Tree Tops

Template:PlaceOriginalTree Tops (スピード ツリー 4-3 Speed Tree 4-3 in Japanese), or Treetops, is a world that appeared in Spyro the Dragon, and later in Spyro: Shadow Legacy. In the former, it appears in the Beast Makers Homeworld.

This realm uses the Supercharge ramps to zoom in and out of the houses, and is largely considered one of the hardest realms in the entire Spyro series. It is also the first world to use Thieves which steal Gems and not Eggs. Based on tree houses with ramps, those who find controlling a faster Spyro difficult will probably dislike this place. But, you need this speed in order to get one of the hardest dragons in the game, and to catch up to those pesky Thieves. Here's a tip: The longer you've been supercharging, the higher the jump will be!

Description

As strange as it sounds, the Beast Makers have made an aerial village built atop the many gigantic limbs of a jungle’s enormous trees. These trees are huge, many yards around their trunks, and take well over a day to fully chop down using physical methods. Even magic and supercharge have a hard time tumbling them! To truly see how tall they are, you would have to climb up to this large village of huts, supercharge ramps, and carved caves. To look down from up there would herald nothing to look at but a dark abyss below and the sky above is only lit by the aurora. The Tree Tops are constantly dark considering the trees’ canopies blot out the sun. Because of this, the Beast Makers have erected various torches and lanterns around the plank walkways along the limbs.

Statistics

Spyro the Dragon

Dragons

• Isaak
• Jed
• Lyle

Enemies

• Banana Boys
• Strongarms
• Green Thief
• Red Thief

Spyro: Shadow Legacy

Allies

• Fairies
  • Amp
  • Aqua
  • Trina
  • Zoe

Enemies

• Shadow Minions
• Blue Monkeys

This section of Tree Tops is located in Avalar and is home to fairies. It consists of wooden platforms scattered all around the place, and has trees on which the Kerfuffle plant grows; a plant which has magical healing abilities to fairies.

Walkthrough

File:Spyro the Dragon 120% Walkthrough - 22 - Tree Tops

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Gallery

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• Tree Tops opening movie
  Tree Tops opening movie
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  Gameplay
• First dragon and beginning of "lap"
  First dragon and beginning of "lap"
• Entering Tree Tops
  Entering Tree Tops

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  Tree Tops as seen in Spyro: Shadow Legacy
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  Concept art of the Tree Tops Vista in the Spyro Reignited Trilogy
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  Concept art of the Tree Tops large tree in the Spyro Reignited Trilogy
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• Comparison between Spyro Reignited Trilogy and the original Playstation 1 graphics
  Comparison between Spyro Reignited Trilogy and the original Playstation 1 graphics
• Spyro in Tree Tops in Spyro Reignited Trilogy
  Spyro in Tree Tops in Spyro Reignited Trilogy
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• File:Spyro Reignited Strongarms Treetops.jpg

Trivia

Spyro the Dragon

General

• This is one of the few realms where Spyro does not do his aerial back flip when he arrives.
• High Caves uses a slowed-down version of this realm's music theme in the original NTSC-U and Reignited Trilogy versions.
• This is the only realm in Spyro the Dragon that does not have a lake or a pool of liquid.
• This realm is notable for containing one of two purple spring chests in the entire game. It can be found on the tree containing Jed and the Green Thief. The other can be found in Magic Crafters home.
• This is the only obstacle course where a thief runs around with a purple gem.

Original Game

• The hills in the background are proportionally the same as the hills in Dark Hollow's background.  Even the moon is in the same spot, except part of it is blocked by the hills because of how low it is.
  • This background is later reused in Spyro: Year of the Dragon for Honey Speedway, but with added bee hives attached to the trees.
• There is a way to supercharge to the tree containing Jed and the Green Thief without going through the whole supercharging "lap." Just as you start supercharging, turn right to a ramp that is originally met at the end of the supercharge setup. As you supercharge off the ramp, you have enough power to glide to the tree top. SumGai on DailyMotion found this out.
• In the late demo, Tree Tops uses Terrace Village's music, many locations are differently textured or built, the Green Thief is waiting at the end of the level, and the exit vortex makes no sound.

Spyro: Shadow Legacy

• Despite being in the Dragon Realms in Spyro the Dragon, Tree Tops is instead located in Avalar.

Reignited Trilogy

• The sky above appears to be lit by a constant aurora. This was a change from the original game in which it appears as green misty clouds.
  • It's unknown if this was the original intent or if it was just technology limitations of the 1990's.
  • The aurora seems to suggest that Tree Tops, and by extension Beast Makers and the other realms, are located near either the North or South Pole.