u/Devildeep

When I realised that the extra levels in trap team cost so much, I put to rest any thoughts about clearing the series. That was unil I found out about NFC cards and how to make them. Getting the gear for it was infinitely cheaper than buying the levels outright secondhand.

I quickly found out I could do more than that. UFO hat in swap force, ease! Spring time hat to finish my hat collection, sorted.

Despite having a massive bag of unassigned chips cheaply and the system set up to make whatever characters I want, I find myself spending more on figures instead.

Sure, like a kid with five bucks in a candy store I had my thrill when I first got it. I made a few of the cores I hadn't even thought about before, tested out eon elite characters that are so expensive, but then I sort of just chucked those chips to the side to get more characters.

It's not that I feel guilty for making the chips, but I feel like I guess they aren't MINE? Like playing with them, moving them from console to console, game to game, it didn't have the same thrill as using figures I actually owned. It was so easy to just toss a chip away and forget about it as I kept going back to the characters I do own.

In the mean time whilst I'm waiting for more superchargers, I've jumped on imaginators for a quick glance at the game. Despite originally thinking that frankly this was the one game I was fine with the majority of my characters being NFC just so I have access to all the content, loading in characters from robo to windstorm, I've kept to only 10 sensei to have 1 of each element/battle class. BUT STILL, I just haven't had fun playing with them, in fact, all are level 1. Only crash bandicoot, the single Sensei I've owned, have I actually used to play. Alongside my creation crystals. Like I know I could have the entire Sensei roster at hand. I just can't bring myself to use them.

This is all coming off the back of just buying a small lot of senseis, having come to terms that I did WANT to play them. But I need them to be mine. Deciding that I'm probably never going to be okay with dishing out 300 for robo, Wildstorm, or Breeze, but I'm fine with it.

I'm not here to say that people who use NFC aren't real skylander lovers, because who the hell gatekeeps something they love? Whatever way you find to make the game accessible and fun for you will always be valid. I was just wondering if there were others like me who can't bring themselves to use NFC with CHARACTERS and prefer playing with the figures they actually own.

One thing that is consistent with the other games is that by increasing your collection of a singular element, Skylanders of that element gain an elemental bonus whilst in their specific elemental zones.

Imaginators only really has their Sensei in the collection tab, adding Skylanders from other games increases the collection tab maximum total, however it seems that elemental bonus isn't a thing anymore?

Is it worth it to scan every skylander I have onto my imaginators game, or does it do nothing but just show my collection. I know senseis will increase my max imaginator level by 1.