spyro reignited trilogy enter the dragonfly

Granted, there were less hub-worlds but we now had side-quests, more characters and more abilities for Spyro to learn (including a headbash and climbing ladders), as well as power-ups in each level you could activate after defeating a certain amount of enemies. The whole game had a huge makeover (graphics-wise) and introduced so much more that made this game much better compared to the first. OK, this game came as a bit of a surprise to me when I first played it. The game was good, but I just remember future games of the series being much better. The bosses were OK but I felt like there was no real cohesion from them – a tiki warrior, a giant robot, a jack-in-the-box thing and a s heep disguised as a scary, tall man? And the final boss fight with Gnasty Gnorc was a bit of a let-down. OK, it was frustrating at most points (don’t get me started on Wizard Peak – luckily the music from that level kept me sane) and I mostly enjoyed it. Replaying this was not as bad as I thought it would be.

So naturally, this game was great before I even picked up my controller – crystalized dragons, gems and eggs to collect – what more could a 5-year-old girl ask for? I have the least memories of this game and any that I have are ones of getting frustrated to having to collect gems (mainly). I nickname myself the ‘Loot Whore’ of gaming because if there’s anything to collect, I will hunt for it – even if it takes me hours. I found Spyro a little bit too cocky throughout the cutscenes. But it was the paving stone of a great series, so I wouldn’t say I hated the game. This is easily the one I dislike most from the trilogy (not the entire series – we’ll get onto that later) because it was the hardest. Let’s see how games I played consistently throughout my childhood to my memories of them in adulthood. I played all 3 games in order (all 3 platinum edition too) on my PS2 and managed to 100% everything (or 117% everything in the case of Year of the Dragon) within 9 days or so. I recently had some time off, so decided to play the original three games before I get my copy of the Reignited Trilogy and it’s gotten me thinking, a lot. Hopefully you haven’t missed the news that was leaked by Amazon of a HD remake of the original Spyro the Dragon trilogy coming out on 21st September of this year.

Spyro reignited trilogy enter the dragonfly