Instead of having to build up speed by going up and down ramps, your actual top speed is decided by your overall score modifier. Some of the missions require you to get quite high on vert ramps, to grab a collectible or a letter or something. There’s also an interesting take on the speed system. Combined with the soundtrack and the new unlockables for your bird and skateboard, it’s a lot of fun to just skate around and pull off tricks. While most of the time limits are tight, they mostly just add a nice feeling of challenge to the missions, at least those missions that are clear on your goal. Once you’re used to the slightly weird controls, you can successfully pull off some pretty amazing combos. If it sounds like I’m dumping on SkateBIRD I want to make it clear that it is still a good game. I have never felt more affinity with a video game character in my life. In the end, I don’t even know what changed to make it work, but I can say that I’m glad to see the back of that particular mission. I bounced between the rooves for ages, having to restart the mission over and over again, each time being forced to rewatch that same opening section before I could start. There were even several times where I completed objectives without knowing what I was doing, such as in the second level when you’re asked to bounce between the different rooftops using the strategically placed vents. Your actual mission isn’t always explained to you terribly well, and you can be left banging your head against a wall trying to accomplish them within your strict time limits. Compounding the issue with tight time limits is the problem of unclear goals. Some of them feel fine, giving you plenty of time to get things done, but more often than not you’re given very strict time limits to accomplish your various goals. There’s an overall problem with the time limits here. For instance, whenever you’re called on to get up a ramp, chances are that you’re either going off the end at least once, at certain points climbing these inclines is timed, which means the game can get a bit frustrating. It’s also a fair bit harder to get your bird to go through some of the tighter gaps at times. It’s really easy to accidentally upend your bird, ruining your score multiplier as well as your momentum. I'm like 99% percent sure that the skateboard isn't supposed to be going through me like that.Ĭonsequently, it takes a fair bit of getting used to if you really want to do well in SkateBIRD.
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So all in all, if you’ve played a Pro Skater game at all in your life, this will feel pretty familiar. The only key difference in terms of actual buttons is that you hold a face button to manual, rather than tapping a combination of the direction buttons.
All of the face buttons are all the same for a start, and you spine transfer in a pretty similar way too. In terms of gameplay, SkateBIRD has controls that are suspiciously similar to Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater. It was really hard for my skatebird to hear this guy's existential terror over how rad that scarf, hat, and science goggles combo is. There’s no real explanation as to why exactly it is that you and the other birds can skate, but this isn’t the sort of game where the answer is likely to matter. One day you notice that your ‘big friend’ hasn’t been feeling so great lately, so you and the other birds decide to use your skateboarding prowess to try and make them feel better. If nothing else, tiny birds are cute as heck.In SkateBIRD, you control your own custom-made Avian extreme sports enthusiasts. I’d love to see a wider variety of bird sizes, but I understand why they’re not available. From feather patterns to tiny hats to jaunty scarves, you’ve got a ton of options. On the other hand, you start out with an aggressive amount of bird customization available. I loved every song I heard, the first dozen times I heard them. It turns out the song list is pretty short at the start. The soundtracks should be your number one priority. Skate For Your SoundtrackĪnother perk to these wide open stages is the ability to patiently explore every part of a level, finding things like soundtrack expansions and new outfit pieces. For now, I have to assume that very small birds are just bad at steering with their feet and wings. It’s possible that no one else will have this problem with SkateBIRD. Again, I’m fully prepared to chalk some of this up to my habitual ineptitude. A shocking amount of my time was spent zipping off of ledges after botching a hairpin turn. When combined, all these tiny problems make certain mistakes feel quite costly. Plus, the crash animation feels just a little too long. Your turn radius is crazy wide, which means narrow passages are a nightmare to navigate. You build up speed gradually, through quick dips onto half-pipes and ramps.
Steering is somehow both the simplest and the most frustrating part of the overall mechanics.
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