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.

6. 97: Terrace Village

There were many memorable based main levels from the Spyro PS1 Trilogy and in speaking of such for Spyro 1, almost all of them are so upbeat and well-designed that you can't help but, have a good and enjoyable time playing through the level. Even when, you fully complete the level to no end collecting everything.

If there is one Spyro level from the PS1 Trilogy that while wasn't a bad level by any means but, utterly forgettable compared to the rest of the greatness there was in PS1 Trilogy, I would say Terrace Village from Spyro 1 falls right into that category, IMO.

My only real negative I have to say about for Terrace Village is that compared to the rest of the main levels to go through where each had it's own unique style in terms of gameplay, Terrace Village didn't offer much of it. The main gameplay elements in the level involve using your time skills to avoid being hit by the electric fields set of by Gnorc enemies and taking out the bigger Gnorcs with your flame attacks and the main gameplay elements in this stage were recycled through and through from the Beast Makers Homeworld with the electric fields. In the rest of the Beast Makers World levels from Spyro 1 where the other levels played out differently like the unique and hard Tree Tops and Misty Bog levels. It would of been nice haven't Terrace Village added something fresh and cool to the style that most of the levels are known for but, you can't have everything.

My only other problem with Terrace Village is that, I personally found the music playing on Terrace Village to be one of the very few outright bad songs in the Spyro PS1 Trilogy. Much like the overall level itself, the song isn't really bad but compared to the rest of the wonderful catchy, classic and upbeat music directed by the wonder master that is Stewart Copeland in the rest of the main Spyro levels from the three games, I found the animation and presentation fall a little a flat compared to the rest of the main say good Top 50 or so main levels left to rank on the countdown.

In terms of Spyro 1 overall, the level was decent and can be seen as an overall great level for the game but, compared to the rest of the main levels in the entire trilogy, I find that Terrace Village flats just plain forgettable. Again, a level with nothing really I hate from but, nothing really unique enough for me to care about unlike almost 75% of the levels in the Spyro PS1 games. With that, I have to put it low on the list.