Preston Ward Condra Ranks All 101 Spyro 1-3 Levels

by Preston Ward Condra

A project I made when I was 15 years old, during my sophomore year in High School in September 2009. I critiqued and ranked every single level from Spyro the Dragon, Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage and Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon in, one consolidated project from worst to best. It doesn't matter if you agree with my opinion or not. All that matters, is that this ended up getting finished.

5. 98: Crystal Flight

Much like the bonus Sparx based levels, I found the Speedways or also known as the Flight based levels from Spyro 1, to be nice and enjoyable based game levels that were nice for the Spyro players and fans including myself, to do something different in the games other then doing the typical collecting treasure and rescuing dragons and/or collecting orbs process for the main levels in the trilogy.

However while the fact that I found the Speedway / Flight levels to be good for what they are, the Spyro 1 based flight levels fail in compared to the better Spyro 2 and Spyro 3 based flying mini-game based levels, IMO due to the fact that in Spyro 2 and Spyro 3 that you were given some other type of based gameplay concept to do such as getting a secret Dragon Egg or Orb from Hunter after fully finishing the speedway with nothing else to do other then trying to go for better times on your score. It would of been nice that the player could do other based gameplay elements in the Flight levels in Spyro 1 but, in such due to the fact that it was only the first game out of the classic PS1 franchise we are talking about, I have to act generous in such for having it ranked low on the countdown rather then dead last on the countdown of what I planned on doing in the first place.

Out of all of the 5 main flight levels from Spyro 1, I found Crystal Flight to be my overall least favorite flight level due to the fact that it was the easiest to finish in and out for where in terms of the Spyro 1 Flight levels, I had a fairly hard time to play through when I was younger even and back when I younger being a wonderful and cool kid playing through Crystal Flight, I never ran into any problems finishing up on Crystal Flight and as such doing even random different pattern terms taking down different paths in the flight level and always finishing up successfully. Compared to Icy and Wild Flight after you see yourself play through them, you will see what I mean.

Overall, this write-up was more on a heavy personal note on what I think about for a level rather then a slight based personal note shared on a level overall I think of based on and I apologize for that and I will try to stop in such for future based write-ups in the ranking based countdown but at any rate, Crystal Flight was good for what it was and that was for being a good, decently enjoyable if very easy, bonus based flight level.