The first time I played Spyro 3 was around year 2007 being a little child. My PSX then broke in ~2 years' time without me being even close to completeing it (I knew very little English, as well as I simply enjoyed visiting different worlds, collecting shiny gems and so on). I was so determined to complete it, that even crappy touchscreen controllers couldn't hold me back from hitting these 117% 2 to 3 years ago on emulator :P
Consider that this game was released for the PS1 in 2000, it could be said that it was ambitious, the maps were so big and detailed and overall, just love the variety! My fav of the trilogy!
I never played Spyro 3 in my younghood like I did Spyro 2, but I got it years later in my preteens. I enjoyed the hell out of it. Especially the skateboarding part. Wish I could go back to the time when all that shit was so modern back then... it was great.
To this day, Spyro Year of the Dragon is still one of my favorite games of all time. And I can say that with confidence since I have been playing this game for 17 years, and i was born the same year this game released. I also had the black label version of the game and didn't have much issues aside from one gem glitch in fireworks factory
This is also my favorite game!! Of all time!!!! I even have a tattoo of Sparx chasing a butterfly on my shoulder :) means a lot a lot a lot to me as well. This review resonated with me big time. Spyro 3 has also brought me to tears, but it was upon revisiting the original one in adulthood after, like, 15 years of not playing it. Love your channel. You deserve more subs, Mihara.
This was such a good video to work on! I had fun recording and grabbing footage to compile this massive vid! Plus I inserted a little egg of my own; eagle-eyed and long-time viewers of Miharu's channel and videos will recognize that Christmas image! ;)
AHH the nostalgia! Can't believe it's been 20 years! Me and one of my childhood friends would get these for Christmas every year they came out. Every game holds a special place in my heart it's hard to choose a favorite. Although I did like the music and scenery of the first game the best, they're all fun to play over and over. I never got past the original trilogy though. Awesome video, Miharu!
Your videos are so well thought out and beautifully made! They deserve more views! I exited the full version of this like “this person has to have at least 100k subs” and I’m shocked to see that (currently) you have about 7k! Your videos deserve so much more recognition! Keep cranking them out 💜💜
I also cried when I saw Spyro 3 in Reignited for the first time, it always throws me back to my childhood. Im just so glad that I was able to grow up with all these awesome Playstation 1 games, Spyro 2 & 3, Crash Bandicoot & Hogs of War were literally my first games. I'm also glad that I could share this games with my sisters and father. such good memories.
Oh God. The Yeti Race! It may have worked properly when I reset the game, but that still was so damn infuriating, especially since the boost meter doesn’t go back up when you torch the competition.
What a great review you did here! One of my favourite games of all time! Despite many of the criticisms its gets these days, it doesn't change how well made and solid Spyro 3 was as a sequel. A true classic! As for the remake, yeah its lacking in some areas compared to the original but I still think it was solid overall. The original will always be better but the remake is still worth coming back to for some of the amazing stuff it did. Great review Miharu! It was good to finally see you review this game! :D
I loved 3 but damn it all some of those levels had nightmares of difficult challenges. And introducing Moneybags, our introduction to microtransactions.
Also, fun fact about Spike, in a pirated version of Spyro 3 (yes, in that same old story), a glitch kicks in, blocking Sparx from reaching a health level anywhere higher than green.
Also my favourite game of all time! I got this game on release day back in 2000, actually played it before the first 2 so this will always have a special place in my heart ❤
I was confused as to why you consider 3 the worst, but then you brought up the whack a mole, the guiding the bomb and the final skate board challenges Yeah. I think three is still my fave of the reignited trilogy (haven't played the original), but I had forgotten it was unpolished at times.
Happy 20th anniversary of Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon!! 🥚🔥🐲🐉🎂🎉🎈😃 Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon on PS2 is my first Spyro console game that I have ever played when I was 7 years old in April 2002 before I've got Spyro games for passed years. I played it, enjoyed it, and I love it. It was an amazing story, and is an awesome game. And it allows play Spyro, Sheila, Sgt Byrd, Bentley, Agent 9, and Spyro's best friend: Sparx. And even it'll allow play Hunter in his missions in four Speedway levels. Some the challenges are very hard to earned those eggs, but I did my best to complete the challenges to earn those eggs. And I've never liked Moneybags because he's been paid by the main antagonist of Year of the Dragon: the Sorceress to guard Sheila, Sgt Byrd, Bentley and Agent 9 in cages and forced Spyro to paid Moneybags with gems to released them. Oh, and I love the part when Sheila, Sgt Byrd, Bentley and Agent 9 beat the heck out of that greedy rich bear Moneybags in the cutscenes, and I used Spyro to beat the stuff out of Moneybags for revenge for selling a Dragon egg a fortune to Avalar. And I love when Bianca became good when she just found out about The Sorceress' most darkest evil plan to those innocent newborn baby dragons. But Bianca helped Spyro to defeated the Sorceress once again in Super Bonus Round, and she became one of Spyro's best allies, and she became Hunter's girlfriend, and she has a good heart that she's never meant to kill those baby dragons. Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon is a best game of Spyro original trilogy. It's a good game. 🙂😉👍 And I wonder Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon will take place before the event of real "Spyro 4" as a brand new Spyro game in next year 2021. And we haven't seen female dragons in Spyro the Dragon the first game, and even Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon. I bet the female dragons will be introduced in future Spyro game: "Spyro 4". I would love to see that. And I also would love to see how did Ripto survive from the lava and team up with Gnasty Gnorc to get revenge on Spyro in the beginning of future Spyro game: "Spyro 4" just like Dr. Cortex and N. Tropy escaped from the distance planet in the beginning of Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time. 🙂 If Activision and some developers will make a brand new Spyro original series game: "Spyro 4" which is a real sequel to Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon to be announced in next year 2021, I'll be very excited about this. 😁 What about you, guys? Would you be excited for Spyro 4 as a brand new Spyro game in 2021 too? What about you, @Miharu the Fox? 🙂
Spyro 3 will always be my favourite mainly because it's the first spyro game i ever played, i find the multiple characters and mixture of different levels always keeps the gameplay refreshing and makes me feel like im always doing something worthwhile, spyro 2 is good but i always found the last levels and last home world i always just found the most boring coz i was burned out from how long it took to complete autumn plains
This was the first Spyro game I owned. I got it for Christmas of 2000 along with the PS1, and Crash Bash. My sister and I played the heck out of it. Good times.
I really have to agree with you about this basically being the greatest hits version. it's honestly appalling in the original that when you fight the sorceress the first time it's the sunrise set music. the first homeward. so bizarre I think! lol
I love all the three original games too! And I also had problems with the third before I got the remake where I couldn't pass the yeti skateboard challenge in the bonus level. Only by standing in a blue star after going under the bridge and getting a lot of boosts (which was removed in the remake), did I manage to finally beat that nearly most hated challenge and progress again to watch the real ending cutscene. I know how you feel about certain things when it comes to games; I just hope that if they make a Sly Cooper trilogy remake that they don't make it bad (I already hate the Dimitri missions in Honor Among Thieves because of the sharks and anglerfish boss). All I want is to see what the Sly Cooper trilogy would look like with better graphics.
I first played this game in late 2000. 10 years later, I found my old PS1 console along with Spyro 1 and 3 (didn't own Ripto's Rage) after graduating high school. I forgotten how much fun I had playing the game in elementary. Then, every summer during my college years I play through the entire trilogy on emulator. Damn, I'm old lol
Remakes no matter how perfect they are don't have the nostalgia & emotional attachment of the original imperfect ones that atleast for me helped me create my own world in my young mind, I'd create my own scenarios and things it was great
I had an absolute blast with Spyro 3 in Reignited on the Switch, but some levels suffered from MASSIVE slowdown, mainly the Skateboard races if I did them too many times....Ironically this actually HELPED since it gave me MORE reaction time to pull off those tricks for the speed boost without faceplanting. Sadly I would often careen to my death as sometimes doing a trick would cause me to veer way off course in midair and plummet to my death. The Lost Fleet Skateboard section especially caused me ALOT of trouble trying to get that Skill Point. By comparison beating the Super Bonus Round Skateboard Challeneg was a walk in the park. Just kill the other Skaters and win. The only thing to come close were the Flight levels, getting 1st while not going off course was extremely hard. You basically couldn't afford a SINGLE mistake. I commend Insomniac and then TFB for giving Spyro 3 so many different playstyles, between the Animal Buddies, Sparx, Flight and Skateboard levels - but I feel they may have stretched things a bit too thin. Since they had to divide their focus between all these different playstyles, none of the new ones could be too deep or developed. They felt more like minigames and each being kept separate didn't help them feel disparate from Spyro. I get the developers felt Spyro's core gameplay was getting repetitive and stale (like his lack of hands meant he couldn't use weapons) and they wanted to make something for everyone - but when you try to mix up the gameplay so much it can dilute the overall experience. You could argue Spyro 1 and 2 had minigames as well, but I feel Spyro 3 went a little overboard with the minigames. That's just my opinion of course and Spyro 3 is still amazing, and I don't want my opinion to take away anyone else's enjoyment of the game. The new characters are alot of fun and bring plenty to the game to enjoy, especially Bianca and her own character arc. Spyro 2 is my fave of the trilogy for the story, Spyro 1 for the tight, focussed gameplay, and Spyro 3 is still a great game by its own.
@@ultrairrelevantnobody1862 I agree with you there, but I feel had they cut back a bit on the Animal Buddies and minigames they could have been better than what we got. Like maybe cut Sparx and Sgt. Byrd or Agent 9 so the rest can receive more polish.
@@PlanetZoidstar There are more minigames, but the ratio of main and side content is far more balanced. Literally 80% of Spyro 2 is playing minigames, and a lot of them are boring, uninteresting and don't offer much meaningful challenge, let alone gameplay.
It was a very magical cozy experience. I tend to enjoy the trilogy for there own quality. It’s been so long looking back as a kid, but I don’t remember anything that stood out to me as something I deeply dread to go back to. I believe I had the black label version too seeing as I gotten each game when they came out. I can’t believe it wasn’t the definitive version. It was until I recently learned from this community actually. It was strangely my least favorite for Reignited too. In that sense it can be especially disappointing if you love the original so much. The PS1 trilogy as a whole was a very special experience. I grew up with Playstation at it’s peak.
For me is still the best Spyro game! Yeah it had some flaws and uncertain things but HEY! I love the lots of characters to play and architechture of the levels and the minigames and Bianca! Specially Bianca. Anyway, that you covered both OG and Reignited versions was a great detail for exactly the anniversary day. And the differences of both but still the fun is there. Great video!
I really wish Spyro was given a proper Dragon vs. Attempted Mass Infanticider in the remake. It always bothered that Spyro never used his natural ability's against the worst enemy his species had faced yet, that and when she comes back it's like 'Ho hum, you're back so what'. You could've at least given him flying super breath there. That and I wish the Baby Dragons were as cute as the original! (Even though I still secretly find the baby lizards sweeter)
Spyro 3 is my favorite Spyro game! I’ve 117% it...I don’t know how many times! The remake of this game let me down big time for the reasons you said and many more that I won’t get into here. But Spyro 3 took what worked in 1 and 2 and combined them while removing what didn’t work. My only complaints (with the original game) are the anti-climactic Sorceress fights with no buildup cutscene, the bonus round being a bunch of mini games instead of challenges with the playable characters, and Elora being almost entirely absent. My biggest fear about a potential Spyro 4 is that they’ll cut out all the extra playable characters because majority fan opinion usually says they’re bad. I want them to return better than ever. Heck, keep them and add Hunter! I’d much prefer alternate character challenges over vehicle levels.
Same, I hope the Animal Buddies stay, maybe as helpful NPCs who can help progress through levels - I really want Elora and Bianca to be playable as I feel they deserve it just as much as Hunter and Spyro do. It's rare to have boyfriend/girlfriend playable couples in games so it'd be nice to play as them all. 4 Playstyles (Spyro, Hunter, Elora and Bianca) are easier to juggle than 6 (Spyro, Sheila, Sgt. Byrd, Bently, Agent 9 and Sparx).
I had the same feels when I beat it all the way back then too I loved it and it’ll always hold strong place in my top 20. And after I beat the Reignited trilogy especially this one I felt complete beginning to end. And some those tough ass speed runs ,missions and I hated Spike & Gulp boss fights with a fu&$king Passion too. And when I and siblings were sick during some school days mom always took me , sisters and lil bro to the hotel she worked and I always had console and Spyro 3 up there kicking ass. 😌 it was always epic times back then
I’ll be honest I always found Bianca to be endearing as hell. I actually did find it a shame she wasn’t playable in this. I love year of the dragon but I will admit there are some small parts that irritate me in the remake and those skate board races were high on that list.
Since Elora made a cameo in YotD she needs to come to Spyro 4 as her actual appearance cause you guys remember that Elora ask Spyro if he wants to come visit in Avalar?
Spyro: Year of the Dragon is the only PS1 Spyro game I can classify as not only well designed, but also polished. it's not so much that the level design is a big improvement over its predecessors, or that the story is engaging for what it is, or that the collecting structure is properly signified to the player akin to Super Mario 64. Rather, a lot of it has to do with the fact that Insomniac Games fixed the one thing that was holding the first two games back, and that was the simple act of making Spyro an intuitive character to control. Of all the 3D Action-Platformers I've played on the PS1, both Spyro 1 & 2 have some of the worst analog stick calibration you could find. For reasons that's most likely related to poor programming or poor engine optimisation, Spyro would not begin to move forward until the stick is pushed halfway. Otherwise he doesn't register. Despite this, down is shockingly sensitive, requiring only a bare tilt to the point a drifted stick could get in the way, and the same applies to left and right, particularly in Spyro 2 since in Spyro 1 they function similar to moving forward. The shoddy analog accuracy is a problem, because aside from making Spyro's normal movement feel imprecise and inconsistent, not to mention adding input lag to forward moving and thus can make some vertical platforming more clunky than necessary, it makes the additional mechanics like first person aiming and flying frustrating to execute consistently. Spyro 1 I can understand having this problem, since it was Insomniac Games' first stab at a 3D game with analog control, but Spyro 2 having it is unacceptable considering the introduction of new mechanics as well as being released the same year as games like Croc 2 and Toy Story 2, both of which have really good analog control that's accurate and responsive. Why not just use the D-Pad instead? Because the PlayStation controller doesn't have the most comfortable one out there, and such uncomfortable pressing is not helped by Spyro in general feeling relatively unwieldy compared to Gex and Crash. I guess that's the disadvantage of having a creature with four legs as opposed to two. Even in the third game the playable critters have quicker and easier turning, which helps to make collecting gems less sluggish without Sparx. Still though, that doesn't change the fact that Spyro 3 finally got the analog accuracy fixed. Just slightly tilting the stick forward is enough for the game to register and tell Spyro to move forward; say goodbye to unnecessarily having to push halfway. This improved analog control is applied to almost every other mechanic in the game. Flying is much more enjoyable, first person aiming isn't cumbersome, swimming is a little easier, the illusion of input lag is gone, and so on and so forth. It is such a fundamental improvement that it makes it difficult to go back to the previous games. Putting up with poorly calibrated analog movement is just simply not fun.
Going to look forward to the new Spyro 4 Game and continue to Hope they add in Spyro’s Unlimited Free Flight Ability anytime any level without Limitations but with New Level Up Elements added in the New Spyro 4 Game and newer Spyro games coming on the horizon
The only way I completed the original was with my fiancees help, and I cheated during the yeti race 😂😂 in the original you could drop down into the beginning and it would count as a lap so you could get a ridiculous head start and even still it took me an hour to get it right 😂😂😂
Apparently there are female dragons, we just don't see them in this game beyond the babies. I used to think the fairies were the equivalent of dragon females till this game, with the Save Fairy being Spyro's mom.
Spyro 3 for me... is painful. After 1 and 2 where you had multiple collectables which generally fit the challenge... 3 has Eggs. You glide to a spot? Free egg. You complete a complex minigame? Egg. Something about that Egg thing hurts me. Yeti games are hell... and I get a Egg I could get anywhere. In Spyro 2, Orbs are basically limited to minigames, a few exceptions. When the remake came out, I completed 1 and 2, everything. Not 3, I didn't even touch it. I never understood why till I considered a video about Mario Odyssey. What is the value of a Moon? 1 coin, as kicking a rock once, which gives 1 coin... gives you a Moon. Something you did the entire game suddenly gives you a moon. But sometimes things are worth 3 moons when they are involved... sometimes. When designing a game you need 3 objectives. 1: The primary objective - Think of this as Dragons, or Talismans from 1/2 2: The passive objective - The gems, they are everywhere so you get them... collect them all and you've been all places. 3: The bonus objective - The Egg thieves, or the orbs in 1/2. While you can argue in 3, there is the collecting of the party to get the balloon to work... you also get an EGG at the same time. Mario Odyssey was a loved game... but I think it and Spyro 3 share the same problem. Simplifying the collection process to the point where it becomes a chore to a greater portion of the audience then normal. *that doesn't mean you can't like these games*
To give my entire thoughts for the most part, Spyro 3 is everything Spyro 2 tried to be only now with far more polished and successful results. I'll put it this way. If you enjoy meandering and bloated level design, badly structured progression, forced backtracking plus levels resetting, poor communication on what is important (redundant talismans essentially), a poorly written and contrived story even by kid standards, and mostly boring side-games that contribute a lot to the poor stage design and offer less meaningful gameplay than the minigames you'd find in some of the Rugrats games, you will absolutely LOVE Spyro 2. To put it simply, I'm never playing Spyro 2 ever again. No reason to when I have Spyro 3. Spyro 3 is essentially if you took the content quantity of Donkey Kong 64, and mixed it with the stronger and more streamlined design of Super Mario 64, Toy Story 2 and Banjo Kazooie. There's a healthy balance of exploration based platforming and side-games. Both of which are fun to play for a variety of reasons. The former is backed up with focused level design and challenging enemies, not to mention the ludicrous amount of micro optimisations that make for an addictive game to both master and speedrun. Meanwhile the latter is backed up with fully realised level design, and a higher and more consistent degree of challenge. Couple that with the higher emphasis on much needed time limits and enemies that pose as an actual threat, and you have side-games that can be called actual side-games. There's also some much needed quality of life improvements like Spyro finally feeling good to play, donut shape level design allowing for quick, convenient and easy shortcuts (cutting artificial padding down tremendously), as well as one of the few collectathons to handle backtracking correctly thanks to the originally closed off sections and new playable characters offering substantially new content. Are there a few issues. Yeah. Yeti Boxing can die. Bentley is okay but is the least interesting of the new critters to play as, the rest are great fun though. Super Bonus Round is a good albeit rather half baked 100% level, better than Dragon Shores but not as good as Gnasty's Loot. Lastly, I would have liked more sections playing as the new critters to flesh out their playstyles more. You could honestly cut out Bentley and boxing altogether, and replace his sections in favour of the other critters and the game would probably be better off for it. Still, they're satisfying enough additions with good control and excellent level design. Overall, my new favourite game on the PlayStation, and one of the best 3D platformers I've played.
Two Spyro games form 🧸 toys form bob in remastered Spyro who later works on crash 4 and last Spyro games in remastered done ✅ by Sanzaru Games games there so far are sly collection and sly 4 also Asgard's Wrath god of war collection well looking up on internet there be new Spyro games in 2021 and new crash game in June 2021 old Spyro series by Insomniac Games later working spider 🕷 man and ratchet and clank game too
In the same boat here. Original spyro 3 is my favourite by far, reignited spyro 3 is the worst by far. Like when yiu compare it to spyro 1 reignited and kinda spyro 2, the animation is nowhere near as good, level colour pallettes and lighting arent focused, character designs (spike). And gameplay choices and swimming drift and minigame camera changes just ruin it for me.
To be honest I always found it insulting that the dragons just sleep with the eggs out in the open without any practical protection. Sure they are behind a wall but a wall with no practical battlements or gatehouses, plus they can tunnel under them without the sound of picking at bedrock awakening anyone. What are they stupid? Have they forgotten that there is always some one trying to comment dragon genocide?
I never played the original spyro games, only reignited and the first installment of the legend of spyro, but i personally think spyro 3 is my least favorite of them all. there are a lot of worlds that are just annoying and it hard to find my way around them, i really dont like playing as other characters beside sheila, and i just didnt have much fun playing it. 2 was my personal favorite :>
Let it be known on January 20th, 2021, I finally completed the original Spyro 3. ✌
The first time I played Spyro 3 was around year 2007 being a little child. My PSX then broke in ~2 years' time without me being even close to completeing it (I knew very little English, as well as I simply enjoyed visiting different worlds, collecting shiny gems and so on). I was so determined to complete it, that even crappy touchscreen controllers couldn't hold me back from hitting these 117% 2 to 3 years ago on emulator :P
Wow, my favourite Spyro game is the third one too!
And Crash game is also the third))
Agreed.
Same here
Same, so much momentum before the bubble burst on both sides.
Consider that this game was released for the PS1 in 2000, it could be said that it was ambitious, the maps were so big and detailed and overall, just love the variety!
My fav of the trilogy!
I never played Spyro 3 in my younghood like I did Spyro 2, but I got it years later in my preteens. I enjoyed the hell out of it. Especially the skateboarding part.
Wish I could go back to the time when all that shit was so modern back then... it was great.
To this day, Spyro Year of the Dragon is still one of my favorite games of all time. And I can say that with confidence since I have been playing this game for 17 years, and i was born the same year this game released. I also had the black label version of the game and didn't have much issues aside from one gem glitch in fireworks factory
This is also my favorite game!! Of all time!!!! I even have a tattoo of Sparx chasing a butterfly on my shoulder :) means a lot a lot a lot to me as well. This review resonated with me big time. Spyro 3 has also brought me to tears, but it was upon revisiting the original one in adulthood after, like, 15 years of not playing it. Love your channel. You deserve more subs, Mihara.
Year of the Dragon never ceases to be an amazing game.
Nice to meet a fellow fan of Jackie Chan Adventures and Xiaolin Showdown.
This was such a good video to work on! I had fun recording and grabbing footage to compile this massive vid! Plus I inserted a little egg of my own; eagle-eyed and long-time viewers of Miharu's channel and videos will recognize that Christmas image! ;)
AHH the nostalgia! Can't believe it's been 20 years! Me and one of my childhood friends would get these for Christmas every year they came out. Every game holds a special place in my heart it's hard to choose a favorite. Although I did like the music and scenery of the first game the best, they're all fun to play over and over. I never got past the original trilogy though. Awesome video, Miharu!
0:45 it's for plot convenience.
Your videos are so well thought out and beautifully made! They deserve more views! I exited the full version of this like “this person has to have at least 100k subs” and I’m shocked to see that (currently) you have about 7k! Your videos deserve so much more recognition! Keep cranking them out 💜💜
I also cried when I saw Spyro 3 in Reignited for the first time, it always throws me back to my childhood. Im just so glad that I was able to grow up with all these awesome Playstation 1 games, Spyro 2 & 3, Crash Bandicoot & Hogs of War were literally my first games. I'm also glad that I could share this games with my sisters and father. such good memories.
Oh God. The Yeti Race! It may have worked properly when I reset the game, but that still was so damn infuriating, especially since the boost meter doesn’t go back up when you torch the competition.
Also, the bosses in this game SCARED me. Also for some reason in my recent playthrough of Spyro 3 i had a hard time with Scorch
What a great review you did here! One of my favourite games of all time! Despite many of the criticisms its gets these days, it doesn't change how well made and solid Spyro 3 was as a sequel. A true classic!
As for the remake, yeah its lacking in some areas compared to the original but I still think it was solid overall. The original will always be better but the remake is still worth coming back to for some of the amazing stuff it did.
Great review Miharu! It was good to finally see you review this game! :D
Most of the criticism doesn't sound genuine to me anyways.
I loved 3 but damn it all some of those levels had nightmares of difficult challenges. And introducing Moneybags, our introduction to microtransactions.
Moneybags with introduced in Spyro 2, you egg
@@Youcifer Me no speak bad grammar, me speak English. And yes, me make typo, meant to say introduced in Spyro 2.
Happy 20th Anniversary!
Also, fun fact about Spike, in a pirated version of Spyro 3 (yes, in that same old story), a glitch kicks in, blocking Sparx from reaching a health level anywhere higher than green.
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Actually, Hunter is sort of playable too, in the speedway levels.
But not playable in the sense like he is in AHT. You don't have full control over him, so I don't count it.
Also my favourite game of all time! I got this game on release day back in 2000, actually played it before the first 2 so this will always have a special place in my heart ❤
Spyro 3 is my 2nd Favorite game of all time. Spyro 2 is my favorite. Nostalgia really does a lot.
I was confused as to why you consider 3 the worst, but then you brought up the whack a mole, the guiding the bomb and the final skate board challenges
Yeah. I think three is still my fave of the reignited trilogy (haven't played the original), but I had forgotten it was unpolished at times.
Always liked your voice. It's unique and soft.
Eating dinner and watching your video- nothing better
Happy 20th anniversary of Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon!! 🥚🔥🐲🐉🎂🎉🎈😃
Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon on PS2 is my first Spyro console game that I have ever played when I was 7 years old in April 2002 before I've got Spyro games for passed years. I played it, enjoyed it, and I love it. It was an amazing story, and is an awesome game. And it allows play Spyro, Sheila, Sgt Byrd, Bentley, Agent 9, and Spyro's best friend: Sparx. And even it'll allow play Hunter in his missions in four Speedway levels. Some the challenges are very hard to earned those eggs, but I did my best to complete the challenges to earn those eggs. And I've never liked Moneybags because he's been paid by the main antagonist of Year of the Dragon: the Sorceress to guard Sheila, Sgt Byrd, Bentley and Agent 9 in cages and forced Spyro to paid Moneybags with gems to released them. Oh, and I love the part when Sheila, Sgt Byrd, Bentley and Agent 9 beat the heck out of that greedy rich bear Moneybags in the cutscenes, and I used Spyro to beat the stuff out of Moneybags for revenge for selling a Dragon egg a fortune to Avalar. And I love when Bianca became good when she just found out about The Sorceress' most darkest evil plan to those innocent newborn baby dragons. But Bianca helped Spyro to defeated the Sorceress once again in Super Bonus Round, and she became one of Spyro's best allies, and she became Hunter's girlfriend, and she has a good heart that she's never meant to kill those baby dragons.
Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon is a best game of Spyro original trilogy. It's a good game. 🙂😉👍
And I wonder Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon will take place before the event of real "Spyro 4" as a brand new Spyro game in next year 2021.
And we haven't seen female dragons in Spyro the Dragon the first game, and even Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon. I bet the female dragons will be introduced in future Spyro game: "Spyro 4". I would love to see that.
And I also would love to see how did Ripto survive from the lava and team up with Gnasty Gnorc to get revenge on Spyro in the beginning of future Spyro game: "Spyro 4" just like Dr. Cortex and N. Tropy escaped from the distance planet in the beginning of Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time. 🙂
If Activision and some developers will make a brand new Spyro original series game: "Spyro 4" which is a real sequel to Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon to be announced in next year 2021, I'll be very excited about this. 😁
What about you, guys? Would you be excited for Spyro 4 as a brand new Spyro game in 2021 too? What about you, @Miharu the Fox? 🙂
Great video, Miharu! :)
Amazing review on this game miharu
Awesome Spyro video
On the ps1 my favorites used to be 3,2,1 but with reignited the first game is definitely my favorite. I really appreciate the original game more now
Spyro 3 will always be my favourite mainly because it's the first spyro game i ever played, i find the multiple characters and mixture of different levels always keeps the gameplay refreshing and makes me feel like im always doing something worthwhile, spyro 2 is good but i always found the last levels and last home world i always just found the most boring coz i was burned out from how long it took to complete autumn plains
This was the first Spyro game I owned. I got it for Christmas of 2000 along with the PS1, and Crash Bash. My sister and I played the heck out of it. Good times.
I really have to agree with you about this basically being the greatest hits version. it's honestly appalling in the original that when you fight the sorceress the first time it's the sunrise set music. the first homeward. so bizarre I think! lol
I love all the three original games too! And I also had problems with the third before I got the remake where I couldn't pass the yeti skateboard challenge in the bonus level. Only by standing in a blue star after going under the bridge and getting a lot of boosts (which was removed in the remake), did I manage to finally beat that nearly most hated challenge and progress again to watch the real ending cutscene. I know how you feel about certain things when it comes to games; I just hope that if they make a Sly Cooper trilogy remake that they don't make it bad (I already hate the Dimitri missions in Honor Among Thieves because of the sharks and anglerfish boss). All I want is to see what the Sly Cooper trilogy would look like with better graphics.
awesome video miharu and amazing game!
I first played this game in late 2000. 10 years later, I found my old PS1 console along with Spyro 1 and 3 (didn't own Ripto's Rage) after graduating high school. I forgotten how much fun I had playing the game in elementary. Then, every summer during my college years I play through the entire trilogy on emulator. Damn, I'm old lol
It’s crazy that this game is now 20 years old,is it time for a all new Spyro 4 to be announce around late this year or early next year?
Remakes no matter how perfect they are don't have the nostalgia & emotional attachment of the original imperfect ones that atleast for me helped me create my own world in my young mind, I'd create my own scenarios and things it was great
I wish I grew up with these older games
I had an absolute blast with Spyro 3 in Reignited on the Switch, but some levels suffered from MASSIVE slowdown, mainly the Skateboard races if I did them too many times....Ironically this actually HELPED since it gave me MORE reaction time to pull off those tricks for the speed boost without faceplanting. Sadly I would often careen to my death as sometimes doing a trick would cause me to veer way off course in midair and plummet to my death. The Lost Fleet Skateboard section especially caused me ALOT of trouble trying to get that Skill Point. By comparison beating the Super Bonus Round Skateboard Challeneg was a walk in the park. Just kill the other Skaters and win. The only thing to come close were the Flight levels, getting 1st while not going off course was extremely hard. You basically couldn't afford a SINGLE mistake.
I commend Insomniac and then TFB for giving Spyro 3 so many different playstyles, between the Animal Buddies, Sparx, Flight and Skateboard levels - but I feel they may have stretched things a bit too thin. Since they had to divide their focus between all these different playstyles, none of the new ones could be too deep or developed. They felt more like minigames and each being kept separate didn't help them feel disparate from Spyro. I get the developers felt Spyro's core gameplay was getting repetitive and stale (like his lack of hands meant he couldn't use weapons) and they wanted to make something for everyone - but when you try to mix up the gameplay so much it can dilute the overall experience. You could argue Spyro 1 and 2 had minigames as well, but I feel Spyro 3 went a little overboard with the minigames.
That's just my opinion of course and Spyro 3 is still amazing, and I don't want my opinion to take away anyone else's enjoyment of the game. The new characters are alot of fun and bring plenty to the game to enjoy, especially Bianca and her own character arc. Spyro 2 is my fave of the trilogy for the story, Spyro 1 for the tight, focussed gameplay, and Spyro 3 is still a great game by its own.
Playable characters are still far more interesting than rubbish like herding cowleks.
@@ultrairrelevantnobody1862 I agree with you there, but I feel had they cut back a bit on the Animal Buddies and minigames they could have been better than what we got. Like maybe cut Sparx and Sgt. Byrd or Agent 9 so the rest can receive more polish.
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There are more minigames, but the ratio of main and side content is far more balanced. Literally 80% of Spyro 2 is playing minigames, and a lot of them are boring, uninteresting and don't offer much meaningful challenge, let alone gameplay.
Actually, the fight with Gulp, to me it felt harder in Reignited. Much harder.
Year of The Dragon is also my favourite game
It was a very magical cozy experience. I tend to enjoy the trilogy for there own quality. It’s been so long looking back as a kid, but I don’t remember anything that stood out to me as something I deeply dread to go back to. I believe I had the black label version too seeing as I gotten each game when they came out. I can’t believe it wasn’t the definitive version. It was until I recently learned from this community actually. It was strangely my least favorite for Reignited too. In that sense it can be especially disappointing if you love the original so much. The PS1 trilogy as a whole was a very special experience. I grew up with Playstation at it’s peak.
Awesome video
For me is still the best Spyro game!
Yeah it had some flaws and uncertain things but HEY! I love the lots of characters to play and architechture of the levels and the minigames and Bianca! Specially Bianca.
Anyway, that you covered both OG and Reignited versions was a great detail for exactly the anniversary day. And the differences of both but still the fun is there.
Great video!
I really wish Spyro was given a proper Dragon vs. Attempted Mass Infanticider in the
remake. It always bothered that Spyro never used his natural ability's against
the worst enemy his species had faced yet, that and when she comes
back it's like 'Ho hum, you're back so what'.
You could've at least given him flying super breath there.
That and I wish the Baby Dragons were as cute as the original!
(Even though I still secretly find the baby lizards sweeter)
How did I never knew I can get revenge on moneybag!? Now I feel stupid🤦🤣
Spyro 3 is my favorite Spyro game! I’ve 117% it...I don’t know how many times!
The remake of this game let me down big time for the reasons you said and many more that I won’t get into here.
But Spyro 3 took what worked in 1 and 2 and combined them while removing what didn’t work. My only complaints (with the original game) are the anti-climactic Sorceress fights with no buildup cutscene, the bonus round being a bunch of mini games instead of challenges with the playable characters, and Elora being almost entirely absent.
My biggest fear about a potential Spyro 4 is that they’ll cut out all the extra playable characters because majority fan opinion usually says they’re bad. I want them to return better than ever. Heck, keep them and add Hunter! I’d much prefer alternate character challenges over vehicle levels.
Same, I hope the Animal Buddies stay, maybe as helpful NPCs who can help progress through levels - I really want Elora and Bianca to be playable as I feel they deserve it just as much as Hunter and Spyro do. It's rare to have boyfriend/girlfriend playable couples in games so it'd be nice to play as them all. 4 Playstyles (Spyro, Hunter, Elora and Bianca) are easier to juggle than 6 (Spyro, Sheila, Sgt. Byrd, Bently, Agent 9 and Sparx).
@@PlanetZoidstar I want them to come back as playable characters because their gameplay is a big part of the reason why I loved Spyro 3 so much.
I had the same feels when I beat it all the way back then too I loved it and it’ll always hold strong place in my top 20. And after I beat the Reignited trilogy especially this one I felt complete beginning to end. And some those tough ass speed runs ,missions and I hated Spike & Gulp boss fights with a fu&$king Passion too.
And when I and siblings were sick during some school days mom always took me , sisters and lil bro to the hotel she worked and I always had console and Spyro 3 up there kicking ass. 😌 it was always epic times back then
I like how Spyro can use a skateboard, imagine if Spyro and Tony Hawk faced off in a skate competition.😆
I’ll be honest I always found Bianca to be endearing as hell. I actually did find it a shame she wasn’t playable in this. I love year of the dragon but I will admit there are some small parts that irritate me in the remake and those skate board races were high on that list.
Year of the dragon is definitely my favorite and I managed to beat it in 100 percent
No hatchling left behind! :)
My favourite game of all time
Final scene in review...
Since Elora made a cameo in YotD she needs to come to Spyro 4 as her actual appearance cause you guys remember that Elora ask Spyro if he wants to come visit in Avalar?
Spyro: Year of the Dragon is the only PS1 Spyro game I can classify as not only well designed, but also polished. it's not so much that the level design is a big improvement over its predecessors, or that the story is engaging for what it is, or that the collecting structure is properly signified to the player akin to Super Mario 64. Rather, a lot of it has to do with the fact that Insomniac Games fixed the one thing that was holding the first two games back, and that was the simple act of making Spyro an intuitive character to control.
Of all the 3D Action-Platformers I've played on the PS1, both Spyro 1 & 2 have some of the worst analog stick calibration you could find. For reasons that's most likely related to poor programming or poor engine optimisation, Spyro would not begin to move forward until the stick is pushed halfway. Otherwise he doesn't register. Despite this, down is shockingly sensitive, requiring only a bare tilt to the point a drifted stick could get in the way, and the same applies to left and right, particularly in Spyro 2 since in Spyro 1 they function similar to moving forward. The shoddy analog accuracy is a problem, because aside from making Spyro's normal movement feel imprecise and inconsistent, not to mention adding input lag to forward moving and thus can make some vertical platforming more clunky than necessary, it makes the additional mechanics like first person aiming and flying frustrating to execute consistently. Spyro 1 I can understand having this problem, since it was Insomniac Games' first stab at a 3D game with analog control, but Spyro 2 having it is unacceptable considering the introduction of new mechanics as well as being released the same year as games like Croc 2 and Toy Story 2, both of which have really good analog control that's accurate and responsive.
Why not just use the D-Pad instead? Because the PlayStation controller doesn't have the most comfortable one out there, and such uncomfortable pressing is not helped by Spyro in general feeling relatively unwieldy compared to Gex and Crash. I guess that's the disadvantage of having a creature with four legs as opposed to two. Even in the third game the playable critters have quicker and easier turning, which helps to make collecting gems less sluggish without Sparx. Still though, that doesn't change the fact that Spyro 3 finally got the analog accuracy fixed. Just slightly tilting the stick forward is enough for the game to register and tell Spyro to move forward; say goodbye to unnecessarily having to push halfway. This improved analog control is applied to almost every other mechanic in the game. Flying is much more enjoyable, first person aiming isn't cumbersome, swimming is a little easier, the illusion of input lag is gone, and so on and so forth. It is such a fundamental improvement that it makes it difficult to go back to the previous games. Putting up with poorly calibrated analog movement is just simply not fun.
Going to look forward to the new
Spyro 4 Game and continue to Hope they add in Spyro’s Unlimited
Free Flight Ability anytime any level without Limitations but with New Level Up Elements added in the New Spyro 4 Game and newer Spyro games coming on the horizon
Spyro 3 is my favorite game of all time
A double review? It's remake or rebreak! 😃
Spyro 3 is my favorite out of the 3 spyro games . It is 21 years and no spyro 4 . Sadly it is mostly likely going to realse in 2022
This is a good video Miharu! Btw what your thoughts about Spyro 4?
The only way I completed the original was with my fiancees help, and I cheated during the yeti race 😂😂 in the original you could drop down into the beginning and it would count as a lap so you could get a ridiculous head start and even still it took me an hour to get it right 😂😂😂
Apparently there are female dragons, we just don't see them in this game beyond the babies. I used to think the fairies were the equivalent of dragon females till this game, with the Save Fairy being Spyro's mom.
Spyro 2 is my favorite
Spyro 3 for me... is painful.
After 1 and 2 where you had multiple collectables which generally fit the challenge... 3 has Eggs. You glide to a spot? Free egg. You complete a complex minigame? Egg. Something about that Egg thing hurts me. Yeti games are hell... and I get a Egg I could get anywhere. In Spyro 2, Orbs are basically limited to minigames, a few exceptions.
When the remake came out, I completed 1 and 2, everything.
Not 3, I didn't even touch it.
I never understood why till I considered a video about Mario Odyssey.
What is the value of a Moon? 1 coin, as kicking a rock once, which gives 1 coin... gives you a Moon. Something you did the entire game suddenly gives you a moon. But sometimes things are worth 3 moons when they are involved... sometimes.
When designing a game you need 3 objectives.
1: The primary objective - Think of this as Dragons, or Talismans from 1/2
2: The passive objective - The gems, they are everywhere so you get them... collect them all and you've been all places.
3: The bonus objective - The Egg thieves, or the orbs in 1/2.
While you can argue in 3, there is the collecting of the party to get the balloon to work... you also get an EGG at the same time.
Mario Odyssey was a loved game... but I think it and Spyro 3 share the same problem. Simplifying the collection process to the point where it becomes a chore to a greater portion of the audience then normal.
*that doesn't mean you can't like these games*
I think the eggs were cute in the clasic version. The ones in reignighted lost some charm, by reusing baby dragon models.
I was surprised that you recently 100% year of the dragon I always thought you 100% it around the beginning of its release
Sparx can break baskets?!
To give my entire thoughts for the most part, Spyro 3 is everything Spyro 2 tried to be only now with far more polished and successful results. I'll put it this way. If you enjoy meandering and bloated level design, badly structured progression, forced backtracking plus levels resetting, poor communication on what is important (redundant talismans essentially), a poorly written and contrived story even by kid standards, and mostly boring side-games that contribute a lot to the poor stage design and offer less meaningful gameplay than the minigames you'd find in some of the Rugrats games, you will absolutely LOVE Spyro 2. To put it simply, I'm never playing Spyro 2 ever again. No reason to when I have Spyro 3.
Spyro 3 is essentially if you took the content quantity of Donkey Kong 64, and mixed it with the stronger and more streamlined design of Super Mario 64, Toy Story 2 and Banjo Kazooie. There's a healthy balance of exploration based platforming and side-games. Both of which are fun to play for a variety of reasons. The former is backed up with focused level design and challenging enemies, not to mention the ludicrous amount of micro optimisations that make for an addictive game to both master and speedrun. Meanwhile the latter is backed up with fully realised level design, and a higher and more consistent degree of challenge. Couple that with the higher emphasis on much needed time limits and enemies that pose as an actual threat, and you have side-games that can be called actual side-games. There's also some much needed quality of life improvements like Spyro finally feeling good to play, donut shape level design allowing for quick, convenient and easy shortcuts (cutting artificial padding down tremendously), as well as one of the few collectathons to handle backtracking correctly thanks to the originally closed off sections and new playable characters offering substantially new content.
Are there a few issues. Yeah. Yeti Boxing can die. Bentley is okay but is the least interesting of the new critters to play as, the rest are great fun though. Super Bonus Round is a good albeit rather half baked 100% level, better than Dragon Shores but not as good as Gnasty's Loot. Lastly, I would have liked more sections playing as the new critters to flesh out their playstyles more. You could honestly cut out Bentley and boxing altogether, and replace his sections in favour of the other critters and the game would probably be better off for it. Still, they're satisfying enough additions with good control and excellent level design.
Overall, my new favourite game on the PlayStation, and one of the best 3D platformers I've played.
There is in fact one female dragon in the Spyro universe why do you think spyro's so tired in the beginning of 3
MBY in orginal male dragins can produce children 🤔
Two Spyro games form 🧸 toys form bob in remastered Spyro who later works on crash 4 and last Spyro games in remastered done ✅ by Sanzaru Games games there so far are sly collection and sly 4 also Asgard's Wrath god of war collection well looking up on internet there be new Spyro games in 2021 and new crash game in June 2021 old Spyro series by Insomniac Games later working spider 🕷 man and ratchet and clank game too
In the same boat here.
Original spyro 3 is my favourite by far, reignited spyro 3 is the worst by far.
Like when yiu compare it to spyro 1 reignited and kinda spyro 2, the animation is nowhere near as good, level colour pallettes and lighting arent focused, character designs (spike). And gameplay choices and swimming drift and minigame camera changes just ruin it for me.
What made me most angry about the reignited trilogy was the new voice actors they are horrible The original was so much better
To be honest I always found it insulting that the dragons just sleep with the eggs out in the open without any practical protection. Sure they are behind a wall but a wall with no practical battlements or gatehouses, plus they can tunnel under them without the sound of picking at bedrock awakening anyone. What are they stupid? Have they forgotten that there is always some one trying to comment dragon genocide?
I never played the original spyro games, only reignited and the first installment of the legend of spyro, but i personally think spyro 3 is my least favorite of them all. there are a lot of worlds that are just annoying and it hard to find my way around them, i really dont like playing as other characters beside sheila, and i just didnt have much fun playing it. 2 was my personal favorite :>