Although the controls resemble too much of ANB, this game does have its differeces.
Spyro is on a new epic journey and your along for the ride if you want to play. You will experience whole new environments, new characters, enemies, and bosses. As the Night of Eternal Darkness approaches, Spyro learns of an evil that is awakening by the mysterious Chronicler who he hears in his dreams. On the same night Spyro learns that the dragon he saved in the previous game Cynder, has left the temple. Spyro sets off to find her, and along with him is his virtually useless partner, Sparx, to find the Chronicler, and save Cynder from the Ape King, Gual's, evil grasp.
Enough of the crappy dialouge, now for the good points of the game.
Spyro The Eternal Night didn't feature as many new elements as A New Beginning introduced. The only ones I can name right now is Dragon Time, its pretty much like Bullet Time, everything but you slows down for a little bit, and the fact that the breath attacks are much more different that the last game. The storyline virtually SCREAMS that there will be another game. The storyline overall is actually pretty good, fairly detailed, but dull at some points.
The downsides of this games is that the storyline gets kinda boring after a while. Also at some points the combat is very frustrating, cheap kills all around you. Enemies can hit you consecutivly without giving you a break, so your pretty much in death trap if you screw up. It is also very easy to fall off a ledge and have to start a a checkpoint again. Also if your in a group fight, and you die on the last enemy in the group, you have to do it all over again, which is very annoying.
Don't play this game if you get frustrated over dieing on bosses multiple times. If you beat a boss in Eternal Night on you very first try, your either lucky or a gift from god. You have to wait for an opening in the bosses deffence before you can attack, and you have to do it multiple times, its very annoying at some points, but its fun.
Overall this game does show a lot of promise, its just needlessly hard.