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Its hard for me to appreciate Arkane Studio and Bethesda/Zenimax's reboot of a highly underappreciated video game. Coupled with the potential sequel the original had before it was canned in favor of said reboot, it left a bad impression when I saw the initial trailer for it. And many of the underlying problems stems from a very severe case of unoriginality and uncreativity the game had. Sure the game mechanics were beautifully sound and the level designs were pretty decent, but said levels all looked exactly the same and there was hardly any substance to the style. Let alone the story itself is ill-motivating and very bland and ill-paced. From a decent genre of first person shooting sci-fi adventure/horror that was Prey, where the lines of supernatural elements and science fiction blends beautifully within a living starship, is brought down to a very ill-contrived reboot where familiarity and generalization takes the good out of everything that was to enjoy.  Arkane basical...

    Or should I say Skylanders? Whatever the case may be, it's not about Spyro anymore. It's nothing more than cheap, cash grab toy marketing scheme disguised as a game. Or a cheap, cash grab game marketing scheme disguised as a toy franchise. Take your pick. Since I first picked up my copy of the very first game my mother got for me when I was but a child losing his baby teeth, I've fell in love with the concept of Spyro. Both the games and character itself. Then I've had a big thing for dragons and still do today really. It was the era where 3D Platforming games dominated the gaming market, with Spyro competing against Banjo Kazooie and Super Mario 64. It was unique as it offered a completely different character with a unique different experience of platforming and mission based tasks with collect-a-thon elements in this beautiful and seemingly magical world where you are in control of an adventurous young purple dragon out to save the world of course. And it's ...