Spyro the Dragon

Spyro the Dragon (Spyro the dragon, in French) is a series of video games of platform begun in 1998 on Playstation and created by Insomniac Games and known two other continuations on the same console, which were published by Sony Computer Entertainment. After which, Insomniac Games sold the license of Spyro in 2001 with Vivendi Universal Games which entrusts the development of the plays to various studios of development such as DIGITAL Eclipse or Vicarious Visions for the opus on Game Boy Advance or Equinoxe Entertainment and Eurocom for the opus on consoles of living room.

Gameplay

The player controls Spyro, a dragon able to spit of fire, to sink horns ahead towards the enemies to destroy them and to plane a short moment. He travels of level X in levels by magic gates. A level breaks up into several goals: to achieve the main mission, which generally consists in crossing the level as a combatant the Ennemi S and while passing the obstacles, of finding the objects special of the play (dragons in Spyro the Dragon , balls in Spyro: Gateway to Glimmer …) either by discovering them in the level, or by making a success of a subsidiary mission entrusted by one of the inhabitants of the visited world and to collect all the jewels of the play.

The jewels are contained in cases, which exist in various types: the case out of wooden, which is easily destroyed, the metal case, insensitive with the basic flames of Spyro, the case with target, which is not destroyed that by a plunging attack, the trunk which can be open only by one super-capacity or a missile and the trunk with key which requires to have found a key in the level to open it.

According to their size and their protection, the enemies cannot be beaten in the same way: the small enemies without armor are eliminated simply, the small enemies with armor are destroyed only by one load, the large enemies without armours are overcome by an attack of fire, the large enemies with armor cannot be destroyed by a basic attack.

Sparx, a dragonfly, is the companion of Spyro and is used to him as defense. Each blow received the fact of changing color until it disappears. Once disappeared, Spyro is vulnerable and dies in the least damage. Sparx has three or four colors according to the plays, in the form of variation around Or, Bleu and Vert. To recover life, Sparx must swallow a pink butterfly, which appears once Spyro killed a small animal (more the current being the Mouton). When a butterfly spangled Bleu appears, it gives again in Sparx all its life and saves a life with Spyro.

Spyro can obtain several super-capacities: the super-load, which enables him to charge at an important speed as long as it does not stop, the super-flame, which enables him to draw from the fireballs and the super-flight, which enables him to fly during a limited time. There exist also refills combo which gather super-flame and super-flight.

Plays

Spyro the Dragon

Spyro the Dragon leaves the September 10th 1998 on PlayStation to the the United States. It presents the history of Spyro, a small dragon, which must release the other dragons transformed into ice by Gnasty Gnorc, a being mid- Orc mid- gnome. The play introduces the bases of the series: capacities of Spyro, principle of collection.

Spyro: Gateway to Glimmer

The world of Avalar being threatened by Ripto, a clamping plate dictator, three of his inhabitants, the Professor, Hunter and Elora call a dragon with the rescue, which proves to be Spyro. This episode develops the removed from rim spirit of the series and adds many mini-plays there. The American version of the play is called Spyro 2 Ripto Rage

Spyro: Year off the Dragon

In the forgotten Worlds, a witch steals all eggs of dragon to gain the eternal life: only Spyro and Chasseur can pass by the holes which it dug, and it is thus with them to follow it. This introduced episode of new playable characters. This play, initially intended to close the Spyro trilogy, is the last developed by Insomniac Games, the following episodes being created by Vivendi Universal.

Spyro: Season off Ice

In this play Game Boy Advance, the Zoe fairy was captured by Rhunoc which has also cold all the fairies of the kingdom.

Spyro: Season off Flame

The player controls Spyro on Game Boy Advance to deliver all the fairies of fire to fly by rhinos.

Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly

On PlayStation 2 and GameCube, Spyro must find the dragonflies captured by Ripto. Spyro becomes able to spit of the ice, electricity and water.

Spyro Adventure

In this play Game Boy Advance, Ripto and Rhinos attacked the kingdom of the dragon.

Spyro Fusion

Spyro is combined with Crash Bandicoot to fight Ripto and Néocortex. The play is played in parallel with Crash Fusion .

Spyro: In Hero' S Tail

Red, a dragon malefic, placed dark gems in all the worlds of the dragon and was combined with Gnasty Gnorc, on PlayStation 2, GameCube and Xbox. The jewels are now of infinite number and are used to buy objects in the shop of Large-Under. The voyage between areas of the world is not done any more by gates.

Crash landing & Spyro Racing

Crash landing Bandicoot, the orange marsupial which beat Dr. Néo Cortex and Ripto in Crash Purple, was combined with Spyro once again to fight and prevent the evil from obtaining the marapotorom, a very rare crystal and of a magic of most powerful the crystals. For that, in order to avoid beating the good against the evil while whirling all does not import and to spit of fire in behind of an enemy, Aku Aku organizes races at the prices of the crystals. On Playstation 2, Xbox, Nintendo DS, Portable Playstation, GameCube and Nintendo Wii.

Plays for mobile phone

Spyro is a play for Mobile phone created by IN-FUSIO, mainly intended for a women. Spyro helps the fairies there by finding the various elements of their behavior for a ball.

In Spyro Ripto Quest (developed by KAOLink), Spyro must recover the various parts of a machine intended to protect the kingdom from Ripto. The sight is isometric the made-to-order of the episodes on Game Boy Advance.

Universe

The major part of the episodes proceeds in the kingdoms of the dragon which, according to Spyro the Dragon , are divided into seven fields: the world of the craftsmen, the world of peaceful, the world of the magic workmen, the world of the creators of animals, the world of the magic workmen and the world of the weavers of dream.

According to Spyro: Year off the Dragon , the forgotten worlds is located contrary to the kingdom of the dragon. No dragon had put the feet at it for 1000 years on arrival of Spyro, causing the disappearance of the magic.

Avalar, visited in Spyro: Gateway to Glimmer , is very far away from the kingdoms of the Dragon, problablement on another planet.

Characters

Protagonists

Spyro

Spyro is the hero of the series and the character controlled during most of the plays. It is only the dragon with being small and must often answer requests for assistance. Its body is purple with a yellow peak.

Sparx

Sparx is a Libellule which accompanies Spyro in all its adventures. It receives the blows in the place of Spyro, its color indicating its health condition. It is present in Spyro the Dragon under the name of spark. In Spyro: Year off the Dragon , it is controlled in plays for top and must fight against insects under the orders of the Witch and Red.

Professor

Professor and the person who has without it to want brought Ripto, Crush, Gulp and her Riptocs in the worlds of Avalars.Par same to proceed it brings Spyro to save the worlds of Avalars.Il will remake appearance in Spyro: Year off the Dragon , Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly

Hunter

Hunter is a Guépard russet-red which is held on its back legs, met for the first time in Spyro: Gateway to Glimmer . It is fast and gained all the races of the world of Avalar when Spyro appeared there. Spyro overcame it with the race, but Chasseur affirms that, if it had not lost its shoes of race, it would overcome everyone. It is a large sportsman especially for the Skate, the Deltaplane, the Tir with the arc and I pass from there. It also awkward and is confused and fell in love with Bianca at the time of Spyro: Year off the Dragon .

Elora

Elora is a Fauna. It gives to Spyro the notebook worlds of Avalar. It also helps it in Spyro: Gateway to Glimmer , by telling him how Ripto arrived at the worlds of Avalar.Elle remakes appearance in Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly

Bianca

Bianca is a apprentie witch with the service of the witch in Spyro: Year off the Dragon . She will end up joining Spyro.

Sheila

Sheila is a kangaroo which was captured by the Witch then delivered to Large-Under so that it can then sell it. It helps Spyro when this one cannot recover an egg of dragon in the places in altitude. It also assists it to fight Buzz.

James

The sergeant James Bird is the chief of a group of hummingbirds which recovers eggs of dragons in the airs. He was him also captured by the Witch and delivered to Large-Under. He helps this last to overcome Spike and remade his appearance in Spyro: With hero' S tail.

Bentley

Bentley is a yeti which had the same history as the two preceding characters. It always deals with his Bartholomé little brother and Spyro assistance for spots requiring much physical force and also to overcome Scorch. It is also a large friend of Hunter.

Agent 9

Agent 9 is the last to be sold by Large-Under. It is armed with sound pistolaser and is the best pupil of the professor. In Spyro: Year off the dragon, it helps Spyro in its final combat against the Witch.

Blinky

Blinky is the neuveu of the professor. It is always present when Spyro seeks something under ground.

Dragons

Populate and friendly (E) S of Spyro, it of will have to often come to them to the assistances

The Dragon of ice

Rule of ice in form of Dragon.Elle will help Spyro in Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly '. By granting capacities in exchange to him them stones of being able (breath of Bubbles, ices, of electricity…)

Antagonists

Gnasty Gnorc

Gnasty is the first enemy that Spyro must overcome, it is a kind of orc green and very ugly which, upset to be exiled with the Dump of the Dragons, will freeze all the dragons, all except Spyro which, thanks to its small size, has escaped with the ray of fate launched by Gnasty. In hero' S Tail has, Gnasty returns and is the General-in-chief of Red. It directs all the operations of Gnorcs and is persuaded to have overcome Spyro in the past, whereas it is the reverse.

Ripto

Ripto is the principal enemy of the play. It is a small dinosaur wizard which spends his time creating fates to control all the kingdoms and also to eliminate Spyro, his sworn enemy. Its henchmen are Riptocs, of the creatures of the same species as him, including two riptocs of elite, Crush and Gulp. He makes knowledge with Spyro at the time of his second adventure, in the world of Avalar. He settles and becomes there king of abors of the Drill of Summer, then Plains Fall and Winter Tundra. Spyro believes to have killed it but it returns two years later to capture all the dragonflies of the Kingdom of the Dragons.

Crush

Crush is the bodyguard of Ripto. It is a riptoc but it resembles more the crossing of a dragon and a troll. It has its club (which it does not cease using to crush any kind of thing, in particular the jewels) and of its limited intelligence.

Gulp

Gulp is the vehicle of Ripto. It is massive and more intelligent than Crush, but however not very fast and only thinks of eating. He eats even the sceptre of Ripto in Spyro 2: Gateway to Glimmer . He is armed with a pair of électrocannons built by one does not know who.

The Witch

The Witch is a dragonne which was exiled strong a long time ago of the kingdom of the dragons as powerful as Ripto. Although she does not know it, she also has her army: Rhinos and its creatures Buzz, Spike, and Scorch, belonging to sound " élite". It with envoy his Rhinos in search of all eggs of Dragons of the Kingdom of the Dragons to send them in the forgotten Worlds, there or it reigns as a mistress. It with also captured four friends of Spyro to save money with Large-under.

Buzz

Buzz is a magmatic clamping plate created by Bianca starting from a rabbit to show with the Witch that it is not an incompetent. It fights in a volcano against Spyro and Sheila.

Spike

Spike is a gigantic fauna created by the Witch starting from a rhino, to reward it to have captured Bentley. It is armed with a pistolaser and fights against Spyro and James.

Scorch

Scorch is a surpuissant vampire created by the Witch to get rid of any form of opposition. It lays eggs from which the more dangerous creatures all the ones leave than the others with at the head of the clones of Buzz. It can also send a rain of balls of energies and fights its battle vis-a-vis Spyro and Bentley.

Red

It was old, but because of its jealousy and its thirst for being able, it was exiled far from the ground of the dragons, it is the malicious main thing of Spyro has hero' S tail . Its two assistants are Gnasty Gnorc and Ineptune, its army being made up of Gnorcs, the creatures semi-orcs semi-gnomes.

Ineptune

Ineptune is an obese siren queen of the seven mothers as well as telamones. She helps Red to prevent Spyro from destroying the dark gems of the City of the Ruins.

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