Skylanders: Imaginators

Skylanders: Imaginators is a toys-to-life game developed by Toys for Bob and published by Activision, it is the sixth instalment of the Skylanders series.

Like other Skylanders games, the game uses collectible toy figures that can be scanned and used as playable characters.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) Like other Skylanders games, the concept of using collectible figures as player characters is quite creative. The game comes bundled with three figures, which are enough to beat the game from start to finish so you're not forced to get additional ones aside from expanding your playable character roster and reaching optional areas for specific elements.
 * 2) *Likewise, if you own previous Skylanders games, figures from those games are also compatible with this one.
 * 3) Different types or Skylanders are stronger in different sections, which encourages consistently swapping figures without being mandatory.
 * 4) Beautiful and colorful graphics.
 * 5) It introduces a character creator system, activated by scanning a "creator crystal" figure. The character creator is extremely detailed, letting you customize lots of details such as colours, clothing, combat style, size, and even voice dialogues. There are countless customization pieces which can be unlocked at a consistent rate.
 * 6) TONS of replay ability,
 * 7) There are even special figures that you add your custom character in it, in case you want to play with it on a different console
 * 8) Crash Bandicoot and Dr. Neo Cortex make guest appearances as playable figures.
 * 9) *Placing the Crash or Cortex figure unlocks an exclusive level called Thumpin' Wumpa Islands, which mixes the Crash Bandicoot gameplay with Skylanders and it works well and you can still play it with other Skylanders as well.
 * 10) *Since all Sklanders games are backwards compatible with previous figures, you can still use the Donkey Kong Amiibo and Bowser Amiibo on the Wii U version while also using Crash Bandicoot and Dr. Neo Cortex, making it the first and only time these characters can appear together.
 * 11) *Since Spyro is backwards-compatible, you can also play with him and.
 * 12) Many villains from Skylanders: Trap Team also return in this game, this time as playable characters.
 * 13) Great voice acting.
 * 14) Favorable controls.
 * 15) Solid dungeon-crawler and platforming mechanics.
 * 16) Many likable characters.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The game has microtransactions, despite the collectible figures already costing real money on their own. It also uses loot boxes in the form of Treasure Chests, that being said, you get lots of them so frequently in-game that there's really no need to buy any.
 * 2) Even though you can beat the game with just the basic figures included in the starter pack, large amounts of optional content requires additional figures. That being said, you only need at least one figure for each element (of which there are ten) to get access to everything.
 * 3) Lackluster boss battles, about ten of them are Doomlanders with that Skylander's Battle Class power (like Knight, Brawler and Sorcerer).
 * 4) The writing is on par with Saturday morning cartoons. This is due to the Skylanders cartoon (Skylanders Academy) that was released around the same time.
 * 5) The game can be too short.
 * 6) Unlike Skylanders: SuperChargers, there's no digital version nor the ability to play without the figures. The reason for that is that the developers want to make the buying toys as a Skylanders thing.
 * 7) Other than the Senseis, all the original characters were nerfed to the point where they were unplayable in the harder difficulties, it's most likely made like this so that you buy figures.
 * 8) The Switch version doesn't support previous portal of powers, which led to trap figures and vehicle figures from Trap Team and SuperChargers incompatible with it.

Reception
Skylanders: Imaginators received positive reception. It was praised mainly for the character creation mechanic, which is generally considered the best special mechanic in Skylanders games.

However it was noted that the Toys-to-Life games were declining in popularity at the time the game was released, so this wound up being the final Skylanders game.