You feel in complete control, you’re always learning and there’s great map variation. That said, for the most part, the skating is a joy.
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I understand that Easy Day Studios wanted to avoid the ‘push button to trick’ arcadey, impersonal feel of the likes of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, but if regularly landing 900s is easier than nosegrinding a stair rail, there’s definitely an imbalance. After 10 hours of play I’m still struggling with controlling or even beginning simple grinds. A couple of hours in, I was pulling off 1440 inward sextuple heelflips with ease. Within five minutes of the game, I’d landed a 900. On the question of difficulty though, the game does not consider all things equal. But this is to the game’s credit, and most definitely necessary given the game’s structure a topic we’ll get to in more depth below. The game certainly has a pick up and play feel to it, although there’s substantial learning to be done in order to master it. That’s compounded by the fact that even if it ran smoothly, there’s no way to collect these highlights together into something more significant and personal. Replaying your tricks is an ordeal thanks to over complicated button inputs and a video trim system that refuses to work.Ĭonsidering the focus is on getting an authentic skating experience, having a replay system which doesn’t function as designed is a bummer. These are minor gripes, but then the game is littered with minor issues. The camera occasionally fails to follow you in the way you’d expect it to as well, making manoeuvring and landing far more difficult. The map clips far more often than you’d like, especially on replays, and the board can be weirdly unforgiving when you roll up to a curb. It’s fluent, but occasionally stumbles over the pronunciation or misunderstands a phrase. Skating is Skater XL’s first language, and gaming is its second. It’s an intuitive control system which you can get to grips with immediately, but even ten hours in I’m still figuring out how much variation each trick allows for, accidentally pulling off slightly different moves as I experiment with foot positioning. You could do five heelflips in a row, and they’d all be slightly different.
This offers not only a far greater level of control, but also more personalisation. The game utilises an intriguing control system, where the left stick controls your left foot and the right stick controls the right foot. But if you want a skating experience, look no further. If you’re looking for a skating game, Skater XL might not cut it. It’s technical yet spectacular in places, but also rough around the edges and feels strangely lonely. You can feel the authenticity in every kickflip, hear the labour of love in every scratching grind. S kater XL is a game made by skaters, for skaters.
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