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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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#1320 spyrorules1298 01:34:33 15/12/2011
the smilie will die from smilie!!
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#1319 spyrorules1298 01:32:40 15/12/2011
im so far i have 79 eggs 1019 jems on evening lake!!!!
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#1318 LevanJess 01:08:11 15/12/2011
Aw man, that sucks. :\ When it comes to newer systems, it's real hard to find a good, working emulator for it.

But I agree. <3
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#1317 foxishsolitude 20:39:25 14/12/2011
meh, unfortunately there are none for xbox or ps3 (emulators) but there is one called psx and thats what i use for ps1 games. You rip the disc onto the computer and your game will NEVER die!! you can play all ya like and do swimming in air glitches and stuff like that. You can use the keyboard or a real controller and you can configure more than one controller 4 2-player co-op!

I love emulators smilie
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#1316 LevanJess 11:46:55 14/12/2011
Okay, go ahead!
And an emulator is a program on the cimputer which acts as a video game system.
If you can find a good one, there's one for every system, and you can download ROMS (games) too.
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#1315 Brokensoul 23:14:24 13/12/2011
@foxishsolitude-
I don't know what an emulator is... ''' Aw, now I feel like an idoit smilie.

@LevanJess-
Mine is blue... I don't know, I'll try to fit it in again because last time I did I was about 4, maybe 5.
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#1314 foxishsolitude 04:26:02 13/12/2011
@Brokensoul..
you could run it on an emulator, like i do?
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#1313 LevanJess 03:41:15 13/12/2011
Really? What kind of PS1 memory card do you have?
Mine is purple, and it fits in my PS2 well.
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#1312 Brokensoul 00:45:21 13/12/2011
I WOULD get it for ps1, but I don't think you can save it because the ps1 memory card doesn't fit into the ps2 memory card slot. if anyone would tell me if there's another way, I would really appreciate it smilie.
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#1311 LevanJess 21:52:33 12/12/2011
Exactly. eBay's the best place to get it nowadays. c:
Although sometimes they sell for high prices.
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#1310 rasigar_dragon2 11:58:41 12/12/2011
@LevanJess try buying it on ebay or psn maybe
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#1309 spyrorules1298 20:43:51 11/12/2011
yay i can save
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#1308 LevanJess 19:46:34 11/12/2011
You can play PS1 games on the PS2. :3 At least, I can on mine.
The only problem is trying to get it, because most game stores don't really sell PS1 games anymore.
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#1307 xxXSpyroXxx 19:28:24 11/12/2011
This is probably the best Spyro game ever! you should get it if you dont have it
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#1306 Brokensoul 18:17:55 11/12/2011
This is the only main spyro game that I don't have... is it really good? I really want it, but its not for ps2... crap smilie.
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