Ranking Every Boss Battle In Spyro: Reignited Trilogy
Reignited gives all of Spyro’s classic foes a makeover, but which one comes out on top?
Spyro: Reignited is jam packed with terrific bosses. Across the three games, there’s thirteen to flame, charge and glide at. Each game in the series had their own distinctive style when it came to these battles, but with the positives and negatives weighed up, you can see the cream of Reignited’s crop.
Spyro The Dragon had their bosses as fights at the end of mini levels, Ripto’s Rage used dungeons and Year Of The Dragon featured arenas with assistance from Spyro’s freed crew. Because of that, in some ways it comes down to personal preference, but some bosses have glaring shortcomings while others are clearly head and shoulders above some weaker competitors.
Obviously how good the battle itself has the most weight, but a few other things were taken into account. How well they fit their setting only really applies in Spyro The Dragon as realm wide themes were ditched in sequels, but how well they match up to the difficulty of levels around them counted too.
Seeing as Reignited is a huge upgrade on the 90s-era graphics Spyro originally had, the shiny new designs helped bosses gain (or lose) points here too.
13. Blowhard
Blowhard is a tornado with a beard. No idea why.
Spyro games have always had a great sense of imagination, but with Blowhard it was just a big misfire. Spyro The Dragon’s more level based approach to bosses over the arena feel of the sequel means other bosses from the first game at least have that to fall back on. But with Blowhard, even that is relatively dull.
It’s a good enough level in general (there are very few ‘bad’ levels across the classic trilogy), but doesn’t live up to the rest of what its realm offers. If it were the best of the Magic Crafters levels in the build up, it might be a different story. But what we get is far below the standard of High Caves or Alpine Ridge.
It’s simply too easy as well. Spyro isn’t meant to be the most challenging game; at its heart it’s a collect-a-thon that asks you to explore every corner. But despite being a tornado, Blowhard is ridiculously slow. Because of that, it’s simple to get in the three hits you need to take him out before he even has time to strike.