I just 100%'d it yesterday night on Xbox One so I can say my piece. Pull up a stool: you know me.

I said once the games have barely aged a day and this is still mostly true. Switch-skipping or not, I'm glad new generations will get to define their childhoods with Spyro and Crash just as we did back in the day. Does it make the Reignited Trilogy automatically perfect? Of course not.

Year Of The Dragon in particular, having its remake outsourced because Spyro as a franchise just can't escape development-rushing, is, simply put, buggy as hell. Technical problems aside, however, everything that was great about the original titles is still here.

Aside from this guy, of course. Any black humor in "remodernising" this NPC would bump up the game's rating several notches.

... anyway! Back to the topic at hand, the games. The gameplay? Not as tight as Crash's makeover compared to the original, but still tight. The presentation? Fantastic. Overall, with a few tweaks there's no way this gem (sorry) would not sell on Switch (especially with some serious debugging).

The three games, much like Crash's own trilogy, can be set apart by the identity each one has, and much like Glen Fox said about the first Crash game, the first one here has a "purity" of its own: it's simply the most speedrunnable collectathon you'll ever come across, and if you know what you're doing there won't be any backtracking involved. The level design is great as well, with one of the most reviled levels in it being actually a Sonic level in three dimensions one year before Sonic Adventure ever saw the light of day.

The second one took what the first one built from the ground up and made it even better with minigames and sidequests, but unfortunately at the same time it introduced a particular kind of backtracking which at times made it hard for completionists to keep track of what has been already collected and whatnot (especially the infamous Alchemist sidequest in the Fracture Hills level; if you're new to Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage, leave that sidequest aside and focus on getting to the next world, without coming back until you get the headbash move - you'll understand). The game's strong points definitely outnumber its flaws, but the aforementioned sense of "purity" is kind of lost there.

Then comes the final game of the trilogy, which has been imbued with the original developers' own bittersweet awareness of it being, well, the final game.

They knew what was up.

Still, the third game took the same "let's go crazy with playable characters and vehicles" approach Crash Bandicoot 3 also had, but didn't quite go, er, overboard (sorry, again) with it and instead they created a solid game with juuuuust enough Spyro platforming in it.

And this pretty much rounds up the Reignited package for ya. One thing I should mention is the soundtrack, which, much like N. Sane, has been buffed up to a "great, albeit not stellar" level (despite the blessing of the original composer, apparently); however, unlike N. Sane, there's the option to switch (hint, hint, Activision, wink wink, nudge nudge) back and forth between versions of the soundtrack. Which means that, aside from the at-times-botched looping of the tracks (which played normally, ended on a fadeout, then restarted in the original games), her majesty Gnorc Cove is still here for young, virgin years to enjoy it in its full glory.

Conclusion: if you're holding out for a Switch port, don't - if a Switch port is eventually announced, you'll be glad to double dip if you're confident in a solid collectathon package, especially considering a later Switch port would take care of the nastier glitches and loading times that, unfortunately, slow down the game to a crawl in harder levels given the game loads at every death. Other than that, it's a really tight package, although the remake treatment - so far, at least - has been more forgiving to Crash than it proved to be with Spyro. For some great 90's era collectathon-ing, one that aged well at least, this is your next stop. If you, however, have made Super Mario Odyssey your standard, look elsewhere. 9/10