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©2006-2009 ~HaylieNowak
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Full View!!! The small preview image is screwy.
Lookit ma lovley colouring skills! They getting better, no?

This Is my tribute to the origional Insomiac Spyro games, because in my opinion, the new one really stinks.
Not only did they make make spyro really ugly, Sparx o.t.t, and the plotline only mildly interesting, there's only 7 hours worth of cheezy gameplay. You could finish it twice in one day, dammit!

Gameplay Is repettetive as HELL, with no fun things like minigames, puzzles, or even things to collect to get a cool bonus at the end to break up the monotony of fighting, fighting, fighting.
Nope. It's just: meet a big dragon, learn some stuff, fight, Sparx says something witty, fight, fight some more, fight something bigger which closely resembles a pile of rocks, or a suit of armour, meet another big dragon, learn the same stuff as before only it looks different, fight, Sparx says something witty, fight, fight some more, fight something bigger which closely resembles a pile of rocks, or a suit of armour, meet another big dragon........Yada, yada, Lather rinse and repeat.

Yes the graphics are nice, yes spyro has some admittedly cool new melee attacks that by the end your bored sick of, and yes it has some big names doing voiceovers, but that frankly is your lot.

So yeah. that was my rant about Spyro: a new beginning.
4/10

Anyway, as I was saying, This is my tribute to the real Spyro. The true Spyro.

Spyro Is © Insomiac Games :salute:

And Sierra Games. (unfortuantely)


....Bring back the egg thieves dammit!!

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ahh nice one i love it

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:iconguy19900:
Holy hell heh i'm defintly faving this ;P

Great work i love it!

(and no i did not copy the guys wording heh ;P)
:iconhaylienowak:
Thanks muchly! I do hope I did him justice. :D

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"I HAVE FOUND THE PLOT!" ~Anarchist-Akatsuki
:iconmamottshuu:
The colouring is really good. Fantastic job on Spyro! :+fav:

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C:= If you can stay calm, while all around you is chaos... then you probably haven't completely understood the situation... :evillaugh:

Avatar base by *Tzyoku
:iconda--master:
... SPYRO!!!!

Aw, thats too bad; I had really put a lot of faith into this one. Well, stupid me, I guess... No, Stupid Them!

Why the Hell can't whoever the Hell owns Spyro now just GET IT RIGHT?!?! Come on, it shouldn't be that hard; just take the elements that brought Spyro such success the first time around and use that to make a good game; don't ad a whole bunch of special moves you think will look cool, don't throw in ensembles of new half-baked characters you think we'll be stupid enough to except, and for God's sake, keep the fucking plot simple! Corse, maybe the real reason the newer games are unable to replicate the success and magic of the original 'Spyro: The Dragon' is that it's irreplicable. The magic and joyous wonder of the first one came mostly because it was the first one; it was new, fresh, and given that it was unbastardizable at the time, enjoyable. The cartoon images dazzled our young minds and brought smiles to our little faces as we stomped around new worlds and singed knorc butt. You just can't recreate the high of the first one... unless, maybe, you were to remake it; leave it completely intact and unaltered, but with better graphics for the consoles of today.... :plotting:

Anyway, your new pic of Spyro is just as good as your last one. Once again, he looks older than he does in the first one, but only by a little bit. If he was eight in the first one, I'd say he's around ten or eleven here. Leaving the backround pretty basic was a good choice; it lets us focus on the star here, but the light source is a nice touch. Your lighting and ability to control and distribute it is superb, and your texturing bedazzles me; what with the epidermal membran covering the scales benieth, the hardened look of his spikes and crest, his twisted horns, and the golden brown of his eyes... makes you wish you could pick up a Spyro game nowdays and be able to feel like you age is only a single-digit number while you lead everyone's favorite little purple dragon through the dragon worlds, fly through obstical courses, burnanating sheep, give those dastardly Egg Thieves a taste of hurn up the ass, and screaming in frustration whenever it came time to supercharge through a Hell called Tree Tops. :chainsaw:

*sigh*... Good Times.

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:iconhaylienowak:
Now that's an idea! Hey, maybe if I ever get into the gaming industry with animation, I'll show these losers how it should be done, eh!

I'm soo pleased you like the textures and the lighting! I tried my best to get it just right! :love:

Oohhh... such memories...

Hey! Speaking of the frustration of Tree Tops, Did you ever find that one last dragon?! To this day, I STILL cannot find it, and I have Searched, Supercharged and fallen off every single bloody crevvice in that level! :fork: AAAAIIIIEEEE!!!

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"I HAVE FOUND THE PLOT!" ~Anarchist-Akatsuki
:iconlostkorean:
roar :D

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Thanks to ~riju for the Avatar, much love. :hug:
:iconda--master:
Sounds like a plan to me!

And you did, very much kudos to you! You've brought back many found memories with this one. BTW, which program did you use?

Hmm... the last dragon in Tree Tops... Jesus Christ, it's been a long time... well, it would help to know which ones you've found already, but... oh I think I know the one you're talking about! You know how at the near begining of the level, you kind of have two paths that you can take; the one going straight forward and the one to the left that you jump out the window to? Well, on the path to the left, up the stairs (the one where you nab the key and burnanate the two bigguns), and then the platform to the left with the supercharge ramp that you have to glide to to reach is probably the farthest you've gotten, no? Where if you stand in just the right spot, you can hear the signature clanging of a dragon strugling to break free from his emerald prison, right? Well, the dragon you seek; as well as the thief with the final purple gem of the level; are on that platform wwaaaAAAAaaayyy off in the distance on your left; the one you couldn't glide to even if you re-wrote the game's code. Don't worry, though; it is reachable, but your reaction time has to be so presice, you have to be able to tell the frickin' future to see you through to the other side.

Okay; got 99 extra lives and your weekend all freed up? Good. Now, the key to keep in mind whlie you're suffering in Tree Tops is that if there is some place that you can't reach by conventional means (i.e simply running down the supercharge ramp and jumping at the right time,) then you have to find some other way by which you can use teh supercharge to reach it. So, if you were to try to reach Exile Island by just hitting left and the bottom of the ramp, you would have a long fall to think about your mistake ("When you're in supercharge mode, you're invincable" my fat fucking ass.) Instead, you need to jump off from the right side just before you hit the end of the ramp, so you can land on the small kicker ramp at the bottom of the supercharge. Keep in mind that you need to jump off the supercharge ramp at just the right angle at just the right time, hitting the hardest right that you can possibly hit in order to land it, and then you need to be able to react fast enough to jump off at the end of the low ramp you just supercharge-jumped onto in oder to get enough hieght to reach your destination. But if you can get all that right, it's easy sailing from there; just switch to a glide at the top of your super-jump, and you should be able to reach the platform with no trouble at all. The dragon and the purple gem are now yours for the taking, and they were nice enough to give you a nice big whirlwind to make it back safely. And hopefully, if those werer the last things you needed to complete the level, then you never have to go back to that God Damn place again! :boogie: :w00t!: :dance:

And I'm proud to say that I, the uber n00b I was when I first got Spyro, was able to figure that one out WITHOUT having to get help online, thank you very much!

I'll see if Daniel can bring his PS2 and Spyro over for the week, so I can help you out with anything else, if you need it... and if not, just for old times sake.

See 'Ya Then.

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ANTIDEPRESSANTS WILL STEAL YOUR SOUL!!!!

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:iconhaylienowak:
Wow! Thanks so much! If just for letting me know that it is possible to get!

That's a gooooood plan! ;) :thumbsup:

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oh I forgot, I used Photoshop!

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