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The end to the original series of a timeless classic that I will never forget, and never stop playing. Spyro holds a very special place in the video game world for me and many others of my generation, as it was the epitome of what an adventuring, fantastical platformer on the PlayStation One should be. Many classify it as a childrens game, but it really is a game for all ages, and is still fun, even many years after it's original release. I am proud to say that this game has aged, and has aged well. This game though, unfortunately, was the end of the original series, and gave way to the obvious attempts at a AAA market with the series that resulted in many a failed game afterward and eventually spiraled out of control and then ceased to exist, until they started the new Skylanders toys based off the Spyro world. This game is an amazing reminder of what once was and will allow you to relive those moments you wish never disappeared. I love this game by playing it I love collecting dragon eggs and gems I skip moneybags a lot I pay for Sheila, Sgt Byrd, Bentley and Agent 9.
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I beat this game before Hunter was fun the only things I did not like about this game are playing as other characters like Sheila wasn't great Sgt Byrd was a penguin that shoots and flies Bentley was the worst he was slow and big Agent 9 was hard to control and Sparx was not fun at all. I liked the Sorceress boss fight though I loved pounding moneybags. I give this an average of 5 stars out of 5. One of my favorite games of the PS1 era.
A little bit wackier & stranger than previous installments (kind of a staple of 90s Sony games, going off of the Spyro, Crash Bandicoot & MediEvil franchises) but still just as good. But, I have to admit, it is the easiest in the original Trilogy.
If you have trouble with the Speedway/ Flight levels in the previous games, I suggest starting with the ones in this game & working backwards. The Flight levels in the original are the hardest. Also has largely abandoned the idea of secret areas by loudly broadcasting their presence with side portals. Also the only one of the original games that have different playable characters. There are whole levels dedicated to Shiela the Kangaroo, St. Download Bios Toshiba Satellite L640 Driver more. Byrd (a flying, missile launching penguin), Bentley the Yeti, Agent 9 (a crazed monkey with a laser gun) & Sparx the dragonfly (complete his levels & gain a slew of brand new abilities) Also a whole slew of side missions that are playable by the former four characters, as well as Hunter the Cheetah.
Also, the only game in the original trilogy that has a legitimately fulfilling bonus world full of challenging side games- a reward for completing the main game 100%. Levels are complex and fun. The themes are entertaining and imaginative, gems are aplenty, however enemies are not. There are gems and treasures to find everywhere, which means a lot of searching and looking for hidden nooks, which can be very time consuming and can get a bit tedious once all the enemies have been defeated. Essentially at the end of each level Spyro is running around an empty land looking for hidden places, this can be a bit slow for people, luckily the creative themes do provide some interest while searching, and eventually is just becomes fun exploring the land and finding all the hidden corners in the game. There are many memorable levels that really make this game.
Eventually Spyro leaves the first world and moves on to others. At first they are really fun to explore and can be really amazing design-wise. (One level is occupied almost entirely be water, and even has a whale that will swallow Spyro less he get too near). However they can get very lonely and quiet once all the gems have been collected, and the area explored. My suggestion is to complete the levels as quickly as possible and leave the world before it gets too boring, and depressing. Starting out, the game is a lot of fun, however as the game goes on, a running problem seems to be the amount of quiet in each world. Once enemies have been defeated, and all eggs, and gems have been collected worlds lose their interest and become essentially an empty field for Spyro to run in.
Try to collect all the eggs and gems at one time, I do not suggest just getting what you need, then going back. Levels can be empty, boring, and a little bit depressing once completed. There are many exciting levels that are both challenging and interesting. As well as new characters to play as. The characters are fun to master and introduce a nice variation of gameplay, and characters. Side missions are amazing, and vary. There are races that are challenging and really fun to play, some might take more than a few tries to win.
Some missions are silly, but all are FUN. Levels are varied in theme, from Egyptian Palace, to a Ninja Castle, to a Dinosaur Western.
Great re-playability if you don't mind the empty worlds, the Sparx missions are challenging but fun. They are tricky and a cool reference to older models of games. Some people are unhappy with the graphics but I enjoyed them, they are no where near the quality of today, but I think it has a nice authentic feel and makes the atmosphere of the game more classic and fun. All in all, it is a great game, perhaps a little tedious once the enemies are beat, but there is always something interesting around the corner, or hidden, waiting to be discovered. Positive: + gameplay is still solid + controls are still excellent + tons of eggs to collect + speedway levels are great fun + extra characters are a smart addition Negative: - wait. Haven't I seen some of those positives before?
- some graphical issues are less forgivable the second time around - the levels get a little boring after the first area Spyro the Dragon was one of the defining characters of his genre back in the day. He had three great games: a great start, an even stronger sequel, and now the third one: Year of the Dragon. Does it live up to the expectations generated by its predecessors or does it fail to live up to the other two? When an evil Sorceress from another world sends in a bunch of goons to kidnap the eggs in the world of the dragons, you know who to send back to retrieve them. Hunter the cheetah!Oh, and Spyro of course! Basically you go on a journey to get back the eggs through four big worlds each with a lot of levels, and each of which has a lot of stuff to do for completionists.
The core gameplay of YOTD is pretty much exactly the same as it was back in Ripto's Rage: you charge, you glide, you breath fire, and you get power ups through gates every once in a while. Thankfully all the abilities you learned in the previous game are available to you right off the bat. The downside to this is that you don't learn any new abilities as the game goes on, which makes the Spyro gameplay hardly vary at all.
Fortunately, there are four other characters that come into play every once in a while to change things up a bit. Sheila the Kangaroo can jump really high and kick enemies to kingdom come, Sgt.
Byrd can fly and shoot the crud out of baddies with his shoulder cannons, Bentley the Yeti can smash guys with his giant club (my personal favorite), and Agent 9's levels are kind of like third-person shooters. These guys each have their own level and also have a few areas throughout the game within other levels in which you can get eggs. All the characters are really fun to play as and offer some great diversity. The game has four huge home worlds, each of which has many levels. The first world is home to a handful of great, fun levels, and then you go to the second world and find that you're suddenly not having as much fun.
Could it be that the levels are just. Not so great? I can't put my finger on it, but there's something about the later levels that I just don't like. Yaad Aa Raha Hai Remix Mp3 Free Download. Maybe it's the slight lack of creativity, I don't know.
Although many of the regular levels aren't much fun, there are four speedway levels in the game as well, and these are surprisingly entertaining. They each have a time attack mode where you have to fly through rings, torch cows, and the like within a time limit, but there is also a race on each of these levels as well as a Hunter challenge, usually involving you playing as the cheetah flying around in a plane shooting down sheep in flying saucers.
Collecting eggs is the main goal of the game, but there are many ways that you get them. Of course there are some lying around on the ground every once in a while but there are also times when you have to do certain tasks to get them or play a minigame kind of thing. There are also a ton of gems, but these are more annoying to collect as they are all over the place and if you want them all you'll have to do a lot of backtracking. Still, the combination of eggs and gems makes for a great game to try to complete. The visuals of YOTD are exactly the same as they were in Ripto's Rage. Nothing has changed.
Yes, Spyro's eyebrows still detach from his head every once in a while. Yes, everything still looks a little polygonal. They weren't so bad the first time, but when there is zero improvement in a game that came out a year later, polygonal and occasionally glitched graphics are a bit less forgivable. Not to say they look horrible for the time, but I definitely would have liked to see some kind of improvement in this area.
The sound effects are no different than they were back in Ripto's Rage, but there wasn't really anything that needed changing. There are still nice, sometimes silly effects that fit well with the game. The music is great as usual and is, like the sound effects, fitting to the environments. Some of the tracks are reused a few times but it's really not a big deal. Overall, Spyro: Year of the Dragon is still a great game. It may be exactly the same as its predecessor except for a few fun variations in the gameplay, but that's not to say it's a bad game by any means.
The Spyro formula had already proven itself twice, so why change it for the last game of the generation? Still, a few new abilities and graphical improvements would have been welcome and the levels could have been much more enjoyable.
Despite these few flaws, though, YOTD is great for anyone who liked the other two games or someone looking for a game simply made to be completed, and I would also recommend it to just about anyone who likes 3-D platformers. Gameplay: 9 Grahpics: 7 Sound: 8 Value: 9 FINAL SCORE: 8.4/10.
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Pros -7 Playable Characters -Veichle Driving -Skateboarding -The music -Voice Acting -Graphix Cons -Ummmmm.Let's see here, OH YEAH! Sereousley this is one of the best games for the PS.
Unless there is something wrong with you,you will have an awesome time enjoying this game. The Sparx rounds were pretty tough,but not impossible. The gameplay was so kick-butt in this game!! The music's pretty good,but not perfect,like the music in Spyro1. You are going to go through 40 fun levels to retrieve the dragon eggs! Category Rating: Gameplay: 10/10 VARIETY GALORE!
Graphix: 9.0 Great graphix,for a PS1 game. Sound: 9.5/10 Pretty good music and SFX. Charachters: 9.5/10 Great and fitting personalitys. Replayability: 9.5 I swear,you're gonna cry when the games over,cause you'll want to play it again 10 times. Voices: 10/10 Awesome voices,man,awesome voices.:) Lastability: 9.5/10 My gosh,it took me a week to beat this game. Pretty long lasting!!!!!
Error-Freeness: 9.5/10 Some glithces,but they won't bother you. Collecting: 9.5/10 It's super fun to collect things.:) Story: 10/10 Simple.but I loved it. The Sorceress steals all the dragon eggs,and it's up to Spyro,Sparx,Hunter,Sheila,Sgt.Byrd,Bentley, and Agent 9 to stop her!Did I mension they are ALL playable characters? Overall Score=96%-Incredible This is one of the best PS1 games.You won't regret buying it. (Make sur to get the Clollecter's Edition or Greatest Hits!!!) A+. A new batch of dragon eggs hasarrived and the Dragon World hums with festivities.
But a disgruntled Sorceress has hatched her own plot to steal them all! Dragonkind could become egg-stinct! It's Spyro and his friends to the rescue. This game i got for my 15th B-Day along with the PS game system. I'm glade that i got this game as my first because it has to be the best PS game i have bought. I've betten it 3 times and still find it fun. There are many playable critters- Sheila the kangaroo, Sgt.
Bird, Bentley the Yeti, Sparx the Dragon-fly and Agent 9. All with their own special abilities. The worlds are huge and mystical, with portals in each world leading to other worlds. You will search for eggs and jewls through deep lava craters and flooded minishafts to a city in the clouds. You can pull off sick tricks, unleash a tank attack, pilot a flying saucer, ride a speedboat, step into the boxing ring, dive deep in a submarine or fire off rockets.
There is so much you can do, and such veriatie of levels you'll never get bored. There are scores of enemies.
Battle flying beavers, cristal bears, gunslinging dinos, unmannerly mummies, bug-eyed scorpions and micro-matodons. I only wish that all PS games were like this one, because the people who created all the spyro games have made them so they can be played and replayed. If you like games like crash, you'll really like this one.