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My brother just went ahead and bought a used copy of Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon (its not on the EU Playstation store for some annoying reason) so lately I've been playing it a while for the past week, while waiting for an unusually slow (enormous=5.16 GB) World of Warcraft-patch. (Its been on since Tuesday, its now Thursday and its 25% done...so yeah)

Its a lot of fun really, not especially hard (hey, its kids' game) but I like the old Spyro Trilogy (never played Legend of Spyro, I kind of lost faith in the series completely after Insomniac gave up the license :XD: That being; after having played Enter the Dragonfly.)
While playing I decided to "narrate" it from Spyro's PoV for fun, and noticed something I may have missed as a kid... Some of these NPCs say some pretty disturbing things, at least if you're a young dragon hearing this.
By the time I first drew this I had only played a bit of the first level and hadn't really decided on a good NPC to put in the second frame, at first I thought the goat's comments about eating the egg or throwing it at a wall (killing the baby dragon) had to be pretty traumatizing for Spyro (to be fair Spyro doesn't hear them, Sheila the Kangaroo does) but then I came to Seashell Shore...
And those seals...my god those seals... They're not just ignorant, they're INCREDIBLY stupid, its almost a miracle any dragon egg survives in that world (or the seals themselves).
First they steal a rhynoc sumbarine and crashes it and gets surprised when they get thrown in jail for it (I had Spyro comment they kind of had that coming) but it starts going out over the dragon eggs when one takes it into a building they're about to blow up, and STAYS there when the explosion goes of, (and miraculously survives) and there's the fluid tunnel, that line right there is pretty much straight out of the game.

Imagine if you're Spyro in all this... In my narration I eventually had him announce that he only had 3 friends in that world; Sparx, Sheila and Srg. Byrd (I haven't gotten to the other playable characters yet) and that his main priorities were: 1. Get loot (inspired by a let's play) 2. Save his race (the baby dragons, where he made half of the females his future wives and the males his little brothers) 3. Find nuclear weapons to blow the Forgotten Realms up (after saving all the eggs of course).
As for why Hunter wasn't counted among his friends; he kept dragon eggs from him for silly reasons (wanting to see him beat a skate-course etc), plain forgetting he had them or a comment I seem to remember from my childhood that he wanted to keep the dragon baby as a pet. My brother claims he never heard this in his recent playthrough, so I may have made it up or he had forgotten it.
His list of enemies grew every time he entered a new world (however I never put Srg. Byrd's Hummingbird-squad on the list, they didn't put the eggs in danger or try to eat them).

Spyro the Dragon (C) Whoever owns the license now.
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stevemacqwark's avatar
The more I think about it, the more I begin to realise just how horrifying these characters are.