@@DamnZtar ps1 version he had more of an inverted triangle build with a menacing design. Along with the outer world music and arena design. The new one doesn't look like it's from an alien world. And spike is more chubby and than intimidating. Not surprising everything has to be super cute and friendly for kids today
I used to fight Buzz for fun...I'd fight Scorch for fun...even fight The Sorceress for fun. I never fought Spike for fun. There's good reason for that: he was a pain.
Oh geez, Spike was so hard when I was a kid! It felt so gratifying once you beat him. Especially because the next world is really amazing; I remember being shocked seeing it all these years ago. (:
this guy was the hardest of the spyro 3 bosses for me :l also, he gets my vote for most intelligent game boss. not only does he use his gun well, he breaks the things that hurt him that he can't use. AND he takes your powerups.
Decided to come here and watch the video after reading a comment on Hwd405’s video regarding gold shell fragments on the dragon eggs in Spyro 3! When you watch the animation of the baby dragon at the end playing with the butterfly, you can see the butterfly get sucked back to the dragon as it warps away!
Just looking back how satisfying beating spike just to get to evening lake was trying not to get killed a lot of times from him, wtf did they do to spike in the trilogy :(
Let's be honest The Reignited model is shit I couldn't recognize it as Spike the very first time I saw him there Xd And also, yeah, this boss was (still is) a pain in the ass, but it's more satisfactory to defeat him because of that
Just played the Reignited version of this fight, I don't understand why they changed the background from this to what looked like the Beast Makers from Spyro 1.
That was the most ruthless aggressive boss in all of Spyro bosses , thanks for Spyro for putting a nice uplifting song from charmed ridge after all these aggression , we end up in romantic song of charmed ridge with a mercy
God, the bosses are a big hit-and-miss for me Buzz hasn't really changed much aside from the fact you get knocked back when you successfully charge him and he's a little less aggressive Bluto hasn't changed alot either aside from the fact that good god, they nerfed his sub's speed. Now it's incredibly easy to outrun it when it chases you Spike, on the other hand. Good god, they nerfed him to hell. He only shoots once then twice then three times (compared to the original 2 then 3 then 4), he's way less aggressive (he shoots slower and won't run up to Spyro and try smashing him), he'll barely try to destroy the rocks in the first phase and his new design is horrible compared to the OG design. Sleepyhead is still easy peasy. Scorch again hasn't changed much aside from his giant AOE electricity orbs being replaced by smaller, easier-to-avoid fireballs The Sorceress is IMO the only boss they did right for Spyro 3. She's way more aggressive than the original and a little smarter (if you try going for a vehicle, there's a chance that instead of running, she'll immediately cast a fireball once you get on it or near it)
Nah, both of y'all are trippin especially when it comes to Spikes design he looks exactly like he should look lol. I agree with the nerf thing but that's about it.
@@am_infinite I mean, one huge thing contributing to the easier Spike is the Health nerf (very stupid imo), less shots (because of said health nerf), and then the fact that the camera is not horrible. The first phase is really hard because of the camera, but then it's just cakewalk in the original.
@@LittleBigPlanetian I couldn't agree more with your comment! Some extras, tell me if you noticed them: Buzz takes longer (to decide) to charge at you on the Reignited, so when you mess up and miss on charging him, you won't get punished. On the original, when he stopped rolling after you, the fire would start up immediately, but on the Reignited you have to charge him first. This applies on Spike too! He would immediately start shooting when hit. (Seen on the video above). He doesn't have to go to the center to start shooting like on the Reignited. Spike has less health. From 9 to 6. Sleepyhead had an extra move on the original. He would throw 3 red magic orbs if you were far away from him. He doesn't do that on the Reignited, trust me, I tried. Twin Chinese Dragons also seemed easier to me. They wouldn't spit fireballs as much. Maybe I was lucky. Scorch. When he spits the egg that contains the fire creature, it would hatch in a second (or even less). It takes quite a while to hatch on the Reignited. Sorceress throws less electric orbs and she does so, rarely, compared to the original. They also spread less and you can charge away from them easier.
1:20 Spike looks like Ripto on steroids. He has the same horn as him. But also a bit of Rhynoc too with the ears. Not to mention his fighting style is very similar to Ripto and Gulp.
[After 2 thirds of his health is gone at 3:23] Moose: He's not beaten yet! Tom: We need to keep going! Timmy Turner: Cosmo, Wanda, Poof! I wish Tom and Moose had another weapon to beat that... thing! [Cosmo, Wanda and Poof poof up a blue crystal, which Moose catches] Moose: How will this help? Timmy: Throw it! [Moose is unsure, but throws it like a baseball [4:19}, and it hits Spike!] Tom: Dancin' didgeridoos! THAT was powerful!
How the flipping heck did you only lose 1 life? I went into that battle with 20 something lives and came out with like 8. You are really freaking good at this game.
I'm playing Spyro again and I left Spike to go and grab some eggs I missed and get more lives back. I don't know how I managed to defeat Spike as a kid. If I asked someone else to do it for me, I would not be surprised .
@@bonniestar4707 I know right , I remember I was so angry and stressed by this boss, took me a week to do it, looking back at the situation is not THAT hard as I was dramatizing it but still, beating him made me jump over the house of happiness haha
@@bonniestar4707 yes, lol. This boss was the hardest thing ever at the time. Even the sorceress was easier ( especially with that very great boss music haha )
I downloaded this game for psp yesterday cause I missed it so much. Now Im stuck on this level again! -___- Sad to say Im turning 18 tomarrow, and I only beat Spike once like 10 years ago. To bad I didn't have a memory card back then! -_____-
I remember being totally amazed by the graphics and difficulty of this game. Reignited is a damn good remaster and one of the most faithful ive ever seen, but it just seems to have lost all the charm of the original. I was so hoping for a Halo style remaster with the old graphics available.
It's really unfair how he can hit you so much and so quickly too that even if you try dodging his plasma attacks, the hitboxes of the plasma balls are so large, you end up taking damage anyway! I should really hope they make this boss more forgiving in Reignited. Oh yes, I almost forgot to mention that this boss doesn't have any health recovery drops! Now that I think about it, were there any fodder drops in Buzz's Dungeon? It's like, wow they really ramped up the boss difficulty for their final game!
Is it me or does this guy just rush through this guy? Seriously, he has Spyro just run through the fire steam, (which is easy to avoid by the way) and then runs through Spike's shots, even though your supposed to run around the arena to avoid them. Spike is hard, but the way This guy handles the fight makes this look harder than it actually is. It just feels like he was trying to rush through the boss as fast as possible, which you should never do. That's being careless.
he is so hard he used to take me a few days to beat when i was littel but now he takes me like 1 life but i always end up loosing sparks early into the battle.
[Tom Thomas is piloting his helicopter towards the Evening lake world, then Spike uses his gun to launch a beam that pulls the heroes towards the arena, and Sam, Tom, Moose and Spyro jump out.} Spyro: Ambushed again?! Argh! >:( Moose: Yep. And look who ambushed us! [Spike roars angrily] Sam: Great Fires of London! He's BIG! Tom: But we can take him!! Moose: Yeah! There's no beast that can't be beaten by 'The Wild Men of Pontypandy'! [Tom and Moose roar, and Spike stomps his foot!}
Spike was a major pain in the ass, mainly because I had to aim those stinkin' lava rocks at him, & it's hard when you have to do that while avoiding the freakin' gun blasts! And these are the weapons we start out with before getting the red & blue spike things! Seriously, they could've come up with a better way to damage it on the first part of the battle than that!
If you found this guy difficult, practice spooky swamps mini game with the sleepy rhinoc... But yeah this guy is pretty tough he'd be nothing without his stupid gun .____.
no, i haven't, but that wasn't the point. i didn't say hardest, i said most intelligent. as in not having/doing stupid stuff that would end him, like the "destroy bridge" button bowser always has.
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I’ve come here to pay my respects after they completely butchered spike in the reignited trilogy
How?
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@@DamnZtar ps1 version he had more of an inverted triangle build with a menacing design. Along with the outer world music and arena design. The new one doesn't look like it's from an alien world. And spike is more chubby and than intimidating. Not surprising everything has to be super cute and friendly for kids today
@@hikingbird42 I guess
@@toirlangston7203 Personally I like the redesigns in this game.
I thought Id feel nostalgic watching this, but I only feel the rage and frustration I felt as a child a decade ago
I remember fighting this guy as a young kid. He was so hard to defeat.
They really neutered this boss for reignited. Which is a shame, kind of a letdown after building up to him
I love the sound of Spike’s blaster
Same
I hated this boss so much as a child! Hell, I even thought the sorceress was easier to defeat then him!
Remember when PSOne graphics blew you away as a kid? xD
They still look damn good for the era it came from. Minus the quality from the vid
I used to fight Buzz for fun...I'd fight Scorch for fun...even fight The Sorceress for fun.
I never fought Spike for fun. There's good reason for that: he was a pain.
whats more worrying is that in the prototype build for spyro 3, spike was supposed to be even harder.
The first round is a nightmare.
@@SporianSummit they should have
This was the best boss battle in the whole game, which also had the best boss theme.
This boss was SOOOOO HARD!!!
Well what can I say I was eight at the time ;)
***** I was 4 XD
Yea x.x big spyro fan that day and wanted to play more
+DaSticksanStonesClub
The bane of my childhood!
Not anymore :(
1:12 Those eyes and smile say a lot
Year of the Dragon: Too Hard!
Reignited: Too Easy!
i remember the whirly thing that takes you to this boss being like an elevator to hell, because this boss was fucking hard
Oh geez, Spike was so hard when I was a kid! It felt so gratifying once you beat him. Especially because the next world is really amazing; I remember being shocked seeing it all these years ago. (:
this guy was the hardest of the spyro 3 bosses for me :l
also, he gets my vote for most intelligent game boss. not only does he use his gun well, he breaks the things that hurt him that he can't use. AND he takes your powerups.
i used to be afraid of the bosses when i was little. i had my dad beat them for me.
i love the rhino started to shake when she was about to transform him
Oh I remembered this fight! As a kid, I KNEW to stay close to the edge so his blasts couldn’t hit me as I ever moved slightly to the left or right.
Watching these videos now makes me wonder how I ever managed to beat these games as a kid.
This and the first boss are the most memorable ones from this game to me.
Decided to come here and watch the video after reading a comment on Hwd405’s video regarding gold shell fragments on the dragon eggs in Spyro 3! When you watch the animation of the baby dragon at the end playing with the butterfly, you can see the butterfly get sucked back to the dragon as it warps away!
Still hated the Sorceress for being mean and rude to Bianca!!!!!
ah, who would've thought that 10 years after this video was uploaded a remake was on the way
"A bit?" Lol, love the sarcasm.
I still can't beat this boss without losing at least 1 life.
Well, you could do worse.
Just looking back how satisfying beating spike just to get to evening lake was trying not to get killed a lot of times from him, wtf did they do to spike in the trilogy :(
Nostalgia just spewed from my ears
Let's be honest
The Reignited model is shit
I couldn't recognize it as Spike the very first time I saw him there Xd
And also, yeah, this boss was (still is) a pain in the ass, but it's more satisfactory to defeat him because of that
Just played the Reignited version of this fight, I don't understand why they changed the background from this to what looked like the Beast Makers from Spyro 1.
Spike would definitely be a match for Gulp from Rypto's henchmen
damn I love the music starting at 1:06
it's so cool
This boss looks very similar to the first boss of Ratchet and Clank. The Blargian Snagglebeast.
Perhaps a homage to this brilliant game.
Wait...this cutscene never played before I fought Spike in my game...
the background music kinda sounds like crash 2 when u wear that jetpack
I am not sure what the weapon the he is using when he gets the blue spiky ball
tractor beam, maybe?
I assumed it is electrical beam when I was 7 years old since 2002
That was the most ruthless aggressive boss in all of Spyro bosses , thanks for Spyro for putting a nice uplifting song from charmed ridge after all these aggression , we end up in romantic song of charmed ridge with a mercy
Nostalgia holy shit
A would love to see the look on the Sorceresses' face after you beat Spike since she had just done that boasting to Bianca.
Nice background music.
still better than reignited trilogy
God, the bosses are a big hit-and-miss for me
Buzz hasn't really changed much aside from the fact you get knocked back when you successfully charge him and he's a little less aggressive
Bluto hasn't changed alot either aside from the fact that good god, they nerfed his sub's speed. Now it's incredibly easy to outrun it when it chases you
Spike, on the other hand. Good god, they nerfed him to hell. He only shoots once then twice then three times (compared to the original 2 then 3 then 4), he's way less aggressive (he shoots slower and won't run up to Spyro and try smashing him), he'll barely try to destroy the rocks in the first phase and his new design is horrible compared to the OG design.
Sleepyhead is still easy peasy.
Scorch again hasn't changed much aside from his giant AOE electricity orbs being replaced by smaller, easier-to-avoid fireballs
The Sorceress is IMO the only boss they did right for Spyro 3. She's way more aggressive than the original and a little smarter (if you try going for a vehicle, there's a chance that instead of running, she'll immediately cast a fireball once you get on it or near it)
Nah, both of y'all are trippin especially when it comes to Spikes design he looks exactly like he should look lol. I agree with the nerf thing but that's about it.
@@am_infinite I mean, one huge thing contributing to the easier Spike is the Health nerf (very stupid imo), less shots (because of said health nerf), and then the fact that the camera is not horrible. The first phase is really hard because of the camera, but then it's just cakewalk in the original.
@@LittleBigPlanetian I couldn't agree more with your comment! Some extras, tell me if you noticed them:
Buzz takes longer (to decide) to charge at you on the Reignited, so when you mess up and miss on charging him, you won't get punished. On the original, when he stopped rolling after you, the fire would start up immediately, but on the Reignited you have to charge him first. This applies on Spike too! He would immediately start shooting when hit. (Seen on the video above). He doesn't have to go to the center to start shooting like on the Reignited.
Spike has less health. From 9 to 6.
Sleepyhead had an extra move on the original. He would throw 3 red magic orbs if you were far away from him. He doesn't do that on the Reignited, trust me, I tried.
Twin Chinese Dragons also seemed easier to me. They wouldn't spit fireballs as much. Maybe I was lucky.
Scorch. When he spits the egg that contains the fire creature, it would hatch in a second (or even less). It takes quite a while to hatch on the Reignited.
Sorceress throws less electric orbs and she does so, rarely, compared to the original. They also spread less and you can charge away from them easier.
All of Spike’s steroids got injected into Gulp *throws controller*
1:20 Spike looks like Ripto on steroids. He has the same horn as him. But also a bit of Rhynoc too with the ears. Not to mention his fighting style is very similar to Ripto and Gulp.
"Spike. A bit harder than Buzz" Yeah only a little bit (sarcasm)
Well, now he is
Anyone know what part of the ost is the music 1:05 at? or the name?
I miss this guy
man, the beat is sick when the sorceress makes spike
I STILL PLAY THIS GAME :D
I could never beat this guy as a kid, had to get my friend to do it for me, I bet even today I'd struggle!
I mean I understand that they mistakenly made spike the games final boss in the original but did they have to neuter him so much in the remaster?
The least amount of hits that Spike ever hurt me was once only
Oh my god! this boss was so annyoing when i played this game firts time
it's funny how this boss is called spike, because this certainly is a difficulty spike
how do i get to evening lake home when i there's something wrong with the whirligig?
I died so many times to spike in the ps1 version. I had to use a cheat code for easy mode
This shit was hard on the ps1. There were no analog sticks so it was hard to move around.
[After 2 thirds of his health is gone at 3:23]
Moose: He's not beaten yet!
Tom: We need to keep going!
Timmy Turner: Cosmo, Wanda, Poof! I wish Tom and Moose had another weapon to beat that... thing!
[Cosmo, Wanda and Poof poof up a blue crystal, which Moose catches]
Moose: How will this help?
Timmy: Throw it!
[Moose is unsure, but throws it like a baseball [4:19}, and it hits Spike!]
Tom: Dancin' didgeridoos! THAT was powerful!
How the flipping heck did you only lose 1 life? I went into that battle with 20 something lives and came out with like 8. You are really freaking good at this game.
Johnny D fox you are making this boss look easy
hey What do u have to do to see the spike cutscene? , (when the sorceress summons spike) it didnt show it when i got to this level...
Maybe you got the original black label version of the game which has some missing stuff like this cutscene.
Spike always made me mad my first time playing through the game, ah, the horrible memories O.O
I never saw this cutscene on my black label game. why?!?!
It just wasn't in the original copy of the game. They put it in in the Collectors Edition version of the game.
The original black label version was rushed so the cutscene went unused.
i want to see this game remade in HD graphics, just to see how this boss would look like
Well, the powers that be have listened. Come September, the 'reignited' trilogy's getting released.
Wish granted.
BearPawBeats got your wish and I agree, Spike will be awesome in HD
Nope it's not. OH GOT IT'S HIDEOUS! (Not)
BearPawBeats sorry they absolutely butchered him.
You kept track?
If you look closely, you'll see that Spike's gun is more... hammer shaped that gun shaped.
Imagine that this game is 20years old
It literally took me 10 tries to beat this guy. The first 9 tries all took forever. But then I beat him in under a minute on the 10th try.
Wut?
The boss music rocks
he reminded me of spike the rugrats dog because both of there names were spike lol
I'll take it people are still having trouble with this guy
WHiPCPL troubles with Spike, eh?
I'm playing Spyro again and I left Spike to go and grab some eggs I missed and get more lives back. I don't know how I managed to defeat Spike as a kid. If I asked someone else to do it for me, I would not be surprised .
@@bonniestar4707 I know right , I remember I was so angry and stressed by this boss, took me a week to do it, looking back at the situation is not THAT hard as I was dramatizing it but still, beating him made me jump over the house of happiness haha
Me too lol. Even though the game went into Mercy Mode before I beat him which made all the difference.
@@bonniestar4707 yes, lol. This boss was the hardest thing ever at the time. Even the sorceress was easier ( especially with that very great boss music haha )
Forget About Dark Souls! This Is The Hardest Boss Ever!
Fucking hardest boss of my childhood.
I thought he was the hardest boss. Scorch was easier than him, shockingly
this is epic
i just lost so many lives trying to kill this boss!
Definitely not the easiest boss. Anyone else think the music sounds better with the gunshot sound in the background?
For some reason every time I see Spike remains Captain Gantu from Lilo & Stitch
In Spike's arena I after the second hit I hit spike twice with two lava rocks I have done it many times
I downloaded this game for psp yesterday cause I missed it so much. Now Im stuck on this level again! -___-
Sad to say Im turning 18 tomarrow, and I only beat Spike once like 10 years ago. To bad I didn't have a memory card back then! -_____-
"this guy was the hardest of the spyro 3 bosses for me :l"
what?
I remember being totally amazed by the graphics and difficulty of this game. Reignited is a damn good remaster and one of the most faithful ive ever seen, but it just seems to have lost all the charm of the original. I was so hoping for a Halo style remaster with the old graphics available.
It doesn't seem to have lost its charm to me...but then again, I haven't played the original.
i wanna play this game one more time and the first series
@darkville no, im saying that his stradegy wasnt very wise. his timing was off, and just somewhat plain stupidity. (dont troll me for mispelling >:P)
@dawgalova so you say that 4 year old person could play throught this game 117%?
its spyro 3, isnt it?
yes, this took me atleast a week to do!
I always found him harder than any other boss. I could never beat him!
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i've never been able to beat spike!! Any tips guys??
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It's really unfair how he can hit you so much and so quickly too that even if you try dodging his plasma attacks, the hitboxes of the plasma balls are so large, you end up taking damage anyway! I should really hope they make this boss more forgiving in Reignited. Oh yes, I almost forgot to mention that this boss doesn't have any health recovery drops! Now that I think about it, were there any fodder drops in Buzz's Dungeon? It's like, wow they really ramped up the boss difficulty for their final game!
Is it me or does this guy just rush through this guy? Seriously, he has Spyro just run through the fire steam, (which is easy to avoid by the way) and then runs through Spike's shots, even though your supposed to run around the arena to avoid them.
Spike is hard, but the way This guy handles the fight makes this look harder than it actually is. It just feels like he was trying to rush through the boss as fast as possible, which you should never do. That's being careless.
he is so hard he used to take me a few days to beat when i was littel but now he takes me like 1 life but i always end up loosing sparks early into the battle.
[Tom Thomas is piloting his helicopter towards the Evening lake world, then Spike uses his gun to launch a beam that pulls the heroes towards the arena, and Sam, Tom, Moose and Spyro jump out.}
Spyro: Ambushed again?! Argh! >:(
Moose: Yep. And look who ambushed us!
[Spike roars angrily]
Sam: Great Fires of London! He's BIG!
Tom: But we can take him!!
Moose: Yeah! There's no beast that can't be beaten by 'The Wild Men of Pontypandy'!
[Tom and Moose roar, and Spike stomps his foot!}
The Spyro 3 bosses were harder than the spyro 2 bosses due to lack of fodder
omg, the same thing happened to me, i even had 98% too. I was sooooo upset. I restarted it, now I'm only 89%
Spike was a major pain in the ass, mainly because I had to aim those stinkin' lava rocks at him, & it's hard when you have to do that while avoiding the freakin' gun blasts! And these are the weapons we start out with before getting the red & blue spike things! Seriously, they could've come up with a better way to damage it on the first part of the battle than that!
This boss sure was a *spike* in difficulty
I'm not sorry
Giacomo P I think that's the joke they were going for. It's to give you that "they aren't fucking around here" feel
No kidding!
Plus I think the programming back then was set one how well your doing in the game.
If you found this guy difficult, practice spooky swamps mini game with the sleepy rhinoc... But yeah this guy is pretty tough he'd be nothing without his stupid gun .____.
The sleepy rhinoc game is easy for me
Spike is near impossible!! to beat
Spike. Some say he's the hardest Boss in this whole game. Surprisingly, it takes Johnny more time to beat Buzz than Spike...
Coincidence? I THINK NOT!
This boss makes so fucking mad!!
Guessing by your comment, you've never played Spyro 2 have you? The bosses there were a lot harder than in Spyro 3.
At 0:49 I thought she was going to say "ZOMBIE". Haha games these days.
spike was a pain in the ass back then
no, i haven't, but that wasn't the point.
i didn't say hardest, i said most intelligent. as in not having/doing stupid stuff that would end him, like the "destroy bridge" button bowser always has.