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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

#390 Dark Sparks 12:25:28 24/04/2008

This is my favert Spyro game out of all the Spyro games! I have beaten the game 2 times now and I and going to beat the game again! I love being Shelar and Srgt. Bird.

#389 American Spyro 20:23:20 22/04/2008

Isn't there 150 eggs in this game?

#388 Dragon Lover 14:07:09 20/04/2008

I think I have everything in the game. Which would be, like, 120%.

#387 American Spyro 21:31:29 17/04/2008

I havn't got all the eggs yet. i only got up to 103 eggs.

#386 purple 02:22:10 17/04/2008

This game is so FUN!!! I feel really weird I've played this game since I was 7 and I still have'nt beat it and i'm 12 now!!!

#385 Dragon Lover 20:13:04 16/04/2008

Yep.

#384 American Spyro 23:42:29 14/04/2008

Sunrise spring is the most boring world in this game. Midnight Mountain is the best.

#383 SPYRO2456 14:47:54 14/04/2008

its grate init

#382 spyro_is_cool 14:11:33 13/04/2008

i thought this was an awsome game cause its just like spyro 2 ripto's rage

#381 Super Spyro 02:47:43 13/04/2008

i played this game when i was 5 and it was easy. I also played the other two games

#380 American Spyro 23:00:22 10/04/2008

she just really likes those skate board levels for some reason.

#379 American Spyro 20:14:19 10/04/2008

every time i play this game my sister will screem in my face just to play the skate board levels. My mom yells at her for doin it though. But it's pretty anoying.

#378 spyro2rules 12:13:47 10/04/2008

this is so easy my 3 year old sis completed it in 1 week

#377 Dragon Lover 23:39:06 09/04/2008

Hmm. Probably Spike too, SpyroTrueDragon.