You really have to be a god gamer to experience most of the games unlockable content. Score challenges ask for way too much from you while giving you way too little time to complete them. Game is a lot more fun, and possible to complete, with an infinite time limit enabled. Huge respects to anybody that can pull any of this shit off without it, i just dont have the will to try anymore. It also has the kind of jank you'd expect out of an extreme sports game from this era that wasn't made by Neversoft.
A huge problem is the amount of time it takes to do a trick and have it count towards your combo. You hold a C button, and your character will perform a move about 1 & 1/2 seconds later. Obviously the wait on the move interrupts the whole flow of doing anything flashy, and it doesn't help that if you're getting out of the animation by the time you hit the ground, your dude will fumble and have to get back up. The other shitty part is that the move only counts once it's pulled off, and the score multiplier is based off of how long you stayed in each move during the combo, so it's really hard to get huge scores in the air when the game is giving you peanuts for each trick. The only good thing about trying to do combos is that it doesn't matter which way your board is facing once you land, which is great since if you're tilting the analog stick in any direction while in the air, even while trying to perform flips, you just go fucking anywhere but straight back down onto the ramp. I could ever really get about 4 moves in a combo during the first mission, and just barely got an A rank after about 40 minutes of playing and restarting constantly.
This game definitely would've benefited from releasing a couple years later for Gamecube, when speed in character movement was increasing. Really sucks because i love everything else about this game. The artstyle, the designs of the levels, the music, all great. Disney Extreme Skate Adventure for sure plagiarized that house level though. The kids bedroom is almost identical to Andy's room in that game.
A huge problem is the amount of time it takes to do a trick and have it count towards your combo. You hold a C button, and your character will perform a move about 1 & 1/2 seconds later. Obviously the wait on the move interrupts the whole flow of doing anything flashy, and it doesn't help that if you're getting out of the animation by the time you hit the ground, your dude will fumble and have to get back up. The other shitty part is that the move only counts once it's pulled off, and the score multiplier is based off of how long you stayed in each move during the combo, so it's really hard to get huge scores in the air when the game is giving you peanuts for each trick. The only good thing about trying to do combos is that it doesn't matter which way your board is facing once you land, which is great since if you're tilting the analog stick in any direction while in the air, even while trying to perform flips, you just go fucking anywhere but straight back down onto the ramp. I could ever really get about 4 moves in a combo during the first mission, and just barely got an A rank after about 40 minutes of playing and restarting constantly.
This game definitely would've benefited from releasing a couple years later for Gamecube, when speed in character movement was increasing. Really sucks because i love everything else about this game. The artstyle, the designs of the levels, the music, all great. Disney Extreme Skate Adventure for sure plagiarized that house level though. The kids bedroom is almost identical to Andy's room in that game.