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  "Spyro: A Hero's Tail" is the fifth main entry in the "Spyro The Dragon" 3D platformer franchise. The last one before a reboot. The game is developed by Eurocom Entertainment Software and published by Vivendi. The game was released in November, 2004 for the PS2, XBox and GCN. I'll be playing the GCN version. Simply because it's easier to emulate. Spyro 5 brings back some mechanics from the original trilogy, including some mini games and playing as different characters. Such as Hunter and Sgt. Byrd! As for the story, well, it seems barely connected. And new characters pop out of nowhere. But old ones do return! Is it worse than Spyro 4? Let's find out together!  This time I'll be tackling this beast solo. Time zones and schedules make it hard to it with Pods, as we did before. Pods does show up for the Finale and few Bonus reacts. Overview Things will be a little different with this one. Not as much an LP & Break. More like an LP & Stream. I have never played Spyro 5 before, but I've always been curious. So I'm playing this game on stream, live, for the first time. Quite different from my usual post-stuff. That being said, the series quickly evolves into more of an LP & Break thing as I find out about tricks while playing. The first few episodes aren't edited much but that changes too. What about the previous Spyro games? Let's Play & Break "Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage". Let's Play & Break "Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon". Let's Play & Break "Spyro 4: Enter the Dragonfly". For the original, check out Flare Elevar's Spyro the Dragon LP. "Let's Play & Stream"? Yes! You can join me live on stream if you want, at http://twitch.tv/jaffyjaf. No real strict schedule yet. But I'll always cut down and post to YouTube afterwards. Any place to support you? Yes, again! I have a newly created patreon at https://www.patreon.com/jaffy. There's ways on Twitch and YouTube too, normally. Finally, you can join my discord if you wish! https://discord.gg/8hgEeuR                          
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May 28, 2020 21:01
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AAAAHHHHHH. Welcome back. Looking forward to this
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May 28, 2020 21:40
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I remember this one actually being pretty okay when I played it as a kid. Nowhere near on the level of the original trilogy though.
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May 28, 2020 22:45
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SirSamVimes posted:I remember this one actually being pretty okay when I played it as a kid. Nowhere near on the level of the original trilogy though. 
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May 29, 2020 10:08
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Hell yes. I actually like this game, and think it's good. Also nowhere near as good as the original trilogy, but a fine step in the right direction. A shame that Enter the Dragonfly poisoned the well for Spyro for so long that it had no chance to be good. Super happy to see you back as well, JAF.
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May 29, 2020 21:20
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What an amazing birthday gift. I've been rewatching the old 2&3 LPs since I finished 100+% the entire Reignited trilogy so this has timed out remarkably well.
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May 30, 2020 03:15
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Dragonatrix posted:What an amazing birthday gift. I've been rewatching the old 2&3 LPs since I finished 100+% the entire Reignited trilogy so this has timed out remarkably well.    A bit of a dump, I know. I wanted to upload all of Stream 1's stuff before streaming again this weekend.
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May 30, 2020 10:12
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Pungry posted:Hell yes. I actually like this game, and think it's good. Also nowhere near as good as the original trilogy, but a fine step in the right direction. A shame that Enter the Dragonfly poisoned the well for Spyro for so long that it had no chance to be good. Yeah, this feels like Hero's Tail should have been the first sixth-generation Spyro game instead of Enter the Dragonfly. It might have been better received if it had been. The gems as currency instead of collectables also seems like precursor to LoS using them health and magic.
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May 30, 2020 18:59
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Honestly, the more I see of this game the more I feel like it was originally designed to be a different collectathon game and Spyro was painted on top of it later. Nothing really looks or feels like a Spyro game, in any meaningful way.
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May 30, 2020 19:41
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Chimera-gui posted:Yeah, this feels like Hero's Tail should have been the first sixth-generation Spyro game instead of Enter the Dragonfly. It might have been better received if it had been.
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Jun 1, 2020 10:32
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Jun 1, 2020 21:13
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This feels wrong, Just A Friend. I watched Video 1 and 0 Glitches. Just wrong
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Jun 1, 2020 22:10
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Jack-Off Lantern posted:This feels wrong, Just A Friend.
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Jun 1, 2020 22:27
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Aw man you broke the streak of the thumbnail having a character staring lasciviously at the viewer
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Jun 2, 2020 03:46
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Scaramouche posted:Aw man you broke the streak of the thumbnail having a character staring lasciviously at the viewer Haha i know. I actually have one for this episode. Of Sparx. The break view was just so tempting though.
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Jun 2, 2020 06:36
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Oh my god. Multiple Poochies.... Blink is so bad, I'm sorry JAF Oh my god, the blink stuff is a minigame, oh wowwww. Sergeant Byrd and Agent didn't control that good, but Blink looks even worse. Why do they think we wanna control nondragons in Spyro? I have nothing against good supporting characters and liked Bianca and Faungirl a bunch, but Blinks level was longer than when you controlled Spyro. The changes to Gems is also baffling, inflation is real on Dragon Shores/Avalar. Respawning enemies that always drop gems is super duper annoying and I find it makes it very difficult to know where you already went. Great, you lost all progress. What the gently caress Jack-Off Lantern fucked around with this message at 11:28 on Jun 2, 2020 |
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Jun 2, 2020 07:33
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Jack-Off Lantern posted:Respawning enemies that always drop gems is super duper annoying and I find it makes it very difficult to know where you already went.  
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Jun 3, 2020 14:33
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Jun 4, 2020 23:27
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Nice to see you around LPing again. I'm especially looking forward to seeing the rest of this one, A Hero's Tail was the only Spyro game I ever personally had and I never managed to finish it, both when I bought it the first time, and a couple of years ago when my sister and I tried again. Sparx levels 
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Jun 5, 2020 15:17
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The Sezza posted:Nice to see you around LPing again. I'm especially looking forward to seeing the rest of this one, A Hero's Tail was the only Spyro game I ever personally had and I never managed to finish it, both when I bought it the first time, and a couple of years ago when my sister and I tried again. 100%ing this game will destroy me, won't it? D:
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Jun 5, 2020 19:14
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Yeah, it seems Eurocom made it a point to make sure this game had polish and play testing compared to EtD. It's not perfect of course but even two and three weren't this glitch free.
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Jun 6, 2020 05:35
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Chimera-gui posted:Yeah, it seems Eurocom made it a point to make sure this game had polish and play testing compared to EtD. It's not perfect of course but even two and three weren't this glitch free. Well, the PS2 version at least had some serious bugs that had a tendency to ruin save files by crashing in the middle of an auto-save. They wouldn’t only get corrupted beyond readability, though. Sometimes, if you collected something that triggered a change in the level, the game would crash. When you reloaded, the item would be gone, but the level would not have changed, making progress impossible. Fortunately, these crashes were rare, and I only encountered the save-wrecking ones in the third world. I ended up removing the memory card and manually saving, just in case. There was still one spot that I could make crash consistently, but that was because I was doing stupid poo poo that hosed up the loading zones. The GameCube version might not even have those bugs. EtD was way more stable on GameCube, so who knows. That said, I don’t know of any way to crash the original trilogy, beyond getting swim-in-air and swimming up ridiculously high, and I haven’t heard of any problems with the Reignited Trilogy or Legend Trilogy.
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Jun 6, 2020 10:52
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Just A Friend posted:I am already having trouble with the Sparx levels and I know there's more to come. lol. Thank you for your service, may your sacrifice not be in vain.
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Jun 6, 2020 14:29
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Just wait until the last turret minigame. There will be many regrets.
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Jun 6, 2020 15:22
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Jun 6, 2020 22:02
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Double Punctuation posted:Well, the PS2 version at least had some serious bugs that had a tendency to ruin save files by crashing in the middle of an auto-save. They wouldn’t only get corrupted beyond readability, though. Sometimes, if you collected something that triggered a change in the level, the game would crash. When you reloaded, the item would be gone, but the level would not have changed, making progress impossible. I never had any of these problems with the PS2 version. 
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Jun 7, 2020 06:16
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SirSamVimes posted:I never had any of these problems with the PS2 version. Same here, this is the first time I've ever even heard of this and I rented the vent before Block Buster went under.
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Jun 7, 2020 06:48
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Bonus episode! Pods aka Sintrapod aka Pandariots returns to give some thoughts on this game so far.
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Was good to hear from good old pandariots again. Also I haven't watched it yet but am going to assume that Spyro's death spells the end of the franchise as we know it, and the next games will be Hunter-centric.
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Scaramouche posted:Was good to hear from good old pandariots again. Also I haven't watched it yet but am going to assume that Spyro's death spells the end of the franchise as we know it, and the next games will be Hunter-centric. 
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Jun 14, 2020 20:50
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I actually quite like Red, he's a funny character in the few scenes he has. Like at the start of the latest video where the henchman is approaching, terrified and both of them know what's going to happen and they are just resigned to it so the conversation is purely implied. Red's not even angry at this point, he's just started a precedent and doesn't want to break it.
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Lowtax sucks, so I will stop posting here henceforth. If you want to keep up with my stuff: join my discord https://discord.gg/8hgEeuR Aside from that, there’s links to YouTube, Patreon, Twitch and our own site in the OP of this thread. Thanks to the good LP folks that gave me a start back in the day. Peace.
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