"spyro the dragon" currently holds a score of 85% at gamerankings, based on an aggregate of 18 reviews. ign's craig harris hailed it as the most fun 3d platformer he had played since "crash bandicoot", writing "two claws up. way up." "computer and video games" called the game "easily the best 3d platform game on the playstation", despite noting its largely child-friendly nature. as one of 4 reviewers for "electronic gaming monthly", "shawn" wrote that "spyro is to the playstation what banjo-kazooie is to the nintendo 64", and stated that it "combines the two most-important aspects in any good game: graphics and gameplay." also writing for egm, reviewer "crispin" proclaimed that spyro "raises the bar" for 3d platformers, and wrote that it had replaced "" as his favorite "ps mascot game". joe fielder of gamespot called the game "a proficient, fully 3d platform game" for the playstation, comparing it favorably to one of the more recent platformers on the system, "blasto", and proclaiming that it "excels over "blasto" in every way imaginable." despite this, he wrote that the game "only gets very, very high marks, instead of outrageously high marks", citing its lack of high difficulty as the main factor that made it inferior to games like "super mario 64" and "banjo-kazooie". "edge" named it the best 3d platform game for the playstation, but criticized spyro's limited abilities and said that the game was not as varied as "super mario 64".