Poll: What Do You Think Of The Spyro Reignited Trilogy On Xbox Game Pass?

9/10 Not the toughest games ever made but still some of my fave 3D platformers. Love the character and the mechanics of all 3 games and having a blast with playing them all again.
The joy of Game Pass strikes again!

This is 10/10 stuff to be sure, but associating it with gamepass means less than nothing to me. I don’t pay-to-rent, I buy-to-own. Bought Spyro trilogy years ago. For the competent consumer, gamepass is a ‘dip-in-for-a-month-to-try-a-few-titles-you-aren’t-100%-sure-you’ll-like-then-dip-back-out’ vehicle.

I absolutely love it. Already owned it. BUT I'm glad more people can play! I used to play these for hours as a kid. Used to get my sister with the "You can play when I die". She's still bitter about it today. LMAO

Fun collection hitting gamepass way too late. I own this on multiple platforms because it's regularly very cheap. Better late than never i guess, now I don't need to track down the disc if I ever want to play it again. It will be a nice streaming option for the kids.

I really like Spyro, it brings me a nostalgia since I've played them back in the PS1 era.

Before someone come criticizing me because I haven't bought the Reignited trilogy, yeah I do whatever I please with my money and spent it with other games before Spyro (even though I like the series).

It's a great addition to the Game pass catalog since the competent player pay-to-actually-PLAY-games it doesn't matter if buying or renting. For the Annoying Old Gamers out there it's like "I-buy-a-lot-but-play-too-little-so-I'm-constant-mad-when-people-do-different-than-me-and-still-have-fun".

@Balaam_ I'd argue the competent consumer uses GamePass to play games for next to nothing instead of spending thousands on games over a generation. I rarely play games twice, so owning a physical copy is just more junk to have around the house collecting dust. I used to buy games for decades and that's what it amounted to in the long run, for me, that is.

@Balaam_ I keep my Game Pass subscription going constantly as a way to try before I buy. I've bought so many games after trying them first on Game Pass. Many of them I'd never heard of or would never have considered buying without playing first.

@MeanBeanEgg I play a lot of retro games via emulation these days. But fancied this in game pass for a bit.
Thats the whole thing about Game Pass. It gives everyone choice.

@__jamiie I used to use Blockbuster the same as I do Game Pass. Try before you buy . Game Pass gives everyone so much choice!!!

Spyro is not my thing & I never will play it.

For the time it took to get this on current consoles it pretty low effort. It's just some Xbox One games pushed out on game pass to appease the "no ABK games" crowd.

They're great, but I've always preferred Crash. Also, the PC version (on Steam anyway) has this weird thing where running it above 30fps breaks the game and makes it impossible to make some jumps and get past some of the timing based stuff.

I played the trilogy on Switch, but that version has some annoying hiccups, so I've been dying to replay the game on Game Pass. But right now I'm too busy playing another PS ex-clusive, Death Stranding.

It's great if you played and liked the old games on ps1 or if you're into these types of games you will enjoy it. I'm not into this type of game at all but because I played it first time around when I did enjoy these types of games I can appreciate it now all spruced up 9/10🧎

@Markatron84 Only a couple more weeks till I start moaning constantly about no Activision games dropping on gamepass are you ready!🌃

I already own it but I'm glad more people are playing it. More eyes on Crash and Spyro hopefully leads to more Crash and Spyro games...

Isn't it crazy to think Xbox owns so much of the 3D platformer heavyweights? I seriously expect them just to randomly pick up Argonaut and Croc out of the blue just to spite the genre even more.

To be honest, it's just not my cup of tea, so I wouldn't play them even for free.
I do remember my mom liking them, so maybe she'll be the one playing.

I was always disappointed that this, the Crash Trilogy and Crash Team Racing all targeted 30fps when the equivalent Mario games are all 60fps on weaker hardware, so for that reason alone I was never particularly impressed by these and would give them a 7 at best.

That said I would put the Spyro games above Crash but still feel they could have done a better job bringing them to modern consoles

@Ricky-Spanish I'm on the edge of my seat innit.

It’s great to see them on game pass.
But come on Xbox, you could have done a tiny bit of work and got them 60fps.

As great as it was before it was put on GP…

Although off topic im getting worried about the stalker leaks that are out there. Do we know when review embargo is?

@FarmDog08 agree with you 100%

Already had it on Steam so don't care. I take it it's still 30fps crap? God consoles are stupid sometimes.

I bought these three times. Once on Xbox, once on Switch, and another time on PC. It's a wonderful collection!

Been playing them with my son. Great fun, excellent surprise when I checked in on Gamepass and just saw it there. Won't be for everyone as, let's be honest, they are children's games at heart but my son is loving it and I'm actually enjoying it too. Even had a go on my own when he wasn't around.

And let's hope that is the first and last time any of us read the term 'competent consumer' used with what I can only assume was a straight face. If I see that again I might cringe myself out of the nearest first floor window. How some people can be so staggeringly pretentious is mind boggling.

I have no nostalgia for these games, I never played them on PlayStation, but even with that, I’d say it’s a solid 8. They aren’t the best games but they’re fun, and good for what they are.

Played years ago/Platinumed, I think it's fair, dynamic music is hit or miss. 1 is simple but the Tree Tops secrets/Haunted Towers ones are still hard for a kid but still great to find out and beat again as an adult. Character weight eh. Sparx bonuses just gems as abilities accessibility features I'm on and off with.

Dinosaur orb in Skelos. The Alchemist in Fracture Hills, the headbash is eh, Crystal Popcorn in Magma Cone. Hide and Seek or others in later levels. Level secrets for orbs platforming wise. The supercharge in some of the games.

The water tube in 3. The tank battles. Whack-a-mole. Turtle soup camera was fixed in Reignited thankfully for 2. Yeah as an adult you remember how annoying they were and still are. Hardly a kids game easy these days (some areas). It's PS1 design still in there. Not all is dumbed down, some is and for good (Turtle soup), others not so bad. It has no Spyro prototype like elements but oh well. Ah Dream Weavers, Gnorc Cove, Haunted Towers or others details cut.

The Ocean Speedway orb challenge tests my flight skills around that under into the tunnel. Let alone in and out of Icy Speedway orb challenge. Among other things. Reflexes/memory these games test for sure.

The challenges are still PS1 hard, people go oh it's a kids game and see the artstyle/characters when I mean..... there is a reason I play platformers, not because they are for kids, but because they push gameplay more than adult games with more themes/dialogue which can be fair or skill trees and garbage I don't like.

In some cases I wish they pushed further like Ratchet's momentum for the swingshot was always basic gaps, it used to have a few challenging ones then they got rid of those. Adult games with grapples are basic as, very boring.

So adult games with a waypoint/violence/other themes, yeah we can read them but hardly challenging or engaging in comparison to kids games with none or fewer of those but yet other types of design more exciting and challenging in their own way.

So to me kids games are actually more fun worlds of creativity and experimentation of worlds/mechanics, sure fire/charge is basic, but supercharge, super flame, swimming, and more, give me those mechanic types. The basic but still fair dynamics. Sure sure armour penetration or status effects or other things or more to understand in adult games but so many boring effects memorisation snore. Skill trees with basic stat differences, snore.

It's like BOTW, give me wind from fire arrows or more depth to fire arrows inflicting enemies. Interactive stuff. But nope we get basic design. Can you tell I like old games more interactive with level design, aka platformer design, or the geo panels of Disgaea, a board game style but still effects the level design.

Part 2:
So unless old design in mind then well yeah. Kids games weren't always oh artstyle/dialogue/themes must be for kids, it's kids games had just as much if not more gameplay variety and challenge that actually challenged me and still do then adult games being more relaxed and theme focused/violence focused. XD Artstyle means nothing if the worlds are more crazy interesting.

It's like an adult game being based around psychedelics. But instead well not those types of themes but imagine more inputs and weird things going on. Or I guess like the Spiderman 2018 hallucinations but instead it's not as basic to get through. Imagine that but with more inputs. Or general worlds with more inputs not generic tasks/but ok cities/fields/whatever and weapons.

Sunset Overdrive tower defence was more fun then any outposts in any other games. I'd have loved animal abilities then the blandness of Biomutant with basic animal animations. So is it teen/adult games or lack of creativity? As least gas immunity was a nice touch. I'll play Space Station Silicon Valley thanks over Goose/Little Kitty then more animal movesets over bland animal moveset games even if different goals.

But still passable I think I never had too many issues playing certain segments of games as a kid (we all have some that do and we get around them) but I think I got through a fair few. Some still I struggle with but still get through them of course in a few goes due to memory.

Edit: was going to put other things but eh moved them to Part 3 as hit cancel then save, grrr....

Part 3:
Playing Chicken Little on PS2 (2 months ago) made me go wow these minigames/levels and character weight is interestingly of it's time (hate heavy character weight in modern games so in older games where it wasn't there yet it's even worse) and challenging and can see why people would struggle with them.

So people can go oh kids games. Yeah that era and these days kids are VERY different levels of challenging people forget. It's why I like going back a few eras. Not just for the mechanics being more exciting but the variety I do seek sometimes or don't mind the experimentation, sometimes bad, sometimes good, other times I don't mind genre switches, which most people may not. XD But I got used to them by working them out in old games and modern ones.

3 being rushed is understandable but why the Sparx abilities were accessibility offerings (while good to have, even if I struggle more in Enter the Dragonfly or didn't have as much issues replaying 1 again for the whatever time and still found the gems) but no replacement for them to win something new for the 3rd Sparx boss. Sigh.

It's a fair remake but eh jump/character weight I hate.

The skill points are fair in 1 (like how Crash had the times/relics added as were only in Crash 3 originally) as never existed till 2, 3 then Ratchet onwards. So those additions were fair to add.

Good presentation for sure, but it's more little gameplay things or tweaks I sometimes liked or hated. Some were better, some were not.

It's fair. I sure have memories/replay the originals a few times every so often but at the same time I still have issues with the originals as I do this remake. Nostalgia doesn't hold it back I have issues with any games and don't get ignorant over nostalgia. I'll play anything that's exciting enough in it's design.

I think it's a good time for people to get to experience them, as a kid/adult for the first time for sure. A good game for kids to play over Christmas this year for sure.

Still would prefer Pitfall Lost Expedition get revived but oh well.

@FarmDog08 could not agree more!

Great game but i got a better experience on steam deck because of 60fps.
If they would ve patched it to S/X with 4k60 would be 10/10.
Not even mentioning I see it all the time literally on 60-70% discount if not more.

I feel like its a weak addition to GP but great game overall.