Truly the most early 2000s game of all time. You play as a radical snowboarder chick who wears a sports bra in the middle of winter, fighting against the military-industrial complex Ski Patrol who has taken over the mountain and is trying to ban snowboarding. This fascist regime is made up of people who yell at you in both southern and German accents, so you know that they are the bad guys. They even have Communist-style propaganda signs decorating the mountain. It's like all totalitarian regimes made into one evil ski patrol. In order to show your radical defiance of all authority, you will accept missions from some guy on the phone who tells you exactly what to do. Only with the power of extreme sports can you defeat the enemy. Nothing can stop a woman who is able to perform a 1080 lien air.
The set-up is completely ridiculous, but it at least has charm, and I prefer the edgy but earnest early 2000s vibes to modern weird games, which are either cartoons or self-aware (ugh). The gameplay is incredibly fun. The game is not the most polished, and definitely doesn't fit into the modern day focus-group super-easy mold. It's very easy to miss objectives whenever you are performing a mission, and if, say, you miss one or two rails that you needed to grind on, you could mess up the entire mission. That said, the missions allow you to restart them at any time and are very short. The fun of the game is figuring out how to exactly nail that 10X combo or jump over that snowplow.
Controls are very easy. I played a little bit of Evolution Snowboarding after playing that game (an even more 2000s experience, as it contained a shirtless dude with a goatee), and Dark Summit was in every way superior. While nailing specific challenges is a bit difficult (movement especially feels just a tad wonky), just performing tricks is easy and fun. I found myself doing 1080s and double flips in no time.
Overall, this is one of those games like Blades of Time where it is obviously low-budget and unpolished, but is just so much fun that you can't really dislike it.
The set-up is completely ridiculous, but it at least has charm, and I prefer the edgy but earnest early 2000s vibes to modern weird games, which are either cartoons or self-aware (ugh). The gameplay is incredibly fun. The game is not the most polished, and definitely doesn't fit into the modern day focus-group super-easy mold. It's very easy to miss objectives whenever you are performing a mission, and if, say, you miss one or two rails that you needed to grind on, you could mess up the entire mission. That said, the missions allow you to restart them at any time and are very short. The fun of the game is figuring out how to exactly nail that 10X combo or jump over that snowplow.
Controls are very easy. I played a little bit of Evolution Snowboarding after playing that game (an even more 2000s experience, as it contained a shirtless dude with a goatee), and Dark Summit was in every way superior. While nailing specific challenges is a bit difficult (movement especially feels just a tad wonky), just performing tricks is easy and fun. I found myself doing 1080s and double flips in no time.
Overall, this is one of those games like Blades of Time where it is obviously low-budget and unpolished, but is just so much fun that you can't really dislike it.