Pros And Cons of DOTD

ratchet · Dec 02, 2008 7:55 AM

List here thec Pros and Cons ofDOTD here, go!
I'll start off:

Pros:
-Very nice Graphics, utilizing the graphical capabilities of Next Gen consoles
-Free Flight
-Longer than ANB and TEN
-Play as Cynder/ 4 more abilities
-CO-OP
-Better storyline than ANB and TEN
-nice colourful, bright, and big places Spyro-y parts to fly around in.
-Combat System Improved
-More Characters introduced
-Introduction of Brand new A grade Voice actors
-Had some nice puzzle and Platformer elements
-Varied and create Level Design (1 disagreement)
-Varied, Creative Enemies
-Introduction of Dragon Armour and other new collectables
-Nice Storyline

Cons:
-Free flight was very limited
-Control was clunky
-some Levels were small
-Gameplay was somewhat repetative
-Bosses were boring
- Lot of levels felt too dark.
- Some bits not explanitory enough
- Bad level design
-Furies not as good
-Too many overpowering enemies
-Swinging, climing and platforming was terrible
-Puzzles repetative and awkward
-Plotholes in story
-Bad Carmera
-Too Short
-Some combat moves are boring
-Too many invisible walls
-G;itches
-Story Ripoffs other games

If I get 3 or more people sayingany of these things are wrong I'll remove them.
AND THERE WILL BE NO "RATCHET TLOS BASHER BIAS" HERE!!! smile

UK the white wolf · Dec 02, 2008 9:37 AM

Lol, I pretty much agree with what you already listed.

Hmm..
Con - Lot of levels felt too dark. T_T
Pro - There were still -some- nice colourful, bright, Spyro-y parts. :]

T3h0v4llu · Dec 02, 2008 8:01 PM

You might be right. Thats just what an improved ANB or TEN could happen to be: some aspects of the game seem to be improved, but still it has the same and old flaws.

Luke Danger · Dec 03, 2008 12:56 AM

Pros:
Epic graphics and effects, maximizing the power of the PS3 engine
Creative level design, varried too.
Epic looking levels (The Floating Islands is probably my favorite)
New enemies, more diversity amongsts enemies
Dragon armor! (Dragons don't go into war naked as a jaybird after all)
Epic suspense and suprise.
Abilities were diverse and unquie

Cons:
Furies aren't as epic as they used to be.
Some creatures (the giant ones with tails in The Burning Lands for example) were over-powered
Some puzzles were like trying to melt a iceburg with a frosthrower (AKA a ice version of a flamethrower)

TornWings · Dec 03, 2008 3:42 AM

pro- PS2 version runs well while still looking good.

con- almost no dialogue from the guardians.

YellowBananas · Dec 03, 2008 7:55 AM

well it can't please
EVERYBODY

it has to have some cons coz then the pros
wont
look even better!!

RedDragonX · Dec 03, 2008 10:50 PM

I pretty much agree with most or Ratchet's views....for once lol....nah jk...pretty spot on....and yes there will be no Ratchet bashing here...unless he deserves it big_smile lol........jk...

Spyro_Loves_Me · Dec 04, 2008 6:13 AM

That's a good list there.

I felt that there were some holes in the storyline. For example, what were the other guardians and allies doing? There were also a couple of new characters shown but never talked about.
Other than that, I really enjoyed the game. Free flight was nice. Made travel around the larger levels faster.
The color was very nice too. Maybe you thought it was too dark because of all that levels that took place at night/in a cave/an erupting volcano?

DragonLadyArts · Dec 07, 2008 10:06 PM

Pros:

Nice voice acting
Great Soundtrack
Beautiful graphics
smooth flying controls
Well written storyline
Awesome elemental attacks smile

Cons:

Bad Carmera
Too Short
Some combat moves are boring
Too many invisible walls

ratchet · Dec 22, 2008 11:59 AM

I added them smile

Flamme · Dec 30, 2008 3:22 PM

Pro:
Positive: - It has finally put an end
- The end game as it passed true

Negative: - Very bad Leveldesing
- Cruel graph of the Wii version
- Fly totall unnecessary and boring
- Boring story of much of Lord of the Rings has stolen
- German voice in this part sounds bored .......
- .... Unmotivated and are happy when they talked to the ....
-..... have exception Spyro and Sparx sounds good
- Bad Chara desing except Spyro and Sparx Cynder
- The dragon guards and historians have .......
-....... worse and hunter and co go garnicht times!
- Breathing capabilities of Spyro totall worse! Apart from fire
- Stupides and boring gameplay and dull "collection" if you still can call collect ...
- Looks partially like a PS1 game (water, 2D animation .....)
- The eyes hurt doing everything shines bright and overly bright!
- Totall unloving detail and poor World
- Completely new style and not a "comic" world as it is still in ANB and TEN instance of true
- Everything works wannabe grown up and not fit to Spyro
- Steurung cluttered and far too many combos
- The world has much to be cheerful and colorful than an absolute evil is to speak
- Malefor / dark masters seem unimportant in the title to be
- KI cruel enemy and the accompanying Charas (Spyro / Cynder)
- Almost Anything Krome Studios has created here has been completely weggemacht ...
- Where are Mole-Yair and the other?
- There is more God of War and Devil May Cry as Spyro Spyro and Sparx would not be in the game you would think it goes to another dragon and not the Spyro series ....... Very little Spyro elements inside
- Few and boring ...Lass Boss fighting resembled TEN in the former bosses still in Spyro title is just stupid and boring fightings bosses .......
- Story confusing and you do not understand much the first time
- For the ANB and TEN do not know totall difficult reinzufinden there are no flashbacks in those parts of what happened before!

I give 4 / 10 points. Everything is my opinion so please do not attack me
I will the Old-Spyro back sad

RadSpyro · Dec 30, 2008 4:48 PM

Cons - Tons of glitches.

I've even gone outside the level perimeter and been stuck there. The game was looking really good when I first played, then BAM. Dawn of the Glitch.

RedDragonX · Dec 30, 2008 9:12 PM

The only time I really got glitches was when I left the PS3 running idle for a little bit...then came back to play some more...then the whole thing was so screwed up I couldn't do anything...so I had to restart.

Other then that I didn't have too much problems with glitches...not as much as others seem to have anyways.

RadSpyro · Dec 31, 2008 2:52 AM

Ah, then you are indeed lucky. I, and I think some of the professional reviewers, would give this game a much better rating if they'd been fixed.

I just encountered another one after posting this - I was in Cheetah Village, switched to Cynder, screen started jumping up and down, Cynder's face was up close, and it looked as though she'd been pushed under the ground. Then later, she refused to follow Spyro as he went back to the raft.

I did really enjoy this game, but the glitches spoilt it for me. I am a fan of glitches, but normally I prefer to 'cause' them, if you know how I mean.

RedDragonX · Dec 31, 2008 3:13 AM

Well whatever works for you lol....maybe you just got a really bad copy or something...because I have never seen that kind of stuff on mine...but it is for PS3....I played it over at my friends house for Wii...and that seemed to run pretty well....hmm...rather interesting.

RadSpyro · Dec 31, 2008 4:21 PM

Mine's not PS3 nor Wii, it's PS2 - From what I know, a majority of people do have problems with glitches on this game. Or not problems as such, but just regular ol' glitches. Other forums have noticed it too.

Aceedwin · Dec 31, 2008 7:54 PM

To be honest I've only encountered two glitches in the game, the one in valley where your partner will not move sometimes, and also Spyro managed to sink in the middle of dragon city.

Anyway, that storyline (over the whole TLOS series) is pssssh 2nd best storyline I have ever seen on a game. The one that beat it is of course, kingdom hearts. KH 1 AND 2 made me cry. That's right, if I cry, it's a brilliant storyline.

RedDragonX · Jan 01, 2009 12:03 AM

Well the storyline itself is pretty original....and cliches are always present...but the characters really make it up to me in a story. The character development was pretty good...and that worked with this constantly used plot to a pretty solid effectiveness.

If they want the next one to be better though they might want to go with something a little more unexpected.

Saeth · Jan 29, 2009 3:15 AM

Hmm, lets see:

CONS

-- Inconsistencies.

-- Vexing Gameplay mechanics.

-- Some parts needed touching up (In one point Cynder's teeth are showing through her mouth or her eyes are little lazy)

-- Cheap final boss (What I mean, he's simply overpowered and yet easy to figure out and beat, just use Hit and Run tactics, yeah so freaking epic <_<)

-- Felt rushed.

-- Forced to fight certain baddies, and certain baddies have the most weirdest attack physics (The big Ogre with the tail is the biggest example)

-- Simplistic puzzles.

-- Flying felt clunky and slow (I felt like I was captain Toast man From Ren and Stimpy... except slow and not funny and cool.)

-- The fact that you can fly at anytime (IMO this made the game too easy, and I had a feeling that they would limit it so much that flying wasn't even important)

-- Useless combos and moves (not like I had to learn all of them all I had to do was spam the attack button and grab every now and then.)

PROS

-- The last installment of the trilogy (I know that was dour, but I'm glad this is the last one)

-- Story wasn't as bad (despite the inconsistencies )

-- Get to play as Cynder (too bad she can't transform into the Queen of Terror in this game for her furry...)

-- Graphics and Music are good (gameplay waters it down though <_<)

-- Good concepts (bad execution)

That's all I can think of off the top of my head.

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