>>1332196
Give the second one a try. A lot of people tend to say that the third, while good in its own right, does try to do a bit too much at once. Kind of like the third Spyro game in that regard.
One of the reasons people tend to like the games (especially the second and third) is that the gameplay is pretty solid and there's a fair bit of charm to it, along with making dying, which tends to be pretty easy unless you have an Aku-Aku mask handy, humorous to the point of not minding it as much. Also features some fairly decent (for the time, compared to some other games) voice acting in both the second and third games.