With 3D gaming still in its infancy, being able to nail precise movement (including flight and later swimming) was huge, and the tight controls are still praised to this day along with Crash's. Bending the limits of the PSX like this was a big deal. Spyro was the first of its kind on the PSX to utilize level of detail functionality that lowered the quality of the background objects, textures, and distant enemies to allow a wider scope to be visible than most other games offered. Other PSX games struggled with rendering distance, resulting in a lot of games around that time having some pretty thick fog or harsh pop-in. It came out only 2 years after Mario 64 broke ground in the gaming industry and managed to replicate the formula that made Mario work, and even improve on it.

The OG trilogy came first and was a technical marvel for its time. The difference in style, genre and direction threw a lot of people off- meanwhile Reignited got everyone hyped back up for the classic gameplay style that's been kind of lost to time for a while. It left a pretty sour taste in the mouths of fans of what the series started as, and a lot of fans tend to see it as a bootleg Lord of the Rings. The OG trilogy was first and the LOS trilogy came after a slew of pretty mediocre games baring the Spyro title. 8? And bought the latter two games of the trilogy soon after they came out. Nothing it did felt really all that unique or set it apart from other games, and it was worlds apart from the original games and what made me fall in love with them.Īnswering this as someone who grew up with the OG trilogy, got the first LoS game when I was like. It just kind of took what was a fairly lighthearted platformer filled with a fantastical variety of worlds and locations with catchy, interesting music and turned it into generic LotR-esque fantasy game featuring a dragon as the main character that somewhat resembles the original games. Also doesnt help that they released the first and third game on Xbox, but not the second, so im missing the middle of the story too.

The locations and story are pretty forgetful for the most part as well. The gameplay gets boring pretty quick, theres just not much variation to it. TLoS took what i loved, completely changed it and didnt do anything to wow me with what it did do. The worlds are interesting, the music is great and the platforming, while fairly simple for the most part is still very good, and the variety in levels keeps things fresh.

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