Despite contributing to Enter the Dragonfly for an extended period of time before their departure, decisions were made somewhere to erase the evidence of their contributions. These credits contained the names' of countless employees who worked on the game but went entirely uncredited in the final release due to them, quite understandably, deciding to leave the project. In 2019, a cheat code was discovered to access the game's secret credits. Neither Check Six or Equinoxe would survive the game, shutting their doors shortly after the title's release in 2002. Stewart Copeland, former drummer for The Police and composer of the iconic soundtrack of the original Spyro trilogy, would return to work on Enter the Dragonfly. This would be Copeland's last soundtrack for the series, recalling that he felt that he and Universal were 'not on the same page anymore' after seeing marketing material for the game that he couldn't recognize as Spyro.Įnter the Dragonfly was a massive disappointment for everyone. The team set out to produce a game with incredibly short loading times, but the final product can take over forty seconds to move between areas in the Playstation 2 version. The final game suffers from very noticeable frame rate issues, countless graphical and gameplay glitches and incredibly unappealing graphics. This rather stressful work environment would begin to take its toll on staff at the studios.

While Universal would mandate sweeping changes and revisions to the project very often, it would not grant the two teams the extra time or manpower needed to complete them. The two studios needed to be working closely together in order to have any chance of finishing the game on time. Eventually, however, the team's management would distrust each other, obviously leading to even more difficulties in development. The teams at Check Six and Equinoxe began the project on excellent terms, excited to begin work on such a popular franchise. The game would miss its initially promised 2001 release date, likely due to the constant changes and additions requested by Universal and competing visions from both Check Six and Equinoxe. Nearly every element of the game's initial design documents would be scrapped and replaced. Universal's interference mandated that the project be entirely restarted a month into production, setting the tone for the kind of development process that would take place.

Universal was very involved in the game's production, altering much of the team's original vision into something else entirely. Universal handed development duties for this new Spyro title to a pair of rather new development studios: Check Six Studios and Equinoxe Digital Entertainment.

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