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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.

Spyro: Year of the Dragon Spyro: Year of the Dragon
North America Oct 11th 2000 European Union 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
ButtonAction
XJump. Press again when in the air to glide
SquareCharge
CircleFlame/Spit out rock
TriangleLook around/Aim rock/Drop out of glide/Headbash when just jumped
R1/L1Bring the camera behind Spyro fast
R2/L2Turn the camera
R1+R2+L1+L2Sparx points at nearest gem (only available when you've earned it)
Sheila the Kangaroo
ButtonAction
XJump. Press again when in the air to go higher. Press again the moment you land to double jump
SquareKick
CircleKick
TriangleLook around/Headbash when just jumped
R1/L1Bring the camera behind Sheila fast
R2/L2Turn the camera
R1+R2+L1+L2Sparx points at nearest gem (only available when you've earned it)
Sgt. Byrd
ButtonAction
XFly, hold to go higher
SquareDrop bomb/projectile
CircleFire guns
TriangleLook around/Aim
R1/L1Bring the camera behind Sgt. Byrd fast
R2/L2Turn the camera
R1+R2+L1+L2Sparx points at nearest gem (only available when you've earned it)
Bentley the Yeti
ButtonAction
XJump
SquareThump
CircleSpin club
TriangleLook around
R1/L1Bring the camera behind Bentley fast
R2/L2Turn the camera
R1+R2+L1+L2Sparx points at nearest gem (only available when you've earned it)
Agent 9
ButtonAction
XJump
SquareThrow Bomb
Square (hold)Aim Bomb
CircleFire Weapon
TriangleSniper Mode
R1/L1Zoom in/out in sniper mode
R1/L1Dodge left/right
R2/L2Turn the camera
R1+R2+L1+L2Sparx 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 ColourGem Value
Red1
Green2
Purple5
Yellow10
Pink25

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!


Comments
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#960 spyrorocks101 23:53:03 07/03/2011
i know all about them
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#959 Purple n Spyro 23:09:11 05/03/2011
i just heard about it but idk
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#958 Spyro LoverGirl 21:29:31 05/03/2011
can anyone tell me about them and what game they're in as soon as poss
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#957 Spyro LoverGirl 21:28:40 05/03/2011
who are those guys?????!!!!!! Sheila Bentley
Sgt. Byrd Agent 9
Douglas : Minibags
Gnasty Gnorc Sorceress
grendor Dr. Neo Cortex
Sorcerer
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#956 JK Assassin 08:50:55 05/03/2011
yes you can only get 100% but this add up to that 100%
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#955 Purple n Spyro 05:53:22 05/03/2011
yeah, but i heard that it was weird...
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#954 spyrorocks101 00:04:18 05/03/2011
its sparx and what you can only get up to 100% in any game in the world
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#953 JK Assassin 08:05:00 04/03/2011
i thuoght this game was intresting and sent you every where but i dint like to play as skarks
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#952 Purple n Spyro 03:43:23 04/03/2011
I think u have 2 get 117% no 1 knoes y, but it only goes up to 117%! im at like 115% i need 1 more dragon egg a like 50 gems
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#951 spyrorocks101 00:17:06 04/03/2011
same with everything exept for snapinging it and that im new
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#950 Purple n Spyro 00:07:37 04/03/2011
Gotta luv this game smilie! i played it when i was 3 and i beat it, its fun chasing money bags! But when i went 2 take it out of its case when i was 4, i snapped it and started crying because ITS MEH FAVORITE SPYRO GAME! And how do u make the spyro smiley? Sorry, but im new here...
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#949 spyrorocks101 03:52:26 03/03/2011
i know right
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#948 Purple 22:38:21 02/03/2011
hey, any tips for sparx's starfishreef? i died so much and i cant beat cause of the giant starfish smilie
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#947 spyrorocks101 17:40:27 25/02/2011
i know its an awsome game i luv it
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#946 no wings5 12:36:35 25/02/2011
this game is epic. i could spend hours at a time playing this game.
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