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.

26. 77: Wild Flight

Here we have our final Flight / Speedway level from that of Spyro 1 appearing on the countdown, Wild Flight. Wild Flight earns some credit in my countdown thanks to how hard and how somewhat original it is in terms of gameplay design is as far as all of the flight / speedway levels go from all three Spyro games unlike the rest of those found in of Spyro 1 being notably repetitive and easy in terms of gameplay of them which can be said for the opposite for Wild Flight, which is a great thing as every level in of a Video Game needs to feel unique and fun in it's own way which is something that Wild Flight is somewhat good has for all of the speedway / flight levels of the three classic PS1 Games.

Overall, Wild Flight was great for what it was thanks to how at least the main flight gameplay action of the level mixes up in terms of game design with multiple paths to take of for the player with and with so causes the level to get boring and repetitive in. Even so, Wild Flight falls short compared to the last remaining few speedway / flight bonus levels left to rank on the countdown thanks to how all of the Spyro 1 Flight levels lack anything in terms of variety to take in part with no race or secret Hunter mini-games to take in part with. As such, earns only Wild Flight notes for what it is and that is as the best speedway / flight level from that of Spyro 1 but, that does not say much.

As like how I stated earlier of how the gameplay goes of the level, Wild Flight earns points for the main flying action of the level being unique with multiple paths for the player to explore in of the level such as taking down one path with the flying gnorc targets to the sea area with the arch targets to take out with and with a path to take down the hovercraft water gnorcs in of the level. It's nice for in Wild Flight as unlike most of the other Speedway / Flight levels in of the three PS1 games, offer mixed up action for the player to explore in of the level and adds replay value of such to have the player mix up with more unique ways to travel in and complete the level in which is other then aside from maybe Honey Speedway from Spyro 3, is not seen from the other speedway / flight levels of the series.

Still with that going for it, like of how I stated in earlier of the countdown in a few previous write-ups, pretty much all of the Speedway / Flight levels of such suffer from nowhere having much from other then bells and whistles in terms of unique style of their kind being seen as more enjoyable level of the even more unique and complex levels out there of that from the full main 3D levels of such from the three Spyro games. With that, Wild Flight was memorable for as all of the main speedway / flight levels go of the three Spyro PS1 games but, very forgettable in terms as every single main level goes out there for all three Spyro games.