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Finished Spyro: Year of the Dragon last night, since I had less to do in world 4 than I was expecting.

anyway I think I mentioned it a bit when Spyro 2 came up, but I can't help but think that Spyro is kind of a mildly bad series since probably a lot of western developers still hadn't gotten over trying to "beat" the rental market.

Spyro feels like the primary audience was younger children. Nothing wrong with that of course. Most of the gameplay seems pretty relaxed, making a leisurely loop around the stage accomplishing some simple task. But then in 2 and 3, Insomniac started adding a lot more random BS/difficulty spikes like the minigames which the target audience would struggle with to keep them from beating the game in a rental at the expense of making it more frustrating.

(I kind of feel similarly with the egg thieves, even in the first game, though to a lesser extent. Since they annoy me a little bit trying to steer when going at full speed for an extended periods of time, even now. They would have annoyed me even more when I was younger, since back when I was in about the same age range that Insomniac is probably trying to target with Spyro I couldn't even run/dash in games that required you to double tap the control pad to do so. >_>; Though, at least it's regular gameplay even if it kind of feels like it goes against the grain of the rest a bit.)