The unspoken, beautifully crafted world-building present in all the dragons' and enemies' character designs and the levels' environmental designs gives you a rich sense of lore and storytelling that ends up making me prefer this game in the Reignited trilogy over the other two. Spyro 1 is not my favorite Spyro game, but Spyro 1 in the Reignited Trilogy is definitely my favorite part of the Reignited experience.

As some earlier reviewers said, this game isn't exactly "fun" - and the other Spyro games end up fleshing out the game mechanics a lot more - but I like booting this game up from time to time and treating it like a relaxing art piece. It's very soothing, just going around and "cleaning up" the worlds by hunting for all the shiny things until you've hoovered up all the points and got 100% complete in your guidebook. I love it. This is, as the kids say, "peak aesthetic".