Spyro Reignited Trilogy is Worse than you Think

Silly game...

[Dayoman]

**I do not hate this game, and if you like it, I appreciate where you are coming from.**

Some inaccuracies/clarifications in this vid below:

Physics - There's nothing inherently wrong with the unreal engine. While some things are different (or worse), it is overall fun to optimize the movement in this game. Charging is still fast, collection is still satisfying. The devs clearly spent some time fine tuning this and I have to respect that, despite some flaws.

Aesthetics - I used some incorrect terminology. For example, I said "hyper realisitic" to describe the environments when I should have said "stylized". I also used the term "cell shaded" to describe the the enemies, which is wrong, when I should have stuck with terms like "cartoonish" and "overly vibrant". I see many of you disagree that the art direction is clashing, which is fair. Also I said the spyro 3 baby dragons were great, but they did forget the sheep outfit dragon in frozen altars, which may seem like a small gripe but I think many spyro 3 fans remember that dragon quite fondly and were dissapointed by that.

Music - I realize that you can change the music back to the original tracks if you don't like the new ones. That's great, but it doesn't take away from my criticism of the new soundtrack either. I will admit that the dynamic music when you charge is a great touch. And some remade songs are legitimately good too in the context of the game, they're not all worse.

Release - I made it seem like toys for bob didn't want to release the 2nd and 3rd games, and that it was the fans that pressured them, when really the problem was Activision putting a hard release deadline on them in the first place. Toys for Bob, nor the fans, shouldn't be faulted for this.

What "we" want to see - It is clear to me that I do not speak for every Spyro fan, nor can I definitively say what we as a community want out of a future release, I can only speak for myself on any of this. I am not trying to convince you guys to agree with me.

[tjones]

One thing I wish they didn’t change was the enemy noises. The original enemies noises were so unique and funny. Like the Bulls saying ‘whoa’in Town Square and the green Druid’s monotone ‘Ow’ in Magic Crafters.

Also, I will never forgive them for taking away the crazy noise the enemies in the Dream Weavers homeworld made.

[lumilauraa]

the fact that reignited is so poorly optimised is an absolute tragedy considering the original games were trailblazers in their optimisation and visual fidelity at such a stable framerate for the time

[PyroNebula]

Agree for the most part but you failed to mention the greatest sin of Reignited which was getting rid of the WHYAYAYOWM chanting from the guys in Colossus

[Wyattinous]

The one thing I give Toys for Bob credit for is preserving Copeland’s original soundtrack as a system setting in the menu. They could have just kept their own rendition of each soundtrack exclusive, my childhood self was overjoyed to know I could experience Stewart’s genius as it was when I first played the trilogy.

11:26 I absolutely love your Spyro outro animation ❤ Thanks for everything you do Dayo.

[JspoonG]

90's programmers - artists. Modern programmers - corporation workers

[vantachill]

take a drink every time dayo points to clearly very stylized environmental design and calls it hyperrealistic

[JOEY]

In reignited’s defence, you can switch between the old sound tract and new sound track.

[lucasdolding]

Reignited is fine, I've only played through it once and glad it exists for those who wanna play Spyro and don't have as easy access to the originals but obviously the originals are way more special and almost flawlessly executed not to mention the nostalgia factor.

[NuVanDibe]

there are 3 reasons i prefer the originals
1: The physics. Controls feel too different.
2: The grass hides all the gems.
3: The game LITERALLY does not work unless you limit FPS to 60. Progression blocking bugs.

[jruler]

I like the Reignited Trilogy, I really like it.
But I *_love_* the PS1 Spyro games, to a degree that Reignited just can't stand up to.

[sentientblender]

8:43 feels disingenuous, it wasn't their decision to get funneled into being support for whatever AAA dumpster fire they're working on

that blame rests squarely on activision management

[YungStinkyWinky]

Wild because I 100%'d the whole thing and never experienced a single bug. Worked great for me and I loved it.

[gronkfperkele]

I feel very similar about the N Sane Trilogy vs original Crash games. I'm glad they exist but they will never come close to the originals for me. The modern engines just can't recreate the incredible situation we had with those early 3D games where the devs were artists, but also trailblazers and technical geniuses...

[brandonlittle]

I really appreciate your honest opinion.
Too many people are afraid to speak negatively, and that resulkts in no critiques, and bad games being OKd

[cloudycolacorp]

Reignited was a better remake than I ever expected, but I kind of expected nothing. I like it a lot even if it can't live up to the impossibly high standards set by the original. I just hope we get more spyro and that it's good

[buzinaocara]

I don't even like the aesthetics of the remasters. They fundamentally mistunderstand and underpareciate what was special about the originals. I'd even have prefered a HD version of the games with the same low polys and low res textures just rendering at 4k60 without the PS1 rendering artifacts and infinite draw distances. I wouldn't even remove the level LODing, I think its actually beautiful. I'd just make the fading betweeing the two levels smoother.

[ICantThinkOfANameeeee]

Am I seriously the only one who hasn't encountered a single glitch while playing?

[Slenderquil]

It's unfortunate Activision forced these games to rush out so quickly. Given another year or even 6 months of development, they'd feel so much smoother, especially Spyro 3.

[JadedDarkness]

Reignited easily should have had another year of dev time. It also sucks it's the last release we have as Spyro fans, meanwhile Crash has gotten several games. There's such an indescribable magic to the OG games, I can only hope a new game could come close to it.