![]() ![]() ![]() You can also add headgear like hats, headphones, glasses, and more to deck out your bird character including customizations worn around the face, neck, back, waist, and unique deck and wheel colors. You can customize your bird character with varying breeds of birds with colorful feathers and designs. Since your friend is gone you decide to take up skateboarding around your house and other locations to cheer yourself up and become the best Bird. You play as a bird, yes a bird, and your Big Friend has given up skateboarding. I want to go on record stating that when I first saw SkateBIRDaround two years ago I thought the game looked to be an interesting take on the skateboarding genre. In this installment, we’re covering SkateBIRD by developer Glass Bottom Games. Welcome to EXPlay, (Explain & Play)the review series where we care not for scores but tell it how it is when it comes to every game we get our hands on, whilst also taking the time to include some lengthy gameplay, to give you the reader, the chance to shape your own impressions and views whilst watching and reading. Even the speed at which you change directions can be adjusted with shocking granularity for a tailored experience.By jonathanober EXPlay, Glass Bottom Games, Nintendo, Nintendo Switch, review, SkateBIRD If certain kinds of moves prove difficult, easier inputs can be set in their place. Tired of timed challenges? Toggle them off to practice at your leisure. Skatebird offers surprising depth in this regard. This is a game that wants to be played with and is willing to let the player set their own terms. This game contains lethal levels of bird puns. Completing missions from characters in the level are key to progression, but within these arenas you’re free as a bird to make your own fun. Each is an open arena of railings and ramps, with objectives scattered throughout. These levels are substantial in size even for tiny birds. Of course, the game makes the most of its design choice, letting the player tweet recklessly while flapping on every double-ollie of their board.Įqually amusing is when your bird bails, sending their feathery bodies tumbling across the level. Context-sensitive controls are displayed on-screen, making certain players can get the most out of every tricking opportunity they run across. Stay Stuntin’Īfter the player finishes designing their custom in-game bird protagonist, getting around in Skatebird is easy to pick up. Birds are capable of the legendary double ollie jump. Accomplishing this will require skate-based tasks like collect-a-thons and tricking, which is a lot of ground to cover on four wheels for a tiny bird in a human-sized world. Together, the birds set out to help their human ‘Big Friend’ get back into skating. Rather than the realistic approach of its contemporaries, Skatebird casts the player as a member of an avian skate crew. By these metrics, it’s possible Skatebird understands its genre better than any other of its kind. Skateboarding games, however, reduce that mastery down to timing and control. ![]() Easy enough to get the board moving, but everything after that requires comfort with failure (and protective gear). ![]() To ride a skateboard in real life is to become intimately familiar with your own limits. ![]()
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