And the many hats in Giants buff out your characters with attribute improvements (Critical Hit, Speed, Defense, etc.), with plenty of good looks to spare. A horde of new upgrades, keys, potions, and hats are also available to spend your money on, which means you won’t run out of things to buy as quickly as you did in the first game. Play The level cap has been raised to 15 for all Skylanders, too, which made it immediately fun to start playing older Series 1 toys that have been capped at Level 10 for a while. The Giants are easily able to take on both larger mini-boss and boss characters a bit more adeptly, but otherwise they play almost identically to other Skylanders. This changes things up just enough to feel fresh, and frankly, given their size and extra muscle, makes them an easy go-to pick for someone like me who’s trying to keep up with someone like Ryan. They can smash through walls that previously required a bomb to destroy, they can smash holes in the ground to access new paths for extra loot and treasure (Hats, Soul Gems, and the like), they can throw boulders, and they push over tall rocks to create bridges, among many other skills. Oh, and unlike the original figures, they light up when place them on the Portal of Power. Four Giants are available at launch – Tree Rex, Bouncer, Crusher and Swarm – with four more coming soon (Eye Brawl, Ninjini, Thumpback, and Hot Head), along with a bunch of new Series 2s that have multiple new attacks, upgrades, and moves. The titular Giants are the big draw this time around. The real draw/gimmick/selling point to the game series is the Skylanders toys, which are sold separately and used to power the game. After beating it several times, color us both renewed Skylanders fans. We played it together using his older Series 1 figures and a bunch of the new Giants and Lightcore Series 2 toys. And as the self-proclaimed Skylanders king at IGN, I looked to his expertise and experience when it came time to review the game. He’s eight years old and he LOVES Skylanders. This is all just video game fancy talk to say that Skylanders is great fun. If it didn't, Skylanders almost certainly wouldn't have sold 30 million of the things.
This all works just as effortlessly as it did last year. It’s a clever, simple system: the Skylander characters appear on the screen when the toys are placed on a Portal of Power, up to two people can play at the same time, the toys save all of your progress and work on any console. Though Giants is fundamentally a toy/video game hybrid, the software side of the beat-em-up, loot-collecting game feels something like a mash-up between the LEGO games and a lighthearted, kid-friendly version of Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance.
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