awesome video and great editing dood! new sub

Have you tried "The big catch: Tackle box"? It's really good.

Spyro 1 was one of my first games ever when i got into gaming. Absolute classic and more chill and more fun levels overall than 2 and 3

thx for vid. love this game <3

I didn't even grow up with the first Spyro, yet the sense of nostalgia I get from it is stronger than some of the games I actually grew up.

love the channel and video, subscribed - nothing beats the Spyro vibe

Still my favorite game of all time.

The original PS1 games have such good vibes, the reignited trilogy whilst playing well just feels like a spyro in unreal engine 4 tech demo in vibes imo

As someone who never owned a Nintendo 64 or played BK, Corn Kidz felt like a boring game with jank controls and a hard to read level design.

Spyro the Dragon was my first fully 3D experience in gaming that I can remember. Wouldn't have it any other way. Literally felt like teleporting to a different world and living a dream. It's honestly insane how often people casually whipped up material so magically unique and inspiring from old hardware.

The important thing the taxi game gets right is that its okay to play around with modern effects and retro graphics, or even combine styles. It doesn’t need to be “authentic”, unless you literally make a modern game for the actual old system.

maybe its nostalgia but the spyro 4 soundtrack still smacks

Fun fact Btw, Mike myers did actually voiced gnasty gnorc from the original spyro 1 game.

"The *Spyro Reignited Trilogy* was released on *November 13, 2018.* As of *December 2024,* it is *6 years old.* Damn!" Gotta wait another decade or two until that game becomes nostalgic.

Vindicated. I love the first game. It’s just so…. Atmospheric. No one telling you what to do, no NPCs aside from the dragons. You can complete every level as soon as you get there, and there are secrets abound. I appreciate what Reignited did, it made the individual dragons more interesting and exciting, but I had memorized the delivery of the dialogue and some of the changes in Reignited just didn’t hit the same way (the Parappa reference isn’t the same).

Spyro 3 is my favourite

Started replaying the reignited trilogy a few days ago, happy that people still make content for these games :3

Great video!

Amazing video, you made me appreciate the skyboxes so much more. If you did a video on Ridge Racer 4?!?!

My first experience with Spyro was the reignited trilogy. The only thing missing from these games for me is unlocking cool new abilities like in banjo kazooie.

These past few years, it seems like with the rise of liminal imagery, we've collectively realized how liminal the OG Spyro games were. Makes me wonder if it's influenced why I like the feeling of liminality so much. Even when drawing backgrounds it seems like I subconsciously seek to replicate the same feeling of a Spyro level. Artisans, Summer Forest, Autumn Plains and Sunrise Spring really look like ideal places to live.

The best part is that this video uses the original games

Great review! I love Spyro even as a 31 year old dude. The music absolutely bangs and I'm glad you touched on that first. I've been bumping Dark Hollow and Ice Caverns since the year of our lord 1998.

I will say one thing I wish Reignited kept from the original, was how different the Dragons looked in appearance without clothing. My favorite Dragons were always the Peacekeepers because the fur stood out vastly to me. Not to mention just how massive they were, the fact some chose to stand on all fours, and how epic they felt due to their larger than life presence. In Reignited, the fur was completely removed and only clothing exists to differentiate them. Not to mention the size difference was also taken away. I was really excited to see them, only for them to feel as samey as the Artisan Dragons. They just have different clothing now instead of varying features that did wonders for the world building. Like you never, NEVER see fur on Dragons anymore in media these days. I'm not the only one who thinks we should've gotten giant, fluffy, Peacekeeper Dragons right? Anybody?

2:08 I thought I was the only one that tried to make it look like he was trying to grab the gem 😁

My favourite detail about the first game which is absent in the second game are the balloon rides. The loading screens between worlds with Spyro sitting on the hot air balloon made the worlds feel connected on the same planet. Instead of the teleporters from the second game which made it feel like they could be in completely different dimensions from one another. Also, I completed the first game to 120% and didn't find it too difficult to do. Still a lot easier than the second game which I still haven't completed yet.

The worst crime for spyro 1 reignited was the change to purple goo guns for twilight harbor. I dont care what they said about "creative decisions". It was clearly obviously censored for kids. I hate that they keep doubling down on this stupid excuse. There are some other examples of censorship in the trilogy that TFB made. But twilight harbor was the worst for me. Twilight harbor is supposed to be this big first time u see Gnastys army in full force. But what do they try and scare u with? Splatoon guns.. 🙄

I love that you compare to reignited, thanks for that extra effort. I think about Lofty Castle a lot. The theme for that area always pops into mind when the sky turns a cloudy pink and I think about those mysterious two planets a lot

I never noticed all the different times of day in the first area levels. It's a pretty small detail, but still blows my mind.

Pseudoregalia was one of the stand-out indie titles of this year in my opinion, it just felt like a perfect platformer to me and I loved every second of it. My only gripe was that one week after I finished it, they added the minimap lol, I even used steams overlay feature to overlay a minimap over my game at one point while 100% it, anyone who played it after it was added definitely had a better experience. Yellow Taxi is another one of my favourite games this years.

Same here. Spyro 2 might be the best one but the first one is my fav. It's just so refreshing, soft and calming.

The original PlayStation was my first ever console, and I was obsessed with Spyro the Dragon. Whilst Gateway to Glimmer and Year of the Dragon made many improvements, the first game is still my favourite of the three. It might be a simple platform game, but it had charm, verticality, a killer soundtrack, personality, and beautiful level design, with Ice Cavern, Wizard Peak, Tree Tops and Dark Passage being my absolute favourites. I didn't like the Reignited Trilogy. Although visually stunning and the games remained faithful, they didn't feel nostalgic for me. I'm perfectly content playing the original games, which, although made for old hardware, I think have aged well. Also, when I played the first game way back then, I found out how to reach the distant platform in tree tops by following the green thief

I have been listening to the OST of this game for as long as I can remember, which is at least as long as I ever got my first smartphone to put music on. Still listens to it, every single week, no exceptions, because I just love it that much!

Welp, KZbin recommended me this video just now, I saw the title and was like "Jup". As much as I like the Reignited Trilogy, I still love to return to the original first game. It just feels right.

Spyro 1 definitely had the best VIBE™ for sure, but why it's my personal favorite is that it's the only game in the series that requires NO backtracking. Every level can be completed 100% on your first time entering, which can't be said about Spyro 2/3 (Unless you use the Abilities Cheat Code in Spyro 2, which isn't in the remaster).

3:29 That was too funny

Whenever I want my art to look dreamlike and atmospheric, there's no better reference material than Spyro 1-3.

Bsed favorite from best distinguisher

1:49 Awe, your not playing the first versions where the bulls have blood stains on the tips of their horns and Norcs have blood stains on their swords.

Great video! I played the original spyro on release and downloaded reignited recently. I just couldn’t play reignited, those load times are abysmal.

Really good video, but how many times do you want to say vibe 😂😂, keep up the good work

Miss these games

What's your favorite skybox? Mine's gotta be Dr. Shemp's eclipse.

i was never a huge fan of 3d plaltformrers as it felt lie they don't actualy focus on the paltforminng so much as exploreingg a huge world and doing other things. thats wwhy the onlly level i like in a hat in time was Alpine Skyline as it's the only level in the game that had pllatforming as a focus if i'm playing an indie platformer it's a 2d one .

If you want to play a very nice and FREE platformer that will test you platforming skills then play a game called "The big catch: takle box" it's seriously one of the experiences that i got with a platformer

Elon musk evil? Hahaha

they are good now also the corn Kids part i disagree with you for me it the difficulty was perfect and any platforming chalange if you fail you can retry in less than 10 seconds like seriously the way you talk it feels like every level is like the final challange final words fuck you corn Kids is ballin and you just a milenial

My god you must play games all day because thinking Elon is evil is way off. You need to educate yourself

Gotta say I disagree completely with the corn 64 negativity. Skill issue

yo, thanks so much for your kind words about cavern of dreams!