Thursday, June 9, 2016

angryponcho plays Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon - Part 38 of 41


Dinosaurs in the Wild West? Best. Idea. Ever.

Dino Mines


The fodder here are hermit crabs.

All you need to know at the beginning is that all the enemies here are dinosaurs with sticks of dynamite in their mouths that will be thrown at you when you're in range or T-Rexes with revolvers. Amazingly, the revolver dinos can get their guns in their hands without using their hands and can see you from a good distance away, but it takes three seconds for them to do this before they can finally fire.

When you make it to the jail, you'll find out Sheriff Wyatt has been locked in by one of the prisoners, and now the dinosaurs are running amok.

The cacti give you gems. With that being said, they won't give you skill points like in Skelos Badlands from the second game.

The triceratops on the machine guns has to be charged into.

Near the first triceratops is a fireplace, and inside is an extra life in a bottle.

The orange seahorses can be charged into, but watch out for the six-shooters that they're packing!

There are two breakable walls of note - the first one is in the underwater segment and takes you to a Dragon Egg. The second one is across from the huge water supply barrel that leads to the Challenge portal. The second lets you break Sheriff Wyatt free and finish the main task for the level.

Challenge Portals


Dino Mines


Near the end of the level is a huge water barrel. I'm guessing this is the town's water supply. Climb up and dive in to find a Challenge Portal. Here, you'll have to make it to the end of a huge flooded mine shaft - complete with jetstreams pushing you forward - to get a Dragon Egg. Dodge falling support beams, rock slides and TNT crates and you'll get there.

There's another Challenge Portal near the giant water supply barrel. This is an Agent 9 section, and this time around...it's a shootout! It's on rails, so you'll have to be quick to destroy all the dinosaurs, because you won't be able to shoot the bullets or the dynamite and destroy the projectiles before they can damage you. When you get the Dragon Egg for this section, you'll be able to move around freely and get all the gems here. Shoot out the windows of the buildings to find hidden gems, since this is where more than half of the gems in this section will be.

Skill Points


Dino Mines


In the Challenge Portal area, there are seahorses interspersed throughout the flooded mine shaft. If you take them all out, you'll get an extra life and a Skill Point.

In the Agent 9 section, you'll take a left at one point and take on three T-Rexes with revolvers in a narrow corridor that's somewhat hard to see past. In this section, there is an orange dinosaur behind them. Shoot him and you'll get an extra life and a Skill Point. He's hard to get if you're not paying attention, so be ready.

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