Quick Look | Spyro 2 - Gateway to Glimmer (1999) PlayStation 1 HD
3When Games started to brainwash kids...
Spyro 2 ... starts well, weird at first ...by changing the design of this game on its head , to a mission structure rpg with skills... skills you buy with gems you collect ... like swimming , climbing , etc... camera is finally fixed , walking and running controls ( flying and landing also) , no longer you control Spyros centrer mass (his ass)but the whole model ... now each thing you collect has a purpose .. even killing those creatures , that gives you mana ... activating a skill totem , giving you an ability to complete a ... forced mini-game ... atlest you finally have some sort of a mini-map and auto saves ... all this would have been fine , and dandy ...but they had to add ... those mini-games that cheat in this game, to pad this to hell... and then you get to the Ice levels and Water levels and your controls are again shit ...*facepalm* ...
So now part 2 evolved into an money grabber, when you buy your way out from any situation , hammering this logic into kids , oh dear... when a part 1 was about skill to progress , part 2 is now get gems , buy skill (aka key) , return to the map that needed it , get orbs ... repeat ... a design that later on was used by all 3D platformers ( Ratchet and Clank , Jak and Daxter ) ... that was masked by cute symbols to hide its meaning ... and then 20 years later adults try to buy your way out of anything ... in real life