Spyro Game Chronology

MrShandavio · Oct 06, 2007 1:34 PM

Hey. I posted a topic on another forum a long time ago (I think it was another forum... and it was about a year or so) asking about the game chronology. I know there are 3 PS1 games and then they moved to a mix of GBA and PS2 games, but I don't really know what overall order based on storyline they go in.

So any help would be appreciated.

Razz · Oct 07, 2007 9:41 AM

With the old games, the storyline basically goes in order of the games' releases. It started with the first Spyro game, continued in "Ripto's Rage/Gateway to Glimmer", "Year of the Dragon", and so on.

With the new series (Legend of Spyro), it's a complete reboot. So the story starts all over with "A New Beginning" and is continuing in "The Eternal Night".

LoneKnight · Oct 09, 2007 12:52 AM

Yeah, there's a lot of debate about the chronological order of the Spyro games. The list that warrior_juggalo posted is the correct in order of release. In order of storyline, is technically not connected very much. Spyro 1 - 4 are a connected series. Spyro A Hero's Tail isn't connected. The A New Beginning games are part of a 3-game series. A lot of fan fiction writers actually connected the series together, though.

Cough, if you beat Eternal Night, you might just get a feeling that Krome is actually setting up the stage for connecting the game to Insomniac's games.

MrShandavio · Oct 10, 2007 1:21 AM

I see. The big problem was the GBA games. They kinda threw me off.

But thanks for the help. I've only played the original 3 for PS1, some of "Enter the Dragon" and just a tiny bit of one of the GBA games.

ratchet · Mar 08, 2008 10:40 PM

Enter THe DRagonfly is a bit messed up as well

Spyrojoe19 · Mar 09, 2008 1:36 AM

Enter the Dragonfly sucked.......cased closed......

I can see how some people believe that Krome is attempting to connect the L.O.S series to the originals, but remember that the L.O.S series was supposed to be a revelation of Spyro; a rebirth, if you will.

And in response to the end of T.E.N trying to relate BACK to the originals, I'm pretty sure that they will be remaking Hunter as a completely new character as well.....

ratchet · Mar 09, 2008 4:54 AM

SpyroJoe is right, yet there is a theory that The Legend Of Spyro took place bout 100 years ago, and was actually a legend.

Spyro · Mar 09, 2008 5:31 AM

Here is the plausible way I see the order:

Timeline for Canon A - The Old Games:

1) Spyro the Dragon

2) Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage - this follows the first game in that Spyro is taking his vacation deserved for defeating Gnasty Gnorc when he gets swept to Avalar.

3) Spyro: Year of the Dragon - After the incidents at Avalar the dragons are preparing for the Year of the Dragon.

4) Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly - The final part of the Year of the Dragon in which baby dragons get dragonflies.

5) Spyro: Season of Ice - Trying to take a vacation after defeating Ripto at the Dragonfly Festival, things go awry.

6) Spyro (The Fairy Dressing Game) - A ball is thrown in celebration of Spyro freeing all the fairies from their ice prisons.

7) Spyro: Season of Flame

8) Spyro: Attack of the Rhynocs

9) Spyro: Ripto's Quest - Continues from Attack of the Ryhnocs because Ripto breaks free from the machine that imprisoned him in AotR.

10) Spyro: A Hero's Tail

11) Spyro Orange: The Cortex Conspiracy - This has to follow a Hero's Tail because in this game Spyro knows Blink but he met him in AHT.

12) Spyro: Shadow Legacy - Taking a vacation after defeating Ripto, things go wrong.

13) Spyro the Dragon (cell phone version) - this seems like a midquel of sorts, as it could tie into what happens in Shadow Legacy. Essentially it is the cell phone port of Shadow Legacy but it has some changes to it that makes it more than a port.

NOTE: There are also McDonald's LCD games and some online flash games. These don't really count but all would be midquels, as they fit in with other games and don't really make up for new games themselves.

Canon B - The New Games

1) The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning - this could link to Canon A, because it shows the birth of Spyro and takes him on some adventures leading from that.

2) The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night - This is the immediate continuation of ANB, and pretty much shatters a hope of a connecting/bridging story to Canon A as Hunter makes an appearance, which contradicts Canon A.

3) The Legend of Spyro: The Darkest Hour

NOTE: There are far fewer flash games and no promotional games (like the McDonald's ones) for the 'Legend of..." arc.

ratchet · Mar 09, 2008 9:48 AM

i disagree with Spyro, i think that there are more than just 2 timelines. i also made a topic on this

Spyro · Mar 09, 2008 6:59 PM

Well, based off what the developers said there's only two. I know Spyro lost and re-gained his powers a lot and some characters changed but in the end 'canon' is what the developers say it is and so far there's been two time lines according to the developers. There's the original where each game progressed into the next usually due to a 'vacation' (almost every Spyro game had Spyro interrupted while on vacation to start) and the second time line which is the reboot and continues along by stopping a story short and picking up at the same spot at the beginning of the next game.

The developer's have only canonized two time lines. There may be some things that make it not work like a loss of powers between some games but that's just something you have to fill in for yourself. I have my ideas for it (dark gems, the dragon statue in EtD was destroyed, etc.)

In the end, it's what the developers say that goes...in or out of the game.

Outside of TLoS they called it a reboot, not in the game, but we know it is.
They called Spyro/Cynder siblings in the game but on the outside corrected this.

They have all power to make canon law and they've only indicated two time lines in the canon.

ratchet · Mar 10, 2008 5:21 AM

The Developers reallydont know anything, they think they can just take any characters and change them and think its the same timeline (But no offence to them or your opinion)
The Dragon Statue in ETD Destroyed: Yeah, thats a good idea, thanx
Dark Gems: I really cant blame everything in AHT that is different on Dark Gems, i mean seriously...
my opinion

Pete the Iguana · Mar 11, 2008 3:15 AM

Dark Gems: I really cant blame everything in AHT that is different on Dark Gems, i mean seriously...
my opinion

...as mine.

I personally don't even consider AHT to be in the same timeline as the rest of the 1st-timeline games. There are so stinkin' many differences in it (characters in particular) that trying to think of a way to fit it in just gives me a headache.

ratchet · Mar 11, 2008 9:03 AM

i agree with Pete, And i also include Orange in that timeline, except Orange occurs before AHT (unless someone could point me a hole there) SL is by itself, so is the spyro mobile game.
SOF, ETD are hanging by a thread, they have some holes in them too (like Gulp talking, and what ripto says back to him, Riptos change in appearence, 90 dragonflies etc)

RaidonMakoto · Mar 12, 2008 10:17 PM

i agree with Pete, And i also include Orange in that timeline, except Orange occurs before AHT (unless someone could point me a hole there) SL is by itself, so is the spyro mobile game.
SOF, ETD are hanging by a thread, they have some holes in them too (like Gulp talking, and what ripto says back to him, Riptos change in appearence, 90 dragonflies etc)

Yeah, Orange takes place before AHT, because it was released before AHT. I think that the original interaction between Spyro and Blink is non-canon in AHT, like many of the 4th Wall Breaking references.

Gulp Talking - Crush and Gulp pursued 'Higher Learning' at the end of RR. Who said they didn't learn how to talk?
Ripto - He didn't change too bad. I consider it more the platform restrictions than anything.
Dragonflies - More than likely, the other 59 were saved by Dragon Elders. I mean, Spyro wasn't working alone to recover the Dragonflies, right?

ratchet · Mar 14, 2008 5:42 AM

yeah are probably right Raidon, but Ripto did change a fair bit, look at his face! But what ripto says to him... "kepp this up and you'll go back to molten crater begging for work for Gnasty Gnorc" now i found that very confusing, this means that Gnasty Knew and probably visisted the forgotton realms, and ripto visited the forgotton realms too, to pick up Gulp from molten crater. I find it VERY strange and coincidental that that happened. Yeah, AHT and orange are up in the air, the 2 companies should have consulted and actually thought before making their games and stories.

RaidonMakoto · Mar 15, 2008 10:04 PM

yeah are probably right Raidon, but Ripto did change a fair bit, look at his face! But what ripto says to him... "kepp this up and you'll go back to molten crater begging for work for Gnasty Gnorc" now i found that very confusing, this means that Gnasty Knew and probably visisted the forgotton realms, and ripto visited the forgotton realms too, to pick up Gulp from molten crater. I find it VERY strange and coincidental that that happened. Yeah, AHT and orange are up in the air, the 2 companies should have consulted and actually thought before making their games and stories.

I think that was just the developers trying to say "Hey, we didn't forget about the old games!" more than anything. I don't know if that throw-away line should be taken canonically or not.

ratchet · Mar 15, 2008 10:14 PM

Yeah, i thought that too, but i do think these simplist things should be taken into account

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