History Videogame / Spyro2RiptosRage

* WindmillScenery: Robotica Farm features a few windmills that Spyro needs to traverse. Their blades go all the way down to the ground and push Spyro on contact.

* DropTheHammer: The big lizards from Glimmer and the earthshapers from Magma Cone attack Spyro with hammers.

* MilesGloriosus: Throughout the game, Ripto acts tough, pushes people around and gives threats when Crush and Gulp are with him. During the final fight, if he collects three orbs before Spyro and gets a power-up, he laughs gloatingly before attacking, but if Spyro gets the power-up, Ripto's first response is to run away.

* HundredPercentCompletion: Awards a permanent Superflame power-up. It can even be used in a NewGamePlus.

* AbilityRequiredToProceed: In stark contrast to its predecessor, where Spyro has all his abilities from the start, this time he needs to learn three abilities to proceed across certain points.

* AllTheWorldsAreAStage: Dragon Shores, almost featuring some characters from previous levels.

* AnachronismStew: The Bonebuilders of Skelos Badlands live like cavemen but have a video camera.

* AnimalMecha: The Robotica Farms level is filled with mechanical bugs.

** The hippos in Shady Oasis eat a lot of fruits. In the level's outro a hippo has somehow eaten all the fruit of a big tree shouldn't stop growing fruits.

%%* TheDeadCanDance: If their remains are mostly intact anyway.

* EasyLevelsHardBosses: You're more likely to see your lives drain against the bosses than the levels.

%%* EvilSorcerer: Aside from [[BigBad Ripto]], Cloud Temples has the Warlock enemies.

** The orb that's hidden behind two doors in "Summer Forest". It's obsurely hidden behind an impassable door, and you need to access it by flying through the window.

%%* HeelFaceTurn: The idols in Idol Springs in the closing cinematic.

* TheKeyIsBehindTheLock: In Fracture Hills, the satyrs' bagpipe music can control stones and break the rock covering their temple. They are initially unable to do so due to being encased in rock themselves.

* NintendoHard: Collecting all of the Skill Points in the game, to the point that ''Year of the Dragon'' made collecting them easier.

* SummonBiggerFish: The Professor, Elora, and Hunter try to summon a mighty dragon at the beginning of the game to take down Ripto, but end up getting the title character (Spyro, of course), who's [[ClosestThingWeGot smaller than they hoped for]].

* SuperSpit: Spyro can spit rocks further than Gem Cutters can throw them. The Breezebuilder chicks also spit ammunition at him.
* TakenForGranite: The Earthshapers have trapped the satyrs of Fracture Hills in stone.

* TheUnfought: The Colossus Yeti. Though you do get to knock him into a dunk tank as a minigame later on in Dragon Shores.

* AWizardDidIt: The plot of Idol Springs involves the various tiki idols the colossi there built inexplicably come to life and start attacking people left and right, stealing their food, locking them out of their homes and other forms of mischief. An explanation is never given as to why this happens, the closest thing to an explanation being that Ripto is responsible for it somehow. Considering Ripto is technically a wizard, this is likely the case.

''Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage!'' (''Spyro 2: Gateway to Glimmer'' in European languages) is the second ''Franchise/SpyroTheDragon'' game, released on the UsefulNotes/PlayStation in 1999.

This game, along with the [[VideoGame/SpyroTheDragon1998 first game]] and ''[[VideoGame/SpyroYearOfTheDragon Year of the Dragon]]'', were remastered on the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, PC and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch with updated graphics as a part of the ''VideoGame/SpyroReignitedTrilogy'', with the latter two ports coinciding with the franchise's [[MilestoneCelebration 20th anniversary]].

* TheNapoleon: Ripto is an extremely short but immensely arrogant being with dreams of WorldDomination, and is even referred to as having a Napolean complex in his manual bio.

* NiceMeanAndInBetween: The main male residents of Alavar qualify as this. The Professor is friendly and charming (nice), Moneybags is pompous and greedy (mean), and Hunter starts out rather cocky and arrogant but eventually becomes of Spyro's closest companions (in-between).

* FaunsAndSatyrs: This game features both. In addition to primary character Elora, there are humanoid-looking fauns and satyrs in the Fracture Hills, and more monster-y looking fauns in the Magma Cone. Exactly what differentiates them is not entirely clear. It's also worth noting that the Fracture Hills fauns, and to a lesser extent Elora, aren't all that humanoid to begin with. The ones in Fracture Hills in particular look more like anthropomorphic wolves with goat legs.

%%* LethalLavaLand: Magma Cone and Canyon Speedway.

%%* ManChild: Agent Zero.

%%* TheNapoleon: Ripto, even referred to as such in his manual bio.

* NighInvulnerability: The shield power up lets Spyro walk across molten lava.

* RedHerring: One of the orbs in Autumn plains is stuck on a small platform far away from the rest of the level. Next to this platform is a smaller one that is lower down and reachable from the outer wall of the castle. This smaller platform may lead players to believe that you're supposed to glide to it and then somehow jump up to reach the orb. [[spoiler:This is not correct. The ''actual'' way to get the orb involves finding a secret room within the castle that takes you to a high tower, from which you can glide to the real platform.]]

* SizeShifter: The Hippos of Shady Oasis can temporarily increase their size by eating berries.

* StarCrossedLovers: Private Romeo and Juliet on opposite sides of the Land Blubber-Breezebuilder conflict of Zephyr. Doubles as InterspeciesRomance, given one's a blob and the other is a bird.

* UndergroundMonkey: We see three kinds of fauns in this game, and they all look quite different. Elora has a human-like upper body, while her lower body looks like it belongs to a white and brown anthropomorphic hooved animal, with a fox tail. She also has no horns, unlike other fauns. The fauns from Fracture Hills look like anthro goats with blue-ish grey bodies. The fauns from Magma Cone also look like anthro goats, but they have more cartoon-ish proportions, with a blue-ish grey upper body and a brown lower body. The ''Reignited Trilogy'' changes Elora's design by making her look fully like an anthro deer. This makes her closer to the fauns from Fracture Hills, but with other colors and no horns.

* TheDeadCanDance: If their remains are mostly intact anyway.

* EleventhHourSuperpower: The final battle has Spyro and Ripto make use of super charged orbs to use new abilities, and the final one gives Spyro an infinite fly/fireball ability.

* EvilSorcerer: Aside from [[BigBad Ripto]], Cloud Temples has the Warlock enemies.

* HeelFaceTurn: The idols in Idol Springs in the closing cinematic.

* JerkassGods: The Idol Springs idols turn against their makers and lock them out of their temple.

* KungFuProofMook: The large Earthshapers are resistant to Spyro's attacks and have to be pushed into certain areas to be defeated.

* TheOverworld: Summer Forest, Autumn Plains and Winter Tundra.

* ShovelStrike: The penguins of Sunny Beach try to flatten Spyro with them.

* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: After you defeat Gulp (the second boss) you see BigBad Ripto fall off a ledge and into an abyss. Elora congratulates Spyro for freeing the various worlds and collecting all 14 Talismans, the game's standard reward for completing the worlds. Then, just when it looks like Spyro might finally return home, Ripto comes back and there's a whole new home world with five new, Talisman-free levels.

* LethalLavaLand: Magma Cone and Canyon Speedway.

* ManChild: Agent Zero.

* MilesGloriosus: Ripto. Especially in his battle. Throughout the game, he’s only acted tough, pushed people around and given threats when Crush and Gulp are with him. If he collects three orbs before Spyro and gets a power-up, he’ll laugh gloatingly and try to attack. If Spyro gets the power-up, Ripto's first response is to run away.

* TheNapoleon: Ripto, even referred to as such in his manual bio.

%%* ManChild: Agent Zero.

%%* MilesGloriosus: Ripto. Especially in his battle. Throughout the game, he’s only acted tough, pushed people around and given threats when Crush and Gulp are with him. If he collects three orbs before Spyro and gets a power-up, he’ll laugh gloatingly and try to attack. If Spyro gets the power-up, Ripto's first response is to run away.

%%* MilesGloriosus: Ripto. Especially in his battle.

* ManChild: Agent Zero.

* MilesGloriosus: Ripto. Especially in his battle.

* PteroSoarer: The "pterodactyls" from Skelos Badlands, which get tamed by Elora to defeat Gulp.

* AmericanKirbyIsHardcore: The American version is subtitled ''[[ExcitedShowTitle Ripto's Rage!]]'', and its cover-art features Spyro standing in action pose with [[DreamWorksFace a smirk on his face]] in front of a wall of flames. The PAL release, however, has the more otherworldly subtitle ''Gateway to Glimmer'', and sees a somewhat less-smugly smiling Spyro running towards the camera with an enemy behind him and a sunlit yellow mountainous background. This extends to the back of the game case, where the American version is branded with the tagline "Mess with this Dragon and Feel the Burn!", and a bulletpoint list informing the buyer of the action-packed gameplay features, while the PAL version gives a short synopsis of the game's plot.

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[[caption-width-right:300:[[{{Tagline}} Mess with this dragon, and you'll get burned.]]]]

!!This game contains examples of:

->''"Okay, no problem! I'll collect a few talismans, give Ripto the old hotfoot, and be in Dragon Shores by lunchtime!"''

* HulaAndLuaus: Hula Girls in Idol Springs whose dances can bring rain.

* DishingOutDirt: The purple things in Cloud Temples can produce rocks that usually are only found by lava pools.