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.

11. 92: Robotica Farms

Much like how Spyro 1 has many levels that are memorable, classic and very enjoyable to play through, Spyro 2 is full of so many main levels to play and enjoy with that no matter what you would see, say and do in the levels, you would have yourself having a great time from start to finish during something that would never feel hardly boring on you and that accounts for even finishing up 100% in terms of collecting in levels.

Much like Spyro 1 though, not every main level from Spyro 2 is a winner and if there is one level that I found to be the most forgettable and bland compared to the rest of the fantastic levels from what I find to be the best game from the PS1 series, it would have to be Robotica Farms. Ever since I was a little kid playing through Robotica Farms in Spyro 2, I always found the level to be boring and bland main level from Spyro 2 with nothing real in terms of game design sticking out in the level. My biggest problem overall with Robotica Farms is that, it's a level that is just plain boring to play through, IMO. Nothing in terms of anything notable out of fun in the level sticks out in my head and that continues to today where I play Spyro 2, now older.

The only real notable gameplay element that sticks out in Robotica Farms making it somewhat unique unlike the rest of the levels from the Spyro PS1 Trilogy is using seesaws to move from platform to platform in which slows the main platforming action down to a big stop as thanks to in part of annoying enemies loving to appear at the worst of times such the flying bees and spinning top green bugs that can only be killed by headbash, screwing and slowing the player down and in part of both enemies being the most enemies from the entire PS1 Trilogy, IMO and thanks to also in part of the annoying spinning windmills blocking down your on movement. Even as such, the orb based mini-games in Robotica Farms were bland and nothing worth reacting heavily with screaming excitement joy with unlike most of the rest of the mini-games for inside the rest of the main levels of the three Spyro games.

Nothing memorable overall to talk about for Robotica Farms, IMO and easily one of the biggest duds of levels from Spyro 2. Because of such thanks to some of the most annoying and bland gameplay elements taking in part of the level, causes me to rank Robotica Farms a slot in part of the bottom 10 levels from the three Spyro games in the countdown.