The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning

The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning is an action-platformer developed by Krome Studios and published by Sierra Entertainment.

It is the first part of the Legend of Spyro trilogy, a reboot of the original series set in a new universe, starring a new incarnation of Spyro and Sparx and an entirely new cast. The game has two sequels which continue the general story of the trilogy.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) The Legend of Spyro trilogy sets a much more darker and serious tone to the series, but unlike other attempts to do the same, it does a good job at it. This is accentuated by having a new incarnation of Spyro and setting the game in an alternate continuity, which makes the change of tone less intrusive.
 * 2) Despite the darker tone, the game still has some light-hearted and funny moments similar to that of the original classic games.
 * 3) Amazing controls.
 * 4) Interesting plot.
 * 5) Fantastic graphics.
 * 6) This incarnation of Spyro is more likeable and mature than the original, and Sparx is a fully fledged character rather than just a mechanic.
 * 7) Stellar cast of voice actors, including Gary Oldman, Billy West, Elijah Wood, etc.
 * 8) Good visuals and soundtrack.
 * 9) Great plot.
 * 10) Great Bosses.
 * 11) While the game is more focused on combat, Spyro has 4 different elements which opens a lot of variety in the combat. Each element has two main attacks that can be upgraded by finding blue Experience point gems. The four elements are:
 * 12) *Fire: Burns enemies dealing residual damage and can shoot explosive fireballs.
 * 13) *Electricity: Knocks enemies around and can stun enemies to melee attack them easily.
 * 14) *Ice: Immobilizes enemies by freezing them and can shoot icicle projectiles
 * 15) *Earth: Shoots concentrating blasts of green energy that deal massive damage at close-range akin to a Shotgun and traps enemies in tornadoes that fling them into the air while dealing constant damage.
 * 16) Introduces the character Cynder into the series. In this game she's the main antagonist.
 * 17) New game plus, which lets you replay the whole game with all of your breaths that you have unlocked.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Repetitive gameplay with heavy emphasis on combat compared to previous installments.
 * 2) While the breath power ups are awesome and fun to use, the electricity breath is seriously overpowered, because it can kill nearly every enemy in the game with little effort by tossing them into a nearby bottomless pit. Basically, if there's a bottomless pit nearby, Electricity makes all the other elements redundant.
 * 3) There are a few difficulty spikes here and there.
 * 4) The Ice King is WAY TOO HARD to be the first boss of the game.
 * 5) The game suffers from a few camera issues.
 * 6) The game is way too short and lacks collectibles.
 * 7) The GBA port of the game is a terrible port

Reception
The game got mixed to positive rewiews, on Metacritic the Xbox version hold 69, 68 for the DS version, 67 for the GameCube version and 64 for the Playstation 2 version.

Howewer the GBA version got negative rewiews with a score of 44 on Metacritic

Trivia

 * 1) There were going to get a Spyro movie based on this game in 2011 but it got cancelled

Videos
https://youtu.be/rypw5YD7H_Y https://youtu.be/aXYu4V-aGtk https://youtu.be/-PeCdJTMa04