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Spyro: Season of Ice

Spyro: Season of Ice is the first Spyro game to appear on the GBA. The first Spyro game to be made by a developer other then Spyro's creators Insomniac Games, Digital Eclipse have done a decent enough job on this game to make it playable and replayable.

Season of Ice takes you, as Spyro, to the Fairy Realms in order to save them from an evil menace. Set shortly after Year of the Dragon, Season of Ice continues with a slightly linked story but really it's not the greatest story you'll have ever encountered.


Oct 30th 2001	Nov 16th 2001

Dec 26th 2002

The Story

Here's the official word on the story from the SpyroTheDragon.com website:

After the defeat of the Sorceress, many of her old Rhynoc minions were left out of work or had to take less-than-ideal day jobs. None more so than Grendor, the Rhynoc librarian at the Grand Central Dragon Realms library. A small, meek figure, Grendor never made the cut into the Rhynoc army and desperately longed for a career change.

One day, Bianca spent a few hours in the library researching ideal vacation spots for a trip she was planning for Spyro, Hunter and herself. With all the travel books, Bianca mistakenly left the Sorceress' Spell book behind. Finding the book, Grendor was inspired by an ingenious plan. Flipping through the pages, he found himself a transformation spell to change his meager frame into a towering mass of muscle and brainpower! Wasting no more time, he read the spell aloud; too hasty even to notice the book was turned upside down. Grendor wound up with bulk and brainpower all right, but in the form of two heads, and a migraine in both of his thick skulls.

And here's my description of the opening part to the game...

The camera zooms in to see Spyro, Hunter and Bianca relaxing on a beach somewhere, probably Dragon Shores, when Hunter suddenly sees something in the sky. He thinks it's a flying sheep saucer but Spyro recognises it as a balloon. Bianca catches it and reads the note attached to it. The note is from Zoe and reads: 'Dear Spyro, I'm using every last drop of my magic to send you this message. Someone has cast a powerful spell over the Fairy World and, freezing fairies in Ice Crystals. And we can't get out! Now, the Rhynocs are back and collecting fairies one by one. I wish I knew what they were up to. Please come back before it's too late.' Spyro decides to go help the fairies and Bianca says she'll go off and check her spell book for something to help.

Hunter mentions that she hasn't been carrying the Spell Book for a few days which is news to Bianca but she finds out that she no longer has it on her. She realises that she must have left it in the library when she got the travel book for their vacation. As she sets off to find her book, Hunter, Spyro and Sparx head off to help the fairies.

The Controls

Spyro the Dragon
A	Jump. Press again when in the air to glide. Press again whilst in glide to hover and end the glide.
B	Flame
R	Charge
Start	Bring up the start menu
Select	Open the Atlas

Gems are once again the currency of the world, and once again you'll be needing to collect it all to get 100% completion.

Gem Colour	Gem Value
Red	1
Green	2
Purple	5
Yellow	10

Gems are once again in the same places as usual. In flammable baskets, chargeable vases, locked chests, inside Rhynocs and just lying around on the ground.

Sparx

And as usual Sparx is Spyro's health meter.

Sparx Colour	Hits Left
Yellow	4
Blue	3
Green	2
None	1

To regain Sparx's health just flame a small animal such as a sheep that will give out a butterfly. Each butterfly will regain one health point.

Progress Saving

Strangely enough, for a world filled entirely with fairies, there are no progress saving fairies in the whole game. None. So every time you die, you'll be taken all the way back to the start of the level and have to redo everything except collecting gems and freeing fairies.

Well, that's enough of that then. On to the walkthrough, getting started with Autumn Fairy Home.

Walkthrough »

Comments

#540 spyrothe111 22:02:55 15/08/2016

Ah the pain this game gave me a few summers ago, it was a joy to finally beat it.

#539 ghostfury 16:17:57 08/07/2016

My most detested Spyro GBA game
It was too hard
Too dull
Not enough story to captivate me
It was all round a meh game

#538 IJAITEE31TNT 22:09:52 24/02/2016

This game is refreshing even if not that good and fun. It could be that this is a distinct installment or how refreshing the music is. It could be because I am not used to hearing about Spyro: Season Of Ice. In addition it is so similar to the P. S. 1 games that it even brings back small details like gold vases with a question mark which is a good thing.

#537 Alydol 23:40:17 14/01/2016

I never got this game

it's the only spyro consolet game I don't have

Console

#536 JamesFakeman 11:45:30 02/01/2016

15th anniversary is coming! Pretty underrrated game! It is awesome, though it has some flaws...

#534 Arc of Archives 03:15:06 06/09/2015

Terrible game. Controls feel rubbish, especially with that perspective, dragging down a game which was not really fun or creative in the first place.

#533 VioletEevee 09:50:24 27/08/2015

Ah this game, I never finished this one but it was one of my first Spyro games.<3
Good gosh, I hate playing as Sparx though... That stupid grasshopper/cricket boss was hard when I was younger.

#532 Boomer05 15:35:02 01/07/2015

:Boomer:

#530 spyrothe111 00:48:57 08/08/2014

I'm almost FINALLY done beating this cursed game! Just have to complete Sparx's last bonus mission, Space Age Speedway (Probably the hardest part of the game), and fight Grendor! Then try "Dragonfly X".
Also, why do I have 2 extra gems in the Summer homeworld?

Nevermind! I finally beaten this game! After so much aggravation, I finally beaten this. Also, am I the only one that didn't think "Space Age Speedway" was that hard. :I

Now to move on to "Season of Flame"!

#529 Greeble 08:49:58 07/08/2014

This was one of the most annoying games in the series.

I never played Season of Flame because i thought it would be the same, it was really big let down.

#528 LoneWolf 06:29:20 21/07/2014

wish I still had this game it was kind of a good game

#527 RedSpyro123 20:32:40 17/07/2014

Nice game but glitchy. For some reason, on Summer Fairy home, I have 304/300 fairies. I'm not sure what caused this overflow. :S

Oops! I meant 304/300 Gems. :S