Me: "It's just a silly child's game about a purple dragon."
Also me: Can't stop playing. Send help.

Spyro the dragon was one of the very first games I have a vague memory of playing so the og trilogy holds a special place in my hear however the same cant be said about Toy For Bob's fumble.

To start the graphical upgrade is excellent especially with the Neo-Pixar style that was popular at the time of the game's release. Unfortunately that's the only "upgrade" to the series, mechanically speaking the game is massively flawed. There are a lot of small things that add up to nullify any charm this game builds.

The issues I have with the new trilogy include but are not limited to...
Gliding/hover being reworked.
Head bash being changed to aoe.
Unnecessary invisible walls /slide triggers placed on every single piece of world mesh
Questionable and needless redesign of some characters and npcs (most egregious being Sheila)
The difficulty being ramped way down.

To more objectively bad things -
Game running being tied to fps ( because its 2008 apparently) resulting in some elements of the game being completely broken like gliding and standing still unless the game is locked to 60fps,
Supper narrow FOV
Completely broken active and passive camera changing the option does absolutely nothing its passive, period.
And of course no official updates or fixes.

So all that gives me the ultimate feeling of "The book was better". Sure the remake is pretty and flashy, has a "spyro-ness" to it, but feels cheap and half-baked when there was huge potential to recapture lighting in bottle like Vicarious Visions (RIP) did so perfectly with the 'N Sane Trilogy and THPS. Recommend for newcomers, og fans might be put off by the changes and broken bits, Buy at $15.00 bucks or less.

Excellent blast from the past