Console Version

Introduction

Third in a trilogy, The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon uses free-flight and co-op play to finish off the story.

Welcome to my walkthrough for the The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon's PS3 version. Most everything should also apply to the PS2, Wii and Xbox 360 versions but not to the Nintendo DS version, check out my other guide for that version.

Controls

Action PS2/PS3 Xbox 360 Wii
Select Fire / Poison D-Pad Up D-Pad Up -
Select Electricity / Wind D-Pad Right D-Pad Right -
Select Ice / Shadow D-Pad Down D-Pad Down -
Select Earth / Fear D-Pad Left D-Pad Left -
Move Left Analog Left Thumbstick Analog Stick
Move Camera Right Analog Right Thumbstick Dpad
Jump X A A
Double Jump X + X A + A A + A
Double Jump and Glide X + X (Hold) A + A (Hold) A + A (Hold)
Fly X + X + X A + A + A A + A + A
Elemental Attack R2 Right Trigger Z
Secondary Elemental Attack R1 Right Bumper C
Light Melee Attack Square X B
Heavy Melee Attack Triangle Y Swing remote down
Action O B A+B
Grab O B A+B
Switch dragon L2 Left Trigger +
Block L1 Left Bumper Tilt nunchuck
Evade Left Analog + L1 Left Thumbstick + Left Bumper Analog Stick + Shake nunchuck
Fury Square + Triangle X + Y C + Z
Pause Menu Start Start 1
Objectives Select Back 2

Gems

Red gems heal you, green gems fill your magic bar and blue gems add to your experience pool.

Health

Health is displayed by a red bar on Spyro and Cynder's section of the display. Collect Red Gems to fill it up as otherwise you'll end up dead.

If either character dies you'll be sent back to a previous checkpoint, these tend to not be too far away but can be.

You can upgrade the health bars by smashing the large Red Health Crystals you'll find hidden in levels, these are rare and are needed for 100%. Collect 4 parts for Spyro to upgrade and 5 for Cynder to upgrade, each Crystal gives one part to each character.

Health does not refill by itself without a certain piece of armour equipped.

Breath

Use Green Gems to power your breath attacks, when you run out you can't use them and will either have to go find some more or just use your melee attacks.

Purple Crystals will drain your breath if you're nearby so smash them as quick as you can.

You can upgrade the magic bars by smashing the large Green Magic Crystals you'll find hidden in levels, these are rare and are needed for 100%. Collect 5 parts for Spyro to upgrade and 4 for Cynder to upgrade, each Crystal gives one part to each character.

Like health your magic will not refill by itself.

Experience

Experience is used to upgrade your elemental abilities and you get them from killing enemies, smashing objects, smashing Blue Gem Clusters and killing Elite Enemies.

Blue Gem Clusters are found hidden in the levels, there are 99 throughout the game and give 1000 experience to each character when smashed.

Elite Enemies are tougher versions of the normal enemies and require a bit more effort to kill, once killed they give you 10000 experience, this is not shared so if you're trying to get one character to get the experience make sure you're controlling them when the kill happens.

Once a character reaches the max amount of experience all of it gathered after that point will go to the other character.

Armour

Hidden throughout the game are several pieces of armour, nine for each character, that will give special bonuses. You'll find these inside special chests that require both characters to open it at the same time.

If you collect all three pieces of one set and equip them all at the same time you get an extra bonus effect.

Chapter Mode

After you complete each level in Story Mode you unlock it for play in Chapter Mode. This allows you to go back into a level and search out any items that you missed the first time through. The main difference being that you can't save during play but you can quit at any point and it'll save what you've found. You can use all the abilities and armour that you've earned in Story Mode during Chapter Mode.


Now that you're prepared, it's time to start the walkthrough. And where better to begin than the beginning?


Comments
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#30 Spyro0001 01:12:11 15/08/2009
I beat the game 100%

smilie and she only played as me,and i'm tired...

smilie hehe, thats what you get 4 bein her favorite.
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#29 DNLoveless 00:22:19 20/01/2009
Welcome! = )
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#28 dark52 - Spyro the Admin 12:39:41 19/01/2009
Thanks.
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#27 DNLoveless 02:56:11 19/01/2009
I just wanted to point out that for the Wii controls, to switch dragons, you press + not -

Also, I don't know if there is much of a difference, but to block, you tilt the nunchuck, not shake it...
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#26 dark52 - Spyro the Admin 18:45:44 12/01/2009
Thanks Rexy.
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#25 Dark Cynder 1 20:47:43 10/01/2009
smilie : smilie smilie smilie smilie smilie smilie
i beat the game i just need 2 blu gems in the destroyer and 2 in the dam and i is complete!!!!!!!!!
(PEANUTS)
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#24 Rexy 23:28:13 03/01/2009
Having played the Wii version, all I should state is that for your heavy attack you're supposed to swing the Wii remote down, and for the evade technique, you can just shake the Nunchuk while moving around to roll in the direction you're moving. Hope this helps the controls for that part somewhat smilie
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#23 Dragon lover 06:32:44 31/12/2008
Sarah, malefor removes for like, 1 minute but then he puts them back on
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#22 lex 20:29:57 30/12/2008
after you destroy the siege towers, and then you watch the little cutscence with hunter and the green monster fly down where the monster is and kill it, afterwords you are told to close the doors to stop anymore enenimes from getting in
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#21 bella 18:21:10 28/12/2008
what do you do after destroying all the siege towers? it shows you a cutscene of hunter and a monster who broke through the door, however then it goes back to you without telling you what to do..i have been wandering around the ramparts and nothing has happened but scary music and exploding noises
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#20 Sarah 01:56:00 26/12/2008
Also do you ever get unattached by those snake things arround your neck? Because i'm just wondering.
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#19 Sarah 06:33:38 25/12/2008
I seriously NEED to get past the door and horn thingy on Ps2.I've tried several suggestions, but none of them worked, no matter how hard I tried.Mostly I think I was on the DS page, so does anyone have a suggestion for me for Spyro: Dawn Of The Dragon PS2 version?(I acidently put a smiley face between "Spyro" and "awn" in the last post.)
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#18 Sarah 06:28:03 25/12/2008
I seriously NEED to get past the door and horn thingy on Ps2.I've tried several suggestions, but none of them worked, no matter how hard I tried.Mostly I think I was on the DS page, so does anyone have a suggestion for me for Spyrosmilieawn Of The Dragon PS2 version?
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#17 dark52 - Spyro the Admin 12:02:56 23/12/2008
Yep, it should indeed.
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#16 bionicle2809 12:42:51 22/12/2008
Shouldn't the switching elements also lists Cynders breaths?
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