The audio is top notch, with a rousing soundtrack that moves along with the gameplay nicely and the likes of Elijah Wood (Hobbit-boy) and Gary Oldham (Harry Potter’s Godfather) provide some of the excellent voice acting. Nevertheless, the locations in the game, such as the enchanted forest, are suitably enchanting to explore, with a combination of colours working nicely together to create a stimulating atmosphere. In Dawn of the Dragon, the developer has pushed the visuals a little too far and the kaleidoscope of colours that explodes on screen during combat as enemies spray red, blue and green gems, clashes crudely with the various colours of Spyro’s elemental abilities (epileptics beware.) As a result, it often means that it’s hard to see what’s actually happening on screen.

There’s also far more emphasis on combat and the explosion of colour that comes as part of the fighting experience.Įver since Spyro made his video game debut back in 1998, the production quality of the series has always been high and the colourful nature of the games have played a big part in that. It’s essentially everything we’ve come to expect from the Spyro series, albeit with a few added twists, including ‘Free Flight’, a feature that allows you to take to the skies at any point in the game, which gives you more freedom to explore the environments. Throughout the game, Spyro and Cynder are chained together and therefore have to work as a team as they collect crystals, solve puzzles, platform hop and fight off hundreds of re-spawning enemies. Although you can play Dawn of the Dragon as a single player experience and switch between Spyro and Cynder to utilise their very different combat and puzzle solving abilities, Dawn of the Dragon is ultimately geared towards cooperative play.

The legend of spyro: dawn of the dragon