Can you beat Spyro with only PINK gems? - TAS Reaction

[@lyokhamishukov3513]

10:48 I loved when he flamed Rotise to prevent sparx from grabbing the red gems on the stairs!

[@Peteguy100]

Definitely struggled with Tree Tops as a kid. Getting to that island where the green thief goes was the only thing in the whole game me and my brothers couldn't figure out ourselves, instead we had to enlist the help of our cousin. I can't believe how much simpler the speedrun strat of "pressing X late" is compared to the intended route.

[@Cpchurch87]

Dude, the level plagued me at a 10 year old. Even when I got the reignited, it was a pain. Seeing how easy he makes it is just unfair 😂

[@Free10dragons]

This tas is the definition of purple fuck

[@Darknorwood]

1 = Red 2 = Green 5 = Blue 10 = Gold 25 = Twenty-Fives 😂

[@DumasP]

It's nice to see a reaction video again!! Its amazing what people can do with TAS! Also 10:46 I struggled with treetops for the first time AS AN ADULT lol, I really love the level design its so imaginative and well done but it was hard to figure out.

[@Amberlynn_Reid]

Why you playing a 20 year old child's game as an adult?

[@RabbitEarsCh]

I've always called them purple and holy shit this schmovement is something else, big ups to Pete for a great TAS

[@rmzing]

This TAS just reinforced how few purple gems there are in the game. There are just 24 before Gnasty's Worlds, and 8 of them are at the end of Jacques. Then after that, the two in Gnorc Gnexus, five from Gnasty himself (plus one in his world), and a whopping SIXTY in Loot, almost double the amount in the rest of the game combined.

[@chillsgaming1900]

The tree tops and haunted towers were the last levels I 100% as a kid

[@Zoki4444]

Magenta gems. Fight me.

[@whoareyou1464]

it's one of those weird optical illusion colors wear It's perfectly in between 2 different colors like depending on the person some people see pink, and some people will see purple, And to be honest, I can see where both of those people are coming from. Because sometimes it looks like pink to me, and sometimes it looks like purple. so I say it's "purink," lol!

[@cinnasauria]

The colour of the background behind an object can SUPER influence the way you see it too, it's a fun colour theory thing. Like in Cliff Town, Spyro looks a little bluer than usual to me because his cooler purple contrasts with the warm sunset in the background, and the gem looks pinker 'cuz it's a warm tone already.

[@knucklehead5322]

Down to see more “strictly offline” uploads from you, speedrun related or otherwise. Keep doing you man!

[@themeekwarrior]

I've always referred to them as magenta, though if I were being anal about it because I'm an artist, they could be considered fuchsia because they're more of a purple-y pink. Watching these always breaks everything I thought I knew about Spyro. I thought I was doing so well. 😂

[@DojaRogueWolf]

I always say purple gems on this one

[@elennemusic]

love it. favorite parts: 4:39 mountain goat aka. kangooroo proxy 5:48 why keep sparx? 6:15 how dude... 7:46 Dayo droppin actual gems 9:47 blue fuck 11:00 say hi to Laura 11:46 early loot via box sideroll feat. rat

[@bumpinLiLPeep]

Great video Dayo! I like when he picked up several purple gems all at once. That was fun! :D

[@PavltheRobot]

Some people say that TAS speedruns are stupid, because "why would you want a computer to play a game for you? that's boring". But more often than not TAS creators are able to find stuff that was previously thought to be impossible. I think it's quite impressive and interesting, it's like a branch of game science.

[@XperimentorEES]

TASes & speedruns are interesting cases for studying game design since they showcase unexpected exploits and unintentional interactions. Thanks for backing up to explain those split-second tricks!

[@iamstoopid1395]

2:30, i normally acctually refer to gems as there designated ammount given, and sometimes there color. (when i first played spyro i refered to magenta gems as 25 gems lmao)

[@Nathan55411]

Calling them purple gems feels weird when there are gems in Spyro 2 and 3 that better fit that description. I just say pink or magenta

[@xoxogrim]

Correct 👍🏻

[@Aladite]

I call em magenta or pink, and thank goodness, I love tree tops and the beast maker worlds

[@bexfletch1]

Another sick TAS Pete! Legend ❤

[@Nigel1993]

Your reaction vids to Spyro TAS is some of my favorite content out there!

[@AleksanderFimreite]

If you compare the color choices of gems to a color wheel. They seem quite deliberately to be full RGB variants. Where you would get Red, Green, Blue from using full color on 1 channel. And Yellow, Magenta, Cyan from combining full color on 2 channels. That would make sense as they tend to be quite a nice contrast to anything else one might texture in a game. And could require less memory size on the disc, depending of the implementation. Thus magenta seems like the most likely correct answer to me. Lighting in games does drastically affect the perceived color though, so it can be tricky to tell the exact true shade of a object. I think magenta is more of a professional word. And purple is more of a generalized name which overlaps the same color area. You could argue Spyro himself is also subject to the same logic also depending on where you sample the color from. On the darker area he is clearly purple. On the brighter more lit areas he is closer to magenta. But they refer to him as a "purple dragon" by lore. And by association, I have also always reffered to the gems as purple.

[@rockstopsthetraffic]

😎☕ They're purple because spyro is purple lol. But also, convoluted answer, they're unambiguously purple in Spyro 2, which (while I got it at the same time as 1 in 1999) I played more thoroughly and saw such gems in first.

[@ImaginaryHuman072889]

Love seeing early loot in this TAS. I always called them pink gems as a kid.

[@DavidJCobb]

id call that gem color just "purple," or maybe red-violet if you wanna get technical. there is ever so slightly more red than blue in that hue, though that may depend on lighting hm. gem at around 8:28 has additive magenta -- even red and blue -- as one of its brighter shades

[@crashtefano]

Purple.

[@MintBlitz]

I’m gonna need you to make the cam 90% of the screen, that’s what we’re all here to see

[@Dayoman]

Nips and all

[@RecycleBin0]

they are called purple gems according to the PAL game booklet, the booklet in NTSC versions doesnt mention much about the gem values. I used to think there was silver gems but then I realized I was confusing spyro with crash bandicoot 3

[@shiruotakuno28]

Nice vid man, I've missed seeing these TAS reactions and all the proxy shenanigans they entail. I'm calling the 25 gem pink mainly because the Reignited Trilogy solidified them as such.

[@xMaugrex]

I call them what they are, and those bad boys are purple.

[@Xylexis95]

I always call em purple and yeah, tree tops is F tier, was the bane of my childhood

[@DivineBanana]

Man this TAS guy is the best speed runner Kappa

[@wesshiflet2214]

i call em pink, but they’s magenta

[@bigdude4100]

I think I struggled with a few of the jumps as a kid for sure but what a legendary level that was!

[@jonathankamysek7998]

whoa and only with the magenta purple like colored gems!

[@ItsLudar]

Pink Gems 💖:3

[@TheMoonRover]

I've always called them pink gems. The 5-gems in Spyro 2/3/EtD are purple.

[@Sl1kz]

Spyro is purple. Does spyro look like this weird lookin gem ? Hä? Häää? I thought so 😂 jk but for me its pink 😆

[@SuperRegmac]

purple. Great TAS run

[@Eonflare55]

I've always called them Amethyst gems.

[@captainjaller8604]

yea i struggled in treetops as a kid. i remember making a drawing as a kid where i drew the thief in the instruction booklet and recolored it green because i could never catch that bastard the red thief i could sneak up on before his run animation started. But the green treetops thief was a real cocksucker.

[@DatShepTho]

Why is this video linked to Enter the Dragonfly though

[@MattJDave]

I call the 25 gems 'Violet'.

[@2consciences]

100% pink

[@KakeiTheWoIf]

I love how you said that people only found out a year or so ago that you can enter the Gnasty Loot head early, when I told the community YEARS AGO that it could be done by clipping from underneath...

[@Dayoman]

wish you had a video

[@KakeiTheWoIf]

@@Dayoman, same. I tried capturing video a while back, but my computer had such an abysmal framerate when capturing that it made the Icy Cavern community best vid look smooth as butter.

[@KakeiTheWoIf]

@@Dayoman, I tried recording back when I was trying to show how you get onto the Loot head in order to get into Gnasty Gnorc, but I swear, it was like it only showed a frame every few seconds.

[@calum_cavanagh]

5 gem = blue 25 gem = purple

[@FalconFetus8]

I call them magenta gems because: 1. They're not pink. Pink is just light red. 2. If I called them "purple", people might think I'm referring to the gems that are worth 5 in the other two games

[@Devlinator61116]

I thought the 5s were blue?

[@Kranjcan27]

​@@Devlinator61116only in spyro 1

[@Kranjcan27]

True! Purple are the 5. In spryro 2 and 3

[@geordangullock9223]

To me the 5 gems always looked like dark purple and the 25's pink!

[@DizMehh]

great vid da yo man 🔥

[@MrHangman56]

Im surprised that theres no magenta gems in gnorc cove or harbor

[@Rilesjean]

these are very much purple gems to me. ive seen people call these pink and the 5s purple and that boggles my mind editing to add: treetops has always been my top favorite level across the trilogy. i also def never see it be labeled as a mid tier level, everyone always puts it best or worst 5 (across the trilogy, in just spruno it's either best or worst overall lol)

[@Thunderfro]

Insane

[@user199x]

I think i say purple, though if there were more colours im sure i'd start to specify it as magenta

[@landonrush340]

This is a cool run. And they're purple. But magenta% sounds more badass.

[@foreeverantipop8002]

they're pink....

[@ariasolarena]

THEY'RE PURPLE

[@Dbutter5000]

So much butter

[@thunderbird19932]

Purple ones are from Crash Bandicoot. Here are pink gems.

[@uhNONuhmuhs]

Eggplant gems

[@bexfletch1]

Pink gem crew rise up! 🎀💖🌸

[@melofor9341]

Wasn't the red gem only TAS made by ToastedKat?

[@LumenPsycho]

Spyro is Violet. Gem is Magenta.

[@DivineBanana]

Spyro 1 theyre pink, Spyro 2 onward, purple, thats how i see it.

[@crispy_asch7110]

Great content, disappointed about the amount of shirt wearing

[@astrobozo3078]

spyro is purple and the gems are lighter than spyro so I have always said pink!

[@XTLmaker]

I call them pink gems, any other names (except purple) seems very unnatural

[@gilgameshashur4554]

Is sparx being alive a requirement? Lol

[@ThreeFontStreet]

Purple or indigo. Anything else is blasphemous.

[@rikus33]

fioletowe

[@frozymas]

this is a very strange =/

[@BBQSauz1]

purple

[@MrSinjoy]

What the hell is magenta? They're purple.

[@rockstopsthetraffic]

Magenta is a primary print (subtractive, CMYK) colour. Purple is a secondary light (additive, RGB) colour, the combination of red and blue. ;^)

[@MrSinjoy]

@@rockstopsthetraffic Sorry, I only recognise 12 true men's colours (unless I'm forgetting something). Everything else are just shades with fancy names given to them by women.

[@rockstopsthetraffic]

@@MrSinjoy buddy I run a woodshop full of dangerous tools, but have no shame in being professionally trained in design. You're literally in the same boat as me enjoying a dude play children's games as an adult, sit back down "man".

[@MrSinjoy]

@@rockstopsthetraffic Okay, calm down, lady.

[@rockstopsthetraffic]

@@MrSinjoy that's the best you could come up with in that much time? Pathetic lol

[@eleronpfoutz7823]

It's PURPLE, not Pink or any other color.

[@mrandmrsliamrussell]

thirst

[@Everysingletimeowitz]

Can you make a video of you making your breakfast sandwich?

[@Snowfats]

purple