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* DeflectorShield: With the Wing Shield, Spyro can deflect the projectiles from long-ranged enemies. This is also the only way to damage the wizard Riptocs in Thieves' Den.



** Moneybags appears in just one level, doing his usual gem-coercing schtick. Despite this, he's listed in the manual along with Hunter and Bianca as if he's a prominent character. Unused dialogue exists in the game's data suggesting he was going to play a larger role and would eventually return gems to you.

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** Moneybags appears in just one level, doing his usual gem-coercing schtick. Despite this, he's listed in the manual along with Hunter and Bianca as if he's a prominent character. Unused dialogue exists in the game's data suggesting he was going to play a larger role and would eventually return your gems to you.



* GuideDangIt: The portal to the battle with Ripto opens after you have collected 75% of the collectibles. Which is something the game never informs you about.
* HailfirePeaks:
** Monkey Monastery combines SlippySlideyIceWorld with a small sense of {{Wutai}}.
** Jurassic Jungle is a combination between JungleJapes, RuinsForRuinsSake, and LethalLavaLand. Thrown in with robot dinosaurs as enemies for good measure.
* HarmlessFreezing:
** With Spyro's new Ice Breath, he can freeze enemies into blocks of ice, but it won't defeat them unless he also charges into them after doing it.
** The conflict at the Dragonfly Dojo is that the dragon masters have been frozen by the Riptocs. After tawing them with the Fire Breath, they are perfectly fine.



* ImmuneToFire: In Jurassic Jungle, one of the scientist mice has made a gate that protects Spyro against the lava flowing through the temple.



* LethalLavaLand: Ripto's Lair consists of a single platform surrounded by lava. Jurassic Jungle also mixes volcanic areas with its JungleJapes.

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* LethalLavaLand: Ripto's Lair consists of a single platform surrounded by lava. Jurassic Jungle also mixes volcanic areas with its JungleJapes.JungleJapes and RuinsForRuinsSake.



* MagicCarpet: Spyro’s mode of transportation to the Thieves’ Den is a flying carpet.



* OrcusOnHisThrone: After teleporting all the dragonflies away, Ripto goes back to his lair and stays there for the entire duration of the game. Even after hearing that the spell he used didn't work the way he wanted to, he decides to let his minions take care of Spyro and gather all the dragonflies.



* PutOnABus: Elora, the Professor and all of Spyro's new friends from ''Year of the Dragon'' doesn't appear here. Amusingly enough, Bentley's brother Bartholomew of all characters makes an appearance in Monkey Monastary.



** If you flame the middle of the Ice Breath gate and then charge at that same spot, you can get pass the gate without having to enter Cloud 9, the level where you find the stone that gives you the Ice Breath.

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** If you flame the middle of the Eletric or Ice Breath gate and then charge at that same spot, you can get pass the gate gates without having to enter Cloud 9, any of the level two levels where you find the stone stones that gives you the Ice each Breath.



* SoNearYetSoFar: The portal that leads to Ripto's lair is within the starting area of the hub world, but you won't be able to enter it until you have collected at least 75% of the collectibles in the game. Unless, of course, [[SequenceBreaking you glitch your way into the portal]].



* WarpWhistle: With the help of the guidebook, you can teleport from any level to another wherever, whenever you want.



* {{Wutai}}: Dragonfly Dojo is a Japan-themed level where elder dragons train dragonflies so they can help young dragons.

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* WinkDing: Spyro does a wink to the player in the final shot of the 100% ending.
* {{Wutai}}: Dragonfly Dojo is a Japan-themed level where elder dragons train dragonflies so they can help young dragons.dragons.
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* SequenceBreaking: [[invoked]]The portal to [[FinalBoss Ripto's Lair]] is in the HubLevel, Dragon Realms. Thanks to poor geometry meshing, you can clip through the portal and hit the loading trigger on the bottom, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSPmTrG5yIY completing the game in less than three minutes]] (albeit with NoEnding). As of July 2023, the best time is [[https://www.speedrun.com/fr-FR/spyroetd barely 1 minute and 6 seconds!]]

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* SequenceBreaking: SequenceBreaking:
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[[invoked]]The portal to [[FinalBoss Ripto's Lair]] is in the HubLevel, Dragon Realms. Thanks to poor geometry meshing, you can clip through the portal and hit the loading trigger on the bottom, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSPmTrG5yIY completing the game in less than three minutes]] (albeit with NoEnding). As of July 2023, the best time is [[https://www.speedrun.com/fr-FR/spyroetd barely 1 minute and 6 seconds!]]seconds!]]
** If you flame the middle of the Ice Breath gate and then charge at that same spot, you can get pass the gate without having to enter Cloud 9, the level where you find the stone that gives you the Ice Breath.
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Hunter seems to be nicer in this game than in the second and third games. He doesn't give Spyro dragonflies until he does tasks, but the tasks involve rescuing animals.

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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Hunter seems to be nicer in this game than in the second and third games. He Similar to the second and third games, he doesn't give Spyro dragonflies until he does tasks, but however the tasks involve rescuing animals.animals whom he seems genuinely concerned for.

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Much like the later-released [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006 Sonic '06]], the game is more well known in the gaming world for being pushed out incomplete, rather than for its gameplay. Throughout its two-and-a-half year dev cycle, Universal ordered constant, total revisions; the final product went gold after only a matter of months. Thus, the game went down as an ObviousBeta, and the black sheep of the original ''Spyro'' series.

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Much like the later-released [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006 Sonic '06]], the game is more well known in the gaming world for being pushed out incomplete, rather than for its gameplay. Throughout its two-and-a-half year dev cycle, Universal ordered constant, total revisions; the final product went gold after only a matter of months. Thus, the game went down as an ObviousBeta, and the black sheep of the original ''Spyro'' series.



* ObviousBeta: The game was infamously rushed out the door and it shows in several places. The game is significantly shorter than earlier ''Spyro'' games, there are only three cutscenes, the FinalBoss is the only boss, it's impossible to have a complete gem total since Moneybags never reappears to return your gems, many of the voice lines don't match up with the script, characters' facial animations tend to be very wonky, and the game is very glitchy (mainly the [=PS2=] version) and suffers frequent framerate drops.



* SequenceBreaking: [[invoked]]The portal to [[FinalBoss Ripto's Lair]] is in the HubLevel, Dragon Realms. Thanks to [[ObviousBeta poor geometry meshing]], you can clip through the portal and hit the loading trigger on the bottom, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSPmTrG5yIY completing the game in less than three minutes]] (albeit with NoEnding). As of July 2023, the best time is [[https://www.speedrun.com/fr-FR/spyroetd barely 1 minute and 6 seconds!]]

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* SequenceBreaking: [[invoked]]The portal to [[FinalBoss Ripto's Lair]] is in the HubLevel, Dragon Realms. Thanks to [[ObviousBeta poor geometry meshing]], meshing, you can clip through the portal and hit the loading trigger on the bottom, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSPmTrG5yIY completing the game in less than three minutes]] (albeit with NoEnding). As of July 2023, the best time is [[https://www.speedrun.com/fr-FR/spyroetd barely 1 minute and 6 seconds!]]
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The sixth ''Franchise/SpyroTheDragon'' game, released on the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 and UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube in 2002. This is the first console ''Spyro'' game to not be developed by Creator/InsomniacGames, instead being made by Check Six Studios and Equinoxe Digital Entertainment.

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The sixth ''Franchise/SpyroTheDragon'' game, released on the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 Platform/PlayStation2 and UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube Platform/NintendoGameCube in 2002. This is the first console ''Spyro'' game to not be developed by Creator/InsomniacGames, instead being made by Check Six Studios and Equinoxe Digital Entertainment.
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Per TRS, Feelies is now Trivia.


* {{Feelies}}: Early copies of the game included a seven-track music CD, which had a few tracks that weren't used in the final version of the game.
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* PointOfNoReturn: If you're planning on fully completing the game, don't go to Ripto's boss arena until you've collected everything the game has to offer. Once you've entered, you will always restart there when you enter the game on that safe file, even after you've beaten Ripto.

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* PointOfNoReturn: If you're planning on fully completing the game, don't go to Ripto's boss arena until you've collected everything the game has to offer. Once you've entered, you will always restart there when you enter the game on that safe file, even after you've beaten Ripto. Subverted in that you actually ''can'' get out of here by warping to a different level other than the hub world, since Ripto's boss area is treated as being part of the hub world.
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* FrozenFoePlatform: There are side-quests that involve retrieving kites stuck in trees. You reach the kites by using your ice breath to [[HarmlessFreezing freeze the baby dragons]] standing underneath the trees and using them as [[ImprovisedPlatform Improvised Platforms]].

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* PointOfNoReturn: If you're planning on fully completing the game, don't go to Ripto's boss arena until you've collected everything the game has to offer. Once you've entered, you will always restart there when you enter the game on that safe file, even after you've beaten Ripto.
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* OffModel: All over the place. The character models attempt to emulate the Muppet-like face designs of the [=PlayStation=] games, but the rubbery animations result in everyone doing weird mouth-flapping when they talk, especially Ripto.

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