The real challenge lies in completing every level 100%. The inventory screen shows progress for each level, how many gems found and how many dragons, it also shows many there are in each level. Also, each defeated bad guy yields a gem and end bosses hold several gems. Gems are found scattered throughout the levels, in treasure chests. Along the way you have to find all 80 dragons, collect all 12 dragon eggs and collect as many gems as you can. The goal of the game is to beat Gnasty Gnorc by working your way through all six worlds.

Each world consists of a home or hub area, three regular levels, one flight level and one boss level. The game consists of six worlds: Artisans, Peace Keepers, Magic Crafters, Beast Makers, Dream Weavers and finally Gnasty's World. Spyro the Dragon is a 3D platform game similar to Super Mario 64. Now Spyro has to travel through the dragon kingdom and free all the dragons from their crystal prison, recover the dragons' gems and defeat Gnasty Gnorc. But he forgot about one little dragon: Spyro. He has also stolen the dragons' gems by locking them up in chests or turning them into soldiers for his army. The evil Gnasty Gnorc has turned all the dragons in the Dragon Lands into crystal. So, if you are into platformers or just want good clean fun, you should definitely try this game or any of its great sequels ('Spyro: Ripto's Rage' or 'Spyro: Year of the Dragon').Sony Computer Entertainment America, Inc. This game was awesome, it had everything a good platformer should have: interesting characters(mainly in design, but sometimes also in personality), huge areas to roam (pre-GTA), plenty of stuff to collect, several secrets to discover, inspired (if somewhat quirky) enemies to defeat, vibrant, colorful graphics and environments and the best part is that it didn't feel like another Mario clone!!!!. 'Spyro the Dragon' came out in 1998, a time where the industry move into 3d was almost complete and it was, IMO, a perfect example of this move done right.

No, I'm not talking' about Super Mario 64, neither Banjo Kazooie, it's all about a tiny purple dragon called Spyro. But it was one of them which really, really got me since the first time I played it.

Back in the 90's, when the gaming world wasn't dominated by FPS, fake guitars or sandbox-like GTA-gameplay, there were many great 3d platformers.

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