SkateBIRD’s story, which revolves around improving the life of the birds’ human pal, does a pretty good job of offering justification for missions, and the script has its share of funny moments. This game may star winged skateboarders, but it never manages to get off the ground.
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One mission required bouncing off a vent fan – something you’re taught at the beginning of the section, with no ability to reference it again – and I spent a solid hour trying to work out how to do it correctly.įrom the big things, like its camera and level design, to the smaller quality of life features – like including a way to relearn moves after the solitary time they’re first introduced – SkateBIRD is hampered by consistent fumbles.
But if you forget how to do anything slightly more complicated, you’re out of luck. There are tutorials in the menu on the basics, like how to ollie, kick flip, grab trip, etc. These problems are compounded by the fact that SkateBIRD has no move list for players to reference, so if you forgot how to do a trick, good luck. When a late game mission required me to complete four objectives in a row without bailing, I almost set the controller down at the sheer impossibility of the request. The result is that it’s much easier to fall off your board than it is to string a few tricks together. Even after I felt like I had a solid handle on the mechanics, I was constantly falling over invisible bumps on the ground, or ramps that, for some reason, began an imperceptible inch above the floor. The best thing I can say about it is that it will give you a new-found appreciation for the elegance of a THPS stage. It runs around the screen like one of our hero’s barnyard cousins with its head cut off. The way the camera freaks out is almost nauseating. It’s constantly getting stuck on geometry, especially in the opening stage, which is set in the bedroom of your bird’s big human friend. But sadly, while the bird part of Skatebird is perfect, the skate part is a janky and frustrating mess.
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SkateBIRD has the worst camera that I’ve dealt with in a game in years it’s straight out of the PS2 era. A skateboarding game starring adorable, puffy birds Wonderful. But there’s more to the bird than the sheen of the plumage, and the debut game from Glass Bottom Games is dealing with a pair of clipped wings.
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