Music and sound effects are also a mixed bag. When it comes to characters aside from Spyro, they appear to be rather simplistic, with not many textures on them (Moneybags the Bear, for instance, just looks like a brown polygon on top of a blue one). It's good to see that the designers were creative with most of the levels, rather than having the stock standard lava level, the forest level, the snow level - while the elements from these levels appear, they also have their own unique flavour. The flames look nice and realistic, and there are areas such as a Dojo with blossoms on the trees, a castle up in the clouds, a forest dripping with honey and a farm with a disturbing amount of aliens and abductions. On the bright side, the graphics themselves are fairly good. Once, while opening up my Atlas (where all your game statistics are stored) rather than showing the book, it showed a black screen with nearly invisible writing. It also happens while running or flying through levels where there are a lot of characters, and even sometimes when there aren't any characters in the area! This is just unacceptable. While running around the Dragon Realms (the overworld of the game) if there's too many sheep or moving characters on screen, the game will skip frames excessively. This game runs about as fast as a snail on valium.

However, what Spyro has is not a little dip or flicker. I don't normally complain about frame rates in games, as a little dip or flicker in the graphics doesn't overall ruin gameplay. As dragonflies are incredibly fast and difficult to catch, Spyro is given the ability to breathe bubbles to trap the dragonflies in. However, Ripto and his henchmen turn up and Ripto casts a spell, which instead of capturing all of the dragonflies for himself (as it was supposed to) scatters them across the land. Dragons everywhere come to see this event take place. Spyro's adventure begins at the end of the 'Year of the Dragonfly' festival, where young dragons are given a dragonfly companion. While this seems like a good idea (keep established fans in familiar territory, and introduce new players to the series) it works terribly, as Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly seems to have been rushed out the door to meet a slipping release date.

As Universal owns the franchise, rather than letting it die, they've gotten their own game designers to mimic the original games and thus allow it to continue. I've always been eager to play a Spyro the Dragon game, as I never had a PlayStation, and there were three games that were originally created (Insomniac has now moved on to other games).

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