![]() Completing all of a level’s challenges unlocks the “pro” version of the level, which contains increasingly more difficult challenges to pull off.īetween natural progression, challenges, and pro variants, OlliOlli 1+2 allow you to tweak the game’s difficulty to suit your preferences, so that you can easily swap back and forth between quick jaunts through the various playgrounds and repeated runs to try and nail that giant combo. It’s a clever, perhaps even obvious design decision, but it works wonders for your skill progression and overall enjoyment. In the early levels, some of them can be mildly frustrating as you are developing your understanding of the game and working on your timing, but working to complete these trickier tasks effectively acts as practice, and before long you will notice yourself improving in those areas. The real meat of the game comes from each level’s challenges, which are there not just to give you more to do but to help you practice your skills and get better.Ĭhallenges vary in type, but most of them push you to get better at some small aspect of the game, whether its pulling off a specific trick, chaining larger combos to get higher overall scores or specific combo scores, collecting certain items (which requires you to get better with jumps and timing), or completing a run with no bad landings. It’s an easy enough premise on the surface, and you could play the game focusing merely on level completion if you wanted. Your primary goal in each level is to skate your way to the end by pulling off jumps and grinds with some tricks thrown in so that you can traverse obstacles and maintain your speed. Both games are presented as a series of discrete levels across varying locales, each designed around a set of challenges. If you’re unfamiliar with OlliOlli, let’s review the basics. They are designed specifically to create the conditions that allow you as a gamer to flourish and access the best of yourself, presented in the trappings of a stylish 2D sports platformer. Yes, these are skateboarding games (arguably some of the more fun ones I’ve played), but make no mistake, these games are as much about creating that flow state as they are about pulling off tricks. This is the experience that the OlliOlli series delivers regularly, accomplishing a feat most games can only aspire to. Few games I have played in my life are capable of regularly producing this phenomenon, as doing so requires the right composition of controls, music, level design, and all of the small imperceptible details that hone a game into an masterfully crafted engine for driving you forward. Rack up the biggest and coolest combos along the way then time your landing to perfection to rule the Leaderboards.There are few experiences in gaming so sublime as entering a flow state while working your way through a challenging landscape, chaining together moves and hitting every single button press at the exact right time to produce a perfectly executed run, the aural and visual feedback of which perpetuates your trance of gaming nirvana. ![]() Not Enough for you? Complete all Challenges to unlock the super skilful RAD Mode! Making it’s Nintendo Switch Debut, OlliOlli mixes addictive one-life gameplay with over 120 tricks and grinds to pull across 50 deviously crafted Levels, 250 Challenges, Spots Mode and Daily Grind. ![]() With over 75 Awards and Nominations including BAFTA Best Sports Title 2015, OlliOlli: Switch Stance includes both OlliOlli and OlliOlli2: Welcome to Olliwood – bringing together the defining Skaterboarding Series of this generation! You can check out the game’s description and its very stylish eShop trailer below. Priced at an extremely reasonable $22.50 AUD, OlliOlli: Switch Stance launches on the Australian eShop on the 15th of February, and on the 14th of February everywhere else - just a little over a month away from now. Developed by UK indie team Roll7 and published by Gambitious, OlliOlli: Switch Stance brings both classics to the Switch in one neat package, after months of teasing on official accounts. Without so much as an official peep anywhere, an eShop listing appeared this morning for OlliOlli: Switch Stance, a new Switch-exclusive compilation of OlliOlli and OlliOlli2: Welcome to Olliwood. Surprise! Everyone’s favourite indie skateboarding game is headed to the Switch.
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