I'm genuinely glad that this isn't the only skating game in town anymore. The gimmick is cute, and the original music is pretty good (they picked a lot of shitty bands for their licensed music, and with it being strictly unlockable, you're gonna be hearing it a lot), but the skating on its own doesn't feel nearly as refined as Tony Hawk. I can definitely call this cute and ambitious. If you ended up getting this game in that Ukraine Bundle from itch.io, you should give it a go. Otherwise just play the Tony Hawk 1 & 2 Remake. You're better off.
You are a bird. And you have an urge... to skate. It’s a cute little game with cute little birds! You can change up their feathers, their fashion, and do some neat skateboard tricks. My biggest issue with this game though is that the controls are very clunky. But from the short time I played it I found it very amusing.
Previously, my run of Tiny Hawk Pro Skater stopped when the computer's motherboard was exposed, as my motherboard wasn't powerful enough for it. Now that I've spent like $2k on a computer and finally beaten the game, I can share my thoughts. That said I did bring it up to the devs that this specific model was the only thing my computer could handle and they just told me to buy it on a different machine rather than change the needlessly high poly model but eh.
It's much clunkier than THPS, but it means well. The bird humor is cute at first but then it spends too much time being quirky if you understand.
The missions are mostly simple with a few score challenges but finding the birds for the missions isn't as fun as being handed a handful of missions at the start and seeing how many you can do at a time. This sounds fine in something like THUG or something but is more of a problem here because of the intense focus on Verticality in the levels with the sole exception of the roof. This with the clunky controls makes getting to every birb more of a hassle than it should be. The missions are mostly easy and mundane, but then you'll be thrown random curveballs in spots with a difficulty progression that makes little sense in the same level.
I can't say anything about the music because I decided to turn off this game's music and put on the THPS3 soundtrack instead so I can think Skatebird better than it actually is by association.
It's much clunkier than THPS, but it means well. The bird humor is cute at first but then it spends too much time being quirky if you understand.
The missions are mostly simple with a few score challenges but finding the birds for the missions isn't as fun as being handed a handful of missions at the start and seeing how many you can do at a time. This sounds fine in something like THUG or something but is more of a problem here because of the intense focus on Verticality in the levels with the sole exception of the roof. This with the clunky controls makes getting to every birb more of a hassle than it should be. The missions are mostly easy and mundane, but then you'll be thrown random curveballs in spots with a difficulty progression that makes little sense in the same level.
I can't say anything about the music because I decided to turn off this game's music and put on the THPS3 soundtrack instead so I can think Skatebird better than it actually is by association.
The first level of this game is honestly fantastic. If you can get the game on sale for dirt cheap on whatever you majorly play your games on, I absolutely recommend it if you're a fan of the Pro Skater games. A bedroom transformed into a skate park for a bird on a teck deck is complete genius and I had so much fun.
Then the game goes into stage 2 and this is where I had to stop because wow does this game get WAY TOO hard to even keep going, not to mention, just loses a lot of charm because now we're just on a connection of buildings.
It's hard to even decide if Skatebird is a solid title or not, but since I had so much fun in the first stage I can't hate it
Then the game goes into stage 2 and this is where I had to stop because wow does this game get WAY TOO hard to even keep going, not to mention, just loses a lot of charm because now we're just on a connection of buildings.
It's hard to even decide if Skatebird is a solid title or not, but since I had so much fun in the first stage I can't hate it
I’ve seen such harsh criticism of this game and I don’t really get it. It’s a good arcadey skateboard game in the vein of tony hawk with some quirks. Flight as a mechanic to add additional tricks and the like. It gives a variety of challenges that are like what you’d find in THPS but also others like just rolling around after bailing and reaching target zones.
They don’t always work perfectly, and the difficulty is uneven but I really didn’t have any problems with the controls or camera. I thought it was very cute, and had a lot of charm in the levels and story, and the costume options. Even the writing despite being born from “birb” memes that got tired was pretty good and would pull a chuckle from me.
The soundtrack is also great, approximating the sort of ost in a THPS but with small artists. We Are The Union rocks and I’ve begun following them
They don’t always work perfectly, and the difficulty is uneven but I really didn’t have any problems with the controls or camera. I thought it was very cute, and had a lot of charm in the levels and story, and the costume options. Even the writing despite being born from “birb” memes that got tired was pretty good and would pull a chuckle from me.
The soundtrack is also great, approximating the sort of ost in a THPS but with small artists. We Are The Union rocks and I’ve begun following them
These birds are absolutely adorable, and the music fits perfectly with a throwback game like this. The writing is also incredibly charming and hilarious. I love the bird-sized environments, but the camera and collision are pretty janky, and the controls are unintuitive. Not having played any Tony Hawk games I don't know if there's a steep learning curve or if this game is just badly made, but when my hand starts to ache from frustratedly gripping the controller I know it's time to stop.