Spyro the Dragon Forums / All about Sparx?

Re: All about Sparx?

dummy@example.com (EricChristianOlsenFanatic) — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 19:20:42 +0000

Thanks abbey1053,
I appreciate the advice. I'm now at the Mountain Fortress and man was that elemental dragon tough!

-Justin Long Fanatic

Re: All about Sparx?

dummy@example.com (abbey1053) — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 13:20:42 +0000

Justin Long fanatic wrote:

Hey can someone help me on the Electric Cave level on Celestial Caves? I am at the pond where u have to shoot electric orbs at the buttons and i can never activate them quick enough to get to the part to face the Electric King?
-Justin Long Fanatic

Off topic.

You need to detonate it when it is near the orb otherwise it won't work. (To detonate press the breath button twice).

Re: All about Sparx?

dummy@example.com (EricChristianOlsenFanatic) — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 02:17:12 +0000

Hey can someone help me on the Electric Cave level on Celestial Caves? I am at the pond where u have to shoot electric orbs at the buttons and i can never activate them quick enough to get to the part to face the Electric King?

-Justin Long Fanatic

Re: All about Sparx?

dummy@example.com (zizzle1020) — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 01:31:10 +0000

i liked the spastic sarcastic sparx he was fun an david spade is funny but it gave a twist to the old sparx cause i thought sparx didnt really do anything till spyro 3 all he really represented was how many hits you had left till ya died ya know yes in my opinion sparx should be more involved like in 10 but should be more like a playabl charater like in 3 year of the dragons

Re: All about Sparx?

dummy@example.com (Scarabbug) — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 02:27:12 +0000

Indeed... though there are obviously some similarities, some of them just won't work, I guess...

Re: All about Sparx?

dummy@example.com (ratchet) — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 02:21:51 +0000

ALL OF THEM would probably be extremely different to their original selves

Re: All about Sparx?

dummy@example.com (Scarabbug) — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 02:10:45 +0000

Hunter IS coming back, we think... Elora might also work... charactes such as the professor or Zoe might be harder to reintergrate into the new universe, and would probably be extremely different to their original selves... I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

Re: All about Sparx?

dummy@example.com (TyVulpine) — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 02:08:05 +0000

ratchet wrote:

you are right about that. I think in the originals, Hunter was the one that did that sorta stuff, not to mention all those characters everywhere.

I wish they'd bring back Hunter, the Professor, Elora, and Moneybags...

Re: All about Sparx?

dummy@example.com (ratchet) — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 02:05:17 +0000

you are right about that. I think in the originals, Hunter was the one that did that sorta stuff, not to mention all those characters everywhere.

Re: All about Sparx?

dummy@example.com (Scarabbug) — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 02:02:00 +0000

It did give spyro someone to interact with, and that's very important when you're trying to tell a good story in visuals, I guess... it makes it easier to explain what's going on when the character can speak to someone.

he was funny ^^

Re: All about Sparx?

dummy@example.com (ratchet) — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 01:57:53 +0000

I have ajdusted to it too, but not as well as some people. Yeah, your right about sparx being not serious enough, or even too serious. Seing Sparx ws the comic relief of the series, he had to speak English to tell jokes)

Re: All about Sparx?

dummy@example.com (Scarabbug) — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 01:53:32 +0000

I liked the buzzing with subtitles too (though I guess it probably wouldn't... work, in the new series, 'cause it's so serious). A Hero's tail sparx was also pretty cute, and had some decent character going.

I'm not a fan of the David Spade voice Sparx, but the Billy West is pretty good. It just took a bit of adusting to, a sdit the entire Legend of... series...

Re: All about Sparx?

dummy@example.com (ratchet) — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 01:38:15 +0000

Scarabbug is right, except i do prefer the OLd Sparx, and when i first saw the new one i felt like punching the computer screen. Yes, i think Sparx should of gotton a bigger role than he did in the originals, and Euinox actually did that (one of the few reasons that Equnox are good). Even though i thought his voice in AHT suited him, I think that he shouldn't talk, the Buzzing with subtitles is fine by me.

Re: All about Sparx?

dummy@example.com (TyVulpine) — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 01:33:30 +0000

I prefer the old Sparx, the happy-go-lucky Sparx, not the new David Spade-sarcastic-type Sparx...

Re: All about Sparx?

dummy@example.com (Scarabbug) — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 01:29:56 +0000

I was kinda surprised by this post, actually.
Honestly? I prefer Sparx the way he is now. Purely on a personal level. I always felt ever so slightly uncomfortable about the fact that this dragonfly, who is written to be Spyroâ€™s â€œbest friendâ€ (and later on, seemingly very much bonded with him) was actually originally only there to take his punches for him. (That was my interpretation of it, anyway). Now in the new games Sparx hangs around because heâ€™s Spyroâ€™s brother and closest friend â€“ they stick together through thick and thin, and Sparx doesnâ€™t have to act as a health bar. And I prefer the idea of a sidekick to just a flying health monitor.
I guess back in the days of the first game, it was more important that they ensured the games had as few superfluous elements as possible â€“games were a lot harder to program and operated on lower memory and resolution, so you just couldnâ€™t put the kinds of fancy schmancy details into them that you could now.

Sparx was a necessary element of the game in those days because he acted as a health bar (sure they couldâ€™ve used a sidebar or something else cliche, but Sparx was a nice and rather original touch). They tried to make the gameâ€™s â€œhealth monitorâ€ as original as possible, but if they couldnâ€™t assign Sparx with that purpose, he probably wouldnâ€™t have been IN the first game in the first place. As Gemstone also said, it also means they can come up with more conveneitn ways of giving spyro a health limit. The new spyro takes a lot more hits than the old one (remember when there was an in game bonus to get sparx an exra hit point, and that felt really cool? hee! XD)

But now in the new series, they have better tech, and so can afford to add really nice details and generally make the game look so much better than the originals did, because they have more memory and technological advancements available to them.