorite, but I think that they were all much, much better than the Skylanders trash we get these days! :yawn:
How many of you here ever played any of the Spyro games like Spyro The Dragon, Spyro 2: Gateway To Glimmer or Spyro Year Of The Dragon etc? :cool:
I did, and they were all damn awesome! :cool: I didn't have a favorite, but I think that they were all much, much better than the Skylanders trash we get these days! :yawn:
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The second one was my favourite. I got really into the atmosphere of the game. Would sometimes love to just run around the home worlds and go to the top of the buildings and look down at everything, it was really peaceful.
For example, in Spyro Year Of The Dragon, I particularly liked Dino Mines, but hated all of the speedway levels or any parts of the levels which had a time limit on them!
I played 'Enter the Dragonfly' or Spyro 4 on PS2, which was fun enough in retrospect... it was those diabolical loading times that I couldn't stand, and ended up being a large part of my memory of a bright and colourful game.
I then played 'A Hero's Tale' which was again fun enough, but I hated the childish emphasis on it that the other games had a way of getting around... this felt very junior in places. It was good, but a disappointing end to the main line of Spyro games.
The Legend of Spyro Trilogy was good in its own right, enough for me to consider them a Spyro 6, Spyro 7 and Spyro 8 were they not a prequel. But they lost the point of what Spyro is, and the once colourful and light-hearted story became a bit too emotastic. It looked a bit dull, and the graphics felt like another step back (funnily I think Enter The Dragonfly had the best by far).
I also played Season of Ice, Season of Flame and Adventure . These were all good fun on the little GBA back in the day
Finally, I played Spyro: Shadow Legacy on DS. A fun enough game with a few good ideas behind it, though not adding much new from the more colourful GBA titles.
I miss Spyro. :cool:
My favourite is the first Spyro, and my favourite level was either the one in the docklands (near the end I think??), or the one with the wizards (I think it was a snow level and there were lots of platforms). It's been a while since I've played any Spyro games though, but the first one I will always have very fond memories of
As others have said after the games on PS1 there was a sharp decline in quality but despite this the games were still enjoyable for what they were.
I've been absolutely dying to play these games again so if anybody knows of a way which doesn't involve purchasing a PS1/2/3 then I'd love to know, although I know it's unlikely! :P I do have an Xbox 360 but it doesn't appear that any of the games are on sale there.