There are various stages throughout its five mini-worlds that require incredible precision, as you have to ensure you maintain momentum to avoid pitfalls while also pulling off tricks to increase your combo. While its new hub world of Radlandia - which players navigate as they would an overworld in a platform game - is way more inviting to look at, it still has the propensity to be disarmingly difficult. Some of the game’s best customization options are locked behind difficult challenges, so you have an incentive to push for higher scores outside of simple bragging rights.īut that doesn’t mean OlliOlli World is easy. This also opens up a wealth of customization options, too, as your friendly-looking player character can be equipped with a variety of clothes, taunts, and styles to make them stand out from the crowd. Its new visuals are also indicative of this, with the aforementioned pixel art replaced with charming Saturday morning cartoon vibes, borrowing heavily from the art of Adventure Time and The Midnight Gospel creator Pendleton Ward.

There are checkpoints in each level, letting you pick up from where you left off when you bail, and progress is rarely hindered by you needing to achieve a certain score. Whereas the first two OlliOlli’s were tough to pick up and brutal to master, OlliOlli World makes its skating way more accessible. Helpfully, every run featured on these leaderboards can be replayed, meaning that you can watch your friends take on the same course or eye up each course’s leaders. Tricks are chained together and then multiply, as players kickflip off ramps and then latch onto rails, racking up points that then determine their position on global and friends-only leaderboards. While any skateboarding game will immediately find itself compared to THPS, OlliOlli World provides side-scrolling action across shorter stages that players are encouraged to complete in one lengthy single combo.

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