Hostility on the Set: During the game's troubled production hostility between employees was rampant, with one major case going to a worker who would snap on a whim and spent a lot of time in confrontations, even escalating to the point of violence on numerous occasions.It was a case of History Repeats, as a year earlier, another big Playstation mascot franchise also had its fourth mainline title helmed by a completely different development team from the original trilogy they too wanted to take the franchise in a new direction with more open-ended and less linear levels, only to be forced to make the gameplay more traditional and in-line with the original games, only for the next game to have the open-ended levels the dev-team wanted on the previous game. The biggest bone of contention was that the devs wanted more open and less linear levels, whereas Universal wanted to stick with the more traditional and linear gameplay of the Insomniac trilogy, though ironically the more open direction that Check Six wanted would appear in the next game, A Hero's Tail. This caused their work environment to be in a state of toxicity between each member(s) that was never resolved by the publisher. During development, the Universal Interactive producer of the project would often force in his own take on what should and what shouldn't be in the game without consulting with the rest of the development team.

Executive Meddling: The game's development cycle can best be summed up as 'Spyro: Fledgling Developers vs.

Cut voice lines from Sparx allow speculation that there were many features that got this treatment: three Ripto fights - with associated seals, each requiring more dragonflies - may have been originally planned, in addition to lines concerning a challenge of an energy field similar to a set of pillars, challenges that necessitated Bubble Breath implying it would be a later Rune, lines about challenges for Invincibility, Supercharge, and Superflame, and a line about a suspicious patch of grass, among a medley of tutorial lines, completion announcements, miscellaneous lines, some possible NPC requests, and the 100% message concerning the Dragon Elders.

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