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Review Builds

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This is a sub-page of Prerelease:Spyro: Year of the Dragon.

Review Build Screenshots#

Sheila's Alp Portal#

SCEE review build
SCEE review build
SCEA review build
SCEA review build

The Sheila's Alp portal - as it appears in the "No Hard Feelings" cutscene - differs a bit between each of the known review builds:

  • The SCEE review build(the released September 4th build) - seen here in issue 12/00 of the German gaming magazine "Mega Fun" - depicts the portal as missing in its entirety, as if the level had not yet been opened.
  • The Prima build matches the SCEE review build in this regard, and may indeed be the same build entirely.
  • The SCEA review build(the released September 11th build) instead uses a black portal background with the spinning portal visual effect, just like what is used for the game's sublevels.

In the final game, the actual level portal would be used instead.

Zan Jayna#

Interestingly, despite the Prima guide referring to all of the eggs by their final names, the screenshot used for the final egg - Yin Yang - instead shows the egg to be named "Zan Jayna", presumably after the DC Wonder Twins, Zan and Jayna. This naming for the dragons can be seen in the September 11th build.