It is time, as soon as once more, to scream about Skate Story. Sam Eng’s crystalline kickflipper made a fleeting look throughout this weekend’s second Guerrilla Collective stream-a-thon. The new trailer flaunted extra of the game’s beautiful concrete underworlds whereas laying out the technical footwork that’ll get you there. To paraphrase a very well-worn phrase, one doesn’t merely ollie their manner into hell – and lord, do I lengthy for the day once I can carve my manner into Skate Story’s abyss.
There have been, uh, a couple of points with the Guerrilla Collective’s stream this night – and for a second, I apprehensive we’d been robbed of one other have a look at the Sam Eng’s slick supernatural kickflips.
For the unfamiliar, Skate Story is an atmospheric-as-hell skate ’em up about grinding an otherworldly line into oblivion. Developer Eng has been posting extraordinarily scorching skate vibes over on the game’s Twitter for the previous couple of months, bringing the game briefly into the lens of Screenshot Saturday Sundays.
Much as I’d like, nevertheless, vibes can’t carry a game. Today’s trailer gave us an in-depth have a look at how, precisely, you’ll be shredding the underworld. Rather than emulating the arcade antics of Tony Hawks Pro Skater 1+2 or the tactile emulation of EA’s Skate (or extra lately, Session), Skate Story’s gunning for one thing of a hybrid method.
Low angle digicam pictures body the motion, with analogue sticks extra instantly emulating the motions of leaning your physique, triggers to regulate your stance, and a held button-press to push the board. Hopefully, it’s a compromise that manages to hold the burden of one thing like Session, with out leaving my feeling like I’m wrestling with the board simply to remain upright..
Lamentably, Skate Story nonetheless doesn’t have a launch date. In the meantime, I’ve been testing the work of Blood Cultures, the band that’s pitching some splendidly haunting pop bops into Skate Story’s soundscape.
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