The Time of the Giants is the first level in Skylanders: Giants. In this chapter, the Skylanders travel back in time to when the Arkeyans still ruled Skylands, and the Giants (or additional Skylanders) must free the Mabu from the evil Arkeyan Conquertron.
Description
Time of the Giants takes place upon an ancient series of jungle cliffs littered with scaffolding, stone pyramids, and several large Arkeyan Statues. Dim caverns comprise a large portion of the level, which is inhabited by various Mabu slaves and sky shrimp that glide through the dusty yellow sky.
Objectives
- Meet Norticus
- Free the Mabu Slaves
Elemental Gates
Areas To Find
- Forgotten Path
- Mountain Peak
- Turtle Falls
- Hungry Plateau
- Ancient Mines
- The Broken Bottom
- The Hungry Depths
- Zucchini Grotto (Life)
- Arkeyan Work Site
- Windy Work Site (Air)
- The Planks
- Cursed Construction (Undead)
New Enemies
Characters
Legendary Treasure
- Starry Night Paint Job
- At The Planks, drop down off the ledge to the platform to the right at the second chain supporting the Arkeyan Conquertron.
Soul Gem
- Shroomboom - Self-Slingshot
- After entering the Ancient Mines, walk forwards. Walk up to Norticus and go to the left. Use a Giant to pick up the boulders blocking your path. Now you have a clear path towards Shroomboom's Soul Gem.
Hats
- Flower Fairy Hat
- In Zucchini Grotto, push the turtle as far out as you need it to go to go near the Root Runner and Bone Chompies. Push the turtle back to its original location. Walk up the path on the left of the screen, cross the gap using the turtle, and open the box to get a Flower Fairy Hat.
- +2 Speed
- In Zucchini Grotto, push the turtle as far out as you need it to go to go near the Root Runner and Bone Chompies. Push the turtle back to its original location. Walk up the path on the left of the screen, cross the gap using the turtle, and open the box to get a Flower Fairy Hat.
- Turban
- In Windy Work Site, use the bounce pad to leap up onto the ledge. Avoid the air jets as you walk to the other side of the area. Drop off the ledge to get to the Turban.
- +5 Armor
- In Windy Work Site, use the bounce pad to leap up onto the ledge. Avoid the air jets as you walk to the other side of the area. Drop off the ledge to get to the Turban.
- Paper Fast Food Hat
- In the Cursed Construction area, walk across the area with the spikes popping up. Avoid the spikes to get to the hat.
- +2 Critical Hit
- +2 Armor
- In the Cursed Construction area, walk across the area with the spikes popping up. Avoid the spikes to get to the hat.
Story Scrolls
- Avalanche Anticipation
- In The Broken Bottom, smash through the wooden fence on the left-hand side of the screen.
Treasure Chests
- Turtle Falls
- Use any Skylander to push the second turtle towards the top-left of the screen. Push it into the gap between the island you are standing on and the island with the treasure chest. Now you can walk over the turtle.
- Ancient Mines
- Walk straight in the Ancient Mines towards the far right corner. Pick up the boulder in the corner using a Giant to get to the treasure chest.
- The Hungry Depths
- In the Ancient Mines, jump off the ledge through the cracked stone using a Giant to go to The Hungry Depths and get the treasure chest.
- Windy Work Site
- As soon as you enter the Windy Work Site, drop down the ledge.
Winged Sapphires
- Use a Giant to destroy the gate at the Forgotten Path.
Luck-O-Tron Wheels
- Lucky Wheel of Experience
- After clearing the Chompy Pit in The Hungry Depths, use the first two bounce pads ahead to climb the ledges. Walk to the right and you will see a boulder. Use a Giant to remove the boulder. Drop back into the Chompy Pit. After clearing the Chompy Pit a total of 3 times, you will be rewarded with a Lucky Wheel of Experience.
Gallery
Time of the Giants as seen in the third cutscene
Chop Chop statue seen in the mines
Weapon Master mural
Trivia
- Gigantus, who first appears in this level, never returns after jumping into a mine shaft.
- There are multiple statues throughout the level resembling Chop Chop.
- In early development of the game, Time of the Giants used the theme from Sunrise Towers, one of the Battle Arenas.[1]
- In the Hungry Depths, Shroomboom can use his Self-Slingshot to launch himself through the enemy gate and out of the Chompy Pit. This requires extreme precision, but it allows the player to achieve in-game times that would usually not be possible.[2]
- A running gag is that the Mabu in this level, Rizzopolus and Norticus, are not the ancestors of the present day Rizzo and Nort, despite their similar names and shared voice actors. Instead, Rizzopolus and Norticus are ancestors of a totally different Rizzo and Nort.[3]
- At the very end of a level a mural can be seen resembling the Weapon Master.
- Early versions of Time of the Giants include multiple Mabu dialogues that refer to earthquakes, attributing the level's dropped boulders and cracked ground to these quakes. However, this information was removed from the final game.[4]
- In alpha builds of the game, Time of the Giants was called "Tutorial in Time," and reuses the skybox from Leviathan Lagoon.
References
- ↑ Skylanders Giants Alpha (Full Playthrough). (Date Posted - Dec 20, 2017). YouTube.
- ↑ Time of the Giants Any% Speedrun (timestamped to the Shroomboom gate clip). (Date Posted - Jul. 3, 2018). YouTube.
- ↑ Skylanders: Giants Strategy Guide, page 135
- ↑ Skylanders Giants Alpha Build 1 (Full Playthrough). (Date Posted - Jan. 28, 2024). YouTube.