![]() It changes up the gameplay from any other skateboarding game, and it’s pretty fun to string bird trick combos. They also add the ability to flap your wings and fly to your trick set and throw in other fun bird actions like screeching and pecking up food. Keeping everything feeling light and reminding you you’re a silly bird riding around on a tech deck. The soundtrack compliments the atmosphere and stays on the fun silly side. SkateBIRD does have some redeeming qualities that help keep some fun in the experience. The controls may not be as much of an issue on a console version with a controller, but for me and my keyboard, it was pretty rough. These controls coupled with a janky physics engine, somewhat finicky camera and awful missions make for a frustrating combo. Nothing about the controls feels intuitive, and they don’t get easier with time either. The best thing I could do was slow the game speed down to about 70% to make it playable. Luckily, you can adjust some of the controls to make it easier for yourself but not by much. The gameplay is designed also in a way where if you accidentally hit the key you didn’t mean to, you can’t cancel it out and will likely mess up everything you’re doing. It’s really hard to keep them all straight, and they are also all bunched together. Besides WASD, a trick or action is also assigned to a left shift, space, f, r, q, t, and x. SkateBIRD has some major control problems, and some of them were even pretty rookie development mistakes. What makes the missions most dreadful of all though, is the controls that go with them. These missions drag the game down, they’re generic, repetitive, timed, and many times the instructions aren’t completely clear. You spend your entire gameplay time either exploring the level you’re on or doing the missions the birds scattered around give you. These levels are also fun to explore, and scattered throughout are hidden items and birds that give you missions. Your owner’s room, for example, using pizza boxes as ramps and grinding on office supplies. Instead of the classic skateparks or cities of other games, in this, you play on tiny bird-sized parks. The levels of skateBIRD are also really charming and carry the game almost as much as all the bird themes. You can also unlock additional customization items by finding them hidden throughout the skatepark levels. Besides the birds themselves, you can also make them wear cute little outfits and accessories. You can play as a pigeon, an owl, budgie, finch, raven, sparrow, and a lot more. The birds aren’t just simple recolors either, they have different models. ![]() They are also available to immediately pick from, so you don’t have to wait to unlock the type of bird you want to play. Picking and making your character right away is fun, and it’s awesome how many species they have to play as. You play as a skateboarding bird, and one of my favorite things about the game is just how much they enjoy running with the concept. The premise of SkateBIRD is pretty simple, a classic skateboarding game with a fun theme twist. It launched September 16th, 2021 for Mac, PC, Linux, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and Amazon Luna. ![]() ![]() SkateBIRD is a single-player skateboarding video game developed and published by Glass Bottom Games. ![]()
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