{"id":84089,"date":"2026-06-07T16:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T20:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84089"},"modified":"2026-06-07T17:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T21:38:15","slug":"spyro-devs-dont-see-many-comparisons-to-its-flying-except-iron-man-or-flight-sims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84089","title":{"rendered":"Spyro Devs Don\u2019t See Many Comparisons To Its Flying, Except Iron Man Or Flight Sims"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/spyro-the-dragon-returns-after-20-years-and-hes-finally-taking-flight\/\" id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/spyro-the-dragon-returns-after-20-years-and-hes-finally-taking-flight\/\">announcement of a new Spyro the Dragon game<\/a> in more than two decades during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/xbox-game-showcase-2026-all-the-biggest-announcements-so-far\/\" id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/xbox-game-showcase-2026-all-the-biggest-announcements-so-far\/\">Xbox Game Showcase<\/a> is aiming high with the confirmation that it will feature &#8220;true dragon flight&#8221; gameplay for the first time. Speaking of the challenge of introducing this mechanic to the dragon&#8217;s core kit in an interview with GameSpot, the developers at Toys For Bob hint that it&#8217;s unlike anything from any other game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;One of the big challenges was that, as we were thinking about what other games even broach this kind of verticality and this freedom of flight, there&#8217;s not that many,&#8221; Toys For Bob studio head Paul Yan said. &#8220;Maybe the ones that come closest to mind are flight simulators &#8230; or maybe flying as an Ironman type of character, but it&#8217;s very, very different than trying to get the physicality of a dragon, and also the nimbleness of a small but mighty dragon like Spyro.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZYjMh8exEIQ  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZYjMh8exEIQ\">T<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;It&#8217;s challenging and that there&#8217;s nothing out there to compare against, but it&#8217;s also a huge opportunity for us because this is a key differentiator for Spyro in this space and being able to move this way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Creative director Lou Studdert<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The announcement of a new Spyro the Dragon game in more than two decades during the Xbox Game Showcase is aiming high with the confirmation that it will feature &#8220;true dragon flight&#8221; gameplay for the first time. Speaking of the challenge of introducing this mechanic to the dragon&#8217;s core kit in an interview with GameSpot,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":84091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-gamespot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84089"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84089"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84092,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84089\/revisions\/84092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}