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If Spyro and Cynder remained little dragons and not mysteriously grow into teens in DotD? I'm just curious. I mean with all the plotholes of how they grew up frozen in time and all, and they're still the same size as they were in TEN, they haven't grown a bit.

Well... it made a major plothole. Also, the whole SpyroxCynder thing can go crazy with both the fanbase and future games if they desire, because they're teens now and have hormones and what not. Yes, I'm saying I openly do not support SpyroxCynder at all. >.> Another problem with them being teens is they can fly now. And no doubt Sierra will continue to use flight. Having Spyro able to fly destroys one of the biggest running gags in the Spyro continuity: that despite being a dragon, Spyro EPIC PHAILS at flying. DotD killed the gag. ;~;

No. i like their older forms.

Well, if EL kept Spyro and Cynder's design as they were in TEN, then there would be no plotholes. Plus we would have had the chance to play as Little Cynder too in co-op.

It made no sense how they were, but it wouldn't have affected the game in anyway.

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It made no sense how they were, but it wouldn't have affected the game in anyway.

True. So true.

Erm...I would have liked it better if they were younger.

i like they in this form from dotd...they are much cooler now

Okay, something I have to point out:

I don't know much about being stuck in a crystal, but those things don't exactly look like they'd stretch to give you room to grow for three years

In most movies and stuff when people get frozen and wake up about 7 years later, they don't grow up or anything, they stay the same size and they look the same. So I don't know how they grew up in that cristle....

Maybe as soon as Spyro, Cynder, and Sparx were released from the crystal they changed into their older forms, maybe by the magic of the world? I mean when they were released the magic could have changed them to the proper age they should be. Maybe the crystal was just a way to shield them from the collapsing mountain, and put them into slumber. Either way, in my opinion I still think Spyro should be a small purple dragon. I don't think he was meant to age, but maybe for the TLOS series, the developers wanted to add growth to Spyro. TLOS is his legend, so I would guess they are trying to show you how he grew up, and learned about the the true power of the purple dragon, and his destiny...

I received the answer why mysterious Spyro and Cynder grew up a little, from Chris Wilson himself on an email. Here's it is:

Regarding your question, when we began working with the new team at EL, we took the opportunity to explore different looks and "ages" for Spyro and Cynder. We also had to make some changes to allow for the new gameplay features, such as needing larger wings to work with the flight feature and to allow the characters to block with their wings. The team came up with a variety of concepts and we settled on what you see in DotD.

We didn't want to change it too much, but it was a good opportunity to allow the characters to grow up a bit (just like many of the fans were growing up too). It was also a good time to make this change given that it was the 10 year anniversarry for the Franchise. Had we made the game with Krome, its difficult to say what would have happened, but I'm sure there would have still been some changes. Since this was the first time Spyro was on the next-generation consoles, we had to update the model to take advantage of the new technology on the PS3 and Xbox 360.

make sense ^

I still think they shouldn't change Spyro and Cynder's design. I mean if the game was going to be made in EL, then they could've left their TEN design alone and enhanced everything else, like the levels' openess.

Not really. I liked the previous looks of the characters HECK lot better; but I don't see how it would have much affect in the game in general.

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Okay, something I have to point out:

I don't know much about being stuck in a crystal, but those things don't exactly look like they'd stretch to give you room to grow for three years

And where would the energy and nuetriants come from to do that?

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I received the answer why mysterious Spyro and Cynder grew up a little, from Chris Wilson himself on an email. Here's it is:

Regarding your question, when we began working with the new team at EL, we took the opportunity to explore different looks and "ages" for Spyro and Cynder. We also had to make some changes to allow for the new gameplay features, such as needing larger wings to work with the flight feature and to allow the characters to block with their wings. The team came up with a variety of concepts and we settled on what you see in DotD.

We didn't want to change it too much, but it was a good opportunity to allow the characters to grow up a bit (just like many of the fans were growing up too). It was also a good time to make this change given that it was the 10 year anniversarry for the Franchise. Had we made the game with Krome, its difficult to say what would have happened, but I'm sure there would have still been some changes. Since this was the first time Spyro was on the next-generation consoles, we had to update the model to take advantage of the new technology on the PS3 and Xbox 360.

Ha ha, worst answer to be given. They simply thought it'd be a good thing.

Well, I know they wanted to do a good thing for Spyro fans in making Spyro a teen, but still...when he and Cynder are frozen in a time crystal, it doesn't make sense for them to grow inside it.

I think it's a good thing that they grew up a bit! We don't want them to stay as kids forever...do we?

Yeah, maybe in the next Spyro game, they'll have co-op again or maybe add young Spyro and little Cynder skins in it.

The differences weren't as huge with Spyro... they were more with Cynder. >.>

Really? How? The way she walks, fight, or runs?