Spyro 3 fail

I’ve been playing Spyro 3, Year of the Dragon, all this week. I don’t know why, but I like the Spyro games. What other game can you play as a dragon (even if he is purple)?

I beat Spyro 2: Ripto’s Rage with 100% completion the week before. Got all orbs and all gems. So, I was planning to beat Spyro 3 with 100% completion too.

I was doing pretty good with this goal. And then I hit a wall.

The Country Speedway. I’ve always hated the speedway levels. You have to hit or go through all the goals within the time limit to beat it. 4 kinds of goals and 8 of each kind = 32 things total. After a few runs you memorize the course until you win. Spyro 3 added a racing minigame quest, too.

In this speedway you race some biplanes flown by pigs. When pigs fly.. ah whatever.

Picture from Giant Bomb

Anyway, apparently there’s a bug in the game. If you leave the speedway without winning the racing minigame, you can never win it. Even when you’ve won. And, of course, I had left the speedway after finishing the 1st minigame in there.

I’m serious. I won that race twice before looking up an FAQ to find out why it didn’t reward me.

So my goal of 100% got shot down. I was so … angry … I quit entirely.

Mehhhhhh. Wild ARMs 4 will cheer me up.

FFIX

Random urge to play Final Fantasy IX the other day. So I’ll show random FMV scenes from the beginning of it.

But first! Sweet! They have the & symbol!

Hello, &D!

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Anyway, the FMVs. Title screen.

Hideous. Queen Brahne.

Sad. Princess Garnet.

Is he wearing mascara? Steiner.

Almost everyone loves Vivi, the black mage.

Zidane, the protagonist, in an annoyed mood.

White mage.

Falling Steiner.

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Now dumb screenies.

And we’re both chibi!

With a name like that, they’ll never guess that she’s Garnet!

I just love choosing stupid names >_<

Chrono Cross Dragons

In an effort to get away from MMOs, I’ve been playing Chrono Cross on the PSX. It’s the sequel to Chrono Trigger, a famous RPG on the SNES.

Anyway, at one point you have to win a battle with every dragon god in the game to earn their blessings. There are 6, one for each element. I took pics of them because I love dragons.

If they look bad it’s because I’m playing on an emulator, although I do own the original, of course. Yay, pixelation. Also the game is ten years old, so the graphics aren’t perfect. But the game is still great.

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The Earth Dragon looks like … a slug, kinda.

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The Black Dragon sleeps.

Then I wake him up with rockin’ music (seriously, that is part of the quest). He’s not too happy.

Nasty Breath attack.

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The little red dragon.

DIGIVOLVE TO ….

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The Wind Dragon looks like a … I have no idea. A freak, I guess. Somehow reminds me of Yoda from Star Wars — probably because he’s green.

Closer look.

No wait, he’s Jabba the Hut! I knew it was something Star Wars, though.

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The Sky/White Dragon (he’s not really white in appearance, though …). He looks noble. The most dragonlike of them all, save maybe Black.

The four wings thing is a bit weird, though.

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And my favorite, of course, the Water Dragon. He looks like a frog! And he’s, you guessed it, BLUE!

Hoping I’ll just walk into his mouth?

Up close.

I hit him too hard. I stole a few good Deluge spells from him.

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Later on, all 6 of these guys DNA Digivolve into some freaky floating island. It’s messed up.

Think of how awesome these guys’d look with today’s graphics.