When Krome Studios took over development of the previous game, they slapped on the “Legend” moniker and called it A New Beginning. It was supposed to be a retelling of Spyro’s story and a resuscitating punch to the gut of the series. Judging from Krome’s previous work on Ty the Tasmanian Tiger, I suspect that they didn’t know what to do with a sequel. A second helping should be at least more of the same, if not more generous than the last. Instead, Krome wiped off the plate and put it back on the table.
Video games is such a diverse medium that it is somewhat easy to forget that differing opinions, however alien they may be to your own, are welcome for a critical debate. Recently, a forum user named Melaisis posted a rather interesting article titled “Games Are Not Art.” I won’t go into much detail here, but suffice to say, Melaisis gives the theory that due to the inaccessibility of certain games by the general public, games cannot, all things considered, be art in the sense... read more...