Crash Staff Rumble Makes Me Need A New Spyro Sport

I favored Crash Staff Rumble. I even mentioned as a lot on this very web site when the brawler MOBA launched again in June. However man, seeing them add Spyro, Crash’s flying, fire-breathing, OG PlayStation platformer up to date to the roster simply makes me want we had a brand new Spyro the Dragon recreation.

Spyro is ready to affix Crash, Catbat, and most of the bandicoot’s different pals and foes in Crash Staff Rumble when its third season, titled All Fired Up, launches on December 7. The purple dragon joins Ripto (one of many sequence’ villains, who was surprisingly added earlier than the hero himself within the second season) as a visitor character, alongside Elora, the guiding fawn companion from the unique trilogy. Not a lot is understood about how Spyro will play, but it surely’s curious that Crash Staff Rumble has been including Spyro crossover characters, music, and cosmetics two seasons in a row, huh?

My hope is that that is extra than simply lip service and that writer Activision is definitely planning to make a substantive Spyro announcement within the close to future. Again in September, rumors of a fourth mainline Spyro recreation circulated on websites like Reddit, however the specifics of the alleged leak, resembling an October reveal and Spyro Reignited Trilogy remake artist Nicholas Kole being connected to the undertaking, had been debunked. As enjoyable as Crash Staff Rumble is, it’s not the Crash Bandicoot or Spyro recreation I would like, and I do know that sentiment rings true for lots of followers.

Even when Crash Staff Rumble isn’t what followers are in search of, Activision has been investing fairly closely into Crash Bandicoot because it had a delicate reboot with the Crash N. Sane Trilogy in 2017. That assortment remade Naughty Canine’s first three Crash video games for contemporary methods, then Crash Staff Racing Nitro-Fueled adopted in 2019. Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time, a brand-new platformer, launched in 2020, and was a very stable, difficult spin on the unique formulation.

Spyro the Dragon, in the meantime, has been getting scraps on this wave of OG PlayStation platformer love. The Reignited Trilogy introduced his unique three Insomniac-made video games to trendy methods with a brand new coat of paint in 2018, but it surely’s been 15 years for the reason that final brand-new Spyro recreation. The little purple man has just about been relegated to a crossover cameo right here and there in Crash Bandicoot video games.

I grew up on these video games, and even when the mascot platformer has principally gone out of vogue, I’d nonetheless play a Spyro or Sly Cooper recreation in 2023. However whereas firms like to throw little references and crossovers into present video games, that not often results in a brand new recreation. Spyro has been exhibiting up in Crash’s adventures for years now, and with every passing 12 months that he doesn’t get his personal comeback recreation, these crossovers really feel increasingly like a carrot on a stick, main nowhere.

I’ll nonetheless most likely boot up Crash Staff Rumble to play Spyro, although. So guess I ought to placed on my clown make-up.