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Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning.........

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: November 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I've been a fan of the little purple dragon that could ever since his very first adventure on the Playstation1. Practically collecting every last game at some point, I've seen the ups and downs of the series. My favorite games, of course, being the Gameboy Advance Spyro games by Digital Eclipse(aka Backbone Entertainment) for the matter that I just couldn't get into the 3-D games too much for some reason. Yet, I have to say that I'm pleasantly surprised with Krome's take on Spyro(Krome, if any of you know platformers, are the creators of Ty the Tasmanian Tiger). It's great to see us doing something more than just going on a collect-a-thon with Spyro of some kind. I think Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning is a great game. It looks, absolutely, gorgeous. Elijah Wood(Lord of the Rings Trilogy), David Spade(Joe Dirt), and Gary Oldman(Bram Stokers' Dracula) all do voices for Spyro, Sparx, and Ignitus in the game.

The only thing I see wrong with the game is that the game is a bit short. Krome may have made it that way so gamers wouldn't get bored with fighting wave after wave of baddies in a long drawn out game.

People will probably not like the game too much for the simple fact that it isn't like any of the previous games yet, sometimes, you got to shake things up a little to bring a series back to its' former glory.

At any rate, I still think Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning was worth it in the end. Hopefully, Vivendi & Sierra will keep Krome on as the new Developers for the series. In my opinion, I think the company has what it takes to bring the series back to greatness.

Spyro is back!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 16
Date: October 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Finally, there is a Spyro game that is as fun as the original trilogy. When Spyro moved onto PS2, we saw the downfall with Enter the dragonfly and hero's tail (I hated a hero's tail). But this game is extremely fun, with great adventures, great voice cast. This game gets 5 stars from me!

An OK Spyro Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: December 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I have been playing Spyro since I was 5. Now that I'm 8,
I've been playing Spyro for a long time. The Legend of
Spyro A New Beginning is very fun, but one thing is that
it is a little hard for me. The part I am stuck on is when
you have to save the 4th elder and fight the train the 4th time.
My favorite part of the game is when you're in the Plains.
First I was stuck in the Ice place, when you had to knock
down the big tower and also fight all those dead fighters--"Yuck!"
Anyway, I couldn't get passed there without my friend. He's
really good! In the next Spyro game they make, I hope it will be
a little easer.

the weakest Spyro

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: December 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

(Pardon my lack of gaming lingo.) I bought this game for my five-year-old son, since it was the only game he asked for that was rated E. I didn't realize until now that it says 10+. The majority of play in this game is the arena situation where you are defeating the Big Monster. There's not a lot of looking for hidden things, collecting items, clues, etc. Unlike the previous Spyro games, there are no gems in all the nooks and crannies, and you don't roast all the creatures for Sparx to eat. As I said, I bought this for my son, thinking it would entertain him over the holidays but as it ended up, he had to keep handing it over to his dad, who did not enjoy it much, either. We were all relieved when the game was quickly defeated, and we moved on to Ratchett & Clank, Up Your Arsenal, which actually lived up to our expectations.

For an adult, the banter between Sparx (David Spade) and Spryo (Elijah Wood) might add something, but for kids, the money would have been better spent on an interesting game. Of course the graphics are good, but who cares when the game is boring? Overall, not worth $40; maybe $5.

Legend of Spyro a new beginning

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: January 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The game is nothing like the others. This one took 6 hours to play and there was nothing more to it than the one task. The other games at least had a little adventure to them. I kept hoping there was more, but there wasn't. It ended very weird. It just ended but it seemed like there should have been more to it. Not worth the money I paid for it.

look at a screenshot

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: July 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

you'd spend a lot less money and just slighty less time by looking at a
screenshot. There was a neat intro in artistic detail, but if anything they should have put one of the other Dragons from Spyro in this cause the story doesn't fit Spyro. The game played more like a fighting game with leveling up like in an RPG. I have all the Spyro games, I like RPG, I like fighting games. I don't like spending over $20 on a game that lasts 4 hours. I'm not even that good at action, platform, or fighting games. If you like RPG, the only thing it has in common with them is leveling up- nothing else. The fighting moves are not good enough to make this worth it. Like everyone says- the game only relates to the Spyro series in that is has the graphic images of Spyro and somewhat Sparx. The boss battles are long, but don't require a lot of strategy- just hits and saving energy. This is a side-scroller.

Spyro: A New Ending

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 10
Date: December 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Visually spectacular, this entry in the long-running Spyro series is probably the weakest in terms of play. There's little that's fun in this game. There is a very, VERY strong linear storyline...it's almost like Spyro: the Movie rather than a videogame. This game is not played; it's WATCHED. You hardly ever have time to move from one place to the next when the game takes over and shows you what it wants to show you. Usually, the game stops just so you can sit there and watch new enemies assembling (yawn). Then at many, MANY other times it stops so you can watch and hear the fine vocal talents of Elijah Wood as a boring Spyro and (ugh!) David Spade doing his fascinating and (yawn) hilarious rendition of Sparx the Dragonfly. Wood plays Spyro against type; in previous games he was a scrappy little mischief maker. Here, he's wide-eyed and insipid, his edginess dulled to nonexistence. Whenever you die and come back to life he limply says "It's all right; we can try again!" Or he might say the equally limp "I guess I'd better try a little harder this time." What kid is he trying to fool with dialogue like that? Since Spyro is no longer the comedian, all the "jokes" are given over to Sparx. In the previous games, Sparx was a silent character except for saying "BZZ BZZ BZZZZZ" all the time. Now, he's just so dang funny; omg I can't believe David Spade was ever fired from Saturday Night Live. He's just soooo funny. No. That was sarcasm. Actually he comes across as the tiredest "comedian" in ages. Every one of the "jokes" falls flat. Compared to other Spyro games, this one is sorely lacking in humor and unfortunately Spade is not the one to spice it up. (Yawn!) And the talents of Gary Oldman are wasted here as one of the older dragons that Spyro encounters. This is an amazingly frustrating game to play through. All you do is wait, wait and wait. You wait for enemies to assemble, you wait for doors to open, you wait for Elijah Wood to shut up. Before the training rounds, you WAIT for the older dragon to limp into the training area...thump...thump...thump, step after lumberous step. Then you WAIT for a giant statue of a dragon to descent into the floor. And you wait and wait and wait. And you do the training session, little realizing that most of the moves you will learn will be impossible to play during the course of the actual game. The linear nature of the game is so tight that any mention of the game being free roam is a lie. You are always quickly ushered from place to place. Doors close behind you, never to open again. You can never revisit previous played areas. The game forces you to go where it wants to go, and that's the end of that. Plus there's nothing to search for in this game. There are gems, and the gems have the novelty this time of having specific purposes, but other than that there's no reason to look around and explore. It's basically a very linear combat game. Although Spyro is constantly upgrading and becoming more powerful, it doesn't matter because each enemy is defeated in pretty much the same way. There's little necessary in terms of strategy...Spyro just blasts away at the enemies until they die, gasping, in a grand explosion of gems. All the bosses are the same too--you just blast them and blast them until down they go. Even the final boss is as easy to blow away as the first boss. Boom! Down she goes. There are two flying sequences, but unlike the previous games, there's no real objective there; all you do is fly away. There's things to shoot at, but it doesn't matter if you hit them or not. There's a train chase sequence; when it starts, you think, oh boy, now it's getting good. But again, it doesn't matter a bit if you shoot the other train or not. It looks great, but there's no reason to even play through that section. It's moot. Then between each world, you're forced to endure a training program which can't be skipped; very, very boring if you're playing the game more than once. But nobody'd want to. Again, you do not play this game, you watch it. And you'd only want to go through it again as often as you'd rewatch a boring movie. After the end credits, there's a teaser for a sequel. Well they'd better make it a more interesting game than this one! The Spyro games are noted for their hilarity, sense of wonder and exploration and replayability. This game has none of that. It does boast incredible graphics, but it's probably one of the last of the PS2 games to be produced...by this time, they've gotten it right, and the colors, explosions, backgrounds, animation--all are terrific and it's worth playing the game just to see them. But it's still a boring game!

THIS IS FUN, DO RENT IT, BUT DON'T BUY IT!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

My son has been playing Spyro games since he could hold a controller. He is 7 now. And we jumped up and down with excitement when Santa brought us this new game. We had fun when we started, and I loved watching the story and playing the little bit that I do....but by December 28th, he had completed it. What a disappointment! For the expense of the game, we would have rather asked for something that we could have played for at least a week. It is sort of a bummer for Christmas to be over so fast.
We loved it... but it is not, not, not worth buying.....go rent it.

Spryo-Is ok game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is ok but very was very easy to beat it only took 2 days after that this game is very boring and there are no special stuff like on alot of other games.

Unimpressive Spyro Game from a Spyro Lover

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: February 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have played Spyro since the beginning. I have been a huge fan of the concept and the way the versions have improved over the years.

The latest chapter in the Spyro series has some cool new moves and the famous voices make it a bit more interesting. However, that's all that I liked about this Spyro.

You spend a good portion of the game in training, with no choice of continuing the game without finishing it. The worlds seem to be less '3-D' due to the fact that you are forced down one path and one path only.

Finally, it took only a couple of days to finish the whole game - I want something that lasts longer.

It was very unsatisfying and I hope that if they come out with another version they go back to their Spyro roots.

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