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GAME · 2018 · USA

Spyro Reignited Trilogy

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Spyro Reignited Trilogy is a 2018 game collection. It revisits the original Spyro trilogy, and the series' development left behind a trail of unusual decisions and abandoned ideas.

11 Interesting Facts About Spyro Reignited Trilogy

Interesting Facts (9)

  1. #001

    The game includes remastered soundtracks, but players can also switch to the music from the original releases.

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  2. #002

    In the original "Twilight Harbor" level of "Spyro the Dragon", the Gnorcs carried realistic-looking machine guns and grenades. In the remaster, they carry blasters that fire slime and throw cartoon-style bombs.

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  3. #003

    The Nintendo Switch version of Spyro Reignited Trilogy ships as 3 demo Spyro games by default, and the Switch cartridge is a game key card. All 3 full games must be downloaded from the Nintendo Switch eShop to be playable; otherwise, playing offline greets the player with a "Download Required" error message.

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  4. #004

    In "Year of the Dragon", Gabrielle the Ice Fairy speaks with an American accent rather than the Received Pronunciation of the original version. The change was most likely made because the RP accent was considered too stereotypical and would have offended British fans of the series.

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  5. #005

    Insomniac Games stepped away from Spyro after Spyro 3, partly because the character's hands are so limited that he can't hold anything.

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  6. #006

    For the original Spyro the Dragon, Insomniac brought in a NASA engineer to help program the camera and Spyro's flight movement, as the camera behind Spyro was causing problems.

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  7. #007

    The green color was abandoned because Spyro would have disappeared into the game's lush environments, and purple was picked instead.

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  8. #008

    A Spyro MMORPG was considered at one point, with players controlling a random dragon in a world where an older Spyro had become king; the project was dropped because it felt less and less like Spyro.

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  9. #009

    The Wizard Peak music in Spyro is almost identical to The Amanda Show's closing credits music, since Stewart Copeland composed for both.

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Easter Eggs & References (2)

  1. #010

    Every release of all three games keeps the same international titles. The original trilogy did not: for the UK, the second game, Spyro 2 Ripto's Rage, came out as Spyro 2 Gateway to Glimmer, while Reignited Trilogy restores Spyro 2 Ripto's Rage even in its UK edition.

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  2. #011

    Spyro was initially going to be green and called Pete, but the name carried a risk of legal trouble with Disney's Pete's Dragon, so Insomniac changed it to Spyro.

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