History YMMV / Spyro2RiptosRage

* DemonicSpiders: The Earthshapers of Fracture Hills. Not only are they numerous, completely immune to fire and resistant to headbutts, but the method to actually beat them is really, really boring.

** The Alchemist side-quest. To start it's an escort mission with the mandatory stupid A.I that will walk into the enemy's range without even trying to avoid them. To make matters worse if the guy went out of his cave and to the right he can completely avoid the enemies and reach his destination in half the time. The sidequest is especially notable in that, if you kill all the enemies first with [[BraggingRightsReward Infinite Superflame]], you can easily notice the Alchemist always follows the same, pre-determined path, that is ''programmed to run into every single enemy''. That's right, you're supposed to escort him and keep him safe from ''all of them!''

** Moneybags, many consider him a [[MoneyFestish greedy]] [[CorruptCorporateExecutive bastard]] and a traitor. [[spoiler: Hunter does [[BattleDiscretionShot "persuade" MoneyBags]] into [[TakeThatScrappy giving back the money he's charged you throughout the game]] after you beat Ripto, though.]] Considering how he acts in [[VideoGame/SpyroYearOfTheDragon the next game he appears in]], perhaps Insomniac was listening.

** The Alchemist, a cynical old man who seems to have a habit of [[TooDumbToLive trying to hug the violent, hostile, murderous Earthshapers on purpose]]. This old goat is your [[EscortMission Escort character]], and you need to guide him to help Hunter. Sure, you can blame his near-sightedness and old age, but after you get the [[spoiler: Permanent Superflame]] it turns out the "cynical old man" was '''deliberately walking into every single Earthshaper in the area!''' Oh, and he screws over Hunter and traps his feet in cement.

** The Alchemist, a cynical old man who seems to have a habit of [[TooDumbToLive trying to hug the violent, hostile, murderous Earthshapers on purpose]]. This old goat is your [[EscortMission Escort character]] Sure, you can blame his near-sightedness and old age, but after you get the [[spoiler: Permanent Superflame]] it turns out the "cynical old man" was '''deliberately walking into every single Earthshaper in the area!''' Oh, and he screws over Hunter and traps his feet in cement.

* TheScrappy: Moneybags, many consider him a [[Greed gre]][[MoneyFestish edy]] [[CorruptCorporateExecutive bastard]] and a traitor. [[spoiler: Hunter does [[BattleDiscretionShot "persuade" MoneyBags]] into [[TakeThatScrappy giving back the money he's charged you throughout the game]] after you beat Ripto, though.]]

* TheScrappy: Moneybags, many consider him a GreedyBastard and a traitor. [[spoiler: Hunter does [[BattleDiscretionShot "persuade" MoneyBags]] into [[TakeThatScrappy giving back the money he's charged you throughout the game]] after you beat Ripto, though.]]

* EvenBetterSequel: For starters, Spyro has a hover ability to make gliding more controlable and can learn new abilities throughout the game. The worlds also all have their own mini storyline with cutscenes, and the bosses don't [[GetBackHereBoss spend half the fight running.]]

** The sidequest on the caveman level where you have to protect eggs from the raptors by running around and roasting them. The first time isn't that bad, because the all the raptors appear all in a row. The second time, however, they attack in a more or less random order, forcing you to run back and forth across the area to kill them all. If you miss a single jump or take a wrong turn, you're screwed.

* NeverLiveItDown: Arguably, it was this game that caused Hunter to be associated as an archer with most future developers of the franchise, even though he only used a bow and arrow for ''one mission'' in this game.

* ThatOneLevel: It may not be as bad as Tree Tops from the original game, but Fracture Hills is widely disliked. It has obnoxious bagpipe music during certain cutscenes, the fauns have annoying valley girl accents, the sidequests are ''very'' difficult, and the combat is brutal.

* HilariousInHindsight: What might be the game's perhaps most forgettable level, Robotica Farms, might have become popular again with its premise, as at the end of the level, you get [[Disney/WreckItRalph to turn on some giant lamps in order to fry the bugs infesting the place.]]

* ThatOneLevel: It may not be as bad as Tree Tops, but Fracture Hills is widely disliked.

* ThatOneLevel: It may not be as bad as Tree Tops, but Fracture Hill is widely disliked.

* HilariousInHindsight: What might be the game's perhaps most forgettable level, Robotica Farms, might have become popular again with its premise, as at the end of the level, you get [[Disney/WreckItRalph to turn on some giant lamps in order to fry the bugs infesting the place.]]

* EvenBetterSequel: For starters, Spyro has a hover ability to make gliding more controlable and can learn new abilities throughout the game. The worlds also all have their own mini storyline with cutscenes and the bosses don't [[GetBackHereBoss spend half the fight running.]]

* EvenBetterSequel: For starters, Spyro has a hover ability to make gliding more controlable and can learn new abilities through the game. The worlds also all have their own mini storyline with cutscenes and the bosses don't [[GetBackHereBoss spend half the fight running.]]

* HilariousInHindsight: What might be the game's perhaps most forgettable level, Robotica Farms, might have become popular again with its premise, as at the end of the level, you get [[Disney/WreckItRalph to turn on some giant lamps in order to fry the bugs infesting the place.]]
* SurprisinglyImprovedSequel: For starters Spyro has a hover ability to make gliding more controlable and can learn new abilities through the game. The worlds also all have their own mini storyline with cutscenes and the bosses don't [[GetBackHereBoss spend half the fight running.]]

* HilariousInHindsight: what might be the game's perhaps most forgettable level, Robotica Farms, might have become popular again with its premise, as at the end of the level, you get [[Disney/WreckItRalph to turn on some giant lamps in order to fry the bugs infesting the place.]]

* HilariousInHindsight: what might be the game's perhaps most forgettable level, Robotica Farms, might have become popular again with its premise, as at the end of the level, you get [[Disney/WreckItRalph to turn on some giant lamps in order to fry the bugs infesting the place.]]

LastLousyPoint: The Skill Points. Doing Ripto with no damage is the hardest, though; even in comparison to the other bosses, Crush is the WarmUpBoss, Gulp becomes pitifully easy if [[spoiler: you unlock the Infinite Superflame]], but Ripto has hard to avoid attacks in his first two forms and you need to be somewhat watchful in his final form. [[spoiler: And even with the Infinite Superflame, Ripto's so small and has such huge knockback that he keeps dodging your attacks and will most likely get a chance to attack, and the third form is cimpletely unchanged due to already having Infinite Superflame for that part of the fight.]]

LastLousyPoint: The Skill Points. Doing Ripto with no damage is the hardest, though; Crush is the WarmUpBoss, Gulp becomes pitifully easy if [[spoiler: you unlock the Infinite Superflame]], but Ripto has hard to avoid attacks in his first two forms and you need to be somewhat watchful in his final form. [[spoiler: And even with the Infinite Superflame, Ripto's so small and has such huge knockback that he keeps dodging your attacks and will most likely get a chance to attack, and the third form is cimpletely unchanged due to already having Infinite Superflame for that part of the fight.]]