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Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly (GameCube)

Gnasty Gnorc and Ripto are back with a plan to steal the Dragonflies of the Dragon Realm. With help from new and old friends, Spyro must avoid obstacles, jump on platforms, ride vehicles, collect gems, and find a way to return the Dragonflies and restore order to the Dragon Realm. With new powers like electric and bubble breath; new characters; vehicles like tanks, UFO?s, rockets and surfboards; and over 30 levels of unique environments including rainbows, tornadoes, monsoons and snowflakes.

Universal Interactive
Action, Platform
Players: 1
E (Everyone)
Developer: Check Six Games
Released November 19, 2002

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

48 / 100

Critic Reviews

75 GameZone
To be perfectly honest I like it more than the PSone Spyro games.
66 Nintendo Power
Although the game's pace may be slow at times, its elements add up to a satisfying experience. [Dec 2002, p.218]
60 IGN
The framerate is absolutely terrible. What was Universal thinking letting this one out the door?
57 GamingTrend
There is no way of putting it nicely – this game sucks. Avoid this game at all costs. Even if you loved the previous Spyro titles, do not buy this game. Show Universal that we don’t buy crap.
54 TotalGames.net
While we rarely get hung-up about graphic quality, its obvious that the developer has put very little effort into this department – bare textures and dull colours do not excite.
50 GamePro
With all of these faltering features, Spyro’s newest adventure feels more like it was meant to be played on the PlayStation rather than on the GameCube.
48 Game Informer
The challenges are so easy they're laughable. The graphics haven't improved. The framerate chugs. [Jan 2003, p.101]
47 Nintendojo
Everything from the graphics, sound and the frame rate should have been a whole lot better, not to mention the confusing and burdensome control scheme.
45 GamerWeb Nintendo
Just a mess. The underlying play mechanics are OK, but the graphics are so bad they actually impact the gameplay significantly.
40 NintendoWorldReport
If you have Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly, trade it in for a PS1 Spyro game and hope for the best. But please, do not play this game all the way through. Innocent minds will be lost.
35 Nintendophiles
There was one point where I once went to a part of a level, and it was missing. The level wasn't there at all. I was floating in mid air. Eventually it re-appeared but this shouldn't happen.
32 GameSpot
A train wreck of a game that has no direction, no technical merit, and little appeal except as a game design house of horrors and a showcase for some good music by Stewart Copeland.
30 Play Magazine
Feels flat and recycled, a perfunctory exercise to suck in the remaining loyalists. [Dec 2002, p.86]

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