Even though Enter's not good at speaking unscripted, I watched this whole thing, because it's fucking Spyro, and it's fucking Enter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuqCxSwbKyA&t=5421s

This game is almost two decades old now and I love it as much as ever. It's so refreshing nowadays. There's almost no story, just a premise that you're a dragon and there's a bad guy to beat. Everyone likes dragons. I still find the graphics enchanting and like the controls and music. It's not bogged down with a bunch of mini-games and scenes and different types of characters for each world. I don't like the random characters they came up for the various levels in 2 and 3 as much as dragons, and I'd rather run, jump, glide, charge, and flame as Spyro than do a bunch of random mini-games. I like how the gems in 1 are tucked away in little nooks and crannies and hidden cleverly. In 2 and 3, there's a ton sitting in plain site that take a while to collect, and it can be a bit of a slog. In 1 there's just enough in plain site to make progressing feel constantly rewarding. I think the downplaying of scenes and the smaller number of gems and the more focused gameplay and smaller stakes gives this game more of an innocent charm than 2 or 3. I like how short the levels are. They're like ten minutes. You just blast through them and get instant gratification. I miss games you can play for an hour and feel like you accomplished a lot. Nowadays games focused on gameplay are throwbacks to really hard games. Late 90s games knew how to be easy and still satisfying.

When I hit the second world today, I was stuck by nostalgia. I had a demo of the first world as a kid for a while before I got the whole game, so playing the second world for the first time is from a different part of a childhood. This gave me a somewhat painful but good, human nostalgia. I'm moving Spyro 1 up to a 9.5 and my 7th favorite game. It's an important part of my life.

100%. This is the second game I've 100% after Spyro 2, which is harder to beat but easier to 100%. I love this game. It's so nice and pleasant and nostalgic. The 5th world's a little wonky but generally it's lovely from start to finish. Over the course of this playthrough it moved from my 19th to 12th favorite game.

Favorite level: Ice Cavern
Least Favorite level: Haunted Towers

I like the graphics and controls in this as much as in Far Cry 3, and the fun consistency is higher. The treasure feels more cleverly hidden than in Spyro 2 and 3. There's no black swirly portals that take you to random separate places.

This game has a great momentum to it. You just zip from level to level. There's no cutscenes or mini-games (unless you count the optional flying stages, which I skipped as a kid) like in 2 and 3. You don't have to spend a bunch of time walking to a waypoint. There's no puzzles to make you stop and try to figure out what to do. I'm raising to a 9/10 and my 16th favorite game.

The composer for Spyro was also the drummer for The Police.

The very first video game I've ever beaten. While most games have pretty much surpassed it in many ways since it's release, I'll always remember my time with this game fondly. Running around and gliding across the game's various environments and stages, collecting shiny gems and rescuing all the big dragons, breathing fire and burning gnorcs, and of course, actually beating Gnasty Gnorc and becoming the hero.

This game will always have a special place in my heart.

A game that brings endless child-like delight. The game play is simple but fun, the music is original and enchanting, the level design is fantastical and diverse. Everything about this game brings me a constant amount of simple joy. No other game I have played has left me so continuously happy and entertained.

The game that made the PS1 worth owning.

Loved this game and it is the first game I ever completed and even though I think 2 and 3 are better I wouldn't ever have played those games if Spyro The Dragon hadn't introduced me to this universe. Would love a re-release of the original Spyro series.