i love you you love me tony hawk pro skater 3

It is a reckoning that has made me reflect on my childhood not through a lens of nostalgia, but more matter of factly and just how skateboarding influenced almost every facet of my being.

For all of the new bells and whistles and the fact that Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 is my game of the year, it is more than that. Through design, aesthetics, and the sheer flow of gameplay, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 ends up feeling like a ray of light in a cloudy year. It is almost just understood, and it is rarely, if ever, vocalized.

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 is also imbued with a relatively unique feeling in games-positivity that never feels forced. There are new challenges in some missions, new skaters have been added, the character creator is fluid and devoid of gender binaries, and new songs have been added to the game (sadly). On the one hand, the levels are more-or-less how I remember them being when I first burned through these games on a small CRT TV in my childhood bedroom in an old house that is now long gone. A remake of the two original Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater games that walks the fine line between remaking and reimagining. We actually have a new Tony Hawk game that is utterly fantastic.Īfter years and years of mediocre-to-downright-awful entries in the franchise- Project 8 was okay and I’ll stand by that-the franchise has come full circle. This is in part due to nostalgia, but it is mainly just surprising that they actually did it. But Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 is speacial, in fact it is my game of the year. It is kind of unexpected that 2020 has been a banner year for skateboarding games, right? Between Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 and Skater XL, we have been treated to two of the best skateboarding games in, well, ages.

I love you you love me tony hawk pro skater 3