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Great game...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: November 20, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Spyro 2 is awesome! It is definately worth more than that 20 bucks they are selling it for. The graphics, and gameplay gameplay is awesome. More new moves are available, along with great minigames like hockey. I suggest you buy this game.

Spyro's back for another classic

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: September 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Spyro's first adventure was a groundbreaking experience that took place inside a giant world filled with colorful, breathtaking beauty. It was *awesome* the way the game encouraged you to roam around many graphically-appealing worlds searching for gems and dragons. Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage proves to be an even BIGGER journey.

I honestly didn't think it was possible to surpass the original Spyro game. It was truly one of the greatest adventure games on the Playstation. I can only find a couple VERY minor problems with Ripto's Rage. Let's get them out of the way:

- I think the biggest problem is the fact that, once again, the up and down buttons on the directional pad are *still* reversed. This means, for example, when you go underwater in one of the water levels, you have to hit the Up button to swim down, and the Down button to swim up. There's a couple other places in the game where the controls are reversed, too. As far as I know there's NO way to change it to normal. None of this may seem like a big deal but there's certain obstacles in the game that require you to move quickly through the water, and you want *everything* to be as perfect as possible while you swim to your destination, but thanks to the controls, it won't be easy. Personally, I've never been able to adjust to it- every so often I will forget that the up and down buttons are reversed when I enter a water or flying stage, so I might swim or fly STRAIGHT into an enemy. It's mind-boggling to me why the game creators haven't corrected it, or at the very least, gave the player an option to change it.

- I find it slightly disappointing that, this time around, every stage has exactly 400 gems. In the original, each stage had a different amount of gems for you to locate, which made Spyro's first adventure seem like more of a mysterious guessing game. Not really complaining, though.

- A TON of cutscenes are included in Ripto's Rage. You can skip over them if you want, but I'm amazed that EVERY level has a cutscene in the beginning of a stage and another cutscene after you successfully complete the stage. Don't worry, Ripto's Rage is still a huge game, maybe even bigger than the original. In other words, the cutscenes don't suck up all the space on the disc. Ignoring the cutscenes you STILL have a lengthy game.

- This brings us to the next minor problem: the reason we have so many cutscenes is because each stage has a different odd-looking creature living in it, and these creatures (who happen to speak English very well) always want to discuss with Spyro the problems inside their world that they'd like you to fix for them. Just the fact that EVERY stage features a different talking creature is both a good and bad thing. A player might think Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage is throwing in TOO MUCH and therefore, you may assume you need to try and remember all the characters you come across in order to follow a story (which isn't true because once you complete a stage, most of the time you never see that character again, so please do NOT worry about having to follow along to any kind of complex storyline). BUT, on the other hand, all sorts of wild-looking talking friendly creatures communicating with Spyro makes the game THAT much more adventurous.

Those are the only complaints I can find, and when you think about it, those are pointless complaints because the game does so many things right.

I honestly believe the challenge has been increased significantly in Spyro's second adventure. Instead of three or four dragons scattered throughout each stage waiting for you to find and rescue, you now have to search for three or four bonus games per stage and you HAVE to successfully complete most of them, which would be an extremely positive thing EXCEPT for the fact that a small handful of these bonus games are REALLY hard to complete.

Each time you complete a bonus game you receive an orb. There's 64 orbs in the game total, and to reach the final boss, you're required to find 40 of them. In my opinion, probably no more than 10 bonus games are impossibly hard so you SHOULD be able to go through the stages, collect 40 orbs, and beat the game. Just don't expect to get all 64 orbs because, again, some of those bonus games are difficult.

I'm not knocking the bonus games. After all, it's more interesting to tackle a creative and exciting bonus game than to simply walk up to a frozen dragon and rescue him, like in the original. In Spyro 2 you don't know WHAT kind of bonus game you'll encounter, which makes the game overall one notch better than the original. To give a few examples of the bonus games you play: one of them has you playing hockey on ice where you have two minutes to make five goals, another bonus has you trying to quickly burn eight dangerous dragons before they eat the good guys (don't even ask me WHAT these good guys are supposed to be- let's just say they're friendly people that really love you!) another bonus stage has you swimming through rings. A whole bunch of creative, interesting bonus games await you. Even if you lose at some of them, you will want to try them again because they're so much fun.

People who are familiar with the original might be confused when they reach the end of the game and realize that they only explored three worlds. The original game featured five worlds, however, the three worlds in Ripto's Rage feature more stages. So it balances out.

The graphics are *exactly* the same as the original. I can't find a single improvement, or at least, anything different. The exact same graphic engine. Oh, and thankfully the creators remembered that very important option to change the camera angle to "active". VERY important!

Stewart Copeland from the rock band the Police returns and succeeds with another fantastic soundtrack. Another all-around excellent job.

My favorite thing about this game are the three boss fights you encounter at the end of the three worlds. All three of these bad guys are EXTREMELY AWESOME to fight (sorry, I'm in the mood to whip out the big letters!) It is SO much fun shooting fireballs at them. They also force the player to find a strategy in order to defeat. You never really came across a boss fight in the previous Spyro game that required a certain strategy.

I love the fact that everywhere you go you find LOADS and LOADS of gems and other things. The levels and worlds in this game are packed with things to find. Positively PACKED. A truly awesome game. The first Spyro the Dragon game was awesome too. Swimming around really adds more flavor and magic to the game. Yeah, despite the control problem I mention above, swimming around still manages to be pretty fun. Of course, there's a lot of running around too. In fact, there's more running than swimming overall.

Pick up Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage.

Fun and funny

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: November 19, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Both my kids and all of the neighborhood kids love this game. The characters are funny and the game is challenging without being violent. A rarity in video games.

Frustrating but very fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: October 14, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The first time I saw Spyro at a friend's house, I knew this would be my first playstation game. The game is the second game in the series of Spyro games. The game is about a purple dragon called Spyro and his sidekick Sparx. Ripto (bad guy)and his sidekicks Gulp and Crush have taken over the world called Avalar. Professer and his friends Elora and Hunter send a dragon the Avalar using orbs. It's up to Spyro to save Avalar. Thier are 3 worlds in Avalar. Summer Forest, Autumn Plains and Winter Tundra. In order to go to the next world you must get talisments. You can find talisments in levels scatter around Avalar. Sometimes you need orbs to get into sertain levels. Once you complete a task, you get an orb. To get an talisment you must complete a level. When you get 6 taliments, you get to go to another world. After you get your taliments, you have to complete a boss.I forgot. Gems are scatter all around Avalar. You need gems, so you can pay Moneybags to go across bridges, enter levels, ect.

The only thing that I don't like it that it's frutrating. It you get frustated easly this is not your game. I's not confusing or anything, it's just when your trying to complete a boss or a hard task, you get frustrated. I love this game. It's not a lot of money and it's not a waste of money. Great for gifts. Rate E for everyone.

Get Spyro 3 not this one....

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: January 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Arg! Playstation One games give me a headache. I bought this for Christmas after loving the Spyro 3 game. This one, well, let's be honest...it is boring. It is confusing. The graphics are not very good (but, hey there are worse ones). As we play I find it hard to control and see what Spyro is doing. Overall, this rates about a 2 or 3. I think if you want to spend less than 20 dollars, get Spyro Three...it is really, really funny and much easier to follow. I find this Ripto game is sort of a beta version of the much more enjoyable Spyro 3.

THIS GAME ROCKS THE HOUSE!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: February 05, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game kicks butt. He has so mutch more moves than in the last one. There are also more exciting levels. This game rocks the house!

Spyro-even better the second time around

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 13, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is great. It has everything-exciting worlds to complete, puzzles to solve, shooting, flying, swimming, the whole nine yards. It is far more challenging and entertaining than the first game. The graphics are good, and the characters and story are interesting, but above all, it is a fun, well-rounded video game.

Entertaining & Challenging

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 09, 2000
Author: Amazon User

A challenging multi-level game that attimes is easy but, sometimes can frustrate (which makes you more determined to succeed) This was my first video game that kept me interested enough to complete!I really enjoyed the hours of relaxation & fun that I got fromSpyro 2: Riptos Rage

Bad Ripto!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: October 15, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game was so much fun! The hardest part was defeating Ripto. He has three stages! Dragon Shores was also very fun,especially the theatre.

The Spyro of my dreams.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 06, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the best games I have ever played.The graphics are awesome. The characters are cool and the the moves are better than the last game. It requires patience and time and if you have both, this game will be nothing but fun. I've played and beaten this game 3 times I just couldnt stop. So if you enjoyed the first game this is what you need to keep the Spyro hunger in you.

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