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.

14. 89: Midday Gardens

Here we have ourselves our first true main homeworld from the three Spyro games appearing on the countdown. (Keep in mind that I do not take account in part of Gnorc Gnexus since, that so called world was so lifeless and bland.) In terms of Spyro 3 which being a fantastic game overall and a very nice ending to the classic Spyro PS1 Trilogy, if there was one thing that I was somewhat disappointed with compared to the great and unique style from the homeworlds of Spyro 1, is that the homeworld sections of the levels in Spyro 3 were lacking in part of anything unique and original to do for the player to explore in and be kept busy with unlike in Spyro 1 which had the best homeworlds of the series, IMO with the ability to take out and battle against enemies at your own will to do and have something at least in terms of gameplay variety to keep coming back and having with.

Once you were done collecting everything of such in the homeworlds of Spyro 3, there wasn't really much in terms of gameplay action to have you coming back and forth having random fun in unlike the ones again in part of Spyro 1 and 2. It would of been nice to have the series go out on a huge lead with the best interactive and unique styles for the trilogy for the homeworlds like such for having some of the most unique and main fun levels from Spyro 3 so, it's a bit sweet sorrow in such the homeworlds could not hold much of a candle in terms of fun compared to the rest of homeworlds in the series and for the highly unique levels of such for talking about Spyro 3 in speaking of for.

Out all of the main homeworlds combined in the series, something about Midday Gardens just felt boring to me and nothing worth rewarding and memorable to speak of for. I like the main presentation and music in of Midday Gardens with the cool and peaceful lifestyle fitting the world well but in terms of level variety, it falls way short thanks to all of the Spyro 1 homeworlds having unique styles of gameplay to mix around in for the gamer to have fun with such as the graceful Magic Crafters World and the unique Dream Wavers World. That also accounts for all of the rest of the main homeworlds from Spyro 2 and Spyro 3 having at least some form of unique style to the design of the gameplay in of the homeworlds to have some form of fun to keep coming back to from even after such of all terms of collecting is done in those levels, the opposite can be said about so for Midday Gardens, IMO.

Not much else to say other then while I know I shouldn't take much of a homeworld seriously in of the Spyro games but, still a level is a level and as such causes me to rank it in the bottom 15 of the countdown.