A step sideways for the the legend of Spyro series.
The Story this time is far better, the pacing has been improved and there is a lot more going on. After an attack on the dragon temple Spyro and the dragon elders are forced to split up, Spyro has to go and find an ancient dragon that has been entering his dreams called the chronicler. (By the way, these dream segments are tutorials levels) You will find yourself in a different environment in each level and there is also a greater enemy variety with not just Apes, but boars, beasts and pirates which sounds decent, but some of these enemies do too much damage to thanks to being overpowered.
The gameplay is similar "A New Beginning" with a lot of noticeable tweaks. The newest power is dragon time, a power which lets you slow down time which helps out ALOT in combat since it lets you attack an enemy that it is just standing there, and kill them while they can't do anything. In the last game you had a decent variety of breath attacks, except this time they all operate differently. But even with this the game is hard thanks to some poor platform placement and unresponsive controls, and by that I mean that the jump button can be unhelpful sometimes. You can jump normally at any given time, but if you try to double jump, then for whatever reason it doesn't work until i found out that you have to press it at the exact right time while it the air. You have to try this over and over again until you get it right and getting used to it is required. It also gets worse, some of your moves take a second to happen, like if an enemy is coming at you and you try to counterattack with fire charge, then there is a change is won't happen and you take a hit.
If you hadn't already guessed this is an unfairly difficult game, not by much; but just enough that it's too hard.
The hardest part about this game is the boss battles, they are big which is fine, but they do to much damage to you and most them are just run up and melee attack; if you use your powers you will run out of energy in just a minute.
"The Eternal Night" in ways treats itself like a movie, if you successfully pull off tail swipe it goes into slow motion, and goes into a cinematic perspective. And when you use your fury moves; again it treats it self like a movie. Unfortunately, the frustrating difficultly and awful plat-forming hold it back.
Overall: This one is only for people who have either played the first game, or are hardcore Spyro fans.