8/30/2023 0 Comments Skatebird switch review![]() With skateboarding games slowly making a comeback games like SkateBIRD will be popping up taking advantage of that resurgence. SkateBIRD is full of frustration and disappointment. This game lands like bird poop on a clean car. I grew up skating because of games like Tony Hawk and Skate and the cultural influence they had on the sport. With them being a bird theme was a cute addition as well. It fits the themes and vibe of traditional skating games and tries to distract you from how horrible the game is. The only positive of the game is the music selection. It pains me to be this negative as this is someone’s passion and livelihood but to say it was anything but bad would be lying about the issues with this game. ![]() From the bird character customization to the actual game it self. Grabs, grinds, transfers are patchy and either doesn’t work or you start doing them just to fall off the board. Consequently, everything else is broken or flawed making the player go through torture to try and pull off a combo that isn’t a bunch of kick trick. The only tricks that work consistently are kick tricks. With the horrible camera angle controls you would think the point of the game is staying on the board. This constant guess work of what knocks you off the board makes steering around a massive challenge to not randomly fall off by being too close to something. SkateBIRD minimises this with a handy feature: even when your bird de-boards, you still have control. You can land sideways on the bed with no issue but get knocked off your board if you go up the pizza boxes too fast. Game play is a patchwork of broken physics and logic. After a mission you can be stuck trying to navigate the room and give up from either lack of direction or just how horrible of an experience the mechanics truly are. With no directions or help markers to find them and move you along to the next one. The other birds are in different locations that are impossible to find. To get missions you need to talk to other birds. The point of the game is to skate around your owner’s bedroom completing missions to help them get motivated to start skating again. It’s fun, when it doesn’t punish you for its own shortcomings, and the blurry backdrops are straight bargain bin-PS1 fodder, but I still can’t help but get drawn back into the odd, goofy world of these skating, winged weirdos. After creating your bird, you start the game. SkateBIRD is ultimately, incredibly charming, but incredibly flawed. It’s just a static straight forward perspective with no way to see the full creation. According to a subreddit, they aren’t real. It was released to PC, Switch, Xbox One, and Amazon Luna on September 16th, 2021. You can’t rotate the bird to see how an item or board design looks like. SkateBIRD is a skateboarding game, developed by indie studio Glass Bottom Games. It’s just the actual manoeuvring the ‘Skate’ half of the ‘SkateBird’ combo that can be. Bird character customization is significantly broken. Some janky textures and an odd depth of field effect aside, the packaging is great fun. ExperienceĪfter the game downloaded, the first introduction is a mess. Only thing to do is go over the experience from downloading it from the Nintendo eShop to just giving up on the first level. The inspiration for this game came from a GIF of a bird riding a skateboard. I know it’s not good to start off on a negative note but this game does not work.
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