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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.


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#509 spyrothe111 14:12:06 24/08/2013
Wow, I'm having a very hard time with this game yet I still never got to Space Age Speedway.
That level is going to destroy me. e_e
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#508 Jaggedstar 21:18:18 21/07/2013
My little sister is playing this right now smilie
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#507 Spyrocouture01 22:00:43 18/07/2013
@Convexity Fury

I hated THAT LEVEL so much! I competed the game so many times and I still have it. Jut because of tht leve I didn't finish playing the level. I got so mad!
*_*
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#506 Spyrocouture01 21:58:32 18/07/2013
@spyrothe111

IKR im always making to many risky glides that get me dead ._.
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#505 Spyrocouture01 21:50:40 18/07/2013
Also if someone could go on my page and tell me how to iupload a profile picture tht would be great smilie
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#504 Spyrocouture01 21:48:28 18/07/2013
@Hawaii Five o

dotd? o.o
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#503 Convexity Fury 21:47:08 18/07/2013
@spyrothe111
I concur with you, I just finished this game yesterday. I'd say Space Age Speedway made me want to explode with irateness not to mention the angle's opposition against all glides and those moronic secret fairy items. But hey, whatever makes the game a challenge!
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#502 spyrothe111 19:58:55 17/07/2013
(This is my opinion only, not a fact).
Okay. It's official.
THIS is the most frustrating Spyro game I have ever played, I find it even harder than The Eternal Night.
I still love this game but it angers me so much... stupid dangerous angles. smilie
I also really hate how this game makes you have to recollect the key; and flame all of those items just to get a secret fairy each time you die...

Rant aside, it's a very nice game. smilie
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#501 Convexity Fury 22:40:50 12/07/2013
Oh the nostalgia this game brings! This is the game I grew up with. However, I could never complete it.
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#500 TorchSheep 21:54:28 25/06/2013
@ThroneOfMalefor
I quite literally screamed with joy when I finally beat after about 40 attempts. smilie
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#499 ThroneOfMalefor 02:30:18 13/06/2013
Space Age Speedway was hard...
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#498 ItalianGamer97 02:51:59 02/06/2013
I had this game when I was young. Not sure what happened to my copy though.
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#497 spyrothe111 23:38:47 30/05/2013
I wouldn't mind it so much if they didn't make you collect the key again and flame all of those certain items (to get a fairy) each time you die. smilie

...At least you can't die in the Homeworlds! smilie
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#496 TorchSheep 12:18:21 26/05/2013
I think the isometric camera makes this game a bit more challenging, making you guess where you're gliding half the time. I kind of like it.
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