He can’t roll anymore (though this move was featured in early demos), but he can now hover at the end of a glide, giving you enough height to help you reach tricky platforms. Turning while charging is much tighter, which makes it easier to hit targets and avoid charging off cliffs. Ripto’s Rage has the same gameplay as the original, but Spyro’s controls have been considerably tweaked. He’d been brought over by the Professor, Elora and Hunter as a miscalculated attempt to defeat Ripto with a powerful dragon, but he nevertheless decides to help solve Avalar’s problems and kick Ripto’s butt (and maybe find a way to Dragon Shores). He heads into the portal, but gets whisked away to a distant land called Avalar, which is currently under threat from the evil wizard Ripto and his goons Crush & Gulp.

It’s been raining in the Dragon Realms for ages, and Spyro decides to take a vacation in sunny Dragon Shores. Released just over a year later, Ripto’s Rage is a very different game that retains the great gameplay, but more refined and with greater variety.

But instead of delivering more of the same, Insomniac sought to address criticisms of the original’s often repetitive nature by dramatically changing the game’s structure. Spyro the Dragon was a smash hit upon its release, so it’s not too surprising that a sequel was soon underway.

Spyro reignited ripto's rage