darkSpyro

So I got myself a Spyro: Hero's Tail demo yesterday. It's interesting to see how much is different with it, even though it's rather close to the final build. For reference, here's what I've found so far;

-The opening cutscene is the same, albeit there's a weird graphical glitch as the gnorc is placing the dark gems.
-No talking with the Professor.
-The music to Dragon Village and Dragonfly Falls are completely different.
-The characters who do interact (Moneybags, Elder Tomas, Spyro, Hunter) have full voice acting clips seen in the final build.
-You need 500 gems to get into the shop and buy a lockpick.
-Icons for items are different (the key is an ordinary key, the extra hit is a normal health symbol, the fire bomb looks like it came out of the 80s).
-The geography of the place is completely different (the crocovile swamp path is a dead end with a light gen here, and the dragon egg path for Hunter is made slightly harder by an extended section of hallway after getting the dragon egg.
-Elder Tomas is located where Ember is in the final game, which skips out the whole cave path thing.
-Spyro can't double jump or glide until Elder Tomas teaches him the horn dive.


Not gone through it all yet, so there could still be some differences to find.

Edit: -Spyro's charge works slightly differently.
-Hunter can destroy stomp boxes with a flying kick instead.
-Hunter retrieves a normal fire bomb instead of his own fire arrows.
-The small animals in Hunter's level seem different.
-The light gem path for Hunter is much shorter.
-Sgt Byrd's level also has different music.
-It's the final one in the lava place, oddly enough. The time limit has been extended here to accomodate the ease of the other levels.
-Blink the Mole is called Blinky in the demo.
-The promo material still uses stock art from prevoius Spyro games, not his AHT art.

Where'd you get the demo from? I didn't know they released one! But those are some cool differences.

I got a question for you. Were you that person who paid like $53 for that Spyro A Hero's Tail and Crash Twinsanity demo on Ebay like last week? I wanted to bid on it but I am saving my money for the new Skylanders. Anyways can you make a video of the differences? I find these incredibly interesting and I think making a video of this would be a great idea.

sorry for bumping this, but burning gnorc, if you're reading this can you please post a video? :3 I was going to get one on ebay but It vanished
I love anything hidden or beta in games, especially in this game! (and can you confirm if those sharks from the add are in the demo?)

Burning Gnorc, if you're the one who won that E3 demo, I'm going to murder you.

I love this game so much I would absoulutely love to play the demo. + collectors value so, you're very lucky.

I-n-t-e-r-e-s-t-i-n-g.....

I've been wondering for some time about if there were any differences between the E3 Demo of Spyro: A Hero's Tail and the final product. For some reason, people haven't posted it on Youtube. (Or, it's possible that I just that I can't find a video of it.) Every time I see a video regarding the two demos on this disc (Crash Twinsanity and Spyro: A Hero's Tail), people seem to rather show off the Crash Twinsanity portion of the demo, and not the Spyro: A Hero's Tail portion of the demo. Thank you, Burning Gnorc, for posting the differences!

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Burning Gnorc, if you're the one who won that E3 demo, I'm going to murder you.

THIS!!!

Hm, interesting. I've been considering buying a rare AHT demo from someone for a while now. Perhaps I should get in touch with them.

COOL!