Why this game exists in the way it does is beyond me. I suppose there was a feeling that Spyro needed to mature and get darker and edgier to coincide with the next console generation as so many IPs did? Do they feel like a total series overhaul was necessary because of the failure of Enter The Dragonfly? Which was literally just because the game was rushed?
Either way, the end result is a limp, lifeless and dull beat-em-up of all things. Say goodbye to flying and gems and anything that made Spyro what it was, now you're gonna spend about 7 hours or so combo-ing generic looking enemies into an invisible wall.
As a kid who loved Spyro, I got this game day 1 of release and had no idea what it would be. I finished it on the day I got it, because it isn't very long, there isn't much to do in it and I guess I was compelled by morbid curiosity to see just how badly they'd massacred my boy. I didn't care much for it. It wasn't obnoxiously bad, it functioned, and the combat occasionally felt pretty satisfying but man, what a tone-deaf videogame.
In order to further establish how GROWN-UP the series is now, this game features a voice cast of famous actors, because nothing says sick nasty reboot quite like a bunch of disinterested celebrities who likely don't know what the fuck's going on in the game they've been cast in. Elijah Wood plays Spyro, Gary Oldman plays Ignitus, his mentor...and DAVID SPADE plays SPARX.
On the surface this may sound interesting at the very least, but that intrigue will fade in about an hour or so as you realise just how little of a shit any of these people give. They're no Tom Kenny, I'll say that much. They sound so bored and rambly, so incredibly disengaged from whatever's going on in the game...And really, who can blame them?
Either way, the end result is a limp, lifeless and dull beat-em-up of all things. Say goodbye to flying and gems and anything that made Spyro what it was, now you're gonna spend about 7 hours or so combo-ing generic looking enemies into an invisible wall.
As a kid who loved Spyro, I got this game day 1 of release and had no idea what it would be. I finished it on the day I got it, because it isn't very long, there isn't much to do in it and I guess I was compelled by morbid curiosity to see just how badly they'd massacred my boy. I didn't care much for it. It wasn't obnoxiously bad, it functioned, and the combat occasionally felt pretty satisfying but man, what a tone-deaf videogame.
In order to further establish how GROWN-UP the series is now, this game features a voice cast of famous actors, because nothing says sick nasty reboot quite like a bunch of disinterested celebrities who likely don't know what the fuck's going on in the game they've been cast in. Elijah Wood plays Spyro, Gary Oldman plays Ignitus, his mentor...and DAVID SPADE plays SPARX.
On the surface this may sound interesting at the very least, but that intrigue will fade in about an hour or so as you realise just how little of a shit any of these people give. They're no Tom Kenny, I'll say that much. They sound so bored and rambly, so incredibly disengaged from whatever's going on in the game...And really, who can blame them?