The act of summoning a character is done by placing your Skylander figure onto the Portal of Power. As the story goes, you are a Portal Master, and it is up to you to summon the heroic Skylanders from the Earth realm into their realm to save their world. What sets this game apart from the “Gauntlet-style” of the past is the action figure component of the Skylanders experience.The fiction is set up in a way to justify the use of action figures as a character select and character data storage method. Instead of being a 3D platformer, Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure is an action adventure game cut from the same cloth as Gauntlet. Outside of the inclusion of Spyro himself, this game has no real connection to its predecessors. Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure is a spin-off of the main Spyro games.

I made up all the excuses in the world to not play it, but it ended up winning me over in a big way. Then I got it for Christmas and I played the heck out of it. Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure, at first glance, is not a game I should like for a number of reasons:Ģ) I’m close to 20 years older than the target audience this game was created for and marketed toģ) I’ve grown weary of video game peripherals and add-on purchases, which the entirety of this game is built aroundĤ) I’m generally not a fan of the “Gauntlet-style” of game.ĥ) I don’t like the thought of going into a Toys R Us to buy myself action figures for my kiddie video gameĪs curious as I’ve been to play it, I’ve put up all sorts of mental barriers to stop myself from playing this game at all.

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