i just thought of another one... i think it'd be interesting to combine one of the speedways and one of the water levels. we never had an underwater speedway level.

Dark Passage is a particularly complex level with all the jumps and glides and open spaces, and Aquaria Towers has the most water. plus i just think mixing the night background with swimming would work well. so kind of like Crystal Islands, but a lot more complex.

with Aquaria Towers, you had to just go through the level to find the buttons... maybe in this level, you'd have to get up higher to unlock each one, maybe have to go back down later for certain collectables, or have certain areas that are just standalone bodies of water or something that take you to different areas (like those swimming areas in Mystic Marsh).

you could also do something like Aquaria Towers that when you complete the level, you can swim through most of the level. like swimming in the air

an idea i have is that there could be an area at the *very* top that's like a "beach" sort of area which, first of all, would look really cool against the night background, and would just have a whole bunch of gems.

and there would have to be a way to glitch the level so you could swim in that, too.

NPC friendlies will be mermaids. I think there should be a bigger fairy-tale tribute in today's games. Also, there be small, rug-scale manta ray-like creatures (mantalarks), spikey starfish, and something similar to those fish creatures from Spyro: A Hero's Tail, who will all be enemies.

A last thing I want to note is that I feel like there was a very small challenge with the underwater enemies. The Spyro underwater enemies either stood relatively still or moved in an extremely avoidable cycle. There was never an underwater enemy who would directly attack so fast that it would almost guarantee to hurt if you didn't counter-attack with a charge. The robo-sharks aren't even an exception; you get eaten instantly.

The mantalarks will actually attack fast, but slow enough to be avoidable and/or counter-attack-able. The starfish will fire an attack with a spike that'll, depending on the starfish's color, will shoot in straight directions or will follow Spyro for a few seconds before exploding. The fish creatures? I have nothing.