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Spyro: Year of the Dragon

The third game in the Spyro series, and the last to be made by Insomniac Games. Spyro: Year of the Dragon is the biggest of all the Spyro games so far made. It incorporates several new playable characters as well as a new evil to fight.

In this game you play mainly as Spyro, but there are certain levels and parts of levels where you can only play as a different character. The playable characters in this game are: Spyro, Sparx, Hunter, Sheila the Kangaroo, Sgt. James Byrd, Bently the Yeti and Agent 9.


Oct 11th 2000	Nov 10th 2000

The Story

Every twelve years, the Dragon Kingdom celebrates its most important event: the "Year of the Dragon" Festival. Fairies deliver a new batch of dragon eggs and dragons come from all around to dance and feast until everyone drops from...eggshaustion.

The Year of the Dragon is upon us again and the fairies have brought 150 eggs to the Dragon Worlds. However, unbeknownst to the celebrating dragons, a sinister plot is about to unfold...

Far away - on the opposite side of the world - lies a kingdom long since forgotten by dragonkind. So forgotten, in fact, that even the legends about these "Forgotten Worlds" have now been forgotten.

This kingdom is ruled by a mean and spiteful Sorceress who has frankly become quite fed up with being forgotten. As she sits on her forgotten throne, the Sorceress has hatched a fiendishly evil plan. A plan to restore the fading magic to her forgotten realm. A plan to conquer the dragons once and for all. All she needs is a little help from her army of horn-nosed 'rhynocs', the cooperation of her mysterious disciple Bianca and of course, those 150 magical dragon eggs.

The Controls

Spyro the Dragon
Button	Action
X	Jump. Press again when in the air to glide
Square	Charge
Circle	Flame/Spit out rock
Triangle	Look around/Aim rock/Drop out of glide/Headbash when just jumped
R1/L1	Bring the camera behind Spyro fast
R2/L2	Turn the camera
R1+R2+L1+L2	Sparx points at nearest gem (only available when you've earned it)

Sheila the Kangaroo
Button	Action
X	Jump. Press again when in the air to go higher. Press again the moment you land to double jump
Square	Kick
Circle	Kick
Triangle	Look around/Headbash when just jumped
R1/L1	Bring the camera behind Sheila fast
R2/L2	Turn the camera
R1+R2+L1+L2	Sparx points at nearest gem (only available when you've earned it)

Sgt. Byrd
Button	Action
X	Fly, hold to go higher
Square	Drop bomb/projectile
Circle	Fire guns
Triangle	Look around/Aim
R1/L1	Bring the camera behind Sgt. Byrd fast
R2/L2	Turn the camera
R1+R2+L1+L2	Sparx points at nearest gem (only available when you've earned it)

Bentley the Yeti
Button	Action
X	Jump
Square	Thump
Circle	Spin club
Triangle	Look around
R1/L1	Bring the camera behind Bentley fast
R2/L2	Turn the camera
R1+R2+L1+L2	Sparx points at nearest gem (only available when you've earned it)

Agent 9
Button	Action
X	Jump
Square	Throw Bomb
Square (hold)	Aim Bomb
Circle	Fire Weapon
Triangle	Sniper Mode
R1/L1	Zoom in/out in sniper mode
R1/L1	Dodge left/right
R2/L2	Turn the camera
R1+R2+L1+L2	Sparx points at nearest gem (only available when you've earned it)

Gems are strangely identical to the last game. Strangely because Avalar and The Forgotten Worlds are most likely further away from each other then the Dragon Realms is from the Forgotten Worlds. Strange how they have the Avalar set of gems rather than the Dragon Realms set, maybe the Sorceress had the GemCutters in from Avalar though.

Gem Colour	Gem Value
Red	1
Green	2
Purple	5
Yellow	10
Pink	25

The same containers for the gems as in Avalar. However here you get gems from killing the Rhynocs whereas in Avalar they released a Spirit Particle. Also this game sees the return of a locked chest, slightly different in appearence from the first game, but you will still need to find a key to open them.

Anyway, on with the walkthrough, and on to Sunrise Spring!

Walkthrough »

Comments

#1740 Blackhawk 19:48:30 10/02/2013

You can still play this game on the PS2 and use the old memory card foe the PS1. I did this with an old star wars game for the PS1

#1739 Hawaii Five o 17:13:07 10/02/2013

anyone need a new bud?Ask me!

#1738 SuperSpyroFan 18:47:31 09/02/2013

@spyrothe111: Don't you have a PS2 to play it on? Or if you have a PS3, you could buy it from the network.

#1737 spyrothe111 12:37:59 09/02/2013

*Sigh*
My PS1 finally broke, so now I have to get another one if I ever want to play this awesome game again.

#1736 TorchSheep 13:07:11 03/02/2013

My favorite classic game would be 'Spyro 2'

#1735 spyrorules1298 08:04:14 03/02/2013

I think this one is one of my fav of the classic game's, My fav is the enter the dragonfly.

#1734 TorchSheep 20:57:49 28/01/2013

Skylanders: Lost Islands, Skylanders: Battlegrounds, and The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon? Or did you mean ANB TEN and DoTD

#1733 Hawaii Five o 20:36:40 28/01/2013

No.the 3 before that.Anyone want to friend me?

#1732 TorchSheep 22:29:10 27/01/2013

@Five O
The newer 3 games? You mean Skylanders, Cloud Patrol and Giants? Those are the 3 newest Spyro (sort of) games

#1731 Hawaii Five o 20:26:16 27/01/2013

Who likes the newer 3 games?

#1730 TorchSheep 18:48:07 26/01/2013

In my Top 5 Games of ALL TIME!

#1729 Blackhawk 19:51:12 25/01/2013

I love this game. It is one of my favorites.

#1728 Jaggedstar 18:28:05 25/01/2013

vDu-uuuude!!!!!!!!!!!

#1727 Masterchief 17:57:43 25/01/2013

Finally got all the skills! I also figured out how to do the 10,000 point one. Just go to the big ramp and do Big gulp's, orange crush's, and when you're near 8,000 or so, do the gnasty gnorc with the raging ripto.