“The original roast master is back! Same sick burns, same smoldering attitude, now all scaled up in stunning HD. Spyro is bringing the heat like never before in the Spyro™ Reignited Trilogy game collection. Rekindle the fire with the original three games, Spyro the Dragon, Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage! and Spyro: Year of the Dragon. Explore the expansive realms, re-encounter the fiery personalities and relive the adventure in fully remastered glory. Because when there’s a realm that needs saving, there’s only one dragon to call.”
“Spyro is back and bringing the heat in the Spyro Reignited Trilogy game collection. Now fans can rekindle the fire with the beloved video game icon like never before in the original three games that ignited a phenomenon, Spyro the Dragon, Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage! and Spyro Year of the Dragon. Featuring the same sick burns, same smoldering attitude and now all scaled up in stunning HD, players will enjoy this classic platformer that's loaded with an incredible amount of new detail and improved graphics like it's the first time.”
– Press release
Original Storylines
“Spyro the Dragon – Gnasty Gnorc has returned from exile and has unleashed evil magic on the Dragon Realms, trapping the dragons in crystal and raising an army of Gnorcs. Spyro, with his friend Sparx the Dragonfly, is the only dragon left who can traverse the six Homeworlds, free the dragons, and save the day. Guide Spyro as he glides through the Dragon Realms, toasting colorful enemies with his fiery breath and encountering countless puzzles and adventures along the way.”
– Press release
“Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage! – Spyro has been brought to the land of Avalar to defeat the evil sorcerer Ripto who has brought war to Avalar’s Homeworlds. Each Homeworld is being held captive by Ripto and his minions and it's up to Spyro to defeat them and bring peace to Avalar’s realms. In this adventure, Spyro powerflames, supershots, and headbashes his way through enemies while completing unique challenges such as herding strange beasts, target shooting, and defeating ravenous dinosaurs.”
– Press release
“Spyro: Year of the Dragon – The Dragon Realms are celebrating the ‘Year of the Dragon’ when a mysterious cloaked figure emerges to steal all the Dragon Eggs. Under the spell of the evil Sorceress, an army of Rhynocs is now guarding the helpless eggs in the Forgotten Realms. With new and old friends, Spyro is on a quest to recover the lost eggs, defeat the Rhynoc army, and stop the evil Sorceress. Turn up the heat in this adventure by exploring the mysterious realms and completing outrageous challenges, such as pulling off sick tricks on a skateboard and stepping into a boxing ring.”
– Press release
Gameplay
Abilities
Most of the abilities from the original trilogy are present in the Reignited Trilogy, including the dodge roll, swimming, climbing etc.
The Adventure Begins Bundle (Dynamic Artisans Meadows theme + Gnasty Gnorc and Ripto avatars)
Store Preorder Bonuses
Gamestop Spyro keychain
Gamestop Spyro Reignited Trilogy Spyro Concept Art Linen Poster
Micro Blocks Spyro Figurine
Steelcase
3 Collectible Cards
Key Ring
Original and Reignited
In the Spyro Reignited Trilogy, everything that was present in the original Spyro trilogy has been remade from the ground-up in high definition graphics, providing new sound effects, animations, and a new experience for new and longtime fans.
The dragons featured in the first game were color palettes of five different models in each five homeworlds. In the Reignited Trilogy, these dragons have undergone a design overhaul that each give them different character designs and unique characteristics that match the world they reside in.
Additional features have been added in the Reignited Trilogy that wasn't included in the original games, such as the addition of Skill Points that were never included in the first game.
On the 12th of March 2019, following criticism during initial release, the game was given subtitles for each cutscene in the game.[1]
To see differences between the original games and the Reignited Trilogy, click here:
Development started in 2017[2], with Toys For Bob experimenting with the game engine on the level Toasty.[3] Toys for Bob came to the original team at Insomniac Games, who developed the Spyro trilogy, and informed them of their development on the Reignited Trilogy. The Insomniac team was more than happy to provide their input on the upcoming game, sharing Toys for Bob their original concepts and visuals on the game trilogy, making development a collaborative effort between them and Toys for Bob.[4]
Spyroscope being used to extract the gameplay information from an emulated version of Spyro 1
Since Insomniac Games no longer possessed the source code of the original Spyro trilogy, the team at Toys For Bob didn't have access to the original data, rigging, nor models from the trilogy, so they played through the original games to get the feel of the worlds and its characters and recreate everything from scratch.[5] The team were able to leverage many of the original assets such as level models, level collision, animated objects, character models, music, game text, and game sounds using an in-house software called Spyroscope, whose function is to scan the code and assets of the original game and convert the data into a usable form.[6]
The adult dragons of the first game were initially planned to be designed faithfully to their original models, including those that were color swaps of existing dragons. Toys For Bob decided to give all 74 dragons their own unique design and individuality. "Every time you interact with a dragon, it enhances the story and makes you feel like there's a world that Spyro is in," said Art Director Josh Nadelberg, "We felt like to make a game that was going to be as evocative as possible, we wanted to tell a bigger story.[7]
The Spyro Reignited Trilogy received favorable reviews.[11][12][13] Positive reception included praise towards the creative liberties taken on the characters, the worlds and the next-generations graphics. GameInformer gave Reignited a 8.5/10, praising the game's attention to detail with both the level design, characters and layouts being accurate to the original material and exhibiting more unique and expressive personalities.[14]
Criticisms include the initial console game release having long loading times, glitches, and frame-rate. Destroid noted that while the game remained faithful, it retained some of the flaws from the original games, particularly the overall "bland" and linear objectives.[15] Slant Magazine pointed out that Ripto's Rage and Year of the Dragon are "mere reskins" of the first game, while also chiding the game's inconsistent frame-rate and "slippery" controls.[16]
Sales
The Reignited Trilogy gained first place on the UK all-formats sales chart in its first week. While it sold less than Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!, it outsold both its Pikachu and Eevee versions individually.[17] It was also the best-selling PlayStation 4 title in its first week in Australia.[18] As of September 2023, the Spyro Reignited Trilogy sold 10 million copies worldwide.[19]
The Spyro Reignited Trilogy won the "Family/Kids Title of the Year" award at the Australian Games Awards,[20] was nominated for the Freedom Tower Award for Best Remake at the New York Game Awards,[21] for "Game, Classic Revival" at the National Academy of Video Game Trade Reviewers Awards,[22] and for "People's Choice" at the Italian Video Game Awards.[23]
File:SpyroReignitedTrilogy Unused DifficultySettings.jpgThe scrapped Spyro Reignited Trilogy Difficulty menuDifficulty settings were originally planned for the Spyro Reignited Trilogy, reminiscent to the ones in the Skylanders franchise. The Easy difficulty had the image of a sheep, Sparx the Dragonfly for the Medium difficulty, Spyro for Hard, and Gnasty Gnorc for a Nightmare Mode that can't be unlocked until presumably one of the other difficulties is finished. This menu can be found in the game files of the PC version of Reignited, but the buttons can't be interacted with.
The Reignited Trilogy is currently the only Spyro game to be developed by more than five game companies.
The Reignited Trilogy is the second Spyro game, following The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon, to be dubbed into Danish, and the first time the original Spyro trilogy can be experienced in Danish, with both dragon voices as well as location names having been changed.
Some issues in the dubbing, however, have been found such as some voices not matching up to the lips or Spyro sounding more like a young adult, rather than a child.
It is also the second Spyro game (excluding Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure and any other games in the Skylanders franchise) to be dubbed into Finnish, also following Dawn of the Dragon.
Following this game, Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled was the next game to use the same modelling concepts as Reignited Trilogy, rather than backtracking to previous design choices, indicating that any possible future installments will be using the Reignited standard modelling concepts.
The Japanese release of the Reignited Trilogy marks the first time that Spyro: Year of the Dragon is playable in Japan in any official form, as the original was never released in Japan.
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