Crash Bandicoot was brought into the modern age with style and panache last year thanks to Vicarious Visions’ excellent efforts, and now Spyro, our favourite dragon, is receiving the same treatment, this time being handled by developers Toys for Bob. Alternate characters, which were a major draw in 2000's Spyro: Year of the Dragon, could also be greatly expanded upon by allowing them to be used throughout a given level rather than in their own small sections.The original PlayStation was brimming with quality games from every genre, but perhaps the one genre that shone the most on the system over all others was platformers. However, the games' fairly clunky combat could be improved in subtle ways, such as adding a lock-on feature. The core of the Spyro experience should still be exploring semi-linear levels while fighting enemies using Spyro's signature charge and flame attacks. Related: Super Mario 3D World Has a Feature EVERY Nintendo Game NeedsĪ new installment in the Spyro the Dragon franchise would need to maintain that same balance between faithfulness to the original and making modern improvements.

While the core focus on traversing through linear platforming levels remained intact, mechanics such as alternate characters and different difficulty modes helped to blend old and new styles. One of the best things about Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time is how it was able to remain faithful to Naughty Dog's original trilogy while still modernizing and improving gameplay in various ways. While Spyro shouldn't go completely open-world, having larger levels to play around in could allow for more varied gameplay within a single environment. A modern Spyro the Dragon game could retain the open-ended and non-linear nature of Insomniac's trilogy, while also taking advantage of modern technology to increase the size of each level. Optional objectives are plentiful, but it still never takes more than 10 or 15 minutes to completely finish a level. While having a non-linear setup was innovative at the time, in hindsight, each individual Spyro level is fairly short.

Reaching the end of the level is always the main goal, but there are also optional objectives which grant players with additional rewards. Each features multiple hub worlds, which players travel to in a linear order, but these branch off into smaller levels that players can tackle in any order they choose. Unlike sister-series Crash Bandicoot, Insomniac's Spyro games function as more open-ended titled where players are free to run around and explore at their leisure. Level size is another aspect of the Spyro franchise that could be supercharged in a current-gen title. Related: 4 Games Bluepoint Should Remake Next

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