{"id":21649,"date":"2021-11-08T00:01:22","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T00:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=21649"},"modified":"2021-10-03T12:38:07","modified_gmt":"2021-10-03T12:38:07","slug":"skatebird-switch-xbox-one-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/08\/skatebird-switch-xbox-one-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"SkateBIRD (Switch, Xbox One, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Back in the late 90\u2019s, extreme sports games like Tony Hawk\u2019s Pro Skater were huge.\u00a0 But I never understood the draw of them.\u00a0 That is until I reviewed Disney Skate Adventure, which was made by the same folks who did the Tony Hawk games.\u00a0 Disney Skate Adventure was actually one of the first games I reviewed at GamerDad, and I finally understood the draw of these types of games after playing it.\u00a0 You got to skate with familiar characters like Buzz Lightyear and cub Simba, and skate around locations like Pizza Planet and the Elephant Graveyard.\u00a0 It was a lot of fun, so I\u2019m more open to try unusual skateboard games now!\u00a0 Which brings us to SkateBIRD, where you can play as small birds who have traded flying for skating, and you can shred around skate parks like a giant bedroom!\u00a0 It\u2019s about as weird as Fight Crab<\/strong><\/a>, and really put the \u2018hawk\u2019 in Tony Hawk!\u00a0 It\u2019s available on some consoles and PC, but reviewed on Switch here.<\/p>\n

The first thing you\u2019ll do is design your bird skater.\u00a0 You\u2019ll choose from all sorts of different species, like parakeet, pigeon, quail, and many more.\u00a0 Although they all really look like the same sized bird just with different feather patterns and beaks.\u00a0 You can outfit your bird with all sorts of different headgear, eyegear, belts, backpacks, and more.\u00a0 Unlock more goodies to outfit your bird with while skating.\u00a0 You\u2019ll cruise around skate parks like a giant bedroom, talking to other birds and taking on missions in the main Story Mode.\u00a0 Here you are skating to find the Big Friend, which is probably the human owner of these talented birds.\u00a0 In the missions you\u2019ll have to do tricks and find hidden items.<\/p>\n

Those who are familiar with skateboard game controls should be able to jump right into this one.\u00a0 For example, to jump you must hold down the B button first, and then release it to jump, and then you can do tricks with the other buttons while in the air.\u00a0 However, I know it\u2019s been a LONG time since I played a skateboard game, but I remember Disney Skate Adventure controlling MUCH better than this game.\u00a0 Stunts like grinding are really hard to pull off in SkateBIRD, and it\u2019s so easy to fall.\u00a0 Worse is that in order to go really fast, you must spell out the word FANCY by doing tricks without falling, and that was nigh impossible for me.\u00a0 Because of the bad controls, it really soured my experience with this game.<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

SkateBIRD is rated T for Teen with an ESRB descriptor of Lyrics.\u00a0 I really didn\u2019t notice anything bad in the songs, so it\u2019s nothing worse than what you hear on the radio.\u00a0 You can fall off your board, but your bird just tumbles around like a plush toy, and you can push a button to get right back up again, so it\u2019s not that violent.\u00a0 Reading skill is needed for the text, and younger gamers may find the controls too difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in the late 90\u2019s, extreme sports games like Tony Hawk\u2019s Pro Skater were huge.\u00a0 But I never understood the draw of them.\u00a0 That is until I reviewed Disney Skate Adventure, which was made by the same folks who did the Tony Hawk games.\u00a0 Disney Skate Adventure was actually one of the first games I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21649"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21653,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21649\/revisions\/21653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}