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.

62. 41: Enchanted Towers

Enchanted Towers is a level that I find to be very strange overall for me to rank in of the countdown with me going on multiple ways to decide on where and what to rank the level on. Enchanted Towers while being a pretty good level overall with the level having notable high points going for it here and there, there are few minor flaws within the main level design of Enchanted Towers I had with the level that causes me to rank it out of the Top 40 in the countdown.

One of the biggest highlights I liked Enchanted Towers from is, the high sense of exploration the player had to form and do within the level. You had to travel within multiple paths in of the main level design of Enchanted Towers and thanks to the level being so large and cool to explore in, this sense of exploring within the main level design for Enchanted Towers decently for me for most of the time.

However speaking of so within the main level design for the level, I found that the level design at times while the player is going through of the level, felt a little unbalanced and poorly designed. What I mean so is that the main flow of the gameplay you had to travel in of Enchanted Towers, felt a little cheap on you whenever you were trying to cross paths from section to section of the level. This of such included some sections of the level where you have to lead it to Lady Luck and controlling where on what section of the platform you want Spyro to touch on but, as so the platform you try to cross in of the level screws you up since some sections of the platform were high enough for Spyro to reach and safety glide on or other sections where you will die off.

Balancing issues aside in terms of the main level design of Enchanted Towers, I found most of the main level course fun that you know from the rest of the main Spyro PS1 levels there are left to rank in the countdown, be pretty to perform and see in of Enchanted Towers. Enchanted Towers earns points for the level being fairly challenging such as the flying green dragon monsters within the level you see and the only way to defeat them is using proper timed skills to kill them. This gameplay flowed well for me and I never really had a problem with it.

Another of note is that the main Skateboarding mini-game from Sunny Villa makes a return here and you take in part of facing with Hunter in as just as challenging but, very fun skateboarding duel in a full fledged park area. I am sure that every Spyro PS1 fan out there loves these types of simple and full mini-games to take in part in for any Spyro level out there.

Overall, Enchanted Towers was a great level despite the fact that I felt the main level design in some sections of the level could of been better designed and more fun to explore in. Because so causes me to rank it out of the Top 40 but still, Enchanted Towers was a great level, issues aside.