Historia de Dragones

Recuerdo que otro aspecto que me encantaba era simplemente que iba a jugar con un dragón, créanme que desde la percepción de un niño esto influía bastante, lanzar fuego y eliminar a esos enemigos parecidos a ranas era algo que me gustaba hacer sin duda.

Creo que Spyro recoge una buena historia para la época, el reino de los dragones atacados y el pequeño dragón morado es el encargado de “descongelar” a otros dragones. Este es un videojuego de aventura dentro del género de videojuegos de plataformas, la principal característica de este tipo de videojuego es que debíamos saltar, correr, escapar y luchar con los enemigos al mismo tiempo que se recogen objetos del suelo o que van dejando los enemigos al ser derrotados. Todo al ser concentrado en un reino de dragones es algo muy llamativo. Debemos calcular muchos saltos y planear con el dragón para tomar todas las gemas, en muchos casos debemos resolver acertijos como el de las piedras en el nivel central donde hay un nivel secreto escondido.

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Existen niveles centrales así como en Mario 64, los portales nos van llevando a otros niveles individuales, o que contengan otros portales, además, conseguiremos niveles especiales en el desarrollo del videojuego con una mecánica un poco distinta, un ejemplo es que en uno de los niveles especiales podemos volar con Spyro, en los niveles normales o básicos solo podemos planear desde una altura determinada sin levantar vuelo.

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El Villano o Antagonista

El villano de este videojeugo se llama Gnasty Gnorc, aparentemente es un orco con nomo pero yo siempre lo vi como una rana mutante, la trama comienza cuando en una entrevista televisiva uno de los dragones del reino desestima a este antagonista lo hace enfurecer, sin embargo, no es hasta que lo llama “feo” que desata toda su furia contra el reino de los dragones, esa es la razón de porque los congela, esto lo supe muchos años luego de jugar debido a que el videojuego no estaba en mi idioma.

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Spyro en Mi Playstation

Spyro casi no lo jugué en los establecimientos de alquiler, sin embargo, al tener mi propia consola pude tener Spyro dentro de mi colección de videojuegos, este era uno de esos videojuegos obligatorios para tenerlo en la consola de Sony, era como no tener un videojuego de Mario en una consola de Nintendo, así pasaba con Spyro en esa época debido a la gran publicidad alrededor de este simpático dragón.

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Lamentablemente así como me sucedió en otros videojuegos de la misma consola al el videojuego no estaba desarrollado en mi idioma, por lo cual no entendía ni una sola palabra de lo que se decía en el videojuego. Recordemos que desde el inicio del videojuego al descongelar a los dragones ellos hablaban y en algunos casos otorgaban pistas de lo que se debía hacer o simplemente nos mencionaban aspectos sobre la mecánica de juego. Básicamente el videojuego se centraba en las pistas y las ordenes que nos daban esos dragones que uno a uno íbamos descongelando, sin embargo, yo iba a ciegas debido a que no entendía absolutamente nada de lo que me estaban diciendo.

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A diferencia de otros videojuegos donde al menos hay subtítulos o pistas escritas en este solo se escuchan a los dragones, en otros videojuegos si buscaba pistas y no entendía nada al menos podía buscar un diccionario e ir armando las pistas por mi propia cuenta sobre los subtítulos o escritos, pero al solo escuchar como en el caso de Spyro todo se complicaba al momento de traducir. En muchas ocasiones me ayudaban mis padres pero cuando estaba solo el diccionario era una alternativa (para buscar palabras escritas), no saben cuántas veces tuve que sacar mi diccionario para buscar las palabras, hubiese sido todo más fácil teniendo internet y google pero no me quejo, así como lo he dicho en otros post creo que este aspecto era algo característico para los jugadores de las consolas clásicas, sobre todo para esta parte del mundo.

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Además de no estar en mi idioma ya conocerán otro de mis problemas, no tenía memory card así que simplemente era cuesta arriba completar un videojuego, tenía que adivinar lo que iba a hacer y no podía guardar la partida, sin embargo, Spyro the Dragon es un videojuego con una dificultad relativamente fácil así que pude completarlo luego de mucho tiempo de juego y a veces con ayuda de amigos.

La verdad recuerdo a Spyro con mucha nostalgia, creo que es uno de los videojuegos más icónicos en que se jugaron a finales de los años 90´s para la Playstation, en la actualidad sé que tiene un remake de esos tres primeros videojuegos que se lanzaron para la Ps1, siendo sincero no lo he jugado, espero jugar pronto y saber si se siente la nostalgia pasando por la pantalla al recordar este tipo de videojuegos que tanta diversión me dieron en la niñez.

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Un placer escribir en esta grandiosa comunidad, sé que aquí hay muchos jóvenes que no tuvieron la oportunidad de jugar este tipo de videojuegos, sin embargo, si han jugado a Spyro pueden comentar para hacerme saber su experiencia o punto de vista. Un gran saludo donde quiera que se encuentren.

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Gracias por tu Lectura, hasta la próxima

Spyro (1998)

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Hello Gamers, today I want to open again the trunk of memories and tell you about a video game that will undoubtedly bring much nostalgia to several gamers in the community, I think it is one of those classic games that we will always remember and that were icons of the industry at the time, I want to tell you about Spyro the Dragon.

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This is a video game released in 1998 developed by Insomniac Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment, for the Playstation console, is a video game with several unusual features for the time and that makes it in my opinion a classic video game specifically on the Playstation platform.

Knowing Spyro

Spyro like many other video games I met him in the spaces where they rented consoles to play, I found the story of that little purple dragon quite interesting. I remember that it was a video game with a lot of publicity for the time, there were even Spyro posters on the wall of the establishment, it was a video game that many children and young people were looking for to have fun, it was really one of the video games that I saw more publicity for playstation comparable even with Crash and Sonic.

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The truth is that I rarely played this game when I went to this establishment that rented a great variety of video games in different consoles. Despite going absolutely every weekend to play and try new games Spyro was often not an option or was left behind in my list to play. The reason I only played a few times at that time was because Spyro was a single player adventure game, I on the other hand would get my friends together and we would all go play two player games or four player games if playing on the N64 so when I went alone on another day or if my buddies were playing other single player games I would play Spyro the Dragon.

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I remember that there were several aspects that made Spyro the Dragon a really interesting video game for gamers at the time, I will name the ones that caught my attention as a kid when I first saw Spyro the Dragon.

Graphics and Freedom of Movement:

When we are kids the graphics is the most essential or the main thing we see in a video game, at that time polygonal technology was being developed so that the characters had a 3D look. By that time there was a fever for 3D video games, they were simply recognized as the ones with the best technology and the best playability.

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The 3D technology gave another advantage for video games, it created a scenario or world with a lot of freedom of movement, this seemed great to me, it is one of the aspects that I have always liked since my childhood, to have freedom, although in Spyro we do not have a great freedom as in other video games the 3D world design and gameplay made the video game become a desire for every child.

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Remember that before Spyro was released Super Mario 64, a totally revolutionary game, Sony did not want to lag behind in the evolution of their games, Spyro responded as in Mario 64 to 3D graphics and gameplay with free movement, of course it was not a direct competition with Mario, however, from my perception at that time was a good competition for the famous plumber because of their similarities in the character and 3D scenario. Since that time I loved video games with that freedom of movement.

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History of Dragons

I remember another aspect that I loved was simply that I was going to play with a dragon, believe me from a child's perception this influenced quite a lot, throwing fire and eliminating those frog-like enemies was something I liked to do without a doubt.

I think Spyro picks up a good story for the time, the dragon kingdom attacked and the little purple dragon is in charge of "unfreezing" other dragons. This is an adventure video game within the genre of platform video games, the main feature of this type of video game is that we had to jump, run, escape and fight with enemies while collecting objects from the ground or that are leaving the enemies to be defeated. Everything to be concentrated in a kingdom of dragons is something very striking. We must calculate many jumps and plan with the dragon to take all the gems, in many cases we must solve puzzles like the stones in the central level where there is a hidden secret level.

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There are central levels as well as in Mario 64, the portals will take us to other individual levels, or containing other portals, in addition, we will get special levels in the development of the game with a slightly different mechanics, an example is that in one of the special levels we can fly with Spyro, in the normal or basic levels we can only glide from a certain height without taking flight.

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The Villain or Antagonist

The villain of this video game is called Gnasty Gnorc, apparently he is an orc with nomo but I always saw him as a mutant frog, the plot begins when in a television interview one of the dragons of the kingdom dismisses this antagonist makes him furious, however, it is not until he calls him "ugly" that he unleashes all his fury against the kingdom of dragons, that is the reason why he freezes them, I knew this many years after playing because the video game was not in my language.

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Spyro on My Playstation

Spyro almost I didn't play it in the rental stores, however, when I had my own console I could have Spyro in my video game collection, this was one of those mandatory video games to have it in the Sony console, it was like not having a Mario video game in a Nintendo console, so it happened with Spyro at that time due to the great publicity around this nice dragon.

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Unfortunately, as it happened to me with other video games of the same console, the video game was not developed in my language, so I did not understand a single word of what was said in the video game. Let's remember that since the beginning of the game, when the dragons were unfrozen, they talked and in some cases they gave clues of what to do or simply mentioned aspects of the game mechanics. Basically the game was focused on the clues and the orders given by the dragons that one by one we were unfreezing, however, I was going blind because I did not understand absolutely nothing of what they were telling me.

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Unlike other video games where at least there are subtitles or written clues in this one you only hear the dragons, in other video games if I was looking for clues and did not understand anything at least I could look for a dictionary and go putting together the clues on my own on the subtitles or written, but just listening as in the case of Spyro everything was complicated at the time of translating. In many occasions my parents helped me but when I was alone the dictionary was an alternative (to look up written words), you don't know how many times I had to take out my dictionary to look up the words, it would have been easier having internet and google but I'm not complaining, as I have said in other posts I think this aspect was something characteristic for the players of the classic consoles, especially for this part of the world.

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Besides not being in my language you already know another of my problems, I had no memory card so it was simply uphill to complete a game, I had to guess what I was going to do and I could not save the game, however, Spyro the Dragon is a game with a relatively easy difficulty so I could complete it after a long time of playing and sometimes with the help of friends.

The truth I remember Spyro with a lot of nostalgia, I think it is one of the most iconic video games that were played in the late 90's for the Playstation, nowadays I know it has a remake of those first three games that were released for the Ps1, being honest I have not played it, I hope to play soon and know if you feel the nostalgia passing through the screen to remember this kind of video games that gave me so much fun in my childhood.

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A pleasure to write in this great community, I know that here there are many young people who did not have the opportunity to play this kind of video games, however, if you have played Spyro you can comment to let me know your experience or point of view. A big greeting wherever you are.

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Thank you for your reading, until next time

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