Instead, the strength I've come to expect from real Skylanders comes in the form of Senseis, figurines on the scale of Skylanders Giants, each of which are masters of an individual battle class. A game so heavily centered around making your own dream character should have optimized that wish fulfillment to make your creation feel appropriately powerful by the end, but that quality is lacking. Even with relatively high-level ones and all of my upgrades purchased, my ability to deal with enemies and bosses was equivalent to around the early-to-mid-game in most other Skyanders games, far from the nimble and powerful late-game characters I had grown accustomed to. This makes Imaginators feel underpowered on the whole. The variety is nice, but it also means each one of the powers has only one upgrade. Characters are given a mix of abilities based on their element and battle class, and you can select one per button at a time. As a function of their customization, Imaginators are more limited.
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A Skylander's core moveset is constantly given greater power, more projectiles, and different effects as you upgrade them. I've always loved the Skylanders progression loop, which takes the diminuative heroes from relatively week to extremely versatile and powerful. More disappointing than the bodies, though, were the powers. On the other hand, this also means that you can't necessarily design the Imaginator you want to right from the start, because you may need to unlock the correct parts first. This gives the Diablo-like loot loop of Skylanders more substance, since now you can be rewarded with more than just coins. That lends itself to microtransactions, with a store prompt waiting at the end of the row of chests when you go to open a large set. Some specific parts are given as rewards for owning a particular Skylander or completing a special task, but more often they're doled out in random packs. Imaginator parts are unlocked through chests.
Plus, some body types are just too rigid, as I discovered when trying to make a Ninja-type that wasn't a gigantic head with a tiny body. That means you can't create a four-legged dragon, a mainstay in Skylanders thanks to its roots in the Spyro series. All of the Imaginators are essentially bipedal, humanoid creations, with some slight differences to their proportions.
The conceit does give it a great degree of variety, but even so, it's not as customizable as you might expect. You begin with an elemental type, as defined by your "Creation Crystal" toy, and then you determine one of several battle classes from familiar Skylanders types: Quickshot, Bowcaster, Knight, etc. You're put in charge of making some of your own from a mix-and-match bucket of body parts, facial features, and voice types. Don't Imagine DragonsĮach new Skylanders game carries its own gimmick, and Imaginators revolves around the titular character customization–which read to me as a response to competitors with a more recognizable stable of characters.
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As the progenitor of the toys-to-life genre, the series was facing competition from all sides with heavy-hitting franchises like Disney, Marvel, Star Wars, Lego, and Warner Bros. Imaginators seems directly responsive to these challenges, resulting in a strange and satisfying mixture that can't quite escape the curse of annualized familiarity. Skylanders Imaginators was born conceptualized in a different environment than its eventual release.
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