Ranking Every Boss Battle In Spyro: Reignited Trilogy
6. Doctor Shemp
Aside from Gnasty Gnorc, the bosses in Spyro The Dragon are fairly generic bad guys. Sure, there’s some unique design (even Blowhard has that going for him), but there’s no real personality or narrative.
For the most part, that is. Doctor Shemp definitely gets the most characterisation of them all in the first game. He has such a smug grin and wears sunglasses purely because it’s cool. Which in the 90s, it kind of was. Spyro rides a skateboard in the third game, for crying out loud! Aqua, 5ive and Creed topped the charts. It was a different time...
With that in mind, there was definitely a sense of satisfaction in wiping that smirk off his pineapple head. In Reignited, you can see the ‘groovy gnorc’ thing they were going for, but players from the original PlayStation version will remember his very pineappley hairstyle.
Yet again, he’s a fairly simple boss at the end of a short level, but at least he changed up his attacks. With an invincible front, Doctor Shemp was always able to get the first hit in, and you had to learn his rhythm or think on your feet.