Wednesday, 15 May 2013

Spyro the Dragon



Spyro (game series development)
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Spyro the dragon is a well know game and character that has a total of 13 games, many sequels and has sold over 20 million copies worldwide. .
This little dragon and his trusted frond “Sparx” first appeared on the PS1 in North America on September 10th. 1998 named “Spyro the Dragon” and later in Europe on October 23th. Since then the game has spawned numerous follow on games and new series. latest being Sky landers,, and accompanying them some books.

 The games development changed greatly with each new developers company (total of 13 over the years). But not all the games were a success,,, 

the original spiro series (Spyro the dragon, Spyro 2: Ripto’s Rage, Spyro: year of the Dragon) all follow the same principles, you start off in the “dragon ream” some danger or former “bad guy (RED) Threaten the other words, and it’s up to you to visit each world visa a portal (used as a loading screen/save point) and complete various task (ie collect gems and find dragon eggs). As key points of progression you will face a boss sadly for the PS1 bosses they were both annoying but predicable (would always use the same attacks )…

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Following this was the birth of the PS2,, with that a new batch of Spyro games with my favourite Sptro: enter the Dragonfly, the game play was nothing new, main words, portals and bosses. But the real enjoyment were the bigger and more stunning surrounding, and also a smother game play, in all it was a very good enjoyable game, kinda surprising that both developers simply disappeared..
but, there was once game that really bugged me, Spyro A hero’s tail saw the return of Red (a former dragon elder), sadly the game play was sluggish and damn slow, I don’t know if it was due to an old game (ps2 disk) but the game did have a lot of bugs and glitches, from whole level areas failing to render, or you (Spyro) finding yourself in an infinity free fall unable to move or die. But also, the games physics (enemies AI mainly) was annoying, there was an annoying pause from your attack to their reaction/death…

2 years passed and a new spyro series begun,,, a more darker tail. “The Legend of Spyro” the series also served as a “reboot” and ending of a legend”. Whereas the games prior to this series were Platform, this series of games used a more “Action” and accompanied with a stronger linear story lines. Where you could only move followed and was not permitted to revisit passed levels to “free rom” as you once could.


Dawn of the Dragon., (Please note I haven’t pleased to whole Legend of Spyro series, only beginning and end -_-‘ Oops)
This final series acted as such with 3 games, a beginning (Legend of Spyro A New Beginning) Middle (Legend of Spyro Eternal Night) And end (Legend of Spyro Down of the Dragon).
In “A New Beginning” you start a new life, (this game will cancel out all the past events and characters you met) the maines main enemies and boss is called Cynder, she is corrupted by darkness and she plans to releasing her Dark Master from his prison, But not everything is as it 1st seams, once defeated, Cynder turns out to be no bigger than Spyro, a child in fact…
The start of “The Eternal Night” follows on from “A New Beginning”, befor running off  Cynder apologizes about her actions, and leaves before she can do further harm to Spyro. …as the game progresses you find yourself meeting Cynder . at the end of end of the game, spyro in cases  himself along with Cynder and Sparxs in a crystal as the “Well of Souls collapses. The story continues,,,

http://www.the-nextlevel.com/media/ps3/spyro-dawn-of-the-dragon/spyro-dawn-of-the-dragon-1.jpgNow to end the legend of spyro with Dawn of the Dragon, just like “The Eternal Night” the game continuous with one difference, you can switch between playing as Spyro and Cynder, this means this is also the 1st spyro game to allow a co-op mode element, the story has Spyro and Cynder in cased  in the crystal for many years, when they emerge they are older, with this aged they now have filly developed dragon wings,,, this means for an all new free-Fly consoles,, name suggests  you can fly and glides without limitation….we there is once, you do slowly descend (like in previous games when gliding) but you never actually land, unless you make them…
I was never able to complete Down of the Dragon, because of this free fly mode,, in the 3rd or 4th level you are in an large open space perfect for flying, and I found it quite peaceful..


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