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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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#1770 Beniscool2007 18:58:41 14/04/2013
If they make another spyro game what should be in it like characters
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#1769 DarkSoulxx 17:02:49 14/04/2013
this game was awesome.
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#1768 DragonDog 15:15:35 09/04/2013
Reasons why this is my favorite spyro game
I was born in the year of the dragon
It was my first
Awesome level designs
Awesome music
COLOR CHEAT CODES MAN!
Only game with skateboarding
The baby dragons are adorable!
BENTLEY!
99 lives!
Lots of bad guys are cute like the alligator like things in spooky swamp
SGT BYRD!
Glitches
AND......
If you put in the blue color cheat code when playing sgt Byrd his skin gets a brighter blue
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#1767 Hawaii Five o 00:48:34 09/04/2013
i luv every 1 cause i have evry one
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#1766 darkspyro199 13:04:49 08/04/2013
I love this game so much.
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#1765 LoneWolf 16:41:15 07/04/2013
cool man this is my favorite game out of the spyro's games its awesome
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#1764 Doomdrao 12:01:19 07/04/2013
I got this game off the PS network and the Sorceress' battle music is the one from Sunrise Spring smilie
Other than that, still as awesome as ever :'D
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#1763 LoneWolf 13:25:32 04/04/2013
dyz i now how ya fill man
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#1762 Jaggedstar 12:37:24 31/03/2013
I wanna play Spahroo
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#1761 dyz 09:11:13 30/03/2013
Hey guys, don't go on the Skylanders page thing, they dont even care about the old spyro game, they only joined this website for skylanders. smilie
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#1760 dyz 03:57:22 30/03/2013
I miss the old games smilie I hate skylanders!!1
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#1759 beth18 15:43:22 18/03/2013
iv played this but i only rented the game but with they could redo the first 5 spyro games plus the 2 legend ones so there ps3/wii so i can play them proply
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#1758 SuperSpyroFan 15:18:42 13/03/2013
Spyro is very cool in this game, it seems like they definitley put more content into than it's prequels, but to me, Spyro 2 is a bit better.
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#1757 Hawaii Five o 20:14:49 12/03/2013
i luv dis game.luv using Bently.
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#1756 harley2947 05:27:05 12/03/2013
Best Spyro Game Ever!

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