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You land it and it feels wonderful, scratching an itch in the same way that having the exact amount of tomato paste for a recipe and perfectly squaring up a softball at the batting cages do. However, in Skate City, landing the exact same trick feels so natural and poetic, soaring through the air with perfect spin on both the board and the skater. It’s easy to throw into combos, not worth a lot of points, fairly boring of an animation considering the rest of the THPS trick compendium, and it’s largely taken for granted considering the actual beauty that goes into the trick. How many times have you landed that in THPS? Ollie, hold left, and tap the corresponding console equivalent flip trick button.
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When it’s bedtime and I’m going through an endless free skate session to relax, it definitely puts me into a zen state.Let’s focus on a fairly basic trick, a 180 kickflip. The music, on the other hand, gives the relaxed coffee shop “chill beats to study to” vibe that’s oh-so-attractive. The menus for selecting barely highlights options making selections hard to see, which was a minor frustration throughout my time with it.
There’s a quick restart by pressing up on the D-pad but that was definitely not explained well. The gameplay is smooth, and this makes you feel cool landing the tricks, but there is some slow down that definitely ruins the flow at points.
There are only three maps, and the challenges reuse the same five or six variations of goals. Outside of the basic challenges, Skate City feels pretty limited. The stat upgrades are expensive but are necessary to do more advanced combos and maneuvers. The cosmetics are relatively cheap and barely factor into the game as the art style doesn’t give a ton of detail. By completing these, you are rewarded with skate city currency, which is used to buy stat upgrades, cosmetic gear, and bonus special tricks. These can be both fun and repetitive as they recycle quite frequently in limited map options. Every level also comes with some bonus objectives to get 1-3 star ratings on each challenge. The challenges in the game are diverse, with some being to run from security guards while doing tricks or complete trick requests, races and difficult combo challenges. There is a free skate mode that lets you skate the entirety of the map from beginning to end and then loop back, with challenges you can do at your leisure. The maps themselves are very wide, with challenges taking place in small chunks of them. The landmarks are subtle but unmistakable for those with a keen eye. So in each challenge set, you'll find yourself skating the famous MACBA (Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona) ledges, or the L.A. These three cities are known for being skate mechas in their own rights with dozens of skate spots within the culture. There are three maps to explore: Los Angeles, Oslo, and Barcelona. The balance meter wavers left and right, and the triggers are used to balance in between otherwise, you'll end up on the floor.
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There’s also a balance meter akin to Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater that makes combos require some skill to execute. Adding in variations like spins, flips, and button holds for additional grinds, there are lots of tricks in your arsenal to rack up sweet unrealistic or realistic combos.
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The manuals and spins play into the grinds as they would in real life. If you were to land on a bench with only the nose wheels down, that would be a nosegrind. The same goes with landing on an obstacle in a wheelie. As a skateboarder myself, it’s intuitive since that’s how you would get into those tricks anyways: by landing on an obstacle at a 90-degree angle. If you do a 180-degree rotation near an object, you will land on the nose or tail of your board in a nose slide or tail slide. How you grind is based on your positioning. These obstacles can be grinded by doing a trick onto them or just ignored entirely. As you move through the maps, there will be obstacles to skate like stairs or ledges that will appear slightly in the foreground or background. While the controls are simple, they are actually kind of genius in their contextual functionality. There are other button combinations for special tricks, but those are few in number and need to be earned through the game’s progression system. Rotating 180 degrees is on the R and L bumpers, while wheelies or “manuals” are on the ZL for regular, and ZR for off the nose.
The right stick controls “Nollie” tricks, which are down off the nose of the board instead of the tail. Pointing the stick in any eight directions will result in a trick, and they are listed as you rotate the stick so you aren’t blindly moving it around. Skate City comes in a pretty simple package.
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