Thank you for this! Only one issue I see so far is that it says Dark Passage appeared in Spyro 2 when it was actually in Spyro 1. Edit: Goodness, I screwed that up. Lol
Just wow, this must've taken ages considering the huge amount of levels and then put them order. The clear effort that has been put into editing and visuals, as well as the script itself, of course, is amazing. Easily the best level etc. ranking that I've seen of Spyro, a very solid and well-reasoned list. Marvelous and enjoyable video!
Can we just take a minute to really appreciate how absolutely jaw droppingly phenomenal the original spyro trilogy's soundtrack was it's still Tuesday's breath taking how great the music was especially the homeworld music.
I actually enjoyed playing that game all the way through. The overall map was easy to remember and the areas were really memorable. And being a direct sequel of Spyro a hero's tail was cool as well. Sure the combat was more harder and frustrating than it needed to be but I enjoyed the challenge of it.
@@StevieJ3698 I honestly don't have an issue with the game's structure. Spyro wants to try and be an Action RPG? Okay, fine. But the soundtrack, painfully slow pace, drab graphics, and Spyro's absolutely pathetic starting speed and combat capabilities make it an absolute slog. The shameful usage of previous series areas in-name-only just makes it worse for me. I've tried to give it several more chances over the years but there's just nothing there for me. Which makes me sad to say. Nobody will ever be more upset that I don't like a Spyro game than me.
@@lightninstriker10 well I definitely could see Spyro taking on RPG elements, possibly similar to the Zelda Series as far as progression and exploration goes, other than that Shadow Legacy is a mess...
I actually liked that game, but everything else after that is booty... I HATED, (emphasis on this) *HATED* The Legend of Spyro: New Beginning game, they completely changed the open world hub worlds, and choice of choosing which level to do first into a LINEAR *FUCKING* GAME! YOU KNOW?! THE VERY THING THAT DEFINED THE ERA OF GAMES THAT THE ORIGINAL GAME WAS RELEASED IN?!?! Spyro is *NOT* a bugeyed bulldog, I mean I saw Spyro's Original concept art so, I get they were trying to go for that...but we had an established character with the same graphics, the same console, same face for *two games* ...there was literally no need to warp his face that hard... I never picked up a spyro game after that game...that was so bad and hard that I didn't even want to see the ending, and probably wouldn't even be all rewarding to finish... I am *hopefully* optimistic that the new Spyro Four that continues after the Reignited Trilogy, will serve what we all have been so sorely been missing...
@@StevieJ3698 I like how they took us back to Avalar and the Forgotten worlds too which included some areas that weren’t present in 2 and 3. (Avalar Savannah, another section of Lost Fleet)
Thank you for not just crapping on TLoS. I know that they're faaar from the best games, but most people seem to just toss them aside and call it a day. You gave them proper critique, and acknowledged what they did manage to do well. I appreciate that.
The sky boxes in the original trilogy do so much for me. The combination of how objects and landmass far in the background lost their textures, blended in so well with the amazing looking skies. They were like paintings of wonderous lands. They offered so much to the mystical ambience of the original trilogy. Reignited on the other hand, did a good job with most of the sky boxes, while some they completely ruined. But reignited sky boxes overall are not as good, because the sky box aesthetic of the original games stood out so much.
@@Eminster Talk about making a huge assumption. I literally mention just one small aspect that I personally think the original does better. But to you, that somehow means I don't think reignited does anything better...
The skyboxes in the original trilogy get their aesthetics from the weaker hardware, they way they chose to make them gives them that hazy, natural feeling, it truly feels like you're in the realm and the skybox is miles away from you. Unfortunately, I don't think Reginited could've replicated this without breaking the artstyle a bit, but I think they still did well with the skyboxes in Reignited.
I absolutely agree with the Blink levels at the bottom, I always dread them when playing Hero's Tail, and the Agent 9 stealth levels was the sole reason why I never completed Attack Of The Rhynocs, what a shame. As for the rest of the rankings, I'd say you were on point with them, even if the amount of levels to go through were insane. Here's to the next "Every Level Ranked" in the future, whatever it may be!
Although it takes these episodes a long time to come out, they are well worth the wait. A SERIOUS amount of editing and detail goes into these, but it gives me an insight to all the levels that I fully enjoyed and the ones that put me through pure dread. Whenever I replay one of the Spyro, Crash, and Tony Hawk games, I will go to one of your Every Level Ranked videos to remind myself what you said about the level XD.
It is so weird to hear an Aussie call Spyro 2 “Ripto’s Rage”. I know that was the name in the US but in Australia and the rest of the PAL region it was called Gateway to Glimmer.
Yeah it's one of the strangest Region Differences I seen in a franchise, nothing as absurd as Contra in the PAL regions going with Robots, but non the less it makes discussing Spyro 2 a bit confusing to some....
@@bobafett4265 I get that, it just sounds odd. When I saw that the Reignited Trilogy had it called Ripto’s Rage in the PAL regions it made me a little sad.
I still insist that Enter the Dragonfly had a lot of cool world designs from the conceptual phase with a really good soundtrack, but when it came to actually rendering those worlds in the game, it's a disaster.
I really felt what was said about how utterly empty some of the levels are in Enter the Dragonfly are. The thieves' den is such a cool concept, and the dialogue even demonstrates how unfinished the game is. One of the thieves in the level warns you to "watch out for the cleaners" in the water, and.... there is literally nothing in the water.
@@jeremychristiansen4582 The pigs on Luau island also recycle the same sound affects and voice as the Professor when they stand idle. This could suggest that the Professor probably was supposed to have appeared at one point.
For how forgetable the Legen of Spyro trilogy is, I will always have a soft spot for Dawn of the Dragon. That game has some geniuenly memorable levels and I loved playing it with my sister when I was younger.Valley of Avalar is honestly one of my favorite levels in the entire series, I wish the entire game was built like that.
Same i think it was the best and memerable game outta the bunch but this dude really said oh i hate the game coz it has a challenge but when theres never a challenge at all the entire comunity complains
I love the story in LoS. With Cynder in particular actually being my favourite Spyro character (her "I love you." at the end of Dawn always gives me chills). Then the soundtrack is also really good (especially This Broken Soul and Guide You Home). But the gameplay is definitely not as fun as the original triliogy. Dawn has some good moments though (and I like the mechanic of Cynder and Spyro being chained together).
I love Spyro 2, but yeah. Dragon Shores was a pretty underwhelming bonus after 100 percenting the game. I thought it would be way bigger than it was as an amusement park and kind of wish the Reignited trilogy had added more to it
Main problem is how they made the underwater sections so dark in reignited making me enjoy those levels way less. But I can agree with them on how a water level is done right
Yes, I hated Aquarius towers, I definitely don't agree with it being ranked so high, but that's the great thing about spyro, there's something in every game for everyone to enjoy and we may not all agree on what the best level is but we can all agree that spyro is a great franchise that needs a proper polished 4th game
Thought I might have forgotten to do the whole "calculate the average" thing like I did with Crash, didn't you? Nope, I'm here, and going to apply that process to Spyro too! A quick refresher on my methodology: I am taking the ranks found within this video, averaging the results per game (counting grouped entries as the same number per each instance), then applying a negative three modifier per level to account for the "quantity" aspect of a game's quality. That means lower numbers are better, and negative numbers are masterpieces in comparison. Oh, and I'm NOT counting the ports of the Legend games, since those are... well, different games. With that out of the way: At #13 we have Spyro the Dragon for mobile, i.e. the Shadow Realm port, with an Average of 181 and a Final Score of 160! I don't think it's a surprise to see a mobile game at the bottom of the list, but at least it's not hugging the theoretical worst score like Crash's greatest stinker did! At #12 we have Spyro Ripto Quest, with an Average of 163 and a Final Score of 151! Having only four levels really hurt its final score, but not enough to make it the worst it seems! At #11 we have Legend of Spyro: Eternal Night, with an Average of 157.3... and a Final Score of 139.3...! These games also suffer from having so few levels compared to the rest of the series, but considering the ones we did get were almost all slogs, they still take quite a while. At #10 we have Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning, with an Average of 151.5 and a Final Score of 133.5! I honestly am divided on these games, as the story is definitely great, but the gameplay is a snoozefest. At #9 we have Enter the Dragonfly, with an Average of 124 and a Final Score of 88! Much like Wrath of Cortex, this was the game that came closest to the classics without really having much of their soul, leading to a downward spiral of abandoning the old mechanics and structure from an erroneous assumption that those had just grown stale, as opposed to not having been done well. At #8 we have... Attack of the Rhynocs, with an Average of 148.809... and a Final Score of 85.809...? That doesn't sound right... Then again, I DID code the achievement set over on RetroAchievements.org, AND it was my _first_ set ever, so maybe I'm a little biased. Still, barely better than Enter the Dragonfly, and worse than a Legend game?! Something's screwy... At #7 we have Season of Ice, with an Average of 142.652... and a Final Score of 64.652...! This at least makes sense compared to the previous entries, as its structure is much more traditionally Spyro and is NOT a buggy product, yet it's still a GBA game. At #6 we have Season of Flame, with an Average of 128.5 and a Final Score of 62.5! This also makes sense, as it's basically just like the first GBA game but a bit more polished. At #5 we have Legend of Spyro Dawn of the Dragon, with an Average of 90.5 and a Final Score of 60.5! Yeah, this game sticks out like a sore thumb on this list, it really should be #9 instead. But that's the rankings I was given, so that's what we get for the results. At #4 we have A Hero's Tail, with an Average of 134.5 and a Final Score of 56.5! Definitely worthy of this spot in relation to Season of Flame, which just adds to my bafflement of Dawn of the Dragon getting between them like this! At #3 we have Ripto's Rage/Gateway to Glimmer, with an Average of 51.192... and a Final Score of NEGATIVE 26.807...! So Jak, what was that about this being the best game again? Because your rankings seem to suggest otherwise... Not that I agree with this spot either, I'd put it at #2 myself. At #2 we have Year of the Dragon, with an Average of 68.36... and a Final Score of NEGATIVE 30.63...! THIS is what I'd place at #1, ther's just so _much_ in this title! And finally at #1, we have the original Spyro the Dragon, with an Average of 62.36... and a Final Score of NEGATIVE 36.63...! While I personally consider this the weakest of the original trilogy, all of them being so close in the rankings is very fitting if I do say so myself! And there we go, all the Spyro games ranked based solely on the individual level ranks from the video! I've been waiting for this for a long time, and now it's finally over! Not sure if there's any other "Every Level Ranked" video I'd like to apply this formula to, but considering just _watching_ one of these takes more time than playing through one of my precious DKCs 100%, I certainly wouldn't put that much effort into a series I didn't truly love! Huh, DKC... that might actually be a good one...
Kind of surprised Spyro 2's average level ranking score is lower than 1 and 3, considering how much Jak regards 2 as the best despite it being a fundamentally poorly designed game.
Dragon Shores was the lowest bonus level (although they were all low) and Canyon Speedway the lowest speedway (although again they were all mostly middling, save for Wild Flight and Country Speedway). Shady Oasis was probably the deciding factor on Spyro 2 ranking so low in these metrics, with its placement at #114 compared to the next regular level from the OT on the list, Dino Mines at #76. I say that with Spyro 2 being my fave lol
Gotta be honest, aquaria towers and hurricos were always eyeroll slogs for me on each play through. It’s all about your specific nostalgia and opinion though. Great list!
As a fan of the Legends Trilogy, it did hurt to see two of its games knocked out first in the ranks, but DotD getting to fourth made me quite satisfied
I want to take the time to acknowledge how much work this must have been to play all of these levels, record them, rank them, and then think of commentary to say for each one of them. You've done such an incredible job with this! This is an amazing video!
As someone who genuinely enjoys the Legend of Spyro trilogy, I surprisingly found myself agreeing to a majority of your rankings. While I disagree with some of the rankings, I do agree that Eternal Night was not my favorite. Also, I wish you took more account for the music in the LoS trilogy. It's beautiful and it's one of the many reasons why I fell in love with the trilogy. It just breaks my heart knowing that a majority of Spyro fans don't feel the same.
I cant even list my 5 favourite condiments, this is super tight! Love the effort you put into these despite mental health/financial issues being such a big part of your life recently. I really mean that too, dude, you're one of my favourites from AUS on the platform
I'm surprised you didn't transition from talking about how they butchered Bentley's character in Gloomy Glacier into his first appearance in Bentley's Outpost. Could've been a nice lead in to number 98. Anyway, great video. Absolutely agree with your thoughts on Sgt. Byrd in Enchanted Towers.
I just realized that the small amount of levels, and all of them accessible from a single homeworld, Enter the Dragonfly could be perfect to be remade into a DLC for Spyro 4.
This video (film? movie? haha) was a complete joy to watch! 5+ months went into this one and you stuck through until the end, that level of dedication is incredible and you and everyone else associated should be very proud of what you guys made here. Definitely earned my sub, cheers. :)
Last week I was playing some spyro and thought to myself, "man I wish Square Eyed Jak ranked these levels too" and now here we are, can't wait to watch!
Funny how the universe works sometimes. When they announced the Nsane trilogy to consoles I said "now do Spyro!". Sure enough, not much later, the Reignited trailer came out.
@@Dalton_Boardman2000 The level design is amazing, for me it had something magical seeing those gems far away on the island and not knowing how to get there as a kid.
What about every Zelda dungeon? It would require slogging through the inconsistent controls of Skyward Sword, actually getting one of the good versions of Twilight Princess (i.e. not the garbage Wii one), and enduring the ire of the fanbase as he points out that no, the Water Temple from OoT wasn't that bad, and no, Ocarina as a whole wasn't that good. Now I really want to see this, just for the salt in the comments.
@@StinkyDOODOOPFFTFARTSLMAOSHITT I understand him... I'd rather repeatedly step on Legos than control Ratchet in the first game... and I'd still play that game over anything post 2009
Another solid ELR video Jak. I'm glad Spyro got his turn and I can't imagine how hard it must have been to rank all these levels. Now I had a feeling the games from TLoS would be the first to go. I know a majority of fans don't like that trilogy but I like it to be honest, maybe they're a guilty pleasure to me. I know this is going to sound crazy, but TLoS got me back into Spyro after Enter The Dragonfly killed the franchise for me. I'm being brutally honest here but I think TLoS is better then ETD. Though TLoS will never be as great at the original trilogy that's for certain.
I’m still yet to find myself doing something similar to this but not Spyro. If there’s something I do like about these type of videos he does Show he really cares about Putting all effort into it. He really shows me if you enjoy what you do best go for it
I've got a soft spot for Legend mostly because of Dawn of the Dragon. A New Beginning and Eternal Night are either boring slogs or extremely frustrating tests of patience, but Dawn is a much better structured game with some incredible levels. Although I agree that it has some of the worst levels in it as well. What was the obsession with pitting wave after wave of tough enemies at the player with so few resources to survive those encounters especially in the second game. Good to see Dawn's better levels get high rankings though.
Honestly, it was the atmosphere and vibe of the game that did it for me. The music and visuals were really awesome. Though watching this video really seems to highlight how goddamn depressing the game is. Mostly cause of the contrast of the other games, and even the previous games in the Legend series. They canned the goofy monkeys for these... creepy, soulless demon creatures. They got rid of almost all of what little bright and cheery aspects the previous games have. The narrative involves literal war and death, and the entire world being destroyed in a grim, miserably burning hellscape. With the sombre music and visual design really highlighting that grim aspect. I know the 2000s had a thing for edgy games (Dark Jak lmfao) but I think this is just beyond that. Its just straight up really god damn depressing. Like, almost Dark Souls level depressing I swear to god. They channel more depressing energy than Lord of the Rings. You watch this video and you go from the saccharine GBA games to Dawn of the Dragon and its like going from watching Fairly Odd Parents to a WW2 Documentary.
I know that a lot of spyro 2 levels were very well designed, I just wish they implemented a *reward* as good as the first games. The dragon saving feature was a stroke of genius, especially when you hear them rocking back and forth from afar, and seeing the fully scripted voiced interactions gave opportunity to see spyros witty fiesty nature. It was much more rewarding than... green orbs.
I know it’s weird but I have a soft spot for the missions in Hero’s Tail. The music was always the best part. Completely understand the frustration behind them, but as one of the Spyro games I grew up with it is nostalgic for me.
You know what I love about Ice Cavern from a level design standpoint? At the very start you can glide to a hidden platform with some extra lives, and do the whole stage backwards. Some other levels loop in on themselves, but Ice Cavern is the only one where you can do that. I found it rather memorable, as I did figuring out how to get to those lives in the first place.
I never got that far. I accidentally did the torvul (torvel?) skip and fell into riptos fight as a kid. Which I think makes the whole thing worse. A small child. ACCIDENTALLY. Skipped the entire game.
@@eliwoodthegoothoonter538it's actually one of my favourite glitches in video games being able to swim through the air. Plus it's a quick way to unlock sparx pointing to treasure
Jak, we love you. What a video, what dedicated and hard work this must have took. I saw this getting posted on the Spyro Reddit page as well as being talked about on Dayoman’s twitch stream of 300 people, the WR holder for Spyro 1 speedrunning. You went viral and I hope this and the rest of your work makes you rich. Cheers to you down under from America.
I hope you know when you spend this long strenuous effort to make a 2 and a half hour video like this it's much appreciated. I love binging long quality videos like this.
I had meant to comment on this video the other week, but it was so late by the time it finished that I went to sleep right after. However I really want to say thank you for this epic video. I can't possibly convey what I want to via a comment so I'll try to keep it short as possible, but things have been very rough this past year for me as of June 2020, and life will never be the same again. But I watched this the night before the Euro finals and I cannot express how it set me up for the best mood I've been in since everything went South just over a year ago. It took me back to being in my beloved flat which I lost last year where I'd regularly enjoy your videos, and I weirdly felt so at peace while watching it, something I've been a stranger to for the longest time. Despite my accommodation not being the most ideal, I felt like I was at home again, and the atmosphere where I'm staying completely uplifted, and it's been better ever since. All because of this video. I also watched your Crash 4 review a few hours before and that set me up for being in a better mood, I really enjoyed that too. The difference a video can make. Watching this I felt like I went on the most epic journey. I thank you sincerely for this and all your other videos which I watched starting from the Summer of 2019 when Nitro Fuelled came out. Your content is superb and a real comfort during both good and bad times. I even enjoy your videos about games and topics I don't usually care about. I'm sure countless others feel the same, and I hope you manage to keep creating. All the best, mate!
I come back and rewatch this video ever so often. Love the in-depth analysis, the humor and above all the clear enthusiasm for the franchise. Clearly alot of work went into this. Keep up the solid work!
Disagreed with a LOT of the placements in this list (and even some of the reasoning behind placements I otherwise concurred with), but I can admire the dedication of going over ALL these Spyro levels for one video. Was a fun watch.
Man, i don't know if i could ever rank the levels of spyro. Every one that popped up i was like "man i love that level". Fantastic work here. I will be doing a marathon of the reignited trilogy very shortly after watching this. Thanks Jak.
You know, I didn't imagine my Friday night including a Spyro video, but I'm glad it popped up in my newsfeed. Awesome video! You can tell that a lot of time and effort was put into creating this.
i actually agree with a lot of this. aside from a few, such as Aquaria Towers. i think that level was one of my least faves from ripto's rage. but the general choices for ranks in this, is pretty solid, honestly
Agreed Especialy on revisits you had to do all the water again. And the camera could bump about. Still a great water level though. Especially the moment I discovered there's an entire upside to ir
This is in my opinion the best video in TH-cam history! The pacing, the little bits of humor, the dialogue and everything was perfect! I always come back and rewatch this video because it's so good! This has really inspired me to make a Spyro ranking video of my own and will surely shout this video out if I ever do make one. Fantastic work Jak!
Well, I just made it through the whole list. Some quick thoughts, spoilers alert: - Mystic Marsh was my guess for number 1, I did never expect a level from the first game to be on top. - The choice to have Zephyr this low on the list is interesting to say the least 😁 - Enter the Dragonfly and A Hero's Tail had their final level on the list much later than I expected. Thanks again for all the effort you put into this video, it was a pleasure to watch it. I'm looking forward to the next episode of "Every level ranked" ✌
A great video covering a great game series. Spyro the Dragon has always been my favourite Platform Game Character. Again to the creator of this video thank-you for all the hours of hard work you put in to bring this video to us. Bless you.
Thank you for such an amazingly detailed video! 💜 So much effort! Your editing skills are really refined, too. Mystic Marsh being in the Top 10 made me so happy 😌💖 (my fav level of all time) I honestly didn't expect so many ice levels to be within the Top 25, but you make great arguments for them.
I've played through every Spyro game that is on this ranking except 2 of the 3 GBA games and the mobile ones. Seeing all these memorable levels again in a single video is such a huge nostalgia trip. I'm so happy to see Valley of Avalar and Aquaria Towers this high on the ranking and agree with your thoughts on most levels. Thanks for making this!
So glad that nearly all spyro 2, 1 and 3 levels are in the top 50 because heck yes I love all of them! Spyro 2 is my favourite one of all, so I'm biased probably lmao Hell of a good job you did!
Jak, I've watched this a couple.times and honestly it's so well made. I love your every level ranked videos.bit this one was a blast of nostalgia and showed me aspects of the Spyro games I never really played outside of the trilogy,enter, and a hero's tail. What a gem this masterpiece is. Thanks for putting a lot of soul and hard work into it. Clearly a deserved success. Love from California
Before watching this video, I ironically made a joke to myself that Wizard Peak would be number 1 because it has peak in the name. Funnily enough, I was right and wrong. A great video nonetheless, Jak. Keep up the great work!
As a long-time Spyro fan, I genuinely enjoyed watching this video and hearing your thoughts on these levels. This is actually one of the videos that inspired me to make my top 5 worst and best Spyro games video.
Just ran into you and I’m blown away. Spyro was my childhood and every video going into depth about it makes me smile. Than here you are with a two hour vid ranking all of the levels. Nicely done! Would it be too much to ask for ranking the challenges/minigames from the original trilogy?
I can't believe how good this is! Hard to imagine the amount of effort it must have taken in editing alone, let alone making all these decisions! I love how you cut between original and remade games in the exact same frame to compare sometimes. Really cool, and now? I have to go play Spyro again!
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Time to edge for 2 hours and 43 minutes!
Don't tell me you're going to...Jak off...
@@crinklechips6950 lmfaoooo
Jak your....Daxter maybe??
@@michaelobear5445 lolllll
Standard friday night.
4:35 188 - Blink The Mole Stages (a hero's tail)
6:22 187 - agent 9 stealth missions (attack of the rhynocs)
7:24 186 - Sgt. Byrds rescue missions (attack of the rhynocs)
8:19 185 - season of ice speedways (season of ice)
9:11 184 - time machine lab (season of ice)
9:41 183 - twilight bulb factory (season of ice)
10:18 182 - concurrent skies (a new beginning)
12:19 181 - spyro the dragon (shadow legacy mobile)
13:05 180 - Sparx tunnels (a hero's tail)
14:09 179 - cloudy speedway (a hero's tail)
15:59 178 - first flight (a new beginning)
16:45 177 - burned lands (dawn of the dragon)
17:49 176 - Thieves den (enter the dragonfly)
19:13 175 - oasis speedway (enter the dragonfly)
19:42 174 - stormy beach (a hero's tail)
20:28 173 - Magma falls (a hero's tail)
21:24 172 - dark mine (a hero's tail)
21:59 171 - ancient Grove (the eternal night)
23:10 170 - fellmuth Arena (the eternal night)
24:26 169 - the swamp (a new beginning)
25:16 168 - jurassic jungle (enter the dragonfly)
26:27 167 - Thieves guild (attack of the rhynocs)
26:56 166 - hummingbird fort (season of ice)
27:49 165 - fairy homeworld (season of ice)
28:19 164 - celestial homeworlds (season of flame)
28:43 163 - spyro ripto's quest
29:49 162 - chateau ripto (attack of the rhynocs)
30:36 161 - dragon shores (2: ripto's rage)
31:22 160 - white isle (the eternal night)
32:45 159 - well of souls (the eternal night)
34:32 158 - Sgt. Byrds base (year of the dragon)
35:46 157 - rhynocs n' clocks (attack of the rhynocs)
36:11 156 - professor's secret lab (attack of the rhynocs)
36:37 155 - gnastys loot (spyro the dragon)
37:28 154 - honey marsh (season of ice)
37:59 153 - star park (season of ice)
38:25 152 - moon fondue (season of flame)
38:55 151 - winter Mesa (season of flame)
39:31 150 - dreamy castle (season of flame)
39:55 149 - gypsy road (season of flame)
40:32 148 - rainbow speedway (enter the dragonfly)
41:03 147 - midday gardens (year of the dragon)
41:35 146 - dragon shores (attack of the rhynocs)
42:19 145 - agent 9 levels (season of flame)
43:01 144 - crop circle country (enter the dragonfly)
44:03 143 - night temple (the eternal night)
44:49 142 - dante's freezer (a new beginning)
45:29 141 - pirate fleet (the eternal night)
46:49 140 - superbonus round (year of the dragon)
47:55 139 - iceberg aerobatics (a hero's tail)
48:28 138 - canyon speedway (2: ripto's rage)
48:57 137 - banzai speedway (enter the dragonfly)
49:34 136 - icy flight (spyro the dragon)
49:57 135 - Harbour speedway (year of the dragon)
50:43 134 - rabbit habitat (attack of the rhynocs)
51:25 133 - cheetah spot spa (attack of the rhynocs)
51:59 132 - winter tundra (2: ripto's rage)
52:45 131 - munitions forge (a new beginning)
53:50 130 - dragon city (dawn of the dragon)
54:53 129 - attack of the golem (dawn of the dragon)
55:51 128 - candy lane (season of flame)
56:33 127 - honey marsh (enter the dragonfly)
57:16 126 - ice citadel (a hero's tail)
57:54 125 - molten mount (a hero's tail)
58:38 124 - agent 9's lab (year of the dragon)
59:35 123 - dream weavers (spyro the dragon)
1:00:03 122 - season of ice Sparx levels
1:00:28 121 - dusty trails (season of ice)
1:00:50 120 - market Mesa (season of ice)
1:01:24 119 - doctor shemp (spyro the dragon)
1:02:02 118 - lava palaver (a hero's tail)
1:02:27 117 - night flight (spyro the dragon)
1:02:36 116 - crystal flight (spyro the dragon)
1:02:58 115 - Jacques (spyro the dragon)
1:03:42 114 - shady oasis (2: ripto's rage)
1:04:29 113 - moneybags mansion (attack of the rhynocs)
1:05:33 112 - frostbite village (a hero's tail)
1:06:17 111 - monkey monastery (enter the dragonfly)
1:07:07 110 - dragon realms (enter the dragonfly)
1:07:46 109 - beast makers (spyro the dragon)
1:08:19 108 - red's laboratory (a hero's tail)
1:09:28 107 - tall plains (a new beginning)
1:10:28 106 - Sparx levels (year of the dragon)
1:11:20 105 - Byrd barracks (attack of the rhynocs)
1:12:06 104 - toasty (spyro the dragon)
1:12:56 103 - sunken ruins (a hero's tail)
1:13:33 102 - cloudy domain (a hero's tail)
1:14:37 101 - floating islands (dawn of the dragon)
1:15:48 100 - the dam (dawn of the dragon)
1:16:59 99 - gloomy glacier (a hero's tail)
1:17:58 98 - bentley's outpost (year of the dragon)
1:18:33 97 - yeti Serengeti (attack of the rhynocs)
1:19:18 96 - watertopia (season of flame)
1:19:34 95 - Sheila's gba levels (season of flame
1:21:08 94 - Island speedway (a hero's tail)
1:21:24 93 - sunny flight (spyro the dragon)
1:21:46 92 - honey speedway (year of the dragon)
1:22:15 91 - icy speedway (2: ripto's rage)
1:22:40 90 - temple of dune (season of flame)
1:23:00 89 - banana savannah (attack of the rhynocs)
1:23:16 88 - fairy library (attack of the rhynocs)
1:23:39 87 - shamrock isle (season of flame)
1:24:04 86 - kangaroo hoodoos (attack of the rhynocs)
1:24:40 85 - peace keepers (spyro the dragon)
1:25:30 84 - sunrise spring (year of the dragon)
1:25:53 83 - mushroom speedway (year of the dragon)
1:26:26 82 - metro speedway (2: riptos rage)
1:26:47 81 - ocean speedway (2: riptos rage)
1:27:21 80 - blowhard (spyro the dragon)
1:27:51 79 - ruins of warfang (dawn of the dragon)
1:28:32 78 - the catacombs (dawn of the dragon)
1:29:03 77 - dragon village (a hero's tail)
1:29:33 76 - Dino mines (year of the dragon
1:30:20 75 - midnight mountain (year of the dragon)
1:30:51 74 - evening lake (year of the dragon)
1:31:26 73 - mermaid coast (season of ice)
1:31:56 72 - lava prairie (season of ice)
1:32:22 71 - country farms (season of flame)
1:32:50 70 - haunted hills (season of flame)
1:33:21 69 - panda gardens (season of ice)
1:33:54 68 - Roman city (season of flame)
1:34:22 67 - tiki tropics (season of flame)
1:35:22 66 - cloud 9 (enter the dragonfly)
1:36:37 65 - dragonfly dojo (enter the dragonfly)
1:37:23 64 - dry canyon (spyro the dragon)
1:37:58 63 - terrace village (spyro the dragon)
1:38:33 62 - metalhead (spyro the dragon)
1:39:15 61 - luau Island (enter the dragonfly)
1:40:49 60 - sunny beach (2: ripto's rage)
1:42:01 59 - Wild flight (spyro the dragon)
1:42:32 58 - haunted tomb (year of the dragon)
1:43:22 57 - Sheila's alp (year of the dragon)
1:43:51 56 - zephyr (2: ripto's rage)
1:44:42 55 - crystal islands (year of the dragon)
1:45:29 54 - lost fleet (year of the dragon)
1:46:51 53 - town Square (spyro the dragon)
1:47:20 52 - artisans (spyro the dragon)
1:47:52 51 - stone hill (spyro the dragon)
1:48:36 50 - country speedway (year of the dragon)
1:49:25 49 - robotica farms (2: ripto's rage)
1:50:19 48 - coastal remains (a hero's tail)
1:51:24 47 - the destroyer (dawn of the dragon)
1:53:09 46 - autumn plains (2: ripto's rage)
1:53:44 45 - Magma cone (2: ripto's rage)
1:54:30 44 - seashell shore (year of the dragon)
1:55:30 43 - crocoville swamp (a hero's tail)
1:56:06 42 - cloud temples (2: ripto's rage)
1:56:59 41 - metropolis (2: ripto's rage)
1:57:47 40 - alpine ridge (spyro the dragon)
1:58:26 39 - twilight falls (dawn of the dragon)
1:59:10 38 - dark hollow (spyro the dragon)
1:59:58 37 - lofty castle (spyro the dragon)
2:00:31 36 - bamboo terrace (year of the dragon)
2:01:03 35 - scorch (2: ripto's rage)
2:02:04 34 - fracture hills (2: ripto's rage)
2:02:54 33 - dragonfly falls (a hero's tail)
2:04:22 32 - magic crafters (spyro the dragon)
2:05:19 31 - haunted towers (spyro the dragon)
2:06:01 30 - enchanted towers (year of the dragon)
2:07:09 29 - cloud spires (year of the dragon)
2:07:47 28 - charmed ridge (year of the dragon)
2:08:51 27 - idol springs (2: ripto's rage)
2:09:31 26 - summer forest (2: ripto's rage)
2:10:16 25 - valley of avalar (dawn of the dragon)
2:12:40 24 - spooky swamp (year of the dragon)
2:13:30 23 - sunny villa (year of the dragon)
2:14:04 22 - misty bog (spyro the dragon)
2:15:00 21 - high caves (spyro the dragon)
2:15:59 20 - molten crater (year of the dragon)
2:16:36 19 - cliff Town (spyro the dragon)
2:17:22 18 - breeze Harbour (2: ripto's rage)
2:18:29 17 - twilight Harbour (spyro the dragon)
2:19:04 16 - gnorc cove (spyro the dragon)
2:19:45 15 - icy peak (year of the dragon)
2:20:55 14 - colossus (2: ripto's rage)
2:21:49 13 - ice cavern (spyro the Dragon)
2:22:31 12 - treetops (spyro the dragon)
2:23:19 11 - glimmer (2: ripto's rage)
2:25:04 10 - frozen Alters (year of the dragon)
2:26:44 9 - crystal glacier (2: ripto's rage)
2:27:42 8 - fireworks factory (year of the dragon)
2:29:29 7 - mystic marsh (2: ripto's rage)
2:30:53 6 - hurricos (2: ripto's rage)
2:32:03 5 - desert ruins (year of the dragon)
2:33:50 4 - aquaria towers (2: ripto's rage)
2:35:34 3 - dark passage (spyro the dragon)
2:36:55 2 - skelos badlands (2: ripto's rage)
2:39:21 1 - wizard peak (spyro the dragon)
Thank you for this! Only one issue I see so far is that it says Dark Passage appeared in Spyro 2 when it was actually in Spyro 1. Edit: Goodness, I screwed that up. Lol
You are a hero
a true saint
You are a hero and a huge loser at the same time...
Good work
2:01:21 "The two-legged camels are funky..." In 21 years I had NEVER noticed they only have 2 legs. What the FUCK.
Wtf 😳😳😳😳
That was my exact reaction when I played the Reignited Trilogy ;-;
32 and me either 😂
I want to eat camel so bad
Half of me was like “Oh I can’t wait to see my favourite levels” and the other half was “Oh, I hope I don’t see my favourite levels any time soon”
I know the feeling
I like seeing how someone can try to be critical about the stages i enjoy
There would be someone in charge of the entire project, which might be a nonprofit or an economic-development agency of some kind.
Just wow, this must've taken ages considering the huge amount of levels and then put them order. The clear effort that has been put into editing and visuals, as well as the script itself, of course, is amazing.
Easily the best level etc. ranking that I've seen of Spyro, a very solid and well-reasoned list. Marvelous and enjoyable video!
Can we just take a minute to really appreciate how absolutely jaw droppingly phenomenal the original spyro trilogy's soundtrack was it's still Tuesday's breath taking how great the music was especially the homeworld music.
@GekkoPosting totally agree bro.
Legendary soundtrack.
@GekkoPosting Also Ryan Beveridge on Spyro 3, too!
Easily some of the best game osts ever composed
@@GalaxianSR fax bro fax
"Shadow Legacy is disqualified."
and nothing of value was lost.
I actually enjoyed playing that game all the way through. The overall map was easy to remember and the areas were really memorable. And being a direct sequel of Spyro a hero's tail was cool as well. Sure the combat was more harder and frustrating than it needed to be but I enjoyed the challenge of it.
@@StevieJ3698 I honestly don't have an issue with the game's structure. Spyro wants to try and be an Action RPG? Okay, fine. But the soundtrack, painfully slow pace, drab graphics, and Spyro's absolutely pathetic starting speed and combat capabilities make it an absolute slog. The shameful usage of previous series areas in-name-only just makes it worse for me. I've tried to give it several more chances over the years but there's just nothing there for me. Which makes me sad to say. Nobody will ever be more upset that I don't like a Spyro game than me.
@@lightninstriker10 well I definitely could see Spyro taking on RPG elements, possibly similar to the Zelda Series as far as progression and exploration goes, other than that Shadow Legacy is a mess...
I actually liked that game, but everything else after that is booty...
I HATED, (emphasis on this) *HATED* The Legend of Spyro: New Beginning game, they completely changed the open world hub worlds, and choice of choosing which level to do first into a LINEAR *FUCKING* GAME! YOU KNOW?! THE VERY THING THAT DEFINED THE ERA OF GAMES THAT THE ORIGINAL GAME WAS RELEASED IN?!?!
Spyro is *NOT* a bugeyed bulldog, I mean
I saw Spyro's Original concept art so, I get they were trying to go for that...but we had an established character with the same graphics, the same console, same face for *two games* ...there was literally no need to warp his face that hard...
I never picked up a spyro game after that game...that was so bad and hard that I didn't even want to see the ending, and probably wouldn't even be all rewarding to finish...
I am *hopefully* optimistic that the new Spyro Four that continues after the Reignited Trilogy, will serve what we all have been so sorely been missing...
@@StevieJ3698 I like how they took us back to Avalar and the Forgotten worlds too which included some areas that weren’t present in 2 and 3. (Avalar Savannah, another section of Lost Fleet)
Dude, your haiku skills
talking about Spooky Swamp
are top notch, indeed.
Wonderful list, dude!
His haikus kick ass,
Promoting Spooky Swamp well,
I like boiled eggs (I've got nothing)
Technically haikus have to reference the weather/seasons to be considered haikus. Otherwise they're Senryū
Thank you for not just crapping on TLoS. I know that they're faaar from the best games, but most people seem to just toss them aside and call it a day. You gave them proper critique, and acknowledged what they did manage to do well. I appreciate that.
The sky boxes in the original trilogy do so much for me. The combination of how objects and landmass far in the background lost their textures, blended in so well with the amazing looking skies. They were like paintings of wonderous lands. They offered so much to the mystical ambience of the original trilogy. Reignited on the other hand, did a good job with most of the sky boxes, while some they completely ruined. But reignited sky boxes overall are not as good, because the sky box aesthetic of the original games stood out so much.
In translation: I'm a Spyro fanboy who can't admit when the reignited trilogy does things better than my precious original ps1 babies
@@Eminster Talk about making a huge assumption. I literally mention just one small aspect that I personally think the original does better. But to you, that somehow means I don't think reignited does anything better...
@@lilfuzzballa well the comment felt like it.
The skyboxes in the original trilogy get their aesthetics from the weaker hardware, they way they chose to make them gives them that hazy, natural feeling, it truly feels like you're in the realm and the skybox is miles away from you. Unfortunately, I don't think Reginited could've replicated this without breaking the artstyle a bit, but I think they still did well with the skyboxes in Reignited.
I like that, painted landscapes. Never thought of em that way then was like yea, you right lol.
I absolutely agree with the Blink levels at the bottom, I always dread them when playing Hero's Tail, and the Agent 9 stealth levels was the sole reason why I never completed Attack Of The Rhynocs, what a shame.
As for the rest of the rankings, I'd say you were on point with them, even if the amount of levels to go through were insane.
Here's to the next "Every Level Ranked" in the future, whatever it may be!
Although it takes these episodes a long time to come out, they are well worth the wait. A SERIOUS amount of editing and detail goes into these, but it gives me an insight to all the levels that I fully enjoyed and the ones that put me through pure dread.
Whenever I replay one of the Spyro, Crash, and Tony Hawk games, I will go to one of your Every Level Ranked videos to remind myself what you said about the level XD.
It is so weird to hear an Aussie call Spyro 2 “Ripto’s Rage”. I know that was the name in the US but in Australia and the rest of the PAL region it was called Gateway to Glimmer.
Yeah it's one of the strangest Region Differences I seen in a franchise, nothing as absurd as Contra in the PAL regions going with Robots, but non the less it makes discussing Spyro 2 a bit confusing to some....
@@bobafett4265 I get that, it just sounds odd. When I saw that the Reignited Trilogy had it called Ripto’s Rage in the PAL regions it made me a little sad.
Ripto’s Rage sounds cooler
@@aaronslaton9733 I don’t agree. Also, it makes it sound like Ripto’s has already been introduced.
Gateway to Glimmer is such a shitty name... It makes no sense within the lore of the game to be given that night weight to that location
I still insist that Enter the Dragonfly had a lot of cool world designs from the conceptual phase with a really good soundtrack, but when it came to actually rendering those worlds in the game, it's a disaster.
Also not having time to actually develop the game, honestly it's worse than Crash Bandicoot Wrath of Cortex, which is saying a lot....
@@bobafett4265 Wrath of Cortex is basicly inferior Crash 3... Not exacly a good thing but Inferior Crash 3 at least would makes a *decent* game
The game was a buggy mess but I enjoyed some of the levels. monkey Monastery was fun.
I really felt what was said about how utterly empty some of the levels are in Enter the Dragonfly are. The thieves' den is such a cool concept, and the dialogue even demonstrates how unfinished the game is. One of the thieves in the level warns you to "watch out for the cleaners" in the water, and.... there is literally nothing in the water.
@@jeremychristiansen4582 The pigs on Luau island also recycle the same sound affects and voice as the Professor when they stand idle. This could suggest that the Professor probably was supposed to have appeared at one point.
Next time: Every quote from Gex the Gecko ranked from worst to best.
It’s tail time
Hunting we will go
Lock and load little lizard
Number 1: ADRIAN!!!
This is like a luau at Mel Blanc's house.
The mad man did it he finally ranked every level in the spyro series
I could never rank these levels out of sheer bias, so it’s interesting to see how you interpret these levels for this. Great content Jak!
Looks like my weekend's sorted.
Honestly this is dope
*evening
For how forgetable the Legen of Spyro trilogy is, I will always have a soft spot for Dawn of the Dragon. That game has some geniuenly memorable levels and I loved playing it with my sister when I was younger.Valley of Avalar is honestly one of my favorite levels in the entire series, I wish the entire game was built like that.
A New Beginning is that for me
Same i think it was the best and memerable game outta the bunch but this dude really said oh i hate the game coz it has a challenge but when theres never a challenge at all the entire comunity complains
I love the story in LoS. With Cynder in particular actually being my favourite Spyro character (her "I love you." at the end of Dawn always gives me chills). Then the soundtrack is also really good (especially This Broken Soul and Guide You Home).
But the gameplay is definitely not as fun as the original triliogy. Dawn has some good moments though (and I like the mechanic of Cynder and Spyro being chained together).
I love Spyro 2, but yeah. Dragon Shores was a pretty underwhelming bonus after 100 percenting the game. I thought it would be way bigger than it was as an amusement park and kind of wish the Reignited trilogy had added more to it
"Poor little fella, his face is fucked!" 😂😂
"There is even a quick encounter with Ripto's giant worm!"
Sign me up.
Hot
Well, at least it's not Jacques.
Ha! Gaaaaaaaayyyy!
Am I the only one who can’t stand water levels? Sorry, I just can’t agree with Aquaria Towers being so high
Main problem is how they made the underwater sections so dark in reignited making me enjoy those levels way less. But I can agree with them on how a water level is done right
Yes, I hated Aquarius towers, I definitely don't agree with it being ranked so high, but that's the great thing about spyro, there's something in every game for everyone to enjoy and we may not all agree on what the best level is but we can all agree that spyro is a great franchise that needs a proper polished 4th game
I didn't agree with any of the top 10 except for the #1 (love that level). Charmed Ridge is my favorite.
Thought I might have forgotten to do the whole "calculate the average" thing like I did with Crash, didn't you? Nope, I'm here, and going to apply that process to Spyro too!
A quick refresher on my methodology: I am taking the ranks found within this video, averaging the results per game (counting grouped entries as the same number per each instance), then applying a negative three modifier per level to account for the "quantity" aspect of a game's quality. That means lower numbers are better, and negative numbers are masterpieces in comparison.
Oh, and I'm NOT counting the ports of the Legend games, since those are... well, different games. With that out of the way:
At #13 we have Spyro the Dragon for mobile, i.e. the Shadow Realm port, with an Average of 181 and a Final Score of 160! I don't think it's a surprise to see a mobile game at the bottom of the list, but at least it's not hugging the theoretical worst score like Crash's greatest stinker did!
At #12 we have Spyro Ripto Quest, with an Average of 163 and a Final Score of 151! Having only four levels really hurt its final score, but not enough to make it the worst it seems!
At #11 we have Legend of Spyro: Eternal Night, with an Average of 157.3... and a Final Score of 139.3...! These games also suffer from having so few levels compared to the rest of the series, but considering the ones we did get were almost all slogs, they still take quite a while.
At #10 we have Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning, with an Average of 151.5 and a Final Score of 133.5! I honestly am divided on these games, as the story is definitely great, but the gameplay is a snoozefest.
At #9 we have Enter the Dragonfly, with an Average of 124 and a Final Score of 88! Much like Wrath of Cortex, this was the game that came closest to the classics without really having much of their soul, leading to a downward spiral of abandoning the old mechanics and structure from an erroneous assumption that those had just grown stale, as opposed to not having been done well.
At #8 we have... Attack of the Rhynocs, with an Average of 148.809... and a Final Score of 85.809...? That doesn't sound right... Then again, I DID code the achievement set over on RetroAchievements.org, AND it was my _first_ set ever, so maybe I'm a little biased. Still, barely better than Enter the Dragonfly, and worse than a Legend game?! Something's screwy...
At #7 we have Season of Ice, with an Average of 142.652... and a Final Score of 64.652...! This at least makes sense compared to the previous entries, as its structure is much more traditionally Spyro and is NOT a buggy product, yet it's still a GBA game.
At #6 we have Season of Flame, with an Average of 128.5 and a Final Score of 62.5! This also makes sense, as it's basically just like the first GBA game but a bit more polished.
At #5 we have Legend of Spyro Dawn of the Dragon, with an Average of 90.5 and a Final Score of 60.5! Yeah, this game sticks out like a sore thumb on this list, it really should be #9 instead. But that's the rankings I was given, so that's what we get for the results.
At #4 we have A Hero's Tail, with an Average of 134.5 and a Final Score of 56.5! Definitely worthy of this spot in relation to Season of Flame, which just adds to my bafflement of Dawn of the Dragon getting between them like this!
At #3 we have Ripto's Rage/Gateway to Glimmer, with an Average of 51.192... and a Final Score of NEGATIVE 26.807...! So Jak, what was that about this being the best game again? Because your rankings seem to suggest otherwise... Not that I agree with this spot either, I'd put it at #2 myself.
At #2 we have Year of the Dragon, with an Average of 68.36... and a Final Score of NEGATIVE 30.63...! THIS is what I'd place at #1, ther's just so _much_ in this title!
And finally at #1, we have the original Spyro the Dragon, with an Average of 62.36... and a Final Score of NEGATIVE 36.63...! While I personally consider this the weakest of the original trilogy, all of them being so close in the rankings is very fitting if I do say so myself!
And there we go, all the Spyro games ranked based solely on the individual level ranks from the video! I've been waiting for this for a long time, and now it's finally over! Not sure if there's any other "Every Level Ranked" video I'd like to apply this formula to, but considering just _watching_ one of these takes more time than playing through one of my precious DKCs 100%, I certainly wouldn't put that much effort into a series I didn't truly love!
Huh, DKC... that might actually be a good one...
Thanks so much mate! I actually look forward to seeing this every time a new ELR drops. 👍
Wow. Now that's impressive!
Kind of surprised Spyro 2's average level ranking score is lower than 1 and 3, considering how much Jak regards 2 as the best despite it being a fundamentally poorly designed game.
I was wondering about this exactly thing! Thank you for your service
Dragon Shores was the lowest bonus level (although they were all low) and Canyon Speedway the lowest speedway (although again they were all mostly middling, save for Wild Flight and Country Speedway). Shady Oasis was probably the deciding factor on Spyro 2 ranking so low in these metrics, with its placement at #114 compared to the next regular level from the OT on the list, Dino Mines at #76. I say that with Spyro 2 being my fave lol
Gotta be honest, aquaria towers and hurricos were always eyeroll slogs for me on each play through. It’s all about your specific nostalgia and opinion though. Great list!
Any of the underwater levels are so annoying imo. The only levels I hate doing when I replay them :p
Hurricos I loved for the battery thief section. I HATED the robots and mechanics. Aquaria Towers scared me lol
I’m glad someone else noticed that there’s adult-child relations in the love tunnel ride on Dragon Shores XD
Good list, good channel dude!
As a fan of the Legends Trilogy, it did hurt to see two of its games knocked out first in the ranks, but DotD getting to fourth made me quite satisfied
I do agree I was afraid the trilogy was going to out before the remaining spyro before
I want to take the time to acknowledge how much work this must have been to play all of these levels, record them, rank them, and then think of commentary to say for each one of them. You've done such an incredible job with this! This is an amazing video!
As someone who genuinely enjoys the Legend of Spyro trilogy, I surprisingly found myself agreeing to a majority of your rankings. While I disagree with some of the rankings, I do agree that Eternal Night was not my favorite. Also, I wish you took more account for the music in the LoS trilogy. It's beautiful and it's one of the many reasons why I fell in love with the trilogy. It just breaks my heart knowing that a majority of Spyro fans don't feel the same.
I cant even list my 5 favourite condiments, this is super tight! Love the effort you put into these despite mental health/financial issues being such a big part of your life recently. I really mean that too, dude, you're one of my favourites from AUS on the platform
I'm surprised you didn't transition from talking about how they butchered Bentley's character in Gloomy Glacier into his first appearance in Bentley's Outpost. Could've been a nice lead in to number 98.
Anyway, great video. Absolutely agree with your thoughts on Sgt. Byrd in Enchanted Towers.
I just realized that the small amount of levels, and all of them accessible from a single homeworld, Enter the Dragonfly could be perfect to be remade into a DLC for Spyro 4.
Jak deserves an Oscar for Best Production for this behemoth of a video
Great to see a full level ranking of Spyro The Dragon! It’s one of my childhood favorite games. Great job with the level ranking, Jak!
This video (film? movie? haha) was a complete joy to watch! 5+ months went into this one and you stuck through until the end, that level of dedication is incredible and you and everyone else associated should be very proud of what you guys made here. Definitely earned my sub, cheers. :)
Appreciate it mate, cheers! 😁
Last week I was playing some spyro and thought to myself, "man I wish Square Eyed Jak ranked these levels too" and now here we are, can't wait to watch!
This is crazy
Funny how the universe works sometimes. When they announced the Nsane trilogy to consoles I said "now do Spyro!". Sure enough, not much later, the Reignited trailer came out.
Me: expecting to see Tree Tops at no. 1.
Also me: sees wizard peak.
Also me: yeah, that's a great one as well now that I think about it.
Maybe I missed it... I don't remember seeing tree tops in this ranking actually. I wonder where it was.
@@clockthe Number 12
Also, it's not as hard I think
I found the level highly irritating. They really should've added those pick-up fairies from Magic Crafters.
@@Dalton_Boardman2000 The level design is amazing, for me it had something magical seeing those gems far away on the island and not knowing how to get there as a kid.
I really want to see a ranking of all the planets from the Ratchet & Clank series. That would be another marathon ranking though.
He will never review the first ratchet game, it is a running joke on his channel
What about every Zelda dungeon? It would require slogging through the inconsistent controls of Skyward Sword, actually getting one of the good versions of Twilight Princess (i.e. not the garbage Wii one), and enduring the ire of the fanbase as he points out that no, the Water Temple from OoT wasn't that bad, and no, Ocarina as a whole wasn't that good.
Now I really want to see this, just for the salt in the comments.
@@alaeriia01 the comment section would be more entertaining than the video itself
@@StinkyDOODOOPFFTFARTSLMAOSHITT i just found his channel, whats the meme
@@StinkyDOODOOPFFTFARTSLMAOSHITT I understand him... I'd rather repeatedly step on Legos than control Ratchet in the first game... and I'd still play that game over anything post 2009
I still want Spyro 4 so badly.
Another solid ELR video Jak. I'm glad Spyro got his turn and I can't imagine how hard it must have been to rank all these levels.
Now I had a feeling the games from TLoS would be the first to go. I know a majority of fans don't like that trilogy but I like it to be honest, maybe they're a guilty pleasure to me. I know this is going to sound crazy, but TLoS got me back into Spyro after Enter The Dragonfly killed the franchise for me. I'm being brutally honest here but I think TLoS is better then ETD. Though TLoS will never be as great at the original trilogy that's for certain.
I’m still yet to find myself doing something similar to this but not Spyro. If there’s something I do like about these type of videos he does Show he really cares about Putting all effort into it.
He really shows me if you enjoy what you do best go for it
I've got a soft spot for Legend mostly because of Dawn of the Dragon. A New Beginning and Eternal Night are either boring slogs or extremely frustrating tests of patience, but Dawn is a much better structured game with some incredible levels. Although I agree that it has some of the worst levels in it as well. What was the obsession with pitting wave after wave of tough enemies at the player with so few resources to survive those encounters especially in the second game. Good to see Dawn's better levels get high rankings though.
Honestly, it was the atmosphere and vibe of the game that did it for me. The music and visuals were really awesome.
Though watching this video really seems to highlight how goddamn depressing the game is. Mostly cause of the contrast of the other games, and even the previous games in the Legend series. They canned the goofy monkeys for these... creepy, soulless demon creatures. They got rid of almost all of what little bright and cheery aspects the previous games have. The narrative involves literal war and death, and the entire world being destroyed in a grim, miserably burning hellscape. With the sombre music and visual design really highlighting that grim aspect.
I know the 2000s had a thing for edgy games (Dark Jak lmfao) but I think this is just beyond that. Its just straight up really god damn depressing. Like, almost Dark Souls level depressing I swear to god. They channel more depressing energy than Lord of the Rings.
You watch this video and you go from the saccharine GBA games to Dawn of the Dragon and its like going from watching Fairly Odd Parents to a WW2 Documentary.
Aww hell yeah! I was wondering when we'd eventually get one of these videos, but with every single Spyro level 😁 Thank you Jak 👍
I know that a lot of spyro 2 levels were very well designed, I just wish they implemented a *reward* as good as the first games. The dragon saving feature was a stroke of genius, especially when you hear them rocking back and forth from afar, and seeing the fully scripted voiced interactions gave opportunity to see spyros witty fiesty nature. It was much more rewarding than... green orbs.
Huge respect taking up this challenge. LOOK AT THAT RUNTIME!
Well we all know that if Spyro Magical Princess Fairy Ball Dress Up was counted, those levels would be _top_ of the list. :P
Don't even joke about that.....
I had no idea that Spyro Magical Princess Fairy Ball Dress Up even existed. I need to play this immediately
I looked it up. Nothing. What gives?
@@falconeshield Check his Spyro mobile games video.
You absolute madman.
Just having to play enter the dragonfly is tough enough.
OH MAN OH MAN I’M GETTING MY SNACKS AND DRINKS FOR THIS ONE!!!!
With you dude perfect before family court tomorrow lol
Don't forget the Gushers! I mean edible gems!
@@polishfinnish3066 I got a edible in pretzel form wonder if they got thc gummies I’ll take those gems
Me too lol
@@djtoxicdhg nice welcome to the club where is your sister
Spyro 4: It's About Time
No thanks if it’s anything like the Crash one
@@ducko5404 lmao what? Crash 4 was great
@@pizzapastaparty7997 Ehh that’s fine. Something about the level design and artstyle just strikes me like an mobile game.
@@ducko5404 do you feel like the artistic style ruined it for you?
@@WaffleEBay12 It a bit silly reason to not like it but I guess yeah.. kinda
I know it’s weird but I have a soft spot for the missions in Hero’s Tail. The music was always the best part. Completely understand the frustration behind them, but as one of the Spyro games I grew up with it is nostalgic for me.
You know what I love about Ice Cavern from a level design standpoint? At the very start you can glide to a hidden platform with some extra lives, and do the whole stage backwards. Some other levels loop in on themselves, but Ice Cavern is the only one where you can do that. I found it rather memorable, as I did figuring out how to get to those lives in the first place.
It warms my heart seeing Spyro getting this kind of treatment ☺️
Idol Springs and Sunny Beach were my favorite levels 😄
Crop Circle Country is *exactly* when I stopped playing Enter the Dragonfly. It’s spooky how accurate that was.
I never got that far. I accidentally did the torvul (torvel?) skip and fell into riptos fight as a kid. Which I think makes the whole thing worse. A small child. ACCIDENTALLY. Skipped the entire game.
@@eliwoodthegoothoonter538it's actually one of my favourite glitches in video games being able to swim through the air. Plus it's a quick way to unlock sparx pointing to treasure
Gee nearly 3 hours, this is effort to content and it pays off, on the road to 50k subs! 👊
Jak, we love you. What a video, what dedicated and hard work this must have took. I saw this getting posted on the Spyro Reddit page as well as being talked about on Dayoman’s twitch stream of 300 people, the WR holder for Spyro 1 speedrunning. You went viral and I hope this and the rest of your work makes you rich. Cheers to you down under from America.
I hope you know when you spend this long strenuous effort to make a 2 and a half hour video like this it's much appreciated. I love binging long quality videos like this.
Me too I've watched all of his every lvls duzins of times lol.
I had meant to comment on this video the other week, but it was so late by the time it finished that I went to sleep right after. However I really want to say thank you for this epic video. I can't possibly convey what I want to via a comment so I'll try to keep it short as possible, but things have been very rough this past year for me as of June 2020, and life will never be the same again. But I watched this the night before the Euro finals and I cannot express how it set me up for the best mood I've been in since everything went South just over a year ago. It took me back to being in my beloved flat which I lost last year where I'd regularly enjoy your videos, and I weirdly felt so at peace while watching it, something I've been a stranger to for the longest time.
Despite my accommodation not being the most ideal, I felt like I was at home again, and the atmosphere where I'm staying completely uplifted, and it's been better ever since. All because of this video. I also watched your Crash 4 review a few hours before and that set me up for being in a better mood, I really enjoyed that too. The difference a video can make.
Watching this I felt like I went on the most epic journey. I thank you sincerely for this and all your other videos which I watched starting from the Summer of 2019 when Nitro Fuelled came out. Your content is superb and a real comfort during both good and bad times. I even enjoy your videos about games and topics I don't usually care about. I'm sure countless others feel the same, and I hope you manage to keep creating. All the best, mate!
Every upload is a nostalgic masterpiece.
Also knowing you are a Brah.
😃
This was a journey worth taking with you. Spyro will always be one of my favorite game franchises next to Mega Man X and Resident Evil.
I come back and rewatch this video ever so often. Love the in-depth analysis, the humor and above all the clear enthusiasm for the franchise. Clearly alot of work went into this. Keep up the solid work!
I think I've realised why I look back on Hero's Tail so fondly: I completely forgot about the Blink levels until this video.
Dark hollow was always my favourite, and that amazing soundtrack
What a monster would DARE to dislike an amazing video like this? Its simply the BEST Spyro video that you'll ever find on TH-cam!
I love your energy and commentary! Kept me thoroughly entertained throughout this nostalgic journey. Great video :)
I haven't started yet, just waiting to see if that EtD box is going to be snapped in half again
YES
18:09 the return of the LEGENDARY case break
Disagreed with a LOT of the placements in this list (and even some of the reasoning behind placements I otherwise concurred with), but I can admire the dedication of going over ALL these Spyro levels for one video. Was a fun watch.
Well I've got a four day weekend anyway might as well obsess over a purple dragon
Down the dragon hole we go!
Man, i don't know if i could ever rank the levels of spyro. Every one that popped up i was like "man i love that level". Fantastic work here. I will be doing a marathon of the reignited trilogy very shortly after watching this. Thanks Jak.
That Spyro version of the SEJ theme at the beginning was awesome, already off to a good start!
You know, I didn't imagine my Friday night including a Spyro video, but I'm glad it popped up in my newsfeed. Awesome video! You can tell that a lot of time and effort was put into creating this.
This is a monumental achievement. I've been so hyped for this. Thank you for your hard work here.👏👏👏
It feels like an early Christmas. 😊
i actually agree with a lot of this. aside from a few, such as Aquaria Towers. i think that level was one of my least faves from ripto's rage. but the general choices for ranks in this, is pretty solid, honestly
nah that level is GOAT
Agreed
Especialy on revisits you had to do all the water again.
And the camera could bump about.
Still a great water level though. Especially the moment I discovered there's an entire upside to ir
Can’t wait for this to blow up for you, mate! Got another hit on your hands.
Nothing but the best. :)
This is in my opinion the best video in TH-cam history! The pacing, the little bits of humor, the dialogue and everything was perfect! I always come back and rewatch this video because it's so good! This has really inspired me to make a Spyro ranking video of my own and will surely shout this video out if I ever do make one. Fantastic work Jak!
Well, I just made it through the whole list. Some quick thoughts, spoilers alert:
- Mystic Marsh was my guess for number 1, I did never expect a level from the first game to be on top.
- The choice to have Zephyr this low on the list is interesting to say the least 😁
- Enter the Dragonfly and A Hero's Tail had their final level on the list much later than I expected.
Thanks again for all the effort you put into this video, it was a pleasure to watch it. I'm looking forward to the next episode of "Every level ranked" ✌
Thank you so much for making this. Feels like I've been waiting forever to see all of the levels in this series ranked together
"Every Level Ranked: Ratchet & Clank 1 - 3" when? :P
But no, this was yet another great effort, Jak. You should be proud! :)
Plus DeadLocked.
A great video covering a great game series. Spyro the Dragon has always been my favourite Platform Game Character. Again to the creator of this video thank-you for all the hours of hard work you put in to bring this video to us. Bless you.
perfecting timing for this video to come out, Melbourne is in a 7 day lockdown and i’ve got nothing better to do, thank you for curing my boredom Jak!
Thank you for such an amazingly detailed video! 💜 So much effort! Your editing skills are really refined, too.
Mystic Marsh being in the Top 10 made me so happy 😌💖 (my fav level of all time)
I honestly didn't expect so many ice levels to be within the Top 25, but you make great arguments for them.
What a fantastic list! Although Fireworks factory would have to be my number 1! Also yeah Desert Ruins is amazing!
Oh my goodness!! My little heart was so excited to see this! Been waiting for a level ranking from you
Midday Gardens underrated
Absolutely. Would always spend the most time in that hub grinding lives and launching the bunnies with the super flame power up
IT was my favorite Homeworld. ❤️
I've played through every Spyro game that is on this ranking except 2 of the 3 GBA games and the mobile ones. Seeing all these memorable levels again in a single video is such a huge nostalgia trip. I'm so happy to see Valley of Avalar and Aquaria Towers this high on the ranking and agree with your thoughts on most levels. Thanks for making this!
My dad stopped playing Eternal Night at the airship boss in the arena, god bless his soul
So glad that nearly all spyro 2, 1 and 3 levels are in the top 50 because heck yes I love all of them! Spyro 2 is my favourite one of all, so I'm biased probably lmao
Hell of a good job you did!
I really appreciate how much time and effort this must have taken. Thank you for making this!
Dude, props for talking about Spooky Swamp completely in haiku lol
Oh my fucking god, that tunnel of love joke went right over my head as a kid.
What a MONUMENTOUS video. Such a treat to watch. I love revisting spyro any chance I get. So glad I happened upon this video of yours!
The graphics of the PS1 games are so pretty and incredibly charming! 😊
Easily one of my favorite series on youtube altogether really appreciate the time you put into these and theyre always worth the wait
loaded up two cups of coffee for this big one :D Thanks for the hard work on this one dude :)
Jak, I've watched this a couple.times and honestly it's so well made. I love your every level ranked videos.bit this one was a blast of nostalgia and showed me aspects of the Spyro games I never really played outside of the trilogy,enter, and a hero's tail. What a gem this masterpiece is. Thanks for putting a lot of soul and hard work into it. Clearly a deserved success.
Love from California
Before watching this video, I ironically made a joke to myself that Wizard Peak would be number 1 because it has peak in the name. Funnily enough, I was right and wrong. A great video nonetheless, Jak. Keep up the great work!
As a long-time Spyro fan, I genuinely enjoyed watching this video and hearing your thoughts on these levels. This is actually one of the videos that inspired me to make my top 5 worst and best Spyro games video.
Incredible work on these videos. I can’t imagine how much would go into doing this with the Mario series.
Just ran into you and I’m blown away. Spyro was my childhood and every video going into depth about it makes me smile.
Than here you are with a two hour vid ranking all of the levels. Nicely done! Would it be too much to ask for ranking the challenges/minigames from the original trilogy?
I made one recently, but it's only 15 minutes.
Finally finished watching it! Blink deserves last place, and I'm glad you agree!
-hearing them talk about blink's levels is giving me war flashbacks-
I can't believe how good this is! Hard to imagine the amount of effort it must have taken in editing alone, let alone making all these decisions! I love how you cut between original and remade games in the exact same frame to compare sometimes. Really cool, and now? I have to go play Spyro again!