However, Pupperazzi has free-roaming levels rather than on-rails ones, which allows for more exploration and for direct interactions such as petting the dogs and even changing their outfits. On the surface, it can be easily compared to Pokemon Snap, as both games are first-person-snapshooters which involve using items to affect the behaviour of the creatures you are photographing. While all of the games in this post are cute and casual, Pupperazzi is the most ‘aww’-inducing of the bunch. If a Tony Hawk game had these issues, it would be very disappointing, but SkateBIRD just about gets away with its wonkiness because its atmosphere and style is the USP rather than its mechanics. Its camera is a bit odd and the controls are nowhere near as fluid and responsive as the major league skateboarding games, but it works decently enough.
There’s even a Pet the Bird mode, where you control a hand that gives pets and scritches to the bird.
Overall, SkateBIRD goes into my Cool tier, as it definitely delivers on the “bird” despite a few issues with the “skate”. There are also some novelty options, such as a setting that ensures the birds won’t make any unhappy noises and one which turns all of the “birb-speak” into “surfer-dude-speak” (with 11 levels of “dude”).
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Players can also adjust the game speed and remove the grind and manual balance meters if they need to. Players can adjust different aspects of the controls such as the boosts they recieve during different parts of their push. On the other hand, a lot of thought has gone into the available settings and difficulty-adjusting options for a game that can so often have questionable physics. While each level is a decent size and its clear what real-life environments they’re replicating, their design is merely ok: none of the levels are particularly memorable and none contain any impressive set pieces. The game has 4 different environments, which each hold between 10-20 small missions. This is amplified by the dialogue, which is packed with peak 2020s “lets joke about how broken the world is” humour. This focus on a small-scale and caring goal gives SkateBIRD a friendly and comfortable atmosphere that makes it relaxing to play despite the undercurrent of Big Friend’s struggles. But unlike most extreme sports games, rather than “going pro” or winning contests, your goal here is for you and your friends to lift your Big Friend (human) out of a rut: when you’re picking up items, you’re stealthily cleaning their room to make them happier, and when you go to a workplace to cause chaos, you’re actually making Big Friend’s depressing startup office a nicer place for them to be so that they can spend more time with you. SkateBIRD contains most of the mission types you would expect from an arcade skateboarding game, such as collecting items, achieving high scores, finding S-K-A-T-E letters, and changing or moving parts of the environment by skating on them. There are also some concessions to the fact that you’re a round bird rather than a long-legged human the front of the skateboard leaves an orange trail and the back of the board leaves a blue trail to help you know which way your character is facing in the air. In terms of gameplay, SkateBIRD uses the Tony Hawk style of skating controls, where the left analogue stick controls movement and speed while the face buttons and directional inputs are used to perform tricks.
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However, now that a patch has enabled turning the blur effect off, I’ve been enjoying my time with SkateBIRD‘s cast of eccentric but well-meaning birds. When I first played SkateBIRD, a couple of days after it was released, I had to metaphorically shelve it because the excessively strong depth-of-field blur and the glitchy controls made the game very hard for me to navigate. So if you’re interested in skateboarding birds, fashionable dogs, or a bouncy Peggle-styled dungeon-crawler, please read on. They are all what the internet generally calls ‘wholesome’.
These games are linked by a common theme they are all indie games with an accessible nature and a generally light-hearted and innocent tone. Today I’m doing something a little bit different, and posting a group of mini-reviews rather than one more detailed review.
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