SKATEBIRD RELEASE DATE PRO
SKATEBIRD RELEASE DATE PC

None of the music is grating, but as soon as you turn the game off, you’ll struggle to remember any tunes. Visually the game is perfectly mediocre, not exactly ugly, but nothing that will impress you either. Nothing wrong with the concept, it just doesn’t really lend anything to the game. Throughout the game you’re trying to help out “big friend” who I’m assuming is the birds’ owner. Perhaps some might find it charming, but it just didn’t land for me. You’re a bird, there are other birds, there’s wacky dialogue between them. The story and presentation of this game is of equally similar quality. The trick detection is incredibly dodgy, so every step of the game feels like you have to actively fight against it. As I mentioned before, simply turning around too fast can cause the game to think you’ve landed a trick wrong and send your bird flying off the skateboard. Playing this game was honestly exhausting as it’s a struggle merely to control it. So it just ends up feeling like busywork.

It’s really no different than a lot of things the THPS games might have you do, but it doesn’t have the solid and fun skateboarding to make it worthwhile. Do some tricks on or around certain objects. The missions you have to do are all pretty generic filler. There really isn’t a lot I can say about the gameplay. You can make your bird scream though, so I guess that’s something unique this game offers. If you’re looking for any sort of contemporary features, you won’t really find any. However, the skateboarding arguably has less nuance than skateboarding games from the N64 and PS1 era. You’re not really playing for score much, just doing random missions scattered throughout each map. Granted, what tricks you do don’t particularly matter. This means that if you want to spin your bird to the right, you actually have to hold left on the control stick. When you go up a quarter pipe or half pipe ramp, the camera doesn’t change perspective at all. Things like grinding rails feels like a 50% chance you’ll actually grind it and 50% chance nothing will happen. Something as simple as turning around can cause your bird to just fall off the skateboard. As you start to skate around though, things will just feel bad.

SKATEBIRD RELEASE DATE PRO

They are reasonably intuitive if you’ve played a skateboarding game in the vein of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, this will seem familiar.

The controls are unresponsive and clunky. The controls and actual skateboarding mechanics are so bad that it’s hard to imagine this being a real attempt to make something fun, but it also doesn’t lean into being goofy and weird enough for it to feel like that’s what it’s going for.

SKATEBIRD RELEASE DATE PC

S katebird is set to release on August 12, 2021, and will will be available on PC via Itch.io and Steam, while console players will be able to pick it up for the Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X|S, or Amazon Luna.I can’t tell if SkateBIRD is a sincere attempt at a skateboarding game with a gimmick, or of it’s meant to be something akin to Goat Simulator, where it’s sort of bad and janky on purpose to be funny. If you had to be convinced that Skatebird has a sense of humor, there’s even a bird named Sam King wearing Splinter Cell hero Sam Fisher’s iconic goggles. Players will be able to chat up some of the other skatebirds in the game’s world for guidance on tricks, or just some good old-fashioned goofs. Today’s trailer for Skatebird revealed what players will be able to do outside of tearing up some vert. Players will also be able to deck their birds out in different gear, whether it’s a helmet, some goggles, or a sick leather jacket. The twist here is that players can also flap their skater’s little wings for some extra hang time.

Players can perform tricks, flips, grinds, and other gnarly moves, similar to the Tony Hawk franchise, just with a tiny, radical bird. Naturally, Skatebird lets players do everything you’d expect in a regular skating game. SkateBIRD - Official Trailer | Summer of Gaming 2021

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