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More Spyro fun!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 24, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game was pretty fun, the graphics were just beautiful. When I first got the game, it was rather difficult to beat since I was playing the original Spyro games for Playstation for so long. But than I eventually got use to it, grew to like it more and more. The game play is excellent! Spyro is re-mixed in this nice new world where everything seems connected and its like your traveling through a great big maze of colorful, cheerful, and foreboding dark worlds. You have plenty of new task to complete as well as some old ones that are vaguely familiar.
Old Task:
1. Collecting gems.
2. Destroying enemies for gems.
3. Flaming weaved baskets and ramming steeled/iron chest.
4. Egg Thieves, catch the thief of course, to collect an egg. Although the thieves look a LOT different now and there are ten eggs to a set, that if you collect them all, allows you to receive or get to do something special.
5. Ramming through cracked walls or blowing through blocked off entrance ways with a cannon.
6. Spark Shooter, which is different but still familiar, not as hard as the original shooter from Spyro: Year of the Dragon for Playstation.
New Task:
1. Completing St.Byrd flying levels.
2. Hunter Level, where you play as Hunter using a bow to collect an light gem and egg.
4. Blink, where you play as a mole to collect 5/10 Dark Gems.
5. And other random characters that need your help throughout the game.
6. Collecting Light Gems.
7. Collecting Dark Gems.
Old Moves:
1. Flame.
2. Jump.
3. Walk.
4. Running (although its more of a "bucking," gallop now).
6. Head bash.
New Moves:
1. Double Jump.
2. Electric Breathe.
3. Water Breathe.
4. Ice Breathe.
You can also buy different missiles or collect them about the world to beat enemies that might be out of reach. There are also a number of items you now have to buy. Instead of collecting gems to collect them all, you now have to collect them to buy things. Money Bags has changed a LOT! He is now more annoying than ever, having you hand over your gems to buy items to get farther in the game in shops in the home world, he even has his little portals where you can buy them which cost twice as much in the mini worlds! There are Spark Keys you have to collect to open locked chest that ether give you a Light Gem or an Egg, there is also a nice new set of horns that you can buy that increase the damage and force your Head bash move does, there is a bottle of butterflies that you can buy too that allows you to have an extra set of full life incase you die and much more!
You can also play as difference characters in the game, besides the ones already listed above, like Flame or Ember. Of course, you have to collect all ten eggs of a set to play as one. When you do though, they still have the voice of Spyro, so it kind of takes away from being that new character.
The Worlds?
There are numerous worlds that you travel to and at least four homes worlds where you start from.
1. You first start at Dragon Village, where it is has two other worlds you can travel to, Crocovile Swamp and Dragonfly Falls. You also have to defeat Gnasty Gnorc again, who looks pretty pitiful and cheesy compared to him being the villain in Spyro the Dragon, the first game on Playstation.
2. The second place you travel to, after defeating Gnasty Gnorc and getting the electric breathe is Coastal Remains, which you also travel to its two connected worlds: Cloudy Domain and Sunken Ruins. The Boss of this entire new world is Ineptune, who reminds you vaguely of the villain from The Little Mermaid.
3. After defeating her you go to the home world of Frostbite Village, which also has Gloomy Glacier and Ice Citadel. After getting all the Dark Gem, you than get to face Red, well, kind of. And you travel to the last world...
4. Stormy Beach is the last home world and is one of my favorites. The two other mini worlds in this place is Molten Mount/Magma Falls and Dark Mine, but there is also Red's Laboratory where you can finally defeat Red once and for all!
Overall I give this game four stars. The reason behind this is, even though it's a nice game and fun to play, it can get very confusing and things seem all mused together, with barley any distinction between the worlds within the home worlds.

Spyro Hero's Tale

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 22, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is a challenge for this older person to play. But, I get stuck on certain levels at times. Its fun to figure out the levels.

Very fun - a bit child-like.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The fun factor is very high is this game. Easy to learn and play. Great for escaping reality into the happy land of Spyro. Not an award winner for originality. A bit child-like in nature but overall very enjoyable. This is what games should be. There's enough blood and violence and darkness in the real world.

just mute the sound effects and have a back up file

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The graphics are different to the rest of the series, and very good.
I had to mute the sound effects because moneybags wouldn't shut up, he repeats himself whenever you are on the same screen as he is, and he is practically everywhere. There is a glitch early in the game and one during an ice level. The first glitch will be noticed soon in the game and require a reset, the second caused me to get a 99%, so I had to play again to get 100% in the game. This was a big improvement of the last game in the series. Well worth playing. I was disappointed that Spyro no longer did the timed flying, but another character does that in this game.
This game has a few changes from the previous games, but is mostly the same, there are some bonuses rewarded for collecting items. This gives incentive to replay the game. Some side games and the end boss can be challenging, but overall it is good for the average player.

Cool!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game was bought for our 6 year old gamer in the family. Initially the first Spryo game we bought was for my hubby, but our 6 year old pretty much "confiscated" his privileges to play it once the controller was in her hands. She LOVES Spyro (so much so she wants her bedroom painted with Spyros all over the walls) and she has all the Spyro games for the NGC. Even though she doesn't grasp the concept of quests etc. entirely, and her reading skills are improving (not necessarily due to the game(s)), she enjoys blasting, head-butting and pouncing and making Spyro do all the fascinating things the controller will allow him to do. As far as the learning factor, it's a game; it can be mind numbing as well as a teaching tool. Apart from the simple act of enhancing a child's imagination, on the whole it is an outlet. She gets to play it on the weekends after all her homework is completed and chores are done, sort of like a reward. Since she loves it so much, and continues going back to it, and as I really don't mind the content (cute music and backgrounds, cute characters with personalities to match and not a terrible lot of violence - basically what can be expected of a game with a cute dragon and dragonfly, peppered with villains and quests to fulfill), I give it a pretty good rating.

This game isn't that good

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 10
Date: May 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game isn't that good. Gnasty Gnorc doesn't look like how he should(spyro 1 design), Red looks like and over grown color changed spyro(color changing cheats for spyro 2 and 3), Moneybags is still around with his own shop no less, the breathe power ups stink(what happened to the good old super flame power up?),you have to collect light gems to unlock power ups(seriously.The super charge power up had always be free in the first 3 spyro games), They don't have the original dragon elders that you had to rescue in Spyro 1, They changed the name headbash to horn dive(stupid name for the headbash),unlimited amount of gems which is stupid since the original three never had that making it worth while in those games to collect gems, gems had more detail and were shinyer,because of this stupid game most people nowadays have never even heard of the original spyro games.

Icehorse's opinion about this game "Spyro Fan"

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: December 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is my first game to play that is not for play station for one for Spyro. If you have not played the first three games for play station one then my comment mind not be any help to you.

The Graphics are great and are much better that the first games. It is a fun and addictive game like Sonic the hedgehog (Spyro the dragon has alway reminded me of Sonic because it very similar to sonic but different.)

Now the things that did bother me about this game are.

They made certain easier like if you are flying and you barly touch the cliff spyro will put him self up which this is useful because there are lots of time I died in the first three games because of barely hitting a cliff, but then at the same time it took away the challeging affect of learning how to a perfect glide properly without barely doing something.

2.) Spyro voice acting bother because he not up to spyro. Spyro sound like his past adventure when his head and he know he is great

which I will get over it. But the facts of life are the originals will alway be the best games of Spyro (Same with Sonic and any other game) No matter much you change something or try to improve it and make it really great, the originals will alway be the hits.

Spyro the Dragon: Heroes Tail review

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: December 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I totally love this game! I think its got fun, little minigames to help save the world in different places. I just get a frustrating time during the sargeant bird's minigames. You get timed and I really don't like to rush that much. I love the characters! They are really fun and lovable. I like listnening to the music and everyone who did the voice acting was awesome!!! I like how you can see where you are going and where you are by the map screen. Although, I don't like it when it still has black spots showing where I haven't been and yet I have been there. I like being able to get different abilities such as different breaths and being able to buy stuff! I love it especially when I'm about to die, you know? I really liked this game and, yes, I have finished it! I hope everyone enjoys this awesome game as much as I did. SPYRO ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love dragons!!!!

Good, but it doesn't deserve the title "Spyro"

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: August 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is a fun game,It has incredible graphics, long levels , and cool looking worlds, but it doesn't look like a spyro game. First of all, many main voices where different, for example moneybags has an italian accent. Also it is a bit more confusing than the other games. There where all kinds of special moves and items. On the gamecube version, the controls where all messed up so that it was hard to do simple things like flame and charge. The worst part of all was that there was no maximum number of gems to collect, and I found that to be fun.
I have made a list that rates all the spyro games:
psx
Spyro the dragon: ok
Riptos rage:good
year of the dragon:great
gba
season of ice: flop
season of flame: ok
attack of the rynocks: good
GC, PS2, Xbox
enter the dragonfly: ok
hero's tail: refer to title

THE ONLY SPYRO GAME I LIKE

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: June 19, 2005
Author: Amazon User

THIS GAME IS GREAT. WE RENTED IT FOR PS2 AT BLOCK BUSTERS. WE LOVED THE GAME SO MUCH THAT WE BOUGHT IT FROM THEM. THERE ARE MANY REALMS YOU CAN VISIT, GET NEW BREATHS LIKE FIRE( WITCH YOU ALREADY HAVE FROM THE BEGINNING) ELECTRIC BREATH, AQUA, AND FREEZING BREATH. THERE ARE MORE THINGS ABOUT THE GAME, BUT IT'S SO LONG , i CAN'T WRITE IT ALL IN ONE REVIEW. SO GET THE GAME AND FIND OUT MORE. I SAY IT'S NOT A WASTE OF MONEY AND IT'S A GAME THAT WON'T FINISH IN ONE DAY.

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