Find one of the various collectible costume pieces hidden around each level? Feel free to drop whatever you’re doing to change up your bird fashion. Even in spite of the game’s story mode (which is, as the ancient indie game laws mandate, actually about capitalism being bad) having a clear mission and adventure, SkateBIRD is completely content with letting you vibe your way through it. ![]() There’s also the decent possibility that other platforms just won’t see these same issues at all.Įither way, I do want to stress that these issues can be addressed, but in spite of them, I think SkateBIRD is a real chill time. I’ll leave it up to critics more versed in accessibility issues to determine whether what’s available meets as many needs as possible, but I was able to address a majority of the issues I had with SkateBIRD over the course of stopping and adjusting things as I went. Most AAA studios can’t seem to use a font size bigger than 5 pt, but SkateBIRD is over here dropping contextual reminder text options that blow up the text to something visible by someone without a home theatre. ![]() Frankly, it’s wild to see the level of adjustment provided to a console game here. However, to the credit of SkateBIRD’s shockingly small team, there are a plethora of settings tweaks and control modifications to mitigate and eliminate as many of these problems as possible. All of these frustrations then got compounded by random drops in performance that only a full restart of the software could solve-both in the Switch’s docked and handheld modes. Even when the camera would behave, that just opened the door for other strange behavior: my cool bird would clip right through ramps and walls, the process of gaining momentum would stall out, and some tricks completely stop registering during various objectives. By the time I reached the admittedly clever final “skatepark,” I would find myself remarking surprise when the camera wouldn’t get stuck in place mid-trick than the opposite, which is not a great feeling. Keeping in mind that I was working from a Nintendo Switch copy of the game, I found myself pretty frequently fighting everything around me. ![]() This is never fun to do, but since there’s a lot more to take from SkateBIRD, it’s best to rip off this bandage right away-playing this game is pretty rough. Unfortunately in practice, SkateBIRD plays more like Skate went on a drunken bender with Goat Simulator than it does Tony Hawk but with a real hawk. Naturally, this is all very cute and it’s very easy to fall in love with the concept. SkateBIRD, as the title implies, is very much a you-got-chocolate-in-my-peanut-butter premise. Thankfully over the past couple of years, there’s been an influx of games of both varieties with the natural culmination being SkateBIRD. Other games arriving on launch day are: Aragami 2, SkateBIRD, Lemnis Gate, Unsighted, Sable, and I am Fish.There are two specific sub-genres in games that I particularly love: the “be an animal that doesn’t have to pay rent” and the “skateboarder” genre, because I cannot be either of these things. For those who haven't tried it, Phoenix Point is already available on Xbox Game Pass for PC. Most games will be available for Xbox consoles and PC, with some of them playable via streaming through Xbox Cloud Gaming. There is something for everyone in this new batch of games, like Flynn: Son of Crimson for those looking for a metroidvania and Astria Ascending for JRPG fans, both coming to Game Pass on day one.Īlso, there's Superliminal for the puzzle lovers and Phoenix Point for those who enjoy XCOM-style tactical RPGs. This marks the highest number of new additions for a month's second half since May, when 15 titles were made available. Twelve new games covering a variety of genres are being added during the second half of September, and another one is coming October 1. Something to look forward to: There is a satisfying amount of content landing on Microsoft's video game subscription service over the next few weeks.
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