While the headline sounds like it could be the name of the next game, it's not. By now I'm sure you've heard plenty about the next game, Skylanders Trap Team, but that's not what I'm talking about today.
Today I'm talking about the sluggish, dull period of time that starts around March, takes a short break in June, then continues on until October.
The time of the year where you're just waiting for the final few figures to be released so you can complete your collection.
The time of the year where you've played your way through last year's Skylanders title multiple times, defeated every battle arena, and complete the side quests and mini-games.
The time of the year when you just can't wait for the next Skylanders game to come out.
This is what I call the Skylanders Doldrums.
What Do You Do During The Doldrums?
As you may have guessed, I don't have any real Skylanders news today, but I am quite curious to find out what YOU are up to…
What do you do during this time of the year?
Are you still finishing up the game?
Are you leveling up your characters?
Are you taking a break from Skylanders?
This is a question that each and every one of you can answer and there is no wrong answer. I'm just curious.
Where are you in your Skylanders quest?
I bought Swap Force the morning it was released, but we didn’t open it until Christmas morning. We have played about halfway through the campaign so far, with like 25% completion. I only play when my son wants to play too, so it’s inconsistent progress. I think we MAY have completed it by this Christmas. But we play a lot of different games besides Skylanders, and we are still trying to 100% the first two games as well.
Just trying to get three stars on all levels still. Although I’m not sure I’ll ever get three stars in the bosses!
Have completed the story line, but I re-started it after a few more swapable ones came out. Now just completing the side missions and upgrading each character.
You wanna know what I’m doing? YOU wanna KNOW what I’M DOING? Other stuff. B.T.W. by OTHER I mean Magic the Gathering! BOYEEE!!
all my current characters are at 15 and up. also, i have at least 1 edition of every skylander there is except for three i am working on getting: Scratch, Trap Shadow, And Doom Stone
there actually somthing i do during said “doldrums”. i moniter this site for new characters that have been revealed for the NEXT skylanders game.
Occasionally I rearrange those figures I have displayed and try to make everything look nice, but mostly I find I am taking a break from Skylanders right now. Working on other games, monitoring the web for news on upcoming releases.
Having some friends over next week though, so maybe some battle arena matches are just around the corner.
Unlike the first 2 games, Swap Force has so much side stuff that I’m still working on getting 100%. I’m at 92% right now, with a Portal Master level of 71 or 72. It’s nearly impossible to take no damage on Kaos’ mom or Kaos himself. Some of the arena battles and swap zone challenges are also extremely difficult to get 3 stars, even on easy. I don’t know how a child could do it.
I disagree, I think Swap Force was the worst game. Giants was my favourite game, it had so much stuff to do and it was fun to teplay the levels. To obtain the Swap Force trophies on my PS3 it requires you to play each level about 4 or 5 times and I would mind but some of the levels are quite boring and the ability to swap and half your figures was a very silly inovtion I thought, it was just an excuse to make another game. But hang on, it’s not all gloom and Doom, Trap Team is an AMAZING inovation and it is very exciting, playing as Kaos, now thats what I call an inovation, and who doesn’t like a cute little artichoke who shoots tomatoes with his tomato gun!!!