Preston Condra Ranks All 84 Spyro 1-3 Levels - 2013 Remake

Preston Condra Ranks All 84 Spyro 1, 2 & 3 Levels [2013 Remake] was a project that was done by PrestonStarry on Board 8 or known as Preston Ward Condra in real life.

This project was a project where Preston Condra ranked all 84 Spyro levels that are included in

Spyro The Dragon

Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage

Spyro 3: Year Of The Dragon

You know. The only good Spyro games that were created by Isnomniac. R.I.P. Spyro The Dragon 1998-2000.

This project is a 2013 remake done by Preston Condra that was done back in 2009, four years ago where the rankings admittedly were very wordy and not as good or as definitive as they are now. Preston Condra has grown older, has matured and has improved his write-ups for writing and typing, something like this down significantly.

Somes changes are made in the 2013 rankings from the 2009 rankings.

Unlike the 2009 Rankings? No Speedways are included in these rankings as they are really not levels and are basically an extra to the game then an actual level, if anything else. So they won't be included.

Back in the 2009 rankings? Skelos Badlands was the #1 Spyro level according to Preston Condra.

In the 2013 rankings? That honor would have to go to Metropolis from Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage.

Enjoy the rankings now everyone.

The project ran from '''October 13, 2013 to November 20, 2013. '''The rankings lasted a little over a month to be completed.

Enjoy reading it now everyone! :)

84. Dragon Shores
2009 Rank: 95/101 From: Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdIjUYxLOpk 0/10

No level in ANY video game could possibly be more of a let down then Dragon Shores.

Let me continue. Dragon Shores was for all intents and purposes meant to be the vacation spot Spyro and Sparx had planned on going to before getting himself involved in the hullabaloo with the Professor teleporting him to Glimmer to fend off Ripto.

If this was meant to be the getaway Spyro had mentioned in the prologue of the game and the perfect paradise THAT WAS SOMEWHERE WARM & SOMEWHERE SUNNY then I don't know what in zen hell is wrong with that dragon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjN_RWeTD8w

As soon as Ripto is defeated, Spyro is finally allowed to visit Dragon Shores.

BUT you are denied entry at first until you collect 55 orbs. So basically go complete the game 100% before you can enter Dragon Shores.

When you are FINALLY allowed access to the park? It's filled with nothing but kiddie rides with bland gameplay mechanics that a 6 year old could probably come up with a better imagination for.

The movie theater was basically useless as you could access, the cut-scenes from the game in the Guidebook after you finished the game.

The other rides in Dragon Shores like The Tunnel Of Love was anything but nifty and just Insomniac displaying nothing but showing lazy development here in this late stage of the game.

Where can I even FIND a Tunnel Of Love in public?

This is a far better improvement from my write-ups from my 2009 project huh?

And the worst offense?

I collect ALL of the gems and ALL of the Orbs in this game and I'm left awarded nothing but infinite super fire breath?

Wow. That's low. Real low Insomniac.

What was I going to use the infinite fire breath for? The Skill Points? Oh like anybody really cares about those.

I'm honestly really surprised that Sly Cooper and Metal Gear Solid and such got the HD treatment but the Original Spyro Trilogy never been worked upon since 2000.

No wonder Spyro hasn't a good game come out in 13 years.

Oh my god. This write-up is too long.

So rather than having an epic showdown or sorts I get FREAKIN' INFINITE FIRE BREATH as the prize for finishing Spyro 2.

How novel. Thanks Insomniac.

Gets last place as deserved. Let's pronto. Get this trash and poor excuse of an extra out of my sight. I never wish to speak of it again.

83. Gnorc Gnexus
2009 Rank: 100/101 From: Spyro The Dragon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M-KqDGwb08 0/10

Gnorc Gnexus will go down as one of the most lifeless levels ever made in a video game.

It's so barren and torpid beyond words.

Which is incredibly disappointing for the Gnorc World in Spyro 1.

It's quite pocket-sized. Gnorc Gnexus is basically just a floating circle with four portals engraved into it. The three portals that are shaped out of a dragon do little to transpire with what is a somnolent level.

There's nothing prospecting here.

It's funny because almost all of the treasure in this level is found in the Dragon heads.

Have fun killing the mice fodder in this "level" because that's about as much fun as get you can get here.

Not to mention? The music in this level is recycled from Toasty.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ArvVL-LAyc

Yeah. It's good to be negative about some REALLY bad levels in the Spyro series huh?

I would love to see this get a MASSIVE overhaul in a Spyro 1-3 HD remake. But I doubt we'll see such a thing anytime soon. I give it 2017 at the earliest.

So yeah.

LAME. LAME. LAME. LAME. LAME.

Next write-up please.

82. Midday Gardens Home
2009 Rank: 89/101 From: Spyro 3: Year Of The Dragon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZtJESF4750 0/10

You know? With this write-up? I'm beginning to wonder why I bothered to leave the "Homeworld" levels intact in these rankings and just took them out like I did with the Speedways.

Nothing I can do about it now.

For a home stage level? Midday Gardens is very desolate and very boring. And just an overall boring level all things considered.

There's just not much to make your stay here. At all.

Well unless you like to KILL THE BUNNIES with the Superflame power-up in this level but there is something seriously wrong with you if you wish to relish yourself to do that.

The sheep sure. But not THE BUNNIES.

...And that's all she wrote here for this write-up.

I mean at the very least Evening Lake had that swimming glitch to entice the player to enjoy the level.

Midday Gardens is just boring, plain and simple.

81. Icy Peak
2009 Rank: 54/101 From: Spyro 3: Year Of The Dragon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=367gPvCYR3A 0/10

Oh god. I hated Icy Peak.

I hated Icy Peak for the reason being for how convoluted of a level it was and with how everything in the level from the Egg challenges being so frustrating and to the enemies being so unforgiving.

Half of the level consists of Spyro walking on ice. Trust me. You'll get tried of it real quickly.

The worst part of the whole level were the suicidal squirrels on TNT boxes. They first laugh menacing at you and then they immediately thrust themselves into you trying to kill you. I frickin' hate those squirrels.

It gets worse from there. I hate how the platforming sections are blocked off and you have to use a cannon to blast your way through the bridle.

The cannon requires precision and it seems to have a mind of it's own, if it wants to hit or miss the target you are trying to hit.

And it only gets worse from there.

How could I forget that horrible Nancy The Skater mini-game? UGH THOSE HOCKEY PLAYERS UGH.

It took me forever when I was a kid (like at a 8 or so) to find those gems in that crack you had to headbash in that one room.

So much backtracking in this level. It's ridiculous.

I usually love Ice levels but this one is just so bemusing.

I hate frickin' hate it. Next.

80. Haunted Tomb
2009 Rank: 101/101 From: Spyro 3: Year Of The Dragon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAgqphFTZVo 0/10

Back in my 2009 rankings? I had Haunted Tomb DEAD LAST in the rankings.

As you can see not much has changed. Haunted Tomb has only done marginally better to get out of last place to here.

I still despise Haunted Tomb for how mind-driven it can be on the player. I'm serious. Let me explain.

I hated those dogs I had to answer a riddle to.

They serve zero purpose in the level other than to distract and down put the player.

The enemies are also just as obnoxious and annoying.

Why am I able to only destroy the Earthshappers with the rocks they throw at me? It makes you wonder WHY they throw the rocks at me in the first place if they are VULNERABLE to them.

I mean at least in Fracture Hills I could charge them and shove them away from me momentarily. Not so here in Haunted Tomb.

'''I also can't stand the Egyptian setting of this level. The whole setting just looks jejune to me.'''

And that's all I have to state here. Now I know why I don't care to replay Spyro 3 that much. Haunted Tomb is a nightmare to get done.

79. Agent 9's Lab
2009 Rank: 55/101 From: Spyro 3: Year Of The Dragon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OrMSrU87rg 1/10

I'm just plowing right on through these Spyro 3 levels. And Agent 9's Lab is a prime example to why my 2009 rankings shouldn't be taken seriously anymore.

Agent 9 is a piece of crap to control. There's a reason as to why Sgt. Byrd would be the only other playable character from Spyro 3 to make a return appearance in a Spyro game in A Hero's Tail but that game is even a bigger piece of crap than Agent 9 himself.

Vivendi Universal Games even out of their league to screw up the gem system in A Hero's Tail.

Get this. The Yellow gems used to be worth 10 but now they are more elusive than The Purple gems and are now worth 100.

Do yourself a favor and never play a Spyro game beyond the original trilogy. Spyro games should have portals where you enter a level. Enter The Dragonfly and A Hero's Tail? NEITHER include portals.

Anyways. I'll keep the rest of this write-up transient.

Agent 9 is terrible to control and I hated the one section where I had to throw bombs with the Square button and it was hard to judge trajectory to blow up the Rhynocs and treasure that was necessary to complete the level.

Another tidbit of knowledge is besides that one section? You can basically just spam the Circle button and make headway through the level with no problem.

'''CIRCLE. CIRCLE. CIRCLE. CIRCLE. CIRCLE. CIRCLE. CIRCLE.'''

I found Agent 9 as a character to be incompetent and WHY does Agent 9 move SO SLOW?

He skips around like a pansy.

This level is perpetual to get done and so is like 90% of all of the Spyro 3 levels and now I know why I don't care about playing the game as much as I used to now.

Enough whining. Next level please.