There are some nice additions in it, I'll admit. The graphics are stunning and most of the character designs I liked. :3 The addition of free-flight was cool, though it was a bit quirky and had annoying limitations.

The characters themselves bored me after a while. Sparx made it funny sometimes, but most of the characters were so typical. I still really like Spyro, I just wish he had more independence and more of a fighter-attitude, instead of just letting Cynder wail out on him near the end. The whole time I was thinking "Don't just stand there, Spyro, hit her back! After all you went through, saving her countless times, get back at her!"

It was a sweet notion to not want to bring her harm, but the whole world's at stake! There's just some things you've got to do. xD

Hopefully the movie will bring my opinions of the current franchise back up.

Compare BeautifulCynder's avatar to her banner.

In her banner, Cynder is BLACK i.e. the color she is supposed to be.

Hallelujah!

Anyways...I didn't like free-flight. We should have had like a few levels of flying, like in ANB. It was too limited! They wasted all that time on something not much use except in one level because of the huge river that flowed through it, time that could have been spent on making the game better.

I hope the next game will be better.

The whole flight thing did make the game more visually appealing, but the limits they put on it made more opportunities for platforming. Although they were short and sometimes easy, they made a nice break from constant fighting.

Free flight also served as a faster means of traveling than walking. This let them create "larger" environments, although they didn't really feel that large.

I know, but think about how much faster we could traverse the Valley of Avalar while flying rather than walking.

(Banjo Kazooie is an example)

And for pete's sake, get rid of those stones! There's no point in giving players a cool new ability to only to randomly turn it off for the occasional platforming sequence (I wouldn't have to climb this vine if I could fly just a little higher!). In reality, free-flight should have resulted in major changes to the entire game design, but the devs wanted to have it all.

Heh, I wonder what ANB would have been like if Cynder was Ember? "A terrifying pink dragon that fills the skies with terror...' XD

The Guardians were a combination of the fairies and elders. Volteer was a combination of the elder in Cloudy Domain (in color scheme) and Amp, the fast-talking electric fairy. Cyril was a combination of the ice fairy after Red's defeat and Elder Tomas in Dragon Village in terms of color scheme. Terrador's personality isn't based on anyone, but his color scheme off that of the elder in the Citadel in Winter Tundra. And Ignitus is basically just Obi-Wan Kenobi, as Razz put it, due to his role as a mentor and becoming a guiding spirit at the end of DotD (ugh... yet another reason to hate that decision).

Those are just some things covered in the journal. For more similarities, check this link out: Razz's Journal Entry on LoS

Anyways the game itself was mostly meant to appeal to the diehard fans who wanted to see the whole Spyro/Cynder relationship and such and it was much too rushed and cliched.

Sad really since it had the chance to be so much more...but that's what you get when you push something through without taking much time to develop ideas.