Recordkeeping: Skylanders - Spyro's Adventure (PS3) COMPLETE

[xyzzysqrl]

My first replay! Kind of. I bought the three Skylanders games I already own for the PS3, because my Wii U copies of Giants and Swap Force have some issues (used eBay purchases aren't pristine, who knew) and I'd rather have them all on one system (they were spread across Wii U and 360 before).

I love these little toys still, even if I haven't yet bought into Trap Team (which does its damndest to invalidate your collection) and Superchargers (which is a racing game primarily I understand). Still, if I can pick up someone else's used collections of those games or something, I may.

I sadly had to break my streak of Perfect Dragoning Spyro-related games, because... well. It's difficult to say what counts as perfect running a Skylanders game.

Let's take the first one as an example:
Get the achievements/trophies? (Doable with just the starter-pack Skylanders). Three-star every level? (Need 7.) Collect every figure? (32, with cosmetic variants, some of which are quite rare, goodbye wallet.) Do every Heroic Challenge (32 of them) with every figure (also 32 of them)? And of course the toyline expands with every game, with more and more goals and more figures to collect and...

No, I'm not a Perfect Portal Master. I am a happy one, though.
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Oh. Also we'll be moving throughout the month of October. I may be sparser.

Comments

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

I admit, the whole Skylanders thing looks pretty good fun. ^_^ Hopefully, there isn't really anything much lost if you don't pick up a whole slew of the toys?

(Though, if they came up with something similar and pony, I'd be done for)

[xyzzysqrl]

In the earliest game, you lose access to some bonus levels. As time passes and the goal becomes not just "to sell toys" but "to sell LOTS OF TOYS", you lose out increasingly.

Trap Team (game 4) specifically invalidates a great number of toys from games 1-3 by moving the focus to catching bad guys in traps (sold separately), Superchargers (game 5) makes the franchise a racing game (with cars, of course sold separately, and buying the right toy to sit in the right car makes them go faster) and Imaginators will let you "build your own" figure in-game with unlocked parts and powers from... y'guessed it, buying more toys.

Oh, and now there's a collectible card game that uses mobile phones for AR purposes because OF COURSE THERE IS.

The phrase "cynical cash grab" has crossed my mind often, but I got a massive collection of Little Plastic Dragons and Dragon-Adjacent (everything not dragon) figures off eBay for fairly cheap, and the local Gamestop has started a "Buy two, get three free" policy on used ones.

[dang-bunni.livejournal.com]

Superchargers actually feels less cash-grabby to me than Trap Team; it seems like they knew they went too far, and dialed it back.

(This is relative, of course. They still want you to buy craploads of toys.)

I picked up a vehicle of each type, but it wasn't amazingly frustrating to play with just the basic vehicles until I did.

I do like that for the next one, they're NOT re-releasing all the old figures 'but with one more power move'. That got really obnoxious.