darkSpyro

I'll work from easy from hard

Pfff, I really doubt Nightmare will actually be uber hard. They said variants would be more common and easy to get this time. And we all know how that will turn out. I'm remaining skeptical until i get to try it myself.

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Good idea on the no less than 1000 before upgrading though that might just get you the first upgrade and like leave half for the second... Unless you go through the whole game and look for the Winged Sapphires. (We've got a video where it shows one.) I'd probably start by leveling up my small SSA collection to at least lvl 13. And then focus on getting Tree Rex, Frighty, Swarm, and Crusher to at least lvl 10.

What I'd do is....

Play for the first level.

Get to the dread yacht, and load all my SSA guys in.

Then I close mah eyes, pick a giant/new guy, and get 1000 gold on that. Rinse and repeat untill all have been upgraded at least once. Get each of the favorite 8 ( ) to level 15 then get those reposes on the battlefield.

Thing is I want to play Hard difficulty. But I also want to get coverage done fast and first, which would be unwise in that case.

I intend to play on hard, with the hope that the added challenge will mean I get more experience points and can level up more figures, more quickly.

i'll be starting on easy and working my way up through the difficulties. then go back and finish things off. i reckon nightmare may not be as difficult as everyones saying but than again i could be wrong. Actually i hope im wrong for the challange.

I'll be Hard-y now.

Whatever one my son chooses. I'm sure we will play them all eventually though.

I'm going to start on hard mode. I want a challenge but not an insane one, plus I'm only using new figures, not my 34 series 1's.

For the record, even Hard level is moderately easy. I remain hopeful for Nightmare level, though...

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For the record, even Hard level is moderately easy. I remain hopeful for Nightmare level, though...

Yeah, but you're a grizzled Skylander veteran.

Makes me wonder how horribly easy the easy difficulty level is.

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I am going normal for going through the game, easy for leveling up and upgrades, nightmare and hard when I really want to just play for fun.

There is only one problem with that idea. When you unlock Nightmare mode, you have to start a new save game, you can't switch back and forth like you can with Easy, Medium, and Hard. So, if you want to fight Kaos on Nightmare mode, just for grins, bad news, you've got to go through all of the levels again.

My new plan....

After seeing level 1....


I will use...

Swarm, Pop Fizz, Fright Rider, and S1 Zook for level 1.

Load the rest of SSA in

Lay out all of the new guys. Close mah eyes and pick one. Get it to level 5 with 1000 gold. Rinse and repeat until all are upgraded. Get my favorite 8 to level 15. Get LC Prism Break and the Reposes up to the same level then level up/upgrade Crusher and Pop Fizz fully. Get whoever I can up to level 15 with all upgrades until I put down the game for a universe break.

is there an achievement (xbox) or in-game accolite that requires you to complete the game on Nightmare?

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is there an achievement (xbox) or in-game accolite that requires you to complete the game on Nightmare?

No. In S:G, there are no accolades or any achievements for defeating the game on ANY difficulty. No rewards, except for unlocking nightmare mode. The only special thing is it says, YOU UNLOCKED NIGHTMARE MODE when you beat it on any difficulty.

Nightmare Avenger

100 points

Complete the Story Mode on Nightmare difficulty

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Nightmare Avenger

100 points

Complete the Story Mode on Nightmare difficulty

Are you sure? Hmmmm... That isn't on my game... weird. You would think that that accolade wouldn't exist because they would want kids to able to beat the game too.

Sigh... I will reference the link rather than post them all but there is a cheev for each level and a cheeve for beating the game at any difficulty.

http://www.xbox360achievements...s/achievements/

I am 1/2 way through the game my cheev sheet looks like this:

does that are available at the shop when i arrive there....

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does that are available at the shop when i arrive there....

You really need to use that Preview Reply button

I'm starting with Hard mode, Spyro's Adventure was too easy for me. If it is REALLY hard, then I'll go for Chompy Cuddler to upgrade the new ones like or .

Yeah, I've played it more and Hard is only hard till about Wilikin Village. Still good, though. Definite improvement over the first. Now, if one of your Skylanders dies, you should actually worry, cause now non-upgraded Skylanders will actually have a tough time. So you have to share Gold a lot more often and since it appears less in Hard it's sort of challenging to do so right. For the most part the AI prevents it from staying difficult with fully upgraded Skylanders though.

What degree of difficulty is the same as S:SA, normal?

Is that really the 3 beginning options: easy, normal, hard?

I have only played Hard but would expect Normal to be it.

Remember that you can change difficulty on the fly so it is no biggie.

And the difficulties have names like "Chompy Cuddler" and "Cyclops Crusher".