Skylanders Giants - Starter Pack (Wii)

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The reveal trailer used the hit song from the 2000s, Weapon of Choice by Fatboy Slim, also popular on internet culture due to its music clip featuring the actor Christopher Walken. Orry, Tom (October 5, 2015). "Skylanders SuperChargers Review". VideoGamer.com . Retrieved March 28, 2022.

The scanning to save is for when you want to play them in another game/on another console - otherwise, you're fine scanning them the initial time to add them to the collection, and just going through the list to choose who you want to be at any moment if you're only playing the Switch version. It's a manual choice to save (talking to an NPC), rather than forcing you to save to the figure if you want to keep using it. SuperChargers was the first to break this rule, with its figures only being compatible with SuperChargers (and the later game Imaginators) despite having figures of some of the same characters from earlier games. This is because even though the characters themselves were familiar faces from previous games, their SuperChargers figures actually had redesigned skill trees, and in some cases completely different play styles than their earlier games' versions.It was said that the Giants were the original Skylanders who banded together to fight an evil empire. Ten thousand years ago, the Giants battled against the tyrannical Arkeyans for the freedom of Skylands. In a final battle against the Arkeyans, the Giants were shot to Earth as a form of sacrifice, where they’ve been buried underground ever since. As the years passed, these enormous Skylanders were soon considered as a myth. The game takes place in a world called Skylands, a realm filled with adventure and floating islands. It is the center of the universe that is constantly threatened by evil forces who seek to rule Skylands and gain access to all worlds. [3] A band of heroes called the Skylanders use their abilities and machinery to defend their world from various threats, which they have done for generations. They have worked with the Portal Masters in keeping peace and balance in Skylands, battling the forces of evil, and protecting the Core of Light. Kaos, the main antagonist, has destroyed the Core of Light and Skylands is in his hands. It is up to the player to send the Skylanders into the game and stop Kaos. The Skylanders have an unbreakable bond with their Portal Masters. Each Skylander is associated with one of the ten elements of Skylands: Earth, Air, Fire, Water, Magic, Tech, Life, Undead, Light, and Dark. The main plot is the Skylanders going through levels to defeat Kaos, and stop him from ruling over Skylands. The console versions of each game follow identical storylines, while the Nintendo 3DS versions follow stories different from those of the console versions. The mobile games had different gameplay mechanics and also had a unique story to account for them. There are two ways to play Skylanders Trap Team: use a Skylander hero, or trap one of Skylands’ most wanted and bring them over to your cause. When you ensnare an enemy in a Trap, they’re transported into the real world via the Traptanium Portal. A built-in speaker in the Traptanium Portal allows you to hear the voices of captured villains, bringing the adventure right into the room – or you can return them to Skylands and play as them! Switch between playing as a hero or a villain at any time and put together your ultimate Trap Team to defeat Kaos! For the first time ever, their imaginations come to life as they can create their own Skylanders, called Imaginators. With endless creation options of powers, abilities, catchphrases, appearance and much more, fans can build their very own creations out of their imaginations or use the randomize feature to allow the game to choose parts for them. Skylanders is a toys-to-life action-adventure video game series published by Activision. [1] [2] Skylanders games are played by placing character figures called the Skylanders on the "Portal of Power", a device that reads the figures' tags through NFC and "imports" the character represented by the figure into the game as a playable character.

Phillips, Tom (February 10, 2017). "Skylanders franchise kept alive, but no new game this year". Eurogamer . Retrieved May 11, 2019. Imaginators doesn't stop there, though. Embracing the more mobile-friendly nature of the Switch the game lets you scan in a whole load of Skylanders characters to instantly switch between later on the go. Not only have they done away with portals but also with the annoyance of having to carry around a big bag of plastic figures to play the game out and about. A lot of Skylanders fans will moan about this, but for families and young players it's actually a big step forward. When using a Nintendo 3DS portal in SuperChargers or Imaginators, the portal will have trouble detecting SWAP Force Skylanders, making them unplayable. Creation Crystals are mostly cylindrical in shape, with a clear plastic tube that houses a colored plastic gem in the center, which lights up when placed onto the portal. They come in a variety of aesthetic styles and colors to match different elements, similar to Traptanium Trap figures from Skylanders Trap Team.Kaos used the power of The Darkness to create a large machine of destruction called The Sky Eater. This massive construct disconnected the portal network between Skylands and other worlds including Earth, at first preventing the Portal Master and their Skylanders from reaching Skylands. To combat this threat, a special team of Skylanders, known as the SuperChargers, was assembled. Piloting vehicles powered by the legendary Rift Engines, these Skylanders were able to travel through portals between Skylands and worlds beyond. According to former Toys For Bob Narrative Lead Alex Ness, Skylanders: Imaginators was the most difficult storyline he had done due to the different toolset for the game and the company spending more time on modeling and imagination time on the Imaginators. [8]