A10theHero
SSJ Fraud
...Have you even played Skylanders? It's a new world, yes, but it's not that it has nothing to do with old Spyro games. Spyro's background story in that game is that he came from the Legend of Spyro world after defeating the final villain. Also, if Skylanders had nothing to do with Spyro, why are Sparx, Cynder, and Moneybags (now called Auric) in the game with him? In addition, in the mobile game Skylanders Lost Islands, Spyro has the ability to travel to a place known as "Spyro's Hometown"--an obvious reference to his previous series. Finally, in terms of gameplay, a lot of elements in Skylanders are similar to those of the previous Spyro games. Searching for and collecting a variety of items is very important. Enemies interact with the player instead of performing a loop of certain actions. Although the levels are somewhat more linear, there are many hidden areas to discover (though the hub for the games is as, if not more, open world than previous Spyro installments). You know, if Smash carried over many elements from Metroid, then yeah, it would be considered a spin-off of the series.Not sure if you two realized, but Spyro never had anything to do with this franchise in the first place. Notice how the "SPYRO'S ADVENTURE" game had nothing to do with him. The world wasn't related to him, the other characters weren't related to him, the story wasn't related to him....nothing at all in the game had anything to do with Spyro. Activision just used him as their poster child to get peoples' attention.
Calling Skylanders a "Spyro game" is like calling Smash a "Metroid game".
In my opinion, Spyro games were naturally heading towards the direction of having more than protagonist. In several games, there were minigames where you played as Sparx instead of Spyro. And then in A Hero's Tail, the minigames were expanded to have several other heroes for you to play as. Eventually, in the Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon, you had two playable protagonists instead of one. And now in Skylanders, you can choose who to play. It almost seems like a natural progression of Spyro's series that was going to happen anyways.
They're still using him as the main character in the books and other stuff, but for whatever reason, they haven't featured a new Spyro in Superchargers like they did for some other veterans. So the leader of the Skylanders is still a poster boy in other media, which could possibly hint at him making a later appearance in the video game, but that's still a stretch.Anyway, if he is their poster boy, shouldn't they at least continue giving the special attention?
If they really just let him popularize Skylanders, then trashed him, then I'm not so sure.
Did that really happen? I don't pay much attention to Skylanders.
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