It's still a great nostalgia piece and tons of fun, but due to the immense size of Spyro 3 and the timescale in which Toys For Bob had to turn this remake around, they had to cut corners and it unfortunately shows. Anyone who followed its development and played the result knows that. The third game (and to a lesser extent, the second) in the trilogy was rushed. The second thing that brought my rating down is perhaps more to do with what happened with the development of the game (the Reignited Trilogy I mean), but it was reflected so similarly in the book that I had to mention it here. It showed a lack of care which contrasted with the immense attention to detail present in this remake and hammered home in the rest of the art book. However, the print-o that was introducing the Sunrise Spring homeworld with a painting of Sunny Villa, subsequently missing out any sort of painting of Sunrise Spring AND not giving Sunny Villa its space alongside all of the other levels from all 3 games - it really made me groan. So why then have I given it 4 stars instead of the perfect 5?įirstly, there are a few mistakes in it: typos like "Breezebuilder Harbor" instead of Breeze Harbor, and "Crystal Island" instead of Crystal Islands made me wince, but I could have overlooked them. The art is stunning, the written sections about how they approached remaking the 3 greatest video games about a plucky purple dragon ever made by human beings are very interesting. Spyro the dragon (the video game and the character) means so much to me that several parts of this artbook actually brought tears to my eyes.
Micky lives in beautiful Washington State with his wife and daughter where he enjoys life's essentials: movies, comic books, chocolate and sushi. Most recently Micky wrote the bestselling book The Art Of Spyro: Reignited Trilogy and completed his sci-fi trilogy Skiptracer. In 2018 Micky completed his first original sci-fi novel, Ridgerunners, and co-wrote the graphic novel The Invisible Empire: Madge Oberholtzer And The Unmasking Of The KKK, as well as the illustrated novel Strange Highways. In 2017 Micky was tapped to write The Howling: Revenge Of The Werewolf Queen, a comic book continuation of the beloved 1981 Joe Dante horror film The Howling.
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He has self-published three horror novels in his original series The Turning, on Amazon. As one of the first writers at Blizzard Entertainment, he has more than two decades of experience in the cutting edge of the gaming industry. No plans for a continuation of the Spyro franchise have been announced, but developer Toys for Bob, from which the art book stems, also developed the Reignited Trilogy and has long shephered Spyro during Activision's ownership of the property, having previously developed the Skylanders franchise.Micky Neilson is a two-time New York Times best-selling author whose graphic novels, Ashbringer (#2 on the list) and Pearl of Pandaria (#3) have both been published in six languages. and a little hint at Spyro." Activision had no comment on the future of Spyro in relation to the potential tease, but IGN has verified the page in the art book itself. The accompanying text on the page by artist Brun Coes says "It was fun to combine Dingo's Diner with the futuristic element, to have those cars flying with the city down below. Right below him is his name and what appears to be most of the number "4" right below that. (H/T to on Twitter for first tipping us off to the tease, originally spotted by The Art of Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About TimeĪ close-up of the potential Spyro 4 tease in The Art of Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About TimeIn a two-page spread featuring art from The Dimension level and Frank's Plump Wieners Kioskbot, a large splash page of concept art includes a Spyro marquee nestled in amongst the futuristic cityscape.
Or we're just really reading into a sign. But on one particular page, a hint at Spyro could potentially be teasing a similar Spyro 4 treatment may be on the way. In the newly released The Art of Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time from Crash 4 and Spyro Reignited Trilogy devs Toys for Bob, a host of concept art, character designs, and more showcase the work the team did to modernize the bandicoot.
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