Spyro 3 Prototype: Spike's Fight Was WORSE?

[@jojogape]

The Yeti probably told him about what happened in Colossus... but Spyro didn't do anything. The Yeti got smashed by a statue due to his own jumping. That was *his* mistake.

[@Corvolet5]

THAT WAS HIS MISTAKE

[@ronald7795]

I really like spike’s animation when he shoots the ground

[@tresheppard8942]

I've found another prototype in Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon. Another prototype in Spyro 3 was rude dialogue in the text, like someone said something rude to Spyro like.... Hunter said "Go jump in a lake" to Spyro,... Moneybags said "Piss off" to Spyro,... Bentley said "At some point, I'll have to program that. For now, you're screwed" to Spyro,... Moneybags said "Pay me fat duckets or the chick dies" to Spyro,... and worst dialogue of all, Hunter said "Here's some crap" to Spyro. I know. Shocking, right? I mean, those rude dialogues in the text box, they're NOT the kid friendly way. But now I realize that these rude dialogues from the prototype were cut from Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon, but I didn't even know it. But I'm glad these rude dialogues from the prototype were officially cut in Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon. Heck, my Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon on PlayStation 1 game doesn't have the prototype with rude dialogues, and I'm glad with it.

[@bobafett4265]

Yeah they were likely just a placeholder at the time of the build date and people have already started making memes of those infamous lines.

[@iambecomeprinny7305]

2:46 Imagine if cut content revealed they were originally going to wear Socker Boppers? love the 90's dood.

[@sparkus4229]

It’s incredible how such new things are discovered after more than 20 years. Amazing! 😍

[@BrennySpain]

So much cut content from the original Spyro trilogy. This is just crazy!!

[@dougtheghoul2845]

Weird that level intros were cut in the third game.

[@ZehOverseer]

When you started saying "Although this doesn't really make any sense" when talking about the yeti, I thought you were gonna bring up how the yeti in Colossus...ya know......died XD

[@MiharuTheFox]

Well apparently he didn't? Seems kinda hard to kill villains in the Spyro universe tbh.

[@bobafett4265]

Yep, I guess the Colossus Yeti must've got up and left the area after his Looney Tunes mishap...

[@Ori_Kohav]

Perhaps the yeti in Dragon Shores. You know, the one you dunk with a baseball.

[@bobafett4265]

@@Ori_Kohav that I'm not sure about, since they specifically mentioned Avalar, but that Yeti in Dragon Shores is possibly the same one from Colossus, likely found himself there after thinking I need a Vacation and ended finding himself in the dunk tank, possibly voluntarily...

[@franks8010]

In Dino Mines, there's actually a hidden area that you can only get to if you do the swimming in the air glitch. Is that arena in the prototype? Do we finally know what that arena was going to be used for?

[@MiharuTheFox]

As far as I'm aware the only Midnight Mountain level available in the prototype is Agent 9's Lab. From what we know that hidden area was going to be used as an arena for a miniboss fight.

[@bobafett4265]

Yeah we've known for a while that there was a mini boss cut from Dino Mines due to Insomniac Games lacking time to add said content and was gonna be similar to that Mini Boss seen in the Firefly Swamp or whatever the Swamp level in World 2 was called, which makes sense cause they could've reused some assets to save time like the Bombs and such...

[@franks8010]

@@MiharuTheFox Gotcha. I'm still curious on what that mini boss would have looked like.

[@booksmartthealicorn3219]

Cool! New cut content from past Spyro video games, this time on the 2000 Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon PS1 video game! Thanks, Miharu the Fox! :D 😇 My favorite cut content is the tigers ! ^-^

[@DestinationMarc]

Oh WOW, that unused Spike phase looks like some doo-doo LMAO xD Like...how are you supposed to dodge that; is the whole floor electrified, or is the electricity coming in waves that you have to jump over? In any case, the tigers are cool and I love how we caught that Spyro 2 reference when you were trying the prototype out! I'm gonna try to download them for myself and play through them when I have time; I'm eager to see EVERYTHING different that this one has to offer!

[@codymerrell976]

No doubts

[@roseheart270]

Great stuff! Thanks!

[@zenicehero9154]

I think we really need more difficult, though and challeging boss fights in Spyro 4 this would make the game bosses stand out from the previous games.

[@Ori_Kohav]

You know, that Colossus reference is funny, because Spyro didn't really beat the yeti. The yeti defeated himself. EDIT: I just remembered the yeti's appearance in Dragon Shores. When you dunk him with a baseball. Even then, though, it would sound silly, and make the yeti look like an idiot.

[@Nao-dq2yt]

I remember playing the first Spyro game on the GameCube as a elementary school kid, sadly it got scratched and wasn’t able to play it as I was stuck on a few parts of the game

[@tffan1029]

Hmm, some more interesting stuff, Miharu. And Spike originally having a third phase, and electrocuting the arena as an attack, with volcanos erupting to attack you? With his infamous difficulty reputation in the original version of YotD, it's hard to imagine how many controllers would have been broken because of this.

[@nintendokenakasuperyoshi1518]

If you ever play the prototype version of Spyro 3, good luck fighting Spike (you'll need it).

[@MiharuTheFox]

I plan on playing it, but Spike isn't even accessible through normal means (the prototype isn't complete from beginning to end), so I don't technically have to fight him.

[@bobafett4265]

Yeah Spike was a very infamous Boss Fight in Spyro 3 due to the third game having an Adaptive Difficulty which gets harder when do good and gets easier when you don't and it was between Scorch/Spike that was when the game usually gets a difficulty Spike from then onward or gets easier after repeated deaths from the Boss, honestly I had nightmares as a kid due Spike being as intimidating as he is, first his Intro Cutscene then his tough fight....

[@djtoxicdhg]

The extra caricters that wer cut would have bin dope

[@Whitepikmin1]

dang I wanted to hear your thoughts on the lost fleet track you used. its a shame it was cut.

[@MiharuTheFox]

I'm not very good at giving my thoughts on music. I like it, so that's why I used it.

[@Whitepikmin1]

@@MiharuTheFox awh ok sorry. good taste.

[@rachdarastrix5251]

What I would do as a dragon is just forge a swordStafe and enchant it with kenetic-trust and defy-gravity. Also carry a pouch of 7.88mm rocks. Toss one out and point the stalf while thinking the command, and watch as the magic launches the stone into a rhinoc eggtheif's chest then out its back.

[@Mr.Feather130]

I’m still wonder like what if they keep the Rhynoc egg thieves in the finished version of the game instead of bringing back the egg thieves from the first game (also i wish they keep the tiger enemy in bamboo Terrance instead of the yak enemy since they look more menacing than a yak) (also the unused third phase for spike will made me lose it if they keep it in the finished game)

[@ryan41226]

Have You Attempted That Scrapped Spike Boss Fight Yet? Cause I'd Love To.

[@Ori_Kohav]

Also, interesting insight from CGE's video, Agent 9 was initially planned to be a pig

[@ShadowVVoIf]

The ease of access that Moneybags had of getting to the Forgotten Realms, handel and greta too, I always just thought Avalar was closer than the Dragon Worlds. The exact definition of world, realm, or kingdom is never stated and in my head I just attributed the portals as quick travel to large distances on their planet. It's stated that the Dragons left the Forgotten Realms a thousand years ago with the inhabitants being surprised to see a legendary dragon. In Avalar though, Dragons are just seen as a creature not normally found around those parts. I guess a good way of putting it is the Dragon World's seemed to be like the Americas, Avalar for Europe, and The Forgotten Realms for South East Asia. Europe and Asia were aware of each other due to proximity but had little to no idea of the Americas until mainstream discovery by Spain.

[@KeithMyers2022]

Well thats a few mysteries solved. I Wonder if we'll ever see the scrapped water based homeworld from spyro 1 be referenced.

[@TYMEKX0x]

The unused ost of The lost fleet is probably one of the best ost what a shame it got scrapped . In final version it is just the Shelias ost .

[@luniezi]

wtf that spike fight, i can’t imagine

[@razvandobos9759]

I would love to hack the heck out of Spike now and mess up his moves just to get revenge on him for being so difficult!

[@MrJum987]

They should have kept the volcano and extra attacks for spike. This guy got nerfed twice if you think about it. Once here and again in Reignited. Spike needs to come back with a vengeance!

[@rogerlost5851]

But Spyro didn't do anything to the yeti in Avalar: the yeti defeated himself by causing a statue to fall on himself after stonping on the ground.

[@MiharuTheFox]

Right, but the yeti would be the type to pin the blame on Spyro.

[@gemnickygamer169]

I'm just laughing at the complete overkill of Spike's 3rd phase. I would have like to have seen the tiger though, there's not many enemies like it

[@TheNathanNS]

Was it harder? I played it and it felt much easier.

[@MiharuTheFox]

Well I mean... the prototype isn't polished. What I meant was "had this phase of the fight not been scrapped and was present in the final version, it would have been harder".

[@ChristianLakhan]

Certain enough, Insomniac had their reasons for not adding that content in the final product.

[@renamon5658]

Spike was the hardest boss in spyro 3

[@556deltawolf]

What make me mad about the Spike fight is Sgt. Byrd does NOTHING to assist you except drop ammunition. He couldn't like you know, harass spike to distract him while we got the powerups to hurt him or something?

[@GemGames3]

I was more mad they dumbed down the Spike Boss in Reginited.

[@RujiTheRockBoi]

ಠ_ಠ spike wasn't that hard when I first fight him.

[@RujiTheRockBoi]

I was wrong.

[@forcesmuggler7667]

The Spike boss fight sucked to begin with, now you tell me it could have been worse? No thank you.