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Skylanders Giants is a game developed by Toys For Bob and published by Activision on October 21st 2012. A 3DS port was developed by n-Space. This article will focus on the 3DS port.

Plot
A pirate named Captain Frightbeard has escaped from the Chest of Exile, where him and his crew were imprisoned 10,000 years ago. The Skylanders must get to the chest before Frightbeard can release his whole pirate crew.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The main problem with this port is that the game has been heavily downgraded from the console versions. Some examples of this are:
 * 2) *You can't choose upgrades to buy, and each Skylander can only get 3 upgrades when they level up.
 * 3) *Each Skylander only has 2 attacks instead of the 3 you can get in the console versions.
 * 4) *There are no Heroic Challenges
 * 5) *Magic Items cost 30 in-game coins per use.
 * 6) *Instead of saying their catchphrase, each Skylander says their name when you put them on the portal.
 * 7) You can only play as 2 Skylanders at once, switching between them with the Touch Screen.
 * 8) To change your Skylander, you have to talk to Hugo on Flynn’s ship, and you can’t switch during any levels.
 * 9) Poor level design: you can walk right off the ground in levels, which drops you into a bottomless pit(it’s not exactly a pit, but pit is used here for lack of a better term).
 * 10) Your hat and Skylander collections can’t be viewed from the pause menu and are instead moved to a platform on Flynn’s ship that has a separate loading screen.
 * 11) It’s a reskin of the 3DS port of Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure. Some examples of this are:
 * 12) *Radiance is replaced by coins.
 * 13) *The end of level screen is the same and it makes the same sounds.
 * 14) *Both games store Skylanders in crystals.
 * 15) *Most of the Bad Qualities for this game, like Skylanders not saying their catchphrases, magic items costing in game currency to use, poor level design, no upgrades, and being unable to switch Skylanders at any time also apply to the 3DS port of Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure.

Good Qualities

 * 1) There was a version of the game called the Portal Owner’s Pack, which is good in case someone had the 1st 3DS game and didn’t want to buy a new game just to get the new portal.
 * 2) The game is compatible with the Spyro’s Adventure Adventure pieces, like the console versions.
 * 3) Skylanders can run in this game, which is good if you are playing as a slower Skylander.
 * 4) The game remembers the last 2 Skylanders you were playing as, so you don’t need to use the portal as much.
 * 5) When a Skylander runs out of health, you can pay 60 coins to revive them, which is helpful if you only have a few Skylanders.
 * 6) The game counts series 1 and series 2 Skylanders as different, and they have different pictures on the Touch Screen.

Reception
The 3DS port of Skylanders Giants got mixed reviews

On Metacritic, the game got a 59 Metascore based on 9 critic reviews