For Fans of Spyro

The original Spyro trilogy did something many games still struggle with: it made collecting feel like discovery rather than chore. Every world had its own visual logic, its own residents, its own tone. Gem hunting was really just an excuse to look at everything. Insomniac established a design language that ran through Ratchet and Clank and echoed all the way to modern sandbox adventure. The Reignited Trilogy showed that the original architecture was so solid that rebuilding it from scratch only made it shine brighter.

DreamWorks' dragon trilogy is the closest cinema has come to the Spyro emotional register: a bond between human and dragon built on trust and mutual curiosity, set against a world that keeps expanding. The first film especially nails the feeling of flight as pure exhilaration, the same feeling Spyro players get gliding across a valley. The relationship between Hiccup and Toothless earns every beat because the film respects the dragon as a character with real intelligence.

Christopher Paolini wrote Eragon at fifteen, and the seams show. But the earnestness is the point. Eragon's relationship with the dragon Saphira captures exactly what Spyro players respond to: a connection with a creature that is genuinely powerful, genuinely loyal, and genuinely its own personality. The Inheritance Cycle grows in ambition with each book, and for readers who want dragon fantasy that takes the lore seriously, it remains one of the few series willing to commit fully to the premise.

When 3D collect-a-thon platformers went quiet for a decade, A Hat in Time arrived in 2017 to prove the genre still had everything. Its world design owes a clear debt to the PlayStation golden age: distinct hub worlds, hidden collectibles, NPCs with actual personality, and a heroine whose confidence outpaces her size. It is probably the single best game for Spyro fans who have already finished Reignited and want more of that exact feeling.