WHAT IS THIS THIS IS NOT SKYLANDERS OH MY GOD THIS IS BLASPHEMOUS NONONONONOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
Realistically this game is probably just alright, but it is the biggest disappointment of my childhood.
it's bland!
The "flagship" version of superchargers on console had its racing stuff kinda relegated to an optional side mode which I was a bit mixed on due to the kinda ho-hum racing mechanics so I was a bit skeptical about a full game being JUST the racing mode. But honestly they added just enough meat to the bones here to be decent enough. Each vehicle has their own unique abilities and ways to go fast (cars can drift and jump for some reason, boats can do tricks to chain boosts and go underwater, and planes have a afterburner boost to go fast on straights but can't turn to save their lives) so the racing itself is decent. It's no mario kart, CTR, or sonic all-stars gameplay but it's certainly a step up from the flagship versions racing. The progression system is the exact same as sonic and all stars racing transformed, with various events that earn stars on higher difficulties with certain star thresholds needed to progress. Despite playing the game on the hardest difficulty the entire time I found every event painfully easy, and I think it's due to the imbalance of the actual character stats. To keep the skylander scam machine rolling and the confusing "supercharger" mechanic from the main game intact, only the new characters get racing stats that can be upgraded, and combining a character with their matching vehicle gives them such a large stat upgrade that it makes any other character/vehicle combination absolutely obsolete. Once I found which character had the highest top speed for each vehicle type (splat for sea, fiesta for land, and astroblast for air), I stuck with them the whole game and breezed through everything. There are certain events that can only be unlocked if you have a vehicle of a certain element for some reason though so it's not like you can get away with only buying 3 characters to do everything (though like the past 2 3DS games all characters are saved onto the game once scanned once so honestly plopping an unlocked save will get you everything for free). The cutscenes are even decent, being animated in-engine with a real ratchet and clank style look to them. They are also sparse enough to not be annoying like the main games characters constantly blabbering their dumb catchphrases every 3 seconds.
As a big fan of racing games I was certainly interested to see what this game was all about and frankly it was exactly as "meh kids-leaning semi-inspired kart racer" as I was expecting it to be. Not bad, and has the same amount of focus as the other 3DS games in the series. Honestly I think the 3DS games in this series have had a higher average quality than their console counterparts which probably isn't saying much but it's saying something. Honestly potentially worth a shot if you are tired of mario kart and S&ASRT on the 3DS and want a solid enough kart racer without going full shovelware.
The "flagship" version of superchargers on console had its racing stuff kinda relegated to an optional side mode which I was a bit mixed on due to the kinda ho-hum racing mechanics so I was a bit skeptical about a full game being JUST the racing mode. But honestly they added just enough meat to the bones here to be decent enough. Each vehicle has their own unique abilities and ways to go fast (cars can drift and jump for some reason, boats can do tricks to chain boosts and go underwater, and planes have a afterburner boost to go fast on straights but can't turn to save their lives) so the racing itself is decent. It's no mario kart, CTR, or sonic all-stars gameplay but it's certainly a step up from the flagship versions racing. The progression system is the exact same as sonic and all stars racing transformed, with various events that earn stars on higher difficulties with certain star thresholds needed to progress. Despite playing the game on the hardest difficulty the entire time I found every event painfully easy, and I think it's due to the imbalance of the actual character stats. To keep the skylander scam machine rolling and the confusing "supercharger" mechanic from the main game intact, only the new characters get racing stats that can be upgraded, and combining a character with their matching vehicle gives them such a large stat upgrade that it makes any other character/vehicle combination absolutely obsolete. Once I found which character had the highest top speed for each vehicle type (splat for sea, fiesta for land, and astroblast for air), I stuck with them the whole game and breezed through everything. There are certain events that can only be unlocked if you have a vehicle of a certain element for some reason though so it's not like you can get away with only buying 3 characters to do everything (though like the past 2 3DS games all characters are saved onto the game once scanned once so honestly plopping an unlocked save will get you everything for free). The cutscenes are even decent, being animated in-engine with a real ratchet and clank style look to them. They are also sparse enough to not be annoying like the main games characters constantly blabbering their dumb catchphrases every 3 seconds.
As a big fan of racing games I was certainly interested to see what this game was all about and frankly it was exactly as "meh kids-leaning semi-inspired kart racer" as I was expecting it to be. Not bad, and has the same amount of focus as the other 3DS games in the series. Honestly I think the 3DS games in this series have had a higher average quality than their console counterparts which probably isn't saying much but it's saying something. Honestly potentially worth a shot if you are tired of mario kart and S&ASRT on the 3DS and want a solid enough kart racer without going full shovelware.
the more time passes the more I realize that the main game kinda suffered by trying to balance both regular and vehicle gameplay. now that there's only one style to focus on this is actually mega fun. if I could only play one version of superchargers I would go with this one no question
It's fine but the mainline console version is leagues clear of it but it has some fun circuit designs but that's really it play the console version if you can that is an underrated masterpiece
Surprisingly fun. The three different types of terrains are varied, but not to the point where it feels like three different types of games, the tracks are interesting and it feels good to play. This is not a shoehorned racing game set to compete with Mario Kart, BEENOX put thought and care into this.
Sad that the spin-off turned out to be more fun than the main game.
Sad that the spin-off turned out to be more fun than the main game.
I was expecting the superchargers every other console got but little me with only a Wii got this dickfuck of a game FUCK ACTIVISION AND TOYS FOR BOB
Uma bosta absoluta, só comprei o bundle pelo amiibo do bowser. O jogo é sem graça, tosco e as corridas são chatas, parece mario kart mas tirando a parte do mario e do kart.
This is a really boring and unfun racing game that was only released so that something called "Skylanders Superchargers" could exist on Wii and 3ds. There was no reason at all to play soemthing this bland even when it was new.
i have been wronged and betrayed.
This is a different game than Superchargers on Wii U, Xbox, and PlayStation. This is just a series of races and mini games using the vehicles introduced for Superchargers. Still had fun with this game, but I prefer the 3DS version since you can save all your figures onto the game.
Pretty fun racing game spinoff, it benefits greatly from everything the franchise had done up to that point. Plus the Nintendo guest stars are a lovely addition.
Easily the worst Skylanders Game, It's Barren of Content, looks bad, Really what else can I say
Genuinely good racing game