@@TravistheDragon My takes on the Spyro games (spoilers: I think the Spyro franchise, with or without Skylanders (the mostly of not completely high standards of the franchise made it a teensy bit better) very hit-or-miss as well, so it’s hard to pinpoint whether at heart, it’s good or bad even though when the games are bad, they make How to Train Your Dragon 3: The Hidden World look as great as it’s predecessors. Now THAT is low! But I think the franchise has done slightly more right than wrong.)* 5W: The Legend of Spyro 3: Dawn of the Dragon - ✅ ✅ (yep, even by the high (but mostly mixed) standards of TLoS, if you count the console and phone versions of TLoSDotD, this is actually one of my favourite games of the franchise for many reasons and I only agree with some but not most of your criticisms like the first ones about Hunter like him telling the dragons what they couldn’t fly over which is unintentionally underestimating what they could do and his over-realistic design (reminds me of how much we want Final Fantasy to go back to the cartoony designs they used to have in the 1990s games even though the realistic designs are appealing on their own especially for the lower standards of forced realistic facial designs on several video game characters. Looking at you, Call of Duty and Sonic ‘06!) 5B: Spyro the Dragon 3: Year of the Dragon - ✅ ✅ 4W: Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly (aka (as much as I hate to say it but it’s expectable by Spyro the Dragon (2001-05) standards, the real Spyro 4, or how about a much better title? “Spyro: Enter the Dumpster?) - ❌❌ (What do you think?) 4B: The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning - ✅ 3W: The Legend of Spyro 2: The Eternal Night - ❌ (I’m sure a lot of people would consider TLoSTEN to Crash of the Titans as TLoSDOTD is to Mind Over Mutant regarding being released at the same time (the formers in late 2007 and the latters in late 2008) for competition’s sake, but in terms of quality, it’s pretty much the other way around. In fact, as Crappy Games Wiki said it best, “Ah, and it just started to get good.”) 3B: Spyro the Dragon 5: A Hero’s Tail - ❌✅ (it’s a beautiful mess. Sure, it has its problems, but even though there are aspects of this game AntDude and Square Eyed Jak (for example) pointed out that undermined it from being great, there are slightly more good things to say about it that makes it at least decent, especially as a sequel to the infamous Enter the Dragonfly) 2W: Spyro: Shadow Legacy - ❌ (this is the Sonic Chronicles of the Spyro franchise) 2B: Spyro the Dragon 2: Ripto’s Rage/Gateway to Glimmer - ✅ (I may agree with ExoParadigmGamer on some of his criticisms towards Spyro 2 (the console version, more on the GBA game that because it’s another Spyro 2, I guess by that logic, Season of Ice is Spyro 1 and Attack of the Rhynocs is Spyro 3) in terms of its frustrating moments of gameplay, but outside of that, I think this game is way too charmingly 2K (it was released in late 1999 which is the same time as other PS1 classics like Pac-Man World 1 (as much as I love the console versions of Pac-Man World 2 even after seeing Jeff Compass, Nitro Rad (the most positive of the three giving it a B+) and King K’s positive-ish (if not super positive like ADAMNATOR’s, TehSnakerer’s and Coop’s, but I understand where they’re coming from) reviews of that super underrated sequel, I’m strongly looking forward to Pac-Man World 1 & (possibly) 2 Re-Pac) not to love!) HM1: Spyro the Dragon Reignited Trilogy - ✅ (Caddicarus pointed out that there are a few flaws with this game, but it’s still a great way to reignite the Insomniac trilogy of 2K (1998-2000)!) HM2: Skylanders (hexalogy) - ✅ HM3: Spyro Advance trilogy - Spyro 1: Season of Ice: ❌. Spyro 2: Season of Flame: ✅ (because of how underwhelmed I was by Season of Ice, even as a kid, I bet it would come as a shocker to many that I think S2SoF really is that much of an improvement! Granted, it has some flaws that keep it away from being amazing, but as far as the lower/more limited standards of Spyro platformers on the handheld instead of the PS1 and eighth-gen home consoles (the original and Reignited Spyro trilogies) go, Digital Eclipse really tried their best with this one). Spyro 3: Attack of the Rhynocs: ✅ HM4: The Legend of Spyro handheld/mobile trilogy - ❌ for the GBA & DS versions of TLoSANB and TLoSDOTD and ✅✅ for the GBA version of TLoSTEN and ✅ for the DS version of The Eternal Night and the mobile versions of the trilogy. 1W: Spyro Orange: The Cortex Conspiracy/Crash Bandicoot Purple: Ripto’s Rampage - ❌❌ (while Crash Purple is boring as sin at best, Spyro Orange, even by Spyro standards, is virtually unplayable!) 1B: Spyro the Dragon (original) - ✅✅ (this is one of my favs up to the ranks of Spyro 3 (which if I could pick one, I still think Spyro 3 the best of the best)!).
While I agree that Dawn of the Dragon isn’t a perfect game, it had a huge impact on my life as kid. And to this day it still holds a special place in my heart. Also I just love Elijah Wood voicing my favorite dragon.
Dawn of the Dragon was awesome i enjoyed it very much except for a couple things were annoying, like enemies not having health bars except for elite enemies and boss enemies and they took forever to beat even the gremlins, yes Elijah Wood was great for Spyro's more edgy serious side i dont think Tom Kenny would fit in the legend trilogy along with everyone else it just wouldnt be as badass especially during the Malefor cutscenes with Mark Hamill's warped voice lines for the most deadly dragon boss in any Spyro game
I enjoyed Dawn of the Dragon. For me though def not my favorite since I was almost already in highschool at that point or already was, so the original trilogy was *my* childhood game. Which is funny usually people are biased on what is most nostalgic to them as a kid no matter what game. But I do remember having a good time with it especially co-op!
I love all the early spyros from the first 3 to the game cube ones to the legends of Spyro series though I was 2-5 playing the First 3 and I was under 10 playing the others so maybe my opinion doesn’t matter lol
Not to mention you get to play Cynder as well as Spyro. I wish a 4th game was made with a more Sci-fi environment where Spyro and Cynder including Sparx find themselves in the future and get to go into outer space while Cynder and Spyro gain new elements to help battle an alien invasion attacking the planet. Kinda like a Halo game, but with Spyro and new characters for TLOS series not to mention for 10 year olds and older like the previous titles. Also dive into who are Spyro and Cynder’s parents and that they were originally from the modern day future with their families sent them into the past to protect them from the aliens before Spyro defeated Malefor and transported Cynder and Sparx along with himself to the future to stop the aliens. Also having their dads as military generals, Cynder’s mom as a tactical special operations officer/spy, and Spyro’s biological mom a surgeon, a field medic, and a warrior like his dad. Also having both Cynder and Spyro’s parents as Guardians.
Wow, that is a great list you did with the best and worst of the games, but still have the strong love of the franchise. :) Funny as I thought Dawn of the Dragon would be on the best and I think I go for Spyro 2 over 1 but still great games. ^^ Don't blame ya on Spyro Orange as that is the worst game ever! -_-
The first time I played the Legend of Spyro the Eternal night it was with a friend who happened to have it while I had the other two. I had never played the Second one but I knew the stories of how hard and difficult it was. My friend had for a while but never beat it(he never figured out the tutorial part when he was a kid). We originally played by every death we switch out(Which we changed to 3 because we kept freaking dying). It took us over 22 In game hours and that was using the Dark Spyro cheat code only a 1/4 into the game. It was hell at times but we pulled through. We then went on to play the first and third game together and enjoyed them a whole lot more. His favorite in the trilogy was the first one mainly because of how much he enjoyed using the Lightning and earth breath. Eventually I replayed the Eternal night about a year later(he gave me the game to keep and said he never wanted to see it again). Unlike our last play through, I went out of my way to find all 10 dragon relics(when we played together we got like 3 our first time). I had a much easier time and was able to beat the game in 11 hours. There were points wear I got stuck a bit and almost used cheats but I was able to pull through. Still the worst in the trilogy but not as terrible as when I first played it.
I disagree with DOTD. I like the redesigns. The designs do look off and weird same with the animations but overall, The game is completely fun even playing it with a friend since it had Co-op. Story was good, again it did had plot holes and it has its flaws but the gameplay was great. Controls were clunky but I got used to them and the best part is the Valley of Avalar level where you can fly anywhere cause it looked so open-world and Dark Spyro, wished we get play as him against Malefor, would've loved to see Malefor's reaction of seeing Spyro go into his dark counterpart. I respect your opinion but I put DOTD as my top 5 best at number 5. And trust me, Spyro in the Imaginators cutscences looks downright ugly, nothing can top it. It looks like he's made out of playdoh
My favorites are (in Order): 5. Legend of Spyro: Eternal Night- just not as good as the first but still enjoyable 4. Spyro The Dragon (first game) 3. Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage 2. Legend of Spyro: New Beginning 1. Spyro 3 Year of the Dragon And yes I included the reignited versions and original versions interchangeably. The worst were: 1. Hero's Tale 2. Enter the Dragonfly Both were just broken, unplayable messes. I never played the rest.
I don’t have too many gripes with your list other than one thing… it KILLS me to see Spyro 3 below new beginning and hero’s tail. 3 is my personal number one, but it deserves at least the number 3 spot! Child me is crying profusely!
I agree that the Legend of Spyro has so many plot holes, but that's what makes it so awesome to me! I'm a big time LoS Theorist, and one of my favorite Spyro things to do is go through the games and try to figure out how the Plot Holes can be filled! There's so much opportunity to TLoS series, and digging deeper is what makes it the best in my opinion. 😎👍
Should give “the broken line” Spyro fanfic a read sometime if you like seeing plot holes filled and a continuation of what happens after DOTD. I know that stuff can have some “cringe” aspects to it but this one is really good!
Lol ikr LoS was definitely among the best Spyro games, Cynder will always be on my list of top female characters in games, everytime someone tells me she's Spyro's sister I'm like "Not in the slightest, they're different species of dragon for starters"
I loved the Legend series it was very interesting in my opinion and full of lore so that's why I enjoyed it so much, but yeah the graphics and game design definitely could've been better
It was the best they could do at the early 2000s when it comes to the first game, but they could have made the PS2 version of Dawn of The Dragon have the same graphics as the Xbox 360 version. I still have all three and can play them to my heart’s desire… as long as my PS2 doesn’t die on me, used up at least two already in my childhood and one blew up when I turned it off. The disc inside was scorched and was brown on the bottom. It was a small explosion, but it was still a loud one. There was smoke and a little fire, I could see it behind the power button. It died down on its own, I didn’t have a PS2 for three years after that.
@@fiercethedragon yeah maybe in the future they can make a remastered version of the legend series I never got to play it because my father didn't believe in magic and saw it as a game made my demons so I was stuck watching multiple play throughs of it
I was a big fan of TLOS when it came out and still love the games but after reading into all the stuff that was cut out, only having a year to make each game, and about a million dollars to make each game I was kind sad to see that the games could have been so much better if they were given better treatment.
@@kelvliximab2362 There's an Official Creator on Deviantart known as That Spyro Guy, one of the Elements that never appeared was Water and the Elements are made by a being of Dark and one of Light.
From my experience, most Spyro fans tend to shun anything that came after the original trilogy, just because they weren't made by Insomniac. So it's refreshing to see some love for some of the games that came after. Awesome vid!
I agree with that This is what most fans really do...hate because this isn't insomniac game Just like with ratchet and clank size matter...this is same thing
@@coreymckee4844 whats fans don't see...orginal movies and prequels and sequels haves own problems...so we never have a good star wars movie:) Mayby first 2 and third from prequel series
@@nerdodragonnerdpl4167 only thing that separates the sequels from the prequels and originals is that they were not made by george Lucas. The prequels and original films were from him. Sequels aren't starwars. Hell, George Lucas didn't even show up for Rise of skywalker premiere. And that alone is very telling. Georges original vision consists of just 6 films. With ideas for sequels hes thought about but never went on to make.
@@coreymckee4844 something tells me that peapols can don't liking idea for the George sequels because medihlorians or whatever...yes...thats actually idea for sequels of George But i don't wacht star wars many because...i don't wacht bloockbusters generally:)
The only Spyro game I’ve ever played was Dawn of the Dragon. I liked it, but only because I was a kid that couldn’t find any other dragon games and being able to fly was really cool to me. It’s a shame the areas weren’t really built for flying though, putting in weird invisible walls or grounding your character to force you to do stupid puzzles. I also recall them being very small, so the flying would often be very janky as you fought the game’s attempts to force you to use other mechanics.
i just cant get over how solid the entire story of the legend of spyro series was especially with the freaking depressing ending to eternal night i was so emotionally shocked
@@TravistheDragon A Hero's Tail was actually fun and looked nice, especially compared to Enter the Dragonfly lol. I loved playing it. Speaking of A Hero's Tail my favorite bit is Sparx having the extra life hit where he can be red colored, give a fourth hot before Spyro would die from another one. Ha ha ha. That's why I'm playing Shadow Legacy with cheat codes active because it makes it way easier/takes less time. Story wise it's ok, my favorite thing is just seeing all the moves Spyro has. XD
I prefer dawn of the dragon over eternal night and skylanders honestly. I don't think the designs are that bad. But that voice acting... You singled out Cynder and WOW it's atrocious.
The Eternal Night, in my opinion, is the peak of the LoS trilogy. I liked the voice actors, Cynder, the story, the soundtrack is amazing (especially the title theme and Dream Sequence) What I probably find worst about the game is the pre-rendered cutscenes Also, "The Well of Souls" is usually the name used for Mount Malefor by those who are corrupted by evil _So, get that checked out with your local shaman-_
The only thing I disliked about _The Eternal Night_ was its difficulty curve. Seriously, I died like 8 times on the first level alone - and that's the amount of deaths I had during the entirerity of _A New Begining._ What the hell!? xD
@@officialxverzusz Dark Spyro is a literal Monster especially with his lightning fast melee attack, there's a cheat code you can use to activate him if you want to show those enemies who's Boss.
The Chronicler: “You’re such a simp” I love the Legend of Spyro, but that felt painfully accurate. XD To the point of Ember & Flame in AHT, I think the reason why fans including me liked them so much is I’m fairly sure it’s the first time you see other dragons the same age as Spyro as it were. If they ever did a remake of the game, I honestly wouldn’t mind a bit more interaction for those two. That’s just me though.
The reason I enjoyed the Legends games is because I always found running around grabbing gems and nothing else kind of boring and the idea of Spyro actually fighting against enemies and using multiple elements was awesome I actually enjoyed playing the games for dawn of dragon the only thing I didn't like was that the game felt short to me there wasn't enough bosses and levels I would love if they brought back the legend trilogy and remade them or something
Ok at 16:36 did cynder just repeat the exact words spyro just said to sparx when he was leaving home ......wow I love the eternal night but Dang a repeat of words of wisdom that is just wow. I mean look at 13:45 its almost the same
The reason Sparx feels like such a jerk in The Eternal Night is because the lines were written for David Spade, who has a totally different style than Billy West. Spade sort of says obnoxious stuff in a lighthearted cadence that makes it clear he's just good-naturedly ribbing other characters. West's delivery style is gruffer and doesn't fit with that kind of dialogue - it doesn't really sound lighthearted, it sounds sarcastic. It really goes to show how important delivery is, and how a different actor saying the same lines can really change the feel of an entire scene.
In my honesty, dawn of the dragon is my all time favorite xD ik ik, weird. But I love how Spyro and cynder we're grown up and the music is incredible. Just wish they could of done better tho x3 . With some remastering, the game Could be a masterpiece
@@elusiveart530 Ehh who knows, I've played the Classic Games, Legend Games and Skylander Games but Legend is something else, it's more special and powerful.
A Hero’s Tail is my absolute favorite, I miss that game so much!! I’ve been trying to hunt down a PS2 and AHT for so long because I miss it and I can’t remember if I actually finished the game. Hopefully soon I can get it again to finish it. The memories. ❤️
Remember that one underwater temple level? That thing was FRUSTRATING. Also I think I beat the game goven that I vaguely remember a castle made of clouds??? DTD, AHT and ANB are the only Spyro games I had so it had to be one of the two PS2 games, AHT and ANB. And ANB has an epic Cynder battle in space where there are no clouds, so it has to be AHT.
@@IamDefinetlyaBagel yeah 😭😭 bro iv been looking for and iso file for a new begining to run on my paw emulator on my laptop iv tried everysite and nothing works do you perhaps know where I can get the file
7:03 Huh, interesting. I always thought as time went on that Stewart Copeland's skills at writing music for Spyro just got better and better. Out of the original trilogy I find myself loving more of the OST in Year of the Dragon than the first 2 games. Not to say the first 2 have bad OSTs at all, the man's a god at making good music. But the OSTs I thought just kept getting better as time went. I can point out very few tracks in 1 and 2 that I love in comparison to how many I can point out in 3. Like to give an idea, off the top of my head in 1 I love the tracks for Dreamweaver's Homeworld, Lofty Castle, and Wizard Peak. In 2 I love the tracks for Magma Cone, Fracture Hills, Hurricos, and Glimmer. Oh man but 3, I love the tracks for Seashell Shore, Sunny Villa, Dino Mines (the updated one not the one that uses Sunny Villa's track), and I think both Frozen Altars and Fireworks Factory have some of the best tunes in the whole franchise. Funny thing though I also kinda love Enter the Dragonfly's OST almost as much as Year of the Dragon, I know the game is awful but damn, Stewart Copeland didn't need to go so hard on the tunes lmao. Cloud 9, Monkey Monastery, Thieves Den, my favorite Honey Marsh, all bangers.
Enter the dragonfly was always my favourite 😭 I guess it's just nostalgia but as a child , the bright colours made me feel safe . It almost felt like I was in a trance while I played . The gems have such a great sound !! I always wanted to eat them 😭😭😭 playing it was definitely really fun for me when I was younger and I'd love to play it again to see how I feel about it now
Dawn of the dragon is the only spyro game I've played and I love the environment, atmosphere, soundtrack and character designs which are less childish than in the other spyro games, they're so cool. I think Spyro is like more grown up in the game ✨
You sure about that? Have you heard the ost and actually played through the game til Celestial Caves? The experience is very mystical and the music gives it a stranger tone, Dream even is bizarre and creepy especially when you first play the game and TEN on PS2 felt calming, strange and dark especially with the menu and the menu, the menu is powerful especially around the end when the thunder strikes loudly as the Well of Souls' spider vein-like cracks pulse with negative energy, the male singer in the choir adds to that one moment, you can actually feel the darkness and energy radiate off the screen with the Well of Souls sitting inactive in a barren wasteland with mist and the Celestial Moons hanging above in the sky not even close to each other yet, it feels scary because that massive mountain is building up energy from the dark spirits and negativity from the thunder surrounding it very VERY slowly and the menacing threat that is waiting to arrive once those Moons eclipse.
Was surprised Skylanders was a honorable mention, but you raised excellent points. And also agree Skylanders really started to drop in quality and such in 2016. For me, it seemed Superchargers was more so a attempted cash grab/attempt to get into the racing games like Mario kart, and then Imaginators felt more invested in the gimmic and tie in with the show than telling the story established and built with the first 4 games. Will say Skylanders holds a special place for me given I grew up with the platformer/collectathon era, mainly Ratchet and Clank, Lego Star Wars, and the first Jak & Daxter. Mainly though, Skylanders was my escape during high school, and helped me with my spout of depression and feeling of "not belonging" in high school.
@@questworldiangreenknight7455 If I'd have to put it in a tier list 1. Swap Force 2. Spyro's Adventure 3. Giants 4. Superchargers 5. Imaginators Fuck Imaginators
I would really like to see them reboot ALL of the Spyros, and not just the original 3. There's just a nostalgia about playing the games that does it for me. However, I would LOVE to see one that out does them all.
Id love to see more story of the legend series i felt like it was too short to be told in 3 games they made it feel like they killed off Spyro and Cynder in the end but they didnt
@@arcticwolf8150 I felt like I didn't get to enjoy it honestly. I played the first one with Cinder and then I didn't know that there were any more after that. I suppose that was on me tho.
What a great review. However I found Ripto's Rage from Reignited Trilogy to be quite annoying due to backtracking. I got used to it eventually but it broke the flow of the game for me. Spyro the Dragon was really awesome though and so far my favorite.
I was honestly surprised to see Spyro enter the dragonfly in the top worst, but I was not aware of any outside opinions on it, I personally thought it was really good with the way you could shield, and unlock new abilities, and how the dragonflys were sometimes a challenge to catch, not to mention the soundtrack! I don't remember any bugs or lag, but it was the first Spyro game I've ever played, still will be my number one favorite after playing dawn of the dragon, the first three games, and the Eternal night
TLOS needs to shine again… besides, there are a few things that would’ve been cool to have in the games. Like having unlimited furies as a cheat for example… also being able to use the final element in the first game whenever after you beat it would’ve been cool too. Maybe some skins or silly extras as well like the good old days, that’s what games need again. Not necessarily cheats as in “help me beat it the first time around faster” or anything else that brings shame to gamers, but things that make games worth revisiting instead of leaving them to rot on the shelf. Skins and extras that not only affect the gameplay but the cutscenes as well are great for replaying stories multiple times, giving gamers fun and new experiences and more ways to enjoy a game. Why don’t developers do this stuff anymore? It should be fun and rewarding to make these additions…
I miss the times when Sparx just hovered silently by your side, picking up gems and protecting you from enemies. But no, they had to go and give him a ‘personality’
Here's my favorite Spyro Videogames Spyro Reignited Trilogy Spyro Season of Ice Spyro 2 Season of Flame Spyro Attack of The Rhynocs Spyro Enter The Dragonfly Spyro A Hero's Tail Spyro Shadow Legacy Spyro Orange
I wish you made a list with only portable only titles too. Because a lot of this was more related to consoles. A good example was Antdude's compilation.
I must've had something slip my memory, it's two separate vids I'm pretty sure but he did do portable only for Spongebob. I must've been thinking of that.
somehow it only just occurred to me that The Legend Of Spyro, is basically Spyro as the Avatar "master of all 4 elements" Hell in the end of "new beginning" and "eternal night", and from almost the start of "dawn of the dragon" he even gets the ability to use an energybending equivalent "aether".
3:04 aw man I wish you used the part when she said "no Spyro don't" as an example the way she delivered that line was so cringy 😖 As for my favorite Spyro game it's gotta be eternal night yes it has flaws but I love the plot and I definitely agree Dark Spyro was the best part of the game both story and gameplay wise but I kinda like the Gba version of the game cause to me the ending was kinda darker cause in the console versions he just turned Gaul into Ash and blew him away and that's it but in both the ds and gba verson he flat out goes full genocide on Gaul and the apes ON SCREEN that just felt more dark to me and maybe they censored it on the console versions I don't know 🤷🏽♀️ but it was awesome nonetheless in my opinion
I think the one nitpick I have with reignited trilogy is with the extra health upgrade you get with Sparx, he doesn't turn red like Season of flame, Attack or the Rynocs, and a Hero's Tail
As a Skylanders fan, i don't get why people despise it so much. After all, it introduced me to the Spyro games in the first place. (And i compare Spyro's appearance in it to Smash bros. He (along with Cynder) is a playable character from a different game).
dude I love your choices and I like there is humor when watching this. I think you may have put a spark in my heart for Spyro again. looking forward to more that comes from ya. P.S. I can't wait to see if more Spyro shorts or any wacky clips.
The first game I've ever played on the Playstation was Spyro: The Dragon. I later got the Collector's Edition with the 3 games in it. So yeah, the first trilogy has a very special place in my heart and having the Reignited Trilogy was truly a blessing!
A New Beginning was my first Spyro game, I was obsessed with dragons as a kid so when I found out I could play as a dragon in a video game it literally rocked my world. Makes me wanna play again
Spyro season of flame is very nostalgic I remember when I played when I was 7 years of age back in 2007 yeah 6 years late back still worth it , I didn't it know it was Spyro until I seen the reignited trilogy. But the music was nostalgic 😁🥰.
Wow you went a mile ahead to make a really good and convincing research of every game listed in every category for its analysis! This was a very interesting top list! You put a great effort in explain each game about it's pros and cons, along passion in getting into detail. I also loved the little jokes here and there, the one of "TEN in a nutshell" was my favorite. Really sums up the game lol. I admit I was surprised that EtD was not in the first worst, and more that Spyro 1 was the first best. But I think it makes sense. I love that you considered the Skylanders, Spyro GBA games and also (some of) The Legend of Spyro portable games as honorable ones. (TEN of GBA is truly the best one) But overall I fully understand your points and views. And I can agree that Orange was really the worst of all. So much for a long-waited event. Spyro is a really fantastic franchise, that like many others has it's highs and lows, but at the end of they day, we still love that heroic dragon. It is a fact that, after the original trilogy, the games after didn't reach the same level of popularity, quality or excitement like before, but that doesn't mean that all of them are just bad. There are actually good and even great games that came after, and there are people that genuinely enjoy the games that are seen as bad. And that's good. I wonder what the future of Spyro might give us. But I hope, is a bright one. Wonderful work with the video! I bet you did a lot of work and effort to complete it, and was totally worth it. And I hope this satisfied you. I am. :) PS: Hey, I really appreciate how you gave attention to the voice actors. We play the games, but they give the characters their essence. Still love Tom Kenny and Elijah Wood voices a lot. And I agree that Billy West is the best Sparx. Sounds just so fitting. Also, there's someone who doesn't like enjoy Richard Horvitz's voice?
I think that Riptoe’s Rage is the best. Mostly because it was the first Spyro game I ever played. Also I love how Spyro calls Riptoe shorty when he’s shorter than Riptoe(at least in the original. I haven’t played the reignited ones yet. In 8th grade and playing games from 1998, 99 and 2000)
LMFAO Now I’m remembering that clip 😂😂 When I think of ETD though the first thing that comes to mind is those uncanny models. That and Crop Circle Country.
I have not even touched many spyro games, but "a new beginning" was one of my favorites, on DS. I got stuck for years at the first laser puzzle but after that rushed through the game a dozen times.
I'm happy you at least gave the GBA trilogy a mention. They really are good games and capture the Spyro charm arguably the best after the original trilogy.
Spyro: Year of the Dragon is fairly easily the best game of the whole franchise and Enter the Dragonfly the worst. I kinda really liked Legend trilogy, even though Eternal Night is not that good. But Dawn of the Dragon is one those games I really liked (even with all the flaws and cut corners), mostly because of all good memories.
Spyro games (and 90-00 games in general) often give me horrible motion sickness. I had to limit how long I could play or watch these games (especially if it wasn’t me or my brother trying to accommodate me with how he controlled the camera playing) And then came Enter the Dragonfly. That game is basically unplayable. The lagging and loading is seriously awful and often outright crashed. And my brother who never gets motion sick? Yeah. He got sick playing this game. YotD I could sometimes acclimate to or play for a short burst then need to call it quits; EtDF basically made my brother sick in “my old YotD sick-time” or less. Don’t think either of us vomitted, but it was pretty close at times. Then there’s even MORE side quests to complete the game (with many dragonflies in the middle of escort or “game pushes you forward” segments) and I swear a spike in difficulty in general + the really awful and cringy writing and voice directing (and a poorly executed Princess Bride spoof)… We gave up on it. And I haven’t seen anything about EtDF that’s made me want to try and stomach through it (literally) as an adult
People are allowed to dislike a design, doesn't matter if it ever changes again. A design is a design and people will think it sucks no matter what. If you're tired of people ragging on the design even though he has gone back to his old one, you might as well be tired of people ragging on a game even though a newer one came about that went back to the good old days. If they don't like they don't like. Characters always go through redesigns, and some of them will suck regardless of the others.
Dawn of the Dragon sadly a victim of "Rushed game" there was later cut content discovered that was originally going to be in the final game, but since they wanted the game out on Christmas, and wanted to port it onto everything there wasn't time to implement everything.
Spyro 1 is also MY first ever console game! I remember playing it when I was 4 or 5, and I definitely can agree with you when you said it was the best game in the franchise!
Thank you for pointing out Skylanders good qualities and justifying it. Spyro was actually the reason I got the first one to begin with. Even though I’ve never played any Spyro games at all😅, guess you could say I was his fan without even playing. Then I became a fan and got all the others when they came. I personally never noticed a drop in quality. I was always too excited for each new game and Skylanders.
I’ve seen a lot of people complain that Skylanders “ruined” Spyro because of his design (even though Spyro was actually the reason Skylanders existed in the first place because it even started out with him in Spyro’s Kingdom) and even today they still seem to resent his design. That’s why I gave it an honorable mention instead of putting it in either lists because I wanted to be fair and not give in to the fanbase and trash on it just to fuel their ego. And yeah… Skylanders pretty much had a noticeable drop in quality when Imaginators came out because it was just pretty bland and it was noticeable that Toys for Bob was running out of ideas. At least in terms of story.
@@TravistheDragon I actually for awhile have had an idea for a new Skylanders game. Skylanders Band Brigade! A special team of skylanders fight with weaponized instruments and battle evil with the power of music. I’ve even come up with a comeback line for a trailer and a slogan. Since it’s been awhile since the last game that trailer will say “We’re getting the band back together!” And the game slogan will be “It’s time evil faced the music.”
22:15 that's both true and false, true after you beat the first realm, their never heard of or mentioned again, however collecting all the fire pattern and pink flower pattern eggs, you get to change spyro's model to either Ember or Flame. doesn't make em relevant? Hell na, they're literally just padding for a lackluster reward for collecting
I grew up with shadow legacy and it always hurts to hear it get dunked on constantly, but I have to agree in retrospect there’s just so many better games in the RPG genre. Loved the aesthetic of the shadow realm and magic attacks but you’re totally right on it being way too slow.
At least the Crash part of the Fusion games felt somewhat like a Crash game. The Spyro side is just... WHAT DOES RIDING A JEEP HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH SPYRO lol? At least the magnetic suit felt decently cool, but all I can sum up the game with is "YOU DID IT! :D"... seriously, it's ass.
I think they should have gotten a different developer for Spyro Orange and left Crash Purple to Vicarious Vision since they clearly have more experience with the marsupial.
I actually asked Richard whether or not he used his time voicing Zim to inspire his performance of Kaos. He laughed and basically talked about how after he read a few of the lines, the people in the booth were like "That's great! Have you done a voice like this before?" and he said "No. Never.", and smiled.
Ehh, Eternal night should switch with Dawn of the dragon on this review in my opinion. It had flaws like any other but it's soundtrack and updated combat made it better. The story felt like it wasn't complete but the darkness of it is what sold it for me! I used to leave the game at the menu just to hear the opera song, then beat it countless times to hear broken soul! if you pause the game during the credits and go to the music volume slider it will repeat all the songs that play on a continuous repeat! That was my itunes back then lol
I grew up playing enter of the dragonfly, and I know it did leave a scare on the franchise, but it still get a remastered version so the franchise can redeem themselves and so people can get the game that was supposed to happen, cuz like he said the developers were pushed and rushed but this time they won’t be so I think a remaster of enter of the dragonfly sounds like a good idea.
Aww nuts, Eternal Night is actually my favorite Spyro game..(Ok, its cuz its only one of two Spyro games i played ever, the other being A Heroes tail which i also loved) The box art admittedly won me over so i had to play it~ does it have flaws? Sure, but the combat is so much fun to use and Using Dark Spyro was even funnier! Also the Vocal track in the credits "This Broken Soul" became one of my favorite songs of all time~💜 So Eternal Night forever has a place in my heart!😊
This is the first video of this type I've seen from this channel, and I gotta say, you are super well written and your voicing is clear and enjoyable to listen to! Your editing is also quite snappy. I look forward to watching more from your channel in the future. :)
Legend series will always hold a special place in my heart. Right alongside the og Ratchet and Clank games, SOCOM U.S Navy Seals, and Star Wars Battlefront 2. All of these games had a huge impact on me when I was little.
I didn't like the cancelled Netflix show because his personality changed in there and made Cynder have guilty blood because Malefor was her dad forcing her to follow his footsteps.
DAWN OF THE DRAGON IS LITERALLY MY FAVORITE 😭😭😭😭 Jokes aside, this one is probably my favorite bcause i used to play it A LOT with my father when i was like... A ten little girl or smth. Carries a lot of nostalgia, and sentimental emotions to me, its like a representative of our relationship. I was so delighted about this game since ive played for some minutes, i had literal sparkles on my eyes, and it doesn't matter how much we try and play this game again, never gonna beat the feeling that i got when we played the game for the first two or three times. We've finished this game five or six times nowadays, still feels kinda magic though. Anyways, i still think its a great game with its problems and plot wholes, my dad used to say its almost a kid's GOW :p Also, as i live in Brazil, we used to choose the spanish dubs since it was 10% easier to understand than english that time. AND I CAN TELL YOU BRO, SPANISH DUB ROCKS, for me the original voices of Spyro, Cynder and Sparx are from the spanish dubbing, change my mind
I’m so happy to see videos like this about older games like Spyro that made a huge impact on older audience members like myself being talked about by younger people.
I can agree with most of these and see your point, for the first two TLOS games i think Cynder looks awesome but Spyro has a big ass head in the first two and it looks awkward but all 3 games were awesome and edgy which was a cool storyline, best storyline in the Spyro franchise i think, Year of The Dragon will always be my favorite hands down i love everything about that game from level design, characters and their voice actors even Moneybags is awesome and in that game u get to see Bianca develop herself and grow to be a powerful friend of yours, on to Hero's Tail, I didnt get into it much and I absolutely hated the voice actor for Spyro in that game ffs he sounds like an Italian mob boss
I actually find Spyro threes music is my favourite of the three… just appeals to me more. Spyro enter the dragonfly might be my favourite soundtrack though
I used to play New Begining, Dawn Of The Dragon, and A Hero's Tail. My PS2s broke :( I had like three different PS2 consoles and they are all dead. But if my channel blows up I might get a new console along with these games that I used to play and stream me playing them. I also used to eat DimSims whilst playing NB lol. Ah, nostalgia.
This was very well done and the choices you made for each list is interesting and what you brought up makes sense. The funny thing is I grew up with the legend of Spyro series first and then the other games. However, what you have brought up makes sense and I respect your opinions too. Also, 32:30...I see what you did there XD, but I don't blame you. I like her too X3 To sum it up, well done on this video. It's great, funny interesting and it's good and interesting to see your views on a series that you love a lot. :)
Well you know me XD I like stating opinions And thank you. I did my very best to provide what I could for this video. And honestly i actually feel kind of proud of this.
I've lost interest in your video as soon as you said that. Dawn of the Dragon was the worst. But that's only YOUR opinion. I loved the Legend of Spyro series ever since it came out on GameCube sure, there's some shity details and everything but I like the story and at least they kept some of the music from the first Legend of Spyro game. While I do think the first game has its perks and it does at least you can not only shoot fire from your face but ice, lightning, earth and purple Fury which I think is conveniently. And in the first game you only had two damn attacks charge and Flame attack. In the 3rd loS you can FUCKING FLY not only Glide but fucking flap your fucking wings. Spyro itself has come a long way from its games and storytelling. And for the animation I thought it was great. Because I was into that kind of stuff for the time and I didn't care how it look because it was new and it looked great for the game. Not to mention it had some original characters in it. I might not have played every Spire game that you probably have. But that's why The Legend of Spyro has a special place in my heart. And you're acting like Erin Hanson for shitting on games especially for the Nintendo 64 Majora's Mask I could care less from the barf floor to the actual wood textures.
Hero's tail is my favorite forever. I didn't like first 2 games at all. I like all ps2 Spyro games but Herp's tail is 1. And I like dawn of the dragon Spyro. Teenage spyro looks cool. I wanna see adult too. But okey Spyro 3 is pretty good. Cuz multiple playable characters. I liked Shela and SgtBird
i recently tried the GBA version of TLOS 1 and honestly i enjoyed it. i felt like it worked very well as a two dimensional game - its not comparable to the PS2 version just because of the hardware difference but all in all i did like it.
Hey man, i was going to come back and say soemthing about defending Eternal Night, but i gotta gather it and dunno if youd want the comment section flooded. Between this and your recent fangame announcement, Id love to hear what you think of Spyro's history and best characteristics sometime. Ive gotta go to work, but i hope to catch ya sometime. If not, best of luck on your endeavors anyways!
Having reached the end, I can only understand your thoughts on the Reignited Trilogy, seeing as that’s the only one I have… and my experience with Enter The Dragonfly is corrupted due to the fact that I can only faintly remember having the game, even if I have no memory of playing it. And with that being said, I hope you have a great weekend, Travis. I feel you deserve more than just adequate rest after making this. (Edit 1) Thank you for the heart! (Edit 2) Wait… Where’d the heart go? ……………………………………………..…………………………… Hm… No doubt there are comments that deserve it more than I do. I’ll just… keep the notification.
I played all the games and unfortunately I rly disliked the newer gen games. Especially the darker theme and subject destroyed spyro for me. It was not spyro anymore and gosh I HATED sparx in those games. I think sparx destroyed the new gen games the most for me :(
I cannot thank you enough for praising skylanders. As a die hard fanboy myself who’s been playing since the first game dropped, I appreciate that you can accept it and not think of it as a franchise that “Ruined Spyro”. Anyways, great vid all around!
@@jamesporter571 I can see why you’d not like Spyro in skylanders, it is more or less focused on the other characters though. Maybe I’m a bit bias cause I’m not really into the Spyro games.
Spyro 1 was my fav in the trilogy. I didn’t like the mini games in the second and third games they were frustrating mostly . Spyro one has the best pacing and overall was really well made. Spyro 4 would be the worst atleast based on reviews. Overall a great childhood series though
One thing i love about the Legend of Spyro games is that, they spawned alot of cool, entertaining, and interesting Fan-made stories & comics. My personal favorites so far are Seeraphine's "Zirra's Return" & RusCSI's "Pure Light". Now admidetly, i've only played the 3rd game in the trilogy (Dawn of the Dragon). And in all honesty, i love it! But i get what you're coming from. It's not the best Spyro game, but it's certainly not the worst either. It's more like somewhere in between, where it can be OK at best and mediocre at worst. (And that's basically in reguards to the entire trilogy in general). In my opinion anyway. But like i said, i still love it, regardless of it's shortcomings. So, in short, my response to your ranking of DotD: I don't agree with it, but i get it.
My main problem with Dawn of a Dragon was how much of the gameplay is consumed by the combat, and the combat isn't even that good. Sure you can use different powers and such, but even with both dragons maxed out it still takes incredibly long to finish any encounter because the enemies can soak up so much damage. It feels like mopping a giant floor instead of y'know, combat.
I actually really really like Dawn of the dragon!!!!! I like the platforming and the combat . And yeah it slows down in biger places but I don't mind that in the slightest.
Unpopular opinion/hot take: Enter the Dragonfly could be (and is to me) the best Spyro in the series. If it hadn't been for the game being a bit unpolished, I think it would have been loved by the majority of players.
There´s so much spongebob content in this video...
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His voice is annoying I breathed a sigh of relief the moment I muted the video
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My takes on the Spyro games (spoilers: I think the Spyro franchise, with or without Skylanders (the mostly of not completely high standards of the franchise made it a teensy bit better) very hit-or-miss as well, so it’s hard to pinpoint whether at heart, it’s good or bad even though when the games are bad, they make How to Train Your Dragon 3: The Hidden World look as great as it’s predecessors. Now THAT is low! But I think the franchise has done slightly more right than wrong.)*
5W: The Legend of Spyro 3: Dawn of the Dragon - ✅ ✅ (yep, even by the high (but mostly mixed) standards of TLoS, if you count the console and phone versions of TLoSDotD, this is actually one of my favourite games of the franchise for many reasons and I only agree with some but not most of your criticisms like the first ones about Hunter like him telling the dragons what they couldn’t fly over which is unintentionally underestimating what they could do and his over-realistic design (reminds me of how much we want Final Fantasy to go back to the cartoony designs they used to have in the 1990s games even though the realistic designs are appealing on their own especially for the lower standards of forced realistic facial designs on several video game characters. Looking at you, Call of Duty and Sonic ‘06!)
5B: Spyro the Dragon 3: Year of the Dragon - ✅ ✅
4W: Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly (aka (as much as I hate to say it but it’s expectable by Spyro the Dragon (2001-05) standards, the real Spyro 4, or how about a much better title? “Spyro: Enter the Dumpster?) - ❌❌ (What do you think?)
4B: The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning - ✅
3W: The Legend of Spyro 2: The Eternal Night - ❌ (I’m sure a lot of people would consider TLoSTEN to Crash of the Titans as TLoSDOTD is to Mind Over Mutant regarding being released at the same time (the formers in late 2007 and the latters in late 2008) for competition’s sake, but in terms of quality, it’s pretty much the other way around. In fact, as Crappy Games Wiki said it best, “Ah, and it just started to get good.”)
3B: Spyro the Dragon 5: A Hero’s Tail - ❌✅ (it’s a beautiful mess. Sure, it has its problems, but even though there are aspects of this game AntDude and Square Eyed Jak (for example) pointed out that undermined it from being great, there are slightly more good things to say about it that makes it at least decent, especially as a sequel to the infamous Enter the Dragonfly)
2W: Spyro: Shadow Legacy - ❌ (this is the Sonic Chronicles of the Spyro franchise)
2B: Spyro the Dragon 2: Ripto’s Rage/Gateway to Glimmer - ✅ (I may agree with ExoParadigmGamer on some of his criticisms towards Spyro 2 (the console version, more on the GBA game that because it’s another Spyro 2, I guess by that logic, Season of Ice is Spyro 1 and Attack of the Rhynocs is Spyro 3) in terms of its frustrating moments of gameplay, but outside of that, I think this game is way too charmingly 2K (it was released in late 1999 which is the same time as other PS1 classics like Pac-Man World 1 (as much as I love the console versions of Pac-Man World 2 even after seeing Jeff Compass, Nitro Rad (the most positive of the three giving it a B+) and King K’s positive-ish (if not super positive like ADAMNATOR’s, TehSnakerer’s and Coop’s, but I understand where they’re coming from) reviews of that super underrated sequel, I’m strongly looking forward to Pac-Man World 1 & (possibly) 2 Re-Pac) not to love!)
HM1: Spyro the Dragon Reignited Trilogy - ✅ (Caddicarus pointed out that there are a few flaws with this game, but it’s still a great way to reignite the Insomniac trilogy of 2K (1998-2000)!)
HM2: Skylanders (hexalogy) - ✅
HM3: Spyro Advance trilogy - Spyro 1: Season of Ice: ❌. Spyro 2: Season of Flame: ✅ (because of how underwhelmed I was by Season of Ice, even as a kid, I bet it would come as a shocker to many that I think S2SoF really is that much of an improvement! Granted, it has some flaws that keep it away from being amazing, but as far as the lower/more limited standards of Spyro platformers on the handheld instead of the PS1 and eighth-gen home consoles (the original and Reignited Spyro trilogies) go, Digital Eclipse really tried their best with this one). Spyro 3: Attack of the Rhynocs: ✅
HM4: The Legend of Spyro handheld/mobile trilogy - ❌ for the GBA & DS versions of TLoSANB and TLoSDOTD and ✅✅ for the GBA version of TLoSTEN and ✅ for the DS version of The Eternal Night and the mobile versions of the trilogy.
1W: Spyro Orange: The Cortex Conspiracy/Crash Bandicoot Purple: Ripto’s Rampage - ❌❌ (while Crash Purple is boring as sin at best, Spyro Orange, even by Spyro standards, is virtually unplayable!)
1B: Spyro the Dragon (original) - ✅✅ (this is one of my favs up to the ranks of Spyro 3 (which if I could pick one, I still think Spyro 3 the best of the best)!).
Thats because both SpongeBob and Spyro are voiced by Tom Kenny. He must get annoyed with the name Bob. 😆
While I agree that Dawn of the Dragon isn’t a perfect game, it had a huge impact on my life as kid. And to this day it still holds a special place in my heart. Also I just love Elijah Wood voicing my favorite dragon.
Dawn of the Dragon was awesome i enjoyed it very much except for a couple things were annoying, like enemies not having health bars except for elite enemies and boss enemies and they took forever to beat even the gremlins, yes Elijah Wood was great for Spyro's more edgy serious side i dont think Tom Kenny would fit in the legend trilogy along with everyone else it just wouldnt be as badass especially during the Malefor cutscenes with Mark Hamill's warped voice lines for the most deadly dragon boss in any Spyro game
I enjoyed Dawn of the Dragon. For me though def not my favorite since I was almost already in highschool at that point or already was, so the original trilogy was *my* childhood game. Which is funny usually people are biased on what is most nostalgic to them as a kid no matter what game. But I do remember having a good time with it especially co-op!
I love all the early spyros from the first 3 to the game cube ones to the legends of Spyro series
though I was 2-5 playing the First 3 and I was under 10 playing the others so maybe my opinion doesn’t matter lol
Not to mention you get to play Cynder as well as Spyro. I wish a 4th game was made with a more Sci-fi environment where Spyro and Cynder including Sparx find themselves in the future and get to go into outer space while Cynder and Spyro gain new elements to help battle an alien invasion attacking the planet. Kinda like a Halo game, but with Spyro and new characters for TLOS series not to mention for 10 year olds and older like the previous titles. Also dive into who are Spyro and Cynder’s parents and that they were originally from the modern day future with their families sent them into the past to protect them from the aliens before Spyro defeated Malefor and transported Cynder and Sparx along with himself to the future to stop the aliens. Also having their dads as military generals, Cynder’s mom as a tactical special operations officer/spy, and Spyro’s biological mom a surgeon, a field medic, and a warrior like his dad. Also having both Cynder and Spyro’s parents as Guardians.
Same dawn of the dragon is nostalgic as heck and I respect it for being fun to play even if it wasn't perfect
Wow, that is a great list you did with the best and worst of the games, but still have the strong love of the franchise. :)
Funny as I thought Dawn of the Dragon would be on the best and I think I go for Spyro 2 over 1 but still great games. ^^
Don't blame ya on Spyro Orange as that is the worst game ever! -_-
The first time I played the Legend of Spyro the Eternal night it was with a friend who happened to have it while I had the other two. I had never played the Second one but I knew the stories of how hard and difficult it was. My friend had for a while but never beat it(he never figured out the tutorial part when he was a kid). We originally played by every death we switch out(Which we changed to 3 because we kept freaking dying). It took us over 22 In game hours and that was using the Dark Spyro cheat code only a 1/4 into the game. It was hell at times but we pulled through. We then went on to play the first and third game together and enjoyed them a whole lot more. His favorite in the trilogy was the first one mainly because of how much he enjoyed using the Lightning and earth breath. Eventually I replayed the Eternal night about a year later(he gave me the game to keep and said he never wanted to see it again). Unlike our last play through, I went out of my way to find all 10 dragon relics(when we played together we got like 3 our first time). I had a much easier time and was able to beat the game in 11 hours. There were points wear I got stuck a bit and almost used cheats but I was able to pull through. Still the worst in the trilogy but not as terrible as when I first played it.
I disagree with DOTD. I like the redesigns. The designs do look off and weird same with the animations but overall, The game is completely fun even playing it with a friend since it had Co-op. Story was good, again it did had plot holes and it has its flaws but the gameplay was great. Controls were clunky but I got used to them and the best part is the Valley of Avalar level where you can fly anywhere cause it looked so open-world and Dark Spyro, wished we get play as him against Malefor, would've loved to see Malefor's reaction of seeing Spyro go into his dark counterpart. I respect your opinion but I put DOTD as my top 5 best at number 5. And trust me, Spyro in the Imaginators cutscences looks downright ugly, nothing can top it. It looks like he's made out of playdoh
My favorites are (in Order):
5. Legend of Spyro: Eternal Night- just not as good as the first but still enjoyable
4. Spyro The Dragon (first game)
3. Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage
2. Legend of Spyro: New Beginning
1. Spyro 3 Year of the Dragon
And yes I included the reignited versions and original versions interchangeably. The worst were:
1. Hero's Tale
2. Enter the Dragonfly
Both were just broken, unplayable messes. I never played the rest.
I don’t have too many gripes with your list other than one thing… it KILLS me to see Spyro 3 below new beginning and hero’s tail. 3 is my personal number one, but it deserves at least the number 3 spot! Child me is crying profusely!
For all of its flaws, I admire Dawn of the Dragon's elemental diversity. I wish there were other games that had even wider varieties.
I agree that the Legend of Spyro has so many plot holes, but that's what makes it so awesome to me!
I'm a big time LoS Theorist, and one of my favorite Spyro things to do is go through the games and try to figure out how the Plot Holes can be filled! There's so much opportunity to TLoS series, and digging deeper is what makes it the best in my opinion. 😎👍
Should give “the broken line” Spyro fanfic a read sometime if you like seeing plot holes filled and a continuation of what happens after DOTD. I know that stuff can have some “cringe” aspects to it but this one is really good!
@@onefeatherboi2342 Looks interesting. Thanks.
Can we become official The legend of Spyro instead independent fans?
I grew up with the legend of Spyro sooo
Lol ikr LoS was definitely among the best Spyro games, Cynder will always be on my list of top female characters in games, everytime someone tells me she's Spyro's sister I'm like "Not in the slightest, they're different species of dragon for starters"
I loved the Legend series it was very interesting in my opinion and full of lore so that's why I enjoyed it so much, but yeah the graphics and game design definitely could've been better
It was the best they could do at the early 2000s when it comes to the first game, but they could have made the PS2 version of Dawn of The Dragon have the same graphics as the Xbox 360 version. I still have all three and can play them to my heart’s desire… as long as my PS2 doesn’t die on me, used up at least two already in my childhood and one blew up when I turned it off. The disc inside was scorched and was brown on the bottom. It was a small explosion, but it was still a loud one. There was smoke and a little fire, I could see it behind the power button. It died down on its own, I didn’t have a PS2 for three years after that.
@@fiercethedragon yeah maybe in the future they can make a remastered version of the legend series I never got to play it because my father didn't believe in magic and saw it as a game made my demons so I was stuck watching multiple play throughs of it
@@fathersiren9914 dame that's rough. I do back ya up 100% buddy
@@theresurrecteddragon34 thx 😊
@@fiercethedragon Dawn of the dragon was definitely rushed imo
Dawn of the Dragons actually has the best redesign to me personally. I love the game cause it looked so edgy
I agree
The bad things about that game were some of the animations and... Ugh... Ignitus design (WHY?!)
@@XCharizard100 idk why people didn’t like it that much
@@michaelmoss9198 agreed. I thought Ignitus looked okay
Or Those Characters designed in Dawn of the Dragon looks mature developed execute and ready to go
I was a big fan of TLOS when it came out and still love the games but after reading into all the stuff that was cut out, only having a year to make each game, and about a million dollars to make each game I was kind sad to see that the games could have been so much better if they were given better treatment.
@@kelvliximab2362 There's an Official Creator on Deviantart known as That Spyro Guy, one of the Elements that never appeared was Water and the Elements are made by a being of Dark and one of Light.
What personally elevates dawn of the dragon to me is the fact that it allowed 2 players adventure if i remember correctly. Which was good
From my experience, most Spyro fans tend to shun anything that came after the original trilogy, just because they weren't made by Insomniac. So it's refreshing to see some love for some of the games that came after. Awesome vid!
I agree with that
This is what most fans really do...hate because this isn't insomniac game
Just like with ratchet and clank size matter...this is same thing
Kinda like the starwars prequel trilogy. Though i still love those films despite the flaws. Definitely more than disneys sh*tty sequels.
@@coreymckee4844 whats fans don't see...orginal movies and prequels and sequels haves own problems...so we never have a good star wars movie:)
Mayby first 2 and third from prequel series
@@nerdodragonnerdpl4167 only thing that separates the sequels from the prequels and originals is that they were not made by george Lucas. The prequels and original films were from him. Sequels aren't starwars.
Hell, George Lucas didn't even show up for Rise of skywalker premiere. And that alone is very telling. Georges original vision consists of just 6 films. With ideas for sequels hes thought about but never went on to make.
@@coreymckee4844 something tells me that peapols can don't liking idea for the George sequels because medihlorians or whatever...yes...thats actually idea for sequels of George
But i don't wacht star wars many because...i don't wacht bloockbusters generally:)
The only Spyro game I’ve ever played was Dawn of the Dragon. I liked it, but only because I was a kid that couldn’t find any other dragon games and being able to fly was really cool to me. It’s a shame the areas weren’t really built for flying though, putting in weird invisible walls or grounding your character to force you to do stupid puzzles. I also recall them being very small, so the flying would often be very janky as you fought the game’s attempts to force you to use other mechanics.
i just cant get over how solid the entire story of the legend of spyro series was especially with the freaking depressing ending to eternal night i was so emotionally shocked
Legend of Spyro trilogy may not have been the best, but it felt more nostalgic and I really did like how they did the characters in a darker tone
I'm so glad Hero's Tail was on the Best list. I see so many people calling it a bad game, but it's my favourite Spyro game
To me anyway, it’s probably the most underrated Spyro game. It just doesn’t get enough love unfortunately.
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I like Spyro A Hero's Tail it's one of my favorite Spyro games.
@@TravistheDragon A Hero's Tail was actually fun and looked nice, especially compared to Enter the Dragonfly lol. I loved playing it. Speaking of A Hero's Tail my favorite bit is Sparx having the extra life hit where he can be red colored, give a fourth hot before Spyro would die from another one.
Ha ha ha. That's why I'm playing Shadow Legacy with cheat codes active because it makes it way easier/takes less time.
Story wise it's ok, my favorite thing is just seeing all the moves Spyro has. XD
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Not to mention the two dragons Flame and Ember I like them hope they return.
I prefer dawn of the dragon over eternal night and skylanders honestly. I don't think the designs are that bad.
But that voice acting... You singled out Cynder and WOW it's atrocious.
I actually love the TLOS trilogy
The Eternal Night, in my opinion, is the peak of the LoS trilogy. I liked the voice actors, Cynder, the story, the soundtrack is amazing (especially the title theme and Dream Sequence)
What I probably find worst about the game is the pre-rendered cutscenes
Also, "The Well of Souls" is usually the name used for Mount Malefor by those who are corrupted by evil
_So, get that checked out with your local shaman-_
The only thing I disliked about _The Eternal Night_ was its difficulty curve. Seriously, I died like 8 times on the first level alone - and that's the amount of deaths I had during the entirerity of _A New Begining._ What the hell!? xD
@@Archon3960 oh yea the difficulty curve is fucking awful
THOSE FUCKING PIRATE SHIP ARENA BATTLES SHOULDN'T BE AS HARD AS THEY ARE
@@officialxverzusz I didn't get to that part yet, but I know what you mean. x)
@@officialxverzusz Dark Spyro is a literal Monster especially with his lightning fast melee attack, there's a cheat code you can use to activate him if you want to show those enemies who's Boss.
@@artistanthony1007 Yea but where's the challenge in that
The Chronicler: “You’re such a simp”
I love the Legend of Spyro, but that felt painfully accurate. XD
To the point of Ember & Flame in AHT, I think the reason why fans including me liked them so much is I’m fairly sure it’s the first time you see other dragons the same age as Spyro as it were. If they ever did a remake of the game, I honestly wouldn’t mind a bit more interaction for those two. That’s just me though.
I would love spyro 1, but treetops exists. I'll take magma cone's popcorn minigame and the escort alchemist quests over the entirety of treetops.
I’ll see your treetops complaints and raise you Spyro: Year of the Dragon where we get *YETI RACING* 😂
The reason I enjoyed the Legends games is because I always found running around grabbing gems and nothing else kind of boring and the idea of Spyro actually fighting against enemies and using multiple elements was awesome I actually enjoyed playing the games for dawn of dragon the only thing I didn't like was that the game felt short to me there wasn't enough bosses and levels I would love if they brought back the legend trilogy and remade them or something
Makes me happy to see all these LOS fans still around and that I’m not alone lol. Any of you guys read fanfics of these games?
Yes, and I'm writing one myself.
@@Blazcowitz1943 Oh sweet! My personal favorite is "The Broken Line" its soo good. What's yours?
YES I use them as part of the canon in my Skylanders fan fiction, it’s entitled, Skylanders: Malefore’s Daughter
@@questworldiangreenknight7455 sick dude I’ll give it a read sometime! Love seeing the community still alive after all these years
@@onefeatherboi2342 I miss those games so much
Ok at 16:36 did cynder just repeat the exact words spyro just said to sparx when he was leaving home ......wow I love the eternal night but Dang a repeat of words of wisdom that is just wow. I mean look at 13:45 its almost the same
Holy crap I didn't realize that!!!! thank you for pointing that out
@@nanaliz7210 no prob
Lol 😂
Nice thumbnail ❤️
Yeah I agree
The reason Sparx feels like such a jerk in The Eternal Night is because the lines were written for David Spade, who has a totally different style than Billy West. Spade sort of says obnoxious stuff in a lighthearted cadence that makes it clear he's just good-naturedly ribbing other characters. West's delivery style is gruffer and doesn't fit with that kind of dialogue - it doesn't really sound lighthearted, it sounds sarcastic. It really goes to show how important delivery is, and how a different actor saying the same lines can really change the feel of an entire scene.
In my honesty, dawn of the dragon is my all time favorite xD ik ik, weird. But I love how Spyro and cynder we're grown up and the music is incredible. Just wish they could of done better tho x3 . With some remastering, the game Could be a masterpiece
Also it's insane, it feels hype especially in Warfang.
You’re not weird for that. I don’t understand why people prefer the childish original trilogy…
@@elusiveart530 Ehh who knows, I've played the Classic Games, Legend Games and Skylander Games but Legend is something else, it's more special and powerful.
@@artistanthony1007 I agree your comment
A Hero’s Tail is my absolute favorite, I miss that game so much!! I’ve been trying to hunt down a PS2 and AHT for so long because I miss it and I can’t remember if I actually finished the game. Hopefully soon I can get it again to finish it. The memories. ❤️
I just 100% a hero’s tail and it’s my fav Spyro game.
I recently just finished this game and it was definitely as good as I remembered
Bro just a tip you can download a PS2 emulator and get the game running on your laptop
Remember that one underwater temple level? That thing was FRUSTRATING. Also I think I beat the game goven that I vaguely remember a castle made of clouds??? DTD, AHT and ANB are the only Spyro games I had so it had to be one of the two PS2 games, AHT and ANB. And ANB has an epic Cynder battle in space where there are no clouds, so it has to be AHT.
@@IamDefinetlyaBagel yeah 😭😭 bro iv been looking for and iso file for a new begining to run on my paw emulator on my laptop iv tried everysite and nothing works do you perhaps know where I can get the file
18:28 makes me want to see an abridged version of the Legend series. Great video!
**Amogus music intensifies**
There is an abridged version of DotD. It's an older collection of videos, but they're pretty funny regardless.
My favourite is Legend of Spyro
7:03 Huh, interesting. I always thought as time went on that Stewart Copeland's skills at writing music for Spyro just got better and better. Out of the original trilogy I find myself loving more of the OST in Year of the Dragon than the first 2 games. Not to say the first 2 have bad OSTs at all, the man's a god at making good music. But the OSTs I thought just kept getting better as time went.
I can point out very few tracks in 1 and 2 that I love in comparison to how many I can point out in 3. Like to give an idea, off the top of my head in 1 I love the tracks for Dreamweaver's Homeworld, Lofty Castle, and Wizard Peak. In 2 I love the tracks for Magma Cone, Fracture Hills, Hurricos, and Glimmer. Oh man but 3, I love the tracks for Seashell Shore, Sunny Villa, Dino Mines (the updated one not the one that uses Sunny Villa's track), and I think both Frozen Altars and Fireworks Factory have some of the best tunes in the whole franchise.
Funny thing though I also kinda love Enter the Dragonfly's OST almost as much as Year of the Dragon, I know the game is awful but damn, Stewart Copeland didn't need to go so hard on the tunes lmao. Cloud 9, Monkey Monastery, Thieves Den, my favorite Honey Marsh, all bangers.
Enter the dragonfly was always my favourite 😭 I guess it's just nostalgia but as a child , the bright colours made me feel safe . It almost felt like I was in a trance while I played . The gems have such a great sound !! I always wanted to eat them 😭😭😭 playing it was definitely really fun for me when I was younger and I'd love to play it again to see how I feel about it now
Dawn of the dragon is the only spyro game I've played and I love the environment, atmosphere, soundtrack and character designs which are less childish than in the other spyro games, they're so cool. I think Spyro is like more grown up in the game ✨
GBA Eternal Night is the best version
You sure about that? Have you heard the ost and actually played through the game til Celestial Caves? The experience is very mystical and the music gives it a stranger tone, Dream even is bizarre and creepy especially when you first play the game and TEN on PS2 felt calming, strange and dark especially with the menu and the menu, the menu is powerful especially around the end when the thunder strikes loudly as the Well of Souls' spider vein-like cracks pulse with negative energy, the male singer in the choir adds to that one moment, you can actually feel the darkness and energy radiate off the screen with the Well of Souls sitting inactive in a barren wasteland with mist and the Celestial Moons hanging above in the sky not even close to each other yet, it feels scary because that massive mountain is building up energy from the dark spirits and negativity from the thunder surrounding it very VERY slowly and the menacing threat that is waiting to arrive once those Moons eclipse.
Was surprised Skylanders was a honorable mention, but you raised excellent points. And also agree Skylanders really started to drop in quality and such in 2016. For me, it seemed Superchargers was more so a attempted cash grab/attempt to get into the racing games like Mario kart, and then Imaginators felt more invested in the gimmic and tie in with the show than telling the story established and built with the first 4 games.
Will say Skylanders holds a special place for me given I grew up with the platformer/collectathon era, mainly Ratchet and Clank, Lego Star Wars, and the first Jak & Daxter. Mainly though, Skylanders was my escape during high school, and helped me with my spout of depression and feeling of "not belonging" in high school.
To me the best Skylanders game for me was Swap Force. I absolutely loved the world design and characters!!!
@@questworldiangreenknight7455 If I'd have to put it in a tier list
1. Swap Force
2. Spyro's Adventure
3. Giants
4. Superchargers
5. Imaginators
Fuck Imaginators
@@officialxverzusz what about trap team?
Well I'm more Akin to the Legend of Spyro Trilogy, I also Love Cynder's Design and Voice in DOTD
I agree
Her voice is nice, but her acting is so terrible it hurts
@@XCharizard100 Well She was a Rookie back then.
Also what do you think of her Design in DOTD?
@@primevalyautja1305 tbh it's aight
I still prefer her more "ashen" design from Eternal Night
@@XCharizard100 Eh.. How come?
I would really like to see them reboot ALL of the Spyros, and not just the original 3. There's just a nostalgia about playing the games that does it for me. However, I would LOVE to see one that out does them all.
Id love to see more story of the legend series i felt like it was too short to be told in 3 games they made it feel like they killed off Spyro and Cynder in the end but they didnt
@@arcticwolf8150 I felt like I didn't get to enjoy it honestly. I played the first one with Cinder and then I didn't know that there were any more after that. I suppose that was on me tho.
I grew up watching all of the Legend of Spyro trilogy cutscenes so the story of the games holds a pretty special place in my heart.
What a great review. However I found Ripto's Rage from Reignited Trilogy to be quite annoying due to backtracking. I got used to it eventually but it broke the flow of the game for me. Spyro the Dragon was really awesome though and so far my favorite.
Hello my fellow dragons,
Man I love that intro.
I was honestly surprised to see Spyro enter the dragonfly in the top worst, but I was not aware of any outside opinions on it, I personally thought it was really good with the way you could shield, and unlock new abilities, and how the dragonflys were sometimes a challenge to catch, not to mention the soundtrack! I don't remember any bugs or lag, but it was the first Spyro game I've ever played, still will be my number one favorite after playing dawn of the dragon, the first three games, and the Eternal night
TLOS needs to shine again… besides, there are a few things that would’ve been cool to have in the games. Like having unlimited furies as a cheat for example… also being able to use the final element in the first game whenever after you beat it would’ve been cool too. Maybe some skins or silly extras as well like the good old days, that’s what games need again. Not necessarily cheats as in “help me beat it the first time around faster” or anything else that brings shame to gamers, but things that make games worth revisiting instead of leaving them to rot on the shelf. Skins and extras that not only affect the gameplay but the cutscenes as well are great for replaying stories multiple times, giving gamers fun and new experiences and more ways to enjoy a game. Why don’t developers do this stuff anymore? It should be fun and rewarding to make these additions…
I miss the times when Sparx just hovered silently by your side, picking up gems and protecting you from enemies. But no, they had to go and give him a ‘personality’
Here's my favorite Spyro Videogames
Spyro Reignited Trilogy
Spyro Season of Ice
Spyro 2 Season of Flame
Spyro Attack of The Rhynocs
Spyro Enter The Dragonfly
Spyro A Hero's Tail
Spyro Shadow Legacy
Spyro Orange
I wish you made a list with only portable only titles too. Because a lot of this was more related to consoles. A good example was Antdude's compilation.
I must've had something slip my memory, it's two separate vids I'm pretty sure but he did do portable only for Spongebob. I must've been thinking of that.
somehow it only just occurred to me that The Legend Of Spyro, is basically Spyro as the Avatar "master of all 4 elements"
Hell in the end of "new beginning" and "eternal night", and from almost the start of "dawn of the dragon" he even gets the ability to use an energybending equivalent "aether".
3:04 aw man I wish you used the part when she said "no Spyro don't" as an example the way she delivered that line was so cringy 😖
As for my favorite Spyro game it's gotta be eternal night yes it has flaws but I love the plot and I definitely agree Dark Spyro was the best part of the game both story and gameplay wise but I kinda like the Gba version of the game cause to me the ending was kinda darker cause in the console versions he just turned Gaul into Ash and blew him away and that's it but in both the ds and gba verson he flat out goes full genocide on Gaul and the apes ON SCREEN that just felt more dark to me and maybe they censored it on the console versions I don't know 🤷🏽♀️ but it was awesome nonetheless in my opinion
#FirstLike BOI!
I think the one nitpick I have with reignited trilogy is with the extra health upgrade you get with Sparx, he doesn't turn red like Season of flame, Attack or the Rynocs, and a Hero's Tail
As a Skylanders fan, i don't get why people despise it so much. After all, it introduced me to the Spyro games in the first place. (And i compare Spyro's appearance in it to Smash bros. He (along with Cynder) is a playable character from a different game).
dude I love your choices and I like there is humor when watching this. I think you may have put a spark in my heart for Spyro again. looking forward to more that comes from ya.
P.S. I can't wait to see if more Spyro shorts or any wacky clips.
The first game I've ever played on the Playstation was Spyro: The Dragon. I later got the Collector's Edition with the 3 games in it. So yeah, the first trilogy has a very special place in my heart and having the Reignited Trilogy was truly a blessing!
A New Beginning was my first Spyro game, I was obsessed with dragons as a kid so when I found out I could play as a dragon in a video game it literally rocked my world. Makes me wanna play again
Thats awesome, A New Beginning has so much nostalgia for me too
Spyro season of flame is very nostalgic I remember when I played when I was 7 years of age back in 2007 yeah 6 years late back still worth it , I didn't it know it was Spyro until I seen the reignited trilogy. But the music was nostalgic 😁🥰.
Wow you went a mile ahead to make a really good and convincing research of every game listed in every category for its analysis!
This was a very interesting top list! You put a great effort in explain each game about it's pros and cons, along passion in getting into detail.
I also loved the little jokes here and there, the one of "TEN in a nutshell" was my favorite. Really sums up the game lol.
I admit I was surprised that EtD was not in the first worst, and more that Spyro 1 was the first best. But I think it makes sense.
I love that you considered the Skylanders, Spyro GBA games and also (some of) The Legend of Spyro portable games as honorable ones. (TEN of GBA is truly the best one)
But overall I fully understand your points and views. And I can agree that Orange was really the worst of all. So much for a long-waited event.
Spyro is a really fantastic franchise, that like many others has it's highs and lows, but at the end of they day, we still love that heroic dragon.
It is a fact that, after the original trilogy, the games after didn't reach the same level of popularity, quality or excitement like before, but that doesn't mean that all of them are just bad. There are actually good and even great games that came after, and there are people that genuinely enjoy the games that are seen as bad. And that's good.
I wonder what the future of Spyro might give us. But I hope, is a bright one.
Wonderful work with the video! I bet you did a lot of work and effort to complete it, and was totally worth it. And I hope this satisfied you. I am. :)
PS: Hey, I really appreciate how you gave attention to the voice actors. We play the games, but they give the characters their essence. Still love Tom Kenny and Elijah Wood voices a lot.
And I agree that Billy West is the best Sparx. Sounds just so fitting.
Also, there's someone who doesn't like enjoy Richard Horvitz's voice?
I think that Riptoe’s Rage is the best. Mostly because it was the first Spyro game I ever played. Also I love how Spyro calls Riptoe shorty when he’s shorter than Riptoe(at least in the original. I haven’t played the reignited ones yet. In 8th grade and playing games from 1998, 99 and 2000)
Whenever Enter the Dragonfly is brought up, my mind immediately goes to that one clip of Square Eyed Jak snapping the game case. lol
LMFAO Now I’m remembering that clip 😂😂
When I think of ETD though the first thing that comes to mind is those uncanny models. That and Crop Circle Country.
Start off by just trashing my favorite Spyro
I have not even touched many spyro games, but "a new beginning" was one of my favorites, on DS.
I got stuck for years at the first laser puzzle but after that rushed through the game a dozen times.
I actually loved enter the dragonfly, it was the first spyro game I ever played so maybe it's just nostalgia, but I loved playing it so much.
I'm happy you at least gave the GBA trilogy a mention. They really are good games and capture the Spyro charm arguably the best after the original trilogy.
Spyro: Year of the Dragon is fairly easily the best game of the whole franchise and Enter the Dragonfly the worst. I kinda really liked Legend trilogy, even though Eternal Night is not that good. But Dawn of the Dragon is one those games I really liked (even with all the flaws and cut corners), mostly because of all good memories.
Spyro games (and 90-00 games in general) often give me horrible motion sickness. I had to limit how long I could play or watch these games (especially if it wasn’t me or my brother trying to accommodate me with how he controlled the camera playing)
And then came Enter the Dragonfly.
That game is basically unplayable. The lagging and loading is seriously awful and often outright crashed. And my brother who never gets motion sick? Yeah. He got sick playing this game. YotD I could sometimes acclimate to or play for a short burst then need to call it quits; EtDF basically made my brother sick in “my old YotD sick-time” or less.
Don’t think either of us vomitted, but it was pretty close at times.
Then there’s even MORE side quests to complete the game (with many dragonflies in the middle of escort or “game pushes you forward” segments) and I swear a spike in difficulty in general + the really awful and cringy writing and voice directing (and a poorly executed Princess Bride spoof)…
We gave up on it. And I haven’t seen anything about EtDF that’s made me want to try and stomach through it (literally) as an adult
People are allowed to dislike a design, doesn't matter if it ever changes again. A design is a design and people will think it sucks no matter what. If you're tired of people ragging on the design even though he has gone back to his old one, you might as well be tired of people ragging on a game even though a newer one came about that went back to the good old days. If they don't like they don't like. Characters always go through redesigns, and some of them will suck regardless of the others.
The in a nutshell bits.....X'D YES!
Dawn of the Dragon sadly a victim of "Rushed game" there was later cut content discovered that was originally going to be in the final game, but since they wanted the game out on Christmas, and wanted to port it onto everything there wasn't time to implement everything.
TEN is too, not sure about ANB though.
Spyro 1 is also MY first ever console game! I remember playing it when I was 4 or 5, and I definitely can agree with you when you said it was the best game in the franchise!
Thank you for pointing out Skylanders good qualities and justifying it. Spyro was actually the reason I got the first one to begin with. Even though I’ve never played any Spyro games at all😅, guess you could say I was his fan without even playing. Then I became a fan and got all the others when they came. I personally never noticed a drop in quality. I was always too excited for each new game and Skylanders.
I’ve seen a lot of people complain that Skylanders “ruined” Spyro because of his design (even though Spyro was actually the reason Skylanders existed in the first place because it even started out with him in Spyro’s Kingdom) and even today they still seem to resent his design. That’s why I gave it an honorable mention instead of putting it in either lists because I wanted to be fair and not give in to the fanbase and trash on it just to fuel their ego.
And yeah… Skylanders pretty much had a noticeable drop in quality when Imaginators came out because it was just pretty bland and it was noticeable that Toys for Bob was running out of ideas. At least in terms of story.
@@TravistheDragon I actually for awhile have had an idea for a new Skylanders game. Skylanders Band Brigade! A special team of skylanders fight with weaponized instruments and battle evil with the power of music. I’ve even come up with a comeback line for a trailer and a slogan. Since it’s been awhile since the last game that trailer will say “We’re getting the band back together!” And the game slogan will be “It’s time evil faced the music.”
Enter the Dragonfly? More like....
Enter the *Rubbish Bin!* 😎🤣
22:15 that's both true and false, true after you beat the first realm, their never heard of or mentioned again, however collecting all the fire pattern and pink flower pattern eggs, you get to change spyro's model to either Ember or Flame. doesn't make em relevant? Hell na, they're literally just padding for a lackluster reward for collecting
I grew up with shadow legacy and it always hurts to hear it get dunked on constantly, but I have to agree in retrospect there’s just so many better games in the RPG genre. Loved the aesthetic of the shadow realm and magic attacks but you’re totally right on it being way too slow.
At least the Crash part of the Fusion games felt somewhat like a Crash game. The Spyro side is just... WHAT DOES RIDING A JEEP HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH SPYRO lol? At least the magnetic suit felt decently cool, but all I can sum up the game with is "YOU DID IT! :D"... seriously, it's ass.
I think they should have gotten a different developer for Spyro Orange and left Crash Purple to Vicarious Vision since they clearly have more experience with the marsupial.
I actually asked Richard whether or not he used his time voicing Zim to inspire his performance of Kaos. He laughed and basically talked about how after he read a few of the lines, the people in the booth were like "That's great! Have you done a voice like this before?" and he said "No. Never.", and smiled.
I don't know whether or not this is amazing or shocking. XD
Ehh, Eternal night should switch with Dawn of the dragon on this review in my opinion. It had flaws like any other but it's soundtrack and updated combat made it better. The story felt like it wasn't complete but the darkness of it is what sold it for me! I used to leave the game at the menu just to hear the opera song, then beat it countless times to hear broken soul! if you pause the game during the credits and go to the music volume slider it will repeat all the songs that play on a continuous repeat! That was my itunes back then lol
I grew up playing enter of the dragonfly, and I know it did leave a scare on the franchise, but it still get a remastered version so the franchise can redeem themselves and so people can get the game that was supposed to happen, cuz like he said the developers were pushed and rushed but this time they won’t be so I think a remaster of enter of the dragonfly sounds like a good idea.
Aww nuts, Eternal Night is actually my favorite Spyro game..(Ok, its cuz its only one of two Spyro games i played ever, the other being A Heroes tail which i also loved) The box art admittedly won me over so i had to play it~ does it have flaws? Sure, but the combat is so much fun to use and Using Dark Spyro was even funnier! Also the Vocal track in the credits "This Broken Soul" became one of my favorite songs of all time~💜 So Eternal Night forever has a place in my heart!😊
This is the first video of this type I've seen from this channel, and I gotta say, you are super well written and your voicing is clear and enjoyable to listen to! Your editing is also quite snappy. I look forward to watching more from your channel in the future. :)
Legend series will always hold a special place in my heart. Right alongside the og Ratchet and Clank games, SOCOM U.S Navy Seals, and Star Wars Battlefront 2. All of these games had a huge impact on me when I was little.
I didn't like the cancelled Netflix show because his personality changed in there and made Cynder have guilty blood because Malefor was her dad forcing her to follow his footsteps.
DAWN OF THE DRAGON IS LITERALLY MY FAVORITE 😭😭😭😭
Jokes aside, this one is probably my favorite bcause i used to play it A LOT with my father when i was like... A ten little girl or smth. Carries a lot of nostalgia, and sentimental emotions to me, its like a representative of our relationship. I was so delighted about this game since ive played for some minutes, i had literal sparkles on my eyes, and it doesn't matter how much we try and play this game again, never gonna beat the feeling that i got when we played the game for the first two or three times. We've finished this game five or six times nowadays, still feels kinda magic though.
Anyways, i still think its a great game with its problems and plot wholes, my dad used to say its almost a kid's GOW :p
Also, as i live in Brazil, we used to choose the spanish dubs since it was 10% easier to understand than english that time. AND I CAN TELL YOU BRO, SPANISH DUB ROCKS, for me the original voices of Spyro, Cynder and Sparx are from the spanish dubbing, change my mind
I’m so happy to see videos like this about older games like Spyro that made a huge impact on older audience members like myself being talked about by younger people.
I can agree with most of these and see your point, for the first two TLOS games i think Cynder looks awesome but Spyro has a big ass head in the first two and it looks awkward but all 3 games were awesome and edgy which was a cool storyline, best storyline in the Spyro franchise i think, Year of The Dragon will always be my favorite hands down i love everything about that game from level design, characters and their voice actors even Moneybags is awesome and in that game u get to see Bianca develop herself and grow to be a powerful friend of yours, on to Hero's Tail, I didnt get into it much and I absolutely hated the voice actor for Spyro in that game ffs he sounds like an Italian mob boss
I actually find Spyro threes music is my favourite of the three… just appeals to me more.
Spyro enter the dragonfly might be my favourite soundtrack though
I used to play New Begining,
Dawn Of The Dragon, and A Hero's Tail. My PS2s broke :( I had like three different PS2 consoles and they are all dead. But if my channel blows up I might get a new console along with these games that I used to play and stream me playing them. I also used to eat DimSims whilst playing NB lol. Ah, nostalgia.
This was very well done and the choices you made for each list is interesting and what you brought up makes sense. The funny thing is I grew up with the legend of Spyro series first and then the other games. However, what you have brought up makes sense and I respect your opinions too.
Also, 32:30...I see what you did there XD, but I don't blame you. I like her too X3
To sum it up, well done on this video. It's great, funny interesting and it's good and interesting to see your views on a series that you love a lot. :)
Well you know me XD I like stating opinions
And thank you. I did my very best to provide what I could for this video. And honestly i actually feel kind of proud of this.
@@TravistheDragon Do be proud buddy. You deserve it :)
@@ShonataBeata Thanks Shona ^^
@@TravistheDragon Your welcome 🙂
I've lost interest in your video as soon as you said that. Dawn of the Dragon was the worst. But that's only YOUR opinion. I loved the Legend of Spyro series ever since it came out on GameCube sure, there's some shity details and everything but I like the story and at least they kept some of the music from the first Legend of Spyro game. While I do think the first game has its perks and it does at least you can not only shoot fire from your face but ice, lightning, earth and purple Fury which I think is conveniently. And in the first game you only had two damn attacks charge and Flame attack. In the 3rd loS you can FUCKING FLY not only Glide but fucking flap your fucking wings. Spyro itself has come a long way from its games and storytelling.
And for the animation I thought it was great. Because I was into that kind of stuff for the time and I didn't care how it look because it was new and it looked great for the game. Not to mention it had some original characters in it. I might not have played every Spire game that you probably have. But that's why The Legend of Spyro has a special place in my heart. And you're acting like Erin Hanson for shitting on games especially for the Nintendo 64 Majora's Mask I could care less from the barf floor to the actual wood textures.
Great list and I just hope we'll see Spyro 4 soon.
Hero's tail is my favorite forever. I didn't like first 2 games at all. I like all ps2 Spyro games but Herp's tail is 1. And I like dawn of the dragon Spyro. Teenage spyro looks cool. I wanna see adult too. But okey Spyro 3 is pretty good. Cuz multiple playable characters. I liked Shela and SgtBird
i recently tried the GBA version of TLOS 1 and honestly i enjoyed it. i felt like it worked very well as a two dimensional game - its not comparable to the PS2 version just because of the hardware difference but all in all i did like it.
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I like Spyro Season of Ice Spyro 2 Season of Flame and Spyro Attack of The Rhynocs more.
Hey man, i was going to come back and say soemthing about defending Eternal Night, but i gotta gather it and dunno if youd want the comment section flooded. Between this and your recent fangame announcement, Id love to hear what you think of Spyro's history and best characteristics sometime. Ive gotta go to work, but i hope to catch ya sometime. If not, best of luck on your endeavors anyways!
Having reached the end, I can only understand your thoughts on the Reignited Trilogy, seeing as that’s the only one I have… and my experience with Enter The Dragonfly is corrupted due to the fact that I can only faintly remember having the game, even if I have no memory of playing it.
And with that being said, I hope you have a great weekend, Travis.
I feel you deserve more than just adequate rest after making this.
(Edit 1) Thank you for the heart!
(Edit 2) Wait… Where’d the heart go? ……………………………………………..…………………………… Hm… No doubt there are comments that deserve it more than I do. I’ll just… keep the notification.
when you edit a comment you lose your heart
I did not know that.
@@imcpilotmichaelbell1185 Think it's only for genuine comments meaning looks the way it was when typed.
I played all the games and unfortunately I rly disliked the newer gen games. Especially the darker theme and subject destroyed spyro for me. It was not spyro anymore and gosh I HATED sparx in those games. I think sparx destroyed the new gen games the most for me :(
I cannot thank you enough for praising skylanders. As a die hard fanboy myself who’s been playing since the first game dropped, I appreciate that you can accept it and not think of it as a franchise that “Ruined Spyro”. Anyways, great vid all around!
I was never big on how it handled Spyro but I really liked the other characters (especially Flynn) and ideas behind it.
@@jamesporter571 I can see why you’d not like Spyro in skylanders, it is more or less focused on the other characters though. Maybe I’m a bit bias cause I’m not really into the Spyro games.
Spyro 1 was my fav in the trilogy. I didn’t like the mini games in the second and third games they were frustrating mostly . Spyro one has the best pacing and overall was really well made. Spyro 4 would be the worst atleast based on reviews. Overall a great childhood series though
One thing i love about the Legend of Spyro games is that, they spawned alot of cool, entertaining, and interesting Fan-made stories & comics. My personal favorites so far are Seeraphine's "Zirra's Return" & RusCSI's "Pure Light".
Now admidetly, i've only played the 3rd game in the trilogy (Dawn of the Dragon). And in all honesty, i love it! But i get what you're coming from. It's not the best Spyro game, but it's certainly not the worst either. It's more like somewhere in between, where it can be OK at best and mediocre at worst. (And that's basically in reguards to the entire trilogy in general). In my opinion anyway.
But like i said, i still love it, regardless of it's shortcomings.
So, in short, my response to your ranking of DotD: I don't agree with it, but i get it.
My main problem with Dawn of a Dragon was how much of the gameplay is consumed by the combat, and the combat isn't even that good. Sure you can use different powers and such, but even with both dragons maxed out it still takes incredibly long to finish any encounter because the enemies can soak up so much damage. It feels like mopping a giant floor instead of y'know, combat.
I actually really really like Dawn of the dragon!!!!!
I like the platforming and the combat . And yeah it slows down in biger places but I don't mind that in the slightest.
Ah yes, I see someone has gotten confused between “best” and “favourite”
Unpopular opinion/hot take: Enter the Dragonfly could be (and is to me) the best Spyro in the series. If it hadn't been for the game being a bit unpolished, I think it would have been loved by the majority of players.