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Early missions do a fine job of gradually tutorialising the tricks at your disposal, and there’s even a helpful toggle in the options to adjust gamespeed.
As is a finicky and inconsistent physics. The camera’s tendency to get stuck on the geometry – an issue the developer is aware of and has promised to fix – is one of the culprits here.
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SkateBird asks: what if you weren’t an agile and fearless athlete, but instead a small, puffy bird that occasionally forgets that windows exist? And it absolutely captures this. Skateboarding games offer the fantasy of being impossibly skilled. It’s just the actual manoeuvring – the ‘Skate’ half of the ‘SkateBird’ combo – that can be endlessly fiddly. Some janky textures and an odd depth of field effect aside, the packaging is great fun.
Missions involve you pulling off ever more complicated maneuvers, but they’re all given funny context as part of a surprisingly detailed story campaign. The second is a rooftop where you’ll plan a heist to save Big Friend from their boring job – a noble pursuit.
#Skatebird humble beginnings manuals#
So the first park is your Big Friend’s bedroom, which you’ll clean up by grinding around the rim of manky soup bowls and pulling manuals over carpet stains. I think you already know whether SkateBIRD’s humour appeals to you.īoth park and mission designs play into the…I want to say… lore? The deep SkateBIRD lore. Personally, I found the writing to be a hoot, but I’m also the sort of person who just made that pun. Each one is preceded and concluded by conversation, and progression in the bird’s quest to aid ‘Big Friend’. Around the stage are various birds, and chatting to them lets you kick off the next mission. Each stage functions as a free-roam park, letting you explore its sandbox to practise and find collectibles. Really recommend it, one of the best metroidvanias I have ever played.The conversations between birds that bookend each mission are also delightful. The game keeps growing on me, while I had some issues getting adjusted to the artstyle since at the start I would sometimes get confused on what was a platform and what wasn´t. The souls like combat is responsive and has good game-feel too. The game is tense thanks to this mechanic, which I honestly found to be really stressing (in the good way) many times, it also helped to give urgency to the story, since even when doing side content I had to take into account that it actually impacted the main story of the game, because time is a resource. So you can be in situations where you have to make the choice between saving extra time items just in case or losing permanently the npc that upgrades your weapons, its great. Luckily part of the loot you can find is more time, which you can use on yourself or the npcs, its a pretty interesting mechanic. While optional, on the normal difficulty you start the game with some 300 hundred in-game hours (so they are not real time hours, for example I have played like 3.5 hours so far and 150 hours have passed, more or less) to finish the game, before the main character dies, since supposedly if you run out of time its a perma-death. This game has metroidvania, dark souls and og Zelda (it has dungeons) elements, with a twist, the main character and all the npcs in the game are literally running out of time to live in-game. It appears that it hasn´t made much of an impact, which is a shame, it reminds me of Jedi Fallen Order in the sense that it combines a lot of genres but manages to have its own identity. Started Unsighted, since I read that it was an excellent metroidvania. Also need to get back to Banjo Kazooie, and maybe Yakuza Zero (I like Yakuza story a lot but wish I liked the game part more.). What I'm looking forward to trying out next is Scarlet Nexus, part of a wave of games just added during TGS, pictured below.
This thread is ideally for what you're currently playing on Game Pass as well as asking for recommendations. Also, I recently tried Skatebird, and hated it, was glad that I played it through a subscription so I didn't waste any money on it, cute idea, very bad execution. I can try games now in genres I'd never consider buying before such as Crusader Kings 3, which is totally out of my wheelhouse but I had a great time trying and failing to take over parts of Europe. Game Pass has been a solution to this problem for me.
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Games are a big commitment, both in time and money, so spending $60 to potentially hate something? It's a hard sell, especially since there's not as many demos today as their used to be, and game rentals are not as common (RIP Blockbuster, fond memories of renting N64 and PS2 games there).
#Skatebird humble beginnings Pc#
Hello! If you know me from the Pipeline Discord you know that I play games from all the consoles + PC + retro, I like games! When you play games for a long time you tend to stick to your areas sometimes, and play it safe, AKA buy games from genres I like from developers I already like.
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