Skylanders Trap Team - how does it work?

[pontifex]

My nephew loves Skylanders. He wants the new Trap Team set which my sister got for him for Xmas.

I odn't quite understand how it works. I know like the characters you play with you have to buy, but how does the trap stuff work?

Do you have to buy a character to trap it? that seems kind of dumb to me if that's the case.

Or are there different bad guys in the game and you use the trap pieces to capture them, then you can use the trap piece to play as that character?

Do you have to buy a trap for each character you want to trap or can it hold multiple characters?

 

[Jeraden]

There are different bosses/mini-bosses in each chapter. After you defeat the boss, the game prompts you to insert the correct type of trap into the portal in order to trap that boss. If you don't have the trap, you just skip it and can beat that chapter again later to trap that monster. The traps cost like $6 each (or less on sale). To trap everything in the game, you need one of each element type (8 total there), plus the Chaos trap to capture Chaos at the end of the game. There is a set list of enemies you can capture, so it's not every single little enemy you battle, just the main/mini bosses.

Each trap can hold multiple enemies (but only of the same elemental type). So say you have a Life trap, it could have multiple life enemies in it. You set one of them to be the active bad guy. So as you are playing, you hit one of the buttons on the controller and you get to play as that bad guy for a bit. There is a timer that shows up, it's like a minute or so, and then it has to recharge.

You can also level up each captured enemy once by doing a quest for them. Which isn't really much of a quest, it's basically you talk to an NPC he says bring me XXX bad guy, if you have that one captured you use him and then he'll level up. That makes him a bit more powerful and changes his color. You can't upgrade them normally like you can regular skylanders. The enemy in the trap talks while he's in the portal occasionally, saying different things, which is a nice touch.

They are cool to use, and come in handy now and then. Total money grab in general, since you really have to shell out $6 x 9 to get them all (they are frequently on sale though), and like everything else in the game, there are parts that are locked off unless you have the proper enemy type trapped and can use him to access that part of the game. Worth it to get a couple of them at least though.

 

[pontifex]

There are different bosses/mini-bosses in each chapter. After you defeat the boss, the game prompts you to insert the correct type of trap into the portal in order to trap that boss. If you don't have the trap, you just skip it and can beat that chapter again later to trap that monster. The traps cost like $6 each (or less on sale). To trap everything in the game, you need one of each element type (8 total there), plus the Chaos trap to capture Chaos at the end of the game. There is a set list of enemies you can capture, so it's not every single little enemy you battle, just the main/mini bosses.

Each trap can hold multiple enemies (but only of the same elemental type). So say you have a Life trap, it could have multiple life enemies in it. You set one of them to be the active bad guy. So as you are playing, you hit one of the buttons on the controller and you get to play as that bad guy for a bit. There is a timer that shows up, it's like a minute or so, and then it has to recharge.

You can also level up each captured enemy once by doing a quest for them. Which isn't really much of a quest, it's basically you talk to an NPC he says bring me XXX bad guy, if you have that one captured you use him and then he'll level up. That makes him a bit more powerful and changes his color. You can't upgrade them normally like you can regular skylanders. The enemy in the trap talks while he's in the portal occasionally, saying different things, which is a nice touch.

They are cool to use, and come in handy now and then. Total money grab in general, since you really have to shell out $6 x 9 to get them all (they are frequently on sale though), and like everything else in the game, there are parts that are locked off unless you have the proper enemy type trapped and can use him to access that part of the game. Worth it to get a couple of them at least though.

thanks for the explanation. I just ordered 2 traps for him to go with it.