this is one of best ps1 game of all time and is one of my childhood gaming i used to play the demo version back in 1998 when i was 5 yrs old you start off in artist world with a dragon in front of you.you first run up to the dragon and take him about gnasty and then you start collecting gems and dragons in artist world there are 100 gems to collect and 4 dragons to collect there are total of 80 dragons in the game..and around 20000 gems to collect you will have to collect all the gems in every level in every door you go through including the time trail courses some the first level is the stone hills which has a total of 200 gems and 4 dragons there is key down below the finish part inside a tunnel you grab the key go to the hole in the middle of the level and walk up to the key box and the key should go to it and bust it you get the 10 gems out of it the colors of gems red  gems are worth 1 gem and the green gems are worth 2 gems and the blue gems are worth 5 gems and the yellow gems are worth 10 gems and the purple gems are worth 25 gemsyou won't the purples gems until you get peach keepers which requires 10 dragons to fly to peach keeper don't forget there are 16 dragons in the artist world the hollow level has 3 dragons and 100 gems this level is fairly easy there is another key box in this one it in the tunnel but what out for the 2 metal armor guys as they bulk you back to kill them you run up behide and shoot with you fire and get the blue gems..once you get past them you will find a dragon inside and a key next to it to open the key box to get gems once get the gems up the stairs and get the last dragon and the rest of the gems in this level be sure to get gems and every level in the game in order to get to the bouns level in gnasty world by getting 80 dragons..

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Is interesting...

is the game really that hard? 10???

Be precise on your ratings please

No insult, just suggestions intended!

Jesse Powell : Definitely not the worst review I've seen, but it could have been organized a lot better. Instead of lumping it all into one paragraph, break it down into categories; and don't forget to use punctuation. It will be much easier to write and read it like that. As it is now, it just looks like the world's longest run-on sentence.

LukinaX : I'd have to agree. A 10 for the difficulty does seem somewhat high in my opinion, although there are parts of the game that are deserving of this rating. (Flight levels)

I've played all of the Spyro trilogy, and this one isn't technically my favorite, but it did boot one of the better characters in gaming. If only we can see games like this for Spyro again. Now he's...bad.

I've never played Spyro but I've heard that it was a good game. I always wanted to try it though.

The first Spyro game was great, but Year of the Dragon is certainly the finest.

In terms of review quality, there needs to be more punctuation, capitalization, sentence structure, and sorting by category.

It was a good review, but it certainly needs quite a bit of work.

It's good to see everyone is so forgiving in their criticism, but there's nothing wrong with being a little bit more constructive.

Even if you would've used proper punctuation to make it more readable, it still wouldn't have been a valid review. If anything, it would've fitted better as a walkthrough, or a summary. Everything you said about Spyro the Dragon was about what you needed to do in order to progress in the game, and that is not what's supposed to be said in a review. The only game facts that should be in a review are a small summary of the game's story, and the game's graphics. Anything else should say something about your opinion of every aspect of the game, your feeling towards it. And be sure to be as detailed in your thoughts as possible. Where the graphics any good? Was the sound nice to listen to? Where you addicted to Spyro the Dragon from start to finish, or where there times you were getting kinda sick of it for a while? And so on.

And like a couple of people above me said, be sure to break down your reviews into paragraphs, so it gets more readable. A paragraph per aspect is ideal, but you're welcome to play around with it. It's your review, after all.

This was a good attempt, because you've obviously worked hard at it, and that's always admirable. But as a review, this just wouldn't cut it. But I'm sure you'll improve if you keep true to these pointers, and you keep at it.