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.

12. 91: Sunny Flight

Coming in at #91 on the countdown goes to the very first bonus flight / speedway level from the Spyro PS1 Trilogy, Sunny Flight. I hate to disappoint some of you guys with pretty much saying some of the same exact things from my previous write-ups recycled and reused in the early sections so far in the countdown but, please deal with me on this. By the time we reach the Top 70 or so levels from the Spyro PS1 games on the countdown, all of the levels with write-ups will be nice and enjoyable to read about since those are notable levels people care about from the great memories of the games. Not the bonus Sparx and Speedway levels from the series, in due respect to them but, it's true that they are nothing more then good for what those types of levels were and that was to mix the main level gameplay up at times for the player playing through the three Spyro games.

At any rate, moving on to Sunny Flight. Of what has been said already in the past with the few previous write-ups in the countdown with Night and Crystal Flight can be said about for in such for Sunny Flight. Thanks to the low overall game design variety in the flight levels from Spyro 1 with nothing of any kind of gameplay element wise to care about performing expect trying to get better times once finished with the flights with no mini-game options to do unlike in the speedway / flight levels from Spyro 2 and Spyro 3 in which is a bummer point lost on the countdown, causes all five main flight levels from Spyro 1 to be ranked low on the countdown and I hate give away spoilers in the countdown but, I think it's safe to do since not that many fans of PS1 Spyro Trilogy really care about much from the bonus levels in the series other then the extra 120% ending levels.

I will give Sunny Flight credit where it's due and act generous on with due to the fact that it's only in part of being the first real Spyro flight / speedway level in the series and it would gladly help the trend of speedway / flight levels improving in quality and also the fact that the music and presentation in the level was more cool then it that of Crystal and Night Flight but, because of the notable lack of variety in such from the Spyro 1 flight levels in which a lack of variety is never good in part of a fault in no matter what Video Game it is, causes me to rank it no higher then this on the countdown.