I have a LONG history with Skylanders, I’ve been playing since the first one came out and have been smitten ever since. Eventually collecting every toy got to be a bit much on my adult wallet so I took a break for a few years after Superchargers came out, so I never got to play this last Skylander game. But with the lovely benefit of pandemic unemployment money last year when everythingI have a LONG history with Skylanders, I’ve been playing since the first one came out and have been smitten ever since. Eventually collecting every toy got to be a bit much on my adult wallet so I took a break for a few years after Superchargers came out, so I never got to play this last Skylander game. But with the lovely benefit of pandemic unemployment money last year when everything was shut down, I finally completed my Imaginators collection, leaving me with every skylander that has come out! So after 5 years, is the game any good or is there a reason there hasn’t been another one since? Well... yes and no. Imaginators is a decent enough game, I know it got a lot of flack for the microtransactions (it was only a matter of time with this series) but I never felt the need to pay anything extra since you unlock so much stuff throughout the course of the game. For as much fun as the Imaginators & other new skylanders are to play, you can tell very early on there is MAJOR franchise fatigue going on. As with any yearly franchise, this was the 6th skylander game to come out in a row & you can tell the yearly releases have taken a toll on the quality of this entry. Right away the graphics & character models don’t really look that great & I played this on a PS4! The physical toys can look better at times. The moment to moment gameplay doesn’t feel as good as it used to either, maybe it was my younger brain thinking it was all these years, but after replaying the rest of the series a lil over a year ago, it’s definitely a problem I noticed growing with most of the sequels & seems to have reached its boiling point with Imaginators. Even the jumping doesn’t feel all that good and with some precise jumps needed in certain levels, it can get annoying. I’m tempted to say this is probably the longest and toughest skylander game of them all, don’t get me wrong the game is still very easy, but compared to the rest of the series, I actually lost a couple of skylanders in some fights lol. Also, right before the end of the game there’s this EIGHT MISSION FETCH QUEST for absolutely no reason other than padding this long Skylander game out even more. It was incredibly frustrating even though each of the missions are fairly quick, some of them take place in the exact same map with minor differences. Doing the same mission 3 times for the same goal is beyond tedious & I don’t see why this part of the game wasn’t just another level. Easily among the worst sections in any skylander game, maybe even the worst. Imaginators does things right though, the humor is surprisingly on point for a kids game, although not EVERY conversation has to end with a joke guys. Kaos is still an endearing villain even though his goals remain the same, Invader Zim’s voice will always be music to my ears! It’s a shame this ended up being the last Skylander game since it just kinda... ends abruptly. The final cutscene ends and you’re thrown back into the game, no credits or fanfare or anything lol. A rushed feeling is all over this game & some of the sequels before it and it’s at the point where it can’t be ignored. Skylanders also brought Crash Bandicoot out of retirement for this game and.. it’s ok? Maybe they just put him and Neo Cortex in as a nod to the remake of the original Crash trilogy they were working on at the time, but I guess we can thank the people behind Skylanders for bringing Spyro & Crash to their well deserved renaissance that they’re experiencing today. The game has its moments & I LOVED creating my own Imaginators, but can’t recommend it for much else, especially as a huge fan who’s played all the other games, watched the surprisingly fantastic Netflix show & thought SWAP Force was the weakest entry, Imaginators may have tied it for that title. Maybe in a decade or two when the inevitable revival of the Toys to Life genre comes, we can get a truly amazing send off or even a new start for Skylanders. Just please stop making game releases an annual thing lol. It never ends well.… Expand
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