![]() ![]() Similarly, enemies and NPCs now have delightful animations that emphasize their personalities further.Īs thorough the visual overhaul of the games is, however, Toys for Bob have had the sense to not touch the actual gameplay here. The physics of the momentum and inertia are all there, and the source material here has been dealt the most delicate touch possible."įor instance, the first Spyro game has a unique design for every single dragon that you must rescue-it’s such a small detail, since there are so many of them, but it impresses the personality of each unique one upon you, the player, and sells the whimsical world of the game further. Spyro plays exactly as you remember, from the movement to the jumping, gliding, hovering, charging, and more. "As thorough the visual overhaul of the games is, however, Toys for Bob have had the sense to not touch the actual gameplay here. The strong art is backed by modern rendering techniques, which means Reignited Trilogy wouldn’t look out of place next to other current generation games, and some liberal reinterpretations involved to make the games look and come across even better than the original titles did. Every frame of the game is bursting with color, whimsy, and life, and the game in general seems to be far closer to the striking art of the original series than the PlayStation could ever have hoped to render. Their familiarity with the license, and their reverence for the source material permeates every frame of the experience with Spyro. Calling this collection a remaster is not doing it justice-this is more akin to a remake, designed to live up to Spyro as we remember, not Spyro as it was. Spyro: Reignited Trilogy was handled by Toys for Bob, who were also behind the Skylanders series, which in turn originally began as a Spyro spin-off. However, in the vein of Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy last year, Activision has now taken the Spyro trilogy, and updated it wholesale for the current generation of consoles. ![]() The result is that the games have always structurally felt modern, and aged far better.Īll of this is, of course, leading to the assertion that you could just as well play the PlayStation original games, and completely be fine with what would be a solid, if a bit janky, outing. Unlike other platformers of the era on the console, Spyro seemed to hew most closely to the collectathon template that platformers on the Nintendo 64 established, and that other platformers since have followed to this day. Insomniac’s Spyro the Dragon trilogy of platforming adventures on the original PlayStation has held up marvellously well, as any fan of those games will tell you. ![]()
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