nobody who didn't think to play the game could ever understand the warm embrace this game gave when you place the skylander of your choice down on the portal to then hear the sound effects of the toy coming to life in front of your very eyes. Always was the centre of my young childhood as well as it being the same for many others alike
@@LabXperiment_ they need to make a part 7 but not go in the direction of imaginators but back to there roots what those game made special from the start
@ I was a huge skylanders fan and would only ask for skylanders for my birthday and Christmas so when the games died I was so sad yk I rly hope they make the series proud with remasters or sequels… also I hope my skylanders still work
Something I love about Trap Team is that each individual villain you can get has unique dialogue of them reacting to the game - they can comment on groups of enemies showing up, you being low on health and suggesting they take the wheel, when things ahead might get serious, or even just casual conversation in the hub world. That alone added tons of replay value for me as a kid.
When I was a kid, I had both Spyro's Adventure and Giants on the Wii, and Swap Force on the Wii U. I regularly would jump from game-to-game, playing my favorite levels with my favorite Skylanders. Although Swap Force looked the best visually, and Giants was a more polished version of Spyro's Adventure, I always found myself gravitating back towards the first entry in the series. Not only did Spyro's Adventure have the best Skylander roster in the whole series, it also felt the most genuine, catered towards having a fun experience. I feel like that element started to fade with each passing entry. While I don't think the gimmicks of Giants, Swap Force, Trap Team (or even Superchargers) were bad in concept-- the accessibility made it hard to keep up. Collecting them became a chore rather than a hobby. The magic of Spyro's Adventure was that every Skylander was on equal footing. The toys never felt more alive. I honestly think if they kept the formula for the OG figurines, they could've implemented the same gimmicks from future games as bonus features. That way the figurines would still be affordable. The series could still be releasing new entries to this day.
0:54 That music will forever bring me joy and nostalgia. Sometimes I go back and play this game and sometimes I sit and listen to it. I love this franchise so much
I'm glad you're making more skylander content! Its really well made! Not that I don't like your other content... I just love skylanders. Also, Giants will always have a special place in my heart.
I just want all the skylanders games available on Steam, with DLC and skylander characters available as in game purchases. Also, a remaster with 8K uncapped fps support, and ray tracing, would be incredible.
For me personally I just don't like how she feels in the game. I love how the giants feel super powerful like heavy hitters, but for me Ninjini just doesn't have that, which is why I never really choose her when coming back to Giants. But that's just preference ofc, by no means is she an awful character, but it does make for a good joke lol
Personally it’s because of how slow she is. None of my other giants are that slow. She always gets boxes dropped on her head cuz she can’t move out of the way fast enough.
There's one thing you forgot to mention: SuperChargers had a collaboration with Nintendo, making Bowser and Donkey Kong into skylanders whose figures also doubled as amiibo, that's what got me to play the game when I was cynically opposed to the series from the beginning. Not to mention the Wii and 3DS versions of SuperChargers were their own separate game, being a dedicated racing game. Even the main version featured a racing mode that allowed for PvP multiplayer both locally and online.
Bro THE WHOLE CONCEPT OF BASICALLY HAVING A COOL ACTION FIGURE AND THEN YOU BRING IT INTO “LIFE” IN THE GAME WAS SO COOL TO ME. I never really beat the game cause I didn’t know what to do 😭 but now that I’m older i definitely should go back and beat all the games.
Your ranking and reasons are really valid. Just remembering which i enjoyed most when I was a kid tho it was: 1. Trap Team 2. Spyro's Adventure 3. Swap Force 4. Giants 5. Imaginators 6. Superchargers
I would swap Swap Force with Trap Team, due to the big paywall of needing a Trap Master for trap elemental gates. I also feel Trap Team was where game become more pay to win, which heavily affected the last two games.
I started to play during the first game and my favorite is trap team. I remember going to the play store and they sold trap crystals. And I saw the Kaos trap, I was so excited for it so I bought it. And I also remembered it was super rare as well so it was the first time I ever saw it. This franchise is goated.
I only played Spyro's Adventure on the Wii with my dad. I remember having him drive me to the store to get another Skylander when we would run out mid level and didn't want to restart.
The fifth game shouldn’t have been superchargers, and it should have been the last game in the series. The reason why I say that, is because it abandoned the entire classic fantasy, sort of like a “dnd” feel to it. Instead of the whole vehilces thing, it should’ve gone back to a classic, and dark skylanders game. Like how Spyro’s adventure was. There should’ve been 3 big bads, Kaos, The Darkness and Malefor. I mean it was all right there, Kaos finally ruling skylands, the darkness becoming a fightale entity. Pretty much a Spyro’s Adventure remaster, but, it’s own definitive finale.
The whole 'shutting down the portal network' concept was an amazing idea, and a great way to continue the continuity after Kaos broke the 4th wall in the previous game, but it was terribly executed because it just meant more things you needed to buy. Even with the story actually being pretty good, that's the reason it failed
Having played only Spyros and Giants this video was great seeing everything else I did not get the chance to play. I can't really remember finishing Spyro as I was only like 4 or 5 at the time but I for sure remember playing Giants and it that atmosphere of that game was one the best I have experienced so far. Amazing video once again! Edit: Giants is easily the best game of the Franchise, glad I ended on a high note.
same. i just remeber grinding in the gaint arena to level up my skylanders. i had not conecept of any story and probably never finished any of the 3 games i played.
10:26 Welcome back to Woodburrow, hero of the Cloudbreak Islands! Dreamcatcher on the Wii is the hardest version of her. It's your Wii that's fighting the hard fight, though.
@@gamefishbram For the personal ranking thing: Giants is better but I prefer SSA, Trap Team is in third and Swap Force felt very jarring to play on the Wii. All have their own merits, though, and I would be much more fair in ranking if I had played these games on another console.
I get that, the atmosphere of ssa is something very special :) Yeah the wii versions of swap force and Trap Team are straight garbage hahaha. I'd 100% recommend to try them on a ps3 or newer consoles. Very enjoyable experiences there!
Big props to you mate. Realising how much time and money playing all 6 skylanders game takes makes me respect you a lot for this video. I have only played half of these, being giants, swap-force and superchargers, but I basically forgot about the whole franchise after I started growing up and playing other games. Thanks for giving me some more nostalgia right after I was reminded of 2013 minecraft!
Honestly it's stuff like this that makes me wish they brought the Skylander series back. The Toys to Life fad may be as good dead but they can still create a new game without it (though they probably find another way to monetize the hell out of it when they do decide to make one).
@@gamefishbram well who knows knowing the company owning they’ll definitely bring back eventually to milk the franchise for what it’s worth as they did with bringing back the series as a TV series, probably won’t be good as the past games but might still be interesting to talk about if a new game comes out.
First of all, great video! I loved skylanders so much and still have all the toys. At one point you rightly pointed out Flynn’s banter and i hope you’ve played nightmare express on trap team (expansion level). It’s definitely my favourite level of all the games and the banter is elite.
i owned the wii version of superchargers, and i only found out the difference years after i was done with it 😭 also, i used to play skystones on repeat for some reason
Hahaha, probably for the better tho, the Wii would probably straight up die if it tried to run the actual superchargers 💀 Same man, gotta collect them skystones lol
I only found out the difference today, when he started playing superchargers. i am very sad now, seems like the actual superchargers is just way better
I take a guilty pleasure in watching videos on this franchise since I grew up with it, being introduced to it with giants when I was at friends house back in middle school(who then moved away so that is one of the few major memories i have with them), and then getting trap team a few years later. the games are a neat time to revisit and I'm holding onto a good chunk of the figures because a lot of them are actually decent visual wise. I will say that I'm surprised how expensive some of the figures are nowadays because the market for them is pretty limited. I have the Blackout figure and was curious on how expensive a Spotlight would be and a used figure on ebay is like 80 dollars. Why?
Awesome to hear you have such great memories of the franchise! Yeah it's ridiculous. Every light and dark element related figures from trap team have just skyrocketed in value.
You know, I just don't understand how this franchise never had a Rogue Like Game. Most of the time you spend the games grinding for levels anyways, replaying the whole game with each new figure was the fun part. Having an endless game that is easily repeatable and using the characters themselves as save files would be exactly what this franchise needs.
@@gamefishbram the day i unwrapped the Giants game on christmas i probably one of my fondest memories, i hadnt even heard of skylanders at that point but for some reason i just fell in love with it. seeing the Tree-Rex model in the box and taking him out was all i needed. all my friends all got Skylanders that year as well and we all used to swap our different skylanders around. probably the best gaming experience ill ever have
As a guy got got the PS4 AFTER the fall of Skylanders I'm really glad they kept it on the Wii for so long. Regardless of the reason that was nice of them
Yeah it's nice to be able to play the games on so many consoles. Once you've experienced Swap Force and Trap Team on the Wii it's really difficult to go back tho hahaha
Appreciate it man :). Yeah superchargers is very much underrated haha. Luckily my wallet didn't take too much of a beating, because I've been building my collection for about 12 years now lol
Skylanders was the first game I ever got truly invested in, when I look back at the entire franchise they definitely started strong with Spyro's Adventure and personally I think that Trap Team was the pinnacle of it all due to the superchargers game basically being redundant. For me, the first 4 games are fantastic however I would have liked to see Activision NOT make people pay an arm and a leg every single year. The last 2 games are fun to play but are essentially useless. They are time killers at best although they are somewhat enjoyable. The first 4 games however really are "The Games" for me.
I would repeat the last mission of spyros adventure over and over cause there was gates with gems behins them and i thought it was the fastest way to get money lmao.
The noticeable change in gameplay from giants to swap force is what makes spyros adventure and giants my favorites. The others just do not feel right when playing, partially because you can jump and such
Well I stumbled upon this video as a guy who stopped playing/collecting Skylanders after Swap Force...and after watching seeing and seeing how active the community still is, I've decided to collect the rest of the games/figures! I'm passionate about older games and collecting them so Skylanders Trap Team/Superchargers/Imaginators just seems like a good next step...well not if you're my wallet but we won't talk about that! :') Thank you for this blast from the past, really well made and I can't wait to see what other content you come up with! :D
How does this guy only have 1.7k subs this vid is amazing and seems like it comes from a creator that deserves way more attention and recognition. Keep it up!
Well, this took me well down memory lane. I still remember the feeling of opening up a fresh Skylander when the first part came out 😂 Skylanders was probably one of the most influential games on my childhood. It's all the way up there with Pokemon and Spectrobes Great video, thanks for reminding me of the good old times ^^
"Wow an entertaining video with a decent amount of views about something I like! I wonder if he has a lot of subs- 932!?!?" This video was super fun! Hope your channel grows and keep up the good work!
This is so nostalgic for me. I entered the series with Giants like you, then played every game up to Superchargers. I didn't get very far into superchargers but I played the other games RELIGIOUSLY. I would always get the next game for Christmas along with a couple random skylanders from that game. I want to go back to them but I would need to find my XBOX 360 console lol
This game is part of my childhood, the Christmas holidays, after school gaming was a beautiful thing. 5000 hours and many more. The portal is a magical experience 🥳
I'd like to try them out someday, but I unfortunalty do not own any of them and the portals, and if I did I still wouldn't have a way to record my 3ds :(
This was such a great video. You should make this a series of playing other game series and then comparing and ranking them too. Keep up the great work!!
Trap team will always hold a special place in my heart as it was the game that introduced me to the franchise. Sadly, I didn't have enough money to splurge on trap masters or crystals, so I could only do so much, but that never stopped me from loving it to pieces!! All I had was the beginner's pack and a Smolderdash I stole from my cousin, and you best believe she carried me throughout the whole game.
The last Skylanders i played was Trap team, God i loved that game and seeing this video just brought up so much nostalgia, thank you for the video it was great.
I started with Spyro's Adventure so I'm likely nostalgia biased, but it holds a special place in my heart. I absolutely loved the story and large variety of level theming that came from the different elements. Seeing each stage of the Core of Light being built filled me with so much joy. My ranking: 1. Spyro's Adventure 2. Giants 3. Trap Team 4. Swap Force I didn't play the last two so I'm leaving them unranked.
My brother and I had the first three games on the Wii, my brother even won a special box for Trap Team. A few years back we had a birthday party at a friends place (who we always joke does nothing but skip college classes, drink a lot and sleep in) and we knew he had a large Skylanders collection. So one other friend decided to put the data of a rare Spyro on a tag and put it in a hand-crafted bottle opener keychain. Best part, it actually works, the portals actually recognize the bottle opener as a Spyro
Man that music for the first game… years of nostalgia completely just rushed back to me, I only ever played the first two games, never even beat either of them. But I had a bunch of the figures, I outgrew it around the third game, still I absolutely adored the series as a kid.
I love skylanders, but the Wii version of Trap Team is a fate I wouldn't wish upon my worst enemy, and entirely because of 1 level. The observatory level had a horrific bug that made it crash after 10-15 minutes. I did beat it, eventually, but it was frankly harder than every other level combined, and not for any good reason. Still loved the game, but I'd frankly have loved it A LOT MORE if it weren't for that bug.
So THAT's why it kept crashing. we originally thought it was an issue with the disc because it would always crash at around the same spot, that being like 15 seconds after the fight with hood sickle. I eventually just downloaded the free wii u version with the code in the box and didn't look back.
My ranking of the games: 1) Swap-Force or Trap Teams 2) Trap Teams or Swap-Force 3) Giants 4) Spyro's Adventure or Superchargers 5) Superchargers or Spyro's Adventure 6) Imaginators Now Giants was what introduced me to the franchise, and Trap Team and Swap-Force is what I played the most as a kid,,, so I'm a bit biased. I replayed the games in 2022, and I do love them all (except imaginators) in their own way.
13:36 That same thing happened to me. Only, my Wii Play through crashed TWICE on that chapter. The first time was ether before or after the fight with Hood Sickle.
Such a great flashback. My best friend introduced me to skylanders and my momt bought the first game for me too. Seeing my fav skylanders was such a throwback. I skipped out on giants but i remember playing it at my friends. My last one was swapforce and i absoluty loved it
Yes and Giants was my first and still favorite game in the series! I even started a new nightmare dragon lock in Giants because I missed playing through nightmare mode
When I was a kid me and my brother got the first game and even managed to get the dlc figures which unlocked their stories. One was a pirate ship which you used to fight off a bunch of wolf pirates on a port of sorts and the second was a firefly which took you to the domain of dragons
SKYLANDERS mentioned! RAH. I loved that game so much as a kid! I wanted to collect all the skylanders but didn't have the money 😭 We need these games back again for the new generations.
I like how Superchargers brought back some characters outside of Spyro's Adventures. Though I think that only extended to Swap Force, and not Trap Team.
@ nee je Engels is zeer goed hoor , alleen ik kijk te veel RUclips waardoor sommige dingen herkenbaar zijn . Heb jij nog een favoriet aspect aan skylanders ? Die van mij was het krijgen van nieuwe skylanders van mijn ouders als cadeau , en dan helemaal kapot grinden om ze op Max lvl te krijgen .
I have spyro on top because of nostalgia. Me and my friend would do sleep overs every and complete the game on the evning and morning after. Never getting tired of the gameplay. I resently replayed the game and it was really cool to see that i still remember all or most of the shortcuts
Swap force was the first game i had in the franchise on my wii u lol, still buy skylanders to this day :) the music at the intros give me so much nostalgia i wanna cry lol (Glumshanks was my favorite character hihi)
Great to hear you have such fond memories of the franchise :) Hahaha Glumshanks is great,. Probably the most human character in the game, which is kinda ironic considering he's a troll 💀
Disagree with the swap force level design. The level design and especially the winter and water levels are something i still vividly remember and love.
nobody who didn't think to play the game could ever understand the warm embrace this game gave when you place the skylander of your choice down on the portal to then hear the sound effects of the toy coming to life in front of your very eyes. Always was the centre of my young childhood as well as it being the same for many others alike
It was magical :)
I used to think it was so so cool as a kid.
don’t make me cry, the nostalgia is tooooo real
It was great
Man we need a remaster of the original skylanders games
We sure do
why stop at 1, remaster them all (maybe not imaginators)
@@LabXperiment_ they need to make a part 7 but not go in the direction of imaginators but back to there roots what those game made special from the start
@ I was a huge skylanders fan and would only ask for skylanders for my birthday and Christmas so when the games died I was so sad yk I rly hope they make the series proud with remasters or sequels… also I hope my skylanders still work
but make it so that skylanders are unlockable through the game instead of making us buy them all again
Something I love about Trap Team is that each individual villain you can get has unique dialogue of them reacting to the game - they can comment on groups of enemies showing up, you being low on health and suggesting they take the wheel, when things ahead might get serious, or even just casual conversation in the hub world. That alone added tons of replay value for me as a kid.
Yeah it really adds to it's charm :) And don't forget the running gag of the trap smelling like mustard 💀
On top of that, those said villains could be overpower as shit. Remember Grin-ade?
I only got to play half of trap team cause that’s when my sisters PS3 broke
When I was a kid, I had both Spyro's Adventure and Giants on the Wii, and Swap Force on the Wii U. I regularly would jump from game-to-game, playing my favorite levels with my favorite Skylanders. Although Swap Force looked the best visually, and Giants was a more polished version of Spyro's Adventure, I always found myself gravitating back towards the first entry in the series. Not only did Spyro's Adventure have the best Skylander roster in the whole series, it also felt the most genuine, catered towards having a fun experience. I feel like that element started to fade with each passing entry. While I don't think the gimmicks of Giants, Swap Force, Trap Team (or even Superchargers) were bad in concept-- the accessibility made it hard to keep up. Collecting them became a chore rather than a hobby.
The magic of Spyro's Adventure was that every Skylander was on equal footing. The toys never felt more alive. I honestly think if they kept the formula for the OG figurines, they could've implemented the same gimmicks from future games as bonus features. That way the figurines would still be affordable. The series could still be releasing new entries to this day.
Your glad you got the WII U version of Swapforce. Cause the Wii looks like your wearing blurry glasses
Ssa does have something magical indeed :)
I agree
0:54 That music will forever bring me joy and nostalgia. Sometimes I go back and play this game and sometimes I sit and listen to it. I love this franchise so much
Skylanders music simply cannot be topped :)
Trap team was my final one and is ultimately my favourite, such a unique concept that went beyond just the figures
Yeah best gimmick in my opinion as well :)
I loved the trap master weapons
I'm glad you're making more skylander content! Its really well made! Not that I don't like your other content... I just love skylanders.
Also, Giants will always have a special place in my heart.
Thanks bro! I really enjoyed making this one too :D. Giants is the definition of nostalgia 😁
I just want all the skylanders games available on Steam, with DLC and skylander characters available as in game purchases. Also, a remaster with 8K uncapped fps support, and ray tracing, would be incredible.
DON'T ATTACK MY DARLING NINJINI LIKE THAT
Hahahaha my bad
Ninjini is so powerful if you do combos with her. I don’t get why people hate her so much
For me personally I just don't like how she feels in the game. I love how the giants feel super powerful like heavy hitters, but for me Ninjini just doesn't have that, which is why I never really choose her when coming back to Giants. But that's just preference ofc, by no means is she an awful character, but it does make for a good joke lol
Personally it’s because of how slow she is. None of my other giants are that slow. She always gets boxes dropped on her head cuz she can’t move out of the way fast enough.
100% AGREE! NINJINI IS THE BEST!
There's one thing you forgot to mention: SuperChargers had a collaboration with Nintendo, making Bowser and Donkey Kong into skylanders whose figures also doubled as amiibo, that's what got me to play the game when I was cynically opposed to the series from the beginning. Not to mention the Wii and 3DS versions of SuperChargers were their own separate game, being a dedicated racing game. Even the main version featured a racing mode that allowed for PvP multiplayer both locally and online.
Really fun aspect indeed! I played the ps3 version tho, so I couldn't use them myself :(.
The 3DS Skylanders up to Trap Team have different stories
Bro THE WHOLE CONCEPT OF BASICALLY HAVING A COOL ACTION FIGURE AND THEN YOU BRING IT INTO “LIFE” IN THE GAME WAS SO COOL TO ME. I never really beat the game cause I didn’t know what to do 😭 but now that I’m older i definitely should go back and beat all the games.
Same. i was like 7 and had no clue what i was doing or what the story was. i have 3 different spiros tho
Oh you're in for a treat when replaying them :)
Your ranking and reasons are really valid. Just remembering which i enjoyed most when I was a kid tho it was:
1. Trap Team
2. Spyro's Adventure
3. Swap Force
4. Giants
5. Imaginators
6. Superchargers
I would swap Swap Force with Trap Team, due to the big paywall of needing a Trap Master for trap elemental gates. I also feel Trap Team was where game become more pay to win, which heavily affected the last two games.
@@jazzratoonpoor alert!
Close to my list but I swap 6 and 4
@Irgevwvrheioakwh Nope, I just wasn't buying into Activision's greed at the time.
I agree with the entire list basically, maybe swap first is above spyro’s adventure for me tho
5:22 I’m a Drill X fan through and through he instantly hooked me with his singing back in 2012
He's such an icon of the franchise 🤩
I was scared of him lol... I was 2...but now I think... HE IS THE BEST SKYLANDERS BOSS TO EGSIST
@@dennisneubauer9222 dammm I got the game at 6 0-0
I started to play during the first game and my favorite is trap team. I remember going to the play store and they sold trap crystals. And I saw the Kaos trap, I was so excited for it so I bought it. And I also remembered it was super rare as well so it was the first time I ever saw it. This franchise is goated.
It I'll always have something magical :)
I only played Spyro's Adventure on the Wii with my dad. I remember having him drive me to the store to get another Skylander when we would run out mid level and didn't want to restart.
Hahaha sounds like an expensive playthrough
The fifth game shouldn’t have been superchargers, and it should have been the last game in the series.
The reason why I say that, is because it abandoned the entire classic fantasy, sort of like a “dnd” feel to it. Instead of the whole vehilces thing, it should’ve gone back to a classic, and dark skylanders game. Like how Spyro’s adventure was. There should’ve been 3 big bads, Kaos, The Darkness and Malefor. I mean it was all right there, Kaos finally ruling skylands, the darkness becoming a fightale entity. Pretty much a Spyro’s Adventure remaster, but, it’s own definitive finale.
God that sounds good
The whole 'shutting down the portal network' concept was an amazing idea, and a great way to continue the continuity after Kaos broke the 4th wall in the previous game, but it was terribly executed because it just meant more things you needed to buy. Even with the story actually being pretty good, that's the reason it failed
Great video. Love how in depth you went for each game with what you liked and disliked. And a solid ranking at the end
Thank you so much! A lot of hard work went into this one so this is very good to hear :)
I am happy there are still people who produce Skylanders content, it is so nostalgic! Great video btw!
Thank you :D
I remember the games looking a lot better.
Especially the Wii ones lol
Good video, defiently fed my nostalgia of playing the first two games in elementary school.
Thank you! Glad I could do that for you :)
Having played only Spyros and Giants this video was great seeing everything else I did not get the chance to play. I can't really remember finishing Spyro as I was only like 4 or 5 at the time but I for sure remember playing Giants and it that atmosphere of that game was one the best I have experienced so far. Amazing video once again!
Edit: Giants is easily the best game of the Franchise, glad I ended on a high note.
Thank you so much! Yeah Giants' atmosphere can't be topped 🤩
same. i just remeber grinding in the gaint arena to level up my skylanders. i had not conecept of any story and probably never finished any of the 3 games i played.
They should bring this back, but instead of buying all the characters make it free to play/ unlockable
Would be great! Someone also mentioned a remake including every game so you could play as any skylander in any game, such a sick idea
It’s called nine parchments your welcome
Man I remember the Dreamcatcher crashes in Trap Team. Also you forgot about my favorite aspect of that game, the Kaos Challenges :)
Hahaha, I never played those, so I may have to give them a go sometime :)
10:26 Welcome back to Woodburrow, hero of the Cloudbreak Islands!
Dreamcatcher on the Wii is the hardest version of her. It's your Wii that's fighting the hard fight, though.
I know right my wii crashed on me at least 3 times during that fight 😭😭
@@gamefishbram For the personal ranking thing: Giants is better but I prefer SSA, Trap Team is in third and Swap Force felt very jarring to play on the Wii. All have their own merits, though, and I would be much more fair in ranking if I had played these games on another console.
I get that, the atmosphere of ssa is something very special :)
Yeah the wii versions of swap force and Trap Team are straight garbage hahaha. I'd 100% recommend to try them on a ps3 or newer consoles. Very enjoyable experiences there!
@@gamefishbramWhat about Xbox 360?
Should work perfectly fine there as well!
Big props to you mate. Realising how much time and money playing all 6 skylanders game takes makes me respect you a lot for this video. I have only played half of these, being giants, swap-force and superchargers, but I basically forgot about the whole franchise after I started growing up and playing other games. Thanks for giving me some more nostalgia right after I was reminded of 2013 minecraft!
Thanks bro I really appreciate that ❤️
And you're welcome :)
Giants and Trap Team are the Top 1
Agreed hahaha
Great to see some skylanders content! Would like to see some more skylanders videos
Great to hear! I've got some ideas for the future, but that'll be for a bit later on so my channel doesn't turn into a Skylanders channel 😜
Honestly it's stuff like this that makes me wish they brought the Skylander series back. The Toys to Life fad may be as good dead but they can still create a new game without it (though they probably find another way to monetize the hell out of it when they do decide to make one).
Yeah I kinda lost hope on a new game a while ago hahaha
@@gamefishbram well who knows knowing the company owning they’ll definitely bring back eventually to milk the franchise for what it’s worth as they did with bringing back the series as a TV series, probably won’t be good as the past games but might still be interesting to talk about if a new game comes out.
First of all, great video! I loved skylanders so much and still have all the toys.
At one point you rightly pointed out Flynn’s banter and i hope you’ve played nightmare express on trap team (expansion level). It’s definitely my favourite level of all the games and the banter is elite.
Thank you! :)
I haven't yet, but it's still on the list for the collection 🙃
i owned the wii version of superchargers, and i only found out the difference years after i was done with it 😭
also, i used to play skystones on repeat for some reason
Hahaha, probably for the better tho, the Wii would probably straight up die if it tried to run the actual superchargers 💀
Same man, gotta collect them skystones lol
@@gamefishbram probably for the best, i guess
@musicbeatskygacha8440 i have that amiibo too
I only found out the difference today, when he started playing superchargers. i am very sad now, seems like the actual superchargers is just way better
I take a guilty pleasure in watching videos on this franchise since I grew up with it, being introduced to it with giants when I was at friends house back in middle school(who then moved away so that is one of the few major memories i have with them), and then getting trap team a few years later. the games are a neat time to revisit and I'm holding onto a good chunk of the figures because a lot of them are actually decent visual wise. I will say that I'm surprised how expensive some of the figures are nowadays because the market for them is pretty limited. I have the Blackout figure and was curious on how expensive a Spotlight would be and a used figure on ebay is like 80 dollars. Why?
Awesome to hear you have such great memories of the franchise!
Yeah it's ridiculous. Every light and dark element related figures from trap team have just skyrocketed in value.
You know, I just don't understand how this franchise never had a Rogue Like Game. Most of the time you spend the games grinding for levels anyways, replaying the whole game with each new figure was the fun part.
Having an endless game that is easily repeatable and using the characters themselves as save files would be exactly what this franchise needs.
Really interesting idea, maybe that would be a way to reintroduce the franchise 🤔
Very well made video. I still collect and play skylanders to this day so this was a very fun watch. Also 10:33 this part was really funny
Thank you so much :D
I remember getting a trap team game bundle when I was younger and it is my most memorable gift ever given to me
I had the same with Giants :)
@@gamefishbram the day i unwrapped the Giants game on christmas i probably one of my fondest memories, i hadnt even heard of skylanders at that point but for some reason i just fell in love with it. seeing the Tree-Rex model in the box and taking him out was all i needed. all my friends all got Skylanders that year as well and we all used to swap our different skylanders around. probably the best gaming experience ill ever have
As a guy got got the PS4 AFTER the fall of Skylanders I'm really glad they kept it on the Wii for so long. Regardless of the reason that was nice of them
Yeah it's nice to be able to play the games on so many consoles. Once you've experienced Swap Force and Trap Team on the Wii it's really difficult to go back tho hahaha
Awesome video! Love to see someone respect Superchargers. It may be my favourite but Giants is also amazing. Rip your wallet 😢
Appreciate it man :). Yeah superchargers is very much underrated haha. Luckily my wallet didn't take too much of a beating, because I've been building my collection for about 12 years now lol
Skylanders was the first game I ever got truly invested in, when I look back at the entire franchise they definitely started strong with Spyro's Adventure and personally I think that Trap Team was the pinnacle of it all due to the superchargers game basically being redundant. For me, the first 4 games are fantastic however I would have liked to see Activision NOT make people pay an arm and a leg every single year. The last 2 games are fun to play but are essentially useless. They are time killers at best although they are somewhat enjoyable. The first 4 games however really are "The Games" for me.
I played all the skylander games (expect for swapforce) and these games were my childhood it’s a real shame that there isn’t a another game
Would love to see a new one as well :)
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Brother you are missing out swap force is my number 1
I would repeat the last mission of spyros adventure over and over cause there was gates with gems behins them and i thought it was the fastest way to get money lmao.
You might be onto something tho hahaha
I have only played spyro and trap teams but supercharges seems like the best game in the franchise might try it sometime
Story wise it's defintely the best, but in other aspects it does lack a little. Still a very good one tho, so definitely check it out!
@@gamefishbram flashwing is best girl
@@gamefishbram yeah like what was it 1 or 2 boss fights that aren't in cars in the entire game
@@jjohnson2445 yeah
The noticeable change in gameplay from giants to swap force is what makes spyros adventure and giants my favorites. The others just do not feel right when playing, partially because you can jump and such
Yeah Giants still is king for me as well
Am I the only one who didn’t even know Supercharders existed?
Heard a lot more people say that haha
Well I stumbled upon this video as a guy who stopped playing/collecting Skylanders after Swap Force...and after watching seeing and seeing how active the community still is, I've decided to collect the rest of the games/figures! I'm passionate about older games and collecting them so Skylanders Trap Team/Superchargers/Imaginators just seems like a good next step...well not if you're my wallet but we won't talk about that! :')
Thank you for this blast from the past, really well made and I can't wait to see what other content you come up with! :D
You're gonna have a bladt with those!
And thank you! Welcome aboard :)
I hope 7 will finally come
As long as it's better than imaginators 😭😭
And as long as there finally be an elephant/mammoth skylander that would’ve been in 1 of the 6 games
Sounds like a pretty cool design idea
How does this guy only have 1.7k subs this vid is amazing and seems like it comes from a creator that deserves way more attention and recognition. Keep it up!
Thanks man! I'll give it my all :D
This is a good ranking! Mine is probably
1: Trap Team
2: Superchargers
3: Giants
4: Spyro’s Adventure
5: Swap Force
6: Imaginators
Thank you! Great to see some more love for Superchargers :)
I'd say 1: Giants
2: swap force
3:spyros adventure
4: trap team
5: superchargers
6: imaginators
Trap team on top it has the best gimmicks and sure it has glitches but you can also use them to have fun and do speedruns so honesty it ain’t that bad
Well, this took me well down memory lane. I still remember the feeling of opening up a fresh Skylander when the first part came out 😂
Skylanders was probably one of the most influential games on my childhood. It's all the way up there with Pokemon and Spectrobes
Great video, thanks for reminding me of the good old times ^^
Thanks! And you're welcome :)
My brother, loved the vid and fully agree with the Giants appreciation hopely the future of skylanders is bright
Great to hear! I hope so too :)
The absolute nostalgia this video has given me. It makes me want to replay all of them for myself, I still have a good chunk of my old collection
Hahaha I'm not stopping you ;)
you live my Dream man, the First two Games were/are epic
The intro video of skylanders giants was freaking cool. It was by far one of the favourite things to rewatch 1000 times when i was a kid
God it was awesome
"Wow an entertaining video with a decent amount of views about something I like! I wonder if he has a lot of subs- 932!?!?" This video was super fun! Hope your channel grows and keep up the good work!
Hahaha thank you so much! Always great to hear the quality of my videos is comparable with bigger channels ❤️
This is so nostalgic for me. I entered the series with Giants like you, then played every game up to Superchargers. I didn't get very far into superchargers but I played the other games RELIGIOUSLY. I would always get the next game for Christmas along with a couple random skylanders from that game. I want to go back to them but I would need to find my XBOX 360 console lol
God getting a new game was the best feeling ever 😭
I genuinely miss this series, glad I found this video!!!
I don't have Spyro's adventure, so this is very nice to know about!
Glad I could help out :)
This game is part of my childhood, the Christmas holidays, after school gaming was a beautiful thing. 5000 hours and many more. The portal is a magical experience 🥳
I vividly remember my Wii crashing EVERY time me and my brother would fight Dreamcatcher in Trap Team, so neither of us ever finished the game
It's so annoying I managed to get past it on the first playthrough, but then had the same problem all the time
You should totally do a ranking of the 3DS versions of the games. They have entirely different stories and entirely different mechanics.
I'd like to try them out someday, but I unfortunalty do not own any of them and the portals, and if I did I still wouldn't have a way to record my 3ds :(
@@gamefishbram that’s fair. But if you ever do get the opportunity, I highly recommend it and would love to see your ranking of it
This was such a great video. You should make this a series of playing other game series and then comparing and ranking them too. Keep up the great work!!
Thank you so much! I'm planning on making more of these 'in 2024' videos of older games, so there's more where that came from :)
I LOVE SKYLANDERS! Big part of my childhood!!!! I still own all the games and all our characters, I should replay it again sometime
Go for it :D
Trap team will always hold a special place in my heart as it was the game that introduced me to the franchise.
Sadly, I didn't have enough money to splurge on trap masters or crystals, so I could only do so much, but that never stopped me from loving it to pieces!!
All I had was the beginner's pack and a Smolderdash I stole from my cousin, and you best believe she carried me throughout the whole game.
Hahaha then those few Skylanders do feel extra special tho 🤪
The last Skylanders i played was Trap team, God i loved that game and seeing this video just brought up so much nostalgia, thank you for the video it was great.
You're welcome! Thank you for watching :)
gg we always have to glaze Spyros adventure even though it’s the worst skylanders game just because of nostalgia
I have every figurine (at least one version of each) of every skylander, even the 2ds one
That's awesome!
i remember my dog chewed off thumpbacks anchor and i was devestated😭
Not the chew marks 😭
I started with Spyro's Adventure so I'm likely nostalgia biased, but it holds a special place in my heart. I absolutely loved the story and large variety of level theming that came from the different elements. Seeing each stage of the Core of Light being built filled me with so much joy. My ranking:
1. Spyro's Adventure
2. Giants
3. Trap Team
4. Swap Force
I didn't play the last two so I'm leaving them unranked.
I get it man, SSA is magical
My brother and I had the first three games on the Wii, my brother even won a special box for Trap Team. A few years back we had a birthday party at a friends place (who we always joke does nothing but skip college classes, drink a lot and sleep in) and we knew he had a large Skylanders collection. So one other friend decided to put the data of a rare Spyro on a tag and put it in a hand-crafted bottle opener keychain. Best part, it actually works, the portals actually recognize the bottle opener as a Spyro
This is honestly the most hilarious Skylanders related story I've ever heard 😂😂
Man that music for the first game… years of nostalgia completely just rushed back to me, I only ever played the first two games, never even beat either of them. But I had a bunch of the figures, I outgrew it around the third game, still I absolutely adored the series as a kid.
The music definitely makes the game :)
The first game was my introduction to the series and I remember loving it!
Ssa is very magical indeed :)
I love skylanders, but the Wii version of Trap Team is a fate I wouldn't wish upon my worst enemy, and entirely because of 1 level. The observatory level had a horrific bug that made it crash after 10-15 minutes. I did beat it, eventually, but it was frankly harder than every other level combined, and not for any good reason. Still loved the game, but I'd frankly have loved it A LOT MORE if it weren't for that bug.
Hahaha same, playing that level was horrible, sometimes playing for more than 20 minutes and then losing all the progress. Such a pain...
So THAT's why it kept crashing. we originally thought it was an issue with the disc because it would always crash at around the same spot, that being like 15 seconds after the fight with hood sickle. I eventually just downloaded the free wii u version with the code in the box and didn't look back.
As someone who has never played Skylanders, I really love the games for some reason. I used to watch way too much content on it.
Hahaha I've got the same thing but with FNAF
This is such a solid video damn, it’s giving me nostalgia and I really agree with your opinion
Thank you so much! :)
My ranking of the games:
1) Swap-Force or Trap Teams
2) Trap Teams or Swap-Force
3) Giants
4) Spyro's Adventure or Superchargers
5) Superchargers or Spyro's Adventure
6) Imaginators
Now Giants was what introduced me to the franchise, and Trap Team and Swap-Force is what I played the most as a kid,,, so I'm a bit biased.
I replayed the games in 2022, and I do love them all (except imaginators) in their own way.
Isn't everyone biased tho 😜
13:36 That same thing happened to me. Only, my Wii Play through crashed TWICE on that chapter. The first time was ether before or after the fight with Hood Sickle.
It's so annoying 😭
Such a great flashback. My best friend introduced me to skylanders and my momt bought the first game for me too. Seeing my fav skylanders was such a throwback. I skipped out on giants but i remember playing it at my friends. My last one was swapforce and i absoluty loved it
Awesome to hear :)
Yes and Giants was my first and still favorite game in the series! I even started a new nightmare dragon lock in Giants because I missed playing through nightmare mode
Oooo great challenge, good luck! :)
Swap force was my first game I got myself. So many fun memories
I had every single one as a kid… oh my god have I missed this series!!!!!
So much nostalgiaaaa
I remember having so much fun playing swap force and fighting with the giants and swappables against my friends. Great memories
I love how everyone has such fond memories of this franchise, makes me extra glad I made this video :)
When I was a kid me and my brother got the first game and even managed to get the dlc figures which unlocked their stories. One was a pirate ship which you used to fight off a bunch of wolf pirates on a port of sorts and the second was a firefly which took you to the domain of dragons
Aah Pirate Seas and Dragon's peak, such good levels. Did you know there were actually two more as well? :)
@@gamefishbram I did in fact not know this
I don't remember which one has the sort of tower defense minigame, but this is one of the best side features proposed by the skylanders games.
Trap Team I believe, but I never really played the side modes so I'm not sure 🤔🤔
Giants was the only game I had, but I loved it so much. I remember riding on the ship and finding new lands.
Such good times :)
SKYLANDERS mentioned! RAH. I loved that game so much as a kid! I wanted to collect all the skylanders but didn't have the money 😭 We need these games back again for the new generations.
Everyone should experience them at least once hahaha
This game was my childhood. Memories for live!!
ive never been more proud of a channel than i am with this one ❤️
Thanks man! Means a lot coming from you ❤️
I like how Superchargers brought back some characters outside of Spyro's Adventures. Though I think that only extended to Swap Force, and not Trap Team.
Buzz and Madge returned as well :)
@gamefishbram Oh, I was referring to the playable characters, but that was cool too.
Hahaha woops, in that case you're right
Man i was also introduced through Giants, thanks for bringing back sone nostalgia
You're welcome :)
Bram jij klinkt echt Nederlands hahah . Goeie video man , deze serie is pure nostalgie voor mij
Hahaha is het zo duidelijk? 🙈 Dankjewel man, goed om te horen :)
@ nee je Engels is zeer goed hoor , alleen ik kijk te veel RUclips waardoor sommige dingen herkenbaar zijn . Heb jij nog een favoriet aspect aan skylanders ? Die van mij was het krijgen van nieuwe skylanders van mijn ouders als cadeau , en dan helemaal kapot grinden om ze op Max lvl te krijgen .
Haha beter. Dat was wel echt de shit idd, zo'n nieuw poppetje was altijd echt een hele happening 💀
I have spyro on top because of nostalgia. Me and my friend would do sleep overs every and complete the game on the evning and morning after. Never getting tired of the gameplay. I resently replayed the game and it was really cool to see that i still remember all or most of the shortcuts
Great to hear you have such amazing memories of the franchise :)
I remember how much I struggled with the hydra final boss from the first game. Oh the nostalgia I have for these games.
The difficulty spike there was crazy hahaha
Swap force was the first game i had in the franchise on my wii u lol, still buy skylanders to this day :) the music at the intros give me so much nostalgia i wanna cry lol (Glumshanks was my favorite character hihi)
Great to hear you have such fond memories of the franchise :)
Hahaha Glumshanks is great,. Probably the most human character in the game, which is kinda ironic considering he's a troll 💀
I grew up with Skylanders Giants. I played through it multiple times with my friends and it was very fun.
Same bro, completed it like 5 times lol
5. Imaginators
4. Superchargers
3. Spyros adventure
2. Giants
1. Both Swap Force and Trap Team
Solid ranking!
Giants is insanely nostalgic for me. Swap force and Trap team too but nothing beats Giants
Same :)
fantastic video, keep it up
Thank you so much!
I swear there were these light and dark levels that were IMPOSSIBLE to beat
8:15 omg i remember that level lol, and the boat and the hive and i’m rambling on about my nostalgia
😂
nah Giants on top I haven't played that in 7 years at least but can remember every single level just by how creative they were with everything
100% most enjoyable for me too :)
i think SSA's level cap being only 10 at least decently balances the lack of a difficulty slider, but it's still nowhere as peak as giants.
Fair point, but man it would've been nice to fight some tougher enemies lol
Stealth Elf and trigger happy goat ❤
Very good characters indeed :D
Disagree with the swap force level design. The level design and especially the winter and water levels are something i still vividly remember and love.
Ooh they look and feel fantastic, I just think there too long and a little repetitive