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'This wasn't an easy decision,' said Megan Fox, founder, Glass Bottom Games. Additionally, the delay will also enable the team to make UI and sound improvements, a camera overhaul, and other various enhancements. SkateBIRD has now had its release date moved from August 12 to September 16, as developer Glass Bottom Games hopes to release it simultaneously across all platforms. Just recentlyy, we also heard the news that Kena: Bridge of Spirits would be pushed back until September. I really thought this would be a game that I got every achievement for, but now I doubt I’ll ever play it again.The gaming line-up for August 2021 has taken another blow as it has been revealed that SkateBIRD has been delayed. I can’t remember the last time I was quite so dissapointed in a game. Everything around the edges is bang on, I just hate that I have to play the muddy, dull game part of Skatebird to get to it. The writing is great, the soundtrack is a lovely blend of chill beats and pop-punk tunes that you could tell me where on the original THPS soundtrack and I’d believe you.

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Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 looks like melted LEGO and I still play that because it feels so good to play. I could forgive the weird mission system, the strangely empty levels and the grungey graphics if it just felt good. The core issue is that I just hate the way it controls. It’s just baffling, because other elements like the parody Thrasher magazines and brilliant soundtrack set me up for what I thought was going to be a game I would keep on my Xbox for years, not one I was desperate to be over. I half expected bird Bam Margera to show up and punch his Dad in the bird balls. I genuinely felt like I was playing a game made by people who played the Pro Skater games and took all the wrong lessons. The worst part of the later half of the Tony Hawk series, if you ignore the plastic skateboards, was this feeling of constantly having to stop your line to go and start a timed challenge, instead of the challenge itself being to incorporate all your goals into your run. Incomprehensibly, in Skatebird you need to start a mission by talking to another bird. Whether that be score challenges, knocking something over or collecting SKATE.

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In Tony Hawk Pro Skater, you had 2 minutes to complete a series of missions that were all available from the start of your run. The areas themselves are extremely barren however, and it felt like there were large sections of level with nothing to do, and that’s thanks to the mission system. It reminded me of the old Toy Story games, climbing up paper cups or kickflipping off microwaves. The world of Skatebird is a series of tiny skateparks set on things like table tops and bookshelves.

I was incredibly, incredibly disappointed.

These games live and die by their controls and when they’re as categorically unenjoyable as they are in Skatebird, I could barely play it. In Skatebird I felt like I was constantly battling the bird, not only to execute the tricks i’d requested, but to even aim it in the right direction. The key to the Tony Hawk games is that they controlled incredibly, you had almost a fighting game like control over you movements and if you could see a line that you wanted to put together, it was only your execution that stood between you and the goal. This on the surface of it is fine, but there’s such a horrible feeling of input latency that at no point did I feel remotely comfortable handling the bird. The game controls how you’d expect, you use the face buttons to ollie, to grab and flip tricks and grind. Sadly, within about 10 minutes of playing the game, I was bitterly bitterly disappointed.