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i feel like if the level themes weren't so repetitive people wouldn't have as big of an issue with the longer levels but as it is, it's always gonna be a sour spot on the overall game and really hurt trying to replay it, the first and last parts are good but that middle section is just a huge slog trying to play though it, also doesn't help that some gimmicks really outstay their welcome
Completely based take. Those 6 levels and two bosses in the middle make up a lot of the game and it's just a shame because in Giants every level was distinctly unique. I still love Swap Force's levels and they got creative with them but I will never understand why they made multiple with the same theme.
my fav game is trap team...but even i know its not the best in the series lmao,giants even though its not my number 1 fav,its still the best skylander game to date@@Maccakit
hey, wait! you're that guy who made the template template video! In all seriousness, I really appreciate it because I spent wayyyy too long on this one lmao
If you ask me Swap Force automatically claims the title in the series with the most amount of innovation and risks that the series has ever made. New engine with adjustments to all original 48 characters, new mechanics like jumping and checkpoints in every level, longer more rich levels, a massive amount of postgame content, entering a new area of Skylands expanding the world building, etc. Also I disagree with the similar level themes because while they do share a similar idea a lot of the time the execution is unique enough for me to give a pass. Iron Jaw Gulch is a bustling town with tons of people and lots of civilization elements making it feel alive. Motleyville is located outside of Iron Jaw Gulch in the boonies meaning there aren't that many characters there besides the important ones and a few occasional Dirt Sharks, it also has grind rails that weren't in Iron Jaw and a progression of time in the lightning which keep it unique enough for me to give it a pass. Twisty Tunnels is at a completely different time of day and has elements of giant coral, Terrasquid tentacles, and evilized crystals ridden all around it meaning I cannot see any similarities to Iron Jaw besides the inclusion of sand. Also every Skylanders game has this problem not just Swap Force, SSA reuses level themes because of the structure of the story itself and the same applies with Swap Force and by extention Trap Team (maybe to a lesser extent). Other than that I can agree with essentially everything else this video presents. Trap Team is an overrated mess of a game just thought I'd mention that.
Yes! Swap Force is incredibly innovative and deserves more credit for that. I can see that there are differences in the three "sandy" levels but I would've liked to see a little more diversity; I especially have that issue with the three frosty levels which feel even more similar
@@theSkylandeer I agree, though I think Frostfest is the most unique for sure because of the blizzards and the night time colors being more prominent. If Boney Islands wasn't the way it is I wouldn't mind the overlap as much (I really really hate that level even if I do love Swap Force as a whole) the frozen museum idea is neat in concept at least, but the level is not fun in many ways. I also played Swap Force 160 times to rank every upgrade path and I didn't receive nearly as much burn out as I did with Trap Team after just 40 and there's 264 playthroughs to do in total. I can't really describe my exact words why I prefer Swap Force over all the games I just really enjoy it even with some of its problems (but all the games have problems too)
@@theSkylandeer Yep. A ton of free time and 7 months of dedication. I wanted to rank every character on every upgrade path and its exactly what I accomplished. I did the same for SSA XPEC and Giants. It took me 13 months for all 3 games in total. I don't plan to finish Trap Team until a while from now
I respect your dedication to the community; I have my own team of researchers testing every upgrade path for each game and I am testing every Swapper combination 😅
Swap force is the best skylanders game by far the gamplay overhall is the most important thing to me in swap force all the old skylanders got rebalanced nicely where in trap team the old skylanders were made intentionally obsolete by removing elemental gates and giving the trap masters bonuses in boss fights but most importantly some old skylanders just got compleatly ruined in trap team like swarm doesnt lock on atall while flying
Yeah, I would agree Swap Force gameplay beats Trap Team in most respects, especially in balancing. Some characters in STT are just AWFUL that the game feels like nightmare mode on easier difficulties and some characters are so broken that nightmare mode feels like easy or normal.
this vid is PEAK,the level design seemed long by nature,but if u skip all the collectibles it narrows the completion time heavily,the game was overall a good time,most swap zones were fun and a good bit of the elemental gates were pretty good aswell,my only complaint with swap force is the melee hitstun that happens with 99% of all melee skylanders,overall a great time and a pretty great game
Both Vicarious Visions games are criminally underrated and I played through a level recently and ignored the gates and Swap Zones and it felt too short lmao I'm pretty sure Swap Force has the most gates per level in the series and the longest gates too. Add Swap Zones to that, and yeah...
each level has 2 normal gates and 1 duel gate,so yea there were 3 gates per level which was pretty cool,the ONLY level in the whole series to have more than 3 gates is the first level of trap team which has 4 and is also the only level in the game to feature 4 gates, also i do believe trap team has the most gates out of all the games,pls correct me if i am wrong tho lol.@@theSkylandeer
also superchargers level design and structure was PEAK,every level was peak except cpt clucks which was a rather bad level,overall superchargers is a great game after finally beating it after so many years of not being able to.@@theSkylandeer
yep first level has 4 gates but im pretty sure other levels have 4 as well; a lot of them only have two though there's also dual element gates in the ssf expansion packs which is cool
@bluefatalis7111 Really? They weren't that hard to complete, but if you want a challenge you can go for the extra sparks. What don't you like (other than they're not skippable)
same, crazy that Skylanders Trap Team is less than a month away from being 10 years old.. I'm currently working on a video just like this one but for trap team lol
This video all of a sudden makes me wanna play skylanders swap force again. This game was a big deal in my childhood since not only was this my first ever skylanders game but it is also my first ever video game I got to play as a child. unfortunately I wasn't allowed to get a whole lotta figures as a kid and the only two I ever got were magna charge and free ranger, but damn this video is giving me flashbacks on how how much I loved this game and how much it impacted my life, swap force in my opinion is the best skylanders game ever cuz of its sales and the graphics, swap force is literally skylanders prime year
Yes! This is exactly what I was hoping for when I made this video; I hope you get the chance to try the other really cool characters from Swap Force. I wanted to talk about the Roster in this video but due to time constraints I ended up cutting it out. Overall the characters are phenomenal and I would recommend you get Bumble Blast, Wind Up, Pop Thorn, Spy Rise, Rattle Shake, or Night Shift If you don't want to spend money on actual figures, you can make ANY character you want using NFC Cards, here's my tutorial if you're interested: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6GGM4oMyJdI.htmlsi=W8FdRSc88MujluFL
@@theSkylandeer what are you talking about, when I was a kid i couldn’t get a whole lotta figures, but now my friend and I are in our teens, I’m 16 and he’s 17, we’ve officially completed our swap force collection, only excluding some series 3, but like getting all the swap force cores and swappers, my friend and I got back into the game last year and it started with him sending me a video and a skylanders tribute and him telling me he misses our childhood game. His room is literally full of our collected figures that we have been collecting for the past year, we still plan on getting more to complete our trap team and superchargers and start collecting some imaginator sensei’s, we’ve just been pretty busy lately and haven’t gotten much chance, but I believe one day we’ll get all the main rosters and characters of each game and 100% fulfill our childhood dream, I still would call our success a childhood dream complete but yea like I said, I believe one day we can get every figure from every game, just need some patience and time, but thanks for sending the link for nfc cards
@theSkylandeer I am glad you make skylanders content, it was one and still is one of the best games out there, I feel like though imaginators was supposed to be the last game if it was better they could've made another game.
Possibly, but they wanted to play it safe for imaginators. I believe that game had a significantly lower budget; it had a lack of any original music and most of the game and the villain senseis are all just recycled assets...
This video is the perfect 10th anniversary gift for Swap Force! Swap Force is love, Swap Force is life! Swap Force is my favorite Skylanders game, especially on HD consoles and 3DS. Though my only criticism towards this video is the lack of acknowledgement towards the 3DS version of Swap Force. You did mention the 3DS versions of SSA and Giants but when you said Swap Force was released on same systems as SSA and Giants, you didn't feature 3DS along with Wii, Wii U, Xbox 360 and PS3.
You're right! I regret not mentioning the 3DS version because many of my friends say it's the best version out there. I unfortunately have never played the 3DS versions so it wouldn't feel right for me to comment on it other than the release of it. Sorry for the oversight!
@@theSkylandeer it felt like an awkward stage between the low quality of giants and the high quality of trap team and future games. and to me it was really the one to start the problems with harder requirements for different things like gates, repetitive and it is probably partially because i played it on the wii as a kid but replaying it on the xbox 360 and xbox one x still felt like it would be 6-5th on my list
Oh yeah the wii version is a complete disaster. I'm not sure what you meant by low quality of giants and high quality of the other games but if you meant graphics quality then Swap Force has some of the best.@@ChooknGaming
man Skylanders is prob my favorite childhood game, shoutout to my mom and grandpas wallets for buying me almost all the Skylanders, these games bring back many memories
I agree mostly with this video almost all of it swap force is a great great game, but my personal favorite is trap team. Still just because I find the graphics more appealing and closer to what I grew up with as Giants and I thought the two animation styles between swap force, and trap team were very differentand swap force was almost overwhelming by how different it was and the bigger variety of options not saying that it’s a bad game whatsoever I still love swap force
No, you could use two normal skylanders if you were missing the swappers. Even if that wasn't the case, Swap Force still is better because every level has 2 normal gates and one dual element gate whereas trap team had multiple gates that only trap masters could open. You needed as much as 4 trap masters per level to unlock everything, plus multiple trap elements... yikes
If this game proved anything, it’s that Vicarious Visions cared more about Skylanders and the world building more than Toys For Bob. Their games have always been the better entries in my opinion.
@@theSkylandeer From a technical standpoint perhaps, but I prefer the fact that all the characters we encounter aren’t just variations of the Mabu we all know and love. Especially since a good chunk are the same species as some of the skylanders (Stump Smash and Terrafin), further emphasising the fact they were seemingly normal citizens at one point or another. Also SW gave us Roller Brawl and she is best girl, so instant win
get a trap master of each element and follow my traps buying guide: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Cz6lzHNWdxE.htmlsi=1b8ARezAu7d9axm-
My dad used to have a really rich friend these times one night that friend was coming to visit us when he came my dad the friend and I were opening it i remember it like yesterday
