I can't actually tell if you're trying to make a joke or not because I have literally never played any Spyro games.
It's a play on Diogenes' "Behold, a Man!" My point is that your definition of an rpg is so broad as to be practically meaningless, if "basically any game can be called an rpg." In that spyro game, you
- assume control of Spyro
- have a role in the narrative of the game
- level up Spyro, giving him different/more powerful elemental breath weapons
By your definition then, it's a rpg. But by practically any genre categorization I'd use or generally see, it's not. (If you haven't played Spyro, it's similar to Crash Bandicoot: solidly in the adventure/platforming genre.)
Although, to be fair, I'm not entirely sure what you meant by "character...that has a role in the narrative of the game." If you meant that the character can make choices to affect the outcome of the game/etc, then okay that's better. If you just meant that the game tells a story, in which the character you play in has a large role...again, that's super broad.
Edit: Also, I'm making fun of general attempts to define rpgs/etc. We've been through this a few times on this forum now, and it turns out it's kind of hard to exactly do without missing things that definitely are rpgs or the opposite. Something something Supreme Court's "I'll know it when I see it."
