not my favorite of the ps1 spyro trilogy because i'm an unabashed spyro1 enjoyer, but ripto's rage is still a great time. it's kinda like crash2 in the sense of "it does a great job at iterating upon the formula of the first game while having it's own uniqueness, without having the gimmick bloat of the third game".

unfortunately a la ratchet going commando, doesn't get the full five stars due to far too many bullshit orb challenges for my liking. everyone memes about trouble with the trolley, but shit like the alchemist escort and the crystal popcorn challenges are worse. top worst challenge goes to the spark plug thieves btw!

also, i find it really funny that despite the game being called "ripto's rage" (in the US at least), ripto doesn't really do much outside of kick people out of castles and change flags. none of the enemies in the game are even related to him in any way either, he's only got crush and gulp as his minions and that's it. i get he does more in the later games and even has minions in enter the dragonfly of all things, but c'mon, the sorceress only appears in one game and she felt like more of a present threat in her game than ripto does in his debut game.