I know that style of writing will grate for some, but I have yet to tire of rare animals being adorable buffoons." It works even when you have fallen off your board, turning the game into a sort of avian tantrum simulator. It makes your bird squeak and flap its wings. Please understand, this is not a spelling error. Other quests might ask you to collect the letters for the word L E G S, or "screm at the floor ten times". They'll ask you to noseplant on quarter pipes to clean up soda cups, or roll around attaching balloons to a blanket to open up a new area. Your fellow birds are scattered around each level. Just press a button to get back up, or you can slap down a "reset" point anywhere, then warp back there with a button touch. You are tiny after all, and skating amid the pizza boxes or grinding the cereal bowls of your unseen human companion can result in a nasty fall. It gets you some extra air, nothing too outrageous, but it comes in handy if you need to leap over a discarded sock. This is basically a double-jump, a little flap-flap after you've already hopped. ![]() There are flips, grabs, plants, grinds, mid-air ollies. On an Xbox controller (you should use one) you hold down A and release to perform an ollie, then tap other buttons and the left thumbstick to perform a trick. With that tone firmly established, you get to doing ollies and flip tricks in a somewhat recognisable way. Even a trailer announcing the game's delayed release date couldn't help itself. Instead, this is about being a pigeon on a piece of plywood, collecting letters to the word M O N E Y because an investment banker cockatoo said it's important. We have Session and Skater XL for our kickflip realism. There are a bunch of canaries, eagles, gulls and budgies who give you missions and tasks to perform, and they are not serious birds. ![]() Still, it's hard to hate on these feathery ones when they squawk so pure, and when their taste in music is im-peck-able.ĭidn't like that bird joke? Well, maybe this game isn't for you. There's plenty of wobbly physics on show here, much of it intentional and jokey (as you'd expect from a game that seems to have resulted entirely from a single pun). But don't expect the truly smooth flow of the Hawkster's outings. It's the arcadey kind of kickflipper, handling more like THUG than a Skate game. Skatebird is simultaneously a homage to the Tony Hawk games of old and a celebration of just how stupid birds can be. ![]() A sometimes wonky skating game that makes up for its jank with birbish moxie.
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