The Best Spyro game in my opinion as someone who hasn't played the original.
- The world's are well designed like in spyro 1
- The mini-games are better than in Spyro 2 which makes collecting the eggs less of a chore and a more fun experience
- Playing as the other characters helps keeping the game fresh and is more fun than what most people are saying
- The world's are well designed like in spyro 1
- The mini-games are better than in Spyro 2 which makes collecting the eggs less of a chore and a more fun experience
- Playing as the other characters helps keeping the game fresh and is more fun than what most people are saying
The downward spiral continues.
If the overabundance of minigames resulted in Ripto's Rage being a lesser experience compared to the first game, then the introduction of shitty friends all but guarantees that Year of the Dragon will be worse than Ripto's Rage. And it is.
Ah yes, shitty friends. That classic platforming trope, when an established franchise decides it's a good idea to divide up playtime with some secondary characters who control way worse than the main character and have some kind of gimmick that isn't particularly fun to use. This is YotD's way of 'evolving' the Spyro the Dragon franchise I guess, but playing as the slow-as-molasses penguin or the gun-wielding monkey with basic ass shooting mechanics doesn't contribute anything beyond a middling diversion in gameplay mechanics.
There's less of the dreaded minigames that plagued the second game here, but the ones that do appear tend to be more tortuous. Insta-death wouldn't be such a bad thing if these minigames were short and snappy, but a lot of them drag for a long time. And the one where you have to take down two flying dragons that happen to have regenerative powers? That one in particular can get fucked.
If the overabundance of minigames resulted in Ripto's Rage being a lesser experience compared to the first game, then the introduction of shitty friends all but guarantees that Year of the Dragon will be worse than Ripto's Rage. And it is.
Ah yes, shitty friends. That classic platforming trope, when an established franchise decides it's a good idea to divide up playtime with some secondary characters who control way worse than the main character and have some kind of gimmick that isn't particularly fun to use. This is YotD's way of 'evolving' the Spyro the Dragon franchise I guess, but playing as the slow-as-molasses penguin or the gun-wielding monkey with basic ass shooting mechanics doesn't contribute anything beyond a middling diversion in gameplay mechanics.
There's less of the dreaded minigames that plagued the second game here, but the ones that do appear tend to be more tortuous. Insta-death wouldn't be such a bad thing if these minigames were short and snappy, but a lot of them drag for a long time. And the one where you have to take down two flying dragons that happen to have regenerative powers? That one in particular can get fucked.