Skill Point

Skill Points are hidden bonus objectives Spyro can complete in Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage and Spyro: Year of the Dragon. There are 16 Skill Points in Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage, and 20 in Spyro: Year of the Dragon.

Skill points usually consist of obscure and often seemingly pointless things like breaking a record, destroying all of a certain creature or item, or jumping/gliding to a specific, hard-to-reach area.

Spyro is awarded an extra life for every Skill Point. Once all Skill Points have been completed, an extra page in the guidebook is added, called 'Epilogue', which shows what happens after the events of the game.

List of Skill Points

In Ripto's Rage

16 Skill Points:

• Aquaria Towers: Destroy all the seaweed. (Much easier after finishing the game and gaining the permanent fireball.) (1)
• Colossus: Perfect score in hockey. (2)
• Fracture Hills: Run three laps of the supercharge course. (3)
• Hurricos: Destroy all the small windmills. (4)
• Idol Springs: Land on top of the small idol near the hula girls. (5)
• Scorch: Knock the coconuts out of all the trees. (6)
• Skelos: Destroy the quartet of catbats and all the cacti. (7, 8)
• Three skill points for defeating each level "boss" without being wounded. There's a fourth one if you hit Ripto before fighting Gulp (he's on the throne behind Gulp and this is a lot easier once you have the super fireball power permanently). (9, 10, 11, 12)
• Four Speedway skill points. Finish Ocean Speedway and Canyon Speedway, in under 1:10, and Icy Speedway and Metro Speedway in under 1:15. (13, 14, 15, 16)

In Year of the Dragon

20 Skill Points:

• Sunny Villa: Flame all trees (1)
• Skateboard courses: Beat the course records at Sunny Villa, Enchanted Towers and Lost Fleet (2, 3, 4)
• Molten Crater: Put the heads together (5)
• Molten Crater: Supercharge wall (thief area) (6)
• Seashell Shore: Catch the funky chicken (7)
• Icy Peak: Glide to pedestal (thief area) (8)
• Spooky Swamp: Destroy all piranha signs (9)
• Sgt. Byrd's Base: Destroy the gophers (10)
• Frozen Altars: Beat yeti in two boxing rounds (11)
• Fireworks Factory: Agent 9's power up (look up) (12)
• Charmed Ridge: Land on Impossible Tower (13)
• Charmed Ridge: Shoot out all the cat witch windows (14)
• Bentley's Outpost: Push the crate off the cliff (15)
• Desert Ruins: Destroy all seaweed (16)
• Haunted Tomb: Swim into the dark hole (17)
• Dino Mines: Hit all the sea horses (18)
• Dino Mines: Hit the secret dino (19)
• Agent 9's Lab: Blow up all palm trees (20)