It's been so long since I've played this game.... She was one of the dragons, right? I don't remember this plot point, but the name sounds familiar.

yep. if you remember Dragon Shores at all, she and her husband live in those... circus tent looking things in the top-right part of the screen.

you later go out on those small islands to the right, to give her an invitation to a party one of the other dragons is having.

The only thing I really disliked about it was how unpolished it was. There were a lot of parts that were probably not tested very thoroughly, like challenges that could be completed for a reward multiple times, or depth looking different than what it actually was.

i am realizing this more and more since i got this for Christmas. my biggest problem is easily the platforming. things look like ledges that aren't ledges; things look like you should be able to jump/glide onto them but you can't; i swear i've just fallen through ledges a few times; it's bizarre. this is especially bad in that area with the wizards. there's an area. you go onto one of those purple... basically whirlwinds. and then you're supposed to jump/glide onto a platform directly to the left. i still can't get onto that far-left platform*. i managed to get onto it a few times by accident, but i have no idea what i did differently. it's like there's an invisible wall, but there isn't. there's also a little "platform" right above it, but apparently it's not actually a platform, because i just fall through it.

i also got stuck between a palm tree and a bush in the Shadow Realm in Dragon Shores. thankfully i still had some MP, i had to teleport to get unstuck.

don't get me wrong, i'm REALLY enjoying the game overall so far, but it really is unpolished.

*political commentary not intended

So let's see... I liked:
- The continuity from the old games
- The characters
- The story
- The fact that it's an RPG and not a button-mash-o-thon
- The fact that I bought a DS and joined my first Spyro forum 8 years ago just to play it

Didn't like:
- The weird cover art
- The glitchiness
- Spyro's voice (nuh-uh! uh-huh!)

It made a good bound from the other handheld Spyro games.  But it lacked overall depth.  The game seems a lot deeper than it looks and when you think the game is just getting started, you're almost over.  And that's while getting all of the eggs and secrets and such.

[sub]How do you know when you have all of them? I think I have them all, but this one fairy keeps giving me eggs whenever I talk to her, so I have over 40 now. O___o[/sub]

That must be a glitch, I thought there was only thirty! XD I got that many and and I've got the spell - it's sooo awesome.