Spyro: Shadow Legacy
Spyro Shadow Legacy introduces role playing elements to the Dragon Realms, offering Spyro fans an "RPG light" experience with all new gameplay features. By fighting and defeating creatures in the game, players…
Spyro: Shadow Legacy is a platform developed by Amaze Entertainment, released 18 October 2005 on Nintendo DS.
What Spyro: Shadow Legacy is
Spyro: Shadow Legacy is a platform game developed by Amaze Entertainment and released in 2005. It was published by Sierra Entertainment. It is available on Nintendo DS only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Spyro Shadow Legacy introduces role playing elements to the Dragon Realms, offering Spyro fans an "RPG light" experience with all new gameplay features. By fighting and defeating creatures in the game, players earn experience points that improve Spyro's strength and abilities. This RPG element allows players to use their experience to build Spyro’s new magical powers and martial arts combat abilities as the game progresses.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Spyro the Dragon series
Spyro: Shadow Legacy is the 18th of 53 entries we hold in the Spyro the Dragon series. The next entry was Spyro 4 in 2005. Its critic score of 45 is 23 points below the series average of 68. The highest-rated entry is Spyro Reignited Trilogy at 84.
How it was received
Spyro: Shadow Legacy holds a critic score of 45 out of 100. That places it above 5% of the 2,372 rated platform games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 22 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Spyro: Shadow Legacy launched on 18 October 2005, within three weeks of Shadow of the Colossus, Call of Duty 2, Sid Meier's Civilization IV and Star Wars: Battlefront II (2005). All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Shadow of the Colossus, Call of Duty 2, Sid Meier's Civilization IV, Star Wars: Battlefront II (2005).
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