It’s the year of the dragon, and the new Spyro the Dragon game might be on the horizon.
Everyone’s favorite childhood dragon made a brief return when Toys for Bob remade the series from the start. As we all know, Spyro the Dragon, alongside Crash Bandicoot, played a huge 90s when platformer mascots were on the rise. Both Crash and Spyro actually swept the market with their influential and innovative gameplays and their first games are still considered revolutionary today.
What makes both these important is that they brought the platforming to the 3D space, where characters could move freely in an open area instead of moving in a linear path. Being able to move freely was considered big at the time and it was pretty much stuck with people who played it during the 90s. Those classic titles were ported over to PC, thanks to both Toys for Bob’s brilliant remaking process and Activion’s request to bring these mascots back to life.
Both Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon had their first three games remade from scratch and bundled as trilogies, and both of the games received well too due to how polished and crips they looked. It was partially due to developers adding new details from their PS1 counterparts, which were more suited to the imagination of the player rather than solid evidence on the screen. Now that these two iconic characters are featured on the PC and the new generation of consoles, what happened to them after the trilogies?
Well, Crash got its next game in almost 15 years with Crash Bandicoot 4: It is About Time. It was exactly what people wanted: Just like old Crash with a little bit more twist. And who could forget about the extreme grind to finish the levels with perfect scores? Spyro the Dragon, on the other hand, had no new games since the trilogy arrived in 2018. He was recently featured in Crash Bandicoot’s most recent online video game, Crash Team Rumble, as a playable character. Other than that, it has been very quiet for Spyro.
Until the Twitter account posted a photo of him riding a surfboard with the captions “You gotta believe” and “Motto for 2024”, which makes us believe that something is cooking under Toys for Bob’s office. Now it could be just a speculation, as it is the Year of the Dragon in the Japanese calendar, but it is hard to believe it was posted for a special occasion. After all, as we said, a Spyro game has been missing for a while and it would be nice for Toys for Bob to come up with a new Spyro the Dragon game in the Year of the Dragon for a fitting release.
