Olliolli ps vita pro#

You have to press a button within a fraction of a second when you land to complete the trick perfectly and attain the maximum points. Instead of throwing fireballs like a street fighter (or Jerry “The King” Lawler) those arcs trigger a variety of flips. You will jab it left, right or down and rotate it in various degrees of a circle like a fighting game. The major difference is that you have to keep that forward motion by pulling off those tricks with your left thumb.Īs you jump with your board underneath you will quickly flick the left thumb stick to complete those vital tricks. It’s not a legitimate endless runner-you can stop, and when you do the game ends-but the sensation is not too far from Canabalt or Jetpack Joyride. You rush towards the right without pause, reeling off flip tricks on your board and stringing them together with increasingly ornate grinds. Like a mobile game, OlliOlli is streamlined and clean-cut. OlliOlli is a basically a skateboard-themed mobile game that gives your left thumb a thorough workout. The Vita exclusive from Roll7 owes more to a variety of flash-fire mobile games, from the Ur-endless runner of Canabalt to the high score hijinks and level-specific goalposts of every other mobile game in existence. But it shouldn’t be viewed in the same light as a Tony Hawk or Skate. More than any other type of game, more than any sports sim or wrestling basher, skating games offer a virtual recreation of a real-life activity I wish I partook in but never will.

Olliolli ps vita pro#

I can’t last five seconds on a board, but I can watch The Search For Animal Chin or play Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater for an entire weekend.

Skating is a pretty mundane fantasy-again, this is a thing fifth graders do-but pain is real and frightening and games can eliminate that fear.

Games exist in part to let us get into things we’d never seriously get into.

His knees were always scabbed up and bruised, his elbows bloodied, and even though that made him look really awesome, like a fifth-grade stuntman, I knew I could never seriously get into skating.