The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon Review

[J4m3z1]

Review starts at 01:11

[sonicguy25]

@J4m3z1 Very true.

[LordSamael666]

@sonicguy25 - You don't really understand what you're talking about on the "tech" side of things, bucko. Don't give those piss-poor descriptions of resolution again - you're only embarrassing yourself.

[sonicguy25]

@LordSamael666 I do understand the tech. It isn't that complicated.

[Pikaronni]

@LordSamael666 lmao I know right. He said "epic" or "cool" god knows how many times. No specifics at all. 

[xolrak]

Look at the camera angle, combos?, different gem colors that fill life etc, damn even the fonts, menu stile!! life bar! so many things... It's a god of war rip off parody kind of game!... They already done it once with castlevania... it's just sad that they are running out of ideas, but it's just too much when they make it so evident. Or are they just mocking us.

[sonicguy25]

@xolrak It's barely like God of War. It's a similar genre of game, but it isn't a ripoff.

You're basically saying that GoW is the only action series that can exist anything else is a ripoff. (Devil May Cry was made 4 years before GoW, and it's in the same genre). It's like saying that Sonic can't exist because it's a Mario ripoff, or that Goleneye 007 can't exist because it's a Doom ripoff.

[xolrak]

@sonicguy25 ... I can have this discussion all day with you telling me that, so you're saying that there can be no kart racing games without being a mario kart ripoff? etc etc... but that's was not the intention of mi argument in the first place. My intention was to make someone see that one thing is taking elements from a game and another thing is to almost copy and paste those elements to you're game. And im asking you to make a side to side comparison first and then tell me im wrong.

[sonicguy25]

@xolrak I compared both DotD and GoW because of your comment. They honestly don't have much in common. The gameplay is incredibly different, even if it's the same genre. The fighting is different, the mechanics are different, and pretty much everything is different. Look at Dante's Inferno, that is more of a ripoff than this game is a "ripoff". Look at gameplay and other things before going, "Oh, gee. The life bar is in a similar place to a different game... RIPOFF!!"

[radicalcrash]

The Legend series surpassed the originals just for taking themselves seriously. No game starring a dragon should try to be lighthearted. It's like trying to make funnt Sonic or MGS games. Disgraceful...

This is better then ANB and TEN by miles. But neither of its predecessors are "terrible".

[sonicguy25]

@radicalcrash I don't see what's wrong with a game starring a dragon being lighthearted. It's just a different style.

Also, I never said ANB was terrible, but I did say TEN was.

[radicalcrash]

@sonicguy25 If it worked that simply, there wouldn't even be series reboots or anything like that. Different stye is one thing, but the problem is, a lot of people like that style, so it robs me of Legendary Spyro in fsvor of things like skylander.

It's not. It's a little disappointing. Some of the time. It served its purpose.

[sonicguy25]

@radicalcrash Alright.

Yeah, Skylanders' art style I'm not liking very much. But I love the 3 original PS1 Spyro games. The style, gameplay, everything about the first 3 I love.

But we all have our opinions. :)

[radicalcrash]

@sonicguy25 Skylander is a mistake. In the history of video gaming, ignoring the fans doesn't work out well. I support new directions, but skyander is too much. It doesn't even try to include some platforming. There's no jump. And it has way too many characters to waste money on AND force into a story that's not serious or emotional enough.

I can agree, but I'm tired of always having the underrated opinion. For example, Sonic colors sucks. Shadow the Hedgehog, Sonic 06, and the Werehog don't.

[sonicguy25]

@radicalcrash Colors = Amazing

Unleashed = Half Great, Half Terrible

Shadow = Decent

06 = Terrible

That's what I think, anyhow.

[radicalcrash]

@sonicguy25 Colors = Stupid story, boring gameplay, lazy music, terrible voice acting.

Unleashed = Good Werehog, boring (or just plain cheap) day stages, semi-bad music.

Shadow = Fitting dark story, clever platforming, awesome music.

06 = Good all of it. Seriously, you can do multiple 360s in one jump. You can't even turn right in colors.

I don't think it's a coincidence that, in 10 years of Sonic gaming, I never encounter more then one or two of the supposedly-rampant problems.

[SoReyesguy1294]

All right, you gave it a 9/10. Although i love the Legend series all together, you did a great review. I have great for respect you. Well done!

[sonicguy25]

@SoReyesguy1294 Thanks. :)

[sonicbrawler182]

Great review! :)

And you make a great point about the graphics design. The engine itself may not be anything special, but they didn't let that stop them from making the game look absolutely beautiful.

[vgman94]

Typical modern flop? Wha? Aside from Enter the Dragonfly and Shadow Legacy, all the games were good and fun. The whole TLOS series is an underrated gem, much like the modern Crash Bandicoot collection of games.

[sonicguy25]

@vgman94 I'm just saying my honest opinion that Dawn of the Dragon is the only great modern Spyro. I have a similar look on the Crash series, where the only modern one I can call great would be Twinsanity. But then they both have good-ish/decent games in their modern eras, which would be A New Beginning and The Wrath of Cortex respectively.

[vgman94]

@sonicguy25 Alright, I respect your opinion. I personally find Crash of the Titans and Mind Over Mutant great because of their changes and I liked both ANB and TEN from Legend of Spyro, but The Eternal Night was atrociously hard. Wrath of Cortex was good, but it didn't wow me personally.

[sonicguy25]

@vgman94 Yeah, I personally don't like Crash of the Titans or Mind Over Mutant much, but I respect your opinion as well. :)