The game begins inside a temple, where an enormous red dragon named Ignitus is watching over an egg it is the 'Year of the Dragon' (not to be confused with the third Spyro game), a time every twelve years when new dragon eggs are brought to the realm. Also, the DS version has extra side missions in the form of puzzles. As well as breath attacks and furies, Spyro can create an elemental shield around himself that protects him from enemies while hurting attacking enemies. The DS version has additional attacks and challenges. It takes about six hours to complete the game. The game has fewer levels than previous Spyro games, with six levels that progress from a starting point towards a final destination and boss encounter in a linear fashion, and two rail shooter style flying levels adjoining them. Spyro can also use furies, huge blasts of elemental energy. Spyro has a variety of combat moves as well as four different breath attacks: fire, electricity, ice and earth, which he can use as both long range and short range attacks. Rather than the previous focus on platforming, the gameplay is now more combat based. Spyro is seen fighting an ape soldier with an electricity move.Ī New Beginning uses a more action-based focus than previous Spyro games. The environments are also more varied - such as The Chronicler's dream / soul sequences being more based on the respective element he's teaching instead of being a generic purple void - and it has some of the best graphics on the system, with one swearing some of the cutscenes were in actual 3D instead of Digitized Sprites.An in-game screenshot for A New Beginning. Spyro's health, mana, and strength increase over the game instead of staying static like the console version, and there's even an option to adjust the game's difficulty for those who find normal mode still rather hard. The GBA version, however, is a far better balanced 2D platforming Beat 'em Up with Metroidvania elements.

The console version of the game was infamous for being Christmas Rushed which resulted in it being one of the single hardest Spyro games in the franchise.

Polished Port: The Game Boy Advance version.

This is a really useful bug, considering The Eternal Night can get brutally difficult at points.

Good Bad Bugs: There's a bug where, if you use an element while time magic is up, it slows down the mana consumption while using the element, but the element's attack still does the full amount of damage to the enemy.

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