just like i remember... but with more polygons

Just as much fun as when you were a kid, these games still hold up today

My first introduction to Spyro was a JAM PACK cd I had for my PS2. It was only the first world, and when you went to the Hot Balloon Operator, he’d tell you to come back in November or something like that. My second introduction was playing Spyro 2 at a friend’s place. I don’t have much of a connection to Spyro, there was enough of an interest to pick up the Remastered Trilogy for cheap, but I wasn’t exactly coming at this with nostalgia lens.

I think this game is a good representation of what to do and what not to do when remaking/remastering a game. The updated visuals are gorgeous, and I fully played all three games on my Steam Deck and *maybe* the frames dropped once or twice? It’s well optimized, the visuals are fantastic, the presentation as a whole is terrific.

I think where this game starts to falter is a combination of two major things. The first is the controls, Spyro doesn’t really operate in the smoothest manner, moving him, especially the sprint, feels like moving a misshapen rock. The camera doesn’t adjust well with Spyro moving either, so you’ll take hits you didn’t know were coming, or he’ll switch up his movement randomly because the camera finally decided to adjust.

The other aspect I found disappointing was that the game stayed too true to form. Some levels are just a drag to get through, the flight levels suck, the lives system is outdated, etc. If the level is just poorly designed, why not give an actual update? The midgame boss in Spyro 2 sucked back on PS1, and he’s just as terrible in the reignited trilogy, some would say he’s worse this time around. It’s archaic for no reason.

All in all, I had a good time playing the game and it’s great on the Steam Deck.

7/10. Time for a Sly Cooper Trilogy Remake.

great game wish they would remaster the "the legend of Spyro trilogy"

Buggy as hell even years later. Alphine ridge druids don't lower their respective barriers on 60fps, heard you had to lower to 30fps to solve this issue. Can also solve it by setting the framerate to unlimited and using vsync to limit the frames, but even that's inconsistent and makes performance worse for me. Please stop tying physics to framerate.


Also a lot of jumps that I should have easily made make me jump into what looks like an invisible wall and fall to my death. Particularly bad in Alphine Ridge, the little platforms with the fireworks on them. Lost 10 lives to those, far more than reasonable. I assume that's also a part of having tied physics to framerate

because Spyro is a like a Rage game don't recommend this game if play this game you get so Angry that you hate this game

They removed the soul.

Unable to play as it induces motion sickness for some reason. I used to have a medical condition that caused motion sickness with many games, and at first, I thought it was because of that.

But that has already been sorted out years ago, I can play other games that used to give me motion sickness nowadays, this one is one of the few exceptions.

I do not have this problem with the originals on PS1. Already tried disabling motion blur, it does not seem to solve it. Unsure what else to try, but I simply cannot play as I get sick after about 30 minutes.

A beautiful remake of a major part of my childhood.

I highly appreciate the option to use the original soundtrack. While the new stuff is nice enough, it could never have competed with Copeland's work.

Firework Factory has the best soundtrack don't even @ me