sonicbrawler182
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#93 Posted: 23:38:37 16/10/2015
For what it's worth, I was kinda saying "Skylanders absorbed Spyro and that's kinda annoying" for years.
Then I picked up a brand new copy of Skylanders Giants for €9.99 recently, as well as the Series 2 Spyro figure for €14.99 (which I easily could have gotten cheaper, but I wanted a brand new copy as well as the experience of opening a standalone Skylander fresh out of the box).
I've been playing it (just got off a long session of it, I think I'm up to the second last level), and honestly it's a fun game. It definitely isn't worth what it was priced at when it first released (and I still maintain that no Skylanders game is), and it certainly has it's fair share of flaws. And I still like Classic Spyro and LoS games more (except Enter the Dragonfly and A New Beginning, and the GBA Classic Spyro games). But to be honest, Spyro could be doing a lot worse for himself. Skylanders games may not be amazing by any stretch. But they are mostly solid games and at least the quality of the games is fairly consistent. Arguably more so than the original Spyro games (after the original trilogy, Spyro games became very hit and miss and many people can't agree on which ones are good or bad).
Yes I haven't played any other Skylanders games but I know that they are all more or less the same thing up to the recent Superchargers (which is the first real drastic jump forward in the series), just adding more mechanics and toy gimmicks as the games go on. And I know the quality of the games remains consistently good.
As far as the actual OP question goes, that's like asking why Sonic Retro talks about Sonic Boom. Or the Mario & Sonic games. Or why a Zelda fan site would feature Smash Bros. Like it or not, Skylanders is a brand spun off from Spyro. It became bigger than just that later on, but even then, it's still inherently tied to Spyro, and the character (as well as other Spyro characters like Cynder) are still a part of Skylanders now.
I'd still love a new iteration of Spyro where he's the main character, set in either the Classic or LoS universe, or a spiritual combination of both, with characters like Sparx, Hunter, Elora, Cynder, Ignitus, etc, being featured in full force. But I am content with Spyro and Cynder being Skylanders, and I'm just enjoying playing as them in Giants. Also Jet-Vac is basically Sgt. Byrd's long lost cousin so that works for me too. :V
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