Quote: DarbyThe first thing that throws me off is the design. No, I'm not one of the people that hate it because of his design though. It just in no way reminds me of the Spyro we know. His legs are fat and chunky, his face looks so.. unintelligent.
I don't know how else to say it. And as far as we know, he doesn't talk? Spyro's always been a cocky petite little hero (with the acception of DotD), and now he looks like something made in Spore. That was my very first thought when I logged in and saw Skylanders Spyro for the first time.
Okay, his design aside.. He's the only Spyro character . Yeah, it probably shouldn't matter, considering he's the main character, but when he's completely unlike the character you know, that doesn't seem to matter.
There's what, 31 other characters? He's just there, along with all the other characters. And he's not even in his own Universe, he's in the ' Skylanders' ' Universe.
I realize i'm pretty much explaining why this isn't a Spyro game to me now. But if this game didn't have Spyro's name in the title, I wouldn't be interested in the first place at all. it doesn't look like my type of game at all. It just doesn't look entertaining. But maybe I need to give it a chance. I never said I wouldn't. I might rent it or something, or see what you guys think.
When is it released? September?
To me, Spyro looks like a rejected Sonic character, mainly because he has those distinct Sonic-y eyes, which are sort of derived from Mickey Mouse. Look:
Character wise, the thing that bugs me the most is that they have a ton of characters, yet....they play virtually the same so far. And there is on excuse for that. Just shows how unoriginal they are being.
As for gameplay, it's like they just turned Spyro into a shooter. Not a first-person one, obviously, but one of those "arcade-y" ones. Which is ironic, because so many people joked about how Activision might do that due to Call of Duty's success.