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.

25. 78: Crush's Dungeon

As far as all of the boss levels go in terms of from the three Spyro PS1 games, I personally have found almost all of the boss levels of the games fun and enjoyable to play through thanks to how unique, fun and original they are to the three classic PS1 games and are varied well in terms of gameplay design, that no two types of boss battle fights play out the same and remember fun and engaging for a blast to play through over and over again with.

However other then Blowhard, if there is one Boss Level from that of the PS1 Spyro games that I found to be the most forgettable and blandest of them all to play through with, it would have to be Crush's Dungeon from Spyro 2. While there is nothing wrong with the level overall in general and decently okay for what it is worth since it's the first boss level of that from Spyro 2, it falls short and flat compared to the more unique and open-ended Boss battles levels of that from the three Spyro games. Even the other first boss battles of that from Spyro 1 and 3 with Buzz's Dungeon and Toasty, were more unique in terms of gameplay to play through with and sadly unique which is something that does not stand out well in Crush's Dungeon, causes me to rank it fairly low on the countdown.

The biggest problem overall I had with Crush's Dungeon was with of how easy and simple the boss battle of such is compared to the more complex, harder and more original boss battles levels are there of in of the 3 Spyro PS1 games. The main boss battle gameplay elements of Crush's Dungeon are of that chasing around Crush around the battlefield of the level around red and blue circle power-up tiles and trying to kill Crush of that by flaming him before he gets a chance of that to use power-up energy from the tiles and repeating this process seven times until he gets his own dimwitted self killed by rocks and your flame attacks of Spyro in of the level. The only things to look out for in the level is not getting killed by Crush's club which is as easy to dodge by simply holding down the charge button and going down in different directions of the level. The only other attack that Crush could do to you in of the level is watching out for the power-up magic he uses which are both easy as pie to dodge with. Whenever you uses red magic, he throws fireballs at you and if he uses blue magic, he sends out blue electricity from his feet to attack you with. Nothing unique and hard about gameplay design here. Disappointing of that compared to the way more fun boss battle levels of the that in of the PS1 series.

With that thanks to how easy and bland Crush's Dungeon gets, it's another overall very forgettable level of that like other levels in such I have talked about with on the countdown.