![]() ![]() OlliOlli: Switch Stance comes at a nice time for me. After all, as much as I loved both OlliOlli and its sequel back when they first came out, I’d be lying if I said that I’d given either of them much thought at any point in the past several years. Getting a chance to play them again (albeit on a different system) offers a good chance to see whether they live up to my very fond memories. I remember them both as being fairly challenging, super-addictive endless skating games (which is to say, like an endless runner, but on a skateboard), and…well, that’s exactly what they are. Fans of classic era Tony Hawk Pro Skater will feel instantly at home. Traverse a 2D environment on a skateboard, rack up the highest score possible and tick off a number of objectives along the way. The gameplay The core gameplay is deceptively simple. OlliOlli World is a singleplayer game in the OlliOlli series. OlliOlli: Switch Stance boasts 120 tricks to master across 50 levels, 250 challenges. Both OlliOlli and OlliOlli 2 are the kinds of games that are easy enough to pick up, but that require some impressive thumb dexterity if you want to master them at any kind of higher level. This game requires a supported controller. That was true when they first released, and it’s just as true now that the games are on the Switch. OlliOlli: Switch Stance for Switch game reviews & Metacritic score: OlliOlli: Switch Stance includes both OlliOlli and OlliOlli2: Welcome to Olliwood - bringing together the defining Skateboarding Series of this generation Maki. OlliOlli World also uses a 2.5D perspective to allow for things like branching routes and wall-riding. That said - and as a long-term resident of Vita Island, it pains me to admit this - the game works much better with even the slightly larger thumbsticks the Switch offers. it’s a nice concession from the controller-breaking gameplay of the first two games. I never played the game after it got ported from the Vita to pretty much every other platform under the sun, so you can understand my surprise to learn that all the moves are significantly easier to pull off when you’ve got a larger controller to work with. (I imagine everyone who played the game on PS4, PS3, and Xbox One already knew this.) It doesn’t make the game a breeze or anything, but it does mean that the game doesn’t feel nearly as impossible as it did when I last played it. Of course, as great as OlliOlli: Switch Stance is, because it’s already been ported everywhere else, there’s the question of whether it’s worth checking out again now, a couple of years after the fact. And on the one hand, it’s hard to say that the answer to that question is yes. There’s nothing new about this version, so if you had your fill of OlliOlli and OlliOlli 2 when they first came out, there’s nothing here that’s going to bring you back in. On the other hand, though, both of those games were top-notch when they were originally released, and that describes them just as well today. ![]() OlliOlli: Switch Stance isn’t going to make you rethink anything you thought about them first time around - but if you thought they were great games back then, this package will serve as a nice reminder that they’re every bit as good as you may remember. Rack up the biggest and coolest combos along the way then time your landing to perfection to rule the Leaderboards.Gambitious provided us with an OlliOlli: Switch Stance Switch code for review purposes. Not Enough for you? Complete all Challenges to unlock the super skilful RAD Mode! Daily Grinds allow you to show off your skills on a new course every day, with your skating. 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. Outside of OlliOlli: Switch Stance‘s campaigns, there are also Daily Grinds and Spots to take part in. 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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