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#Skatebird birds simulator

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.

#Skatebird birds full

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.

#Skatebird birds simulator

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. 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.