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You’ll learn the basics of tricks and grinding at the beach, gaining guidance from the ice cream clad Meltas, before heading to the forests of Cloverbrook to learn wallriding alongside giant, advertisement-bearing bees. Each biome has its own special vibe to match the theme of skating it’s trying to teach you about.

OlliOlli World’s well, world, also lends itself to this sense of fun. Not only can you use what you learn later on to score higher and complete challenges in previous levels, you can potentially access more of the game’s secrets and side quests. But beyond that, it creates an almost Metroid-vania-like element of gathering tools to return to and unlock secret or alternate paths in previous areas. This keeps the actual gameplay interesting as you progress through OlliOlli World’s main story campaign. This means that after each area, just when you feel as though you’ve gotten comfortable and are starting to have the hang of things, a new mechanic will present a challenge. Doing this during your in-game road trip, and navigating through the various levels of each biome, is what allows you to meet each of Radlandia’s Skate Godz and take another step towards your goal of becoming the next Skate Wizard. Each area in the world you’re traversing, Radlandia, has different aspects of skateboarding that it wants you to learn and eventually master. To quote the more competitive side of gaming, this game has a low floor and a high ceiling.

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This new installment in the OlliOlli series rids itself of the risks of skateboarding, instead leaning fully into the rewards of successfully landing the various tricks and maneuvers the game asks you to learn. Together, Chiffon and pals guide you through Radlandia to teach you everything you need to master skateboarding and become the next Skate Wizard, all while focusing on the joys of skating. And Gnarly Mike provides the comic relief with his antics, and the list of special challenges players can take on in each level. Suze is the group’s resident filmographer, capturing everyone’s trick with her living video camera, Cammy.

Dad, who’s just an older dude everyone calls “dad,” runs a skate shop and helps teach you the basics.

You’re training to take the place of the current Skate Wizard, Chiffon, and are joined by a motley crew of pals to help you on your road trip across Radlandia to master skating. In this entry, you take on the role of a young skater who has just been chosen to pursue the path of the Skate Wizard, Radlandia’s human connection to the appropriately named deities of skateboarding, the Skate Godz. While the goal of skateboarding video games has always been to alleviate this in some way, to emulate all of, or at least parts of skating to bring a simulation of that coolness and joy to anyone who’s able to play, Roll7’s OlliOlli World has taken the idea of making skateboarding fun and built an entire game around it as a guiding principle. Taking on that risk becomes a harder proposition to rationalize as you get older, when wounds heal more slowly and a broken bone could mean a permanent change to your lifestyle. Defying gravity is, to put it in the appropriate terms, radical, but it also comes with a high level of risk. There’s a reason skating culture was idolized in the 90’s and early 2000’s.īut the thing about skateboarding, especially for those of us who grew up during those hay days of the sport’s popularity who are adults now, is that there’s almost a guarantee that you’re going to get hurt doing it. Being able to control a board with wheels, to balance and do tricks, is just inherently cool. There’s something really aspirational about the feel of wheels beneath you, rolling along concrete (or asphalt, or wood, or whatever else one could skate on).

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