Now the good folks at Vivendi have unleashed yet another Spyro title for the PS2 and this one goes right back to the beginning.

(On second thoughts, I suppose the two numbers probably coincided.) Anyway, Spyro soon became the unofficial icon - the poster-dragon, if you will - of the PSone, but a series of terrible PS2 titles changed all this. Eight years have passed since those carefree days of gorgeous PSone worlds, enemies who were more comic than scary and gameplay which included more movie parodies than you could shake a dragon at. Once upon a time in the far away land of the Dragon Realms, there was a young purple dragon who spent his days charging into sheep, Gnorcs and Rynocs until they went poof and turned into butterflies and sparkly oh-so-collectable gems. The only memorable side character to me was Ignitus, mainly because Gary Oldman does an awesome job with the voice.Are you sitting comfortably? Then we'll begin. Hunter shows up in DoTD, but he's pretty boring too. Cynder is a great villain, but shares Spyro's lack of personality in later games.

He's a comic relief character, but a lot of people (including myself) find him annoying. In the hands of the right writers and actors, that character could have been a really good role model for young boys.Īs for the other characters, most aren't very memorable. What little character we do get seems to hint at someone who is a bit more emotional/vulnerable than your average 'kiddy platformer' protagonist.

To be honest, I think this is a damned shame. There's little casual interaction between him and the other characters, so you never get a strong sense of who he is and what motivates him. Spyro is pretty much defined by his quest to save the world. I only started to take the performance seriously when they aged him up a bit in DoTD. I think they needed someone who sounded more convincing as a naive young boy. For the most part, I don't really think this was his fault - he was just the wrong person for the part. I find Elijah Wood's performance very wooden and lifeless. More specifically, Spyro himself is boring. My biggest issue with it is that it's boring. That being said, I wasn't one of them myself. The story certainly has its fans in spite of this thread.

The legend of spyro trilogy