Winter Tundra is the third and last homeworld of Avalar in Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage! and its remake in the Spyro Reignited Trilogy. This is the world where the player faces Ripto, the final boss.
World Description
As its name implies, it composes of a tundra setting: snow, little vegetation, and a midnight setting while calm music plays. In this world, there is a castle with a long set of stairs and the superportal. Outside of the castle, there are two caves and a secret waterfall.
The world of Winter Tundra is on the tip of a gigantic mountain, enduring the cold and ice that invades it. Some of the caves inside of the mountain do have a few ice skating rinks. The grass in the massive castle’s courtyard is frigid green-blue, patched with snow puddles here and there, with a single underground pond feeding several streams cutting through the area. The castle itself is the largest castle in Avalar, though most of its doors and windows have been barred shut. The ramparts surrounding the giant mountain top are dull gray and almost frozen.
Orbs
Top of the waterfall
- Spyro will find this orb at the edge of a waterfall in the same cave as Canyon Speedway.
On the tall wall
- Spyro will find this orb on top of the wall surrounding the castle near the Robotica Farms portal.
Smash the rock
- Spyro will have to headbash a large rock near the Mystic Marsh portal.
Realms
- Mystic Marsh
- Cloud Temples (Requires 15 Orbs)
- Robotica Farms
- Metropolis (Requires 25 Orbs)
- Speedway Canyon Speedway (Unlocked when Spyro pays Moneybags 200 Gems)
- Boss Ripto's Arena (Requires 40 Orbs)
- Bonus/final realm: Dragon Shores (Unlocked after defeating Ripto)
Characters
Allies
- Elora
- The Professor
- Moneybags
- Hunter the Cheetah (cutscenes)
- Zoe (cutscenes)
- Other unnamed Fairies (cutscenes)
Enemies
Abilities learned
Video
Winter Tundra - Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage! |
- Note: This video also contains some sidequests of Fracture Hills and Shady Oasis in it.
Gallery
- Main article: Winter Tundra/Gallery
Glitches
- There is possibility to swim in the air in this world. To do this, Spyro must stand to the right of the world portal to Autumn Plains that is near Ripto's Arena and double jump to the right and around a mountain. Spyro will then have to land on the ledge there, and if successful, Spyro then have to jump outside the boundaries and glide all the way to stream in the cave Canyon Speedway is in. When Spyro gets right below the stream, headbash at the right time and Spyro will be swimming in the air.
- In the Reignited Trilogy version, an infinite glide glitch can be performed by pausing just before the Ripto's Arena's cutscene plays and exiting the boss fight before it happens causes the game to kick you out in front of Canyon Speedway's portal, if you enter the portal then fail and click retry before the cutscene ends you will respawn inside Ripto's Arena with the abilities of the speedways, you can then use this glitch in any other world but do not press the guidebook but pause the game and access the guidebook through the pause screen or the game will freeze, even in Spyro 1 and 3.
Trivia
- Winter Tundra is the shortest world in Ripto's Rage!, containing only seven worlds.
- This is the only homeworld in Ripto’s Rage! to contain penguins and neither sheep nor frogs.
- If the player looks at the sky background in Winter Tundra, they can get a full glimpse at the moon. However, if the player looks at the sky in the portal of one of Winter Tundra's world (except for Ripto's Arena), they will get to see various forms.
- This is the only world in Avalar to not have any Talismans.
- Unlike the other two worlds, the player does not need to collect talismans to face the boss, but instead orbs, which are used in the final boss fight.
- In the original game, the first name of Oliver Wade’s daughter “Brenda” is etched onto the doors of the Winter Tundra castle courtyard.