Spyro™ Reignited Trilogy

I played all three games on the PS1 back in the day and hadn't thought about them since, yet the level designs and soundtrack immediately felt familiar again and hit me with a wave of nostalgia - crazy what your brain still remembers after more than 20 years.
Finally experiencing Spyro on PC is a treat. The graphical overhaul is well done, with most characters getting a redesigned look, and some cutscenes have been reworked as well. The gameplay remains virtually unchanged, which is exactly what you'd want from a remaster.
That said, not everything held up. Some minigames have aged poorly - either dragging on too long or suffering from slightly clunky controls. It's also clearly a console port: playing above 60 FPS causes Spyro to slowly drift while standing still, and in certain levels, high framerates prevent animations from triggering, forcing you to cap the game at 60 for those sections.
I 100%'d the entire trilogy including all achievements. Played it both on PC under Linux and on the Steam Deck, and it ran wonderfully on both. Had my fun and would recommend it to anyone who remembers these games from back in the day.

About Spyro…
A long time ago, when I was just a little kid—maybe 4 or 5 years old—I was visiting some family friends. While I was there, I saw a game about a small purple dragon, and I instantly loved it. It was so colorful and different. Back then, there weren’t many computer games around, and this one really stood out.
After that visit, I kept trying to find the game. I’d go to local stores that sold CDs and ask, “Do you have the game with the purple dragon?” And everyone would just say, “No idea what you’re talking about.” I remember thinking: wow, nobody knows this game, it must be some super rare and special thing I’ll never find again.
Years later, I saw a remaster of a game with a purple dragon and suddenly realized—it was that game. Spyro.
Now I’m 28, and I finally bought and played through it. I wasn’t even that excited at first, but finishing it felt really good. It felt like a small chapter from childhood was finally closed. And that’s enough for me.

OMG, so nostalgic and fun. i feel like a little girl again <3 all my problems just melt away here. recommend

These were the games of my childhood. My mum used to play them with me, let me do the "hard jumps" to help her and baby me was so proud when I did it for her. When I saw that the remake was on Steam I got really excited since I don't really play on my PlayStation anymore. It's a good remake, can't complain about anything. The achievements r fun since many of them you can get through normally playing them, some are described better than others I have noticed. But there's a bunch of achievements for the games and I like that. Easy to play games, good for me to relax and nostalgic. On sale it is 13,99€ on Steam and for that price you can't do anything wrong really! It is worth it!

This is a wonderful remaster.

As usual, I'll split this into 2 parts, the original games and the remastered collection.

The classic trilogy was amazing back in PS1, and I would add that a much better series of games than the already excellent Crash Bandicoot trilogy. All three games share the same core mechanics, it's basically a Super Mario 64 kind of game with a lot of collectathon elements. Worlds are divided in various levels, each level will be a classic 3d platformer or a flying stage or a boss level. The main gist is collecting colored gems which are used for buying updates and unlocking new worlds. Levels in Spyro will always feature different enemies and fodder creatures to refill health. They are never repeated in another levels, bringing a ton of originality. All 3 games add a final super stage after you get 100%, with more minigames or small challenges.

Spyro 1 starts basic enough, the game features 6 worlds with a ton of variety. Expect a lot of magic going on and a very simple plot. Gnasty Gnorc, the big bad, transformed every dragon into statue and now you have to rescue them and defeat him. That's it. You can tackle the levels in any order, including the bosses. Speaking of which, the bosses on this first entry are just laughable. Even the final boss will present no challenge at all. It's a very solid game, that will have some very interesting challenges around the second half, with dragons or gems being very deviously hidden. Rescuing dragons will trigger a nice little cutscene with dialogue that might give you hints. The flying levels are timed challenges, they are not super hard but will require some retries.

Spyro 2 is probably the best game in the saga, a new villain Ripto and his lackeys conquer a new world called Avalar and you have to defeat them. There are a couple of allies now on Spyro side, the Professor, Tiger, who reminds me of Michaelangelo from TMNT, and Elora. The main mechanic is that instead of rescuing dragons, you must find orbs. These are given as rewards for minigames and quests. This brings a ton of variety to the game, quests can be to kill specific enemies, or solve a series of puzzle sequences, or finding a hidden spot behind a breakable wall. A new character, Moneybags, will charge you gems in order to unlock levels and help you advance, and also give you access to a series of new movements. Spyro will now be able to swim, climb up ladders and headbash into the ground. All these new moves and the more focused character development and plot make Spyro 2 a wonderful game. Another new addition is the skill points, a series of challenging tasks, sometimes very secret, that unlock art galleries. What is also another enhancement is the bosses, there are only 3 now, but they are much more difficult, even having multiple phases.

Spyro 3 continues in the same trend. The new villain is the sorceress with a lackey called Bianca. Gone are the orbs, now you have to collect baby dragon eggs, similar to the first part. You keep all your new movements from 2 which is a nice touch and skill points are back. The newest addition is that you can now rescue 4 different animal buddies that will have their own stages and substages in different worlds and levels. It's a very interesting change, but it also broke the game pace. Sheila the kangaroo can jump super high, Sgt. Byrd who can fly and throw bombs, Bentley, a big yeti who moves slowly and smashes things, and Agent 9, a monkey who can shoot and even has stages similar to a railshooter. That's not all, there's also new Sparx levels, where you play as the little dragonfly following you, which plays like the old topdown Gauntlet games. What is probably the worst part of the game, is the new skateboard levels where you have to be like Tony Hawk with Spyro, doing tricks to gather points and even races. The controls and engine is not that good and it tends to be frustrating after retrying so many times.

Now about the Reignited Trilogy, this is the first time we can officially play all these games on PC and other systems. Everything looks amazing, Spyro will burn grass, the skies have incredible colors, and each dragon you rescue has a unique model. All music was remastered as well and sounds as good as always. There are small changes everywhere since this is not running on top of the original games, but only a real fan would notice them. Physics are not exactly the same, but for all practical purposes they feel the same.

The bad things, for some weird reason the engine breaks when you run the game at more than 60 fps. Spyro will slide out of platforms and jump at a different height, completely breaking the game. The loading times are also massive, loading a level can take up to 30 seconds. Some character models might also be unsettling for some people, with human characters in 2 and 3 looking a little bit off, but that's minor.

This is an almost perfect remaster. Please more compilations like this!

My only experience with Spyro before playing this was a GBA game called Season of Ice (it was horrible) and the first Skylanders game on the wii (it was ok). So I went in almost completely blind to how the games play. And honestly? It was super fun.

After playing it, I immediately put this trilogy in the top among my other favorite 3D platformers. Everything about the games were wonderful. The humor, the characters, the colorful and whimsy worlds. Everything was BEAUTIFULLY recreated from the ground up and gave an extremely faithful modern touch.

That being said, they also "faithfully" kept some of the frustrating aspects of the old games. Like the stupid trolley minigame as well as even made some parts more difficult than the originals. Like a couple boss fights.

I loved it so much, though, that I 100%'ed the games both ingame and achievement-wise and had an absolute blast doing it. If you like 3D platformers, you will definitely love the Spyro games!

Spyro™ Reignited Trilogy
a fantastic remake of the trilogy had a lot of fun playing all 3 games and getting all the achievements! they are really cozy and relaxing to play (even those damn flight levels). i never really had much experience with spyro games hell the first time i played with spyro was in skylanders. my favorite game could be spyro 2? it ties with spyro 3 i really liked those two and it's very interesting to see how they experimented and expanded from the first entry, also the music is gorgeous i wish for a eventual new spyro game we got crash bandicoot 4 so nothing is impossible. little tip lock your fps at 120 otherwise you will experience some issue with the jumps and the character moving without any inputs for a bit i thought my controller had stickdrift.