![]() ![]() But the thing about Session, much like real skateboarding, if you think something is possible it probably is. So yes, the controls are weird at the start, they feel inorganic and have a rather steep learning curve if you're coming from more arcadey titles. Like doing a Pop-Shuvit under a bench while jumping over it. By tinkering around with the almost exhausting options you can set up even more narly stuff. After that, I tried to squeeze the nose or tail of my board into all kinds of gaps and it just worked. I realized that when I managed to grind the middle rail of a handrail. The level of control you have over your board is absolutely insane. While this layout and those controls need some time to get used to, sooner or later they'll reveal their brilliance. Great right? And you'll definitely earn some style points for doing short little ollies onto some curb instead of trying to recreate the moon landing. Pretty cool right? Now depending on the speed you do this with and or the amount you push that left stick up, the height of your jump with change. You have to hold the right stick down and then flick the left stick up to jump. If you skate regularly, that means your left foot is on the front of the board and the right foot is on the back. To illustrate this, I will now teach you how to do an ollie, probably the most elemental of all the skateboarding ticks out there. Left sticks for left foot, right stick for fight foot and all of this gets more complicated once you start skating switch. And you operate your board with four wheels by flicking, scooping or gently lifting your analogue sticks. You can't control the camera and you steer by holding down the left and right trigger buttons. ![]() If you come from the skate series, the Tony Hawk Pro Skater games or any other video game ever made. It's odd how Session manages to simulate this process of real-life skating by having really bad controls that turn into amazing controls the moment you nail that trick you've been working on. Sometimes you get the timing down in a few tries and sometimes you get so angry that you have to come back in a few hours. If you're into skating, you probably know that what all those cool videos and pictures on social media don't show are the many tries it took to land the trick. Soon you'll look at staircases and the brick wall next to them, and think to yourself ‘ I could definitely Frontside 50-50 grind this and jump off with kickflip.' And thanks to Sessions' easy-to-use marker feature, this will be the next 10 to 30 minutes of your life. Be it the few skate parks or oddly specifically set up gaps to jump. At first, you'll seek out the spots that are obviously meant to be skated. Instead, Session gives you downscaled recreations of some of the most iconic spots from videos and Thrasher covers and asks you to look at them like a skater would. Outside of the few skate parks in the game, you won't find many suspiciously set up ramps, bend-out-of-shape rails or perfectly curved swimming pools. Instead of encapsulating what 90's and early 2000's MTV was like in a video game, Session is more like a quiet love letter to the sport and the culture around it. ![]() At least if you are not looking for the insanity of the Tony Hawk Pro Skater games. It's currently in early access and is probably the greatest skateboarding game ever made already. I've already talked more about another game than the one I'm actually trying to hype up here. That one will be a free-to-play title called skate. But then EA had to come out and light a fire under all of this by announcing that skate 4 will be out some time whenever it comes out. Skateboarding games are kinda dead, even if we've seen a resurgence as of late with more realistic, niche titles. Alright, let me just cross ‘buzzword marketing' off my sheet and let's get into the nitty-gritty of things. I think it's safe to say, Session is the Dark Souls of skateboard sims. Being the experienced, notorious game critic that I am now. Okay, I'll rip that band-aid off immediately. “Wow it really feels like I'm bad at Skateboarding!” ![]() Session: Skate Sim is currently in early access, ESTNN's Lahftel offers a preview of the upcoming title.Ĭrea-ture Studios Session will leave early access soon and is already the best virtual skateboarding game on the market. ![]()
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