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Spyro eventually learns how to flutter, swim, and climb. The core move set is the backbone of each game, but the sequels expand upon the gameplay scope. His foes often tower over him, delivering a great sense of scale that again gives this game a much different feel. As lethal as Spyro is, Insomniac never lets you forget he isn't a fully grown dragon. Even though Spyro is a tiny dragon, his fire breath gives him a powerful position in the world, imbuing the player with an enjoyable attack that can immediately melt adversaries. Spyro's horns also deliver unique and satisfying wallops to adversaries, and generate exciting gameplay moments where, at a great speed, the player needs to line up a direct hit or look like an idiot who flies right past the target. Rocketing across the world takes skill, but becomes incredibly satisfying once mastered. When Spyro hops along, he can turn easily, just like any other platforming character, but once he puts his horns down to sprint, he takes on the maneuverability of a race car, only capable of making wide turns. As a four-legged hero, his basic movements offer a different feel and flow than your traditional platformer stars. Just the general design of Spyro as a character is a game changer. From that drive, the Spyro trilogy has a unique charm, and it still holds up well today. Spyro was born in the wild west of game development when every developer was trying to figure out what three-dimensional gaming would be. You’ll need to unearth them all to reach 100 percent completion for stages. All too often you’ll find yourself stumped, clueless where the last gem could be hidden. The main objectives in all three games can be completed quickly, but secrets are fairly hard to find, meaning you’ll likely explore every corner to find well-hidden gems, and experiment with jumps to find a glide point that can reach new areas. You can see how Insomniac learned from its mistakes, become more ambitious, and figured out how to create a clear through line for players, while still delivering an adventure that pushes for player-driven discovery. These three games are a great study of iteration. Insomniac improves upon this formula in the second game, Ripto's Rage, and again in the trilogy’s final act, Year of the Dragon. In the first game, you don’t really have any guidance to tell you what you should be doing other than reawakening dragons. These games are still ridiculously fun to play, but the path through them can be a bit difficult to wrap your brain around at first. This means the level design and item placement are identical to Insomniac's work – and that’s where this trilogy’s age begins to cut through the new coat of paint. All three games look stunning by today’s standards, but are near-perfect recreations of the originals. A dog that moved awkwardly now has a variety of beautifully realized animations that visually convey the second it becomes a threat to Spyro. Flat green spaces which we assumed represented fields are now beautiful prairies consisting of flowers and individual blades of grass that can be affected by wind and fire. What was once a textureless brown blob is now a highly-detailed tree that appears to have a story of its own to tell. The result is three games that often look radically different from their sources. Last year’s Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy received similar treatment, but given just how lightly detailed Spyro’s worlds were back in the day, Toys for Bob took more liberties with the visuals. Spyro Reignited Trilogy is a remaster that is faithful to the purple dragon’s original journeys, yet modernizes them to deliver breathtaking graphics and dynamic audio.
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