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Well, that’s all of the Classic levels out of the way now too. Only one goal gave me any grief – the COMBO goal on the final level (The Warehouse). After getting the C, you have to jump, then grind an invisible rail, then jump again and grind immediately. Obviously, they thought adding an invisible rail would up the difficulty somewhat. Tch. Anyway. That’s all of the GBA Tony Hawk’s games completed now. Make a new one now please Activision. …

Just did the School level on Classic. I’m really missing the non-generic goals, though, as it makes the game seem a bit “soul-less”. Didn’t have many problems on this level, although I couldn’t find the K from SKATE for a while, and getting COMBO was difficult. However, I found that getting OBMOC was much easier so did that instead.

Well, I made a start on Classic Mode, and completed the first two levels. And, oh dear. They’ve removed all the “non-generic” goals from this mode. What you’re left with, is high/pro/sick scores (easy), pro/sick combo scores (easy), find the hidden tape (easy), SKATE (easy) and COMBO (usually easy). Nothing else. What a waste of an opportunity.

I’ve been playing this a fair bit today, and would you believe it – I was only about ten goals away from completing it when my game was wiped! Argh! Anyway. I unlocked everywhere again, and had to do “five old-school lines”, which I’d previously found three of accidently. Basically, there are pairs of “stickers” on each of the five levels, which denote the start and end of the lines. I was stuck with the one in the School for …

After an hour’s play, I’m about two-thirds of the way back up to the point where disaster struck. I’ve found it much easier this time through, as I didn’t bother with the not-possible-yet goals, and finding items and people was made more simple by virtue of the fact I knew where they were anyway. Bizarrely, I’ve stumbled across about five goals I’d missed the first time through as well. Oh yes, and most importantly, I’m now playing as a girl …

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo! I just came to play it again, while it was charging, and it has wiped my saved game! Argh! That means I need to start again! Rubbish. At least I know where things are this time round, so it shouldn’t take half the time to get to the point I was at, but still. I’m crying now.

I’ve now unlocked Vans and San Francisco, and have completed loads more goals. Some have been a bit irritating (“Oh no! I’ve lost all my tools and nuts and screws and nails and stuff! Find them for me across these four areas!!!11” in particular), and some have been too hard requiring me to up my stats before trying again (such as the liptrick-the-big-blue-thing). I’m a bit stuck in San Francisco now, as I have to do some kind of special …

This is the last GBA Tony Hawk game I have left to play. In fact, it’s the only one left at all. Bah. Unlike the other Tony Hawk GBA games, this one’s levels (so far) bear little resemblance to the console versions. That isn’t really a bad thing – just a bit odd. In fact, it has at least two levels completely different so far – a school level (with bits similar to the College level in THPS2) and Los …

Someone new joined the ugvh Sk8crew today, and had actually beaten some of my scores. They’d got a few hundred thousand points more than me, for both the Run and Combo scores at Vans, so I thought I’d best have another go at them. And lo, 20 minutes later, the crown was regained by me. Hurrah! I then had a go of Trick Attack against some random person, and beat them 2,800,000 to 850,000. BEST.

Managed to improve my scores even further today, with almost all of my levels now with 2 million+ scores. Not only that, but I’ve even managed a few 2 million point combos, and one 3 million point one. Go me!

Score-attack-tastic! Thought it a good idea to firstly, go back and finish the few remaining goals I hadn’t done (there were only about three in total), and after that, I went round all the levels on Classic Mode to try and get scores of over a million on each. And I managed it! I can’t seem to get as many vert tricks in as I could on previous Tony Hawk’s games, and the vert-land-revert-manual combo is still a bit hit …

After managing some of the previously impossible goals, I had The Warehouse unlocked, and completed some of the goals in there. That’s all the levels unlocked now, so… Went back to Story Mode. And ripped through all of the rest of it! Bought all the bits for the Warehouse, earned a stack of money, and made the skate video. And won the game! Hurrah!

I moved onto the next few levels instead of struggling with the few remaining goals at Vans. The next level was pretty hard too, and there’s no way in hell I can get the COMBO letters, nor any of the higher scores. And I can’t even see the Secret Tape, let alone collect it. There’s another goal where I have to do tricks through some signs. Two of the signs say “GRIND”, so I grind through and get them, no …

I can’t understand why I’m crap at this game. I used to be pretty good at Pro Skater on other formats, but I just can’t get high scores in this one. As well my inability to revert-manual, I find you lose momentum on the manuals far too quickly, meaning you can’t string more than a couple of verts together in a combo. Or at least, not one after another. Anyway, I completed a few more goals, but am stuck in …

Played a fair bit of Story Mode this evening, and worked my way past the first two levels. It seems a lot easier than Classic Mode so far. Also tried to bump up my rankings a bit, but in the end only managed to lengthen my Lip Trick time (to 31 seconds). Did boost my stats a bit though too, but Air and Ollie are woefully low. I can’t do the “8 grab tricks in one combo” type requirements, as …