#all 'trust no one' clichés combined in a melodramatic manner

[quietparanoiac]

My beloved mother will step down. Leaving the power to her only son...

Margrete den Første (2021)

[bitcritterspyro]

With Regards to the Lack of Spyro at E3....

Btw, shoutout to @blaze_TFD on Twitter! Seems like he needs to be lifted back up after what happened.

So, after the Sony E3 press conference (which, disclaimer, I didn't watch), many a Spyro fan were abysmally disappointed by, yet again, the lack of a Spyro game at E3. There hasn't been one that respectfully honors Spyro in over a decade, and for us to be denied a glimpse of the dragon's true return is...well....I'd say dumb, at the least. Me, being the one Spyro fan who stands up for who he believes in and who wants to say the most honest thoughts in my rawest form (and I'll do it in the next paragraph, don't worry lol), has to constrain himself, and you guys probably should've done the same. Look at the logic of Crash's reveal: 20th anniversary, and every other year was nothing purposefully. Going by that logic, combined with how Spyro and Crash were, again, put out as brothers from other mothers in the early 2000's, while I still think how Activision is handling Spyro is disrespectful in the end, I saw it would've been more plausible for Spyro for not to have been revealed at this year's E3 anyway. This isn't Spyro's 20th anniversary yet. After all, Spyro originally came out in 1998 - 2 years after Crash.

I would join those who'd say that the lack of Spyro is unforgiveable, but I have to step out of that group. I will only give the benefit of the doubt this one time, because honestly, while I'm among the Spyro fans who would kill anything remotely related to Skylanders with fire, I have to begrudgingly agree with a certain someone I won't mention that Activision seems to know what they're doing with him. Sure, they're obviously still targeting compulsive kids who still wouldn't know what Spyro is in his true form in more subliminal ways now, but I can see the reason they've been pissing off the veterans for years with the insult that is Skylanders is to at least raise awareness in Spyro as a character. If Spyro were just some friggen toy that I still think and suddenly the majority of parents who've bought at least one 'lander agreed should've stayed out of Skylanders in the first place, the infamous series wouldn't have lasted long enough for Spyro's name to be restored in memory as a dragon who's not part of a melodramatic LotR cliché universe. Cringeworthy effort or not, the last time I've talked about Spyro in an engaging manner to IRL kids younger than myself, one of them still managed to get one of those insulting toys, but at least knew his name, and it seems that Spyro isn't forgotten.............?? Trust me, this hypothesis is creeping me out as much as me calling all the effort Activision's doing a "sin" to the person I'm not naming, but we should see Spyro next year. Ted Price was optimistic about what's been happening to Spyro for a reason, and while we may never know what the real reason was, other than Ted Price saying that they've been doing a "good job",* he must have seen something about the dragon's future that was brighter in the long run. Who knows? Whether you want to trust what will happen is on you. *so many goddamn removed links in the comments, man. EA doesn't encourage link removal massacres like that.