Spyro Reignited Trilogy

Spyro Reignited Trilogy is a remake of the first three games in the Spyro series, in a similar vein to the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy released a year prior.

Unlike the aforementioned N. Sane Trilogy which was a PlayStation exclusive until 2018, this was a multi-platform release at launch for both the PS4 and Xbox One. Ports for the Nintendo Switch and PC would follow a year later.

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Prerelease Info

Unused Model#

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An early model for Sparx, which appears to be more in line with its classic design... except higher on the uncanny scale. This model has three animations: "Chomp_Topdown" (for when he eats a butterfly), "Idle_Topdown" (for when he is idle), and "Run_Topdown" (for when he dashes). These animations, along with the mention of "topdown", indicate that this model was once a placeholder for the one used in the Sparx-only levels found in the third game.

Unused Graphics#

In the games' directory labelled Falcon/Plugins/UserInterface/Textures are a few graphics which didn't quite made the cut:

A render of Sparx as he appears in Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly, internally labelled as UI_Sparx_001. Its intended use is unknown.

Found among the difficulty graphics is this artwork of a sheep internally labeled UI_Difficulty_001. While the final game doesn't have difficulty settings, it's likely this was intended for an "Easy" difficulty setting.

Artwork of Spyro found among the difficulty graphics, labelled as UI_Difficulty_Hard.

Artwork of Gnasty Gnorc found among the difficulty graphics, labelled UI_Difficulty_Nightmare.

Unused	Used

Found in the games' Falcon/Content/Cursors directory is this unused cursor graphic which looks more like a standard mouse cursor, while the final one is an animated, shining prism with Sparx next to it. Both the used and unused version are labelled "DefaultPointer", with the unused one having the .cur extension and the used one the .ani extension.

Unused Audio#

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Found in the game's data are various lines of dialogue that go unused, be they new lines created for this remake or simply leftovers from the original games.

Menus#

Spyro the Dragon#

Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage!#

Spyro: Year of the Dragon#

Unused Videos#

In the games' movie directory (Falcon\Content\Movies) are some placeholder videos in .mp4 format, which go unused:

cinematicplaceholder#

An image of an annoyed Spyro with the words "Cinematic Placeholder" zooming onto the image as a tone plays consecutively. Has a duplicate that is also seen in the files for the PS4 release, labeled c_spyro03_intro_combined - each part of Spyro 3's intro cinematic are their own separate cutscenes in the final game.

cinetestsequence#

A minute-long test video, a tone repeating every second.

Internal Project Name#

Various files, as well as the folder holding the game's assets, refer to the game as "Falcon".

Version Differences#

• The PS4, Xbox One and PC versions all use the 4.19 version of Unreal Engine 4. The Switch version instead uses 4.21.
• Initial pressings of the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions only included the first game on the disc, and require a day one patch to install the other two. Later pressings from 2019 onwards include all three games on the disc.
• The Switch version requires a 8.7GB download in order for the game to be fully playable.
• Each version of the game renders at a different resolution:
  • PC: Fixed, dependent on the option chosen in the game's settings
  • PS4: Dynamic, targeting 1080p
  • Xbox One: Dynamic, targeting 900p
  • PS4 Pro, Xbox One X: Dynamic, targeting 1440p
  • Switch: Dynamic, targeting 720p docked and 648p handheld
• The console versions are locked to 30fps, whereas the PC version has options for 60fps, 120fps and unlocked. Frame rates higher than 30 can cause game logic and animation issues in some situations.
• The Switch version has lower-poly meshes, and pared back texture quality/post-processing in order to keep performance stable. Handheld mode lowers the settings further and disables motion blur entirely. This is most noticeable with the grass throughout each game.
  • All terrain shadows in this version are represented as baked shadow maps, rather than the dynamic ones in the other versions. Characters and dynamic objects still receive terrain shadows like they would in the other versions. This results in an oversight where Lofty Castle's terrain is completely missing any shadows being cast.
• The console versions use a "introloadingbar" video file (as well as its variants introloadingbar_gamma, introloadingbar_gamma_1.9, and introloadingbar_gamma_2.2 if the game's gamma is adjusted) to mask the initial startup loading times. This goes unused in the PC version due to it loading faster.

• The button prompt model that appears over a NPC's head differs depending on the version. The Xbox One and PC versions use the "Y" button, PS4 uses the "Triangle" button, and Switch uses the "X" button.
• The Switch version has a menu for selecting the language. The PS4 and Xbox One versions base the language on the system settings.

Revisional Differences#

1.03 (PS4), 1.02 (XB1)#

Released on March 12, 2019, with the following changes:

• Subtitles have been added for all three games.
• An option to toggle motion blur on or off has been added.
• Various bug fixes, including correcting progression-blocking bugs in some stages.

Oddities#

• The graphics for Sparx's health bar used in the third game's Sparx levels are all internally labelled as UI_Difficulty_002, with the later two having "Blue" and "Green" after the "002". Seeing how they are found after the unused sheep graphic (see #Unused Graphics) then they may have been intended for a "Normal" difficulty setting (or at the very least only the golden/standard version of Sparx).
• While most other dialogue oddities from the original second game were fixed, Widgie the Icebuilder's namedrop of "Colossus Valley" still remains.
• In the original Spyro: Year of the Dragon, Sparx referred to Honey Speedway as "Honeycomb Speedway". This was not corrected in Reignited.
• In the original version of Spyro: Year of the Dragon, Fireworks Factory contains an unused cave near the start of the level that contains a 1-up butterfly jar. The cave is no longer part of the level geometry in the remake, but the jar was inexplicably not removed and is left floating in the void.