Adapts the familiar Tony Hawk gameplay pretty well from a mechanical standpoint - probably even better than the Mat Hoffman games. But the big problem is the format - having THPS-style goals on a hill that you can't go backwards on is always, always going to be frustrating. (There's a reason they only did it a couple times in THPS1 and then never ever again in the mainline series.) Searching for things and realizing you passed them, trying different paths at the expense of others, biffing your one shot at the biggest line on the level - none of this stuff is ever going to feel good with the scoring and the goals set up the way they are for these games.

Only fun if you have a lot of patience for memorizing the locations of collectibles, and restarting a whole level for one shot at something.

Reviewed on May 16, 2023


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