I've been a big fan of skateboarding and skateboarding games since I was old enough to have interests. The slow death of the arcade style of Tony Hawk style games to the more simulation adjacent Skate style was a tangible shift in the gaming space. It has not since Proving Ground in 2007 that I have touched an arcade style skateboarding game. I liked the game then, but I was also 11 years old, and 11 year olds don't know anything. Seeing how literally no good Tony Hawk game released since then I reconciled with the idea that maybe they were just not going to be good again, that the fidelity of modern platforms didn't allow for these games to really be what they once were. Obviously I have been proven wrong. This remake is basically as good as I could have hoped for. Which makes the cancelation of future remakes make me want to go to ActivisionBlizzard's head office and [REDACTED] Bobby Kotick right in his stupid little [REDACTED].