Mr. John wrote:

I don't mind new or old controls ether way should be exciting, might be other things besides, the standard, flame, charge, and hover we'll see. I'm fine regardless.

I'm curious. Would you (or anyone else) be down for adding in other breath abilities like in later games? (maybe as like a cheat code, or completion bonus, unlockable, etc.)

For me personally, so long as they don't add it as a crucial part of the original gameplay and it remains solely as an added bonus, I wouldn't mind. I'd actually find it kinda fun. Alternate breath abilities was always an idea I wish was implemented in the original trilogy, cause it's such an interesting and unique concept that allows Spyro to interact with the environment in various ways that you can't do with just a simple flame breath. I think the original team at Insomniac would've implemented it quite well in the originals if they had thought of it. I mean look at the variation they gave to Rathet and Clank's gun arsenal. If they had done that level of variation with Spyro's original breath ability, then perhaps they wouldn't have even dropped Spyro as one of their IPs.

That may be an unpopular opinion of mine though. I still love the originals with or without alternate breath abilities, just thought it'd be a nice added flavor to it all.

i would LOVE if they enabled the other breaths in other places. like you said, as a cheat or bonus or something. because with CheatEngine, i can even force-load certain abilities into other levels, but unless that ability is used in that level, it either won't work, or it'll crash the game. like if i isolate the value for that green breath Spyro gets in Ripto's Arena, i can make Spyro "have" that ability in, say, the Winter Tundra homeworld, but nothing will happen when Spyro does the breathing animation. sometimes the game just crashes.

I don't mind new or old controls ether way should be exciting, might be other things besides, the standard, flame, charge, and hover we'll see. I'm fine regardless.

I'm curious. Would you (or anyone else) be down for adding in other breath abilities like in later games? (maybe as like a cheat code, or completion bonus, unlockable, etc.)

For me personally, so long as they don't add it as a crucial part of the original gameplay and it remains solely as an added bonus, I wouldn't mind. I'd actually find it kinda fun. Alternate breath abilities was always an idea I wish was implemented in the original trilogy, cause it's such an interesting and unique concept that allows Spyro to interact with the environment in various ways that you can't do with just a simple flame breath. I think the original team at Insomniac would've implemented it quite well in the originals if they had thought of it. I mean look at the variation they gave to Rathet and Clank's gun arsenal. If they had done that level of variation with Spyro's original breath ability, then perhaps they wouldn't have even dropped Spyro as one of their IPs.

That may be an unpopular opinion of mine though. I still love the originals with or without alternate breath abilities, just thought it'd be a nice added flavor to it all.

I did always notice this when playing through the trilogy and transitioning to the Spyro 2 controls.  Small things like this really impact your ability to control Spyro, so it goes without question that these controls would be similar throughout the trilogy coming this year.  And if they don't make them the same, then they are way more faithful to the originals than we thought, lol.

Also, am I the only one who occasionally mashed the x button thinking it would make me faster?

i could never tell for sure if it actually made me faster or not, so i just did it.

I also just remembered that the flip and inverted flip in Spyro 1 wasn't duplicated either.  Or maybe I just never knew that Spyro 2 and 3 had those abilities too.

What changes (if any) would you support for Spyro's controls in the new trilogy?

I personally wouldn't mind the hover ability being implemented in the first game, and the roll ability being implemented in the other two games. But some might not like that.

i'd be okay with this, especially if - as riverhippo suggested - they were unlockable, or something.

i wouldn't want any of the other controls to change.

I think people underestimate the roll move. Yeah it was under-utilized in the first game and then never used again.  But there were moments in Spyro 2 and 3 in which it might be more useful.  If they decided to add it to the sequels, it might require some special button mapping, though.

I agree. I actually used it quite frequently in Spyro 1, even though in most cases it wasn't necessary.

I think it's primarily viewed as useless simply because there were so few enemies or world-based scenarios where it was the preferred option. The only real place I can think of it being incredibly useful are against the dogs in Toasty. They could've designed various enemies or maybe even some sort of platforming segments where rolling was incentivized, if not outright necessary. So really the roll ability's uselessness is more to do with the environment of Spyro worlds as opposed to the ability itself.

I think people underestimate the roll move. Yeah it was under-utilized in the first game and then never used again.  But there were moments in Spyro 2 and 3 in which it might be more useful.  If they decided to add it to the sequels, it might require some special button mapping, though.

Another minor example of this is Sparx's gem compass ability.  Don't make it available in Ripto's Rage, as it doesn't make sense that you can do that all Spyro 2, but then have to unlock it in Midday Gardens in Spyro 3.

Headbash shouldn't be available until you buy it in Winter Tundra.

There's a way to synchronize the controls between the three games, without butchering the intended maneuverability of the player.  Spyro should be the most under-powered at the beginning of Spyro 1.

It would be cool if the double jump glitch from Spyro 2 stayed though but that's super unlikely

Agreed. I want to break the game like you could in the original except in HD. It wouldn't be the same otherwise

It would be cool if the double jump glitch from Spyro 2 stayed though but that's super unlikely

I personally wouldn't mind the hover ability being implemented in the first game, and the roll ability being implemented in the other two games. But some might not like that.