There is no comfortable way to play this game. Your only options are:

1) Get an OG Xbox, whose hardware are ticking time bombs and looks like shit on modern TVs
2) Play it on 360, which has poor backwards compatibility and is full of framedrops
3) Upgrade your PC (during a component shortage) so it can handle Xbox emulation, which is still in its relative infancy so hiccups are expected

Fuck you Sega, why did you lose the source code to all your best games, I hate you so fucking much

the combination of the aggressive sugary sweet vibes in this game and the inexplicable full english dub and subtitle options, which include some guy doing a cartman impression, honest to god made me feel like i was playing some fake game invented for the creepypasta im the victim in or something. not to be "childhood fucked up" reddit over a cute children's game w some p cool style on its own terms but i dont know how else to emphasize how bizarre it is that this came to be, and there is hardly any info on how it happened. just popped out of the aether to be actually scarily ahead of its time???

it is essentially a time-killer, you just do it not because it's particularly fun or entertaining but because the asmr feeling you get everytime you collect gems is enough of a dopamine boost to keep you going. the visuals are pretty cute, even though i fucking hate spyro and want him dead... umm some of the platforming was pretty fun too but who the hell greenlit that one stage where you have to charge forward on all those platforms and do those weird twists and turns? you know the one. everyone knows the one. it's not particularly difficult. there's not much of an incentive to 100% the game. i just did it because i hate myself ... umm 6/10 ? maybe ? it's ok