The problem is that skating in SkateBIRD does not have the technical fundamentals down. There’s even a button just to chirp (appropriately named the “Screm” function) and because you’re a bird, if you want to catch extra air, you can hit the ollie button again in air to flap, which I think are smart additions to the formula.
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You can also manual to keep trick multipliers going on open terrain. One button ollies, one controls flip tricks, one does grab tricks, and the last does grind and lip tricks. Functionally, SkateBIRD is supposed to operate very similar to Tony Hawk’s Pro-Skater. Let’s talk about the other part of this game… half the reason we’re here: the skating. The missions aren’t very long either, so that means a lot of stopping and starting new music throughout the story gameplay, which feels like a disservice to a soundtrack this fun. Talking to a bird to start a mission skips the track you’re on and starts a new one. You’d probably like to hear a song all the way through, but that’s easier said than done if you’re going after missions and story progression in this game. This is also unfortunately where the game starts to get shaky on the rails. You can even go into a Your Mixtape option to enable and disable songs and keep the ones you want to hear. We Are the Union, Grave Danger, Illicit Nature, and HolyWOW contributed tracks to this game that you can add to the soundtrack by collecting mixtapes and I could spend all of my time in this game just listening to them. It doesn’t just have its own original music (which is also good and catchy), but there’s also quite a few licensed bands in there as well. I will say, SkateBIRD has a better soundtrack than I ever could have expected. You can also find music packs strewn throughout levels. You can even find more stuff to dress them up with hidden in levels, which is fun because there’s already a lot to work with there. You can choose between a multitude of bird species fit for a Tech Deck skateboard and even give them accessories like tiny hats, scarves, glasses, fanny packs, capes, and more. You also get to customize your bird and there’s a great deal of ways to do it. The story is minimal, but silly and zany and mostly a vehicle to get you to the game’s various levels and objectives, which include large bedrooms, rooftops, offices, and more strewn with miniaturized props for little birds to skate.
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To figure out how to save him from his sad life, they learn to skateboard and do all sorts of things with this talent, including cleaning up his trashy apartment and helping him lose his job. The premise is a bunch of domesticated birds are concerned for their owner, who goes to work and always comes home sad. The whole premise of SkateBIRD is pretty adorable, with a scenario designed and written by Strange Scaffold’s Xalavier Nelson Jr., who created An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs. The skating? That’s where SkateBIRD has trouble sticking the landing. You can customize them in all sorts of ways and they have a cute little story to go with them.
It’s birds on little skateboards doing cool tricks as they chirp their way through big skating worlds made for them. In that famine of skateboarding games, Glass Bottom Games announced SkateBIRD, which has always had a humble premise.
It was a sad time where the Skate franchise was MIA and the last Tony Hawk we got was the abysmal THPS 5. It feels like there was a stint in which skateboarding games were completely and utterly dead.
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