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I’m kinda inclined to think they were actually expecting all these preorders and are now saying they weren’t to generate even more hype and convince even more customers to preorder, but it’s indeed great news anyway!

In other even less exciting “news”, I remember a discussion a while ago about Tree Tops lacking the moon, which then sparkled fear about TfB not adding the various planets and satellites in their respective sky-boxes.
Well, it isn’t much, but this isn’t the case for Dark Hollow, at least according to the PS4 dynamic theme:



Guess the others are not visible from the screenshots they released or they simply haven’t added them yet.

So that leak is accurate to the news that came out about the Switch's online service

Crash and Spyro confirmed for Smash 5 i guess

Oh ****...

Stuff is about to get real

I mean there's still a chance its fake and he just got lucky so take that with a grain of salt

I'm thinking it's luck for now...

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Now you can all start panicking because they added two moons instead of one or because the big one isn’t in the correct position.
Can’t wait for Reddit to realize it.

Okay, this is probably the best thing I've read regarding the nitpicks. Thank you.

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So that leak is accurate to the news that came out about the Switch's online service

Crash and Spyro confirmed for Smash 5 i guess

Well, guess the "leak" did manage to get one thing right.

Not sure if the rest is true though. Though I do wish Spyro and Crash will be in Smash Switch, even if it means getting Captain Toad as a playable character.

Thinking it's just luck, but I was right in that the events could still happen differently. But let's not get hyped for the duo in Smash until E3 gets closer.

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Thinking it's just luck, but I was right in that the events could still happen differently. But let's not get hyped for the duo in Smash until E3 gets closer.

Good idea. E3 will give us all the answers we need. Plus, I'm still kind of skeptic about Wario and Waluigi being playable in Odyssey.

Yeah, I’m dubious as well.
I don’t think the part regarding Nintendo’s new online service was due to pure luck, but I’m still not convinced about the rest of the “leak”.

The poster could have added false informations on purpose to avoid beign caught too easily.

In other news, the official sites confirms the Reignited Trilogy coming to Japan as well!
This is great for the future of the series, really curious to see the japanese customers’ reaction to the regular camera and most importantly to the whole third game.

https://mobile.twitter.com/Har...725101827919873

The specific date that they guessed though is highly suspicious. I’m cautiously optimistic! It would be rather awesome

Nintendo is now abandoning the Virtual Console... and potentially replacing it with something else. Like, say, a Nintendo Classics program.

Once is coincidence, two is chance, three is a pattern.

Lef's wait for that next point, then. Iirc something else will be announced before E3 as well?

Activison dropped a tweet saying to remember that Reginited is a remaster of all 3 games and not just STD. This leads me to believe that we’re getting a new trailer soon.

I had the very same feeling.
No reason to remind about the other two games when the collection is called “Reignited Trilogy”, and I’m pretty sure they didn’t do it with Crash.

Maybe they’ll save Year of the Dragon’s trailer for E3 and show Gateway to Glimmer in the next few weeks, so that both the first game and the second can be playable at the event.
Come to think of it, wasn’t Cortex Strikes Back’s remake actually shown some weeks before the E3 as well?

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I had the very same feeling.
No reason to remind about the other two games when the collection is called “Reignited Trilogy”, and I’m pretty sure they didn’t do it with Crash.

Maybe they’ll save Year of the Dragon’s trailer for E3 and show Gateway to Glimmer in the next few weeks, so that both the first game and the second can be playable at the event.
Come to think of it, wasn’t Cortex Strikes Back’s remake actually shown some weeks before the E3 as well

10 March 2017

Did Crash 2 & 3 have their own trailers? Can't recall.

I'm thinking they will show gameplay of the first game at E3, followed by the sequels further done the line...

I'm not sure if anyone here has already noticed this or pointed it out, but Numskull Designs are currently hosting a giveaway on Twitter for a one of a kind Spyro plush.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Num...875673944154112

New footage! https://twitter.com/SpyroTheDr...312394942771200

Now we've officially seen something from every Artisans world besides Sunny Flight, unless that snippet of Spyro flying in the trailer is from there.

I see they kept the blood on the bull's horns. Lets hope they won't censor it in the PAL version again.

Nice cgi cartoon clip, I mean video game clip. Seriously, the animation there is awesome!

Is it gameplay?

It's not, dev camera again. ;___;

Hmmmm, does the Bull's charge animation seem kinda oddly slow and sluggish looking to anyone else? (I might just being seeings things oddly cuz I'm rather tired atm)

I must say, I'm digging that new Matador design! 030

Could be the gif compression,spyroid, I've seen some animations get pretty squished when uploaded. Probably not, this being high quality recording.

Thanks to some Reddit users which already made the comparison, it turns out the bull is the original game moves at about the same speed but its legs are slower so that it seems like that’s his fastest speed possible.
The new one gives you the “shouldn’t it be faster?” impression because of how fast its legs move, definitely tricked me as well.

Loving the gnorc design, but also Town Square’s look in general.
Wasn’t expecting TfB to keep the red tips on the bull’s horns, but have to say it look more like paint than blood.
Wouldn’t mind if they removed it in the PAL version honestly, especially if this means getting all the PAL soundtracks as well.

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Thanks to some Reddit users which already made the comparison, it turns out the bull is the original game moves at about the same speed but its legs are slower so that it seems like that’s his fastest speed possible.
The new one gives you the “shouldn’t it be faster?” impression because of how fast its legs move, definitely tricked me as well.

Ahh! Yep! Yep! That's what it is. Couldn't quite put it into words before.

I imagine it probably won't feel as noticeable when you're actually playing and running around the game VS just staring at the animation.

The fact alone that they left the red tips of the bull horns intact in Reignited implies to me this remake is more or less gonna be 100% based on the US release of the game.

It doesn't really matter that much for Spyro, but I do remember that being the same case with the Crash N. Sane Trilogy, where enemy placement and a few smaller things was a bit different in a few places in the UK version of the PS1 titles, but N. Sane was the US version for everyone all around.

This likely means that super annoying glide spot in Metal Head's level is gonna be intact for everyone this time around, and its seeming likely with this knowledge Spyro 2 is gonna be called "Ripto's Rage" for all releases. I do wonder knowing this what they're gonna do for High Cave's music in this case, since its just a slower rendition of Tree Tops' theme for US and completely original for UK. On that note, I really hope Spyro 3 has all of the added music from the Greatest Hits version, and they don't reuse music like the original release.

The horns are definately not blood, it's like a gradient. Now it looks more like the result of those "traditions" of setting bull horns on fire, which then is extra reason to watch the Matador get what's coming.

Well in any case, I believe it will get an E10+ rating, which may or may not hurt the originality.

I'd say to wait before assuming nothing's going to get censored.

Like mentioned, the Bull's horns and easily look more like a paint/gradient then blood, VS the sword Gnrocs (that we haven't seen as of yet), where there wouldn't be any other explanation for the "red" on the sword.

I could easily see them being fine with the Bull's horns, just cuz of subtly, but shutting down keeping the blood on the swords, cuz that's... blatant.

If anything, I could imagine they'd change the blood on the swords to rust to make it more subtle.

I thought they could have interpreted the red tips as being literally red-hot, but I think they would have gone with some more complex shaders and effects if that were the case.

Here is a still image with just the Toreador, useful for comparison with the original Town Square, if anything:




The new look of Town Square honestly amazes and makes me even more hopeful simultaneously.
Lighting and colors aside, which have already been stated to not be final, just looking at all the details and touches like the decorations on the walls or near the rim of the fountain makes me smile like an idiot.

Not because those details look basically the same as their PS1 counterparts, but because TfB actually looked at their source material so well that they decided to put in those ridiculously small motifs which yet add a lot to the level’s aesthetic and help textures feel less bland and empty.
Spyro is in good hands, guys.

EDIT:
I looked more carefully and even the windows are the exact same type as the falt textured ones, from their shape to the design of the metallic parts.
Remember when I said “making those flat textures pop out as 3D models will make the difference”?
This is what I was hoping for.

This is the best-looking one yet. Of course, the dirt and grass could be tinted a little more but at this point, it's very nitpicky since the assets match so well.

Numbskull merch update: https://twitter.com/NumskullDe...508677771071489

They had to pull the original Spyro Plush giveaway for some legal reasons, and plan to make up for it by revealing another product early, and having another, 5 person giveaway with said product.

A picture of the "scrapped for legal reasons" Spyro Plush, for anyone that didn't get a chance to see it:

The whole terminology of "not checking with all the right people" makes me think the marketing team is enforcing the merch to not have certain things - or to have certain things always.

But hey, I forgot to join that one, I'll take this as a second chance if it's worldwide.

It could just be that they aren't allowed to give away a prototype product under the terms of the contract

It wasn't a prototype. They just made the one, and it was only going to be the one, period, and decided to have a giveaway for it.

Activiosn just had a problem with them giving away a one-off made plushie of Spyro, apparently.

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It wasn't a prototype. They just made the one, and it was only going to be the one, period, and decided to have a giveaway for it.

Activiosn just had a problem with them giving away a one-off made plushie of Spyro, apparently.

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Or they have objections with ANY Spyro plushies being made period, in which case, I will be VERY sad gskjadhahgdjka

They mentioned jumping the gun, so I don't think being a plushie is a problem. Maybe all plushies have to have a certain hue of purple, the horns have to turn 10 degrees and be Trigger Happy gold(tm) or Spyro can't look pissed.

True. Another guess is that Activiosn might have made a deal with a different company to make plush merch, and thus don't want Numskull stepping in on their territory and getting them upset.

It might start to happen, who knows. But people working on fangames know the risks from the start - either release a build as soon as it's playable, don't say a word until it's ready, or get scared enough of legal action to just do a Gyro the Dragon game instead.

That is an amazing fun fact!

Maybe Activision doesn't want the plush given away because his eyes are unusually small and it would make it look like a poor representation of their property?
The "other company has plush license" also sounds likely. Didn't Kidrobot make the plush from the Crash remake?

https://twitter.com/ToysForBob...982438538395648

Yup, I think it's safe to say that's not meant to be seen as blood on the horns this time around.

If it were only for the color and brightness I could pass it for being a cartoony way to depict it, but the way it fades on the horns both in-game and in this artwork makes me think it’s either a natural coloration, paint or some kind of red-hot effect.
Talking about the remake, of course, it probably was intended to be blood in the original game.

Here’s the Toreador Gnorc, by the way:



Man, these images are soooo making me hope for an official artbook!

There's also the fact that the red on the horns of the original Bull was really contrasting with grey horns, while the red on the new Bull looks complimentary with the dark brown horns.

The red on the grey horns looks unnatural, and thus more easily seen as blood, while the brown horns make the red fit with the overall design, making a natural gradient, and giving an eye-catch to the design.

The concept art makes it look even more like they're red hot, imho, though it doesn't give off glow.

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There's also the fact that the red on the horns of the original Bull was really contrasting with grey horns, while the red on the new Bull looks complimentary with the dark brown horns.

The red on the grey horns looks unnatural, and thus more easily seen as blood, while the brown horns make the red fit with the overall design, making a natural gradient, and giving an eye-catch to the design.

blood aren't that flashy

Honestly, it never came across my mind that it could be blood until some people pointed it out. I really don't think it's blood, but still, I can't unsee it now LMAO.