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Spyro: Season of Ice

Spyro: Season of Ice is the first Spyro game to appear on the GBA. The first Spyro game to be made by a developer other then Spyro's creators Insomniac Games, Digital Eclipse have done a decent enough job on this game to make it playable and replayable.

Season of Ice takes you, as Spyro, to the Fairy Realms in order to save them from an evil menace. Set shortly after Year of the Dragon, Season of Ice continues with a slightly linked story but really it's not the greatest story you'll have ever encountered.

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North America Oct 30th 2001 European Union Nov 16th 2001
Spyro Advance
Japan Dec 26th 2002

The Story

Here's the official word on the story from the SpyroTheDragon.com website:

After the defeat of the Sorceress, many of her old Rhynoc minions were left out of work or had to take less-than-ideal day jobs. None more so than Grendor, the Rhynoc librarian at the Grand Central Dragon Realms library. A small, meek figure, Grendor never made the cut into the Rhynoc army and desperately longed for a career change.

One day, Bianca spent a few hours in the library researching ideal vacation spots for a trip she was planning for Spyro, Hunter and herself. With all the travel books, Bianca mistakenly left the Sorceress' Spell book behind. Finding the book, Grendor was inspired by an ingenious plan. Flipping through the pages, he found himself a transformation spell to change his meager frame into a towering mass of muscle and brainpower! Wasting no more time, he read the spell aloud; too hasty even to notice the book was turned upside down. Grendor wound up with bulk and brainpower all right, but in the form of two heads, and a migraine in both of his thick skulls.

And here's my description of the opening part to the game...

The camera zooms in to see Spyro, Hunter and Bianca relaxing on a beach somewhere, probably Dragon Shores, when Hunter suddenly sees something in the sky. He thinks it's a flying sheep saucer but Spyro recognises it as a balloon. Bianca catches it and reads the note attached to it. The note is from Zoe and reads: 'Dear Spyro, I'm using every last drop of my magic to send you this message. Someone has cast a powerful spell over the Fairy World and, freezing fairies in Ice Crystals. And we can't get out! Now, the Rhynocs are back and collecting fairies one by one. I wish I knew what they were up to. Please come back before it's too late.' Spyro decides to go help the fairies and Bianca says she'll go off and check her spell book for something to help.

Hunter mentions that she hasn't been carrying the Spell Book for a few days which is news to Bianca but she finds out that she no longer has it on her. She realises that she must have left it in the library when she got the travel book for their vacation. As she sets off to find her book, Hunter, Spyro and Sparx head off to help the fairies.

The Controls

Spyro the Dragon
A Jump. Press again when in the air to glide. Press again whilst in glide to hover and end the glide.
B Flame
R Charge
Start Bring up the start menu
Select Open the Atlas

Gems are once again the currency of the world, and once again you'll be needing to collect it all to get 100% completion.

Gem Colour Gem Value
Red 1
Green 2
Purple 5
Yellow 10

Gems are once again in the same places as usual. In flammable baskets, chargeable vases, locked chests, inside Rhynocs and just lying around on the ground.

Sparx

And as usual Sparx is Spyro's health meter.

Sparx Colour Hits Left
Yellow 4
Blue 3
Green 2
None 1

To regain Sparx's health just flame a small animal such as a sheep that will give out a butterfly. Each butterfly will regain one health point.

Progress Saving

Strangely enough, for a world filled entirely with fairies, there are no progress saving fairies in the whole game. None. So every time you die, you'll be taken all the way back to the start of the level and have to redo everything except collecting gems and freeing fairies.

Well, that's enough of that then. On to the walkthrough, getting started with Autumn Fairy Home.


Comments
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#330 foxishsolitude 09:33:48 08/12/2011
for a gba game it was a good game... IS a good game.. but i still don't like em
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#329 spyrothe111 21:46:56 05/12/2011
This Game Was Pretty Good For A GBA Game! And I Enjoy The Sequels As Well! (They Are Better Anyway smilie).
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#328 foxishsolitude 05:53:43 05/12/2011
no offence or anything but i think the gameboy ones suck.
Just cos it wouldve been better on nintendo ds - if it was out when it came out
LOLZ

smiliesmiliesmiliesmiliesmiliesmiliesmilie
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#327 ZinaWalker 18:38:39 04/12/2011
This game was my Fav! smilie
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#326 awesomespyros10 06:12:29 03/12/2011
@the last person who commented on this that's not me

I completely understand and respect your opinion.
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#325 foxishsolitude 05:29:59 27/11/2011
err ya probs...

meh, this game not for me.
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#324 awesomespyros10 17:54:44 24/11/2011
Hello? Sorry for posting two times in a row, but this game is awesome.
also, am I the only one here!?
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#323 awesomespyros10 02:38:04 21/11/2011
Normally, Purple. If a game is almost always cold, then there's a lava level, then it would be comfusing, very confusing
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#322 Purple 02:16:37 18/11/2011
well that makes a LOT of sense doesnt it???
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#321 spyrorules1298 06:22:16 14/11/2011
yeah.. purple-
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#320 foxishsolitude 08:41:33 11/11/2011
ya it does
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#319 Purple 02:11:46 11/11/2011
wait.... there IS a lava level in this game?????
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#318 foxishsolitude 08:37:26 10/11/2011
@EpicThunder

you can't "sand" it eh? Well I can't sand it either..

*sand smiliesmiliesmiliesmilie

LOL JKS
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#317 foxishsolitude 08:36:18 10/11/2011
this game is kinda irritating - since it was for gba they couldnt make it have good sound effects or music (like the first ps games that came out) but at least it kept the characters and was not a SIDESCROLLER smilie i do not like

SPYRO ORANGE!!! smilie orange...
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#316 spyrorules1298 06:26:10 10/11/2011
i love the lava level
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