12th April 2010, 7:38 PM
A game that's held up surprisingly well for being nearly 12 years old is Spyro the Dragon, developed by Insomnia [creators of Rachet and Clank and Resistance]. They made three games in the Spyro series before Universal took it over and pooped the bed. Anyway, the first in the series came out about two years after Super Mario 64. It offered some of the same platforming/action/collect-a-thon fun that its predecessor did, but does have a charm of its own and some ideas of its own.
The graphics still have a colorful look to them and certainly aren't painful to the eyes as some PS1-era games are, possibly in part because of texture jiggering on my part. But even so, it's got a nice visual style to it.
More importantly, it's just fun. It doesn't take itself too seriously and Spyro has a nice variety of moves and attacks for you to play around with. A lot of games that I remember playing a loving back when they first came out just don't hold up well under scrutiny 5 or 10 years later, but Spyro the Dragon does.
The graphics still have a colorful look to them and certainly aren't painful to the eyes as some PS1-era games are, possibly in part because of texture jiggering on my part. But even so, it's got a nice visual style to it.
More importantly, it's just fun. It doesn't take itself too seriously and Spyro has a nice variety of moves and attacks for you to play around with. A lot of games that I remember playing a loving back when they first came out just don't hold up well under scrutiny 5 or 10 years later, but Spyro the Dragon does.
Sometimes you get the scorpion.