What the critics say about Spyro games

riverhippo · Nov 14, 2010 10:56 PM

I did some research on review scores for all of the Spyro games.

Here's my method:

I wanted to isolate each version of each game to give credit to where credit is due. Strangely, Enter the Dragonfly got better scores on it Gamecube version and the DS versions of all of the Legend of Spyro games were superior over their console versions.

I couldn't find too many reviewers that review every single version of every single game. The ones I chose to draw from were Gamespot and IGN.

Gamespot's top 10 Spyro games:

IGN's top 10 Spyro games:

And the two scores combined top 10:

The scored are what you'd expect. Although it was interesting to see Gameboy Advanced higher on the charts.

NormanDPlume · Nov 15, 2010 1:41 AM

Gamerankings search for Spyro.

There's all the games with links to most of the reviews for them. It pretty much proves what we all knew anyway: Spyro hasn't been nearly as awesome since he was on the PS1.

riverhippo · Nov 15, 2010 2:27 AM

I have seen that high approval rating for the GBA version of Eternal Night, but only a few review groups support it. Most of what I've seen say that Eternal night in general is the worst game of the three LoS and they don't give the old GBA format any slack.

And Why is Ripto Quest that high on the list, let alone on the list at all.

Gamerankings.com is a good site for overall reviews. But some of the things I've seen from them are contaminated with bad user feedback and game reviewers that wouldn't know a good game if it slapped them on the back of the head.

JazzJackrabbit · Nov 15, 2010 3:00 AM

Riptoquest is a good stupidphone game, but that's not saying much.

Spyro22 · Nov 18, 2010 11:57 PM

Can't trust critics. You have to see and make your own judgment.

besides critics usually don't take in the positive aspects of things and only look for the bad in everything.

Rurikredwolf · Nov 19, 2010 12:20 AM

LoS was pretty bad...seriously, no change in gameplay ever. Glitches. terribad voice acting...

Latias fan · Nov 19, 2010 12:22 AM

Rurikredwolf wrote:

LoS was pretty bad...seriously, no change in gameplay ever. Glitches. terribad voice acting...

It was WAY more liner,there are little to no NPCs,so yeah it is worse.

Spyro22 · Nov 19, 2010 1:58 AM

Latias fan wrote:

Rurikredwolf wrote:
LoS was pretty bad...seriously, no change in gameplay ever. Glitches. terribad voice acting...
It was WAY more liner,there are little to no NPCs,so yeah it is worse.

I guess I just ignore those things about LoS while I play them.

JazzJackrabbit · Nov 19, 2010 2:13 AM

Side and backtracking would probably help TLOS.

NormanDPlume · Nov 19, 2010 3:09 AM

Guys, this is a topic about what the critics have to say about LoS. Just a reminder.

yearofthe · Nov 19, 2010 6:12 AM

I'm I the only one laughing that the Gameboy Advance games scored higher than all The LoS? lol

NormanDPlume · Nov 19, 2010 6:20 AM

Nope. I thought it was pretty hilarious, too, and nicely vindicating. big_smile

riverhippo · Nov 19, 2010 2:12 PM

anyone play the ds versions of the LOS that can vouch for those ratings?

NormanDPlume · Nov 19, 2010 4:20 PM

Haven't played much of it, but the two minutes I did play had better art. *shrug*

Swaffy · Nov 20, 2010 3:18 AM

For a kids' game, A Hero's Tail is pretty nice. Heheh ... I like it.

Latias fan · Nov 20, 2010 3:23 AM

NormanDPlume wrote:

Guys, this is a topic about what the critics have to say about LoS. Just a reminder.

This isn't gamefaqs where you HAVE to stay on topic.

riverhippo · Nov 20, 2010 5:02 AM

Latias fan wrote:

NormanDPlume wrote:
Guys, this is a topic about what the critics have to say about LoS. Just a reminder.
This isn't gamefaqs where you HAVE to stay on topic.

eh, this is my topic, do whatever you want...

Anyone see that knicks game?

Clock-la · Nov 20, 2010 11:11 PM

IGN are IGNorent anyway. don't trust reviwers they banged on at how bad WKC was when it actually was a good JRPG somthing the PS3 is lacking.

riverhippo · Nov 21, 2010 2:13 AM

I never said these ratings were a good representation. I wanted to make the contrast between the players' reviews vs. gamer mags' reviews. Kind of a "part 2" from the best spyro games poll topic.

Scarlett-Fear-Dragon · Nov 21, 2010 8:02 AM

How comes A Hero's Tail scored so low?

It was obvious they put a lot of effort into it. Considerably long, lots of collectables, playable characters other than Spyro, minigames, extras, great graphics, puzzles...

Music wasn't all that great though.

Clock-la · Nov 21, 2010 12:35 PM

Scarlett-Fear-Dragon wrote:

How comes A Hero's Tail scored so low?
It was obvious they put a lot of effort into it. Considerably long, lots of collectables, playable characters other than Spyro, minigames, extras, great graphics, puzzles...
Music wasn't all that great though.

well lets be honist they don't rate games down for its music now do we? XD

anyway i think its a sence of "ITS SPYRO EWW LETS KILL IT CXAZ EVERY1HATES IT!!!" type crap.

there are MANY excspamples of this i mean FF i played FFX and...its medicor...not all the good so where the hype for Final fantisys comes from its beyond me...

Blaze the Dragon · Nov 21, 2010 1:31 PM

Rurikredwolf wrote:

LoS was pretty bad...seriously, no change in gameplay ever. Glitches. terribad voice acting...

LoS wasn't the best, certainly. And the voice acting wasn't stellar, but it wasn't as bad as the voice acting in A Hero's Tail. I don't have any complaints about Gary Oldman. Kevin Michael Richardson is an experienced voice actor, so he was decent. Corey Burton and Jeff Bennett are also seasoned voice actors so, again, no complaints. David Spade was alright.

Elijah Wood definitely could've been better. Wayne Brady... no. Blair Underwood was alright. Christina Ricci was horrid.

Cree Summer was probably the best VA for Cynder, all said and done. Mae Whitman was alright.

Scarlett-Fear-Dragon · Nov 21, 2010 2:02 PM

Blaze the Dragon wrote:

Rurikredwolf wrote:
LoS was pretty bad...seriously, no change in gameplay ever. Glitches. terribad voice acting...
LoS wasn't the best, certainly. And the voice acting wasn't stellar, but it wasn't as bad as the voice acting in A Hero's Tail. I don't have any complaints about Gary Oldman. Kevin Michael Richardson is an experienced voice actor, so he was decent. Corey Burton and Jeff Bennett are also seasoned voice actors so, again, no complaints. David Spade was alright.
Elijah Wood definitely could've been better. Wayne Brady... no. Blair Underwood was alright. Christina Ricci was horrid.
Cree Summer was probably the best VA for Cynder, all said and done. Mae Whitman was alright.

The Elders were great, I thought. So was Cree Summer. The rest of them...eh. But Christina Ricci was the worst.

NormanDPlume · Nov 21, 2010 7:53 PM

Glad I'm not the only one who thinks that. Cree Summer's voice was the only thing I liked about Cynder. Christina Ricci just...no. I'm sure she's a fine actor, but I wanted to jam a pen in my ears every time Cynder talked in DotD. I feel bad that they wasted so much money paying just for her name in the credits.

Latias fan · Nov 21, 2010 7:58 PM

NormanDPlume wrote:

Glad I'm not the only one who thinks that. Cree Summer's voice was the only thing I liked about Cynder. Christina Ricci just...no. I'm sure she's a fine actor, but I wanted to jam a pen in my ears every time Cynder talked in DotD. I feel bad that they wasted so much money paying just for her name in the credits.

THANK you.

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