Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon Review - Behind the Scenes (Patreon)

First of all I just wanted to say an extra thanks to everyone for continuing the pledge after my recent video update on things...

I don't channel updates very often and I'm almost inclined to never do one again because while the most important part, wanting to focus more on platformers and hopefully being a little more consistent with uploads again to to my work hours being less than I've been doing still remains very much true...

The other part when I mentioned perhaps bringing back shorter videos for more modern games... I don't think is going to happen.

I've played through Spider-Man and thoroughly enjoyed it, and despite my best efforts at writing a script for it... I just don't think it's good enough to work with.

I very much doubt the video would stand out and I was already too late to even attempt to compete with people who had review codes anyway... so I've decided to just leave it alone.

The game was brilliant though, I recommend it!

On the plus side I'm still super into my ideas for the future of my channel outside of those... Platformers in particular. As well as generally upping the quality and frequency of the Petronious videos is something I'm keen to try doing while I have the time!

And an extra extra thanks to Brandt and Corey who have both decided to pledge towards the channel on the back of the update video!

I hope you like what I do here, and I can assure you anything you pledge will always help fund little things here and there for the channel :)

With that said, here's the stuff!

How the video came about:

Like last time this one isn't going to have many juicy details. I've reviewed Spyro 1 and Spyro 2 and fully intended to review the trilogy, so Spyro 3 had to happen!

How the video changed during production:

Again sorry to not deliver much here but... this video turned out pretty much as I planned it out in my head aside from one or two small changes.

There's several different angles of my room, where I filmed he disc bouncing around that didn't make the cut, mainly because I ended up trimming the sequence down to match the beat of the music kicking in at same time as the Petronious logo popping up.

The other change being the entire intro in and of itself. Like a few of my recent videos I just sort of made up the intro at the last minute and filmed what I had in mind, and made sure to edit it well enough.

There's quite a bit of masking and deforming effects in play to make sure the "fake" disc actually goes behind my head and arms at one point... but it's all going on so fast you wouldn't have noticed... which is a good thing!

The part of the video where I briefly mention the controls for Sparx, and a potential alternate control scheme they could have used was originally going to be some B-Roll footage of my actual controller... but I'd already packed everything away and in the end I think the key-framed PS1 controller looked better than the terrible lighting I'd have likely had anyway so... it's no problem.

Other trvia and info:

The main thing I'll say is NO, THAT WAS NOT MY ACTUAL COPY OF SPYRO 3 I WAS THROWING AROUND.

it was some terrible looking football (soccer) game called Striker I've had for years, given to my by someone I barely knew... and I think I've only ever played it once. Perfect stunt double for the real game of this video and as everything is moving so fast, you can barely tell anyway!

That's a wrap!

I'm glad to be finished with the trilogy, as I'm keen to sart something new... but obviously Spyro is coming back the following month anyway so... I better get ready for that!

I'm going to revert back to my usual levels of secrecy with videos outside or Spyro, so I hope you like what I've got planned for my Halloween themed video!

Until then, I'll see you around! Thanks for your support!

- Pete