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Can You Beat Spyro Enter The Dragonfly Without Gliding?

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So, I chose to do this challenge because I thought it would be a nice easy one after the massive edit that was Final Fantasy 8. How wrong I was. This was quite possibly the most difficult Spyro challenge yet, and not necessarily due to a lack of skill (although I do lack that sometimes). This particular challenge required carefully planning out our routes ahead of time, otherwise we risk softlocks.

A big thank you to these two Spyro Speed Runners, without them, I would have fallen to many of the aforementioned softlocks:
Groink ➤ Twitch: groink_xyghost
Snugggles ➤ Twitch: snuggglypikachu

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20 Comments

@NGPlusVideos Creator 3 years ago Pinned

Thank you all! Why not join our Discord and share some ideas with us for future challenge runs: https://discord.gg/ptqmgum
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@roobmsoobs9678 9 months ago

i love that every other spyro games glitches are a little complicated and hard but this games one is just "run in a circle like twice and youll teleport to the end of the game"

@williamfalls 3 years ago

"This isn't flying. This is swimming in the air. With style!"
-Buzz Lightyear playing Spyro

@ampgamer7941 3 years ago

Definitely love the inclusion of both any% and max% in this. Had me wondering why the video was so long when it ended in 3 minutes

@itsongaming 3 years ago

I love how the game is SO broken that he had to make the challenge harder for the video, literally could’ve ended in the first 2 minutes

@TheUltraSinx 3 years ago

I'm actually glad to see you using savestates, I think it's really dumb when someone is trying to perform a very precise glitch and people complain when they use them

@AriochStarr 3 years ago

Snuggles did such an excellent job on that breath challenge in the Thieves level; that would have driven me insane after only a few failed attempts, so gg's on that my dude.

@paddlesawtactic9788 3 years ago

OBJECTION!
"We're treating this challenge as if Spyro's wings have been clipped."
Then how do you explain the use of the Wing Shield ability in Thieves' Den? Checkmate, PHONY!
Nah but for real, great video. Probably the most in depth I will ever know this broken mess of a game. If only Universal didn't push the developers to have it out by Christmas, who knows, this game could have been great.

@Patashu 3 years ago

The timed challenge where you die to reach the last two bonfires is amazing. It's like they made the time ridiculously generous on purpose knowing someone would come up with that!

@violetpilot 3 years ago

Let's gooo! This was the only Spyro game I ever played and thought it was pretty fun. 15 years later I saw the internet didn't.

@RolandTHX 3 years ago

42:20 I was paying such close attention to what you were saying that when I only half-saw that message box at the bottom, I thought it said 'You caught Autism!' for a second and I was like 'yeah, fair enough'.

@Antifrost 3 years ago

This was the first and only Spyro game I played as a kid. The weird thing is I remembered loving it. That's not to say that I didn't run into bugs or glitches, I certainly remember a lot of those, but that didn't necessarily reduce the experience for me. It's always kinda funny to hear how much everyone else seems to have disliked the game in comparison, which I can't fault anyone for. The fact that this run could have ended in mere moments is pretty funny, but it was worth not allowing that clip to see the strategies for Thieves' Den.

@MattTheMan2708 3 years ago

This game is so incredibly broken and a shell of the original trilogy. Despite this though, it was my first Spyro game and I played it as I was growing up. I have fond memories of being 8 years old and talking to my friend at school about this game and being excited to come home and play it together. I remember spending ages taking turns to try and beat that tank mission in the honey level, which was the last dragonfly we got before 100%. Even though this game is objectively a bad game, it still holds a great amount of nostalgia for me and I'll always appreciate it for that.

@Edlandish 3 years ago

Ever since watching Mr FO1's Enter the Dragonfly documentary I have a new found respect for this game. It wasn't that the developers were bad, it was just that the game went through development hell in an era where you couldn't patch games easily. I have 100%'d this game fairly recently and some levels are actually quite good. It's just sad knowing what it could have been.

Great run of the game anyway, it's just a shame Monkey Monastery had to go and ruin it. Also learnt a thing or two, didn't know there were too many gems in the Jurassic level and didn't know Ripto had multiple forms based on completion.

@whodaheckisit 3 years ago

Holy shit, you tore this game APART, well done!! The thieve's den place just had me shaking my head in disbelief

@mirko241 3 years ago

35:50 Spyro 3 had sliding sections if I recall correctly, so the idea is not even original to EtD, except being behind a portal so it classifies as a minigame

@HorizonEdge 3 years ago

This really was the sonic 06 of spyro games. As a preteen/teen I couldn't remember why this was my least played spyro game, so I booted it up and immediately noticed the terrible frame drops, broken controls, and the crashing. That cloud level was the worst culprit with the framerate rarely going above single digits.

Great video though! I'm not really a big fan of glitches but seeing the creativity used when combining multiple glitches to work in tandem is so much fun.

@AuraOfANobody 3 months ago

It says something that I was intentionally exploiting glitches I found entirely on my own in this game at the grand old age of six back in the day. Enter the Dragonfly was truly one of the games of all time

@Snugggles 3 years ago

I'm so excited that the video is out! Pushing games past what they are supposed to be able to do is one of my favourite things to do, and helping you with this was a lot of fun, can't wait to watch it! Always feel free to get in touch for any games that you are having any issues with for these challenges, it's always a great time <3