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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!

Not a true Spyro game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 60 / 63
Date: October 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I regret to say that I am very disappointed in this game. I've loved the Spyro games since playing the original 'Spyro the Dragon' for PS1 and was really looking forward to this one.

I will admit that the graphics are terrific and the voice cast is excellent but the gameplay is BORING! There's no collecting of items (other than collecting health, breath, rage and power-up gems) and there's no side quests. One thing I've always loved about Spryo is the sides -- the skateboarding, the flying challenges, the puzzles -- even 'Enter the Dragonfly' and 'Hero's Tail' had them and those games weren't very well put together. There are two times during the game when you get to fly but these are not challenges, they're simple 'fly and escape' modes -- very, very easy to beat.

This game is pure combat. You enter an area, beat some enemies, go to the next area, beat some more enemies, etc., go to the next area, beat a boss, free a dragon, learn some skills (which is annoying -- I get it already, why do I have to practice this stuff????) and then, guess what --go to another area and start all over.

On top of all that, there are only SIX very short and linear levels (there's absolutely NO exploration or hidden areas) and the last boss is no more difficult to defeat than the first ones are. There are no extras after you beat the game (unless you count an interview with Elijah Wood) and while you can play the game a second time while keeping your powered up breaths, it's not a true challenge mode because the monsters and bosses are just as easy to beat (easier actually because you have all of your breaths powered up the second time). So, along with all of its other problems, this game also has absolutely NO replay value. It's just as easy and boring the second time 'round.

So, great graphics, great voice overs, but NO FUN. I care very little for what Spyro sounds like and not much more about what he looks like, I just care about what he DOES and in this game, he does very, very little. I will admit that the ability to power up breaths is a neat addition, it's just too bad that there's nothing to do with those breaths!

I'm just glad I rented this game before buying it because I don't think I want to spend money (even though I own all of the Spyro games (the PS1 games, the GBA games and the other two PS2 games)). I would say that unless you are looking for a very simple, very short (it took me less than a day to beat the game the first time) game for a young or inexperienced gamer who loves cute characters (or you are a diehard Spyro fan who just HAS to have all of the games), DO NOT waste your money on this one (buy the original PS1 Spyro's if you're just starting out with him but skip this one).

I really hope they do another Spyro soon and bring back the Spyro I've loved for so long.

A New Beginning, but a big disappointment

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 9 / 10
Date: November 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I hadn't really gotten into the gaming thing until I rented the first Spyro game (along with Final Fantasy VII), and it was the first game I really enjoyed. I liked the puzzles, the way the story moved, etc. I eagerly waited for each new Spyro game, until "Enter The Dragon" came out. It was really buggy, didn't improve much from the PS1 games, even though it was the first Spyro for the PS2. Then I heard about this new version and went and bought it the first day. While the graphics are much improved, and the "celebrity" voices were great, the game play itself is, well, boring. There's no puzzles, there's no real thinking involved. It's "learn how to push these buttons in this sequence and then go beat up guys until you've finished the level". Then you move to the next level, where, other than a different setting and (sometimes) different bad guys, you do exactly the same thing over again. I finished the game in a scant 8 hours. My 5-year-old son is blowing through the levels almost as fast as I did. He has trouble getting the button combos right, so I have to help him with that part. I mean, I know the game isn't really targeted for "old folks" like me, but my son is even getting bored with the game. Don't buy this game with the expectation of the great platform game that the original Spyros were. It's almost a FPS, except you're a dragon instead of some secret military guy. And you have a wise-cracking dragonfly voiced by David Spade at your side.

The game's newness will keep you into it for a few hours, but pretty soon the repetitive gameplay will bore you (or your kids), and you'll either take it back to the used video game store, or you'll put it away and never play it again. Very disappointing.

just like all other games

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 13 / 14
Date: November 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Okay, I'm not a very good gamer and I have liked that with spyro I could play a game where I did not need help ALL the time. But I just received the game tonight and was so excited I would have a game to play. But once the game got started I was bored with movie plays and then once I finally got past that...I gotta know button combos?...what? I thought the point of spyro was to give some of us a simple thinking game. Where yeah you have to have a stragety to get by and have tons of extra stuff to do. I really did enjoy running around and collecting gems but now to get anything I HAVE to beat up the bad guys...I wouldn't recommend this game to anyone who really enjoys the previous spyro games. No matter what you may think of the previous games...this new one is totally different where you actually have to know what button is what on the controller and have to be able to hit serveral button combos to by...this is not the game for me...Help me please...I'm already stuck!!!

Very Dissapointed - RENT DONT BUY!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 14 / 17
Date: November 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

So sad to say this but finished Spyro A New Beginning last night - clocked the entire game in exactly nine hours and 3 minutes - i was SO VERY DISSAPOINTED with this game. I have every Spyro game and can't help thinking bring back the old PS1 versions - they were fun, had mini games - Spyro TNB started out great and I thought "wow this is going to be fun" but by about half way through the game - i.e. four and half hours it got so mind numbingly boring that I just about packed it in - yes the graphics are great, yes the voice acting is great - but it is SO repetitive and completely linear - there is no-where to go but where you are pointed - seriously have a look at this game - hire it but DO NOT spend nearly $40 on what will take most gamers a day at the most - also please note I am a 40 year old woman and NOT a brilliant gamer but if I can do it in this time I dread to think how quickly a really good gamer would do it in. Anyway that is my five cents worth. Have a great day

Spyro A New Beginning

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: November 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

When I first got this game, I was amazed, the graphics and sound are fabulous compared to the old Spyro games. Although this game is very short, it took me only a few hours to beat it, it is much better then the old Spyro games. In the old games, it only took one hit to kill every monster other then bosses and it was long and dull, in this game, staying alive is much more of a challenge.
Some things that Spyro fans may be pleased to know is that Spyro has four basic breath attacks of Fire, Ice, Lighting, and Earth. He also has missle attacks... and best yet, he can actually FLY. Unfortunatley, it doesn't allow Spyro to fly all the time.
Overall, I was dissapointed at the shortness of this game, but other then that it was great. It seems that whoever makes these games is making them shorter and shorter so that they don't have to put much effort into it. Seriously, look at the length of the Playstation One games, not just Spyro but other things like Digimon World 2... and now the new games are so short. The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy game that came out is even shorter then this one.

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.

Disappointed

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 11
Date: November 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I have been a spyro fan for years! I love spyro and always have. I didn't know they came out with a new one til I just happened to see it on the shelf. I got so excited! I told my husband that was what I wanted for our anniversary. Man, I feel like I should have went with jewelry. The movie parts were extremly long. One thing I always loved about spyro is that their was several worlds inside of 1 realm and their were always multiple realms. I beat this new spyro game in 1 day. I was so disappointed. Sparx didn't do anything exept talk and thats it. There were no puzzle games, no side games, and no fun. The boss at the end was just as easy as the very first one. I just feel like I got the short end of the stick.

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!

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.

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