He can use his primary breath attack, or a more powerful secondary breath attack, which consumes more energy to use. He will also learn breath attacks, based on the elements of fire, ice, electricity and earth. Spyro can perform melee attacks with Y, and create combos with repeated hits. As Spyro, players fight their way through hordes of Cynder's minions and monsters. The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning is top-down action game based on the console game of the same name. The dragon, Spyro, soon discovered his heritage, and with Sparx, began on a quest to discover himself and eventually, save the world from the Dark Master's forces. This egg found its way to a family of dragonflies, who raised the newly hatched dragon as one of their own, along with their son Sparx. When the Dark Master attacked the sacred temple, the Fire Guardian, Ignitus, could only manage to save one of the dragon eggs from being destroyed.