Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly

"Spyro: Exit The Dragonfly"

As much for the Spyro trilogy, this game is definitly not a proper sequel. So it's original enough to have a new breath system, the original voice actors and the return of the Ripto. When we take all that we get a non-innovative, slow, tiring, tedious, boring platformer which was a legend in his time, but this is the end of a true masterpiece creation of Insomniac: Spyro The Dragon.

Spyro and his friends are celebrating a dragonfly holiday which every dragonfly is chosen to lead young dragon in some sort of a quest when all of a sudden Ripto returns and steals all the dragonflies. Sparx, Spyro's companion, survived the attack, but now Spyro much free the poor dragonflies and beat ever a harder enemy than Ripto, the gameplay.

On controls nothing new, jump, charge and breathe. Only know you can get several type of breathes. For example Fire Breath for attack and Bubble Breath for catching those dragonflies.

Except that the game doesn't flow freely. It's sometimes hard to move sometimes and it feels like Spyro weigh 100 pounds since the last time we met him.

There's still the main world where you can access to other worlds, but here it's done terribly as you can't see where exactly is the stupid level. Even worse than that is when you are in a level it's hard to find the exit and there are speedways in the level itself. Confusing and very disordered.

Graphicly the game is horrible. No change in the backgrounds, the characters somehow good but there are huge loading times with lasts like 90 seconds (more than Crash) and very slow framerate. Plus, someime you'll see some awfully ugly textures flashing on your screen so you can't see where are you going... SHAME!

The music is boring than ever, but at least the original actor like Tom Kenny, Billy West and Greg Berger are back in the sequel, and believe me, they're one of the reasons this game didn't get a 1 instead of a 3.

OVERALL, DON'T BUY SPYRO. The trilogy was a masterpiece and when Insomniac left it, what was left is only a poor effort to revive the series. Crash bandicoot did a much better job and Spyro prooves that even one of the best platform series ever can be ruined by giving the rights into the wrong hands. Enter the Dragonfly and you'll reveal a bad game.

Reviewer's Score: 3/10, Originally Posted: 03/05/03, Updated 03/05/03