It maintains that cute/cartoony platform look though, so don’t expect visual details like you see in Red Dead Redemption 2 or even Spider-Man, which has a more realistic approach. The visuals were crisp and richly detailed, with a lot more “pop” to the color than the PS1 versions had. So imagine my surprise when I started out playing the new Spyro Reignited Trilogy. What a difference a console generation makes. And boy, did it look dated next to my other Vita platformer collection of remakes: the Ratchet & Clank collection. It sparked my interest in the original games, which I picked up digitally not long after – partly because they were compatible with the Vita, a platform not exactly teeming with 3D platformers. My first actual brush with Spyro was when he started undertaking his Skylander-backed adventures and I was able to play those together with my son – a relatively basic platformer enhanced by the magic of the toys to life principle. I never actually played the original Spyro trilogy in the original Playstation days, as I was mainly a PC gamer back then and wasn’t enticed by the lukewarm reception when a PS2 sequel came out either.

The Crash remakes were excellent, and now it’s Spyro’s turn. While the first remasters in the PS4/Xbox One era were of very recent games (like The Last of Us or Uncharted), we’ve since seen developers go further back in time. It allows us to look at something like the Crash Bandicoot remakes and makes us like them so much that we value them way higher than very similar games coming out for the first time today. The trilogy’s available now on both Xbox One and Playstation 4 – we tested on the latter platform.

Perhaps one of the most family-friendly remakes yet, the Spyro – Reignited Trilogy gives a new generation of gamers the chance to play with a trio of platformers that originally captivated Playstation 1 audiences.

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