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Whenever I read reviews about this game, one of the complaints is that Ripto died in the second game. It really makes me wonder. Are there so many people out there who haven't seen the epilogues you get with the skill points? It's not like they're hard to find. There's at least a dozen places online listing all the skill points.

If it were only Spyro 2 where he's mentioned, I might understand. But then he appears in YotD as well! Both he and Gnasty Gnorc are mentioned in the epilogue, debating a solution to "the Spyro problem".

This game has a lot of problems, but I don't think having Ripto alive is one of them. Unless you see it as a matter of them reusing an old villain rather than taking time to come up with a new one.

The thing is... they don't show anything other that Ripto sinking in the lava. At least in YotD, they showed a quick clip of the Sorceress surviving the lava... but not for Ripto... so it technically wouldn't make sense that he somehow appeared again. >.>

You've got to remember that there are many airhead gamers reviewing games and those airhead gamers usually don't bother to play the games they're reviewing to total end. So you don't have to take all the world's faults on your back because lousy reviewers should do it.

The epilogues are non-canon. It is the same with all the epilogues seen in the Crash Bandicoot series.

I mentioned in the Spyro Adventure Forum how Ripto keeps on coming back after 'dying'. In Spyro 2, I mentioned the wand that Ripto dropped into the lava just before he died turned the stuff to orange juice...

he died and was resorrected

He is a Zombe than if he ceeps on coming back to life!

The reason that I think everyone thinks Ripto died in Spyro 2 was because of the fact that he fell into the lava below and appeared to have died (like said above). And while he was in the lava, like Ross said, he lost his magic wand, the only source of energy that could've saved him from dying and being able to come back again in other games. It just didn't make any sense to why he would be still alive. Which leaves gamers with these questions: So if he was "dead" in Spyro 2, then how did he survive the hot lava? Did he cast a spell previous to the battle that would make him come alive again, knowing that he was going to probably die battling Spyro? Or did he just loose a "life" like Spyro does when he "dies", after which he was able to come back again? Like I said, there's too many things out there that the gamers left unanswered when they brought Ripto back to the series.

Side Note: My theory onto why they brought Ripto back was because the game designers probably had a hard time coming up for possible new bosses for Spyro to face. So, to avoid having to make a new boss, they brought back an old one from the Insomniac series that players could battle again. The only problem was that they got a lot of questions from gamers around the world onto why Ripto was back, and how it was possible he had survived the hot lava from Spyro 2 (since Insomniac made a pretty clear statement as to whether or not Ripto was alive or not at the end of this game).

What is said about Ripto in the Spyro 3 epilogue? Does he appear himself?

well it dose say gnasty gnorc and ripto cosolt eachother in the year of the dragon im nto shure the exact phrase so i gess it dose make sense to have him in the game

It's just a very slim chance that anyone would survive sinking into molten lava...

Mind you, this is fantasy land.

Quote: Ross

In Spyro 2, I mentioned the wand that Ripto dropped into the lava just before he died turned the stuff to orange juice...

How could Ripto burn in orange juice? In the scene where he sinks, there is a little bit of fire, and a sizzling noise. Orange juice doesn't do that.

ROBO RIPTO

I guess he was just fragged, hm? Bowser in the Mario games drowns in lava and comes back.

maybe the robot pteranodon burned himself in lava and helped ripto

away

i mean pteranodon DONT BURNED IN LAVA.

Quote: Cynder_543

He is a Zombe than if he ceeps on coming back to life!

You know, I was only joking when I said that.

I'll go jump in a vat of lava, see if I survie

Do that and I will give you 5 buck's.

FOR GOODNESS SAKE!RIPTO DIDN'T DIE IN WINTER TUNDRA!His main ability in Avalar was FIRE!He shot FIRE out of his wand,FIRE is the main element in Gulp's battle,Some of the orb's in the Winter Tundra Battle were FIRE!It's make's sense why he survived!He obviously fell into the lava,swam out of the arena,found his wand,brought back Crush and Gulp,found Spyro's location,crashed the party,and then eventually FINALLY DIED!!!

I may be wrong, but here's what it all looks like to me.

The epilogues in RR and YotD weren't really part of the game stories. They were fun, silly things to reward the players and often didn't really match up with the game stories themselves. Insomniac does this with most of their games (there is something similar in the Ratchet and Clank games, certainly).

For example:

The RR epilogue says Spyro lost his chance with Elora, but we see her very clearly giving him another chance in YotD. That same epilogue also shows a lot of characters behaving out of character just for the sake of having some fun.

The most reliable source of game story material is, naturally, the game itself, especially the parts of the game that everyone can play. All of the real story plot ideas are revealed in-game, whereas the epilogues were really just for fun.

As far as the average player is concerned, Ripto fell into the lava and that was that. Even a number of people who did see the epilogue (myself included) didn't take it seriously. So, naturally, the very first thing most people say when they play EtD is "Huh. What's he doing back? I thought he died."

And, depending on how you feel about EtD and Ripto, that can be either good or bad.

I don't think Ripto ever did die.

where is this Epilog how do you get it?

Quote: PyramidHead316

Whenever I read reviews about this game, one of the complaints is that Ripto died in the second game. It really makes me wonder. Are there so many people out there who haven't seen the epilogues you get with the skill points? It's not like they're hard to find. There's at least a dozen places online listing all the skill points.

If it were only Spyro 2 where he's mentioned, I might understand. But then he appears in YotD as well! Both he and Gnasty Gnorc are mentioned in the epilogue, debating a solution to "the Spyro problem".

This game has a lot of problems, but I don't think having Ripto alive is one of them. Unless you see it as a matter of them reusing an old villain rather than taking time to come up with a new one.

Ripto placed a spell on himself so that if he fell in the lava he would survive.

I think Ripto died, it was just the fact that the group that made ETD were too lazy to make up a new villan.

Somehow, that little guy can survive lava. So they brought him back in this excuse for a game and absolutely ruined him.

Quote: SD-King

FOR GOODNESS SAKE!RIPTO DIDN'T DIE IN WINTER TUNDRA!His main ability in Avalar was FIRE!He shot FIRE out of his wand,FIRE is the main element in Gulp's battle,Some of the orb's in the Winter Tundra Battle were FIRE!It's make's sense why he survived!He obviously fell into the lava,swam out of the arena,found his wand,brought back Crush and Gulp,found Spyro's location,crashed the party,and then eventually FINALLY DIED!!!

You could be killed in the game by jumping in lava even though Spyro breathes fire so I don't see how that works...

I do believe the developers were too lazy to come up with a new villain so they just went with Ripto. I guess they tried to pull a Mario, but it just didn't go well..

Or like someone said, maybe Ripto had lives like Spyro