The Spyro Trilogy is GREAT | A Thorough Retrospective

The original three Spyro games on the PlayStation are pretty great! They're also getting remakes, but before that lovely nonsense rolls around, let's examine the originals, shall we?
00:01:49 - Spyro the Dragon
00:29:37 - Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage
00:58:39 - Spyro: Year of the Dragon
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[@mathewhaight]

Something to note about nasty nork is that that is how his name is pronounced. The interviewer at beginning of the first game was getting it wrong. That was the joke.

[@SCHMALLZZZ]

It's common for children to have no idea to pronounce "GN" w 20 years ago the kids couldn't pronounce my XBL handle. Gnar420. Dumbass kids kept saying Gee Nar lmao

[@Spike294]

1. the dragon in the beginning of 1 is clearly being interviewed on TV hence the boom mic 2. he mispronounces gnasty's name. you missed the joke. 3. gnasty is obviously watching it on TV but you're right that it'd be a nice touch if you saw the TV somewhere when you get to his lair at the end

[@DarksideSleemo]

Yeah, I like this video but was definitely disappointed that he missed the joke with Gnasty's name and continued to pronounce it wrong.

[@chandler_martian]

Thankfully they actually showed that Gnasty is seeing this on TV in Reignited. Admittedly in the original it makes no sense why he hears them.

[@SCHMALLZZZ]

​@@chandler_martianhe was listening to ihesrt radio on his iPad. Talk about a strawman argument.

[@chandler_martian]

@@SCHMALLZZZ My bad I never noticed his AirPods that clearly show he was jamming out to some npr

[@kade7xx]

You can't see a camera because the camera IS the camera. The camera is the cameraman. And you can assume Gnasty is watching TV, but it's not in view.

[@SCHMALLZZZ]

If only others would use their brain like you did.

[@msfs19941]

I never had a problem with this until I started watching deep dives and stuff as an adult. I don't get how it's confusing 😂

[@i_am_dementia9926]

Yeah I stopped watching after this take lol 😂

[@pinkertstupert653]

Yeah, i turned the video off after this. The guy who made this video is clearly braindead LOL

[@M-1996A1]

Spyro gem sound is the only text message sound I will ever need.

[@Ciuin_Sam]

I agree that the bosses in Spyro 1 are largely superfluous, especially Toasty. That said, Toasty was my first boss... ever. I was maybe 6 or 7 and not very good at the game. So I was super nervous to fight Toasty; he looked intimidating and, though I died many times to the dogs, I eventually beat him by the skin of my baby teeth. The 'surprise' moment at the end was a fun reward for little 6yo me. It's not challenging to most players, but for youngsters, it is the very first (tiny) hill to climb.

[@kevinpeters6709]

Those dogs scared the 💩out of me as a kid

[@Ciuin_Sam]

@@kevinpeters6709 I jumped in my seat every time one sprang to life and charged at me

[@Azurryu]

You've been a smarter kid than me, because I didn't even realize that was a boss and didn't know Spyro 1 has bosses until my late teens 😅

[@alolamanalo]

I can’t believe I didn’t see this earlier, this is such a wonderful retrospective on such a wonderful trilogy! Spyro was my childhood and these games are still my favorites today, I pretty much agree with everything in this video. Thank you for giving the purple dragon the love he deserves

[@LLF0]

Spyro is my childhood. I used to play Ripto's Rage so much back then, I love that game. Now I want to download some emulator and play it again.

[@spaziani42]

Three things! 1. Overall, a great overview of probably my favorite game(s) of all time! 2. The, "G's," in Gnasty Gnork are supposed to be silent. 3. You can totally aim those grenades while playing as Agent 9! Go back and play it again. If you hold the throw button, it gives you a dotted arc and an X which you use to aim! Again, overall, great job!

[@bambi9935]

I'm extremely late but came to say the same for the agent 9 grenades hihi xx

[@zodiacblue9378]

Regarding the story elements in these retro games, don’t forget that back in the day every game had an instruction booklet with some background information on the story and characters. Also in the case of the Spyro games :)

[@ordinarytree4678]

Bianca really is great. I had a crush on her when I was a kid 😊 she was a wizard and a nice person, my childhood mind was smitten.

[@M3plusYOU]

Bunny girl hot

[@Greerskateboards]

This was great! I’m sorry this doesn’t have more views. It was really nice to jump back into this world without having to get a ps1 or an emulator. It was interesting hearing your criticisms about the game. Lastly, I’m surprised you didn’t touch on the music! It was so well done. Good job on this video 🙌🏻.

[@matteagle7897]

Really great Video. Spyro was one of my first games iny my childhood. This deserves more attention.

[@DanManDJ]

Wow. Thanks for making this, deserves more recognition.

[@JustCJ71]

Great retrospective! Gets me hyped for reignited!

[@Tyranno]

Thank you! Tuesday can't arrive fast enough!

[@tsgtajirisilvergaming90]

I got to say great video! I'm glad the longer format is persistent to this day. I love to load an hour or 3 hour video on my phone to pass the time at work. Spyro the dragon means alot ot me, and the crippled series to this day pains me. Anytime I would talk about Majora's mask, re2, and Spyro, and someone got excited, was sureal to me. Lasting friendship for sure. Riptos rage was my favorite of the bunch. Don't apologize for asking for likes and subs from this.... You can literally hear the passion this series brought to you. You've earned my sub!

[@dongrubb2723]

Dude how do you get confused they say gnasty gnorc one time. But somehow Spyro is saying it wrong every time they mention nasty norc. They pronounce it just like that without the g sound. Play through the game again and actually listen they only say it with a g sound once as a joke.

[@GladTV]

this deserves way more views

[@GladTV]

back again a year later. i love this video.

[@MichaelEKaz]

This was a really good analysis of Spyro, and also a lot of fun to watch and listen. Thanks!

[@KaiSaeren]

Good work man! I love these longer videos, you can just turn off and listen without worrying about what is going to jump up next :D Anyways, here is a thumbs up for your hard work!

[@animalisticprik]

Really awesome video man, I can't believe this hasn't gotten more views. I was kinda disappointed that you didn't talk about the soundtracks at all because the music holds most of the nostalgia in the games for me (especially Ripto's Rage, Autumn Plains especially 👌). The music adds a lot to the games in terms of ambience/game feel. However, I totally understand why it was left out, because music is especially hard to tackle from an objective point of view. OVERALL, amazing video, would definitely recommend to anyone that expresses interest in the Spyro trilogy. Great job man.

[@UnbakedRaptor]

Crazy that this only has 6k views. Loved the work you put into this!

[@MatthewKingpin]

Heyo! This was a really great video! I really enjoyed the editing style, the jokes were quite great, the writing was snappy and packed with personal charm, and overall it was a 90 minute video that went by super fast, was really well made! Watched it again right after it was finished. Something really specific: I love that you pointed out the second game's charge and flame teaching mechanic in glimmer - I still remember the first time when I played the game (when I was like 7) and I had the huge power trip of charging the defenseless little enemies followed by the crash down to Earth that comes from getting squashed by the big guy after an unsuccessful charge haha. One of my favorite character dialogues: "Why did you have to come back here? Now he's going to do his dance again! Here we go... JIVIN' OH YEAH!"

[@connorplays6263]

" unless Toys for Bob messes it up" wow that line did not hold up very well, considering the fact that the reignited trilogy is actually amazing

[@REMINISC3NT116]

@SNAComics lol

[@BagzAndPresident]

No it was TRASH

[@connorplays6263]

@@BagzAndPresident Care to explain how?

[@SerpongeDash]

@@connorplays6263 the remake of the first opus is amazing, second and third not so much imo but still fine remakes, just didn't really replace the originals for me

[@Barholtworld]

"Being relevant means me getting views" Me two years after upload: I'm about to pull a sneaky on ya Edit: good video. My favourite is the first but at least you are mostly honest and objective about the differences of the games which can show how they can appeal to different demographics of gamers. I like the simplicity of the first where you can just go into a level collect all the treasure and dragons without any road blocks or annoying missions. Just you and the righteous quest of saving dragonkin.

[@KyraWolf]

I could be wrong, but for the gem placement behind the start in cliff town, i want to say from certain points, from a distance, you see the gem shine. It's a moment that teaches you to look around for those hints for later levels. I think you were just in the wrong spot to see the hint where they were.

[@av_990]

Great video my guy, also i appreciate not cutting to a joke every 5 seconds...compared to a...RECENT...retrospective..lol

[@Reditect]

Hey, love this video; thanks for making it. It brings up many things: level design, animation, importance of good controls, straying away from core gameplay, your love for certain parts and annoyances, etc. Your analysis of game design here is awesome to watch/listen to. I'll be sure to rewatch to pick more things out where Spyro got it wrong. I say this because I'm working on a 3d platformer collect-a-thon myself, it's called PB & Jay. I could talk for hours about level design and 3d platformers in general, but I digress. Once again, thanks for making this video. :)

[@GuanYuber]

Hey! I've been thinking about doing a Spyro retrospective since I just finished the Reignited Trilogy (thank God they finally released it on PC). I'm watching every bit of content I can find to give me ideas on what to talk about and I was really surprised at how few views this had given the effort you put into it, not to mention the humor was on point which is really hard to do. Really great work, keep making stuff like this.

[@i_am_dementia9926]

Spyro 1 will always be my favorite due to its simplicity

[@elloofficer]

49:15 I mean this is the same as in Cliff Town but you called it's level design shite when a barrier confused you... 50:20 Every type of layout in the second game can be found in the first (backtraking,shooting cannon, if you're taking about orb challenges thery are in the same catagory as mini games just sectioned off parts of the level for that one specific gameplay elements. Also 50:25 and 1:02:00 Doesn't that make the level design worse since every level is predictable now being a donut? Even Spyro 1/2 has linear and donut levels, Spyro 3 only has donuts making it have less variety. Point A to B is bad but donuts are good? Spyro 3 is just as or even more linear than Spyro 1. There's no real branching paths to speak of when everything leads to mini-game levels and having layers/floors is common in all three games. Very interesting video though good job.

[@piley1132]

It was insinuated that it was a tv interview through the use of the boom mic. The idea was that gnasty gnorc was watching from his world on a tv of some sort. His name is spelt Gnasty Gnorc but is pronounced Nasty Norc. Surprised you brought up how you can get lost in the first hub world of the first game. Never see people ask for games to be more linear rather than open before? It gives the player freedom. You spawn at a dragon statue who tells you what to do. If you go to the balloonist he tells you what he needs to fly to next hub world. It doesn't take long for people to realize that they can go into the portals into other worlds and collect gems and eggs there. As for cliff town, the boundary is clearly marked with poles to signify that it is the area you can't proceed beyond. It wasn't stopping you from going behind the first building. Finding these secret areas were half the fun of the old spyro games

[@budgoodrich6000]

I'm 1:41 in so far. But I already love your style. Very well delivered. Just gonna strap on my seat belt and watch the whole dang thing now.

[@emvk2002]

Holy crap. Great job on the video! I honestly ever played about an hour of Spyro 2. I should get to that game some time. Disappointed that I haven’t done that yet.

[@SuNDowNBeaT]

Thank u so much for the video ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@Swedishmafia101MemeCorporation]

Awesome video. I have such fond memories of these games, and I really like the remake.

[@AlanRedgown]

Just seeing the egg thieves gives me anxiety to this day.

[@jehovahsthickness3351]

I was literally playing the original Spyro 3 and thought I'd look up reviews on the original trilogy. Stumbled across this video and listened to the whole thing. Great video! I do have one question: would you consider doing a video on your opinion about the reignited trilogy?

[@ElementalrxKX]

You seriously deserve more views

[@MulliganSnicker]

Great retrospective. Did you use an emulator to play and capture this footage? Looks clean

[@PopeDuwang]

Let’s be real….Tree Tops was the level where we started dying.

[@blaqbuddah4652]

Hey, bro. First up I'd like to say I really like the video! While I disagree with a sum of what you said I found it to be entertaining none-the-less and had a great time watching it. So much so that I find myself on the third watch, haha. There's been something that's gotten my panties in a bunch since the first watch-through and it's the call-out on Gnasty Gnorc's name and how the characters interpret it. I've always felt the reason some of the characters pronounce the silent G and some don't has always struck me as a gag on silent letters and/or the dragon's lack of real knowledge and/or respect of this person they're apparently being interviewed on. So much so that they don't even know how/care to pronounce his name properly. Spyro himself never calls him by "G"nasty because Gnasty has established himself as a genuine threat capable of single-handedly and rather easily globally CCing every dragon. Of course this is all thought proccess from a smooth-brain boi, so it's entirely possible I've looked too far into it.

[@matty_mather]

Ok so you don’t pronounce the Gs in Gnasty Gnorc... same as you don’t pronounce a G when saying Gnorc. The joke is the interviewer getting his name wrong and the dragon then corrects them by saying it correctly. They definitely confused a lot of people with this one though.

[@saturnbishop6595]

I don't normally comment on videos, but I just wanted to show some respect for someone who seemed to work pretty hard on a big project like this. I like listening to retrospectives and analysis videos, so when I seek them out and find videos by people I'm not familiar with, I'm still willing to give them a shot when they talk about games I care about. I enjoyed the video, and although the audio sometimes gets a bit high and low, it was overall enjoyable. I'm surprised to hear your praise on Tree Tops. I have never heard anyone say anything positive about that level, and while I may not personally agree, I can't help but respect someone who appreciates something that seems so universally hated. That being said, I enjoyed the snow leopard quest a lot as a kid. Snow leopards and leopards as a whole were some of my favorite animals at a young age, and I remember replaying the level multiple times just to get to that part, even if it was easy. Overall, I appreciate the work you put into this and I intend to look over the rest of your channel to see if anything else catches my interest. I know this comment comes a few years after you've uploaded this, but thanks for giving me something to listen to during a mindless shift.

[@quiveringavicularia1513]

hi, i really enjoyed the video. great job. i wanted to say that i think for a game that could be the first video game ever having an easy first boss is good. i have seen many people really struggle with the boss in toasty and feel so good when they finally accomplish it.

[@raz1572]

It's kind of weird that you frame Spyro 1's levels as linear, when the path from the beginning to the exit is rarely even half of the levels content, nor are you forced along it. Good video all the same.

[@Tyranno]

I, uh... I agree. I've got some lingering regrets with this video; that's one of them.

[@DegixHorse]

Will you cover the Dawn of the Dragon trilogy aswell? I really enjoyed your video!!

[@mariomuncher44]

Bruh, that's ACTUALLY *The Legend of Spyro trilogy* which includes *The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning* , *The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night* and *The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon*

[@SuspiciousLiquid]

Always love to hear smile bomb and Sinatra

[@SandyGarnelle]

About Cliff Town gems... Dude, I dunno, that was too darn funny for you to stumble over such an ez gem placement.

[@GoldenPincers]

Great video and retrospective. For the Spyro 1 bosses, I believe they are so easy on purpose; they are meant to be push-overs and hilariously bad.

[@dragonking5852]

will make The Legend Of Spyro retrospective

[@jakesteel2423]

Well done video, the widescreen stretch is rough though

[@josephcook6442]

Ripto's Rage - his was my favorite game ever, aside from the Harry Potter games ❤️❤️

[@bkkersey93]

How did you get the game to look so good and without pixels?

[@TadpoleMusics]

The seamless level transitions were probably cut because the development team was forced to make these games under crunch

[@ultrairrelevantnobody1862]

Love 1 Like 2 Love 3

[@bkkersey93]

Fair enough. I love 1 & 2 and just like 3. I grew up on the first 2, but found out about 3, years after release.

[@diesemautokerl2181]

A retrospective on my number 1 game trilogy and number 1 game, fuck yeah, this and Mass Effect

[@BylePatch]

welcome to my recommended, gonna leave a comment and subscribe to give you that small boost you deserve

[@shadowgirl765]

1:09:17 ... You do know you can press triangle to aim those bombs, right?

[@thesporkguy]

I could be the hundredth person to call out that you missed the joke at the beginning of part one and that the opening cut scene was very clearly a TV interview. But that would be redundant, wouldn’t it?

[@M-1996A1]

Trouble with the trolley has plagued me since I was a kindergartner.

[@Metaknightkirby2]

I really dislike how the Spyro 1 portion is essentially "yadda yadda I didn't like this game so let's get it over with because I started with a later game in the trilogy." Some of the best designed parts like hard to reach areas which require you to think outside the box for those last few gems and, most importantly, are entirely optional for beating the game and were clearly meant for the kids of the time to get more out of their playtime and genuinely feel smart for having figured it out rather than the game handing them the 100% completion for free with a radar are being painted as horrors of game design and flaws for some reason. Really didn't look forward to what is no doubt a praising to high heavens of the second and third games so I didn't stick around for the rest. For what I was hoping would be a fair and balanced dissection with a title like that to start what is essentially 30 minutes of nothing but complaining was a sore disappointment.

[@ZunDr0nL1kX]

I applaud you for liking the first one over the others. I have completion on reignite trilogy and still to this day since I was a kid, I can not bring myself around to put the first above the second or third. But that’s not saying much as they are all very fun in their own ways

[@Frutigereality]

Blah blah blah, shut up.

[@itzbazil2802]

You sound kinda like MatPat

[@trianabailey7737]

The G in Gnorc is silent; not a kanee slapper. Gabriel Rolland

[@devangoad]

Oof. This feels like one of those algorithm videos but the metrics just not there... hope that turns around :(

[@FalseH3]

Not a huge deal but it’s “Stone Hill” not plural. Thx for the vid

[@connorplays6263]

So Gnasty Gnorc, using magic in a world of fantasy to hear people talking crap about him is lazy writing?

[@SCHMALLZZZ]

Gnasty is pronounced like gnarly

[@paulwilliams5949]

So when are you going to talk about the other spyro game after the trilogy.

[@eduardoig17]

I think everything is subjective to what you played first. Since you played Spyro 2 first you like that the most. Since I played the first one first I like that one more. I do not like how in the second one you have to back track so much. It is so dumb, I want to be able to finish a level on my first walkthrough.

[@NitroIndigo]

Why did you use Legend of Spyro music at the end? I like that particular piece of music, but it feels out-of-place.

[@djtoxicdhg]

I liked this video but I disagree with the gem 💎 finding being frustrating I loved it and had vary little trouble 100% thare wer sum that wer tuff and a paying in the ass to fined but that was part of the fun same goos for crash it was tuff finding all the jems especially the cullerd 1s but it made the games 10x more fun.

[@invadertak1001]

Yeah no, bianca isn't the best villain in the series, far from it in fact. Simply because she wasn't willing to harm baby dragons and switched sides half way into the game. 59:40

[@kairogers6774]

I'm late so whatever but... It's pronounced Nasty Norc... The G's are silent, the dragon's personalities were being showcased... Drove me crazy...

[@Tyranno]

that's...that's the joke...

[@kairogers6774]

@@Tyranno Its a terrible "joke"....

[@REMINISC3NT116]

Haha I was looking for someone to say this xD

[@rebeccabruning1577]

I didn’t make the connection between breeze harbour and zephyr until literally just now 🤯

[@SCHMALLZZZ]

Sure buddy

[@KeiTech0]

It's not a great game, it's almost a perfect triology. It has few cons specially in the level design of the first one, but the second and specially the third one... One of the best games in PlayStation One and my favorite games of all times.

[@lucylovehallow]

11:00 (I'll come back to this later

[@trapez77]

Wrong aspect ratio dipshut

[@msfs19941]

You do realise it's not pronounced g-nasty g-norc right? It's important to me that you realise this

[@apictureoffunction]

Spyro pronounced Gnasty's name correctly. Ffs you literally have footage in this video of the adult dragon being "interviewed" pronouncing the name correctly, the "g-nasty" pronunciation was clearly a joke.

[@supermariofan03]

Nowadays, playing the first Spyro is like playing a beta of the series.

[@Bbbshushrhrsux]

Lmao dude got filtered by Spyro