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Olli olli2 trailer song5/16/2023 ![]() ![]() It felt almost like cheating when I learned to manual, stringing together massive combos that put me into the tens to hundreds of thousands in points. Or, you can be like me and discover them while accidentally mashing buttons. The entire tricktionary is open to you from the beginning, so if you feel the call of the skate godz you can learn various tricks long before you’d learn them. Playing on the Xbox everything felt natural, at least until you start trying more complex tricks, at which point the controller can feel a bit crowded. Should you happen to bail at any point through the challenging levels, a quick button press respawns you at one of the many checkpoints. The left stick controls all your jumping tricks and grinding, pressing A pumps you forward and builds speed, the triggers rotate you, you get the picture. The good vibes extend to the gameplay, which is simple to learn and not too hard to master. OlliOlli World runs on good vibes and lofi beats, a welcoming far cry from the punk nature that defined the skater community for so long. This inclusivity speaks to its overall sense of positivity and acceptance. It cleverly side-steps the gender binary, referring to the player solely with they/them pronouns and allowing you to thrive in this androgyny if you want. OlliOlli World has an impressively dense character customization you control everything from hair and glasses to truck color and tattoo designs. After nailing the try-out, you embark on a quest to skate around Radlandia with Chiffon and her gang to meet each of the five regions skate godz and reach Gnarvana. ![]() The current Skate Wizard, Chiffon, is looking to retire and find a worthy successor: that’s where you come in. Everyone skates in some regard across the land, but the gnarliest of all are the Skate Wizards, who are chosen by the skate godz to be the intermediary between mortal skaters and the godz. ![]() Radlandia is exactly how it sounds: a pure haven for skaters by skaters. It plays as good as it looks, maybe even better, but its own ambition sometimes buckles under the weight of its conflicted level design and its unrewarding challenges. ![]() The simplistic character designs are chock full of charm, effortlessly combining humans, talking lizards, and ridiculously goofy skate godz into the cohesive collage of happiness that is Radlandia. The game is a visual treat vibrant colors pop out against variously themed foregrounds no matter if you’re stringing together a combo or just cruising along. Years later, that’s still the case, so thank the skate godz for OlliOlli World.ĭeveloped by London-based studio Roll7, OlliOlli World pushes well past its predecessors into the gnarly ranks of skate heaven. I must’ve put dozens of hours into Tony Hawk’s Underground I never really made any progress, but I became addicted to stringing together tricks through manuals and ollies and grinding. So I turned to skateboarding games instead. The one time I convinced him to let me skate, I ate it seconds after placing my foot on the board. He was as much of a skater as you could be in a rural town: those “punks” who bring their deck with them everywhere aspiring to be Tony Hawk, all while looking like a Spencers mannequin. I was born in 1999, barely missing the cutoff for the golden age of skater culture, but my next door neighbor wasn’t. ![]()
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