Skatebird switch review full#

Skatebird switch review full#

SkateBIRD is full of frustration and disappointment. This game lands like bird poop on a clean car. I grew up skating because of games like Tony Hawk and Skate and the cultural influence they had on the sport.

As I started up my game of SkateBIRD, I was immediately charmed by the presentation of. (SkateBIRD via Glass Bottom Games) Getting Started.

I can ' t say it was love at first sight, but today, I ' d pick playing SkateBIRD over a Tony Hawk game in a heartbeat. With them being a bird theme was a cute addition as well. As I got my hands on SkateBIRD, I had to hope that the same thing wouldn ' t happen. It fits the themes and vibe of traditional skating games and tries to distract you from how horrible the game is. It’s just the actual manoeuvring the ‘Skate’ half of the ‘SkateBird’ combo that can be. The only positive of the game is the music selection. Some janky textures and an odd depth of field effect aside, the packaging is great fun. It pains me to be this negative as this is someone’s passion and livelihood but to say it was anything but bad would be lying about the issues with this game. From the bird character customization to the actual game it self. Grabs, grinds, transfers are patchy and either doesn’t work or you start doing them just to fall off the board. Consequently, everything else is broken or flawed making the player go through torture to try and pull off a combo that isn’t a bunch of kick trick. The only tricks that work consistently are kick tricks. With the horrible camera angle controls you would think the point of the game is staying on the board. Its an adorable game about birds who like to skateboard, and they do so in tiny little worlds filled with everyday objects. This constant guess work of what knocks you off the board makes steering around a massive challenge to not randomly fall off by being too close to something. Players: 1 Online: No ESRB: T I cant imagine anyone hating Skatebird. You can land sideways on the bed with no issue but get knocked off your board if you go up the pizza boxes too fast. Game play is a patchwork of broken physics and logic. After a mission you can be stuck trying to navigate the room and give up from either lack of direction or just how horrible of an experience the mechanics truly are. With no directions or help markers to find them and move you along to the next one. The other birds are in different locations that are impossible to find. To get missions you need to talk to other birds. The point of the game is to skate around your owner’s bedroom completing missions to help them get motivated to start skating again. After creating your bird, you start the game. It’s just a static straight forward perspective with no way to see the full creation. You can’t rotate the bird to see how an item or board design looks like. Bird character customization is significantly broken. ExperienceĪfter the game downloaded, the first introduction is a mess. Only thing to do is go over the experience from downloading it from the Nintendo eShop to just giving up on the first level. The inspiration for this game came from a GIF of a bird riding a skateboard. I know it’s not good to start off on a negative note but this game does not work.