![]() ![]() Bland urban environments lack any sort of joy or spark. At least that would be the case if it weren’t for the fact that this is a game - and especially in its Switch form - that compounds the frustration of failure and repetition with blurry visuals that make reading terrain more difficult than it should be. There’s definitely a place for this sort of hardcore skating sim within the genre (not to mention the simulation genre itself) and we can totally see how getting stuck in here could be very rewarding as you overcome obstacles and improve to the point where you begin to master your environment. Captured on Nintendo Switch (Docked)įair enough. However, in terms of a fun gaming experience, well, it’s all gonna come down to how much patience you have and whether or not you want to put the time required into starting from scratch, very slowly mastering the basics and building towards the fancier end of the scale. You’ll need to explore your surroundings and make the best of realistically placed benches, kerbs, steps, rails and so on, in order to then start pulling off your best moves. There are no handily highlighted grinds or out-of-place ramps to gravitate towards here. ![]() On the one hand, you’ve got to hand it to Session: Skate Sim, it's delivering what we would assume is a fairly accurate representation of what it’s like to grab your board and set out into the unforgiving concrete streets in search of places to perform tricks. It revels in its difficulty and requires you to dig deep and assume a proper skater mindset if you’re to overcome its technical demands, get good, and make the most of its various urban playgrounds. Where the likes of the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater series and OlliOlli World have you blasting along bespoke courses and pulling off big-time tricks from the get-go, this is an experience that focuses resolutely on the simulation aspect of the sport, making for a game that nails the frustration, repetition and constant failure that’s required to pull off even the simplest of tricks on a real-life skateboard. What instantly springs to mind when you consider skateboarding video games? If it’s effortlessly pulling off super cool tricks, grinding rails at high speed, doing flashy spins off the top of huge vert ramps and putting together sick combos for rad scores, then you may need to pump the brakes on that board of yours a little before deciding whether or not to nollie your way into Crea-ture Studios’ Session: Skate Sim.
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