What's the verdict on the post-PS1 games in the series?
There's plenty of original handheld titles, handheld ports of console games, The Legend of Spyro trilogy, Hero's Tail, Enter the Dragonfly and probably a few others I missed
Enter the Dragonfly is genuinely one of the worst games I've ever played in my life.
I've heard Hero's Tail is okay. Same with some of the handheld spinoffs. I have zero interest in the Legend series because it looks like generic beat em up trash.
>Enter the Dragonfly
Weird, buggy, broken game. I actually love how surreal it is to play, it feels like playing Spyro on acid or remembering a dream you had of Spyro.
>Hero's Tail
Underrated. Doesn't really feel as though it's the same universe as the original trilogy, but I actually love the character and world designs as well as the soundtrack. Gameplay is about average but does have some cool moments.
>Legend of Spyro trilogy
Gameplay was pretty meh but the designs and music were pretty cool. Story was alright but not very Spyro-esque.
Of what I played, ETD is like PS1 Spyros if they were shovelware games, Hero's Tail has insufferable humour, and I actually like the GBA games however I don't blame anyone if they can't stomach an isometric platformer (I only played Ice and Flame, I think something of the Riptocs is the same gameplay, also there's a 2D action game that I never tried)
The only one I bothered with after 3 as a kid was Enter the Dragonfly and it was terrible. I distinctly remember getting stuck several times because of glitches and being able to just enter new areas and levels I wasn't supposed to early. It was a mess.
>EtD
garbage, sadly. Pretty cool soundtrack by a bunch of literal whos supervised by Copeland. >AHT
very competently made run-of-the-mill PS2 scrimblo platformer. You could replace Spyro with an OC donut steel and nobody would ever guess it was supposed to be a Spyro game. >The Legend of Spyro games
there's a shitload on those on every fricking console and they're a mixed bag. GBA The Eternal Night is fricking great if you're into Metroidvanias (but it's linear so it's technically not one). >GBA games pre-TLoS
isometric platformers are bad and so are these. First one is the worst but has the most SOUL, second one refines the core gameplay but has terrible level tropes and minigames, third one has an interesting setup but pretty much plays itself outside of the Sgt.Byrd/Agent 9 stuff. >that one GBA game with Crash Bandicoot in it
trash >Shadow Legacy
complete utter trash, wasn't playtested and will softlock on you if you're not careful, but has trace amounts of SOUL
hero's tail is a legitimately great game
legend of spyro games are fricking weird but they're fun, the third one is unironically awesome if you have a bro to play through it with and can tolerate them trying to turn a bunch of multicolored cartoon dragons into a super serious plotline, it's bizarre as shit yo but damn if it isn't satisfying to coordinate the combat with another human being
I played the Spyro Reignited Trilogy recently
Am I just moronic and missing something fundamental or are all the Spyro fans just blinded by nostalgia?
It was slightly fun, if extremely simplistic, at first, but got boring by game 2 and fairly annoying by game 3.
I understand why they'd be liked at the time they came out, but they absolutely do not hold up when compared to more modern 3d platformers.
3 would be better without all the stages where you don't play as spyro
really shows how important your movement and abilities are to a game like this because all of them feel like such a boring chore to play as, unappealing designs mixed with uninspired stages that just feel like several tutorial levels for their boring abilities
it kinda looks like a ghost is giving him an intense rimjob as hes orgasming while sparx is trying to figure out what the frick is going on
What's the verdict on the post-PS1 games in the series?
There's plenty of original handheld titles, handheld ports of console games, The Legend of Spyro trilogy, Hero's Tail, Enter the Dragonfly and probably a few others I missed
Garb
unfortunately it all ranges from painfully mediocre to outright garbage
>tfw Insomniac ditched Spyro because he couldn't use a gun
Shovelware. New management never took Spyro seriously.
Enter the Dragonfly is genuinely one of the worst games I've ever played in my life.
I've heard Hero's Tail is okay. Same with some of the handheld spinoffs. I have zero interest in the Legend series because it looks like generic beat em up trash.
>Enter the Dragonfly
Weird, buggy, broken game. I actually love how surreal it is to play, it feels like playing Spyro on acid or remembering a dream you had of Spyro.
>Hero's Tail
Underrated. Doesn't really feel as though it's the same universe as the original trilogy, but I actually love the character and world designs as well as the soundtrack. Gameplay is about average but does have some cool moments.
>Legend of Spyro trilogy
Gameplay was pretty meh but the designs and music were pretty cool. Story was alright but not very Spyro-esque.
Of what I played, ETD is like PS1 Spyros if they were shovelware games, Hero's Tail has insufferable humour, and I actually like the GBA games however I don't blame anyone if they can't stomach an isometric platformer (I only played Ice and Flame, I think something of the Riptocs is the same gameplay, also there's a 2D action game that I never tried)
The only one I bothered with after 3 as a kid was Enter the Dragonfly and it was terrible. I distinctly remember getting stuck several times because of glitches and being able to just enter new areas and levels I wasn't supposed to early. It was a mess.
Season of Ice and Season of Flame are reasonably decent if you can get past the isometric aspect
>EtD
garbage, sadly. Pretty cool soundtrack by a bunch of literal whos supervised by Copeland.
>AHT
very competently made run-of-the-mill PS2 scrimblo platformer. You could replace Spyro with an OC donut steel and nobody would ever guess it was supposed to be a Spyro game.
>The Legend of Spyro games
there's a shitload on those on every fricking console and they're a mixed bag. GBA The Eternal Night is fricking great if you're into Metroidvanias (but it's linear so it's technically not one).
>GBA games pre-TLoS
isometric platformers are bad and so are these. First one is the worst but has the most SOUL, second one refines the core gameplay but has terrible level tropes and minigames, third one has an interesting setup but pretty much plays itself outside of the Sgt.Byrd/Agent 9 stuff.
>that one GBA game with Crash Bandicoot in it
trash
>Shadow Legacy
complete utter trash, wasn't playtested and will softlock on you if you're not careful, but has trace amounts of SOUL
Played every Spyro game apart from Orange and Shadow Legacy. Season of Flame is the only one post Insomniac title I would recommend.
Spyro bros...
What's this?
Abandonware, probably
this looks interesting
It was originally a fan made Spyro game called Spyro 4: Myth's Awaken. Activision C&D'd the dev and now we have Zera.
actual footage me in the corner of some map 20 years ago
hero's tail is a legitimately great game
legend of spyro games are fricking weird but they're fun, the third one is unironically awesome if you have a bro to play through it with and can tolerate them trying to turn a bunch of multicolored cartoon dragons into a super serious plotline, it's bizarre as shit yo but damn if it isn't satisfying to coordinate the combat with another human being
I played the Spyro Reignited Trilogy recently
Am I just moronic and missing something fundamental or are all the Spyro fans just blinded by nostalgia?
It was slightly fun, if extremely simplistic, at first, but got boring by game 2 and fairly annoying by game 3.
I understand why they'd be liked at the time they came out, but they absolutely do not hold up when compared to more modern 3d platformers.
3 would be better without all the stages where you don't play as spyro
really shows how important your movement and abilities are to a game like this because all of them feel like such a boring chore to play as, unappealing designs mixed with uninspired stages that just feel like several tutorial levels for their boring abilities
We need more Spyro and Elora comics.
That comic is fricking great, I fapped to it easily several times.
Should read: A time with the Faun
Can't find it on sad panda.
Link?
I only have that pic, idk if its a crop
it's rare you get comics where both characters are equally frickable