Fiiiiiiiinally. Spyro 4 has been rumored for years, it’s great to finally see it. The Reignited Trilogy was amazing and I hope this matches those older games. From that last bit of gameplay though, I hope it’s not some kind of open world thing.
Spyro™: A Realm Beyond | Cinematic Announce Trailer
Submitted 1 week ago by simple@piefed.social to games@lemmy.world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHFW16_mDbo
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popcar2@piefed.ca 1 week ago
Tattorack@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The PS1 era Spyro has had several games comes out after the initial trilogy continuity, even a specific game on the NDS (alongside the reboot trilogy games the NDS got).
This new one would be more like… Spyro 7.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
We don’t talk about anything past the initial trilogy. They were bastardizations that used the IP but fundamentally changed the gameplay.
Everything after the trilogy was akin to making the next Civilization game a Dynasty Warriors style hack-n-slash game instead. Even if it had the Civ branding, it wouldn’t be a good Civ game. And most fans of the series wouldn’t consider it to be a “true” Civ 8, because it would be a drastic departure from what made the series iconic.
popcar2@piefed.ca 1 week ago
Crash also had a bunch of games, but people ignore everything that wasn’t the original trilogy. I mean, Crash 4 was at least the 10th one.
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I am casually optimistic but this really gives me a lot of the legend of Spyro vibes of taking the existing characters from Spyro and trying to fit them into a new genre. Hopefully the trailer is just showing a new type of level and the focus is still on collectathon 3d platforming.
Pretty nervous that gems, the charge or flame attacks, and sparks weren’t shown off in the trailer at all.
Signtist@bookwyr.me 1 week ago
Yeah, the wide open world with free flying and fireball breath has me concerned. Spyro is more of a puzzle game, where you have to figure out how best to use your limited abilities as a young dragon to navigate a level designed with that gameplay in mind. This looks more like an open-ended adventure game. Hopefully they were just showing off a particularly large level at a time when he happened to have some temporary powerups enabled.
chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Toys for Bob is making this game, the people who made the original trilogy remake. It’ll probably be done well. They seem to get it.
Blaster_M@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Spyro better fly unrestricted now that the trailer’s advertised it.
poke@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
In interviews they have confirmed that spyro can swap between walking and free flight at will.
Godnroc@lemmy.world 1 week ago
That would be an interesting twist on platforming. You can mint freely within an area, but movement between areas takes puzzle solving or challenges.
I just hope the whole thing doesn’t play like the flight levels.
Blaster_M@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Sulphur Nimbus did this in a way. Little indie game. Fly all you want, but you need speed and space to fly. It gets harder to get in the air in tight quarters, which is where the platforming comes in.
Aielman15@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Very curious to see how the free flight changes the game design. Of all classic platformers, I feel Spyro is the best suited to turn into a sort of open world exploration game (and I say this as someone who absolutely despises open world games).
iconic_admin@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Is it video games trailer day or something?
Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
“Summer Games Fest”
Essentially the replacement for E3, which ran from 1995 to 2021.
Barrage of game trailers the second week of June has been around for the last 30 years:
Davel23@fedia.io 1 week ago
Made by Toys For Bob, so it at least has a chance to be good.
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I’ll never hear their name without being upset that they were relegated to work in the Skylander mines for a decade instead of being allowed to make another Star Control.