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Soooo I've tried Spyro games before and the older ones all seem to have this trend of really picky platforming and difficult jumping controls (I TOLD YOU TO JUMP AGAIN YOU FUCKER NOT GLIDE ASDFLOLWTF), so I've always seen them as having great potential, but crippled by lack of fine tuning.

I got Legend of Spyro: Eternal Night for Christmas and, yeah, it was pretty much what I described above. It COULD have been really fun, but my God, the controls just killed it. After Lurid and I played that for a little bit and got fed up with not even being able to fucking DOUBLE JUMP properly due to how exact the timing had to be, we skipped the rest of it and went straight to Dawn of the Dragon, which I also got for Christmas.

Now, I never used to be too pissed at Skylanders because frankly, I was never into the Spyro games much. To me. Skylanders just kinda took a good character design and shat on it and that was it. But now that I've played Dawn of the Dragon, even just for a couple hours, I am SEETHING that there won't be any more games like it.

It's a ton of fun to play DotD with 2 players, and it's rare to find a game that lets you play through the entire story with a second player like that (*acknowledges Portal 2*). Needless to say, Lurid is playing as Spyro and I'm playing as Cynder, and MAN do I love playing as her. For those who unfortunate enough never to have played this or seen it, her abilities are the elements of Venom, Wind, Shadow, and Fear. FEAR. How fucking cool is that???

Also, FINALLY we actually get to fly. Not just that stupid little jump and glide that's near-impossible to control, either—actual sustained flight. And not just in specific sections or boss fights; we get to do this like, whenever. I love the more open world, too, though I kinda wish it had a map of some sort so I wouldn't get lost. A few moments can be frustrating, and the elite enemies are kinda bullshit, but I have no other complaints. Overall, more Spyro games should have been like this, at LEAST in how well the controls work. Seriously looking forward to playing more.

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