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- Hold onto your horns, folks.

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It looks like Spyro The Dragon
is reportedly coming back.

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And of course, that's why we had

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to get resident Spyro
propagandist, Vicky Leta,

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in the office today.

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Hi, Vicky, how are you?

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- I'm great, Levi, how are you?

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- Awesome.

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I wrote a whole post about
how Spyro 4's reportedly

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in the works by developer, Toys for Bob,

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which is a studio that's worked

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on the Spyro Reignited Trilogy,

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which were the remasters

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of the first three mainline Spyro games.

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And of course, this article
being about dragons,

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being about Spyro, I asked you here,

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explain yourself.

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- As you should.
- Who the hell are you?

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- Hello.
- What is this?

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- Hi, my name is Vicky Leta.

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I am the art director @kotaku.com,

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and I have worked next to these huge dorks

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for the past year and a half.

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And every day I go to their desks and ask,

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"Hey, what's the latest Spyro news?"

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And they tell me stuff like,
"Vicky, we actually have

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to cover breaking news and current games."

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So imagine my surprise
when I hear the news

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that Spyro 4 is coming out.

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And my dear friend Levi here,

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has written me in the very
bottom portion of the article.

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So I am here to talk about Spyro.

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I should note, I am not a journalist.

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I am just a fan.

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But you should trust my word.

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- Spyro propagandist will say, this news,

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you know, it's reportedly right,

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we don't exactly know for
sure since Toys for Bob

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hasn't said anything.

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But if it is the case,
how excited are you?

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- Stoked.
(Levi chuckles)

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I, okay,

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Spyro was a huge game in
my early childhood years,

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and unfortunately, as I think we all know,

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as the 2000s progressed,

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it kind of fell off that
beautiful, the flight trajectory,

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something metaphor,

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flying dragon, you know?
- Something happened.

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- In the Reignited Trilogy,
which I absolutely loved,

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which literally reignited
my love for these games,

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and got me back into gaming for a while

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until my ex took the Xbox.

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- Yikers.
- But I kept the dog though.

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- Win-Win.

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Toys for Bob recently said

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that Spiro Reignited Trilogy
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which is crazy.

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Talk to me about this
franchise's impact on you.

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What makes this series so special?

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- I love dragons, (beep) love dragons.

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- They're sick.

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- Yeah, every young girl
is kind of a weirdo.

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And my thing was dragons.

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- Makes sense, the purple eyeshadow.

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- So what we have are,
from the Insomniac games,

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are three games that have this
whimsical world of dragons.

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It's not particularly
dark, it's not particularly

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so complex that my baby
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They were very inclusive,

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and they were very easy
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- Very playable.

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- Very, would you believe?

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The game was very playable.

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As we progressed through Spyro The Dragon,

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Ripto's Rage,

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and Year of the Dragon, the
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the worlds just got so
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and the storylines were
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and you have mini-games,

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it just, it was something that
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in and I just,

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I love the world-building so much.

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- But you didn't need to be a pro gamer.

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- You didn't need to-
- I didn't have

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to be a pro gamer.

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Right now, I am too intimidated
to be online too much.

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- Makes sense.
- So there's a lot of games

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that particularly just aren't my thing.

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However, again, Spyro just
hits that nostalgia for myself.

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And the worlds were just
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I think we're all in agreement that

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after the three original
games, they tapered off.

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The world's got darker, both in story,

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and also in literally the color palette.

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- True.

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- And it just, it wasn't
as appealing to me.

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That's just what it is.

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It was appealing to a
lot of people, I know.

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But there was something in that whimsy

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of the first games that
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So the Reignited Trilogy
brought that back.

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Stunning graphics, ugh, again,

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I should just buy the game myself.

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But we are in a bit of
a recession. (laughs)

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- True, true.

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If Spyro 4 is true,

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and if it is coming out, what
do you wanna see from it?

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- What we have right now
is a bunch of millennials

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who are all on SSRIs and
are clinging onto nostalgia.

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So what we need is, again,

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we had the beautiful Reignited Trilogy,

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let's take that energy and
put it back into Spyro 4.

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We know what doesn't work.

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And again, we know what does work,

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which is a lot of nostalgia,
a lot of bright colors,

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and a lot of fun games
where I'm collecting eggs,

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and they all have a unique
name and things like that.

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It just, it was sweet
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that really attracted me.

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So I do hope they stick to more

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of the first three games
than anything else.

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And I hope they actually
do make this game,

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and it wasn't just a random rumor.

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Please. (laughs)

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- Here's your tagline, Toys for Bob,

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"Make games sweet again."

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- And I want us to take
specifically the world-building

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of Ripto's Rage, because that was just,

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it was very special in it's own way.

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And we're gonna apply that everywhere.

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We're gonna take out the casual, dated,

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maybe politically incorrect
worlds that were in there,

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but we're gonna expand upon it.

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Love some Easter eggs in there as well.

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You know why?

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Again, millennials, SSRIs,
we need some of that.

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But again, for me, the
brightness, the colorful world.

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Have you heard of Marvel movies?

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- Maybe once or twice.

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- That makes sense.
- I don't want that.

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Up the brightness, up the contrast.

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Some saturation, big words out there.

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- Give me your best,
most favoritest memory

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of Spyro The Dragon.

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- I think just something
about sitting on the floor

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in my living room with one
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but it was off-brand and my
mom being like, "Go outside."

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And I was like, "No, I'm making memories."

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And I was right. (chuckles)

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- So dragons,

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is Spyro 4 real?

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Maybe.

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If it is, what do you wanna see from it?

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Let us know in the comments below.

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Video games forever.

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Kotaku.com.

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(Vicky laughs)