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I LOVE YOU!!!! I thought you had to get the tailesman to be able to get through! Thank you so much!!!!

you're welcome! for the record, the speedway levels in Spyro 2 don't have talismans. you get 400 gems for the normal challenge, and an orb for the other / hidden challenge.

Ya' know, despite the fact that we saw him fall into a pit of lava...
... Then again, we also saw the Sorceress had survived her first round as well.

AND HUNTER

and i could have SWORN i once saw a Sunny Beach starfish with a frowny face once, when i flamed it. either, i haven't been able to replicate it since, or they do frown when you flame them, and i just haven't been able to get the right angle. i wonder, though, if it was in the process of doing this animation.

i wonder if some of the enemy laughing animations might happen when they kill you? like the (cow? pig?) with the laser in Metropolis. i've never died from one of those enemies. unlikely, but just throwing ideas out there. if i am wrong and those animations are unused in the game, i would assume it's because enemies laughing at you is annoying and there were enough enemies that did that in the Spyro series

it would have been cool to have some of these in-game though. like yeah it would have been a bit distracting to, for example, have the penguins in Winter Tundra randomly squawking, but that also could have been cool. more immersive, i guess, like the frogs croaking in Summer Forest.

Hunter's meowing is... lol!

i don't know what i would have done if the hippo in Shady Oasis would have started yelling like that O.o that probably would have freaked me out a bit.

My idea for a 4th homeworld is Spring Savanna. The level would be very open with some trees and include Hunters house since cheetas are from the savannas (based on African Savannas). The levels in this homeworld would not be based on its similarity to the enviroment but based on exotic travel destinations. The levels would be Pyramid Scheme (based on Giza Pyramids), Mountain Madness (based on Mt. Everest), Tropical Trouble (based on a Pacific island), Easter's Here! (based on Easter Island), Grease (based on Greece), Bi-Polar (based on north and south pole. Also would let you travel to both.) and Rainforest Speedway (based on South American rainforests).

I quite like this but I believe Spring Meadow would have also been a nice setting.

My console and Spyro copies are about as old as yours but I've also only ever saved two games of Ripto's Rage and have never experienced this issue.

However, another thing to note that I didn't quite understand was why there are 14 talismans in Avalar, both between Summer Forest and Autumn Plains.  But there are no talismans in Winter Tundra.  Why is that?  Are the Winter Tundra communities against the concept of power-giving magical items that represent other realms?  Maybe they had a realm decree to only use orbs as a way of magic and scientific currency so that it could be easily transferable to other beings from other worlds.  Orbs are in the other homeworlds too, but not in as much concentration.  Another theory could be that Winter Tundra was recently annexed under the Avalarian flag, and did not have the history, culture and talismans that the other two do.  I wonder what kind of government Avalar rules under?  Was Moneybags a ruler, or just the steward of the palaces?  Perhaps Avalar is a plutocracy, in which the laws and regulations are dictated by the wealthy.

I remember vaguely thinking about these things the first time I played the game, and I am thinking more on it now because of this discussion.

This page does a good job of looking inside the game and finding a few hidden stuff.  Nothing about a cutscene though.  I wonder if this is an example of the Mandela effect.  The Mandela effect is a phenomenon where a large amount of people share false memories thus creating a strange sense of something being changed from how everyone thought about it.  Examples of this are the Monopoly man's monocle, the spelling of Berenstain Bears, Froot Loops, Frebreze, Looney Tunes, and Oscar Mayer, and Pikachu's tail not having black tips.

The Mandela effect can make you question the reality of your life.  Because Curious George never had a tail and Jiffy is not the name of a peanut butter brand.

I don't think its necessarily that they didn't think of it for Spyro 2.  I think they just didn't plan for more than 3 homeworlds for the game.  Remember, Spyro: Year of the Dragon's first homeworld is Sunrise Spring, so they might have just continued from where they left off in thinking of the seasons.

i just had a weird thought. what if "Sunrise Spring" used to be part of Avalar?

i mean, if they didn't even PLAN for a 4th homeworld, the implication is that canonically, there's no "spring" world in Avalar, just the three homeworlds. which is weird, considering these characters speak the same language(s) we do - so you'd think they would account for having four seasons and only three homeworlds and ... maybe name them something else?

and since there's no real geographical "link" between the Forgotten Realms (or whatever they're called) it would make sense for Sunrise Spring to be detached from the rest of them. maybe it could be an extreme case of continental drift or something.

i know i'm overthinking this, i'm tired and i had a long day i just like thinking about the details that game canon doesn't really delve into.

It's got to be something with your controller. If you haven't tried already, try unplugging it, making sure the control stick is straight, and plug it back in. Or it could be a stuck button like 36 suggested, or just broken like Geko said.