Spyro Reignited Trilogy: Top 5 WORST NPCs

[@IllusionMaster17]

At least in the original the tikis looked like actual tikis. Here they look like Cortex clones. Also my least favorite NPC. And dang with the pandas, they looked adorable in the concept art!

[@DoofenSpyroDragon16]

Even my friend who’s never played Spyro before said their smiles were weird lookin, she thought they looked suspicious I guess 😂

[@devinlupei5071]

King Flippy may not be fat, he might be pregnant. He is a father after all and it's the male that gives birth.

[@MiharuTheFox]

Doesn't change his face tho

[@DoofenSpyroDragon16]

As soon as you said he looks like a melting gonzo, now I can’t unsee it 🤣

[@CJBooks4]

"He looks like a melting Gonzo"😆I can't unsee that now🤣😂

[@roxasprowers]

You never catch me alive ! I will never the tiki lounge

[@brickbrock2415]

If they wanted to portray a royal seahorse with King Flippy, they should've made him more elegant like the Pokemon Kingdra. I mean, I understand the idea of making a king fat, but they really went overboard here.

[@NitwitsWorld]

He ain't no Pokemon King lol😅

[@NibbleBiscuit64]

He's fat over he is obviously pregnant. Male seahorses get pregnant.

[@SchlubbyTomHanks]

i miss when the pandas would go "YAIPE!!" when you'd run into them, i was bummed the new pandas don't have that lol.

[@jojogape]

I actually really like the Colossus/Idol Springs NPC redesigns, but for the rest I can mostly see where you come from. It's weird because a lot of these are from Spyro 3 and I felt the same way. Many Spyro 3 Reignited NPCs feel kind of... off to me.

[@booksmartthealicorn3219]

😂*laughs* *That one line calling Reignited version King Flippy made me laugh a lot! I feel you ,girl! I can't detect a lie!* 🤣 *Awesome list of top 5 not so favorite NPCs in Spyro the Dragon video games, **#MiharuTheFox**! Here's hoping for some redemptve beautician work on these 5 aforementioned NPCs and make them winsome and lovable in Spyro 4 and future Spyro the Dragon video games, guys and gals!* ;D 😇

[@ArtisanAspirationWorks]

King Flippy looks like a Veggietales character.

[@SkyeBerryJam]

I actually really didn't like the sorceress in reignited. She's too boxy/blocky/square coded. Also really didn't like Handel/Greta because they're like just kids now, instead of having some mystery behind them of like are they robots? Aliens? Experimental super soldiers?

[@GemGames3]

Not a talking NPC but I don't know why they had to turn the whale in Evening Lake into nightmare fuel

[@swimandracquet]

Best narration voice ever. I fall asleep listening to all your Spyro videos

[@MiharuTheFox]

I hope you can still retain the information that way XD

[@eryyy554]

is that suppose to be a compliment? 😅

[@swimandracquet]

I meant it in a good way I really like listening to her talk

[@Yensid951927]

They really dropped the ball on the NPCs in Sunrise Springs, which stinks because those were the characters I interacted with the most when I was young since Spyro 3 was my first Spyro game. The lions and goats came out good but the tiki men (mangled design and voices) and weather sprites (desaturated color) were really pushing the characters away from their original appeal.

[@crashtefano]

I'm not a fan of Jack, the NPC from that optional area in Charmed Ridge. His black void eyes don't look okay with the modern graphics of the remake, it might be the laziest reimagining of a PS1 character model in all of Spyro Reignited Trilogy

[@DoofenSpyroDragon16]

Honestly I thought i was the only one 💀 yeah didn’t translate too well, did it?

[@PrimalKevYT]

My issue with most of Reignited's Spyro 2 and 3 NPCs is that the majority just feels like some stuff you'd see in preschooler Cocomelon kids show slop.

[@catylotl]

they really did just slap teeth on characters for no reason. like the whale in evening lake lol

[@Jaceblue04]

The amount of people who hate the new Tiki design will never not be funny to me, especially since I like the new design more than the old one. Still not as funny to me as the people who genuinely got offended at Sheila's redesign; that STILL has me in stitches.

[@alorachan5622]

1:16 Это буквально то, как они выглядели в оригинальной игре, только с лучшим качеством. Почему разработчики не сделали их такими(

[@artemismoore4176]

That may be a stretch, but… why add buckteeth to Asian-themed characters (fireflies)? Especially since they didn’t have any in the original? I don’t know, makes me think of WW2 Imperial Japan propaganda cartoons

[@jumpiestudios5265]

Wait, what about the fireflies is Asian-themed? They're swamp-themed.

[@artemismoore4176]

@@jumpiestudios5265 Fireflies have some Japanese inspiration, such as them speaking in Haiku, and having tea lamps with paper walls Thought yeah, the swamp theme is more prevalent As I said, what I said may be a stretch

[@toonrex2806]

At least they didn’t give them and the Pandas straw hats and speaking with Ls and Rs mixed up.

[@YamiSpyroX]

I don't mind the Sea-horses (Aren't they supposed to be big-headed anyway?) and the seals since I think for the later, I liked how much their faces looked like real-life seals; witch I found Cute, but you're right about King Finny. He got so ugly in the remake. The things I hate the most is the baby dragons. I don't go 'Awwww' when I see them. I just go 'ugh' or 'meh'.

[@frostgem8013]

Another thing I noticed about the pandas is that unlike everyone else in the reignited trilogy most of them dont have a flinch animation when you flame them.

[@calvin6189]

Tf you mean "everyone else"? A number of NPCs dont react to Spyro's flame in even the slightest.

[@swordheartstudios]

When I played through the Reignited Trilogy I never really found any of the NPCs designs bad as I see where you're coming from with the comments on these NPCs designs in the Reignited Trilogy as it does feel like a bit more time could've been put into these designs. As I do love the Seals and Pandas concept designs for the Reignited Trilogy.

[@DJStrike]

One thing that annoyed me was that the Blobs in the Bird level in Spryo 2 were changed to caterpillars. The whole point was that there were 2 complimentary levels involving a war between the blobs and the birds. In one level, you help the birds and the other level you help the blobs. So, making them caterpillars in one destroys the relationship and theme of the two levels.

[@MiharuTheFox]

Maybe they thought giving them a more caterpillar or worm-like appearance would help push the fact that they were enemies? Like one being the predator and one the prey? Honestly I think it makes perfect sense.

[@Jroobelucios]

@@MiharuTheFoxagreed idk what op means by it ruining the dynamic

[@RoeVaune]

I think the main problem with the eyelids on the seal NPCs is that it makes them look sleepy and apathic. They don't look like they need my help, they look like they need a nap. But otherwise, the problems i have with Reignited are also miniscule. I love the game. That said i've had the urge to replay the PS1 versions, just to get the full nostalgia hit, at some point.

[@landonrush340]

Cool to see a new video from you

[@jam9852]

The Tiki's design is the absolute worst my jaw dropped when I found out what they did to most of the NPC's in Sunrise Spring. Year of the dragon is my favourite in the series so to see bad designs in my all time favourite childhood hub world is just really sad.

[@Duskool]

Why do i feel the Spooky Swamp's Fireflies's buckteeth is meant to make them look more like hillbilly type characters? Get it? Cuz it's a Swamp area? That's my only guess as to why they'd do it. King Flippy's appearance reminds me a lot of the King Bee in the Conker Remake, funnily enough another remake that went a bit too far on the features, but works better for it since it's meant to be disturbing anyway.

[@CelestialDarkness45]

the pandas and gemcutters are the biggest crimes to me.

[@ci7210]

Made me realize how all the PS1 design were adorable

[@bexfletch1]

Hard agree with these, but my personal #1 is Billy the goat in Sheila's Alp.. he was SO CUTE. They massacred my boy 😢😂

[@MiharuTheFox]

Whaaat I think Reignited made them so much cuter tbh 😅

[@bexfletch1]

@@MiharuTheFox 🤣 each to their own!

[@thousandyeargems4360]

For me it's the Skelos Badlands, crystal glaciers cavemen. It was perfection in the original :(

[@batmanrobin2011]

I loved the Tikis in the original SYTOD but I agree the Reignited ones are horrendous

[@StarBlue42]

The pandas...look how they massacred my boys 😢

[@TyrannoNoddy]

Oh those new pandas creep me out. You mentioned how the OG ones look like they're just vacantly staring into your soul... well here it feels like that but in HD. Don't mind the redesigned Tikis, but maybe that's my Oceanian bias, lol. The worst design for me is actually the Spooky Swamp fireflies, but for a reason you didn't bring up. I'm sure some are gonna find me annoying for even saying this, but I'd rather be honest so basically... they look uncomfortably close to racial caricatures of Japanese people. Like, you already have Japanese coding in the fireflies with Haiku being a Japanese form of poetry, and Reignited gave them what I assume to be Japanese accents, so then designing the fireflies with squinty eyes (at least that's how they sometimes look?) and big buck teeth while talking in thick accents... I can't be the only one who felt put off by this, right?

[@JasmineBrowneyes]

Nah, full on agreement with the Tikis. Why they made them more...uncanny looking?

[@BensnakeofKansas]

im glad im not the only one who didn't like the pandas

[@baha6743]

I disagree with the whole list except for the pandas and the seahorses (especially king flippy!)

[@Illustrator64]

For the seahorses, I feel more sympathy for the original because how they are portrayed. Back at the original, when we see the seahorses, they are lying down and they look like they had trouble breathing. Even the voices sounds like they are in distress when Spyro talks to them. After the water is back, they look much better. But in the Reignited, it doesn’t feel the same. All they can do is stand on their tail and they also don’t express the same distress expression. In comparison, I feel more motivated to save the seahorses in the original than Reignited.

[@Pan-cackes]

The seal was cute in the original game, but in the remake... 😖

[@zenicehero9154]

Thankfully most NPCs in Spyro Trilogy are cool but yea there are some who are a nuisance

[@maniacaldude]

I can certainly name a lot of NPC redesigns from the Reignited Trilogy that I disliked. I definitely agree that the pandas look lame (I actually like the original version more) and the tikis look... uncanny, but one personal least favorite of mine is Greta and Handel. I always liked their more stylized Powerpuff Girl sort of look, and something about their Reignited look just makes them lose their appeal.

[@tacksgmvs2070]

Yeah, those tikis are the worst redesigns ever. In the old game I always thought that they looked more like mummies than tikis. Maybe the redesigns would have looked better they did look more like mummies, but I guess it wouldn’t have fit with the world then, but still they could have made them a little better looking. I’m also not the biggest fan of the cavemen guys. And, while I don’t hate the Glimmer NPC’s, the originals looked a lot cuter than the redesigns.

[@toonrex2806]

I really hated the designs for the baby dragons in Reignited. The originals were cute and made you want to save them while the redesigns are goofy and ugly.

[@NobodieZ26]

The Tikis are creepy.

[@mrfoxly6833]

I’d throw in the dancing skeleton. Easily one of the dumbest attempts to appeal to a new generation I’ve ever seen.

[@nerdodragonnerdpl4167]

And I tought i'm only one who complains about those changes...

[@BrennySpain]

Year of the Dragon seems to have a lot of bad NPCs. Ripto’s Rage doesn’t compare lol

[@blitzgerald]

why does Miharu talk like a female version of me

[@slybandicoot]

cool

[@scantyer]

The Tikis are the only ones where i couldnt understand what were they trying to achieve. They completely changed how they looked, it wasnt just a high-poly interpretation of the low-poly ps1 model. WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?