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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

#765 ignitusforever 22:03:58 08/06/2009

Or imagine skateboarding in TLOS!!

#764 Cynder_543 07:48:46 08/06/2009

I wish they would off thought off the skateboarding earlier.... I would off loved to go skateboarding in GTG.

#763 darkspyro199 19:14:16 07/06/2009

that is the coolest thing that's why my profile pic is him a skarks doing a trick on one!!!! lol love this game

#762 Rhyme 18:14:50 07/06/2009

Skateboarding Spyro is the coolest thing ever. |D

#761 Cynder_543 00:00:34 07/06/2009

I thought Buzz was the boringest because he was so easy..

I think Scorch so so darn scary.....

#760 spyro 1234 18:28:43 31/05/2009

spike is proberly one of the hardest bossed, and the boringest!

#759 ignitusforever 18:41:54 30/05/2009

I thought spike was pretty scary too! But only getting the game recently, I only died once trying to beat him.

#758 C1nder 05:29:08 30/05/2009

The first time I got up to Spike I was about 4 or 5. I was really scared of him! I also thought the music was freaky as well. I got my sister to do it for me. But now i'm like 5 years older and he's really easy! I celebrated when I killed him for the first time!WWOOOOHH!!

Once I got up really early in the morning so it was still dark, and I went into the living room to play on the playstation.I kept on dying so I waited till my mum or sister got up so thay could help me. I had it on pause for about an hour. I had waited to long so the playstation automaticly un-paused! He smashed me with his hammer.LOL!

#757 darkspyro199 10:32:40 28/05/2009

i know what you mean i used to have to ask my sister to defeat him for me then about 4 years later we got addicted to it agin and I could defeat him!!!

#756 Cynder_543 12:55:58 27/05/2009

Once you get older (about 12), then Spike becomes easier. I was suprised that Spike wasn't as hard as he used to be. Oh, and once you defeat him about 5 times over and over, he becomes easy.

Lol, I played this game about 2 weeks ago, and now I'm edicted to it.

#755 willard45 01:49:00 27/05/2009

i beat this when i was 4 or 5

#754 SpyroAddict 15:56:21 25/05/2009

I recently started playing YoTD again (never finished it the first time) and I am completely stuck when it comes to defeating Spike. I have tried so often the past week or so, and only once have I managed to get to the bit where you pick up blue spiky things to shoot at Spike. I just keep dying, over and over and over. Any advice? Thanks.

#753 ignitusforever 21:15:43 20/05/2009

I just got YOTD!! YAY!!!!! Anyone have any tips?

#752 Cynder_543 12:38:24 20/05/2009

That must suck Cynder Fan6312

Lol, I remeber pulling all of my hair out the very first time I battled Spike (Of course, I didn't really pull my hair out....).