Skylanders Swap Force: 10 Years Later
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- čas přidán 15. 05. 2024
- Today is Skylanders Swap Force's 10th Anniversary!
This is a retrospective on what Skylanders Swap Force is like 10 Years Later. This is a very informative and mostly objective video with enough humor to keep you from getting bored. We will dive into the details of:
• The Development Process, including discussing Skylanders Shapeshifters
• Skylander's Competition: Disney infinity
• Template Template
• The Swapping Gimmick
• Innovations such as graphics, jumping, etc.
+ More!
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Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
0:46 - Background Info/Context
1:53 - Development Process
2:21 - Skylanders Shapeshifters
3:26 - Competition
4:16 - The Good
4:37 - The 17th Swapper
4:53 - The Best Gimmick
5:31 - Innovation
5:57 - Post Game Content
6:12 - Swap Zones
6:27 - Elemental Gates
7:04 - Spark Locks
7:42 - Leveling System
7:58 - Graphics
8:48 - The Bad
9:20 - Levels
10:08 - Roster Revamp
10:41 - Conclusion
I literally spent over 100 hours on this video and had to upload it at 11:59pm like a school assignment in order to get it in on the Anniversary itself. I'm still working on the video right now lol so subscribe if you see this and thanks for being awesome! 😊👍 - Hry
THANKS FOR WATCHING!
I'd like to address two things that were left out of the video:
1. I said Swap Force was released on the same consoles as Giants, but I didn't show the 3DS at 3:14.
2. Beenox was the development studio that worked on the Wii version of Swap Force.
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Did you know ? Swap Force Xbox One version also plays on Xbox Series X (tested by me) and PS4 version plays on PS5 (see videos on CZcams!) !
Fun fact: If you also count the variants of the swappers, the number of swapabilities increases up to 625 possible combinations.
This is the second best Skylanders game of all time
I haven't quite decided on my ranking, what's yours?
@@theSkylandeerTrap Team the best
my fav game is trap team...but even i know its not the best in the series lmao,giants even though its not my number 1 fav,its still the best skylander game to date@@Maccakit
@@Maccakit agreed
@@theSkylandeer
#6 Imaginators
#5 Trap Team
#4 Spyro's Adventure
#3 Super Chargers
#2 Swap-Force
#1 Giants
Its been 10 years already?!?! I feel so old.. i started playing Skylanders back when i was like 5 years old ❤😢
Me too!
YOU feel old? My autistic ass was playing when I was 13!
@@togaprentice9927 DAMN, u a 1999 kid or a 2000 kid?
@@HypingSugar 2000
Oh, makes sense because im a 2009 kid@@togaprentice9927
Skylanders Swap force was one of the best games from my childhood. Thanks for helping me relive a little bit of it with this awesome vid.
Glad I could help you relive the magic :)
I remember playing Skylanders swap force and those were good times a decade ago and I still play Skylanders and it feels like old times.
i feel like if the level themes weren't so repetitive people wouldn't have as big of an issue with the longer levels but as it is, it's always gonna be a sour spot on the overall game and really hurt trying to replay it, the first and last parts are good but that middle section is just a huge slog trying to play though it, also doesn't help that some gimmicks really outstay their welcome
Completely based take. Those 6 levels and two bosses in the middle make up a lot of the game and it's just a shame because in Giants every level was distinctly unique. I still love Swap Force's levels and they got creative with them but I will never understand why they made multiple with the same theme.
Well TBH like Skylandeer said, there were only 6 levels with repetitive themes. The rest were actually really good and unique.
This was a phenomenal video, and well worth the wait.
Thank you lol
This vid is great,swap force is a good game with an incredible gimmick
man Skylanders is prob my favorite childhood game, shoutout to my mom and grandpas wallets for buying me almost all the Skylanders, these games bring back many memories
LOL fr, these games weren't cheap bro
but nowadays games cost just as much money because of microtransactions anyway
Skylandeer hitin us with another banger video🙏
Once again good job this video was super well researched and edited!
hey, wait! you're that guy who made the template template video!
In all seriousness, I really appreciate it because I spent wayyyy too long on this one lmao
Can't believe it was that long ago already, Skylanders was such a big part of my childhood
Swappable. Unstoppable.
I will forever remember that Christmas as my journey to collect every Skylander. I managed to do so by Christmas 2017.
Pretty impressive!
this vid is PEAK,the level design seemed long by nature,but if u skip all the collectibles it narrows the completion time heavily,the game was overall a good time,most swap zones were fun and a good bit of the elemental gates were pretty good aswell,my only complaint with swap force is the melee hitstun that happens with 99% of all melee skylanders,overall a great time and a pretty great game
Both Vicarious Visions games are criminally underrated and I played through a level recently and ignored the gates and Swap Zones and it felt too short lmao
I'm pretty sure Swap Force has the most gates per level in the series and the longest gates too.
Add Swap Zones to that, and yeah...
each level has 2 normal gates and 1 duel gate,so yea there were 3 gates per level which was pretty cool,the ONLY level in the whole series to have more than 3 gates is the first level of trap team which has 4 and is also the only level in the game to feature 4 gates, also i do believe trap team has the most gates out of all the games,pls correct me if i am wrong tho lol.@@theSkylandeer
also superchargers level design and structure was PEAK,every level was peak except cpt clucks which was a rather bad level,overall superchargers is a great game after finally beating it after so many years of not being able to.@@theSkylandeer
yep first level has 4 gates but im pretty sure other levels have 4 as well; a lot of them only have two though
there's also dual element gates in the ssf expansion packs which is cool
Love SSC but unfortunately it got rid of Elemental gates and we got those lame vehicle gates...
You underestimate my knowledge of the VV GDC Alchemy visual development 😂 Good video!
LOL yeah they're super interesting
Another amazing video
This video all of a sudden makes me wanna play skylanders swap force again. This game was a big deal in my childhood since not only was this my first ever skylanders game but it is also my first ever video game I got to play as a child. unfortunately I wasn't allowed to get a whole lotta figures as a kid and the only two I ever got were magna charge and free ranger, but damn this video is giving me flashbacks on how how much I loved this game and how much it impacted my life, swap force in my opinion is the best skylanders game ever cuz of its sales and the graphics, swap force is literally skylanders prime year
Yes! This is exactly what I was hoping for when I made this video; I hope you get the chance to try the other really cool characters from Swap Force. I wanted to talk about the Roster in this video but due to time constraints I ended up cutting it out. Overall the characters are phenomenal and I would recommend you get Bumble Blast, Wind Up, Pop Thorn, Spy Rise, Rattle Shake, or Night Shift
If you don't want to spend money on actual figures, you can make ANY character you want using NFC Cards, here's my tutorial if you're interested: czcams.com/video/6GGM4oMyJdI/video.htmlsi=W8FdRSc88MujluFL
@@theSkylandeer what are you talking about, when I was a kid i couldn’t get a whole lotta figures, but now my friend and I are in our teens, I’m 16 and he’s 17, we’ve officially completed our swap force collection, only excluding some series 3, but like getting all the swap force cores and swappers, my friend and I got back into the game last year and it started with him sending me a video and a skylanders tribute and him telling me he misses our childhood game. His room is literally full of our collected figures that we have been collecting for the past year, we still plan on getting more to complete our trap team and superchargers and start collecting some imaginator sensei’s, we’ve just been pretty busy lately and haven’t gotten much chance, but I believe one day we’ll get all the main rosters and characters of each game and 100% fulfill our childhood dream, I still would call our success a childhood dream complete but yea like I said, I believe one day we can get every figure from every game, just need some patience and time, but thanks for sending the link for nfc cards
@diamondguy-xs4lg OH that's really awesome! Congratulations on the collection!
Happy 10th anniversary to skylanders swap force 🎉🎉
This is my favourite game of the franchise it was just the best back in the day
If you ask me Swap Force automatically claims the title in the series with the most amount of innovation and risks that the series has ever made. New engine with adjustments to all original 48 characters, new mechanics like jumping and checkpoints in every level, longer more rich levels, a massive amount of postgame content, entering a new area of Skylands expanding the world building, etc.
Also I disagree with the similar level themes because while they do share a similar idea a lot of the time the execution is unique enough for me to give a pass. Iron Jaw Gulch is a bustling town with tons of people and lots of civilization elements making it feel alive. Motleyville is located outside of Iron Jaw Gulch in the boonies meaning there aren't that many characters there besides the important ones and a few occasional Dirt Sharks, it also has grind rails that weren't in Iron Jaw and a progression of time in the lightning which keep it unique enough for me to give it a pass. Twisty Tunnels is at a completely different time of day and has elements of giant coral, Terrasquid tentacles, and evilized crystals ridden all around it meaning I cannot see any similarities to Iron Jaw besides the inclusion of sand.
Also every Skylanders game has this problem not just Swap Force, SSA reuses level themes because of the structure of the story itself and the same applies with Swap Force and by extention Trap Team (maybe to a lesser extent).
Other than that I can agree with essentially everything else this video presents. Trap Team is an overrated mess of a game just thought I'd mention that.
Yes! Swap Force is incredibly innovative and deserves more credit for that. I can see that there are differences in the three "sandy" levels but I would've liked to see a little more diversity; I especially have that issue with the three frosty levels which feel even more similar
@@theSkylandeer I agree, though I think Frostfest is the most unique for sure because of the blizzards and the night time colors being more prominent. If Boney Islands wasn't the way it is I wouldn't mind the overlap as much (I really really hate that level even if I do love Swap Force as a whole) the frozen museum idea is neat in concept at least, but the level is not fun in many ways. I also played Swap Force 160 times to rank every upgrade path and I didn't receive nearly as much burn out as I did with Trap Team after just 40 and there's 264 playthroughs to do in total. I can't really describe my exact words why I prefer Swap Force over all the games I just really enjoy it even with some of its problems (but all the games have problems too)
holy crap you played through the story 160 times???@@Camo-xf7yc
@@theSkylandeer Yep. A ton of free time and 7 months of dedication. I wanted to rank every character on every upgrade path and its exactly what I accomplished. I did the same for SSA XPEC and Giants. It took me 13 months for all 3 games in total. I don't plan to finish Trap Team until a while from now
I respect your dedication to the community; I have my own team of researchers testing every upgrade path for each game and I am testing every Swapper combination 😅
This video is the perfect 10th anniversary gift for Swap Force!
Swap Force is love, Swap Force is life!
Swap Force is my favorite Skylanders game, especially on HD consoles and 3DS.
Though my only criticism towards this video is the lack of acknowledgement towards the 3DS version of Swap Force.
You did mention the 3DS versions of SSA and Giants but when you said Swap Force was released on same systems as SSA and Giants, you didn't feature 3DS along with Wii, Wii U, Xbox 360 and PS3.
You're right! I regret not mentioning the 3DS version because many of my friends say it's the best version out there. I unfortunately have never played the 3DS versions so it wouldn't feel right for me to comment on it other than the release of it. Sorry for the oversight!
Great Video Bud Keep them coming
As Always!
It's the lumoinus flamez guy from not that long ago I had to restart so I also decided to rebrand a bit great video btw
Swap force is the best skylanders game by far the gamplay overhall is the most important thing to me in swap force all the old skylanders got rebalanced nicely where in trap team the old skylanders were made intentionally obsolete by removing elemental gates and giving the trap masters bonuses in boss fights but most importantly some old skylanders just got compleatly ruined in trap team like swarm doesnt lock on atall while flying
Yeah, I would agree Swap Force gameplay beats Trap Team in most respects, especially in balancing. Some characters in STT are just AWFUL that the game feels like nightmare mode on easier difficulties and some characters are so broken that nightmare mode feels like easy or normal.
I loved all the skylanders games and was addicted but my very favorite has to be trap team, no particular reason I just like it.
Very popular opinion, Trap Team is pretty good overall
@theSkylandeer I am glad you make skylanders content, it was one and still is one of the best games out there, I feel like though imaginators was supposed to be the last game if it was better they could've made another game.
Possibly, but they wanted to play it safe for imaginators. I believe that game had a significantly lower budget; it had a lack of any original music and most of the game and the villain senseis are all just recycled assets...
man i miss this game
me when he said 8 elements man I wish it was 2013 again just to tell my past self that would all change next year
haha those new elements really shook things up
no other skylander game rom the series could top swap force
Tbh I hated the lock puzzles in swap force especially since there weren't any lock puzzle keys
@bluefatalis7111 Really? They weren't that hard to complete, but if you want a challenge you can go for the extra sparks. What don't you like (other than they're not skippable)
@theSkylandeer I had a hard time completing some of them and some were infuriating
Were you trying to get the sparks? Those can be pretty hard to get sometimes@@DragonKingRaiguy
@@theSkylandeer no
both i chose both from childhood to hopelessly addicted to collecting plastic
I love Swap Force.
Damn.......10 years 😢
ngl i saw this and then had to go throo my old stuff to see wich ones i had\
I played the Wii version as a kid unfortunately but recently I got a 360 so I’m planning to play the actually good version soon
Nice! 360 is pretty good, night and day from wii.
More skylander!
My dad used to have a really rich friend these times one night that friend was coming to visit us when he came my dad the friend and I were opening it i remember it like yesterday
My ranking for best Skylanders games
#6 Super Chargers
#5 Imaginators
#4 Spyro’s Adventure
#3 Giants
#2 Swap Force
#1 Trap Team
How can you put Superchargers last???
Mine is
#6 Spyros adventure
#5 Superchargers
#4 Swap force
#3 Imaginators
#2 Trap team
#1 Giants
If this game proved anything, it’s that Vicarious Visions cared more about Skylanders and the world building more than Toys For Bob. Their games have always been the better entries in my opinion.
I tend to agree, it seems a lot more love was put into the VV games, though they seemed to have more development time so that could be why.
@@theSkylandeer From a technical standpoint perhaps, but I prefer the fact that all the characters we encounter aren’t just variations of the Mabu we all know and love. Especially since a good chunk are the same species as some of the skylanders (Stump Smash and Terrafin), further emphasising the fact they were seemingly normal citizens at one point or another.
Also SW gave us Roller Brawl and she is best girl, so instant win
Yayyyy
1. Swap force
2. Trap team
3. Giants
BLUE TEMPLATE TEMPLATE!!!
Was shapeshifters actually released then because I never came across it or heard about it til now
No, it was the original idea that got scrapped in favor of Swap Force
Yep skylander was the first game I ever played
4:50 but do you have LEAN template template?
Is that the little red guy "Template Legacy"?
say what you want about imaginators but I still love it
Honestly I don't even hate it, but it had so much potential and a lot of the game is recycled content
The only thing I didn’t like about the game is that it replaced every single npc but flynn
Im very interested in secret skylanders like template template and vvind-up. Is blue template fake or a real variant?
I don't know if he's playable but the screenshot you see in the video is from a real developer conference.
I only got to play this with my cousin cause my parents never bought me any skylanders except a sure shot shroomboom😅
Damn, not even a good one 😭
I always wanted one of these, but parent said no.
😢
You can play the games for free on emulators these days as long as you have a PC!
Skylanders swap force 10 years later 10 day later
Now Trap team is gonna turn 10 years old too
that's gonna be a pretty interesting video later this year...
@@theSkylandeer indeed, whenever a Skylanders game turns 10 years old the people who work at toys for bob do a play through live stream
yeah we might get some developer insight hopefully
although i am an avid swap force hater, swap force did innovate and this was a w vid
Hater? Damn. What are your gripes with it?
@@theSkylandeer it felt like an awkward stage between the low quality of giants and the high quality of trap team and future games. and to me it was really the one to start the problems with harder requirements for different things like gates, repetitive and it is probably partially because i played it on the wii as a kid but replaying it on the xbox 360 and xbox one x still felt like it would be 6-5th on my list
Oh yeah the wii version is a complete disaster. I'm not sure what you meant by low quality of giants and high quality of the other games but if you meant graphics quality then Swap Force has some of the best.@@ChooknGaming
Yo skylandeer I was wondering which I should get my birthdays soon so I’d like ur input
What exactly are you looking for? like swap force characters? Swappers?
@@theSkylandeertrap team
get a trap master of each element and follow my traps buying guide: czcams.com/video/Cz6lzHNWdxE/video.htmlsi=1b8ARezAu7d9axm-
What game is the summon animation @5:27 from?
Trap Team
I remember it
u needed a swapper to open gates and 2 specific ones
in trap team u only needed a trap master
No, you could use two normal skylanders if you were missing the swappers. Even if that wasn't the case, Swap Force still is better because every level has 2 normal gates and one dual element gate whereas trap team had multiple gates that only trap masters could open. You needed as much as 4 trap masters per level to unlock everything, plus multiple trap elements... yikes
Weird to think
Giants tops this though
Bro yes I hated Rufus 🤣
how is swap force that old aint no way
It is...
Who else watched skylander Boy and Girl
everyone says you can't jump in giants you are all just fed lies because I played giants so many times and always seem to find that I can jump
Are you playing the 3ds version?
@@susanclay4225 no lol
*Promo SM* 😑