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.

54. 49: Sunny Beach

Much like of how I have a passion and soft heart for easily falling in love with Ice / Snow themed levels from any Video Game out there, I also have a soft heart and passion for Water like levels to play through from any Video Game franchise out there from when I was a young gamer and from today now that I am older and I enjoyed this as such with the may Ice / Snow / Water like levels from all three PS1 classic Spyro games.

At any rate in of what I think for Sunny Beach as a level overall and as a level to the series overall in general for the countdown from Spyro 2, I found Sunny Beach to be a great and enjoyable level to play through in from how I loved the water gameplay effects of Sunny Beach like of so from the other main water levels in this classic franchise. With the lone exception of a minor problem of some of the level design I had with for Sunny Beach overall and that is with that I felt the level was a little to much on the easy side, I found Sunny Beach to be a great level overall and as such earns it fairly easily a slot somewhere in the top half section of Spyro levels in my countdown.

Like of how I stated earlier, the only real negative problem I had with Sunny Beach overall from Spyro 2 and a big reason of why I simply cannot have the level ranked any higher then this in the countdown is that, I felt the main level design and enemies you come across in of Sunny Beach were way too easy for my taste and easily this problem could of easily been fixed and better in as it was a level from Spyro 2 compared to the more in depth and more harder of such from that game in the series. I found multiple levels even from Spyro 1 in terms of the enemies and level design you come through of those levels more difficult of the like compared to of such with Sunny Beach. I also found multiple homeworld levels in from Spyro 2 and 3 in terms of finishing up collecting Orbs and Dragon Eggs in them were more of a challenge reward overall then of that to Sunny Beach.

Issues aside from where I wished and I was somewhat disappointed with on how I felt Sunny Beach should of been built as a harder level of such in compared so to that of the remaining Spyro 2 levels left to rank in of the countdown, I thought that Sunny Beach was a great level. Not the best out there from the whole franchise but, a very good one despite it's issues. I loved exploring in the water like design sections of Sunny Beach rescuing and helping the baby turtles in to safety from start to finish of the level and having fun in of this process with causing mayhem to the fat yellow turtles in of the level that force you to lock and unlock gates in for the baby turtles you guide with in of the level causing pain to them. In all, Sunny Beach was a good level.