Spyro Reignited Trilogy - Behind The Scenes (Patreon)

As usual I've got my behind the scenes post but... there's not too much to say and show on this one as it was a fairly straight forward one to create. The main thing was the time it took to actually make it, as I've been a bit busy with other things... but I digress!

How and why the video happened:

Originally my plan always was to play the ORIGINAL Spyro trilogy and make video on them this year, and I had that plan loosely set in place ever since I made the Crash video last year... It just so happens Activision had plans of their own with the little purple boy, and so this video sort of happened out of necessity.

I went through a period of being burnt out on these games on the run up o it's launch and I had literally JUST played them but in the final week before it was released, I really started to enjoy the idea of seeing these remakes.

While nobody from there will see this post on Patreon, there's a thanks to my contact Ian, over at Screenwave Media as he was able to scrape around and find me a leftover code in order to play the game a few hours earlier than launch.

That said, I had already paid for a copy that had already dispatched anyway.

This ended up being for the best though as my physical copy didn't actually arrive until 4pm the following day so I was able to download all of the updated get a good few hours into the first game on day one.

The rest of the games I ended up finishing over the course of a week or so, as I know what I'm doing with them.

How the video changed during production:

Again, not much to say for this one as I had most of the video planned and paced out in my own head when starting work on it... except for the intro.

I was originally thinking of having the 3 original Spyro games pop out of the shelf, for me to push them back in as buttons and trigger some sort of explosion or something to summon them remakes into my possession.

This would have been a deliberate throwback to how I opened the video for the Crash Bandicoot N Sane Trilogy last year, as I got as far as filming the first couple of shots before deciding it was going to take too long considering it was a recycled joke anyway.

And in a random but very kind act, my friend and previous Patron Myles actually sent me the Spyro cable guy figure you see in the final version of the intro scene.

It randomly arrived here the day before I filmed all of that, and thought it'd work for a quick way to introduce the game to me in video form.

Other trivia and info:

I'm not sure what else to say here today...

I suppose to some extent this video was a beta test for me perhaps not wearing my usual green shirt attire for once, with the Spyro shirt on display instead of having the shirt buttoned up... but I dunno, it actually ended up being a detriment at times because I had nowhere to secure my lapel mic to.

At least not anyway I could hide the cable as well, anyway!

That, plus the shirt is so cemented in my mind and my own branding as part of the "uniform" I wear in the videos these days... I doubt I'll bother again.

That said... I plan on wearing a Christmas jumper in the next video at least!

The next video...

So, despite this Spyro malarkey being over and done with, I've actually spent the last week getting prepped for the next video... by playing through the vast majority of it and working on a script with the notes I've made.

I have an idea for the intro in mind that would require we get the house all decked out for Christmas with decorations(Or at the very least my little area of the house up here)

...And I intend to wear my Crash Bandicoot Christmas jumper and a Santa hat for the live action segments of this video, to tie into the Christmas theme...

And as promised, given the game was mostly funded thanks to your pledges, the game I've chosen to do my video on for this Christmas is...

THE GRINCH!

Yeah, I bought this one around the same time I bought Muppet Monster Adventure on eBay, and found it for around £12 at the time. It didn't come with a manual sadly, but the disc, case and front cover were in good condition so I'm fairly happy with what I got.

(Ignore the sticker residue on the cover though, I'll be making sure that's off my the time I film the video)

But yeah, this is one of those game I have genuinely always wanted to play since I first saw it at a friends house when I was much younger, when the game and film it is based on first came out.

All I know is that it's a 3D platformer made by the same development team that created Bugs Bunny Lost in Time and Bugs Bunny and Taz: Time Busters, which are both games I've previously covered on my channel so I figured this would be a fun way to see what else that team got up to over the years.

So, I sort of know what I'm getting into with this one but we'll see how it goes. I can already see the Caddicarus rip-off comments happening in my mind, but like I say... I've got my own reasons for wanting to check this out!

It also helps that the newer film adaptation of The Grinch has literally just been released a couple of weeks ago, so I can hopefully catch some people unawares.

Due to being ill this week, and my day-job work at this time of year being more stressful than it usual is I have no idea if I can get this done in time for Christmas... but I'm still tentatively aiming for December.

I'll keep you all informed, but if it ends up being late... my thinking is I can be a Grinch about it.

Cheers everyone, and thanks for the support.

- Pete